---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING CHILD CUSTODY IN MATTERS WHERE A PARENT IS A FIRST RESPONDER."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING CHILD CUSTODY IN MATTERS WHERE A PARENT IS A FIRST RESPONDER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1704"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1704 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Andrews"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T21:00:38+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-25T13:23:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/862d609b-41c0-4427-927f-a8cec0f4a8e7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c6ff18612b5c37ca143dc77574faedd1a0d3d8846a46c913b60f74d7697c2e24"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas HB 1704 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING CHILD CUSTODY IN MATTERS WHERE A PARENT IS A FIRST RESPONDER.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Act 388** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=388.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1704-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1704** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1704.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Andrews — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-03-06T21:00:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T23:17:18+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T16:48:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T13:33:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-13T13:33:32+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13T15:45:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T19:04:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T23:18:19+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-17T23:18:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T18:44:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20T20:35:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:35:48+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-20T21:03:49+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-20T21:03:51+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-21T14:03:09+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-25T13:23:28+00:00** Notification that HB1704 is now Act 388 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/862d609b-41c0-4427-927f-a8cec0f4a8e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).