---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"BULLYING\"; AND TO CREATE A PROCESS WHEREBY A PUBLIC SCHOOL MAY CONDUCT MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SAME ALLEGATION OF BULLYING UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
description: "TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"BULLYING\"; AND TO CREATE A PROCESS WHEREBY A PUBLIC SCHOOL MAY CONDUCT MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SAME ALLEGATION OF BULLYING UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1805"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1805 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Childress", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T17:59:24+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:23:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08b1ee9a-70b7-4de5-a40d-c5a14b96f546"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d6bb91a4d370c4f06aee224cfa74571366a3fddec086378ce88923c7359e7c4b"
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 1805 (2025) — TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "BULLYING"; AND TO CREATE A PROCESS WHEREBY A PUBLIC SCHOOL MAY CONDUCT MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SAME ALLEGATION OF BULLYING UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 805** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=805.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1805** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1805.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Childress — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T17:59:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:47:49+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T19:11:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T22:04:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T01:09:02+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-08T01:09:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T18:18:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T18:10:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:10:32+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T19:18:59+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T19:19:08+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T15:22:16+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:23:17+00:00** Notification that HB1805 is now Act 805 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08b1ee9a-70b7-4de5-a40d-c5a14b96f546`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).