---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR FOSTER PARENTS; AND TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AND CERTIFYING RELATIVES AS FOSTER PARENTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR FOSTER PARENTS; AND TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AND CERTIFYING RELATIVES AS FOSTER PARENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1921"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1921 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dees", "Torres"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-31T18:42:16+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:29:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7946c309-207f-4413-9c3a-a58e582107f5"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "27efbd0f6ced4fbf77fd2998de04e271c55b7ae71fe4e3d3356ecf717e4246fe"
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 1921 (2025) — TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR FOSTER PARENTS; AND TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AND CERTIFYING RELATIVES AS FOSTER PARENTS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=824.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1921-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1921** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1921.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dees — primary (person)
- Torres — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31T18:42:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-01T02:12:44+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`
- **2025-04-02T18:54:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T13:36:33+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T13:36:35+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-03T17:28:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-07T19:55:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T01:14:16+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-08T01:14:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T18:27:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T19:11:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T19:12:02+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:11:28+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:11:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:20:38+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:29:21+00:00** Notification that HB1921 is now Act 824 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7946c309-207f-4413-9c3a-a58e582107f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).