---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ELIGIBILITY FOR TEACHER INCENTIVE AND MERIT PAY; TO AMEND REQUIREMENTS FOR SUMMATIVE EVALUATIONS; AND TO AMEND SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE MERIT TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND PROGRAM."
description: "TO AMEND ELIGIBILITY FOR TEACHER INCENTIVE AND MERIT PAY; TO AMEND REQUIREMENTS FOR SUMMATIVE EVALUATIONS; AND TO AMEND SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE MERIT TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1939"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1939 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "Joey Carr"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-31T21:48:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:24:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df8d29a2-12c8-4d3a-a179-100be5333083"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1747b5631bb8cd43209fc7ad56e8fecf92c4f7d3d09df45f777d6bee2aac76c7"
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 1939 (2025) — TO AMEND ELIGIBILITY FOR TEACHER INCENTIVE AND MERIT PAY; TO AMEND REQUIREMENTS FOR SUMMATIVE EVALUATIONS; AND TO AMEND SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE MERIT TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND PROGRAM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 808** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=808.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1939** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1939.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)
- Joey Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31T21:48:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-01T02:16:46+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`
- **2025-04-07T18:46:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08T20:31:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T03:44:06+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-09T03:44:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T22:40:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T19:34:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T19:34:07+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:14:37+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:14:39+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:15:03+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:24:11+00:00** Notification that HB1939 is now Act 808 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df8d29a2-12c8-4d3a-a179-100be5333083`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).