---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO ALLOW A STUDENT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN HIS OR HER RESIDENT DISTRICT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO ALLOW A STUDENT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN HIS OR HER RESIDENT DISTRICT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1945"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1945 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "McCollum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-31T23:29:52+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:28:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41350f7c-3ea4-4b56-92c2-004313dae4bb"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "24ba19e4ca880f077c0d8488098b25d78a3333850ace075ed0d4b1e81b400a28"
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 1945 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO ALLOW A STUDENT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN HIS OR HER RESIDENT DISTRICT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 913** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=913.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1945-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1945** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1945.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- McCollum — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31T23:29:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-01T02:18:22+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`
- **2025-04-07T13:41:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:41:53+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-07T16:25:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T18:42:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09T20:34:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T04:34:25+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-10T04:34:34+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T18:09:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16T15:39:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T15:39:23+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T16:30:59+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T16:31:01+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T16:31:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:28:17+00:00** Notification that HB1945 is now Act 913 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41350f7c-3ea4-4b56-92c2-004313dae4bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).