---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING COMMUNITY COLLEGES."
description: "CONCERNING COMMUNITY COLLEGES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1551"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1551 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McClure"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-06T18:53:49+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T14:51:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8ff6fae-66f6-4981-b150-9ad80c2ad4fb"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a05fb14d66c8b9b75412b166e51315bb849c750a0bbba3de9a54d744d69f14ed"
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 1551 (2023) — CONCERNING COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 726** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=726.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1551-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1551** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1551.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McClure — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-06T18:53:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-06T22:28:00+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`
- **2023-03-28T13:29:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-28T13:29:28+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-28T16:18:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-30T18:29:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03T21:19:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T00:23:46+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-04T00:23:53+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T17:24:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T17:50:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T17:50:20+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:14:48+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:14:50+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T15:29:32+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-12T14:51:32+00:00** Notification that HB1551 is now Act 726 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8ff6fae-66f6-4981-b150-9ad80c2ad4fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).