---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE INFORMATION CONCERNING HOW THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS INFLUENCED THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE EMBEDDED INTO EXISTING SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS."
description: "TO REQUIRE INFORMATION CONCERNING HOW THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS INFLUENCED THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE EMBEDDED INTO EXISTING SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1705"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1705 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Duke", "J. Bryant"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T21:02:18+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-08T16:53:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf3054dd-52f3-43e5-8ac9-b1524bfc7ab4"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fa7d90aa6e2ed1ebbd66eb42b88efeeb922ecef82ea66cb1348a3b42da07ec61"
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 1705 (2025) — TO REQUIRE INFORMATION CONCERNING HOW THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS INFLUENCED THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE EMBEDDED INTO EXISTING SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 478** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=478.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1705-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1705-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1705** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1705.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Duke — primary (person)
- J. Bryant — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06T21:02:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T23:17:29+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`
- **2025-03-11T13:35:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-11T13:35:07+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T15:37:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T13:45:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-17T13:45:50+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-17T18:00:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T18:38:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19T19:52:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T00:32:32+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T00:32:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T18:49:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02T18:55:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T18:55:58+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-02T22:02:07+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-02T22:02:13+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-03T13:43:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-08T16:53:28+00:00** Notification that HB1705 is now Act 478 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf3054dd-52f3-43e5-8ac9-b1524bfc7ab4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).