republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1451.md

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Bill	TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OR AN OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL TO ADOPT AN APPROVED BILINGUAL PROGRAM OR DUAL-IMMERSION PROGRAM.	TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OR AN OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL TO ADOPT AN APPROVED BILINGUAL PROGRAM OR DUAL-IMMERSION PROGRAM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1451	Arkansas HB 1451 (2021)	bill		enacted	C. Tucker Godfrey	4	25	3	2021-02-08T22:07:29+00:00	2021-04-12T18:21:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b07c9893-2f97-445c-a502-9462dfd16d71	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	77fc652976d84921a721c1ee2cc86868ee1561389730f561a10ba19bf54a5233	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1451 (2021) — TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OR AN OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL TO ADOPT AN APPROVED BILINGUAL PROGRAM OR DUAL-IMMERSION PROGRAM.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1451 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 63–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• C. Tucker — primary (person)
• Godfrey — primary (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
• L. Eads — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08T22:07:29+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-08T22:48:25+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
• 2021-03-08T14:35:25+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-08T14:35:27+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-08T18:42:33+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-11T19:08:40+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2021-03-15T13:32:22+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-15T13:32:26+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-15T16:46:36+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-16T18:24:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-16T20:45:26+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-16T20:45:36+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-29T23:21:26+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31T19:50:10+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-31T19:50:35+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-31T20:45:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-01T19:47:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01T19:47:53+00:00 Returned To the House as passed as amended.
• 2021-04-01T22:17:15+00:00 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-04-01T22:17:23+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-04-06T18:31:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2021-04-07T18:15:49+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2021-04-07T18:15:52+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-08T14:41:58+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-12T18:21:45+00:00 Notification that HB1451 is now Act 663 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b07c9893-2f97-445c-a502-9462dfd16d71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).