republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1837.md

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Bill	TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A TEACHING LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO HAS PLED GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE OR HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD.	TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A TEACHING LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO HAS PLED GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE OR HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1837	Arkansas HB 1837 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Davis Pilkington	2	16	2	2021-03-29T18:10:49+00:00	2021-04-28T19:41:34+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9b49f832-5d79-4d2e-9c51-a5612a71c621	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	f9e78e051c3964a7143dc47f6e30769643509824579e7783e96cbe728a12183a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1837 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A TEACHING LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO HAS PLED GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE OR HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1837 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Davis — primary (person)
• Pilkington — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-29T18:10:49+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-29T23:06:29+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
• 2021-04-15T18:25:39+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-04-19T13:33:01+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-19T13:33:04+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-19T16:03:14+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-19T19:44:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-19T22:47:41+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-19T22:47:50+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T02:34:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-23T02:30:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-23T02:30:45+00:00 Returned to the House as Passed.
• 2021-04-23T02:54:27+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-23T02:54:33+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-23T18:05:09+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-28T19:41:34+00:00 Notification that HB1837 is now Act 985 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b49f832-5d79-4d2e-9c51-a5612a71c621. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).