republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1609.md

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Bill	TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHER LICENSURE.	TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHER LICENSURE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1609	Arkansas HB 1609 (2023)	bill		enacted	B. Davis Evans	3	16	2	2023-03-13T18:40:01+00:00	2023-04-12T14:53:33+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9a1718b2-3aaa-438e-ab87-704a83aebff8	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	60bc80a54f5b0c1007f7b7152171e3e3f7f4d6444be60e152a5e82ebcc6dc32f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1609 (2023) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHER LICENSURE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 732 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1609 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-13T18:40:01+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-13T23:00:00+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
• 2023-03-31T04:01:00+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-04-03T13:54:44+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-04-03T13:54:46+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-04-03T19:21:28+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-04-04T21:11:23+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-05T03:57:01+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-04-05T18:07:46+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-06T16:01:06+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T22:41:15+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T22:41:20+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T23:45:02+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T23:45:08+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T15:30:34+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-12T14:53:33+00:00 Notification that HB1609 is now Act 732 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a1718b2-3aaa-438e-ab87-704a83aebff8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).