republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-384.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO REQUIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION ON ADOPTION AWARENESS.	TO REQUIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION ON ADOPTION AWARENESS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 384	Arkansas SB 384 (2023)	bill		enacted	D. Wallace Joey Carr	3	20	2	2023-03-08T18:53:43+00:00	2023-04-11T20:46:04+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/44c17f18-bdd2-4e8d-8f0d-9feb697872c8	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	fe4a599853e86b47ae37493398ee8884e618000a82026ddf794ce9db2adaf7fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 384 (2023) — TO REQUIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION ON ADOPTION AWARENESS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 637 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 384 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 81–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• D. Wallace — primary (person)
• Joey Carr — primary (person)
• L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-08T18:53:43+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-08T19:47:38+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28T14:01:45+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-03-28T14:01:53+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-28T14:01:58+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-28T18:39:36+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-28T18:39:45+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-29T18:33:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-30T20:18:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30T20:18:24+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-30T23:01:21+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-31T01:39:42+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
• 2023-04-04T22:51:15+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-06T00:48:29+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T00:48:34+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:19:34+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:19:37+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:48:04+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-06T14:48:06+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-11T20:46:04+00:00 Notification that SB384 is now Act 637 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44c17f18-bdd2-4e8d-8f0d-9feb697872c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).