republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1496.md

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Bill	TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO ENSURE ARKANSAS STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT BY QUALIFIED TEACHERS.	TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO ENSURE ARKANSAS STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT BY QUALIFIED TEACHERS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1496	Arkansas HB 1496 (2025)	bill		enacted	Andrews J. Dotson	2	13	0	2025-02-17T17:59:47+00:00	2025-03-18T18:48:31+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2eaecaa0-6c51-411b-a0fb-ea670410192a	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	7929cd0d10fbdb66562f27d82b7f0ea8ed840ee5219a8d579d11f3f37e4cafee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1496 (2025) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO ENSURE ARKANSAS STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT BY QUALIFIED TEACHERS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 304 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1496 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Andrews — primary (person)
• J. Dotson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17T17:59:47+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-17T23:21:30+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
• 2025-03-04T18:31:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T21:02:09+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-05T23:21:57+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-05T23:22:05+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T18:42:24+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13T20:30:33+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-13T20:30:44+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-03-13T22:08:41+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-13T22:08:44+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-14T13:12:46+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-18T18:48:31+00:00 Notification that HB1496 is now Act 304 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2eaecaa0-6c51-411b-a0fb-ea670410192a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).