republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1561.md

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Bill	TO ESTABLISH THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROTECTION ACT OF 2025.	TO ESTABLISH THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROTECTION ACT OF 2025.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1561	Arkansas HB 1561 (2025)	bill		enacted	Hill Painter	4	19	0	2025-02-24T19:40:13+00:00	2025-04-08T16:43:15+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/85f955f6-3554-4f51-a482-3ca253be50e2	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	b87a1b2d7b33d0f21822b2cb1d40bb0439e6fa52af34339def43a12893f757bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1561 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROTECTION ACT OF 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Act 473 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1561 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Painter — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Childress — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Eaton — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• John Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• N. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Schulz — cosponsor (person)
• Torres — cosponsor (person)
• Tosh — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24T19:40:13+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-24T22:52:14+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
• 2025-03-05T14:29:09+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-05T14:29:13+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-05T17:46:41+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-12T13:34:54+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-12T13:34:56+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-12T18:18:12+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-13T18:43:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T19:29:26+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-17T23:13:16+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-17T23:13:24+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-31T18:47:38+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01T21:47:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-01T21:47:45+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-01T22:50:18+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-01T22:50:20+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-02T15:35:22+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-08T16:43:15+00:00 Notification that HB1561 is now Act 473 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85f955f6-3554-4f51-a482-3ca253be50e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).