republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1582.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE CERTAIN ACTIONS AND ENCOURAGE CERTAIN ACTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW.	TO REQUIRE CERTAIN ACTIONS AND ENCOURAGE CERTAIN ACTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1582	Arkansas HB 1582 (2025)	bill		enacted	J. English McAlindon	4	19	0	2025-02-25T20:06:22+00:00	2025-04-16T21:05:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4df7491c-9742-42ce-b52a-91defb043f03	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	944cae20d6648e971372957acb9fd62631b7902bb33c709d026beeef2461ba08	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1582 (2025) — TO REQUIRE CERTAIN ACTIONS AND ENCOURAGE CERTAIN ACTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW.

Version chain

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

1. Act 708 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1582 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• J. English — primary (person)
• McAlindon — primary (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-25T20:06:22+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-25T23:05:51+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T14:32:01+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-06T14:32:03+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-06T19:57:36+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-13T18:27:51+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T13:44:15+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-17T13:44:17+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-17T17:59:12+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-18T19:46:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T22:07:04+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-18T22:07:14+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-08T00:41:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T23:15:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T23:15:21+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-10T01:34:07+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-10T01:34:14+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-10T16:10:37+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-16T21:05:45+00:00 Notification that HB1582 is now Act 708 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4df7491c-9742-42ce-b52a-91defb043f03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).