republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1597.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1597	Arkansas HB 1597 (2025)	bill		enacted	A. Clark Dalby	3	19	0	2025-02-26T15:30:40+00:00	2025-04-03T18:16:10+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/baea3feb-f3d2-4b7d-b936-2a020de6819b	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	d8f6e55d5e6f416ef96a8f8ebb1c2954642285badc62552ded38c70352760e44	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1597 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 456 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1597 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• A. Clark — primary (person)
• Dalby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26T15:30:40+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-26T23:33:25+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T18:30:21+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T20:52:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-05T23:25:03+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-05T23:25:10+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T18:39:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13T18:57:39+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-13T18:57:49+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-13T20:51:10+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-18T20:10:52+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T20:11:06+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-03-18T21:09:53+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-03-18T21:10:00+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-03-20T19:55:58+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-31T18:49:49+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-03-31T18:49:51+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-31T18:49:54+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-03T18:16:10+00:00 Notification that HB1597 is now Act 456 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/baea3feb-f3d2-4b7d-b936-2a020de6819b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).