republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1598.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; AND TO REMOVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM SCHOOL RATINGS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL YEARS.	TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; AND TO REMOVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM SCHOOL RATINGS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL YEARS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1598	Arkansas HB 1598 (2025)	bill		enacted	Brooks J. English	3	16	0	2025-02-26T16:29:06+00:00	2025-04-08T16:44:08+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/21e69a42-9f7e-471f-b7a4-c4e2cbfc9375	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	c85d1a212d8fbe922305470e02e7fa7ebe71200b5c832f42c2a8e0f71a14b88c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1598 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; AND TO REMOVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM SCHOOL RATINGS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL YEARS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 474 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1598 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Brooks — primary (person)
• J. English — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26T16:29:06+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-26T23:33:41+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
• 2025-03-13T18:43:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T13:45:26+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-17T13:45:29+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-17T17:59:57+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-18T19:48:39+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T22:07:39+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-18T22:07:47+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-31T18:48:18+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01T21:49:38+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-01T21:49:44+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-01T22:50:34+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-01T22:50:36+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-02T15:32:15+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-08T16:44:08+00:00 Notification that HB1598 is now Act 474 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21e69a42-9f7e-471f-b7a4-c4e2cbfc9375. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).