republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1601.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO PROVIDE CAREER COUNSELING AND OTHER RESOURCES TO CERTAIN STUDENTS.	TO REQUIRE STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO PROVIDE CAREER COUNSELING AND OTHER RESOURCES TO CERTAIN STUDENTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1601	Arkansas HB 1601 (2025)	bill		enacted	J. Dotson L. Johnson	3	16	0	2025-02-26T19:22:50+00:00	2025-03-20T15:45:43+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f5410714-accc-4aaf-9ad2-9dde84edfea9	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	54e313ec54d10cc60704d318e7782ce673a95087369dd423c771c343844470d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1601 (2025) — TO REQUIRE STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO PROVIDE CAREER COUNSELING AND OTHER RESOURCES TO CERTAIN STUDENTS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 354 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1601 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• J. Dotson — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)
• McGruder — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26T19:22:50+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-26T23:34:18+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
• 2025-03-06T19:38:55+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-10T13:35:18+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-10T13:35:21+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-10T17:43:56+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-11T19:24:46+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11T21:19:29+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-11T21:19:37+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-17T18:39:32+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18T20:12:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T20:12:44+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-03-18T21:06:32+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-18T21:06:33+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-19T13:57:34+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-20T15:45:43+00:00 Notification that HB1601 is now Act 354 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5410714-accc-4aaf-9ad2-9dde84edfea9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).