republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1642.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE MEASURES CONSIDERED WHEN CALCULATING A SCHOOL RATING; AND TO ENSURE A STUDENT IS NOT COUNTED AS A DROPOUT FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATING A SCHOOL-LEVEL GRADUATION RATE IF THE STUDENT PASSES A GED TEST.	TO AMEND THE MEASURES CONSIDERED WHEN CALCULATING A SCHOOL RATING; AND TO ENSURE A STUDENT IS NOT COUNTED AS A DROPOUT FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATING A SCHOOL-LEVEL GRADUATION RATE IF THE STUDENT PASSES A GED TEST.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1642	Arkansas HB 1642 (2025)	bill		enacted	Gramlich J. Boyd	3	21	0	2025-03-03T19:39:35+00:00	2025-04-21T16:28:57+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f668f93a-d0c4-4195-a877-576e41f7bd5b	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	89afa0515b4dc2e74cdde8a0f2492ef1cc7d3d7e859a4849fa0ae6144ff10cb2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1642 (2025) — TO AMEND THE MEASURES CONSIDERED WHEN CALCULATING A SCHOOL RATING; AND TO ENSURE A STUDENT IS NOT COUNTED AS A DROPOUT FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATING A SCHOOL-LEVEL GRADUATION RATE IF THE STUDENT PASSES A GED TEST.

Version chain

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

1. Act 916 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1642 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Gramlich — primary (person)
• J. Boyd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-03T19:39:35+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-03T23:19:39+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
• 2025-04-03T19:12:15+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-07T22:11:09+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08T01:04:45+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-08T01:04:53+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:15:54+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T19:13:52+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-09T19:13:58+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-09T19:14:05+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-09T20:25:21+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-10T03:12:28+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-10T03:12:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T03:13:06+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-10T14:59:48+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-10T14:59:53+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-14T18:53:28+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-15T19:51:34+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-15T19:51:36+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T13:31:42+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-21T16:28:57+00:00 Notification that HB1642 is now Act 916 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f668f93a-d0c4-4195-a877-576e41f7bd5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).