republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1653.md

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Bill	TO SET STANDARDS FOR LICENSING AND REGULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO SET STANDARDS FOR LICENSING AND REGULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1653	Arkansas HB 1653 (2025)	bill		enacted	Cavenaugh Irvin	4	21	0	2025-03-04T15:31:05+00:00	2025-04-16T20:38:08+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/17e7f6a9-e791-4af6-b293-c0a3912eea34	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	2965f7a3f7246b8c941868a66cdc3e74067b21d86f83819a7b1abdfd06334574	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1653 (2025) — TO SET STANDARDS FOR LICENSING AND REGULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 636 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1653 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Cavenaugh — primary (person)
• Irvin — primary (person)
• Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-04T15:31:05+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-04T23:29:59+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
• 2025-03-05T14:30:20+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-05T14:30:22+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-05T17:47:35+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-31T13:40:46+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-31T13:40:48+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-31T19:11:21+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-01T18:21:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-02T19:28:47+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T19:28:50+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-04-03T00:44:47+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-03T00:44:55+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T18:47:25+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T23:33:05+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T23:33:15+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-04-09T23:33:22+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-10T01:35:27+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-10T01:35:29+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-10T15:53:42+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-16T20:38:08+00:00 Notification that HB1653 is now Act 636 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17e7f6a9-e791-4af6-b293-c0a3912eea34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).