republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1696.md

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Bill	TO ESTABLISH THE STRENGTHENING ARKANSAS EDUCATION ACT; AND TO PROVIDE A CORE CURRICULUM AT STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.	TO ESTABLISH THE STRENGTHENING ARKANSAS EDUCATION ACT; AND TO PROVIDE A CORE CURRICULUM AT STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1696	Arkansas HB 1696 (2025)	bill		enacted	J. Dotson McAlindon	4	19	0	2025-03-05T21:53:08+00:00	2025-04-14T22:09:11+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5b112618-dd0d-44eb-8c84-7c07219b85ec	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	0ae482d1498d84f1c5ececa9a7cd43ab4b1e8fc2ff998a02b4ddf47192e6d9d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1696 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE STRENGTHENING ARKANSAS EDUCATION ACT; AND TO PROVIDE A CORE CURRICULUM AT STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

Version chain

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

1. Act 566 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1696 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• J. Dotson — primary (person)
• McAlindon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-05T21:53:08+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-05T23:23:22+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
• 2025-03-19T13:35:23+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-19T13:35:25+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19T21:20:23+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-20T22:33:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2025-03-31T13:37:39+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-31T13:37:41+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-31T19:10:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-01T19:39:35+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T00:22:41+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-02T00:22:50+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02T18:20:11+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T01:09:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T01:09:42+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-09T16:26:58+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-09T16:27:00+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-09T16:27:04+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-14T22:09:11+00:00 Notification that HB1696 is now Act 566 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b112618-dd0d-44eb-8c84-7c07219b85ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).