republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1921.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR FOSTER PARENTS; AND TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AND CERTIFYING RELATIVES AS FOSTER PARENTS.	TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR FOSTER PARENTS; AND TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AND CERTIFYING RELATIVES AS FOSTER PARENTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1921	Arkansas HB 1921 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dees Torres	3	16	0	2025-03-31T18:42:16+00:00	2025-04-17T20:29:21+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7946c309-207f-4413-9c3a-a58e582107f5	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	27efbd0f6ced4fbf77fd2998de04e271c55b7ae71fe4e3d3356ecf717e4246fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1921 (2025) — TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR FOSTER PARENTS; AND TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS OF TRAINING AND CERTIFYING RELATIVES AS FOSTER PARENTS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 824 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1921 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Dees — primary (person)
• Torres — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-31T18:42:16+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-01T02:12:44+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02T18:54:27+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-03T13:36:33+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-03T13:36:35+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-03T17:28:40+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-07T19:55:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08T01:14:16+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-08T01:14:29+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:27:33+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14T19:11:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T19:12:02+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-14T21:11:28+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-14T21:11:30+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-15T14:20:38+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-17T20:29:21+00:00 Notification that HB1921 is now Act 824 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7946c309-207f-4413-9c3a-a58e582107f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).