republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1964.md

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Bill	TO MOVE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION AND THE JUVENILE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO MOVE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION AND THE JUVENILE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1964	Arkansas HB 1964 (2025)	bill		enacted	A. Clark Brooks	2	15	0	2025-04-01T20:29:15+00:00	2025-04-17T20:29:40+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e480d764-145e-4180-9ba9-1cab18f1dba1	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	94891ccbaeb5a8ad4ed0816e205d612dd349b4cce6b4b67107767a00856af7b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1964 (2025) — TO MOVE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION AND THE JUVENILE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 825 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1964 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• A. Clark — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-01T20:29:15+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-02T01:40:43+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
• 2025-04-07T16:27:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-08T20:08:22+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08T20:08:31+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-04-09T03:50:13+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-09T03:50:21+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:28:18+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14T19:43:02+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T19:43:08+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-04-14T19:43:13+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-14T21:15:18+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-14T21:15:19+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-15T14:06:34+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-17T20:29:40+00:00 Notification that HB1964 is now Act 825 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e480d764-145e-4180-9ba9-1cab18f1dba1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).