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type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE PUBLIC EDUCATION REORGANIZATION ACT; TO AMEND THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE ADMINISTRATIVELY CONSOLIDATED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE PUBLIC EDUCATION REORGANIZATION ACT; TO AMEND THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE ADMINISTRATIVELY CONSOLIDATED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1504"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1504 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. McElroy"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-27T15:38:11+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T16:40:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95ebcfdb-5cab-4a47-878e-42b95692913c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e61cf0e98d1552e47dfc98e05ea70322b4594fae624e8616424b0175aee4081e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---
# Arkansas HB 1504 (2023) — TO AMEND THE PUBLIC EDUCATION REORGANIZATION ACT; TO AMEND THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE ADMINISTRATIVELY CONSOLIDATED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 543** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=543.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1504** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1504.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **980** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **310** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- M. McElroy — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-27T15:38:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-27T23:05:52+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`
- **2023-03-28T18:41:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-29T19:21:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T19:21:40+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-29T23:26:25+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-29T23:26:31+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T21:22:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T17:06:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T17:06:59+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-06T17:07:05+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:55:13+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:55:14+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T20:12:20+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T16:40:47+00:00** Notification that HB1504 is now Act 543 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95ebcfdb-5cab-4a47-878e-42b95692913c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).