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type: "Bill"
title: "TO MOVE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION AND THE JUVENILE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO MOVE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION AND THE JUVENILE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1964"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1964 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Brooks"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-01T20:29:15+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:29:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e480d764-145e-4180-9ba9-1cab18f1dba1"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "94891ccbaeb5a8ad4ed0816e205d612dd349b4cce6b4b67107767a00856af7b6"
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 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](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=825.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1964** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1964.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e480d764-145e-4180-9ba9-1cab18f1dba1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).