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type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO ALLOW A STUDENT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN HIS OR HER RESIDENT DISTRICT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO ALLOW A STUDENT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN HIS OR HER RESIDENT DISTRICT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 624"
citation: "Arkansas SB 624 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "McCollum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-03T19:37:02+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:09:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb2c4f1a-2f28-410a-8314-37b7aed94d92"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7573c7c1b520bfef12f7cf0c163a84684341685ecc76385702d7f6033ac46a66"
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 SB 624 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO ALLOW A STUDENT TO TRANSFER TO ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL WITHIN HIS OR HER RESIDENT DISTRICT.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 732** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=732.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 624** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB624.pdf)
## Sponsors
- B. Davis — primary (person)
- McCollum — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-03T19:37:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-03T21:25:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T18:22:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08T22:30:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T22:31:15+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-09T00:08:02+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-09T01:54:27+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`
- **2025-04-10T20:57:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T01:02:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T01:02:30+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T02:00:44+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T02:00:48+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:23:46+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:23:53+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:09:14+00:00** Notification that SB624 is now Act 732 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb2c4f1a-2f28-410a-8314-37b7aed94d92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).