HB 1545 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021.

HB 1545 is an amendment to Arkansas' Military Child School Transitions Act of 2021. It updates the law to explicitly include students with disabilities in school transition support, expands the Purple Star School Program to develop resources for military-connected students, and adjusts excused absence policies for these students. The amendment also removes Section 6 of the original act. These changes directly affect military-connected students in Arkansas schools, particularly those with disabilities, by improving access to transition support and program resources.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

Signed into Law

Apr 2025

Introduced Feb 20, 2025 Signed Apr 10, 2025

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What changed between versions

Act 501 → HB 1545 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was renumbered and reformatted from 'Act 501' to 'HB 1545' for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025. The substantive legislative content appears unchanged, with only formatting and session metadata updates.

TECHNICAL

Bill identifier changed from 'Act 501' to 'HB 1545' to reflect current session numbering.

Added session dates (H3/10/25, H3/19/25) and assembly designation to header.

Removed 'Act 501 of the Regular Session' reference from original text.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 10, 2025

Signed into law

Notification that HB1545 is now Act 501

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned from the Senate as passed.

lower

Apr 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned to the House as Passed.

upper

Apr 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read the third time and passed.

upper

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

lower

Mar 19, 2025

Introduced

Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

lower

Mar 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2

lower

Mar 10, 2025

Introduced

Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors