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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1669: TO CREATE THE KEEP KIDS FIRST ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTIONS FROM DISCRIMINATION FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROVIDERS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1669 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on March 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO CREATE THE KEEP KIDS FIRST ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTIONS FROM DISCRIMINATION FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROVIDERS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. Primary sponsor: Alan Clark (Republican), Mary Bentley (Republican). Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2025): Notification that HB1669 is now Act 509.

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Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Alan ClarkPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate7
Mary BentleyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse54

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that HB1669 is now Act 509
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
  5. Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
  6. Re-referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE
  7. Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
  8. Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
  9. Read the third time and passed.
  10. Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1669 failed to pass. Motion Carried.
  11. Read the third time and failed.
  12. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

Showing 12 most recent of 21 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source