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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1705: TO REQUIRE INFORMATION CONCERNING HOW THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS INFLUENCED THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE EMBEDDED INTO EXISTING SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS.

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 1705 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on March 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO REQUIRE INFORMATION CONCERNING HOW THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS INFLUENCED THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE EMBEDDED INTO EXISTING SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS. Primary sponsor: Josh Bryant (Republican), Hope Duke (Republican). It lists 13 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 8, 2025): Notification that HB1705 is now Act 478.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 15

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Josh BryantPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate32
Hope DukePrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse12
Mary BentleyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse54
Harlan BreauxCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse6
Karilyn BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse67
Alyssa BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse41
Joey CarrCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse34
Bruce CozartCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse91
Jim DotsonCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate34
Wayne LongCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse39
Richard McGrewCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse85
Stephen MeeksCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse42
Scott RichardsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse13
Johnny RyeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse36
DeAnn VaughtCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse87

“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 HB1705 is now Act 478
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.
  5. Returned to the House as passed.
  6. Read the third time and passed.
  7. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE
  9. Received from the House.
  10. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  11. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  12. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

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Sources

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