# Arkansas HB1545: TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021. Arkansas HB1545, TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021., is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Jane English (Republican), Karilyn Brown (Republican); status enacted, last action 2025-04-10 (Notification that HB1545 is now Act 501); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-16). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1545-2025 - As of: 2026-10-16 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Arkansas HB1545 - State: Arkansas - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021. - Status: enacted - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-20 - Last action: 2025-04-10, Notification that HB1545 is now Act 501 - Sponsors: Jane English (Republican), Karilyn Brown (Republican) - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 2 (121 yes, 1 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 7 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Earlier school enrollment for military children: benefit, medium. Caregivers of covered military children can apply remotely after receiving official assignment notices or orders. Applications can include military identification, school records, disability plans, and extracurricular activities. Schools must provisionally enroll and place students, enter course re… - Longer school support for military children: benefit, medium. The law removes the former one-year limit on school-transition support for two groups of dependent children. One group is children of veterans injured in the line of duty and medically separated or retired. The veteran's injury no longer has to be severe. The other group is children of service memb… - Earlier disability planning for military students: benefit, low. Receiving districts can plan special education services before a covered student with a disability arrives. They can meet with the family and the sending district's individualized education program team. With parent consent, they can request an evaluation while the student remains enrolled in the s… - Schools can help more transferring students: benefit, low. Public schools can extend military school-transition protections to other students moving into their districts. They can also offer these protections to students using the Arkansas Opportunity Public School Choice Act or Public School Choice Act of 2015. Each school decides whether to extend this h… - More school guidance for military families: benefit, low. The Arkansas Council for Military Children must distribute a digital guide and publicly survey military families at least every two years. It must develop arrival and departure surveys to assess programs and support staff training, Purple Star outreach, and recognition programs. It must inform curr… - Purple Star schools support military children: benefit, low. Public schools with at least 20 children from military families enrolled by October 1 each year must adopt the approved Purple Star School Program. They must survey arriving and departing military families and provide school facilitators, staff training, military-family website information, and vol… - School contacts for every military family: benefit, low. Every Arkansas public school district and open-enrollment public charter school must name a military family education coordinator, regardless of enrollment counts. Each must post the coordinator's contact information in its website's Military Families section and report it to the state annually by… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Jane English (Republican), Senate - Sponsor: Karilyn Brown (Republican), House ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-07 | Senate | Senate Vote - Monday, April 7, 2025 5:35:49 PM | pass | 34 | 0 | | | 2025-03-20 | House | House Vote - Thursday, March 20, 2025 2:01:17 PM | pass | 87 | 1 | 2 | ## Actions (19) - 2025-04-10: Notification that HB1545 is now Act 501 (House) - 2025-04-08: Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office. (House) - 2025-04-07: TO BE ENROLLED (House) - 2025-04-07: Returned from the Senate as passed. (House) - 2025-04-07: Returned to the House as Passed. (Senate) - 2025-04-07: Read the third time and passed. (Senate) - 2025-04-02: Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Received from the House. (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. (House) - 2025-03-19: REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED (House) - 2025-03-19: Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. (House) - 2025-03-19: Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment. (House) - 2025-03-18: Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 (House) - 2025-03-10: REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED (House) - 2025-03-10: Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. (House) - 2025-03-10: Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment. (House) - 2025-02-20: Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE (House) - 2025-02-20: Filed (House) ## Bill text - HB1545 - Introduced, 2025-02-20: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1545.pdf) - Act Version: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=501.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R) ## Related bills - HB1265: AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. (enacted) - HB1686: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LICENSES TO CARRY CONCEALED HANDGUNS. (failed) - HB1237: TO PROHIBIT MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS FROM SOLICITING INJURED INDIVIDUALS; AND TO SET PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITION OF SOLICITATION OF INJURED INDIV… (failed) - SB440: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE USE OF ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS; AND TO REGULATE ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS FACILITIES. (failed) - HB1695: TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO ALLOW A MUNICIPALITY TO PETITION TO SET ASIDE THE SALE OF PROPERTY TO CERTAIN P… (failed) - HR1012: TO AMEND THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY; TO REQUIRE THAT A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BE SELECTED A… (failed) ## Sources - [HB1545 - Introduced (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1545.pdf) - [Act Version (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=501.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R) ## Related - [HB1265: AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1265-2025) - [HB1686: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LICENSES TO CARRY CONCEALED HANDGUNS.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1686-2025) - [HB1237: TO PROHIBIT MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS FROM SOLICITING INJURED INDIVIDUALS; AND TO S…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1237-2025) - [SB440: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE US…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-SB440-2025) - [HB1695: TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1695-2025) - [HR1012: TO AMEND THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HR1012-2025) - [Arkansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/arkansas/bills) - [Arkansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/arkansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1545-2025 (as of 2026-10-16).