All Roll Calls
Yes: 130 • No: 1
ArkansasHB16892025 Regular SessionHouse
TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN STATE-SUPPORTED POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS.
Sponsored By: Dave Wallace (Republican), Matthew J. Shepherd (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
College and career students get recruiter access
Arkansas state-supported colleges must let official military recruiters reach enrolled students with information about military education and careers. The same requirement covers state-supported career academies, precollege academies, secondary career centers, and technical centers.
High schools expand recruiting with fewer barriers
Arkansas school district boards must give official military recruiters access to each public high school to explain military education and careers. Each school must give recruiters an equal chance to present in person to students in grades 10–12. Recruiters can engage students regardless of grades, courses, career goals, or extracurricular activities. If a school gives prospective employers no access, military access is limited to in-person engagement with grades 10–12. That access includes normal school hours and public events outside school hours. Schools can limit recruiting events, places, or times only when the same limits apply to employers and comparable education or career groups. Those limits cannot block military recruiter access. Recruiters can distribute and collect information, conduct surveys, receive student contact details, and arrange follow-up meetings like comparable groups. Schools cannot add privacy rules, paperwork barriers, or parental-consent requirements beyond those applied to employers or similar groups. Schools must notify all students in grades 10–12 about recruiting opportunities electronically and during advisory, homeroom, or a class period. The state Military Secretary must gather National Guard recruiter reports and send an annual compliance report to the Education Secretary. The report must identify districts violating the rules and explain why. Covered recruiters represent the Arkansas National Guard, all U.S. military branches, and those branches’ federal reserve components.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Dave Wallace
Republican • Senate
Matthew J. Shepherd
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Jon S. Eubanks
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/18/2025
Senate Vote - Tuesday, March 18, 2025 3:41:20 PM
Yes: 34 • No: 0
House vote • 3/12/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, March 12, 2025 2:03:35 PM
Yes: 96 • No: 1 • Other: 1
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1689 is now Act 355
3/20/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
3/19/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
3/18/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
3/18/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
3/18/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/18/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
3/17/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE
3/12/2025SenateReceived from the House.
3/12/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
3/12/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
3/11/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE
3/5/2025HouseFiled
3/5/2025House
Bill Text
HB1689 - Introduced
3/5/2025
Act Version
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