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Yes: 110 • No: 10
ArkansasHB17932025 Regular SessionHouse
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE USE OF POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
Sponsored By: Tyler Dees (Republican), Hope Duke (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Schools lose former behavior support requirements
The law removes Arkansas districts' former requirement to provide three levels of positive behavior support. Those levels covered prevention, targeted help, and intensive services or crisis management. It also removes the system's required parts, guiding principles, and legal definition of positive behavioral support.
Schools must help students before crises
Arkansas public schools must provide behavior interventions within their multi-tiered support systems for students whose difficulties could become dangerous. Professionals must work with teachers to assess why the behavior happens and which situations cause problems. They must consider whether a behavior plan is needed to address the difficulty and prevent an emergency. When behavior concerns suggest a disability, schools must follow district, state, and federal special-education procedures.
Schools must review student restraint practices
Arkansas districts must adopt student-restraint policies that follow state law and fit their students and staff. After physical restraint, the required review must examine behavior procedures and prevention methods to reduce future restraint use. Participants must discuss whether staff followed district procedures correctly. The law also defines punishment by its goal of reducing or stopping future inappropriate behavior. An action need not teach a replacement behavior to count as punishment.
School staff training keeps crisis focus
Covered school staff must receive evidence-based training in preventing conflict, calming situations, and responding to crises. The law removes positive support from that required training. Districts that choose to offer training may include positive behavior interventions and related procedures, strategies, and supports. That optional content applies when the district uses those methods to increase appropriate behavior and reduce inappropriate or dangerous behavior.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Tyler Dees
Republican • Senate
Hope Duke
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/14/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, April 14, 2025 1:09:06 PM
Yes: 27 • No: 5 • Other: 2
House vote • 4/7/2025
House Vote - Monday, April 7, 2025 5:17:03 PM
Yes: 83 • No: 5 • Other: 4
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1793 is now Act 804
4/17/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
4/15/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
4/14/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
4/14/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
4/14/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
4/14/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
4/9/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE
4/7/2025SenateReceived from the House.
4/7/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
4/7/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
4/3/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE
3/13/2025HouseFiled
3/13/2025House
Bill Text
HB1793 - Introduced
3/13/2025
Act Version
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