All Roll Calls
Yes: 116 • No: 3
ArkansasHB19392025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
TO AMEND ELIGIBILITY FOR TEACHER INCENTIVE AND MERIT PAY; TO AMEND REQUIREMENTS FOR SUMMATIVE EVALUATIONS; AND TO AMEND SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE MERIT TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND PROGRAM.
Sponsored By: Jane English (Republican), Joey L. Carr (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Deadline limits National Board teacher bonuses
Teachers seeking Arkansas’s National Board certification incentive funds must have met the program’s requirements by July 1, 2025. Anyone who missed that deadline is not eligible for these funds. This provision does not state a payment amount.
Teachers get ratings when evaluations are skipped
Arkansas public schools must give an overall performance result across all areas in a teacher’s full, or summative, evaluation. Results can be written or digital. When a school skips that evaluation, it must give a year-end rating meeting Merit Teacher Incentive Fund requirements. This rating can be formative or summative, uses observations, and includes framework components reported in the state-approved evaluation system. Having a rating does not guarantee incentive money.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Jane English
Republican • Senate
Joey L. Carr
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/14/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, April 14, 2025 2:34:01 PM
Yes: 30 • No: 3
House vote • 4/8/2025
House Vote - Tuesday, April 8, 2025 3:31:13 PM
Yes: 86 • No: 0 • Other: 4
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1939 is now Act 808
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
4/8/2025SenateReceived from the House.
4/8/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
4/8/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
4/7/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE
3/31/2025HouseFiled
3/31/2025House
Bill Text
HB1939 - Introduced
3/31/2025
Act Version
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