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Rights, restrictions & the places between.
AR HB1669 (2025)
To Create The Keep Kids First Act; And To Provide For Protections From Discrimination For Adoption And Foster Care Providers Acting In Accordance With Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs.
Anti-LGBTQ+
Summary
To Create The Keep Kids First Act; And To Provide For Protections From Discrimination For Adoption And Foster Care Providers Acting In Accordance With Sincerely Held Religious Bel…
- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas
- Session
- 95th General Assembly (2025 Regular)
- Stage reported
- Passed / adopted
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Notification that HB1669 is now Act 509
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Religious Exemptions: Adoption and Foster CareChild Custody Bill
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- As enrolled or final (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Draft text (Mar 4, 2025) at arkleg.state.ar.us(opens another site)PDF, external
- Chaptered text (Apr 10, 2025) at arkleg.state.ar.us(opens another site)PDF, external
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | Filed | |
| House | Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE | |
| House | Returned by the Committee Do Pass | |
| House | Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. | |
| Senate | Received from the House. | |
| Senate | Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE | |
| Senate | Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 | |
| Senate | Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment. | |
| Senate | Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed. | |
| Senate | REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED | |
| Senate | Read the third time and failed. | |
| Senate | Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1669 failed to pass. Motion Carried. | |
| Senate | Read the third time and passed. | |
| Senate | Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 . | |
| House | Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 | |
| House | Re-referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE | |
| House | Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 | |
| House | Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. | |
| House | TO BE ENROLLED | |
| House | Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office. | |
| House | Notification that HB1669 is now Act 509 |
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