---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO BE KNOWN AS \"THE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM ACT OF 2019\"; AND CONCERNING ASSET FORFEITURE IN CRIMINAL CASES."
description: "TO BE KNOWN AS \"THE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM ACT OF 2019\"; AND CONCERNING ASSET FORFEITURE IN CRIMINAL CASES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 308"
citation: "Arkansas SB 308 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a8b3310-3b0c-43e6-9cba-8a2b15889c39"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3575e8752c995ab8940ffebbab8a6e5a60a6a1d69b02cfc98289b29a37c40cc5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas SB 308 (2019) — TO BE KNOWN AS "THE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM ACT OF 2019"; AND CONCERNING ASSET FORFEITURE IN CRIMINAL CASES.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB308-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 308** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB308.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-12** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-12** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-25** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-25** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-25** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-28** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-28** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-13** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-13** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-14** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-14** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-18** Notification that SB308 is now Act 476 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a8b3310-3b0c-43e6-9cba-8a2b15889c39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).