---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AND TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL SQUATTING."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AND TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL SQUATTING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1049"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1049 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Tosh"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-11-21T16:38:14+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-04T22:53:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8cff443-ffc0-4169-bf22-23591c345c5b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e88bcb99eeefa953723ccc6cba9afed88e21eb1df569e5584b541285ef99abe1"
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 HB 1049 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AND TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL SQUATTING.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 238** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=238.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1049-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1049-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1049-S1.pdf)
5. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1049-S2.pdf)
6. **HB 1049** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1049.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Tosh — primary (person)
- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Duke — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- John Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Schulz — cosponsor (person)
- Steimel — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-21T16:38:14+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T21:07:24+00:00** 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`
- **2025-02-04T14:32:47+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-04T14:32:54+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-04T17:03:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-06T17:30:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T20:41:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T23:24:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T19:43:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T16:10:25+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-13T16:10:34+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-13T17:42:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-18T16:51:54+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-18T16:52:05+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-18T17:31:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-24T20:26:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-24T20:27:23+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
- **2025-02-24T21:32:33+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
- **2025-02-25T20:12:40+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-02-27T20:18:36+00:00** Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
- **2025-02-27T20:18:40+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-27T20:18:43+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-04T22:53:34+00:00** Notification that HB1049 is now Act 238 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8cff443-ffc0-4169-bf22-23591c345c5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).