---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST A CHILD."
description: "TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST A CHILD."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1865"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1865 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore", "Vaught"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T13:43:19+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T20:59:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a746e01-b583-437e-8241-33197e9f9f84"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1b0bfb1135cd5f5f4fe8da2166d2fc7face69f7d14c418c3f33e0c66fc271f40"
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 1865 (2025) — TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST A CHILD.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 976** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=976.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1865-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1865-S2.pdf)
4. **HB 1865** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1865.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20T13:43:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T22:40:40+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`
- **2025-04-01T18:24:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T19:44:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T00:50:31+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-03T00:50:38+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T18:56:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08T20:36:30+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-08T20:36:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-08T20:36:50+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-08T21:33:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-14T16:29:02+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-14T16:29:12+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-14T16:29:21+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-14T17:55:41+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-14T20:45:21+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-14T20:46:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T20:48:03+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
- **2025-04-14T21:59:22+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
- **2025-04-14T21:59:37+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T14:43:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16T18:32:14+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-16T18:32:26+00:00** Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-16T18:32:28+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T18:32:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-22T20:59:35+00:00** Notification that HB1865 is now Act 976 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a746e01-b583-437e-8241-33197e9f9f84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).