---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT."
description: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 300"
citation: "Arkansas SB 300 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T19:57:12+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T20:59:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/195fb247-e08c-4f0d-b4d0-2504c8d4c9ae"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "28eb6e956350569f8707b2052a76896cb5f051a9e2e2cda9cbe3e7e78d9ba3f4"
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 300 (2025) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 321** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=321.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 300** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB300.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T19:57:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T21:47:31+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T20:02:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06T21:20:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T21:20:39+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-06T22:46:32+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-06T23:20:55+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`
- **2025-03-11T18:04:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T19:20:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T19:20:20+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-12T21:42:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-12T21:42:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T13:05:04+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-03-13T13:05:07+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18T20:59:06+00:00** Notification that SB300 is now Act 321 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/195fb247-e08c-4f0d-b4d0-2504c8d4c9ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).