---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF GIFT CARD FRAUD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF GIFT CARD FRAUD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 302"
citation: "Arkansas SB 302 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T20:00:31+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:50:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65e0fc18-3487-4701-a20a-4073e4934348"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "74dd81abb9d3c7081c2a5c27dd5894778bf2093f8de66c0503cfdcae968e27a1"
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 302 (2025) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF GIFT CARD FRAUD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 659** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=659.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB302-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 302** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB302.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T20:00:31+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T21:48:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T20:14:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06T21:33:18+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10T23:57:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11T19:06:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-11T19:06:44+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-11T21:13:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-12T19:31:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T19:31:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-12T19:31:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-12T22:00:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-12T23:17:34+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`
- **2025-04-09T01:07:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T01:16:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T01:16:21+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-10T01:16:26+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:04:57+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:05:09+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:11:13+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-10T13:11:15+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T20:50:13+00:00** Notification that SB302 is now Act 659 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65e0fc18-3487-4701-a20a-4073e4934348`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).