---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 320"
citation: "Arkansas SB 320 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dalby", "Irvin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-26T20:30:28+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:01:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14e28a49-2264-4edb-bff3-63906814c0df"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "05ef150e3b866674030fe41371916c6887353da98ef2b3772c1e2393657edd27"
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 320 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 518** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=518.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB320-H1.pdf)
3. **SB 320** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB320.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dalby — primary (person)
- Irvin — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Duke — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26T20:30:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-26T22:28:53+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T20:15:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06T21:36:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T21:36:42+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-06T22:46:56+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-06T23:21:45+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`
- **2025-03-19T13:35:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-19T13:35:39+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-19T21:26:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T20:00:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31T21:09:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T21:09:23+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-03-31T22:46:27+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-03-31T22:46:37+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:23:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T18:51:43+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T18:51:51+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-04-03T18:52:00+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-03T18:52:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T18:52:18+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-04T14:54:14+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-04T14:54:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10T21:01:54+00:00** Notification that SB320 is now Act 518 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14e28a49-2264-4edb-bff3-63906814c0df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).