---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF CAPITAL RAPE; AND TO AMEND A PORTION OF ARKANSAS CODE WHICH RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 3 OF 1936."
description: "TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF CAPITAL RAPE; AND TO AMEND A PORTION OF ARKANSAS CODE WHICH RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 3 OF 1936."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 375"
citation: "Arkansas SB 375 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Moore", "Stone"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T20:10:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:50:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/902c1b23-7af6-47dd-89bc-6429eaff7130"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3ff5824bb0555b933c1815536a1618984446f6b9fa2ad4e921b74620d17365ae"
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 375 (2025) — TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF CAPITAL RAPE; AND TO AMEND A PORTION OF ARKANSAS CODE WHICH RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 3 OF 1936.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 662** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=662.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 375** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB375.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Moore — primary (person)
- Stone — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04T20:10:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T20:21:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10T23:59:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12T20:45:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T20:45:38+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-12T22:01:48+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-12T23:19:35+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`
- **2025-04-09T01:08:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T01:36:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T01:36:55+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:06:25+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:06:31+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:11:56+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-10T13:11:59+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T20:50:59+00:00** Notification that SB375 is now Act 662 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/902c1b23-7af6-47dd-89bc-6429eaff7130`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).