---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION OF RAIL EMPLOYEES IN REPORTS INVOLVING RAILROAD FATALITIES."
description: "TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION OF RAIL EMPLOYEES IN REPORTS INVOLVING RAILROAD FATALITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 397"
citation: "Arkansas SB 397 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Rye"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T16:56:40+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:41:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0aa10a2-5e6e-4928-864d-86ef165c1d9b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1c9a7174ef39c93f6aff665e2ab86b255cab361f577612f17b1898ab5a4fe9ab"
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 397 (2025) — TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION OF RAIL EMPLOYEES IN REPORTS INVOLVING RAILROAD FATALITIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 931** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=931.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB397-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB397-S1.pdf)
4. **SB 397** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB397.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Rye — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06T16:56:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T19:52:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T18:55:53+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-03-18T18:55:59+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-18T18:56:06+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-18T20:47:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T20:47:21+00:00** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T18:54:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01T20:26:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T20:27:07+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-01T22:43:32+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-02T01:44:42+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T13:41:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:41:36+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-07T16:25:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T16:38:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T00:40:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T00:40:44+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-10T04:03:48+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-10T04:04:01+00:00** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T15:44:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15T18:27:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-15T18:27:23+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-04-15T18:27:28+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-15T18:27:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T18:27:47+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T12:34:47+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T12:34:52+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22T21:41:02+00:00** Notification that SB397 is now Act 931 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0aa10a2-5e6e-4928-864d-86ef165c1d9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).