---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INFORMATION BEFORE RECORDING A DEED TO REAL ESTATE."
description: "TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INFORMATION BEFORE RECORDING A DEED TO REAL ESTATE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 406"
citation: "Arkansas SB 406 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Warren"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-07T18:29:48+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:17:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/045ecbe8-a751-4ce7-a2ce-33e9435301d5"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "404e61e933abe2275d48f918cafae9dce60300def1c92a15dadacd22cf08cb2e"
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 406 (2025) — TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INFORMATION BEFORE RECORDING A DEED TO REAL ESTATE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 752** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=752.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB406-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB406-S2.pdf)
4. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB406-S3.pdf)
5. **SB 406** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB406.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-07T18:29:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-10T18:40:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T13:10:57+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-17T13:11:03+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-17T18:35:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T18:35:49+00:00** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T18:39:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19T19:15:31+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-19T19:15:39+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-20T00:16:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T20:28:47+00:00** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:23:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T18:58:00+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-07T18:58:04+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T18:58:11+00:00** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-07T21:01:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-07T21:57:51+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-07T21:58:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T21:58:10+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T23:49:41+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:10:06+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T20:05:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T21:24:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T21:24:28+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:46:17+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:46:23+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T13:59:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T13:59:50+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:17:37+00:00** Notification that SB406 is now Act 752 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/045ecbe8-a751-4ce7-a2ce-33e9435301d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).