---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SUSPENDED IMPOSITION OF A SENTENCE, PROBATION, PAROLE, AND POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION."
description: "TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SUSPENDED IMPOSITION OF A SENTENCE, PROBATION, PAROLE, AND POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 485"
citation: "Arkansas SB 485 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Gazaway"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T21:13:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:54:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baed3477-7cc9-45a0-bf33-4461e2dd0ae7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f61ba2c8ce8599b36aa63fda59772b5eca550eb8635c29a20a17fa60631b5db0"
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 485 (2025) — TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SUSPENDED IMPOSITION OF A SENTENCE, PROBATION, PAROLE, AND POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 670** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=670.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB485-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 485** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB485.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- Gazaway — primary (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T21:13:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:06:55+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:24:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T13:37:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T13:37:42+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-03T18:12:43+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-07T19:16:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T19:16:37+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T21:34:57+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:12:03+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`
- **2025-04-09T01:08:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T01:31:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T01:32:24+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:13:53+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:13:58+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:14:40+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-10T13:14:43+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T20:54:17+00:00** Notification that SB485 is now Act 670 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/baed3477-7cc9-45a0-bf33-4461e2dd0ae7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).