---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RECORDS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RECORDS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 487"
citation: "Arkansas SB 487 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T21:33:34+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:18:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/962a32fb-dd50-4b21-b72c-4e83fbedc8d6"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a44cc1758b267edea9a78dd3bb786d0001dc1a5cc6eda10b5e01637678974cf3"
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 487 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RECORDS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 754** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=754.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB487-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 487** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB487.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T21:33:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:07:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T18:43:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20T19:04:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-20T19:04:22+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-20T20:41:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T21:04:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:04:54+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-01T22:45:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-02T01:48:05+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`
- **2025-04-10T19:22:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T00:22:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T00:22:57+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:48:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:48:28+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:08:09+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:08:13+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:18:29+00:00** Notification that SB487 is now Act 754 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/962a32fb-dd50-4b21-b72c-4e83fbedc8d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).