---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN A JUVENILE IS CONSIDERED TO BE ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN A JUVENILE IS CONSIDERED TO BE ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 488"
citation: "Arkansas SB 488 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dalby", "Irvin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T21:35:03+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:18:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62e4df11-9bf2-4572-b3aa-7fc73c143a68"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c14101932ac685ebff2eeb705836ddd9324cd6a1179be7a14acc2a5b5a819e92"
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 488 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN A JUVENILE IS CONSIDERED TO BE ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 755** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=755.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB488-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 488** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB488.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dalby — primary (person)
- Irvin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T21:35:03+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:08:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:24:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T13:36:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T13:36:59+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-03T18:13:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-07T19:22:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T19:23:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T21:35:06+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:12:19+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`
- **2025-04-10T19:22:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T00:26:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T00:26:24+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:48:51+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:48:55+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:08:56+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:09:04+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:18:47+00:00** Notification that SB488 is now Act 755 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62e4df11-9bf2-4572-b3aa-7fc73c143a68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).