---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ELIMINATE INTERLOCUTORY DECREES OF ADOPTION; AND TO AMEND THE REVISED UNIFORM ADOPTION ACT."
description: "TO ELIMINATE INTERLOCUTORY DECREES OF ADOPTION; AND TO AMEND THE REVISED UNIFORM ADOPTION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 599"
citation: "Arkansas SB 599 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Hudson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-01T19:37:31+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:14:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc2e00b5-7809-4e31-9fd4-ab9766f2f050"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9651c989e62a743a1b290802e945af7b9fb9f87d1a8406761ed84b54a22ce7d4"
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 599 (2025) — TO ELIMINATE INTERLOCUTORY DECREES OF ADOPTION; AND TO AMEND THE REVISED UNIFORM ADOPTION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 744** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=744.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB599-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 599** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB599.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- Hudson — primary (person)
- C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-01T19:37:31+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-01T22:42:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T01:45:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T13:38:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:38:51+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-07T21:02:39+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T20:33:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:34:14+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-08T21:57:48+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-09T01:51:30+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`
- **2025-04-10T19:16:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T23:50:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T23:51:04+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:55:19+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:55:24+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:21:35+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:21:39+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:14:33+00:00** Notification that SB599 is now Act 744 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc2e00b5-7809-4e31-9fd4-ab9766f2f050`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).