---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF PAROLE FOR A PERSON WHO WAS A MINOR WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITTED AN OFFENSE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF PAROLE FOR A PERSON WHO WAS A MINOR WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITTED AN OFFENSE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 444"
citation: "Arkansas SB 444 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clowney", "G. Leding"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-16T19:30:38+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T13:19:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9aae10ae-6e4c-4aca-8b2e-d0d5ddcd58f7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9373114b4a2ce2730bfb65c8b8339fe749fb9dafd00b8321f9aeba09b534c614"
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 444 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF PAROLE FOR A PERSON WHO WAS A MINOR WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITTED AN OFFENSE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 771** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=771.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB444-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 444** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB444.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clowney — primary (person)
- G. Leding — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-16T19:30:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-16T19:56:04+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T18:14:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30T19:09:12+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-30T19:09:16+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-30T21:39:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-30T23:50:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30T23:50:46+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-31T01:10:37+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-31T01:43:26+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`
- **2023-04-05T04:31:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06T20:19:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T20:19:48+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T23:25:03+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T23:25:06+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T19:29:21+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-07T19:29:23+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-12T13:19:51+00:00** Notification that SB444 is now Act 771 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9aae10ae-6e4c-4aca-8b2e-d0d5ddcd58f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).