---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW."
description: "CONCERNING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1282"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1282 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "J. Richardson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-28T19:47:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-18T19:29:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3c9e3f7-70ab-4575-8de1-d58d2d121530"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c233ca4d883236127160685263c4768b295f7a1e4ff64d6ef5622021d97bcfbf"
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 HB 1282 (2025) — CONCERNING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 110** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=110.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1282** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1282.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Boyd — primary (person)
- J. Richardson — primary (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28T19:47:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-28T23:16:00+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`
- **2025-02-06T17:30:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T20:52:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T23:33:06+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-10T23:33:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T19:44:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T17:31:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T17:32:05+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-13T19:35:27+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-13T19:35:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-13T19:35:32+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-18T19:29:58+00:00** Notification that HB1282 is now Act 110 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3c9e3f7-70ab-4575-8de1-d58d2d121530`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).