---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT A PERSON REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER FROM ENTERING A WATER PARK, SWIMMING AREA, OR CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND OF A PUBLIC PARK."
description: "TO PROHIBIT A PERSON REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER FROM ENTERING A WATER PARK, SWIMMING AREA, OR CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND OF A PUBLIC PARK."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1437"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1437 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Duffield"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-10T19:09:24+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T22:50:27+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd089c75-d8f1-495e-931e-1e07b2002a8b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8aa41b52aa3ce1286aee67187d9ae5a3c522f2584968a1ca09dcc5b97355617e"
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 1437 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT A PERSON REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER FROM ENTERING A WATER PARK, SWIMMING AREA, OR CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND OF A PUBLIC PARK.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 158** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=158.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1437** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1437.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Duffield — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10T19:09:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-10T23:10:49+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`
- **2025-02-13T16:43:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17T20:05:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17T21:17:06+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-17T21:17:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T19:40:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20T18:05:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-20T18:05:20+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-20T19:16:22+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-20T19:16:26+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-20T19:16:28+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-25T22:50:27+00:00** Notification that HB1437 is now Act 158 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd089c75-d8f1-495e-931e-1e07b2002a8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).