---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1549"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1549 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bryant", "R. Scott Richardson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-20T19:37:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-08T16:55:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89973d3a-2c83-41e9-b62a-11a3f1de3063"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6bbd0f184cdda178d260476a5834f5bd6492d2bc381e5991e2f0bc8c4212ccc9"
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 1549 (2025) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 489** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=489.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1549-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1549-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1549** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1549.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Bryant — primary (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20T19:37:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-20T22:30:20+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T14:30:25+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-25T14:30:27+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-25T16:00:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-11T13:34:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-11T13:34:11+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T15:38:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-19T21:09:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T20:40:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:19:10+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:19:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T18:54:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01T21:36:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:37:04+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-01T22:49:47+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-01T22:49:49+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-02T15:50:01+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-08T16:55:47+00:00** Notification that HB1549 is now Act 489 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89973d3a-2c83-41e9-b62a-11a3f1de3063`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).