---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING RECORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS KEPT BY THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY."
description: "CONCERNING RECORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS KEPT BY THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1843"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1843 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tosh"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-18T20:31:27+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:42:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37856372-7783-4a5e-a770-f4ef0d93afe7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f75879c7cee3877be10373f076f3986734553d3c00003a5a115e10260641ba5d"
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 1843 (2025) — CONCERNING RECORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS KEPT BY THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 954** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=954.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1843** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1843.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Tosh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18T20:31:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-18T21:31:59+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`
- **2025-04-01T02:04:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T20:46:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T00:28:15+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:28:22+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:49:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16T15:09:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T15:09:19+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T16:30:22+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T16:30:25+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T16:30:28+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:42:28+00:00** Notification that HB1843 is now Act 954 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37856372-7783-4a5e-a770-f4ef0d93afe7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).