---
type: "Bill"
title: "REGARDING THE OWNERSHIP OF MODEL TRAINING AND CONTENT GENERATED BY A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOL."
description: "REGARDING THE OWNERSHIP OF MODEL TRAINING AND CONTENT GENERATED BY A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1876"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1876 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bryant", "R. Scott Richardson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T18:08:18+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:31:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c07e2d8-2063-4013-a1fc-de5e46d40fa5"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "99a11c257a20126675df12d6074a60d33812302f37378d29b9d2b77af61bbdef"
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 1876 (2025) — REGARDING THE OWNERSHIP OF MODEL TRAINING AND CONTENT GENERATED BY A GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOL.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 927** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=927.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1876-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1876-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1876** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1876.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20T18:08:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T22:43:40+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T13:37:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-02T13:37:51+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-02T16:18:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-03T18:40:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T13:42:17+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:42:19+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-07T16:25:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T19:46:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T03:39:49+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-09T03:39:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T15:44:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15T21:04:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:05:04+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T22:20:18+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T22:20:20+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T20:21:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:31:54+00:00** Notification that HB1876 is now Act 927 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c07e2d8-2063-4013-a1fc-de5e46d40fa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).