---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE."
description: "TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1958"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1958 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "S. Meeks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-01T19:30:17+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:42:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7e8fa93-ffb9-443d-a17c-1c2e8f884702"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "96db59513b178a34f0bdeaaf1d88ea2afec3650e895c6ef4fb922cbe76deac2c"
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 1958 (2025) — TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 848** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=848.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1958-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1958** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1958.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)
- S. Meeks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-01T19:30:17+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-02T01:38:47+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`
- **2025-04-03T18:41:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T21:39:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T01:18:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-08T01:18:15+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:52:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T19:00:52+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-09T19:01:00+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-09T19:55:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-10T21:10:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T21:10:43+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-10T23:22:40+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-14T19:56:31+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-14T19:56:34+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:07:15+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:42:14+00:00** Notification that HB1958 is now Act 848 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7e8fa93-ffb9-443d-a17c-1c2e8f884702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).