---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ADD SECOND DEGREE MURDER TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES THAT ARE INELIGIBLE FOR MERITORIOUS FURLOUGH."
description: "TO ADD SECOND DEGREE MURDER TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES THAT ARE INELIGIBLE FOR MERITORIOUS FURLOUGH."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 214"
citation: "Arkansas SB 214 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bryant", "Underwood"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-10T22:43:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T23:11:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb04099a-6ab6-4a84-94a3-1317fbb11a40"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2e89ff18112e0b5b79f8ea7ed111346834d96be625b076b7e15099d50c684186"
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 SB 214 (2025) — TO ADD SECOND DEGREE MURDER TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES THAT ARE INELIGIBLE FOR MERITORIOUS FURLOUGH.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 137** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=137.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 214** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB214.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Bryant — primary (person)
- Underwood — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10T22:43:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-10T23:23:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T19:42:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T17:03:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T17:03:58+00:00** Ordered immediately
- **2025-02-13T19:33:01+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-13T23:10:44+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`
- **2025-02-18T18:10:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19T20:26:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T20:26:36+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-19T22:18:27+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-19T22:18:31+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-20T19:41:26+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-20T19:41:29+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-25T23:11:41+00:00** Notification that SB214 is now Act 137 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb04099a-6ab6-4a84-94a3-1317fbb11a40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).