---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RELEASE FROM PAROLE OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION OF CERTAIN PERSONS WHO COMMITTED CRIMES WHEN THEY WERE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RELEASE FROM PAROLE OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION OF CERTAIN PERSONS WHO COMMITTED CRIMES WHEN THEY WERE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 457"
citation: "Arkansas SB 457 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding", "Hudson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-13T21:01:30+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-23T21:53:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2d03a34-e5d8-4e4c-be55-a9bac38b2234"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a6296eb60306f22aece25ecf43f0cd63991abb4d48a885a937b6af5cbc683749"
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 457 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RELEASE FROM PAROLE OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION OF CERTAIN PERSONS WHO COMMITTED CRIMES WHEN THEY WERE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1001** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1001.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB457-H1.pdf)
3. **SB 457** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB457.pdf)

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)
- Hudson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13T21:01:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-13T22:36:06+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T18:42:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20T19:42:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T19:42:34+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-20T21:27:04+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-20T22:51:21+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`
- **2025-04-10T19:15:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T18:45:14+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-14T18:45:16+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-14T19:58:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-15T20:21:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T20:21:16+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-15T23:51:02+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-16T14:14:21+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-16T14:14:28+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-04-16T14:14:34+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-16T14:14:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T14:14:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T19:19:41+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T19:19:45+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-23T21:53:18+00:00** Notification that SB457 is now Act 1001 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2d03a34-e5d8-4e4c-be55-a9bac38b2234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).