---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING FRAUD AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE FRAUD AGAINST A STATE SUPPORTED RETIREMENT SYSTEM."
description: "TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING FRAUD AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE FRAUD AGAINST A STATE SUPPORTED RETIREMENT SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1317"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1317 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore", "M. Shepherd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-30T16:54:08+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-18T19:33:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2dc7e6da-53e4-4a13-b237-f9e34ef802ba"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ab557d7738dc5faf0680141878285c7efbc0fc9745789eaca7764adb44d5728e"
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 1317 (2025) — TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING FRAUD AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE FRAUD AGAINST A STATE SUPPORTED RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 112** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=112.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1317-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1317** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1317.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- M. Shepherd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30T16:54:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-30T22:58:05+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`
- **2025-02-04T17:11:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T14:23:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-05T14:23:09+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05T15:54:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-06T19:50:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T19:50:49+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-06T23:29:38+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-06T23:29:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T19:44:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T17:35:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T17:35:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-13T17:36:04+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-13T19:36:04+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-13T19:36:09+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-13T19:36:12+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-18T19:33:37+00:00** Notification that HB1317 is now Act 112 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2dc7e6da-53e4-4a13-b237-f9e34ef802ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).