republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/sb-308.md

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Bill	TO BE KNOWN AS "THE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM ACT OF 2019"; AND CONCERNING ASSET FORFEITURE IN CRIMINAL CASES.	TO BE KNOWN AS "THE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM ACT OF 2019"; AND CONCERNING ASSET FORFEITURE IN CRIMINAL CASES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	SB 308	Arkansas SB 308 (2019)	bill		enacted	Hester	2	19	2	2019-02-12	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/9a8b3310-3b0c-43e6-9cba-8a2b15889c39	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	3575e8752c995ab8940ffebbab8a6e5a60a6a1d69b02cfc98289b29a37c40cc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 308 (2019) — TO BE KNOWN AS "THE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM ACT OF 2019"; AND CONCERNING ASSET FORFEITURE IN CRIMINAL CASES.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 308 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hester — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-12 Filed introduction
• 2019-02-12 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-02-25 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2019-02-25 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-02-25 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-25 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-28 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-28 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2019-02-28 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2019-02-28 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
• 2019-03-12 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-13 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-13 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2019-03-13 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2019-03-13 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2019-03-14 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2019-03-14 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2019-03-18 Notification that SB308 is now Act 476 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a8b3310-3b0c-43e6-9cba-8a2b15889c39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).