republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1049.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AND TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL SQUATTING.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AND TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL SQUATTING.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1049	Arkansas HB 1049 (2025)	bill		enacted	Caldwell Tosh	6	23	0	2024-11-21T16:38:14+00:00	2025-03-04T22:53:34+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b8cff443-ffc0-4169-bf22-23591c345c5b	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	e88bcb99eeefa953723ccc6cba9afed88e21eb1df569e5584b541285ef99abe1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1049 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AND TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL SQUATTING.

Version chain

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

1. Act 238 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
6. HB 1049 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Caldwell — primary (person)
• Tosh — primary (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Childress — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Duffield — cosponsor (person)
• Duke — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• John Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Schulz — cosponsor (person)
• Steimel — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-21T16:38:14+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-01-13T21:07:24+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
• 2025-02-04T14:32:47+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-04T14:32:54+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-04T17:03:24+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-06T17:30:12+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-10T20:41:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-10T23:24:12+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-12T19:43:18+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-13T16:10:25+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-13T16:10:34+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-02-13T17:42:37+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-18T16:51:54+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-18T16:52:05+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-02-18T17:31:25+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-24T20:26:58+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-24T20:27:23+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
• 2025-02-24T21:32:33+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
• 2025-02-25T20:12:40+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-02-27T20:18:36+00:00 Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
• 2025-02-27T20:18:40+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-02-27T20:18:43+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-04T22:53:34+00:00 Notification that HB1049 is now Act 238 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8cff443-ffc0-4169-bf22-23591c345c5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).