republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1529.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL CREATION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL; AND TO ESTABLISH A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR UNLAWFUL CREATION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL.	TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL CREATION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL; AND TO ESTABLISH A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR UNLAWFUL CREATION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1529	Arkansas HB 1529 (2025)	bill		enacted	C. Penzo S. Meeks	4	19	0	2025-02-19T20:13:54+00:00	2025-04-17T20:33:23+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dd5636ee-0480-4223-b6d9-527f47a2afe4	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	d2c9b25da8d0638d7821228aff499bab08d2ce040fb00807661b1084e1236537	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1529 (2025) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL CREATION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL; AND TO ESTABLISH A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR UNLAWFUL CREATION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL.

Version chain

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

1. Act 827 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1529 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• C. Penzo — primary (person)
• S. Meeks — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Barnes — cosponsor (person)
• Barnett — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McGruder — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19T20:13:54+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-19T22:36:04+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
• 2025-03-19T13:32:18+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-19T13:32:20+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19T21:18:24+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-03T19:03:34+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2025-04-07T13:38:24+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-07T13:38:26+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-07T16:23:28+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-08T19:35:00+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T03:30:47+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-09T03:30:59+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:25:27+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14T17:17:45+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T17:17:51+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-14T19:14:07+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-14T19:14:09+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-15T16:11:24+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-17T20:33:23+00:00 Notification that HB1529 is now Act 827 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd5636ee-0480-4223-b6d9-527f47a2afe4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).