republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1563.md

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Bill	TO ADD A FELONY OFFENSE THAT FALLS UNDER THE DEFINITION OF RESTRICTED RELEASE FELONY WITH RESPECT TO RELEASE ELIGIBILITY AND PROCEDURES FOR OFFENSES COMMITTED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2025.	TO ADD A FELONY OFFENSE THAT FALLS UNDER THE DEFINITION OF RESTRICTED RELEASE FELONY WITH RESPECT TO RELEASE ELIGIBILITY AND PROCEDURES FOR OFFENSES COMMITTED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2025.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1563	Arkansas HB 1563 (2025)	bill		enacted	Gazaway Gilmore	2	13	0	2025-02-24T20:19:53+00:00	2025-03-20T15:46:18+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e3f34fa9-6253-454f-8152-b41f07cdc102	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	d8c0fde12aa5f29735409cb212e9e8b6a8e715786765250bda6c7caa6e762d00	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1563 (2025) — TO ADD A FELONY OFFENSE THAT FALLS UNDER THE DEFINITION OF RESTRICTED RELEASE FELONY WITH RESPECT TO RELEASE ELIGIBILITY AND PROCEDURES FOR OFFENSES COMMITTED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Act 356 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1563 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Gazaway — primary (person)
• Gilmore — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24T20:19:53+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-24T22:52:50+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
• 2025-03-06T21:43:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-10T19:32:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-10T22:46:01+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-10T22:46:10+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T18:44:06+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-17T20:46:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-17T20:46:08+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-03-17T22:44:46+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-17T22:44:48+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-18T16:34:07+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-20T15:46:18+00:00 Notification that HB1563 is now Act 356 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3f34fa9-6253-454f-8152-b41f07cdc102. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).