republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1581.md

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Bill	TO ADD TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF SEX OFFENSE FOR RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF A CRIME.	TO ADD TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF SEX OFFENSE FOR RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF A CRIME.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1581	Arkansas HB 1581 (2025)	bill		enacted	Henley J. English	2	13	0	2025-02-25T19:58:31+00:00	2025-03-18T18:59:35+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/610ccdf9-f85e-421e-9f0f-60cf61190c85	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	5016610ae20ace36a618060c3170553b6a53b9426df8ff6cbd2ef543287bcc46	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1581 (2025) — TO ADD TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF SEX OFFENSE FOR RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF A CRIME.

Version chain

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

1. Act 316 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1581 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Henley — primary (person)
• J. English — primary (person)
• A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Duke — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-25T19:58:31+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-25T23:05:39+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
• 2025-03-04T18:30:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T20:53:08+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-05T23:24:09+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-05T23:24:17+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T00:02:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11T20:39:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11T20:39:47+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-03-11T21:35:46+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-11T21:35:48+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-12T13:01:43+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-18T18:59:35+00:00 Notification that HB1581 is now Act 316 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/610ccdf9-f85e-421e-9f0f-60cf61190c85. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).