republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1609.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR RECRUITING TRAFFICKED PERSONS FROM CERTAIN PLACES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR RECRUITING TRAFFICKED PERSONS FROM CERTAIN PLACES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1609	Arkansas HB 1609 (2025)	bill		enacted	B. Davis Lundstrum	3	22	0	2025-02-26T21:48:48+00:00	2025-03-20T15:47:29+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8f85928f-c727-4a12-996c-26053cb2aebe	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	ae2073a2f0116e27039a95f6e32ef8de95f521cc3e8ef69a9ccb855ae57b7819	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1609 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR RECRUITING TRAFFICKED PERSONS FROM CERTAIN PLACES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 366 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1609 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26T21:48:48+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-26T23:35:57+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
• 2025-03-04T18:30:44+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T20:54:26+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-05T20:54:29+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-03-05T23:26:12+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-05T23:26:23+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-10T13:02:24+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-03-10T13:02:36+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-10T18:37:41+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-10T18:37:49+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T00:02:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11T20:58:33+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11T20:58:40+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-03-11T20:58:54+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-03-11T21:37:54+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-03-11T21:38:01+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-03-13T18:14:45+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T18:43:27+00:00 Senate amendment #1 read and concurred in, and the Emergency Clause
• 2025-03-17T18:43:30+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-18T16:18:33+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-20T15:47:29+00:00 Notification that HB1609 is now Act 366 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8f85928f-c727-4a12-996c-26053cb2aebe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).