republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1865.md

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Bill	TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST A CHILD.	TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST A CHILD.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1865	Arkansas HB 1865 (2025)	bill		enacted	Gilmore Vaught	4	26	0	2025-03-20T13:43:19+00:00	2025-04-22T20:59:35+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3a746e01-b583-437e-8241-33197e9f9f84	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	1b0bfb1135cd5f5f4fe8da2166d2fc7face69f7d14c418c3f33e0c66fc271f40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1865 (2025) — TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES AGAINST A CHILD.

Version chain

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

1. Act 976 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1865 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Gilmore — primary (person)
• Vaught — primary (person)
• Barnett — cosponsor (person)
• C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
• Clowney — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-20T13:43:19+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-20T22:40:40+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
• 2025-04-01T18:24:34+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-02T19:44:43+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03T00:50:31+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-03T00:50:38+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T18:56:44+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08T20:36:30+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-08T20:36:42+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-08T20:36:50+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-08T21:33:53+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-14T16:29:02+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-14T16:29:12+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-14T16:29:21+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-14T17:55:41+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-14T20:45:21+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-14T20:46:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T20:48:03+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
• 2025-04-14T21:59:22+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
• 2025-04-14T21:59:37+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T14:43:32+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T18:32:14+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T18:32:26+00:00 Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T18:32:28+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T18:32:31+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-22T20:59:35+00:00 Notification that HB1865 is now Act 976 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a746e01-b583-437e-8241-33197e9f9f84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).