republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1877.md

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Bill	CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS A CHILD; AND TO INCLUDE A COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE THAT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE IMAGE OF A CHILD.	CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS A CHILD; AND TO INCLUDE A COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE THAT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE IMAGE OF A CHILD.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1877	Arkansas HB 1877 (2025)	bill		enacted	J. Bryant S. Meeks	4	23	0	2025-03-20T18:37:09+00:00	2025-04-22T20:59:53+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/55d89e09-903a-4f47-877f-9ca2e2a68546	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	a8ccb416310d53885dea9a91c1933e0d10750273a9528953f6d139820ab5c475	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1877 (2025) — CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS A CHILD; AND TO INCLUDE A COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE THAT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE IMAGE OF A CHILD.

Version chain

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

1. Act 977 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1877 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• J. Bryant — 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)
• 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)
• 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.

• 2025-03-20T18:37:09+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-20T22:43:50+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
• 2025-04-03T19:03:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-07T13:39:29+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-07T13:39:31+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-07T16:23:44+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-08T19:36:16+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T03:41:04+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-09T03:41:12+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:26:38+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T23:37:14+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-09T23:37:18+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-09T23:37:44+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-10T00:07:11+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-10T21:15:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T21:15:24+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-10T23:06:54+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-10T23:07:00+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T14:43:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T18:25:10+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T18:25:14+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T18:25:17+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-22T20:59:53+00:00 Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55d89e09-903a-4f47-877f-9ca2e2a68546. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).