republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1959.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO ABOLISH THE USE OF A WRIT OF SCIRE FACIAS AS THE MEANS OF REVIVING AN OUTSTANDING JUDGMENT; TO ALLOW A JUDGMENT TO BE REVIVED BY NOTICE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FEES TO BE CHARGED BY CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS.	TO ABOLISH THE USE OF A WRIT OF SCIRE FACIAS AS THE MEANS OF REVIVING AN OUTSTANDING JUDGMENT; TO ALLOW A JUDGMENT TO BE REVIVED BY NOTICE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FEES TO BE CHARGED BY CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1959	Arkansas HB 1959 (2025)	bill		enacted	M. Brown M. McKee	3	16	0	2025-04-01T19:50:11+00:00	2025-04-22T21:02:32+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/315623a2-6473-4473-a1d1-ebfdb2766750	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	76c25aaea8ccc4565cbe5b6ef839c5792cd82b09cbe504797a4c24e66fcc6a71	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1959 (2025) — TO ABOLISH THE USE OF A WRIT OF SCIRE FACIAS AS THE MEANS OF REVIVING AN OUTSTANDING JUDGMENT; TO ALLOW A JUDGMENT TO BE REVIVED BY NOTICE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FEES TO BE CHARGED BY CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 986 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1959 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• M. Brown — primary (person)
• M. McKee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-01T19:50:11+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-02T01:39:25+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
• 2025-04-08T19:10:29+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-09T13:34:56+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-09T13:34:58+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-09T17:02:26+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-10T21:10:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T23:20:05+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-10T23:20:14+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-14T22:25:44+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-16T15:43:07+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T15:43:16+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T16:31:41+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T16:31:44+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T16:31:46+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-22T21:02:32+00:00 Notification that HB1959 is now Act 986 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/315623a2-6473-4473-a1d1-ebfdb2766750. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).