republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1979.md

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

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	AN ACT TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO ALLOW WARRANTLESS SEARCHES BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF A PERSON PLACED ON SUSPENDED IMPOSITION OF SENTENCE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.	AN ACT TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO ALLOW WARRANTLESS SEARCHES BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF A PERSON PLACED ON SUSPENDED IMPOSITION OF SENTENCE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1979	Arkansas HB 1979 (2025)	bill		enacted	B. Johnson Gazaway	2	13	0	2025-04-02T22:56:03+00:00	2025-04-22T21:01:41+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f2dee250-b108-4801-b4d0-f602f0196de5	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	243a871e6ea60a99051103b16dad94e956679306ee8d2de54d0cab5a14e0e898	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1979 (2025) — AN ACT TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO ALLOW WARRANTLESS SEARCHES BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF A PERSON PLACED ON SUSPENDED IMPOSITION OF SENTENCE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 983 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1979 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• B. Johnson — primary (person)
• Gazaway — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-02T22:56:03+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-03T00:40:44+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
• 2025-04-08T19:10:40+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-09T21:06:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T04:35:22+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-10T04:35:30+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-14T19:47:42+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-16T16:35:31+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T16:35:56+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T17:22:08+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T17:22:10+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T17:22:12+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-22T21:01:41+00:00 Notification that HB1979 is now Act 983 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2dee250-b108-4801-b4d0-f602f0196de5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).