republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-426.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE DEFENSE AGAINST CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COMMIT SERIOUS FELONIES INVOLVING VIOLENCE.	TO CREATE THE DEFENSE AGAINST CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COMMIT SERIOUS FELONIES INVOLVING VIOLENCE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 426	Arkansas SB 426 (2025)	bill		enacted	Cavenaugh Hester	5	28	0	2025-03-11T20:13:04+00:00	2025-04-18T20:49:15+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fda58652-1228-42cc-a740-a9a3e64ce882	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	6fbc43b26b8ff1d284280b0599b0a6095a96b74a5b3e1f00fa3ef48042717b44	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 426 (2025) — TO CREATE THE DEFENSE AGAINST CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COMMIT SERIOUS FELONIES INVOLVING VIOLENCE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 654 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 426 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Cavenaugh — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)
• A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Childress — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• Torres — cosponsor (person)
• Tosh — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-11T20:13:04+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-11T21:15:17+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20T19:05:33+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-03-20T19:05:39+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-03-20T19:05:46+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-20T20:40:37+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-20T22:13:23+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-03-31T22:32:44+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01T14:05:50+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-01T14:06:00+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-01T18:57:33+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-02T18:18:01+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-02T18:18:05+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-02T18:18:13+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-02T19:11:30+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-02T19:11:55+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-02T19:19:38+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T19:20:22+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-02T21:58:31+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-03T00:42:50+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
• 2025-04-09T01:08:09+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-10T01:25:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T01:25:28+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-10T04:09:17+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-04-10T04:09:22+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-10T13:12:30+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-10T13:12:33+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-18T20:49:15+00:00 Notification that SB426 is now Act 654 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fda58652-1228-42cc-a740-a9a3e64ce882. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).