republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-612.md

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Bill	TO CREATE A PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION AGAINST A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT CAUSES HARM; AND TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY CONTRIBUTES TO A MINOR'S SUICIDE OR SUICIDE ATTEMPT.	TO CREATE A PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION AGAINST A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT CAUSES HARM; AND TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY CONTRIBUTES TO A MINOR'S SUICIDE OR SUICIDE ATTEMPT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 612	Arkansas SB 612 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dees Eubanks	3	22	0	2025-04-02T21:10:37+00:00	2025-04-22T21:38:36+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/330ac2ba-e275-487e-a417-df836ebf318f	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	bdb765b49872e5a728525092d630347de339965b66b5028b0af2d5d3d1e48d74	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 612 (2025) — TO CREATE A PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION AGAINST A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT CAUSES HARM; AND TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY CONTRIBUTES TO A MINOR'S SUICIDE OR SUICIDE ATTEMPT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 901 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 612 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Dees — primary (person)
• Eubanks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-02T21:10:37+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-02T22:04:55+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T18:48:08+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08T20:52:43+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08T20:52:53+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-08T22:09:55+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-09T01:53:10+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
• 2025-04-10T19:16:29+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-14T13:32:17+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-14T13:32:19+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-14T14:38:25+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-15T21:10:18+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-15T21:10:26+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-15T23:51:56+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-16T14:22:09+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-16T14:22:16+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T14:22:22+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-16T14:22:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T14:22:42+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T19:21:23+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T19:21:28+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22T21:38:36+00:00 Notification that SB612 is now Act 901 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/330ac2ba-e275-487e-a417-df836ebf318f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).