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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1877"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1877 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bryant", "S. Meeks"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T18:37:09+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T20:59:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55d89e09-903a-4f47-877f-9ca2e2a68546"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a8ccb416310d53885dea9a91c1933e0d10750273a9528953f6d139820ab5c475"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=977.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1877-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1877-S1.pdf)
4. **HB 1877** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1877.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55d89e09-903a-4f47-877f-9ca2e2a68546`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).