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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1581: TO ADD TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF SEX OFFENSE FOR RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF A CRIME.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1581 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on February 25, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO ADD TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS TO THE LIST OF OFFENSES INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF SEX OFFENSE FOR RIGHTS OF VICTIMS OF A CRIME. Primary sponsor: Jane English (Republican), Dolly Henley (Republican). It lists 16 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 18, 2025): Notification that HB1581 is now Act 316.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 18

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jane EnglishPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate13
Dolly HenleyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse88
Sonia BarkerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse96
Mary BentleyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse54
Karilyn BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse67
Alyssa BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse41
Rebecca BurkesCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse11
Fran CavenaughCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse30
Cindy CrawfordCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse51
Carol DalbyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse100
Breanne DavisCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate25
Hope DukeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse12
Missy IrvinCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate24
Robin LundstrumCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse18
Julie MayberryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse92
Mindy McAlindonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse10
Kendra MooreCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse23
DeAnn VaughtCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse87

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that HB1581 is now Act 316
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.
  5. Returned to the House as passed.
  6. Read the third time and passed.
  7. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
  9. Received from the House.
  10. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  11. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  12. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source