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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

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

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

SB 426 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas Senate on March 11, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO CREATE THE DEFENSE AGAINST CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COMMIT SERIOUS FELONIES INVOLVING VIOLENCE. Primary sponsor: Fran Cavenaugh (Republican), Bart Hester (Republican). It lists 39 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 18, 2025): Notification that SB426 is now Act 654.

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 38

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Fran CavenaughPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse30
Bart HesterPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate33
Sonia BarkerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse96
Rick BeckCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse43
Mary BentleyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse54
S. BerryCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Justin BoydCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate27
Harlan BreauxCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse6
Matt BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse55
Karilyn BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse67
Alyssa BrownCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse41
Rebecca BurkesCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse11
Joey CarrCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse34
Paul ChildressCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse83
Cameron CooperCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse57
Bruce CozartCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse91
Cindy CrawfordCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse51
J. DismangCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Scott FlippoCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate23
Tony FurmanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse82
Jimmy GazawayCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse31
Justin GonzalesCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse89
Mike HolcombCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse93
Lane JeanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse99
Blake JohnsonCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate21
Ron McNairCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse5
Jon MilliganCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse33
Jeremiah MooreCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse61
Jason NazarenkoCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse4
Stetson PainterCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse3
Chad PuryearCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse25
Marcus RichmondCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse52
Matthew ShepherdCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse97
Matt StoneCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate2
G. StubblefieldCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Dan SullivanCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate20
Randy TorresCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse17
Dwight ToshCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse38
Kendon UnderwoodCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse16
Steve UngerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse19
Steven WalkerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse27

“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 SB426 is now Act 654
  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
  3. Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
  4. ORDERED ENROLLED
  5. Returned from the House as passed.
  6. Returned to the Senate as passed.
  7. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  8. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  9. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
  10. RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
  11. Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
  12. Read the third time and passed.

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Sources

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