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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 537: TO CREATE THE EARNING SAFE REENTRY THROUGH WORK ACT; AND TO CREATE A SENTENCE CREDIT PROGRAM FOR A PERSON ON PROBATION, PAROLE, OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION TO EARN TIME CREDITS THROUGH EMPLOYMENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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 537 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas Senate on March 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO CREATE THE EARNING SAFE REENTRY THROUGH WORK ACT; AND TO CREATE A SENTENCE CREDIT PROGRAM FOR A PERSON ON PROBATION, PAROLE, OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION TO EARN TIME CREDITS THROUGH EMPLOYMENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. Primary sponsor: Matt Brown (Republican), Gilmore. It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (April 18, 2025): Notification that SB537 is now Act 763.

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): Democratic 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Matt BrownPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse55
GilmorePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Clarke TuckerCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14

“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 SB537 is now Act 763
  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. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
  8. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  9. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  10. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
  11. RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
  12. Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.

Showing 12 most recent of 20 actions. Full history

Sources

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