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HB 1396 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION REAPPROPRIATION.

HB 1396 reallocates unused funds from previous appropriations to the Arkansas Department of Corrections for specific facility projects. It directs over $74.8 million for prison expansion, $458,496 for female work release operations in Pine Bluff, and smaller sums for facility maintenance, armory construction, water treatment upgrades, and prison industry/farm projects. All funds must be used by July 1, 2025, to cover existing project costs without affecting general operations budgets. This procedural bill ensures existing budgeted resources are properly redirected to correctional facility needs.
Issues: ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeBill allocates $74.8M for prison expansion, a core indicator of increasing incarceration capacity per guidelines, with no rehabilitation or reform elements mentioned.85% confidence
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Feb 2025
Introduced Feb 4, 2025 Signed Feb 13, 2025
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Act 95 → HB 1396 · 1 edit
MINOR
The bill text has been reformatted from 'Act 95' to 'HB 1396' for the 95th General Assembly, 2025 Regular Session. The change appears to be a technical update of the bill's title and session information rather than a substantive policy modification.
TECHNICAL

Updated bill identification from 'Act 95' to 'HB 1396' and adjusted session formatting to reflect the 2025 Regular Session.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
16
Key actions
9
Committee
2
Feb 13, 2025
Signed into law
Notification that HB1396 is now Act 95
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned from the Senate as passed.
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned to the House as Passed.
upper
Feb 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
upper
Feb 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read the third time and passed.
upper
Feb 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned by the Committee Do Pass
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Feb 4, 2025
Introduced
Filed
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0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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