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HB 1397 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REAPPROPRIATION.

HB 1397 reappropriates $207,318,105 in unused funds from a prior 2024 appropriation to complete the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory facility. This bill directly affects the Department of Public Safety’s State Crime Laboratory by providing existing state funds for construction without requiring new legislative funding. The key provision allows the agency to use remaining capital improvement funds from Act 85 of 2024, with disbursement rules requiring compliance with state fiscal controls. The bill takes effect July 1, 2025, with an emergency clause to prevent delays in the project.
Issues: ✓ Criminal JusticeSupports Criminal JusticeReappropriates $207M to complete State Crime Laboratory, directly funding forensic infrastructure critical to criminal justice operations.95% 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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What changed between versions

Act 96 → HB 1397 · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill has been renumbered from Act 96 to HB 1397 for the 95th General Assembly, 2025 Regular Session. The effective date remains July 1, 2025, and the approval date was removed from the text.
TECHNICAL

Bill title changed from Act 96 to HB 1397 to reflect new session numbering

Approval date (2/13/25) removed from the document text

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 HB1397 is now Act 96
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
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Introduced
Filed
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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