HB 1877 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS A CHILD; AND TO INCLUDE A COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE THAT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE IMAGE OF A CHILD.

HB 1877 expands criminal offenses related to sexually explicit material depicting a child to include computer-generated images that are indistinguishable from a child. The bill defines "artificial intelligence" and "adversarial testing," which involves evaluating AI systems in a controlled environment. It creates exemptions for law enforcement investigations and for interactive computer services conducting good-faith adversarial testing to prevent AI systems from generating such content. However, these exemptions do not apply if the testing is for personal or exploitative purposes. Additionally, the bill renames the offense of "Possession or use of child sexual abuse material" to "Electronic facilitation of child sexual abuse."
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
Apr 2025
Introduced Mar 20, 2025 Signed Apr 22, 2025
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Act 977 HB 1877 · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill text has been renumbered and formatted for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025, replacing the previous Act 977 designation. This appears to be a procedural update to reflect the current legislative session rather than substantive policy changes.
TECHNICAL

Bill number updated from Act 977 to House Bill 1877 for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025.

Added session dates (H4/7/25 S4/9/25) and formatting headers to reflect current legislative session status.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Actions timeline

Total actions
23
Key actions
9
Committee
4
Amendments
1
Apr 22, 2025
Signed into law
Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977
lower
Apr 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
lower
Apr 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Committee
Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
upper
Apr 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read the third time and passed.
upper
Apr 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1
upper
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Introduced
Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
lower
Apr 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1
lower
Mar 20, 2025
Introduced
Filed
lower
2 primary · 36 co-sponsors

Sponsors