HB 1931 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

TO CREATE THE RECIDIVISM REDUCTION SYSTEM WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

HB 1931, now Act 694, establishes a framework for developing a Recidivism Reduction System within the Department of Corrections. This system is intended to help prevent individuals released from prison from committing new crimes. The bill specifically requires the Department of Corrections to conduct and submit a feasibility study to the Legislative Council, detailing how such a system could be implemented. It also includes an emergency clause, allowing the act to take effect immediately upon becoming law.
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 31, 2025 Signed Apr 16, 2025
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Act 694 HB 1931 · 1 edit
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The bill text was reformatted from 'Act 694' to 'HB 1931' for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025. The substantive legislative content appears unchanged, with only header metadata and formatting adjustments made.
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Header metadata updated to reflect new bill number (HB 1931) and session year (2025) while retaining original Act 694 content.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Actions timeline

Total actions
19
Key actions
9
Committee
2
Amendments
1
Apr 16, 2025
Signed into law
Notification that HB1931 is now Act 694
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned from the Senate as passed.
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned to the House as passed.
upper
Apr 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
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
upper
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
lower
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 31, 2025
Introduced
Filed
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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