SESSION 2025
UPDATE: March 22, 2025
HOUSE:
AGENDA and VIDEO to watch the committee
HOUSE:
ACT 158 HB1437 This Bill wants more restrictions on level 3 & 4, making where they can't go withing 100 of a water park, swimming area, or childeren's playground withing an Arkansas state park or a plublic park.
HB1535 To provide an enhanced sentence for persons convicted of rape of a child twelve years of age or younger; to permit the department of corrections to administer medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment for chemical castration.
ACT 357 HB1579 an incarcerated person shall not be eligible for reassessment until his or her release from incarceration.
SENATE:
ACT 362 SB393 This was added to a bill for Level 4 At the time of the offense was more than twenty-four (24) years of age and the victim of the offense was less than fifteen (15) years of age.
SB375 Passed the Senate, now is waiting in the House. Capital rape is punishable as follows: (A) If the defendant was eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time he or she committed the offense: (i) Death; or (ii) Life imprisonment without parole. (B) If the defendant was younger than eighteen (18) years of age at the time he or she committed the offense, life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after serving a minimum of twenty (20) years’ imprisonment under § 16-93-621
SB490 Has not passed the Senate. Once a juvenile is ordered to register as a sex offender, he or she shall be subject to the registration requirements set forth in §§ 12-12- 25 904, 12-12-906, 12-12-908, 12-12-909, and 12-12-912, with the exception that the circuit court may waive the two-hundred-fifty-dollar fee under § 12-12- 27 906.
SB539 -- Just a clean up bill. Has not passed. To update and clarify certain portions of the law regarding the division of community correction and the division of correction; to clarify references to community correction centers
You can find great studies on the NARSOL site. Great Resources 95% are first time offender Other stuff
Video- Does the Sex Offender Registry Do More Harm Than Good?
How to find a bill: Click HERE Make sure you check the box for 94th General Assembly. Then type in SEX, Offender, or any other word, But sex is the best one to use in the "from there you should see the list of bills that have been filled.
Who to write to: You can write to all the people that are listed as a sponser of the bill, and everyone on the House or Senate Judiciary committee.
Helpfull hints when writing the legislature:
- Keep your message as short as possible, about 100 words or less. (that is about 2 paragraph.) They don't have time to read a book.
- If you want to send to multiple peple at once... MAKE SURE you BCC to them. They don't like to see that you have emailed everyone. They like to feel special.
- You can send an email or text. If you send a text just write "VOTE NO ON HB????.
- If you are not comforable writing a letter, you can send a simple email. In the subject line, all you have to write is "VOTE NO on HB????. The more people we can get to send email or text the better. if you have more then one number or email, use them all.
- You need to make sure you send a sperator email for EACH bill. You can not group it all together.