All Roll Calls
Yes: 222 • No: 0
ArkansasHB16092025 Regular SessionHouse
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR RECRUITING TRAFFICKED PERSONS FROM CERTAIN PLACES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
Sponsored By: Breanne Davis (Republican), Robin Lundstrum (Republican)
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Extra prison time for some traffickers
Arkansas law allows up to five extra years in prison for people convicted of covered human-trafficking offenses. The added time is optional, not automatic, and applies when someone was recruited, enticed, or obtained from listed settings. These include qualifying shelters or residential treatment centers serving runaway youth, foster children, homeless people, or people at risk of trafficking, domestic violence, or sexual assault. Other covered settings include adoptive, foster, or provisional foster homes; childcare institutions; and correctional facilities where the trafficked person was confined. The law also covers detention facilities, forestry camps, training schools, and similar facilities mainly holding children a court found delinquent. The emergency clause made the law effective at the earliest applicable trigger: governor approval, expiration of the veto period, or the final legislative veto override.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Breanne Davis
Republican • Senate
Robin Lundstrum
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Alyssa Brown
Republican • House
Sonia Eubanks Barker
Republican • House
Mary Bentley
Republican • House
Frances Cavenaugh
Republican • House
Cindy Crawford
Republican • House
Carol Dalby
Republican • House
Hope Duke
Republican • House
Dolly Henley
Republican • House
Missy Irvin
Republican • Senate
Jane English
Republican • Senate
Julie Mayberry
Republican • House
Karilyn Brown
Republican • House
Kendra Moore
Republican • House
Mindy McAlindon
Republican • House
Rebecca Burkes
Republican • House
DeAnn Vaught
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/17/2025
House Vote - Monday, March 17, 2025 1:43:27 PM
Yes: 90 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/11/2025
Senate Vote - Tuesday, March 11, 2025 3:58:33 PM
Yes: 35 • No: 0
House vote • 3/5/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, March 5, 2025 2:54:26 PM
Yes: 97 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1609 is now Act 366
3/20/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
3/18/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
3/17/2025HouseSenate amendment #1 read and concurred in, and the Emergency Clause
3/17/2025HouseReturned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
3/13/2025HouseRe-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
3/11/2025HouseReturned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
3/11/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
3/11/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
3/11/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/11/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
3/10/2025SenateRe-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
3/10/2025SenateREPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
3/10/2025SenateAmendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
3/10/2025SenateWithdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
3/10/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
3/5/2025SenateReceived from the House.
3/5/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
3/5/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
3/5/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
3/4/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
2/26/2025HouseFiled
2/26/2025House
Bill Text
HB1609 - Introduced
2/26/2025
Act Version
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