# Arkansas HB1877: 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.

Arkansas HB1877, 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., is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Joshua Bryant (Republican), Stephen Meeks (Republican); status enacted, last action 2025-04-22 (Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977) (as of 2026-10-16).

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## Facts
- Bill: Arkansas HB1877
- State: Arkansas
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: 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.
- Status: enacted
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-03-20
- Last action: 2025-04-22, Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977
- Sponsors: Joshua Bryant (Republican), Stephen Meeks (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 36
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 3 (220 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 2

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Online child abuse crimes cover AI: cost, medium. Arkansas expands its crime of electronically helping arrange or encourage sexual conduct involving children to cover qualifying computer-made images. It covers knowingly facilitating, encouraging, offering, or soliciting sexually explicit conduct involving a child or someone believed to be a child.…
- Child image crimes now cover AI: mixed, medium. Arkansas expands child sexual image crimes to cover images made or changed with artificial intelligence that look like real children. The law covers knowingly advertising, buying, selling, sharing, shipping, receiving, possessing, controlling, or viewing covered material, including through the inte…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Joshua Bryant (Republican), Senate
- Sponsor: Stephen Meeks (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Brandon Achor (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Brit McKenzie (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Glenn Barnes (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Lincoln Barnett (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Howard M. Beaty, Jr. (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Rick Beck (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Mary Bentley (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Harlan Breaux (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Keith Brooks (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Cindy Crawford (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Jon S. Eubanks (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Tony Furman (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Zack Gramlich (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Steve Hollowell (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Julie Mayberry (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Jeremiah Moore (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Karilyn Brown (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Jack Ladyman (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Robin Lundstrum (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Roger D. Lynch (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Matt Brown (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Matthew J. Shepherd (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: John Maddox (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Mindy McAlindon (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Richard McGrew (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Jessie McGruder (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Jon Milligan (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Jason Nazarenko (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Stetson Painter (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Shad Pearce (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Rebecca Burkes (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Marcus E. Richmond (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Ryan A. Rose (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Johnny Rye (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Kendon Underwood (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: DeAnn Vaught (Republican), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-16 | House | House Vote - Wednesday, April 16, 2025 1:25:10 PM | pass | 92 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-10 | Senate | Senate Vote - Thursday, April 10, 2025 4:15:12 PM | pass | 35 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-08 | House | House Vote - Tuesday, April 8, 2025 2:36:16 PM | pass | 93 | 0 |   |

## Actions (23)

- 2025-04-22: Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977 (House)
- 2025-04-16: Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office. (House)
- 2025-04-16: TO BE ENROLLED (House)
- 2025-04-16: Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. (House)
- 2025-04-15: Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 (House)
- 2025-04-10: Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE (House)
- 2025-04-10: Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 (House)
- 2025-04-10: Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 . (Senate)
- 2025-04-10: Read the third time and passed. (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed. (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment. (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Rules suspended. (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Received from the House. (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. (House)
- 2025-04-07: REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED (House)
- 2025-04-07: Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. (House)
- 2025-04-07: Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment. (House)
- 2025-04-03: Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 (House)
- 2025-03-20: Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE (House)
- 2025-03-20: Filed (House)

## Bill text

- HB1877 - Introduced, 2025-03-20: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1877.pdf)
- Act Version: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=977.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)

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## Sources
- [HB1877 - Introduced (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1877.pdf)
- [Act Version (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=977.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1877-2025 (as of 2026-10-16).