# Arkansas SB351: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.

Arkansas SB351, TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Les D. Eaves (Republican), Jonathan Dismang (Republican); status enacted, last action 2025-04-14 (Notification that SB351 is now Act 592) (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Arkansas SB351
- State: Arkansas
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.
- Status: enacted
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-02-28
- Last action: 2025-04-14, Notification that SB351 is now Act 592
- Sponsors: Les D. Eaves (Republican), Jonathan Dismang (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 2 (131 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 10

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Political committees drop termination-plan reporting: benefit, low. Political action committees no longer have to state next-year registration termination plans in their fourth-quarter reports. The Secretary of State must still end a committee’s registration after two years without any quarterly reports.
- Campaign participants must keep money records: cost, low. Candidates and people acting for them must keep records of all contributions and spending. Political parties, county party committees, political action committees, independent spending committees, and people making independent expenditures must also keep records. The records must show compliance wi…
- Candidates cannot pay fines with donations: cost, low. Candidates and officeholders cannot use campaign money to pay Ethics Commission fines for treating campaign funds as personal income. This ban also covers money left after a campaign. If they use campaign money anyway, the fine payment counts as personal income.
- Exploratory committees face earlier reporting deadlines: cost, low. Exploratory committees must file monthly reports within 20 days after each month ends. The previous deadline was 30 days.
- New limits on candidate campaign donors: cost, low. Contributors outside the exceptions listed in Arkansas Code § 7-6-203(a)(1)(A)(i)-(vi) cannot give to candidates for public office. They also cannot give to someone acting on a candidate’s behalf. This is a restriction on who can give, not a new dollar limit.
- Question campaigns face broader disclosure rules: cost, low. Organizations inside or outside Arkansas can count as ballot-question or legislative-question committees when giving to another committee of the same type. Contributions must exceed $10,000 and use at least 2% of the most recently completed year’s revenues, operating expenses, or funds. Individuals…
- Education cooperative directors must disclose finances: cost, low. Executive directors of education service cooperatives must file financial-interest statements with the county clerk.
- Campaign materials gain reuse and labeling rules: mixed, low. People making independent expenditures must follow campaign-material rules for signs, literature, and printed materials they create or sponsor. Covered question committees, individuals, and elected officials can reuse materials in future initiative campaigns without listing them again. The same com…
- Candidates must report leftover campaign money: mixed, low. Candidates who keep campaign money after an election must continue filing required reports. Reporting also continues for money raised for future campaigns or spent on officeholder expenses or future elections. Candidates keeping funds with no activity before year-end can skip the fourth-quarter rep…
- Independent spenders face mixed filing changes: mixed, low. Independent expenditure committees must register with the Arkansas Secretary of State within 15 days after crossing the annual threshold. That threshold falls from $500 to more than $200 in total contributions accepted or independent spending during a calendar year. Later independent-expenditure re…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Les D. Eaves (Republican), House
- Sponsor: Jonathan Dismang (Republican), Senate

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-07 | House | House Vote - Monday, April 7, 2025 8:55:50 PM | pass | 97 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-10 | Senate | Senate Vote - Monday, March 10, 2025 2:29:19 PM | pass | 34 | 0 |   |

## Actions (20)

- 2025-04-14: Notification that SB351 is now Act 592 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor. (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: ORDERED ENROLLED (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Returned from the House as passed. (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Returned to the Senate as passed. (House)
- 2025-04-07: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. (House)
- 2025-04-02: Returned by the Committee Do Pass (House)
- 2025-03-10: Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE (House)
- 2025-03-10: RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE (House)
- 2025-03-10: Ordered immediately transmitted to the House. (Senate)
- 2025-03-10: Read the third time and passed. (Senate)
- 2025-03-06: Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed. (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1 (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: Rules suspended. (Senate)
- 2025-03-03: Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE (Senate)
- 2025-02-28: Filed (Senate)

## Bill text

- SB351 - Introduced, 2025-02-28: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB351.pdf)
- Act Version: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=592.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)

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## Sources
- [SB351 - Introduced (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB351.pdf)
- [Act Version (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=592.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)

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- [HB1695: TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1695-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-SB351-2025 (as of 2026-10-19).