All Roll Calls
Yes: 88 • No: 27
ArkansasSB4462025 Regular SessionSenate
TO AMEND THE AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READER SYSTEM ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS BY PRIVATE LANDOWNERS, PRIVATE LEASEHOLDER, AND COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES.
Sponsored By: Jimmy Gazaway (Republican), Ben Gilmore (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Limits on keeping drivers' plate data
Private landowners, leaseholders, and businesses can keep captured plate data for no more than 60 days. Other eligible users, including law enforcement, have a 150-day limit. Data can stay longer only for an ongoing investigation. That data must be destroyed when the investigation ends without charges or the related criminal case ends. Government users must update captured plate data every 24 hours when updates are available.
Safeguards for sharing drivers' plate data
Private landowners, leaseholders, and businesses cannot sell, trade, or exchange plate data for commercial purposes. They can share data with an asset-protection analysis service only under a contract limiting use to that work. The contract must cap the service's retention at 60 days after receipt. Arkansas government entities need a valid subpoena to compel release from covered parking, secured-access, or private-use operators. Government users cannot sell, trade, or exchange plate data; sharing with other law enforcement is limited to evidence of an offense.
State oversight strengthens plate data protections
The Arkansas Attorney General can sue over plate reader law violations under the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Law enforcement, parking, secured-access, and Highway Police users must publish statistics every six months and preserve them for 18 months. Statistics must show scan totals, lists checked, confirmed matches, matches yielding no alert after investigation, and matches leading to arrest and prosecution. These users must publish rules for obtaining, keeping, and destroying data, including retention beyond 150 days. Failure to follow these rules can be grounds for excluding evidence.
Broader reuse of drivers' plate data
The law removes the rule that tied plate data use or sharing to its original purpose. Covered users are no longer barred from reusing data solely because the purpose differs. The law's separate limits on reader uses, data sales, sharing, and retention still apply.
Private owners gain plate reader access
Private landowners, leaseholders, and businesses can use license plate readers on property they own or lease, including private roads. These nongovernment users must use readers for public safety, crime prevention, or access monitoring. They must count scans and confirmed matches every six months. They must provide timely reports when the Legislative Council's chairs request them. Other allowed uses are law enforcement database checks, parking enforcement, secured-area access, and Highway Police commercial-vehicle compliance checks. Highway Police readers used for these checks must be installed at a weigh station's entrance ramp. Uses outside the law's listed categories are unlawful.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Jimmy Gazaway
Republican • House
Ben Gilmore
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/9/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, April 9, 2025 7:59:18 PM
Yes: 56 • No: 27 • Other: 8
Senate vote • 3/18/2025
Senate Vote - Tuesday, March 18, 2025 2:17:23 PM
Yes: 32 • No: 0 • Other: 2
Actions Timeline
Notification that SB446 is now Act 668
4/18/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
4/10/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
4/10/2025SenateORDERED ENROLLED
4/9/2025SenateReturned from the House as passed.
4/9/2025SenateReturned to the Senate as passed.
4/9/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
4/9/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
4/8/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
3/18/2025HouseRECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
3/18/2025HouseOrdered immediately transmitted to the House.
3/18/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/18/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
3/17/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
3/12/2025SenateFiled
3/12/2025Senate
Bill Text
SB446 - Introduced
3/12/2025
Act Version
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