HB 1263 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL REMOVAL OR FAILURE TO CHARGE AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE.

HB 1263 creates a new Class A misdemeanor offense for individuals under electronic monitoring supervision (such as probation, parole, or pending charges) who knowingly remove their tracking device or fail to properly charge it, causing location monitoring to fail. The law defines "electronic monitoring device" as a location-tracking device approved by corrections officials. Violators face misdemeanor penalties and must pay restitution for device repair or replacement costs. This directly affects people under court-ordered electronic supervision in Arkansas.

Issues: ✗ Criminal Justice

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Feb 2025

Signed into Law

Feb 2025

Introduced Jan 27, 2025 Signed Feb 18, 2025

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Act 109 → HB 1263 · 3 edits

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The document shows formatting and layout changes rather than substantive policy modifications. The bill number and session information were updated from Act 109 to HB 1263 for the 2025 Regular Session. The approval date line was removed, and a timestamp line was reformatted with adjusted spacing.

TECHNICAL

Bill title and session information updated from Act 109 to HB 1263 for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025

Approval date line (2/18/25) was deleted from the document

Timestamp line formatting adjusted with additional spacing in the header

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Feb 18, 2025

Signed into law

Notification that HB1263 is now Act 109

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned from the Senate as passed.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned to the House as passed.

upper

Feb 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read the third time and passed.

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass

upper

Feb 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned by the Committee Do Pass

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

2 primary · 1 co-sponsor