Arkansas 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 458 — TO REQUIRE A COURT TO CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF FACTORS SUCH AS TRAUMA AND INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM ON A PERSON WHO COMMITTED A CRIME AS A MINOR DURING A TRANSFER OR SENTENCING HEARING.

Last action — Notification that SB458 is now Act 988

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    Introduced
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    Passed Senate
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    Passed House
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 13, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) on April 23, 2025.

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In the updated version of Bill SB 458, a reference to "Act 988 of the Regular Session" has been removed, while new content has been added. This change may be important because it could clarify or update the bill's legal context and ensure it aligns with current laws. Removing outdated references helps to streamline the language and make the bill easier to understand.

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Act 988 of the Regular Session State of Arkansas As Engrossed:
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The bill requires courts to consider factors related to trauma and child welfare involvement when sentencing or transferring juvenile offenders.

  • Arkansas Code § 9-27-318(g)

    including without limitation exposure to adverse childhood experiences, childhood trauma, involvement in the child welfare or foster care systems, status as a victim of human trafficking, sexual abuse, or rape; → including without limitation exposure to adverse childhood experiences, childhood trauma, involvement in the child welfare or foster care systems, status as a victim of human trafficking, sexual abuse, or rape;

    This change explicitly adds trauma and child welfare factors to the considerations during transfer hearings.

  • Arkansas Code § 9-27-503(c)(9)

    including without limitation exposure to adverse childhood experiences, childhood trauma, involvement in the child welfare or foster care systems, status as a victim of human trafficking, sexual abuse, or rape; → including without limitation exposure to adverse childhood experiences, childhood trauma, involvement in the child welfare or foster care systems, status as a victim of human trafficking, sexual abuse, or rape;

    This amendment enhances the factors a court must consider when designating a juvenile as an extended juvenile jurisdiction offender.

  • Arkansas Code Title 16, Chapter 90, Subchapter 1

    16-90-124. Sentencing of juvenile or person convicted for offense committed as juvenile — Factors. If a person is convicted for an offense that the person committed when he or she was less than eighteen (18) years of age, the court shall, in addition to any other factors that the court is required to consider before imposing a sentence upon the person, consider the following: (1) The exposure of the juvenile or person who committed the offense as a juvenile to adverse childhood experiences or childhood trauma, involvement in the child welfare or foster care systems, status as a victim of human trafficking, sexual abuse, or rape, and the impact of trauma on the juvenile's behavior; and (2) The differences between a juvenile offender and an adult offender, including without limitation the diminished culpability of a juvenile as compared to that of an adult and the typical characteristics of youth.

    This addition mandates that courts consider trauma and the differences between juvenile and adult offenders during sentencing.

Amendments

2 amendments

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Action History

  1. Notification that SB458 is now Act 988

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.

  3. Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.

  4. ORDERED ENROLLED

  5. Read the third time and passed.

  6. Rules suspended.

  7. House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.

  8. Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.

  9. Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .

  10. Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1

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

  12. Returned by the Committee Do Pass

  13. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

  14. Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

  15. Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.

  16. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE

  17. RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE

  18. Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.

  19. Read the third time and passed.

  20. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

  21. Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.

  22. Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.

  23. Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1

  24. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE

  25. Filed

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Not signed on (136)

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Who sponsors SB 458?
SB 458 is sponsored by Nicole Clowney and Greg Leding.
What is the current status of SB 458?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 13, 2025. Enacted.
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