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Judiciary Committee moves multiple bills; several juvenile measures cleared, two high-profile bills fail
Summary
The Arkansas Senate Judiciary Committee voted on a series of bills including criminal-record rules, juvenile-code changes and procedural fixes. Most measures received committee approval; a proposed fine-and-community-service penalty for minors caught with vaping devices and a bill to criminalize nonconsensual tracking devices failed in committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee took final committee action on a package of bills during its meeting, approving most measures but rejecting two high-profile proposals.
Among bills the committee passed were Senate bills 3-25 and 3-26, both returned to the committee to include amendments from the Administrative Office of the Courts and juvenile judges. The committee voted to pass both bills as amended after the presenters said the judges’ amendments had been incorporated.
The committee also approved House Bill 1704, which supporters described as written to protect firefighters from losing custody in child‑custody cases because of atypical shift schedules. Seth Rainwater of the Arkansas Professional Firefighters told the committee the bill ‘‘protects firefighters from being [...] held liable in custody values [sic] for…
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