SB258
To Create the Arkansas Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Trust Act.
C. Penzo · 2025 Regular Session · Died on Senate Calendar at Sine Die adjournment.
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, AND TRUST ACT.
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22 mentions · 12 meetings · 9 named speakers
April 10, 2025
· on the agenda
Matched: “…back on the schedule and I didn't catch it till last night. Senate Bill 258, I'd like to make a motion to add that to the end of the Se…”
... had a couple bills we passed over earlier and they never got back on the schedule and I didn't catch it until last night. Senate Bill 258, I'd like to make a motion to add that to the end of the Senate calendar today? Okay. Members, you've
...? All right. These are the Senate bills. These are the Senate bills that we have. We have Senate Bill 258 by Senator Penzo. We have Senate Bill 469 by Senator Penzo and Representative Beatty. We have Senate Bill 569 by Senator Mark Johnson.
now we're going to get back here to senate bill 258 senator
Senator Hickey as no. Anyone else? Senator Kroll is no. Senator Caldwell is aye. Anyone else? Okay, cast up the ballot. Okay, with 17 yays, 11 nays, 7 non-voting, Senate Bill 258 has failed. Senator Penzo,
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April 8, 2025
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Matched: “SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
Thank you, committee. Senate Bill 258. Senate
recognized? Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 258 provides Arkansans with a similar
SB 258 further balances commercial interests against consumer rights and protections by exempting appropriate businesses and data from complying. This includes small businesses, all but about 1% of nonprofits, and that's the top 1% biannual...
questions, so I'd like to expunge the vote by which Senate Bill 258 failed. Members, you've heard the motion. All
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April 2, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
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Matched: “presenting Senate Bill 258 to you several weeks ago. We've worked with the Arkansas Se…”
starting with SB 96? SB 258 is probably quicker. Okay. And then we can do SB 96. We've got an amendment on that one, too.
presenting Senate Bill 258 to you several weeks ago. We've worked with the Arkansas Securities Department and FINRA. We've worked with the Attorney General's office. We've worked with TechNett who was here speaking against the bill last tim...
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March 31, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
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Matched: “…ORITY; AND TO REPEAL REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY DETACHMENT. SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
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March 31, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
Matched: “…ORITY; AND TO REPEAL REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY DETACHMENT. SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
March 19, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
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Matched: “SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
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March 17, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
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Matched: “SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
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March 13, 2025
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Matched: “for emotion. Thank you, Madam President. Motion to withdraw Senate Bill 258 from transportation for”
for emotion. Thank you, Madam President. Motion to withdraw Senate Bill 258 from transportation for
Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 258. Senator Penzo, you're recognized. Motion to suspend
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March 10, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
Matched: “…DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST AND THE DRIVER'S INSTRUCTION MANUAL. SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
March 3, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
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Matched: “…else here? Senator Penzo, we're gonna turn it over to you. SB 258. Thank”
Is there anyone else here? Senator Penzo, we're gonna turn it over to you. SB 258. Thank
want to address is that SB 258 is not designed to be a burden on Arkansas businesses. So as Josh mentioned, there's 19 or 20 or so states that already have these bills in place. The The entities that will be covered by these bills are alrea...
...omies to education and much more. So as you mentioned, I am here respectfully opposed to Senate Bill 258, and I do want to start by saying greatly appreciate Senator Penzo as well as the experts, Mr. Bryan and Ms. Butler, for laying out the
...e pulled from legislation like in Texas, but the data privacy provisions within Senate Bill 258 are not the Texas law. It is not identical that bill took You know, passed in 2023, implemented and effective by 2024, but conversations on that...
...etrics, the protections that are afforded with these specific provisions within Senate Bill 258 as it as it relates to a special type of data, um, it is redundant of the way that it is handled throughout the rest of the framework. Texas, th...
...ks that already exist. If you start laying that out in a prescriptive manner as Senate Bill 258 does, then you then come up to that interpretation issue that I mentioned, which would mean again those best practices that companies rely on to...
...r. OK, thank you for that. Thank you to clarify that, uh, the provisions within Senate Bill 258 right now borrows from the Colorado AI Act, which was filed last year 40 days before they adjourned Saida. It was tracking Connecticut legislati...
...t again it comes down into, you know, the redundancy, for example, of some of the more Yes, kind of like the European language that's in there, the redundancy of what that the Texas law, the underlying Texas law within Senate Bill 258. What
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Feb. 27, 2025
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Matched: “SB258 #1 TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, A…”
Colleagues, I'd like to suspend the rules for Senator Penzo. And put it on the calendar today SB 258 to refer back to committee, uh, for an amendment. transportation Motion
have it. Remember one Senate Bill 258. Pennzo's bill, Pennzo's
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Feb. 24, 2025 · Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate)
Matched: “…L ORDER OF BUSINESS – MARCH 3, 2025 Number Sponsor Subtitle SB258 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY, SAF…”
Documents (8)
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Apr 2, 2025 · April 2, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Mar 31, 2025 · March 31, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Mar 31, 2025 · March 31, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Mar 19, 2025 · March 19, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Mar 17, 2025 · March 17, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Mar 10, 2025 · March 10, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Mar 3, 2025 · March 3, 2025
- Agenda — TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE, Feb 24, 2025 · Feb. 24, 2025
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