---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION - FERAL HOG ERADICATION EXPENSES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION - FERAL HOG ERADICATION EXPENSES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 459"
citation: "Arkansas SB 459 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6fafb04-8289-4171-ba5e-c06a7ac22413"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4d7fc06a4447b08245e8fda72af1839f8b72d5012179cf66782f406248a40109"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas SB 459 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION - FERAL HOG ERADICATION EXPENSES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB459-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 459** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB459.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **86–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-28** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-19** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-28** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-28** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-28** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-29** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-29** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-01** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-01** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-01** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-02** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-08** Notification that SB459 is now Act 732 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6fafb04-8289-4171-ba5e-c06a7ac22413`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).