---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO PROMULGATE RULES REGARDING LABELING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND TO RECEIVE AND INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS; AND TO AUTHORIZE A CIVIL PENALTY."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO PROMULGATE RULES REGARDING LABELING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND TO RECEIVE AND INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS; AND TO AUTHORIZE A CIVIL PENALTY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 563"
citation: "Arkansas SB 563 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maloch"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f0e1a10-cc0f-4d5f-bb67-5fc7c738a12f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cfe2407ec52be9b1bd363c630c16cd28fb99422eeb1baa3aadc2afd1bba2eaec"
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 563 (2019) — TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO PROMULGATE RULES REGARDING LABELING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND TO RECEIVE AND INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS; AND TO AUTHORIZE A CIVIL PENALTY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 563** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB563.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maloch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-20** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-20** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** 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 SB563 is now Act 741 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f0e1a10-cc0f-4d5f-bb67-5fc7c738a12f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).