---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO RECOGNIZE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF LIVESTOCK AND ANIMALS AS A ROUTINE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PRACTICE."
description: "TO RECOGNIZE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF LIVESTOCK AND ANIMALS AS A ROUTINE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PRACTICE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1142"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1142 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding", "Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T22:11:13+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-23T22:24:56+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9019f2e-0d8d-4f60-a234-6489511f40d7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ba12e12572c95fde983387c3b3e39130008d16e270aa6ba33fb4fdf00b3ea2e9"
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 HB 1142 (2021) — TO RECOGNIZE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF LIVESTOCK AND ANIMALS AS A ROUTINE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PRACTICE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1142-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1142** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1142.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T22:11:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T16:23:23+00:00** 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`
- **2021-01-21T20:24:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25T14:40:32+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-25T14:40:35+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-25T16:46:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:24:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26T21:21:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-26T21:21:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T19:40:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-10T20:55:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T20:55:39+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-10T22:17:13+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-10T22:17:23+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-22T14:58:28+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-23T22:24:56+00:00** Notification that HB1142 is now Act 131 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9019f2e-0d8d-4f60-a234-6489511f40d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).