---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE NATIVE BRANDY LAW."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE NATIVE BRANDY LAW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1656"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1656 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christiansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T22:19:38+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-22T18:15:16+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc4cce27-c19e-4126-b257-7961de674405"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8af92732602cdb2c787a12bfc1e9a49a133c290abd3b1d4d1a67e696af34fdba"
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 1656 (2021) — TO CLARIFY THE NATIVE BRANDY LAW.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1656** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1656.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–2** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **25–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christiansen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04T22:19:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T22:50:32+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T18:58:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T19:33:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T22:07:35+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-11T22:07:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T18:28:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17T20:29:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T20:30:09+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:29:44+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:29:46+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-18T13:28:25+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-22T18:15:16+00:00** Notification that HB1656 is now Act 409 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc4cce27-c19e-4126-b257-7961de674405`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).