---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND LAWS RELATED TO PLANT INDUSTRIES REGARDING PESTICIDE CONTROL, FERTILIZER REGISTRATION, AND LIME VENDOR LICENSING."
description: "TO AMEND LAWS RELATED TO PLANT INDUSTRIES REGARDING PESTICIDE CONTROL, FERTILIZER REGISTRATION, AND LIME VENDOR LICENSING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1679"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1679 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hillman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-09T19:48:39+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T18:06:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73d9d542-1697-4584-bfd5-886331bb51b0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9b89b43dcf1f2f35334e3edf9375ac62c2fc89d8d614847b902b56a98c01311c"
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 1679 (2021) — TO AMEND LAWS RELATED TO PLANT INDUSTRIES REGARDING PESTICIDE CONTROL, FERTILIZER REGISTRATION, AND LIME VENDOR LICENSING.

## 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%2FHB1679-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1679** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1679.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hillman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-09T19:48:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-09T22:43:03+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`
- **2021-03-17T18:14:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T18:58:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-18T18:59:12+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:31:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-18T19:31:47+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T21:57:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23T20:58:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T19:09:12+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-29T19:09:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T18:09:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31T20:35:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T20:35:29+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:46:51+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:46:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-01T13:48:02+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-05T18:06:10+00:00** Notification that HB1679 is now Act 557 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73d9d542-1697-4584-bfd5-886331bb51b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).