---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE GOOD NEIGHBOR ACT; AND TO CLARIFY FOOD DONATION LIABILITY AND IMMUNITY."
description: "TO CREATE THE GOOD NEIGHBOR ACT; AND TO CLARIFY FOOD DONATION LIABILITY AND IMMUNITY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1682"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1682 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Puryear"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-05T15:17:01+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:35:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdc00046-3351-4ee6-96af-0aa3d1bac57b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5bda993115d35aa416a27b8637d28a3bf495ffb87d82421c172a03ae844e46c9"
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 1682 (2025) — TO CREATE THE GOOD NEIGHBOR ACT; AND TO CLARIFY FOOD DONATION LIABILITY AND IMMUNITY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 942** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=942.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1682** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1682.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Puryear — primary (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-05T15:17:01+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-05T23:20:05+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T19:18:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T19:06:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T21:38:00+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-12T21:38:08+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T18:47:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15T20:05:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T20:05:15+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T21:29:15+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T21:29:17+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T13:30:52+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:35:02+00:00** Notification that HB1682 is now Act 942 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cdc00046-3351-4ee6-96af-0aa3d1bac57b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).