---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING AGRICULTURE; AND TO PLACE THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON THE PARTY BRINGING AN ACTION AGAINST AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION AS A NUISANCE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING AGRICULTURE; AND TO PLACE THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON THE PARTY BRINGING AN ACTION AGAINST AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION AS A NUISANCE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1434"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1434 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Vaught"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-15T18:53:58+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-21T19:35:23+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cda6d998-c0c1-4e25-bbde-ffbc20ba3b73"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "dbeb329ee3fe5702c3e84fb33de110dbbcb04bbf320f9f59ddab613dbaa1b8cd"
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 1434 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING AGRICULTURE; AND TO PLACE THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON THE PARTY BRINGING AN ACTION AGAINST AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION AS A NUISANCE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 367** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=367.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1434-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1434-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1434** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1434.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-15T18:53:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-15T22:42:17+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16T14:31:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-16T14:31:42+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-16T16:24:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-21T14:30:16+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-21T14:30:23+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-21T16:09:46+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-09T18:16:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:23:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T21:45:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-13T21:46:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15T18:33:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16T19:14:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T19:14:15+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-16T20:25:13+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-16T20:25:14+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-17T14:02:44+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-21T19:35:23+00:00** Notification that HB1434 is now Act 367 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cda6d998-c0c1-4e25-bbde-ffbc20ba3b73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).