---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE SURVEYORS TO TAKE CERTAIN ACTIONS BEFORE ENTERING ONTO A COMMERCIAL POULTRY FARM."
description: "TO REQUIRE SURVEYORS TO TAKE CERTAIN ACTIONS BEFORE ENTERING ONTO A COMMERCIAL POULTRY FARM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1278"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1278 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowell", "Steimel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-28T17:03:09+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-18T19:24:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2d55460-6b36-4b15-ad38-7bc00d4f8940"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "074486afe4ce3ccfb99057499f1552d8082ed1e6b94f860976ee98a86a2e4acf"
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 1278 (2025) — TO REQUIRE SURVEYORS TO TAKE CERTAIN ACTIONS BEFORE ENTERING ONTO A COMMERCIAL POULTRY FARM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 99** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=99.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1278** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1278.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Crowell — primary (person)
- Steimel — primary (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Magie — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Schulz — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28T17:03:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-28T23:14:59+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`
- **2025-02-05T22:13:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T20:48:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T23:27:46+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-06T23:27:55+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T19:39:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12T22:21:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12T22:21:15+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-12T23:17:25+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-12T23:17:32+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-13T15:22:54+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-18T19:24:55+00:00** Notification that HB1278 is now Act 99 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2d55460-6b36-4b15-ad38-7bc00d4f8940`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).