---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967."
description: "TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1740"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1740 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowell", "K. Moore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-11T19:36:55+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:10:42+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbb19b3a-591b-4bf2-8bf0-76d8c8a1eb83"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6d9181f3c862785ba7e5bd50aef16e4fe32b91a26806376bf50caffa5793a115"
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 1740 (2025) — TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 585** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=585.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1740** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1740.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Crowell — primary (person)
- K. Moore — primary (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-11T19:36:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-11T21:59:37+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T02:03:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T20:37:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T00:24:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:24:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:48:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T02:30:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T02:31:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:28:52+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:28:54+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:28:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:10:42+00:00** Notification that HB1740 is now Act 585 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbb19b3a-591b-4bf2-8bf0-76d8c8a1eb83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).