---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON WHO IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE."
description: "TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON WHO IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1782"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1782 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hudson", "J. Scott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-13T19:23:51+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T20:41:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54ceea24-32fc-4ebd-8dbb-fde4ad1e6eaf"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0aa2c02b7c2cb34f273bc3b7b672f9b0827f4a602940e62ae493dc9410871724"
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 1782 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON WHO IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 642** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=642.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1782-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1782** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1782.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hudson — primary (person)
- J. Scott — primary (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales Worthen — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13T19:23:51+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-13T22:21:14+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`
- **2025-03-18T19:44:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19T13:31:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-19T13:31:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-19T21:17:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T19:12:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:31:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:32:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T00:45:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T01:20:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T01:20:26+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T13:44:51+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T13:44:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:44:55+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T20:41:08+00:00** Notification that HB1782 is now Act 642 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54ceea24-32fc-4ebd-8dbb-fde4ad1e6eaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).