---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE DOG AND CAT RESCUE ACT: DAISY'S LAW."
description: "TO CREATE THE DOG AND CAT RESCUE ACT: DAISY'S LAW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1824"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1824 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Duffield"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-18T17:35:20+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T21:01:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27b4889d-e928-4f13-b8e2-99d304439b1e"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ddc1d3f08631d007de185d681b4a63e1d7edb60a103072f1d2a3080776b398fd"
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 1824 (2025) — TO CREATE THE DOG AND CAT RESCUE ACT: DAISY'S LAW.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 688** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=688.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1824.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Duffield — primary (person)
- A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales Worthen — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18T17:35:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-18T21:27:43+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`
- **2025-04-01T18:24:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T19:54:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T00:48:06+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-03T00:48:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T18:55:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T01:33:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T01:33:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T13:45:59+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T13:46:01+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:46:03+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T21:01:14+00:00** Notification that HB1824 is now Act 688 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27b4889d-e928-4f13-b8e2-99d304439b1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).