---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY FOOD RETAIL ACT OF 2025; AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR HEALTHY FOOD RETAILERS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY FOOD RETAIL ACT OF 2025; AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR HEALTHY FOOD RETAILERS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1965"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1965 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "McCullough"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-01T21:01:03+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:50:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc0a9891-e912-402b-afc9-0cd0393df709"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "57bb03a8dad17ac1591d47536a1c3fc4cce89ba29870ab2b8907781b225b08ca"
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 1965 (2025) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY FOOD RETAIL ACT OF 2025; AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR HEALTHY FOOD RETAILERS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 870** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=870.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1965** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1965.pdf)

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- McCullough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-01T21:01:03+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-02T01:40:58+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`
- **2025-04-03T18:31:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T21:13:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T01:19:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-08T01:19:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T18:52:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T19:47:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T19:47:26+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:15:33+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:15:35+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:05:57+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:50:55+00:00** Notification that HB1965 is now Act 870 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dc0a9891-e912-402b-afc9-0cd0393df709`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).