---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REPEAL THE ARKANSAS CATFISH PROCESSOR FAIR PRACTICES ACT OF 1987."
description: "TO REPEAL THE ARKANSAS CATFISH PROCESSOR FAIR PRACTICES ACT OF 1987."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 407"
citation: "Arkansas SB 407 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-10T14:27:18+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:32:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b31ae53f-e1e2-4ecf-bc33-12bbac2d70d4"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8a489205a53a78495c72b772e8fa773d78c8e3996ae20b2181a309d5a8e70f6e"
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 SB 407 (2025) — TO REPEAL THE ARKANSAS CATFISH PROCESSOR FAIR PRACTICES ACT OF 1987.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 577** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=577.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 407** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB407.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-10T14:27:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-10T18:40:38+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T18:38:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17T20:02:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:02:30+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-17T22:39:34+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-17T23:54:52+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`
- **2025-04-02T19:18:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08T01:21:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T13:22:02+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-08T18:12:57+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-08T18:13:01+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T14:10:16+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-09T14:10:18+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14T22:32:24+00:00** Notification that SB407 is now Act 577 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b31ae53f-e1e2-4ecf-bc33-12bbac2d70d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).