republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1315.md

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Bill	TO CREATE A STATE MEAT INSPECTION PROGRAM; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT; TO TRANSFER AUTHORITY OVER MEAT INSPECTION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO CREATE A STATE MEAT INSPECTION PROGRAM; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT; TO TRANSFER AUTHORITY OVER MEAT INSPECTION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1315	Arkansas HB 1315 (2021)	bill		enacted	Hill Vaught	3	27	3	2021-01-27T20:15:46+00:00	2021-03-23T20:08:38+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5e653a5f-61e6-4887-999c-2a7b3768041b	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	8b685a6f41569b5609d754ca9d0b9642f69901f18779c24781e281f31fcb8ee0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1315 (2021) — TO CREATE A STATE MEAT INSPECTION PROGRAM; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT; TO TRANSFER AUTHORITY OVER MEAT INSPECTION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1315 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Vaught — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Bragg — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Deffenbaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Ennett — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Fortner — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Hillman — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Hendren — cosponsor (person)
• J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• Jett — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCullough — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Teague — cosponsor (person)
• Tollett — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-27T20:15:46+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-27T22:45:11+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
• 2021-02-02T14:36:11+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-02T14:36:18+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-02T16:29:13+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-03T21:38:55+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-02-04T19:55:09+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-04T19:55:13+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-02-04T23:38:57+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-02-04T23:39:14+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-02T19:27:18+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-02T19:30:36+00:00 Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-08T19:36:10+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-08T19:36:27+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-08T19:36:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-08T19:36:50+00:00 Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-09T19:26:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-11T20:31:03+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-11T20:31:13+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-03-11T20:31:39+00:00 Returned To the House as passed as amended.
• 2021-03-11T23:37:26+00:00 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-03-11T23:37:34+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-03-17T18:11:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2021-03-18T18:31:42+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2021-03-18T18:31:46+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-03-19T18:50:39+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-03-23T20:08:38+00:00 Notification that HB1315 is now Act 418 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e653a5f-61e6-4887-999c-2a7b3768041b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).