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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1315"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1315 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill", "Vaught"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-27T20:15:46+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-23T20:08:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e653a5f-61e6-4887-999c-2a7b3768041b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8b685a6f41569b5609d754ca9d0b9642f69901f18779c24781e281f31fcb8ee0"
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 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](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1315-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1315-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1315** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1315.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **950** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **340** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **920** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e653a5f-61e6-4887-999c-2a7b3768041b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).