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| Bill | TO CREATE THE GROCERY TAX RELIEF ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAXES LEVIED ON FOOD AND FOOD INGREDIENTS, AS AFFIRMED BY REFERRED ACT 19 OF 1958; AND TO EXEMPT GROCERIES FROM STATE SALES AND USE TAXES. | TO CREATE THE GROCERY TAX RELIEF ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAXES LEVIED ON FOOD AND FOOD INGREDIENTS, AS AFFIRMED BY REFERRED ACT 19 OF 1958; AND TO EXEMPT GROCERIES FROM STATE SALES AND USE TAXES. | us/states/ar | Arkansas Legislature | 2025 | HB 1685 | Arkansas HB 1685 (2025) |
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Arkansas HB 1685 (2025) — TO CREATE THE GROCERY TAX RELIEF ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAXES LEVIED ON FOOD AND FOOD INGREDIENTS, AS AFFIRMED BY REFERRED ACT 19 OF 1958; AND TO EXEMPT GROCERIES FROM STATE SALES AND USE TAXES.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Act 1008 (committee substitute) — source
- Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
- Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
- HB 1685 (committee substitute) — source
Sponsors
- Hester — primary (person)
- Underwood — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- John Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- N. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-03-05T15:44:38+00:00 Filed
introduction - 2025-03-05T23:20:58+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE
reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2025-03-17T13:46:20+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- 2025-03-17T13:46:22+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
amendment-introduction, amendment-passage - 2025-03-17T18:00:58+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- 2025-04-01T13:53:54+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- 2025-04-01T13:53:56+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
amendment-introduction, amendment-passage - 2025-04-01T15:35:53+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- 2025-04-03T18:29:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass
committee-passage - 2025-04-07T20:22:52+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
passage, reading-3 - 2025-04-08T01:05:49+00:00 Received from the House.
- 2025-04-08T01:05:59+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
reading-1, referral-committee - 2025-04-08T18:55:29+00:00 Rules suspended.
- 2025-04-08T18:55:37+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- 2025-04-08T18:55:44+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- 2025-04-08T19:59:52+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- 2025-04-08T20:00:01+00:00 Re-referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
referral-committee - 2025-04-09T22:47:28+00:00 Rules suspended.
- 2025-04-09T22:47:35+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
- 2025-04-09T22:47:42+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- 2025-04-09T23:39:07+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- 2025-04-10T04:49:46+00:00 Re-referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
referral-committee - 2025-04-10T18:22:57+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-14T20:06:22+00:00 Read the third time and passed.
passage, reading-3 - 2025-04-14T20:06:45+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
- 2025-04-14T22:39:01+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
- 2025-04-14T22:39:11+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE
referral-committee - 2025-04-15T18:38:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2
committee-passage - 2025-04-16T18:33:08+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- 2025-04-16T18:34:04+00:00 Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
- 2025-04-16T18:34:08+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
- 2025-04-16T18:34:11+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- 2025-04-22T21:06:24+00:00 Notification that HB1685 is now Act 1008
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f849bc65-97c7-4add-82bd-e832b7d8d8a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).