republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1965.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY FOOD RETAIL ACT OF 2025; AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR HEALTHY FOOD RETAILERS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY FOOD RETAIL ACT OF 2025; AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR HEALTHY FOOD RETAILERS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1965	Arkansas HB 1965 (2025)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer McCullough	2	13	0	2025-04-01T21:01:03+00:00	2025-04-17T20:50:55+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dc0a9891-e912-402b-afc9-0cd0393df709	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	57bb03a8dad17ac1591d47536a1c3fc4cce89ba29870ab2b8907781b225b08ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. HB 1965 (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/dc0a9891-e912-402b-afc9-0cd0393df709. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).