republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-217.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 REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO REQUEST A WAIVER TO EXCLUDE CANDY AND SOFT DRINKS FROM ELIGIBLE FOODS UNDER THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.	TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO REQUEST A WAIVER TO EXCLUDE CANDY AND SOFT DRINKS FROM ELIGIBLE FOODS UNDER THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 217	Arkansas SB 217 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bentley C. Penzo	3	18	0	2025-02-11T20:05:04+00:00	2025-04-22T21:46:52+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7165c196-e53d-4c96-bb64-3e5fae429d5b	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	a80b4a4df9d0be8ce3d0374b2f5fa614bd1d2f74e52a455c87719d34c4467a60	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 217 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO REQUEST A WAIVER TO EXCLUDE CANDY AND SOFT DRINKS FROM ELIGIBLE FOODS UNDER THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

Version chain

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

1. Act 969 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 217 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Bentley — primary (person)
• C. Penzo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11T20:05:04+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-11T20:25:30+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T18:16:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07T13:32:11+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-07T13:32:18+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-07T22:22:58+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-08T19:13:23+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08T19:13:34+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-08T20:22:46+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-09T01:46:55+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
• 2025-04-15T18:31:54+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T16:33:15+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T16:33:26+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T17:58:05+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T17:58:09+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T19:17:18+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T19:17:22+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22T21:46:52+00:00 Notification that SB217 is now Act 969 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7165c196-e53d-4c96-bb64-3e5fae429d5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).