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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1740: TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1740 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on March 11, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967. Primary sponsor: Steve Crowell (Republican), Kendra Moore (Republican). It lists 15 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 14, 2025): Notification that HB1740 is now Act 585.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 15

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Steve CrowellPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate3
Kendra MoorePrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse23
Harlan BreauxCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse6
Cameron CooperCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse57
Bruce CozartCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse91
Brad HallCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse24
Lane JeanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse99
Roger LynchCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse60
Ron McNairCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse5
Jeremiah MooreCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse61
Chad PuryearCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse25
Marcus RichmondCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse52
Tracy SteeleCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse72
Steve UngerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse19
DeAnn VaughtCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse87
Steven WalkerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse27
David WhitakerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse22

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that HB1740 is now Act 585
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.
  5. Returned to the House as passed.
  6. Read the third time and passed.
  7. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE
  9. Received from the House.
  10. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  11. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  12. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source