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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REQUIRE THAT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE PROTECTED DURING AN EMERGENCY; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO REQUIRE THAT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE PROTECTED DURING AN EMERGENCY; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1211"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1211 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "K. Hammer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-19T18:48:08+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-02-10T19:13:51+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de4ca8f-7cf7-4b03-9b48-86b209ab859f"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "af87f6b61493194b34f0651db953cf77db8583b677bb44475a4ea59c6461b452"
+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 1211 (2021) — TO REQUIRE THAT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE PROTECTED DURING AN EMERGENCY; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 1211** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1211.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bentley — primary (person)
+- K. Hammer — primary (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Furman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-19T18:48:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-19T21:32:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-27T16:25:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-28T19:19:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-28T19:19:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-01-28T22:38:27+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-01-28T22:38:44+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-02T21:14:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-03T20:52:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-03T20:52:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-03T20:52:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-02-03T22:26:16+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-02-03T22:26:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-02-04T15:03:01+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-02-10T19:13:51+00:00** Notification that HB1211 is now Act 94 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1de4ca8f-7cf7-4b03-9b48-86b209ab859f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+