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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO PROHIBIT THE STATE FROM MANDATING A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); TO GOVERN REQUIREMENTS FOR A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO PROHIBIT THE STATE FROM MANDATING A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); TO GOVERN REQUIREMENTS FOR A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1547"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1547 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Lundstrum"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-23T21:01:02+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-28T19:31:45+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b15a3f1-9feb-42b7-b769-19b0f00d1d41"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "90b98a525d17fbda43e2e8036b0b7795fe8463bc13784ed4443c26a8bb3c6649"
+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 1547 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT THE STATE FROM MANDATING A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); TO GOVERN REQUIREMENTS FOR A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1547-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1547-H2.pdf)
+3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1547-H3.pdf)
+4. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1547-H4.pdf)
+5. **HB 1547** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1547.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **78–1** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **21–8** (pass) · upper
+- EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — **28–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Davis — primary (person)
+- Lundstrum — primary (person)
+- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
+- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Deffenbaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Furman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-23T21:01:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-23T23:09:12+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`
+- **2021-03-15T13:37:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-15T13:37:37+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-15T16:48:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-17T13:33:32+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-17T13:33:36+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-17T18:05:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-29T14:00:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-29T14:00:16+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-29T18:06:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-12T13:36:57+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-12T13:37:03+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-12T16:06:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-14T00:09:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-14T20:12:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-14T20:12:16+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-04-14T22:20:12+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-14T22:20:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-19T23:04:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-21T20:46:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-21T20:46:45+00:00** Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
+- **2021-04-21T20:46:52+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed of adoption. Motion passed.
+- **2021-04-21T20:47:08+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-04-21T20:47:45+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-21T22:29:58+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-21T22:30:00+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-22T14:14:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-28T19:31:45+00:00** Notification that HB1547 is now Act 977 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b15a3f1-9feb-42b7-b769-19b0f00d1d41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+