---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE DOWN SYNDROME DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE DOWN SYNDROME DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "Arkansas SB 2 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Garner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-11-15"
last_action: "2019-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/209f7f2a-3ad5-41f6-9346-a67f4e6f1c74"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6b067c4c1ff106daf7d45d4d367bf3321f6de1f3baa4c97f3bfa909c42bd21eb"
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 SB 2 (2019) — TO CREATE THE DOWN SYNDROME DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB2-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 2** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB2.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **29–2** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- T. Garner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-15** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-28** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-28** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-14** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-14** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-20** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-20** 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`
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-27** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-28** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-02** Notification that SB2 is now Act 619 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/209f7f2a-3ad5-41f6-9346-a67f4e6f1c74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).