---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES AND ABORTION REPORTING; TO AMEND THE BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION LAWS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT UNDER THE WOMAN'S RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT."
description: "TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES AND ABORTION REPORTING; TO AMEND THE BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION LAWS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT UNDER THE WOMAN'S RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 278"
citation: "Arkansas SB 278 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Stubblefield"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c7ee9b7-11a2-4931-a835-be9d3c083ac2"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "524efa389de593b7a466bf78dcb7bc450dec025fc469aa7ac8b90fd5abc3ef77"
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 278 (2019) — TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES AND ABORTION REPORTING; TO AMEND THE BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION LAWS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT UNDER THE WOMAN'S RIGHT-TO-KNOW 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=SB278-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 278** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB278.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–13** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–5** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- G. Stubblefield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-14** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-14** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-18** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-18** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-18** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-18** 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`
- **2019-03-27** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-27** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-02** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-04** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-04-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-04** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-05** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-05** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-10** Notification that SB278 is now Act 801 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c7ee9b7-11a2-4931-a835-be9d3c083ac2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).