---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT; CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS OF PATIENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT; CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS OF PATIENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1061"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1061 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "J. Mayberry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-22T19:48:43+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-10T19:13:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1379dbc3-a3c2-4dbf-b193-7f201d275f51"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "55bb229da77ffb1fab49bf02b9ba638d2b67ffa17da7eb9a237e49840eb86d1e"
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 1061 (2021) — TO CREATE THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT; CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS OF PATIENTS; 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%2FHB1061-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1061-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1061-H3.pdf)
4. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1061-H4.pdf)
5. **HB 1061** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1061.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- J. Mayberry — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-22T19:48:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:26:29+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`
- **2021-01-19T14:34:16+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-19T14:34:20+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-19T16:16:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-01T14:30:34+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-01T14:30:44+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-01T16:42:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-24T14:27:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-24T14:27:33+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-24T17:46:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-25T19:07:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 4 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-01T14:34:14+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-01T14:34:20+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-01T17:16:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-02T19:24:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-02T20:35:27+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-02T20:35:47+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T23:01:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09T20:29:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T20:30:05+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-09T20:30:17+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-09T21:28:52+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-09T21:28:56+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-10T14:17:58+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-10T19:13:33+00:00** Notification that HB1061 is now Act 311 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1379dbc3-a3c2-4dbf-b193-7f201d275f51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).