---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY; AND TO AUTHORIZE PHARMACISTS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO AND ADMINISTRATION OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES."
description: "TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY; AND TO AUTHORIZE PHARMACISTS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO AND ADMINISTRATION OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1069"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1069 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Pilkington"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-31T20:01:41+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-22T18:14:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/744035c2-30fe-4205-b417-f61461c33f70"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f6f611c64f726e10125da2160374f74e7d91ff0463aad288e20ff614a4e1f68b"
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 1069 (2021) — TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY; AND TO AUTHORIZE PHARMACISTS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO AND ADMINISTRATION OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES.

## 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%2FHB1069-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1069** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1069.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **30–2** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Pilkington — primary (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-31T20:01:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:30:01+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`
- **2021-02-22T14:34:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-22T14:34:42+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-22T16:08:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T23:06:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08T20:24:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-08T23:33:52+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-08T23:34:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T18:34:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17T19:00:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T19:00:21+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:27:00+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:27:06+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-18T13:29:35+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-22T18:14:51+00:00** Notification that HB1069 is now Act 408 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/744035c2-30fe-4205-b417-f61461c33f70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).