---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE HEPATITIS C SCREENING DURING PREGNANCY."
description: "TO REQUIRE HEPATITIS C SCREENING DURING PREGNANCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1136"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1136 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Boyd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T21:50:39+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-06T16:26:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93981c6e-5651-4bfa-8bd6-064c5ca36e20"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8fe3c796349dab3f63aefac99b946d538f9337705446991ae0c0c8526f7e65e4"
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 1136 (2021) — TO REQUIRE HEPATITIS C SCREENING DURING PREGNANCY.

## 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%2FHB1136-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1136-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1136-H3.pdf)
4. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1136-H4.pdf)
5. **HB 1136** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1136.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–6** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T21:50:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T16:21:53+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`
- **2021-01-19T14:32:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-19T14:32:57+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-19T16:15:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-01T14:34:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-01T14:34:57+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-01T17:16:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T14:29:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-04T14:29:53+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04T16:47:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-12T00:10:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 4 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T13:39:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:39:44+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:49:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T18:34:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T20:39:47+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-16T20:40:38+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T23:14:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31T20:12:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T20:13:15+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:44:03+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:44:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-01T13:49:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-06T16:26:52+00:00** Notification that HB1136 is now Act 598 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93981c6e-5651-4bfa-8bd6-064c5ca36e20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).