---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT THE PERFORMANCE OF A PELVIC EXAMINATION ON AN UNCONSCIOUS OR ANESTHETIZED PATIENT WITHOUT THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE PATIENT."
description: "TO PROHIBIT THE PERFORMANCE OF A PELVIC EXAMINATION ON AN UNCONSCIOUS OR ANESTHETIZED PATIENT WITHOUT THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE PATIENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1137"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1137 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T22:03:13+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T18:00:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72950a4c-517b-46a3-a91f-0508e25a0d80"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ec89e08224314c7897abee181bfff0200084d136f9fe3453bdbe2b228110a9b2"
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 1137 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT THE PERFORMANCE OF A PELVIC EXAMINATION ON AN UNCONSCIOUS OR ANESTHETIZED PATIENT WITHOUT THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE PATIENT.

## 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%2FHB1137-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1137** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1137.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vaught — primary (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T22:03:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T16:22:07+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`
- **2021-02-23T19:02:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-24T14:23:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-24T14:23:50+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-24T17:39:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-25T19:21:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-25T22:28:44+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-25T22:28:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T23:01:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10T20:51:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-10T20:51:56+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-10T22:21:42+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-10T22:21:50+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-11T14:59:11+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T18:00:06+00:00** Notification that HB1137 is now Act 346 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72950a4c-517b-46a3-a91f-0508e25a0d80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).