---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THAT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE PROTECTED DURING AN EMERGENCY; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO REQUIRE THAT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE PROTECTED DURING AN EMERGENCY; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1211"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1211 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T18:48:08+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-10T19:13:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de4ca8f-7cf7-4b03-9b48-86b209ab859f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "af87f6b61493194b34f0651db953cf77db8583b677bb44475a4ea59c6461b452"
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 1211 (2021) — TO REQUIRE THAT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE PROTECTED DURING AN EMERGENCY; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1211** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1211.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T18:48:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T21:32:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27T16:25:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28T19:19:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T19:19:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-28T22:38:27+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-28T22:38:44+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T21:14:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-03T20:52:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T20:52:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-03T20:52:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-03T22:26:16+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-03T22:26:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-04T15:03:01+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-10T19:13:51+00:00** Notification that HB1211 is now Act 94 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1de4ca8f-7cf7-4b03-9b48-86b209ab859f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).