---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS SAFETY ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS SAFETY ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1402"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1402 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Barker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03T18:50:58+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T18:08:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2369552d-81b1-4de8-90fe-d29a0c3d440b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c7edc07343ab72677ec33d3b55cb1527e647f157a1f8fe1f48009f1dc9a59b85"
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 1402 (2021) — TO AMEND THE ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS SAFETY ACT.

## 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%2FHB1402-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1402-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1402** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1402.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **77–12** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **26–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Barker — primary (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T18:50:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T22:55:04+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`
- **2021-03-08T14:35:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-08T14:35:18+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-08T18:42:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-12T00:04:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T13:39:31+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:39:33+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:49:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T18:32:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T20:44:50+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-16T20:45:04+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:17:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T19:57:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T19:58:49+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:04:20+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:04:23+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T13:43:22+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-05T18:08:12+00:00** Notification that HB1402 is now Act 562 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2369552d-81b1-4de8-90fe-d29a0c3d440b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).