---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE \"QUINCY'S LAW\"; AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONSIDERATION OF A DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN AN INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ABUSE UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT."
description: "TO CREATE \"QUINCY'S LAW\"; AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONSIDERATION OF A DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN AN INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ABUSE UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1405"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1405 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03T19:03:05+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-28T19:30:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44c71f06-6885-40e3-8817-3af67f7678de"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "322e56bed88bbbbfb42afee63a81c6d3151054b12d84d96fd06774e8d4738a3e"
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 1405 (2021) — TO CREATE "QUINCY'S LAW"; AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONSIDERATION OF A DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN AN INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ABUSE UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT 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%2FHB1405-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1405-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1405-H3.pdf)
4. **HB 1405** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1405.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T19:03:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T22:43:57+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08T14:37:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-08T14:37:50+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-08T16:11:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T14:03:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T14:03:40+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:07:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-07T13:34:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-07T13:34:59+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-07T16:16:48+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-08T18:07:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12T19:31:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T22:05:09+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-12T22:05:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20T18:19:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T20:19:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T20:19:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-21T22:29:33+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-21T22:29:35+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-22T14:16:23+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-28T19:30:04+00:00** Notification that HB1405 is now Act 976 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44c71f06-6885-40e3-8817-3af67f7678de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).