---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING THE WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT TO ADOPT BY A MINOR."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING THE WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT TO ADOPT BY A MINOR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1458"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1458 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Penzo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09T19:46:21+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-01T17:08:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3811115-21a1-4a1c-a44d-bd100212b902"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "57e5ae94aeca7d2a52b1ea124a9d1586ca67c36bd6c5f7f69d41f3d55b07d14b"
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 1458 (2021) — TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING THE WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT TO ADOPT BY A MINOR.

## 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%2FHB1458-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1458** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1458.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Penzo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09T19:46:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-09T22:20:21+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T23:34:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08T14:32:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-08T14:32:55+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-08T18:38:09+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T19:17:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T22:39:25+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-09T22:39:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T18:26:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T19:59:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T20:00:04+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:04:40+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:04:42+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T13:43:36+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-01T17:08:32+00:00** Notification that HB1458 is now Act 506 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3811115-21a1-4a1c-a44d-bd100212b902`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).