---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OR RESTRICTIVE HOUSING FOR PREGNANT OR RECENTLY PREGNANT INMATES OR DETAINEES IN THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION, IN A LOCAL OR REGIONAL DETENTION FACILITY, OR IN A JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY."
description: "CONCERNING SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OR RESTRICTIVE HOUSING FOR PREGNANT OR RECENTLY PREGNANT INMATES OR DETAINEES IN THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION, IN A LOCAL OR REGIONAL DETENTION FACILITY, OR IN A JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1470"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1470 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Scott"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-10T18:56:59+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-23T20:10:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3df8fc58-1cb8-4841-976a-43f53ba4b140"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3bf4bad1f1371d42757f3b67e894f588bc8682b1a37401192ccc935b0ba463a1"
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 1470 (2021) — CONCERNING SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OR RESTRICTIVE HOUSING FOR PREGNANT OR RECENTLY PREGNANT INMATES OR DETAINEES IN THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION, IN A LOCAL OR REGIONAL DETENTION FACILITY, OR IN A JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY.

## 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%2FHB1470-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1470** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1470.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Scott — primary (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10T18:56:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-10T23:17:20+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`
- **2021-02-23T14:17:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-23T14:17:46+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-23T16:29:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-11T22:30:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T18:43:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T21:35:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-15T21:35:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T18:39:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18T21:13:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T21:13:38+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T23:47:03+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T23:47:09+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-19T18:47:41+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-23T20:10:01+00:00** Notification that HB1470 is now Act 422 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3df8fc58-1cb8-4841-976a-43f53ba4b140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).