---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO UPDATE THE ARKANSAS CODE REGARDING LANGUAGE ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS."
description: "TO UPDATE THE ARKANSAS CODE REGARDING LANGUAGE ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1545"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1545 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Ingram", "M. Davis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T20:07:16+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T18:18:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17397e3e-7ab1-4928-b016-56cc5bc85456"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "86d73a29ee1877331f913f8b187b20a490cc04daca6fc4cc71df54a31f0019c2"
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 1545 (2021) — TO UPDATE THE ARKANSAS CODE REGARDING LANGUAGE ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1545** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1545.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Ingram — primary (person)
- M. Davis — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T20:07:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T23:08:45+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`
- **2021-03-18T23:04:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T18:55:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T22:15:33+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-22T22:15:44+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05T22:29:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-06T19:19:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T19:20:11+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-06T21:35:16+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-06T21:35:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-07T14:17:13+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-12T18:18:39+00:00** Notification that HB1545 is now Act 656 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17397e3e-7ab1-4928-b016-56cc5bc85456`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).