---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE INFORMED CONSENT FOR CHEMICAL ABORTION ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE INFORMED CONSENT FOR CHEMICAL ABORTION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1572"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1572 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flippo", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-25T20:59:42+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T18:07:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59fc042f-51ba-46aa-b5ac-24dfb562b9a1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "01ae02941ef0acd2c3fecf1a64812e38e4f13d16b01751a2c8157dd53cd3a70d"
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 1572 (2021) — TO CREATE THE INFORMED CONSENT FOR CHEMICAL ABORTION 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%2FHB1572-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1572** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1572.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–15** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Flippo — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — primary (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-25T20:59:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-25T23:25:20+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`
- **2021-03-15T13:35:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:35:41+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:47:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T22:50:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-17T20:44:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T22:43:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-17T22:43:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:24:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30T19:14:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-30T19:14:31+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-30T19:50:19+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-30T19:50:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-31T13:18:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-05T18:07:29+00:00** Notification that HB1572 is now Act 560 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59fc042f-51ba-46aa-b5ac-24dfb562b9a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).