---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT TAXPAYER RESOURCE TRANSACTIONS FOR ABORTIONS."
description: "TO PROHIBIT TAXPAYER RESOURCE TRANSACTIONS FOR ABORTIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1589"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1589 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Breaux"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-01T20:46:49+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T18:07:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b2e43a9-ddfc-46fa-9d60-798e5739c442"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "dcdaf48f7a52d6f670befb1e0052761a8b86d259d1ae9b931bc68ab778657f2c"
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 1589 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT TAXPAYER RESOURCE TRANSACTIONS FOR ABORTIONS.

## 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%2FHB1589-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1589-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1589** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1589.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **74–19** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Breaux — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Deffenbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Slape — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01T20:46:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-01T23:04:18+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`
- **2021-03-04T14:38:47+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-04T14:38:53+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04T16:48:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-10T01:09:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T14:41:24+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-11T14:41:27+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-11T16:37:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T18:24:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T19:49:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-16T19:49:38+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:16:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T21:50:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T21:50:25+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:17:19+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:17:21+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T13:44:57+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-05T18:07:52+00:00** Notification that HB1589 is now Act 561 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b2e43a9-ddfc-46fa-9d60-798e5739c442`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).