---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1689"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1689 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-10T16:08:02+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T18:17:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af7f10a7-1b52-415a-80df-de86adccfce9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "272647afb9f0bc9fe3e8ad2f29e2a4237979352d9df1ee5ae7d2f7ffe2ba2184"
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 1689 (2021) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.

## 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%2FHB1689-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1689** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1689.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vaught — primary (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-10T16:08:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-10T23:43:35+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`
- **2021-03-29T13:57:21+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T13:57:24+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:02:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-01T19:01:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05T19:09:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T21:44:35+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:44:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:41:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15T20:40:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T20:41:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:32:45+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:32:47+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-16T13:40:23+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-20T18:17:28+00:00** Notification that HB1689 is now Act 802 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af7f10a7-1b52-415a-80df-de86adccfce9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).