---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FERTILITY TREATMENT ABUSE AND FERTILITY TREATMENT FRAUD; AND TO CREATE THE CIVIL ACTION OF CIVIL FERTILITY FRAUD."
description: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FERTILITY TREATMENT ABUSE AND FERTILITY TREATMENT FRAUD; AND TO CREATE THE CIVIL ACTION OF CIVIL FERTILITY FRAUD."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 474"
citation: "Arkansas SB 474 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beckham", "Gazaway"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T19:15:34+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T15:00:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5b7e6a6-722e-4873-b49b-ad66262ac2e8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ab18888169fe362b89e417243033413dc2d483d541d7701896b0ac9d57c85d7e"
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 SB 474 (2021) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FERTILITY TREATMENT ABUSE AND FERTILITY TREATMENT FRAUD; AND TO CREATE THE CIVIL ACTION OF CIVIL FERTILITY FRAUD.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB474-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 474** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB474.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beckham — primary (person)
- Gazaway — primary (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04T19:15:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T21:08:21+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T13:28:57+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-16T13:29:06+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-16T18:09:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T18:10:02+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T18:31:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18T19:04:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:05:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-18T21:33:31+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-18T22:26:54+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`
- **2021-04-01T22:25:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T19:52:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T19:52:35+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:24:38+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:24:45+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-07T15:44:07+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-07T15:44:19+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-12T15:00:55+00:00** Notification that SB474 is now Act 609 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5b7e6a6-722e-4873-b49b-ad66262ac2e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).