---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 527"
citation: "Arkansas SB 527 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T19:29:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T15:02:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20483a8d-4208-4cae-8df8-b4b237464170"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0b4e7842fc1842cd878249537eec8e88513b7c42e82b3688f682b2b2b523665c"
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 527 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES.

## 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%2FSB527-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 527** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB527.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **74–15** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T19:29:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T22:02:23+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T13:05:03+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-30T13:05:11+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-30T17:27:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-30T17:27:46+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T22:46:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05T18:56:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T18:56:49+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:54:14+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-05T22:21:24+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`
- **2021-04-08T19:29:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12T20:31:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T20:31:24+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-13T18:52:08+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-13T18:52:21+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-13T21:01:24+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-13T21:01:30+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-20T15:02:52+00:00** Notification that SB527 is now Act 740 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20483a8d-4208-4cae-8df8-b4b237464170`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).