---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT; TO ABOLISH ABORTION IN ARKANSAS AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF UNBORN CHILDREN; AND TO PROTECT ALL HUMAN LIFE."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT; TO ABOLISH ABORTION IN ARKANSAS AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF UNBORN CHILDREN; AND TO PROTECT ALL HUMAN LIFE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "Arkansas SB 6 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "Rapert"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-11-18T20:17:16+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-10T21:41:27+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b53a0a95-d549-479f-9cab-7cb178aaa717"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "837ee0024daa9f23dbde4a5f1a4b0ad91ad30b069891540688ff585df4a57a37"
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 6 (2021) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT; TO ABOLISH ABORTION IN ARKANSAS AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF UNBORN CHILDREN; AND TO PROTECT ALL HUMAN LIFE.

## 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%2FSB6-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB6-S2.pdf)
3. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB6-S3.pdf)
4. **Amendment S4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB6-S4.pdf)
5. **SB 6** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB6.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–19** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–7** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **26–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- Rapert — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Eads — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-11-18T20:17:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T21:04:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T15:26:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-21T15:26:51+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-21T19:09:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-21T19:10:13+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08T14:36:11+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-02-08T14:36:36+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-08T19:10:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-08T19:10:37+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T14:44:03+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
- **2021-02-09T14:44:50+00:00** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-09T19:11:46+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-09T19:12:02+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10T22:11:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22T20:38:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22T20:38:48+00:00** Motion to Expunge the vote by which Senate Bill 6 passed.
- **2021-02-22T20:38:49+00:00** The vote by which SB6 Passed was expunged.
- **2021-02-22T20:39:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22T20:40:02+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-22T21:59:03+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-22T22:11:04+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`
- **2021-03-03T00:02:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03T20:54:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03T20:54:32+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-03T22:34:27+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-03T22:34:33+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-04T19:48:58+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-04T19:48:59+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-10T21:41:27+00:00** Notification that SB6 is now Act 308 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b53a0a95-d549-479f-9cab-7cb178aaa717`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).