---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY THE LAW CONCERNING CRANIOFACIAL COVERAGE; TO ESTABLISH WENDELYN'S CRANIOFACIAL LAW — CRANIOFACIAL COVERAGE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO MODIFY THE LAW CONCERNING CRANIOFACIAL COVERAGE; TO ESTABLISH WENDELYN'S CRANIOFACIAL LAW — CRANIOFACIAL COVERAGE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 602"
citation: "Arkansas SB 602 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29T16:03:35+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:06:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2ab4de3-ade7-4fd6-8318-cccb5bfd86be"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "64c24416ea34c9c703dbe3b5734bfee6160ed8dd959a56e86935a7e6b32963a2"
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 602 (2021) — TO MODIFY THE LAW CONCERNING CRANIOFACIAL COVERAGE; TO ESTABLISH WENDELYN'S CRANIOFACIAL LAW — CRANIOFACIAL COVERAGE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FSB602-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB602-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 602** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB602.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- L. Eads — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29T16:03:35+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-29T18:59:30+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T13:06:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-30T13:06:36+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-30T17:28:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-30T17:28:24+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12T18:46:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-13T18:31:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-13T18:31:03+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-13T20:39:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-14T18:32:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T18:32:22+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-14T18:32:33+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-14T21:47:12+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-14T22:13:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T18:07:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20T20:21:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:21:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-20T20:21:29+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:00:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:00:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:38:29+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:38:39+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:06:28+00:00** Notification that SB602 is now Act 955 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2ab4de3-ade7-4fd6-8318-cccb5bfd86be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).