---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE RIGHT TO VIEW ULTRASOUND IMAGES BEFORE AN ABORTION; AND TO CREATE THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW-AND-SEE ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE RIGHT TO VIEW ULTRASOUND IMAGES BEFORE AN ABORTION; AND TO CREATE THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW-AND-SEE ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Arkansas SB 85 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bledsoe", "Cloud"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T18:09:07+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-30T15:48:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99250f3c-bca5-4b45-b379-a550e62d3eb2"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2fa423749ef6e471659b81d0f3d1290d1896d23d5330f41a94de3fa1f1af45b8"
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 85 (2021) — TO AMEND THE RIGHT TO VIEW ULTRASOUND IMAGES BEFORE AN ABORTION; AND TO CREATE THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW-AND-SEE ACT.

## 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%2FSB85-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB85-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 85** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB85.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **74–14** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bledsoe — primary (person)
- Cloud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T18:09:07+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:29:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01T14:27:14+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-01T14:27:24+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-01T19:08:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-01T19:08:32+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T14:23:15+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-02-04T14:23:25+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-04T19:04:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-04T19:04:49+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22T23:09:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08T19:24:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-08T19:24:29+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-08T21:55:45+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-08T22:46:23+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`
- **2021-03-18T23:00:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T19:51:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:52:01+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:32:28+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:32:39+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T15:56:49+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-23T15:56:57+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-30T15:48:39+00:00** Notification that SB85 is now Act 498 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99250f3c-bca5-4b45-b379-a550e62d3eb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).