---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS TO STATE BY RESOLUTION THAT THEY HAVE A PRO-LIFE POLICY."
description: "TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS TO STATE BY RESOLUTION THAT THEY HAVE A PRO-LIFE POLICY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 446"
citation: "Arkansas SB 446 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bryant", "Underwood"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-16T19:43:12+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T21:26:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d5c1e56-50d9-49b4-93e1-356035d05cbc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0d6d26dc62450fdefd0fa9dd2b361ec955d7dd2f8093e15d7f18dabc74be97f1"
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 446 (2023) — TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS TO STATE BY RESOLUTION THAT THEY HAVE A PRO-LIFE POLICY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 699** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=699.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 446** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB446.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **82–11** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Bryant — primary (person)
- Underwood — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-16T19:43:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-16T19:57:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28T18:44:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29T19:25:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T19:25:14+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-29T21:06:01+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-29T23:35:00+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03T16:40:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-05T19:31:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T19:31:40+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:38:26+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:38:29+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:54:32+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-06T14:54:34+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-11T21:26:46+00:00** Notification that SB446 is now Act 699 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d5c1e56-50d9-49b4-93e1-356035d05cbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).