---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE CHERISH ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS AFTER EIGHTEEN (18) WEEKS' GESTATION EXCEPT IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE CHERISH ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS AFTER EIGHTEEN (18) WEEKS' GESTATION EXCEPT IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1439"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1439 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lundstrum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9deb264-c983-497f-a76e-cab11746f15c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e4e9894c4f090b1d887edcf2585834971a1f280f27214f6fcd5c5895083d6251"
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 HB 1439 (2019) — TO CREATE THE CHERISH ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS AFTER EIGHTEEN (18) WEEKS' GESTATION EXCEPT IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1439-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1439** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1439.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **77–13** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **86–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lundstrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** 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`
- **2019-02-19** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-19** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-19** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-07** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-11** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-03-11** Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-03-13** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-15** Notification that HB1439 is now Act 493 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9deb264-c983-497f-a76e-cab11746f15c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).