---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE MENTAL HEALTH FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING BILL OF RIGHTS ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE MENTAL HEALTH FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING BILL OF RIGHTS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1471"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1471 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Fite"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd461fc1-8738-43e8-af62-6ee123571a24"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4b9619a790c2dd7263b4965bced8d188b706a7c080c1268f8dae048f5c555503"
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 1471 (2019) — TO CREATE THE MENTAL HEALTH FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING BILL OF RIGHTS ACT.

## 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=HB1471-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1471** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1471.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Fite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** 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`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-18** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-19** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-28** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-28** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-29** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-01** Notification that HB1471 is now Act 644 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd461fc1-8738-43e8-af62-6ee123571a24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).