---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE INMATES AND DETAINEES IN CORRECTIONAL OR DETENTION FACILITIES; AND CONCERNING PREGNANT INMATES AND DETAINEES."
description: "CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE INMATES AND DETAINEES IN CORRECTIONAL OR DETENTION FACILITIES; AND CONCERNING PREGNANT INMATES AND DETAINEES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1523"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1523 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petty"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1200a032-0835-4fda-9da6-9708561a69ff"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5536f51bb6e496ed9923155f457674b8a4972d1c7371b8e4d64273dd412b7fe0"
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 1523 (2019) — CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE INMATES AND DETAINEES IN CORRECTIONAL OR DETENTION FACILITIES; AND CONCERNING PREGNANT INMATES AND DETAINEES.

## 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=HB1523-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1523** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1523.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Petty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-20** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-07** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-11** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-18** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-19** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-25** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-03-25** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-26** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-27** Notification that HB1523 is now Act 566 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1200a032-0835-4fda-9da6-9708561a69ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).