---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT UNLAWFUL FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION OF A MINOR; TO CREATE AWARENESS PROGRAMS CONCERNING AND STATISTICAL TRACKING OF UNLAWFUL FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO PROHIBIT UNLAWFUL FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION OF A MINOR; TO CREATE AWARENESS PROGRAMS CONCERNING AND STATISTICAL TRACKING OF UNLAWFUL FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 318"
citation: "Arkansas SB 318 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b52b820c-f06f-47c6-89b5-580271d27818"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "47de365ecad01869d45d67a014305c22a271d9ecac38a438f0bc777ed2316f92"
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 318 (2019) — TO PROHIBIT UNLAWFUL FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION OF A MINOR; TO CREATE AWARENESS PROGRAMS CONCERNING AND STATISTICAL TRACKING OF UNLAWFUL FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; AND TO DECLARE AN 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=SB318-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 318** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB318.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-21** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-21** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-21** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-26** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-05** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-06** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-03-06** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-06** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-20** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-20** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended.
- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-20** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-25** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-25** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** Notification that SB318 is now Act 556 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b52b820c-f06f-47c6-89b5-580271d27818`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).