---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT AND THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT AND THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1610"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1610 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hickey", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-26T21:49:04+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-20T15:50:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26f2b8dd-e30a-4ac9-8c35-2d42533dc8fc"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a02605134a88184dcfa87a3243c956fe92ed72983af398ba86eb7a87b459f0b8"
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 1610 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT AND THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 387** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=387.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1610-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1610** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1610.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hickey — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26T21:49:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-26T23:36:12+00:00** 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`
- **2025-03-04T18:42:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T14:28:56+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-05T14:28:58+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T17:45:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-06T19:53:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T23:18:35+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-06T23:18:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T18:53:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17T21:01:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T21:01:17+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-17T22:46:43+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-17T22:46:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-18T16:30:36+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-20T15:50:35+00:00** Notification that HB1610 is now Act 387 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26f2b8dd-e30a-4ac9-8c35-2d42533dc8fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).