republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1856.md

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Bill	TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE CUSTODY OR GUARDIANSHIP OF THE STATE AND FROM EXPENDING STATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TERMINATING A PREGNANCY.	TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE CUSTODY OR GUARDIANSHIP OF THE STATE AND FROM EXPENDING STATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TERMINATING A PREGNANCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1856	Arkansas HB 1856 (2019)	bill		enacted	Dotson	2	16	2	2019-03-18	2019-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/8562379d-8b48-45cd-816e-7795a0e69e57	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	09e8b06c2c36aeb46fda56d6fc58785ad50915da2f6cf492eb987c56eae2b6fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1856 (2019) — TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE CUSTODY OR GUARDIANSHIP OF THE STATE AND FROM EXPENDING STATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TERMINATING A PREGNANCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1856 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 29–3 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 75–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dotson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-18 Filed introduction
• 2019-03-18 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
• 2019-03-20 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2019-03-25 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2019-03-25 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2019-03-25 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-03-26 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-26 Received from the House.
• 2019-03-26 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-09 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-09 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2019-04-09 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-04-09 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-04-10 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-04-17 Notification that HB1856 is now Act 1057 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8562379d-8b48-45cd-816e-7795a0e69e57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).