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type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE PHYSICIANS TO HAVE CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS; AND TO REPEAL THE PRESUMPTION OF VIABILITY OF A FETUS AT THE TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY."
description: "TO REQUIRE PHYSICIANS TO HAVE CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS; AND TO REPEAL THE PRESUMPTION OF VIABILITY OF A FETUS AT THE TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 448"
citation: "Arkansas SB 448 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Stubblefield"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32347bdc-8132-45d9-8859-91cc79843415"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "193fe6f7cca2b5166e95be3be98f3092dc448b22dbd5efc98316ed8c069741ec"
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 448 (2019) — TO REQUIRE PHYSICIANS TO HAVE CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS; AND TO REPEAL THE PRESUMPTION OF VIABILITY OF A FETUS AT THE TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB 448** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB448.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed. — **295** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **7015** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- G. Stubblefield — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-14** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-14** 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`
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-01** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-01** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-01** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-02** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-05** Notification that SB448 is now Act 700 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32347bdc-8132-45d9-8859-91cc79843415`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).