republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1061.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO CREATE THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT; CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS OF PATIENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO CREATE THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT; CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS OF PATIENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1061	Arkansas HB 1061 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Davis J. Mayberry	5	26	2	2020-12-22T19:48:43+00:00	2021-03-10T19:13:33+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1379dbc3-a3c2-4dbf-b193-7f201d275f51	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	55bb229da77ffb1fab49bf02b9ba638d2b67ffa17da7eb9a237e49840eb86d1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1061 (2021) — TO CREATE THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT; CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS OF PATIENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H3 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment H4 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB 1061 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Davis — primary (person)
• J. Mayberry — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-22T19:48:43+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-11T20:26:29+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
• 2021-01-19T14:34:16+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-01-19T14:34:20+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-01-19T16:16:05+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-01T14:30:34+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-01T14:30:44+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-01T16:42:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-24T14:27:26+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-24T14:27:33+00:00 Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-24T17:46:14+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-25T19:07:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 4 committee-passage
• 2021-03-01T14:34:14+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-01T14:34:20+00:00 Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-01T17:16:45+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-02T19:24:27+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-02T20:35:27+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-02T20:35:47+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-08T23:01:32+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-09T20:29:52+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-09T20:30:05+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-03-09T20:30:17+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-03-09T21:28:52+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-09T21:28:56+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-03-10T14:17:58+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-03-10T19:13:33+00:00 Notification that HB1061 is now Act 311 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1379dbc3-a3c2-4dbf-b193-7f201d275f51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).