republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1116.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 ESTABLISH SIMON'S LAW; AND TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENT FOR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN CONSENT FOR END-OF-LIFE MEDICAL PROCEDURES FOR MINORS.	TO ESTABLISH SIMON'S LAW; AND TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENT FOR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN CONSENT FOR END-OF-LIFE MEDICAL PROCEDURES FOR MINORS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1116	Arkansas HB 1116 (2021)	bill		enacted	Dotson Hester	3	19	2	2021-01-11T18:13:51+00:00	2021-03-02T19:10:28+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0adf1c36-2482-415b-ba80-6e6d06411c15	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	eb5d81ae673360e6b7a3eee1c721c19364d29314491037345791599d4db47091	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1116 (2021) — TO ESTABLISH SIMON'S LAW; AND TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENT FOR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN CONSENT FOR END-OF-LIFE MEDICAL PROCEDURES FOR MINORS.

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. HB 1116 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dotson — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11T18:13:51+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-11T20:44:43+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
• 2021-02-03T14:38:37+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-03T14:38:40+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-03T16:16:32+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-04T17:51:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-02-08T14:39:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-08T14:39:48+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-08T16:12:41+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-09T19:22:37+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-09T21:41:44+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-02-09T21:41:58+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-24T23:09:00+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-25T21:11:55+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-25T21:12:06+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-02-25T23:11:21+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-02-25T23:11:23+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-02-26T18:10:26+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-03-02T19:10:28+00:00 Notification that HB1116 is now Act 226 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0adf1c36-2482-415b-ba80-6e6d06411c15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).