republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1388.md

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Bill	TO PROVIDE FOR VOLUNTARY POST-ADOPTION CONTACT AGREEMENTS.	TO PROVIDE FOR VOLUNTARY POST-ADOPTION CONTACT AGREEMENTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1388	Arkansas HB 1388 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Ballinger Penzo	4	19	2	2021-02-02T22:55:11+00:00	2021-04-22T14:44:38+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/03ab09c5-c3ff-491b-9b8e-3237bab2ac89	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	91a85074d525c0bd6371cb7f496dbeb3350099642ceb6979e35348f346c64436	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1388 (2021) — TO PROVIDE FOR VOLUNTARY POST-ADOPTION CONTACT AGREEMENTS.

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. HB 1388 (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

• B. Ballinger — primary (person)
• Penzo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-02T22:55:11+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-03T22:37:54+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-02-25T14:36:00+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-25T14:36:02+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-25T17:12:53+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-31T22:02:17+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 & 3 committee-passage
• 2021-04-05T13:33:17+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-05T13:33:37+00:00 Amendment No. 2 & 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
• 2021-04-05T16:00:01+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-06T18:40:11+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T22:59:43+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-06T23:00:11+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14T18:19:22+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-15T20:11:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T20:11:41+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-15T22:31:04+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-15T22:31:06+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-16T13:41:06+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-22T14:44:38+00:00 Notification that HB1388 is now Act 838 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03ab09c5-c3ff-491b-9b8e-3237bab2ac89. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).