republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1547.md

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Bill	TO PROHIBIT THE STATE FROM MANDATING A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); TO GOVERN REQUIREMENTS FOR A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO PROHIBIT THE STATE FROM MANDATING A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); TO GOVERN REQUIREMENTS FOR A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1547	Arkansas HB 1547 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Davis Lundstrum	5	29	3	2021-02-23T21:01:02+00:00	2021-04-28T19:31:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1b15a3f1-9feb-42b7-b769-19b0f00d1d41	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	90b98a525d17fbda43e2e8036b0b7795fe8463bc13784ed4443c26a8bb3c6649	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1547 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT THE STATE FROM MANDATING A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); TO GOVERN REQUIREMENTS FOR A VACCINE OR IMMUNIZATION FOR CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); 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 1547 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 21–8 (pass) · upper
• EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — 28–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Davis — primary (person)
• Lundstrum — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Deffenbaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Tollett — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-23T21:01:02+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-23T23:09:12+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
• 2021-03-15T13:37:35+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-15T13:37:37+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-15T16:48:51+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-17T13:33:32+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-17T13:33:36+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-17T18:05:45+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-29T14:00:13+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-29T14:00:16+00:00 Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-29T18:06:20+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-12T13:36:57+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-12T13:37:03+00:00 Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-12T16:06:06+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-14T00:09:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-14T20:12:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14T20:12:16+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-14T22:20:12+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-14T22:20:27+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-19T23:04:35+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-21T20:46:10+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-21T20:46:45+00:00 Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
• 2021-04-21T20:46:52+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed of adoption. Motion passed.
• 2021-04-21T20:47:08+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-21T20:47:45+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-21T22:29:58+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-21T22:30:00+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-22T14:14:51+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-28T19:31:45+00:00 Notification that HB1547 is now Act 977 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b15a3f1-9feb-42b7-b769-19b0f00d1d41. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).