republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1659.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.	TO AMEND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1659	Arkansas HB 1659 (2021)	bill		enacted	D. Wallace Perry	1	13	2	2021-03-08T17:06:57+00:00	2021-04-12T18:28:41+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51fa2a57-c027-4c5e-b8fb-331776b6c78f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	a5378acb1155f06e2fe7a2ad68a538a05f5322c85689ba4dfeebd642f459481d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1659 (2021) — TO AMEND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.

Version chain

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

1. HB 1659 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• D. Wallace — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Fielding — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Slape — cosponsor (person)
• Springer — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-08T17:06:57+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-08T22:41:55+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
• 2021-03-18T23:03:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-22T18:54:28+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-22T22:18:36+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-22T22:18:49+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-31T22:48:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-05T20:45:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-05T20:45:45+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-05T22:00:10+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-05T22:00:12+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-06T16:12:13+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-12T18:28:41+00:00 Notification that HB1659 is now Act 674 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51fa2a57-c027-4c5e-b8fb-331776b6c78f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).