republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-289.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE MEDICAL ETHICS AND DIVERSITY ACT.	TO CREATE THE MEDICAL ETHICS AND DIVERSITY ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 289	Arkansas SB 289 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Smith K. Hammer	2	28	4	2021-02-04T20:36:13+00:00	2021-03-29T18:11:48+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7b8ea5a6-dcb9-4c8d-980c-8f225f717bf8	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	f4f4bc739c288b92ead156d84ccda37645b74405c096512b5e676a4f900f6f22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 289 (2021) — TO CREATE THE MEDICAL ETHICS AND DIVERSITY ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 289 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 27–6 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 72–20 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 25–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Smith — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-04T20:36:13+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-04T20:42:58+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-08T23:04:07+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-10T20:21:29+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-10T20:21:50+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-02-10T22:15:53+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-02-10T23:33:51+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
• 2021-03-09T14:33:09+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-09T14:33:12+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-09T18:55:03+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-12T00:05:49+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-15T19:48:52+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-15T19:49:04+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-03-15T21:29:11+00:00 Returned From the House as passed as amended.
• 2021-03-15T21:30:39+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-17T22:52:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18T06:15:52+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-18T18:15:54+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-03-18T18:16:15+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-03-18T18:16:38+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-18T18:16:54+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-03-18T19:51:58+00:00 The vote by which SB289 passed and was ordered enrolled was expunged.
• 2021-03-18T19:52:23+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-03-18T19:53:00+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-18T19:53:11+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-03-22T17:45:37+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-03-22T17:45:44+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-03-29T18:11:48+00:00 Notification that SB289 is now Act 462 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b8ea5a6-dcb9-4c8d-980c-8f225f717bf8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).