republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-474.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FERTILITY TREATMENT ABUSE AND FERTILITY TREATMENT FRAUD; AND TO CREATE THE CIVIL ACTION OF CIVIL FERTILITY FRAUD.	TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FERTILITY TREATMENT ABUSE AND FERTILITY TREATMENT FRAUD; AND TO CREATE THE CIVIL ACTION OF CIVIL FERTILITY FRAUD.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 474	Arkansas SB 474 (2021)	bill		enacted	Beckham Gazaway	2	19	2	2021-03-04T19:15:34+00:00	2021-04-12T15:00:55+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d5b7e6a6-722e-4873-b49b-ad66262ac2e8	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	ab18888169fe362b89e417243033413dc2d483d541d7701896b0ac9d57c85d7e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 474 (2021) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FERTILITY TREATMENT ABUSE AND FERTILITY TREATMENT FRAUD; AND TO CREATE THE CIVIL ACTION OF CIVIL FERTILITY FRAUD.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 474 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beckham — primary (person)
• Gazaway — primary (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-04T19:15:34+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-04T21:08:21+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16T13:28:57+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-16T13:29:06+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-16T18:09:53+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-16T18:10:02+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-17T18:31:10+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18T19:04:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-18T19:05:04+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-18T21:33:31+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-18T22:26:54+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T22:25:55+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-06T19:52:30+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T19:52:35+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-06T22:24:38+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-06T22:24:45+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-07T15:44:07+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-07T15:44:19+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-12T15:00:55+00:00 Notification that SB474 is now Act 609 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5b7e6a6-722e-4873-b49b-ad66262ac2e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).