republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1786.md

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Bill	TO CLARIFY THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ABORTION TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A PREGNANT WOMAN IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.	TO CLARIFY THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ABORTION TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A PREGNANT WOMAN IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1786	Arkansas HB 1786 (2023)	bill		enacted	C. Penzo Pilkington	2	13	2	2023-03-29T21:17:35+00:00	2023-04-13T15:30:13+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/639c91ed-7081-4e74-8409-8451a25a21ed	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	4fc593d46f299c4edbfc8f0a13e5d47f599dc2ed7b52ccd0750c75a80028e3aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1786 (2023) — TO CLARIFY THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ABORTION TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A PREGNANT WOMAN IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 848 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1786 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 83–12 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 28–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C. Penzo — primary (person)
• Pilkington — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-29T21:17:35+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-29T23:26:22+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
• 2023-03-31T00:56:11+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-04T19:07:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T22:01:29+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-04-04T22:01:36+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T19:32:29+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T20:23:57+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T20:24:01+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T22:17:56+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T22:17:58+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T15:12:33+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-13T15:30:13+00:00 Notification that HB1786 is now Act 848 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/639c91ed-7081-4e74-8409-8451a25a21ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).