republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-138.md

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Bill	TO REPEAL THE LICENSING REQUIREMENT OF CLINICS AND HEALTH CENTERS IN WHICH A PREGNANCY OF A WOMAN KNOWN TO BE PREGNANT IS WILLFULLY TERMINATED OR ABORTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO REPEAL THE LICENSING REQUIREMENT OF CLINICS AND HEALTH CENTERS IN WHICH A PREGNANCY OF A WOMAN KNOWN TO BE PREGNANT IS WILLFULLY TERMINATED OR ABORTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 138	Arkansas SB 138 (2023)	bill		enacted	Burkes Irvin	3	27	3	2023-01-26T16:46:54+00:00	2023-03-01T22:15:05+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dcc6109f-e26f-40a6-b6c1-3ada0c514435	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	582a1e16d0d090f9dfbeb5045b4f61856128b3518fe859cf21e1a3f0d9c03160	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 138 (2023) — TO REPEAL THE LICENSING REQUIREMENT OF CLINICS AND HEALTH CENTERS IN WHICH A PREGNANCY OF A WOMAN KNOWN TO BE PREGNANT IS WILLFULLY TERMINATED OR ABORTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 162 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 138 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 85–8 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 29–4 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 29–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burkes — primary (person)
• Irvin — primary (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Crowell — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Hickey — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-26T16:46:54+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-26T17:50:22+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-01T19:12:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-07T19:39:43+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-07T19:39:52+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-07T20:26:06+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-07T22:44:51+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
• 2023-02-09T19:22:39+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-14T14:30:23+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-14T14:30:25+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-14T16:49:42+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-15T20:23:46+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-15T20:23:48+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-15T20:23:53+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-02-15T22:50:14+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-02-15T22:50:22+00:00 AS AMENDED, Amendment # 1
• 2023-02-15T22:50:32+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T19:29:56+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-23T17:33:25+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-23T17:33:31+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2023-02-23T17:33:37+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-02-23T17:33:49+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-23T17:34:14+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-23T17:34:21+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-02-23T20:57:58+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-02-23T20:58:03+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-01T22:15:05+00:00 Notification that SB138 is now Act 162 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dcc6109f-e26f-40a6-b6c1-3ada0c514435. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).