republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-542.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW-AND-SEE ACT; AND TO REQUIRE AN ABORTION PROVIDER WHO KNOWINGLY PERFORMS OR REFERS A PATIENT FOR AN ABORTION TO COMPLY WITH THE RIGHT OF A PATIENT TO VIEW ULTRASOUND IMAGES BEFORE AN ABORTION.	TO AMEND THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW-AND-SEE ACT; AND TO REQUIRE AN ABORTION PROVIDER WHO KNOWINGLY PERFORMS OR REFERS A PATIENT FOR AN ABORTION TO COMPLY WITH THE RIGHT OF A PATIENT TO VIEW ULTRASOUND IMAGES BEFORE AN ABORTION.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 542	Arkansas SB 542 (2023)	bill		enacted	Irvin L. Johnson	2	15	2	2023-03-29T22:05:33+00:00	2023-04-11T20:25:41+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3eb26345-183a-4bc1-b621-860903022b8f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	0285b85918daac40969b8ac9d742504116cba3ccdb4da78f584a3c5d1340f71f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 542 (2023) — TO AMEND THE RIGHT-TO-KNOW-AND-SEE ACT; AND TO REQUIRE AN ABORTION PROVIDER WHO KNOWINGLY PERFORMS OR REFERS A PATIENT FOR AN ABORTION TO COMPLY WITH THE RIGHT OF A PATIENT TO VIEW ULTRASOUND IMAGES BEFORE AN ABORTION.

Version chain

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

1. Act 559 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 542 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 80–12 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 28–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irvin — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-29T22:05:33+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-29T23:48:04+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-31T17:40:19+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-03T21:15:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-03T21:16:00+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-04-03T22:58:12+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-04-04T00:49:00+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
• 2023-04-04T17:29:14+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-05T21:23:22+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-05T21:23:27+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:45:52+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:45:54+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T15:01:33+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-06T15:01:35+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-11T20:25:41+00:00 Notification that SB542 is now Act 559 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3eb26345-183a-4bc1-b621-860903022b8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).