republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1252.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 ESTABLISH THE CERTIFIED COMMUNITY-BASED DOULA CERTIFICATION ACT; AND TO CERTIFY BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM DOULAS IN THIS STATE TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND INFANT OUTCOMES.	TO ESTABLISH THE CERTIFIED COMMUNITY-BASED DOULA CERTIFICATION ACT; AND TO CERTIFY BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM DOULAS IN THIS STATE TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND INFANT OUTCOMES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1252	Arkansas HB 1252 (2025)	bill		enacted	Irvin L. Johnson	4	22	0	2025-01-27T20:40:27+00:00	2025-04-21T16:44:52+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1d0ceaa5-5388-405a-9d58-d7d6cd028a97	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	8bd420b34bae7cc8ad72e7d40ca4b7ab75042f4af53382bbd94ef01389f108bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1252 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE CERTIFIED COMMUNITY-BASED DOULA CERTIFICATION ACT; AND TO CERTIFY BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM DOULAS IN THIS STATE TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND INFANT OUTCOMES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 965 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1252 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-27T20:40:27+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-01-27T23:52:20+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
• 2025-02-13T14:29:57+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-13T14:30:00+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-13T16:57:16+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-13T18:28:19+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T19:26:53+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-17T23:11:11+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-17T23:11:19+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T22:11:42+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-03T22:11:49+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-04-03T22:11:56+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-03T22:59:30+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-03T22:59:39+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:44:35+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10T20:40:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T20:40:38+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-10T23:19:57+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-15T19:42:30+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-15T19:42:32+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T13:43:50+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-21T16:44:52+00:00 Notification that HB1252 is now Act 965 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d0ceaa5-5388-405a-9d58-d7d6cd028a97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).