republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1551.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 LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL ABORTION; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF COERCED CRIMINAL ABORTION BY MEANS OF FRAUD.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL ABORTION; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF COERCED CRIMINAL ABORTION BY MEANS OF FRAUD.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1551	Arkansas HB 1551 (2025)	bill		enacted	Gazaway Gilmore	4	20	0	2025-02-20T22:08:08+00:00	2025-04-08T16:55:09+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1217c95e-c909-4103-8b3d-0a018f1ad89f	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	2caa1c66f55d230089ce88b48bcdccb3dd0d1c8868e08f05d5c9241a01135f9e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1551 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL ABORTION; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF COERCED CRIMINAL ABORTION BY MEANS OF FRAUD.

Version chain

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

1. Act 485 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1551 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Gazaway — primary (person)
• Gilmore — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20T22:08:08+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-20T22:31:05+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
• 2025-03-11T18:04:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-12T13:35:57+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-12T13:35:59+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-12T18:20:32+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-13T19:22:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-13T22:40:49+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-13T22:40:58+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-17T23:05:20+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18T19:00:44+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-18T19:00:51+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-18T20:49:16+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-19T22:54:05+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-19T22:54:22+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-03-20T13:56:54+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-02T19:13:44+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-02T19:13:46+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-03T13:47:55+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-08T16:55:09+00:00 Notification that HB1551 is now Act 485 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1217c95e-c909-4103-8b3d-0a018f1ad89f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).