republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1568.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EXAMINATIONS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND POSTMORTEM EXAMINATIONS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW REQUIRING A POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION WHEN A DEATH IS BY APPARENT DRUG, ALCOHOL, OR POISON TOXICITY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EXAMINATIONS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND POSTMORTEM EXAMINATIONS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW REQUIRING A POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION WHEN A DEATH IS BY APPARENT DRUG, ALCOHOL, OR POISON TOXICITY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1568	Arkansas HB 1568 (2025)	bill		enacted	Childress K. Hammer	3	16	0	2025-02-24T22:12:38+00:00	2025-03-12T22:09:31+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c0bbfef3-160c-45b6-a23f-28e58bac5885	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	1e893d466df687c10d5a6831e27b56325c59a8798a8c4d6aaeb8bad1a7d02a58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1568 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EXAMINATIONS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND POSTMORTEM EXAMINATIONS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW REQUIRING A POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION WHEN A DEATH IS BY APPARENT DRUG, ALCOHOL, OR POISON TOXICITY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 289 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1568 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Childress — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24T22:12:38+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-24T22:54:04+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-26T16:38:58+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-02-27T14:35:50+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-27T14:35:52+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-27T17:54:24+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-03T19:55:59+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03T21:40:58+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-03T21:41:08+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T19:51:14+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-10T19:59:47+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-10T19:59:57+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-03-10T21:12:31+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-10T21:12:33+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-03-11T13:26:07+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-12T22:09:31+00:00 Notification that HB1568 is now Act 289 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0bbfef3-160c-45b6-a23f-28e58bac5885. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).