republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1734.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFICATES; AND TO CLARIFY THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO MAY SIGN A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH AND PRONOUNCE DEATH OF A PATIENT.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFICATES; AND TO CLARIFY THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO MAY SIGN A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH AND PRONOUNCE DEATH OF A PATIENT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1734	Arkansas HB 1734 (2025)	bill		enacted	Childress K. Hammer	4	22	0	2025-03-11T17:58:56+00:00	2025-04-17T20:48:27+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e45ee2d2-7376-48e4-afe5-f78f7b9379e9	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	2405efb61570be63595a284757071782ce1f86ce507e9135f3dd7bd240daa7c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1734 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFICATES; AND TO CLARIFY THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO MAY SIGN A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH AND PRONOUNCE DEATH OF A PATIENT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 862 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1734 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-11T17:58:56+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-11T21:58:10+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
• 2025-03-13T18:28:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T13:44:29+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-17T13:44:31+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-17T17:59:24+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-19T19:21:23+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-20T00:33:30+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-20T00:33:40+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T18:45:54+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08T12:47:40+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-08T12:47:46+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-08T18:28:13+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-10T00:51:39+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T00:51:52+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-10T01:54:59+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-10T01:55:12+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-10T20:17:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-14T19:49:26+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-14T19:49:28+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-15T15:51:09+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-17T20:48:27+00:00 Notification that HB1734 is now Act 862 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e45ee2d2-7376-48e4-afe5-f78f7b9379e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).