republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1916.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 PROTECTING MINORS FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACT OF 2023; AND TO INCLUDE GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS AS A RIGHT OF ACTION FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.	TO AMEND THE PROTECTING MINORS FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACT OF 2023; AND TO INCLUDE GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS AS A RIGHT OF ACTION FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1916	Arkansas HB 1916 (2025)	bill		enacted	A. Clark Bentley	3	16	0	2025-03-31T18:05:58+00:00	2025-04-22T21:00:31+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1916e98b-8938-475c-8e52-f8887ac5d8d8	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	127f3cd46390d619f60b7d33e491d9ed54313e2ca33c996d5dc0b3d95b2b1c7f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1916 (2025) — TO AMEND THE PROTECTING MINORS FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACT OF 2023; AND TO INCLUDE GENDER-AFFIRMING INTERVENTIONS AS A RIGHT OF ACTION FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 979 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1916 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• A. Clark — primary (person)
• Bentley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-31T18:05:58+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-01T02:11:45+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
• 2025-04-02T13:34:09+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-02T13:34:11+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-02T16:15:45+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-08T19:09:25+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-09T20:56:22+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T04:32:39+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-10T04:32:48+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T00:21:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-15T21:14:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-15T21:14:45+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-15T22:20:50+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-15T22:20:52+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T20:15:29+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-22T21:00:31+00:00 Notification that HB1916 is now Act 979 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1916e98b-8938-475c-8e52-f8887ac5d8d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).