republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-444.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE MEDICAL ETHICS AND DIVERSITY ACT.	TO AMEND THE MEDICAL ETHICS AND DIVERSITY ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 444	Arkansas SB 444 (2025)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer L. Johnson	3	19	0	2025-03-12T18:41:34+00:00	2025-04-22T21:47:10+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e8c7d8c0-8fab-4389-8837-163034d51f71	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	aed9746e27ce0913c0263934d9127e6497a3b07404259f7dcbad98274bc93519	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 444 (2025) — TO AMEND THE MEDICAL ETHICS AND DIVERSITY ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 970 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 444 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-12T18:41:34+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-12T21:31:24+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20T13:00:58+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-03-20T13:01:10+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-20T18:44:06+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-20T18:44:15+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-02T18:27:24+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03T20:14:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03T20:14:14+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-03T22:02:30+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-04T00:13:58+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
• 2025-04-15T18:29:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T16:18:17+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T16:18:22+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T17:59:00+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T17:59:04+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T19:19:19+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T19:19:23+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22T21:47:10+00:00 Notification that SB444 is now Act 970 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8c7d8c0-8fab-4389-8837-163034d51f71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).