republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-591.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 PROHIBIT RACE-SELECTION ABORTION IN THIS STATE; AND TO CREATE THE RACE DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT.	TO PROHIBIT RACE-SELECTION ABORTION IN THIS STATE; AND TO CREATE THE RACE DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 591	Arkansas SB 591 (2025)	bill		enacted	C. Penzo K. Brown	3	22	0	2025-03-31T21:18:56+00:00	2025-04-23T21:51:22+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1cf88482-f425-49ae-869f-a0bf044fda47	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	0a88f6c4268390a5fd7674e60fdc32ab038c04ce8e90c1eb694d9695159d6c5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 591 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT RACE-SELECTION ABORTION IN THIS STATE; AND TO CREATE THE RACE DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 973 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 591 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• C. Penzo — primary (person)
• K. Brown — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-31T21:18:56+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-31T22:42:19+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T18:46:41+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08T23:24:03+00:00 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2025-04-08T23:39:38+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which SB591 failed. Motion Carried.
• 2025-04-09T19:41:50+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-09T19:41:55+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-09T19:42:02+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-09T20:26:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-10T02:05:11+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-10T02:54:14+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T02:54:39+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-10T14:54:40+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-10T23:40:31+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
• 2025-04-15T18:32:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T17:35:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T17:35:38+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T19:04:31+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T19:04:39+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T20:34:11+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T20:34:18+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-23T21:51:22+00:00 Notification that SB591 is now Act 973 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1cf88482-f425-49ae-869f-a0bf044fda47. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).