republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1439.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 CREATE THE CHERISH ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS AFTER EIGHTEEN (18) WEEKS' GESTATION EXCEPT IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.	TO CREATE THE CHERISH ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS AFTER EIGHTEEN (18) WEEKS' GESTATION EXCEPT IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1439	Arkansas HB 1439 (2019)	bill		enacted	Lundstrum	2	22	3	2019-02-12	2019-03-15	openstates	ocd-bill/d9deb264-c983-497f-a76e-cab11746f15c	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	e4e9894c4f090b1d887edcf2585834971a1f280f27214f6fcd5c5895083d6251	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1439 (2019) — TO CREATE THE CHERISH ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS AFTER EIGHTEEN (18) WEEKS' GESTATION EXCEPT IN A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1439 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 77–13 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 86–1 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 28–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lundstrum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-12 Filed introduction
• 2019-02-13 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
• 2019-02-19 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2019-02-19 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2019-02-19 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-19 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-02-25 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-25 Received from the House.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-03-06 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-07 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2019-03-07 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-03-07 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-03-11 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-11 Returned To the House as passed as amended.
• 2019-03-11 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2019-03-11 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2019-03-13 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2019-03-13 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-03-14 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-03-15 Notification that HB1439 is now Act 493 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9deb264-c983-497f-a76e-cab11746f15c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).