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type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE CUSTODY OR GUARDIANSHIP OF THE STATE AND FROM EXPENDING STATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TERMINATING A PREGNANCY."
description: "TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE CUSTODY OR GUARDIANSHIP OF THE STATE AND FROM EXPENDING STATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TERMINATING A PREGNANCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1856"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1856 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dotson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-18"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8562379d-8b48-45cd-816e-7795a0e69e57"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "09e8b06c2c36aeb46fda56d6fc58785ad50915da2f6cf492eb987c56eae2b6fe"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---
# Arkansas HB 1856 (2019) — TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE CUSTODY OR GUARDIANSHIP OF THE STATE AND FROM EXPENDING STATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TERMINATING A PREGNANCY.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1856-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1856** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1856.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed. — **293** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **7516** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dotson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-18** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-18** 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`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-25** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-25** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-25** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-26** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-09** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-09** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-17** Notification that HB1856 is now Act 1057 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8562379d-8b48-45cd-816e-7795a0e69e57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).