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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-16-1301

Title

Known as the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Hopkins v. Jegley (2017)

Most recently applied in Hopkins v. Jegley (July 2017)

Acts 2013, No. 301, § 1.

How often courts cite this section

2013201710
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act”.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.