An act TO REQUIRE WRITTEN CONSENT OF A PARENT OR 10 LEGAL GUARDIAN WHEN PRESCRIBING LONG-ACTING 11 REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION TO A PERSON WHO IS YOUNGER 12 THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, the official text

Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language would be added to present law.

1 State of Arkansas                     A Bill
2 95th General Assembly

3 Regular Session, 2025                                            HOUSE BILL 1906

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5 By: Representative Lundstrum

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8                               For An Act To Be Entitled

9   AN ACT TO REQUIRE WRITTEN CONSENT OF A PARENT OR

10  LEGAL GUARDIAN WHEN PRESCRIBING LONG-ACTING

11  REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION TO A PERSON WHO IS YOUNGER

12  THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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16                       TO REQUIRE WRITTEN CONSENT OF A PARENT

17                       OR LEGAL GUARDIAN WHEN PRESCRIBING LONG-

18                       ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION TO A

19                       PERSON WHO IS YOUNGER THAN EIGHTEEN

20                       YEARS OF AGE.

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22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:

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24  SECTION 1. Arkansas Code � 20-16-304(1), concerning the public policy

25 of the state under the Arkansas Family Planning Act and the availability of

26 certain procedures, supplies, and information, is amended to read as follows:

27  (1) All Except as provided in � 20-9-607, all medically

28 acceptable contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information shall be

29 available through legally recognized channels to each person desirous of the

30 procedures, supplies, and information regardless of sex, race, age, income,

31 number of children, marital status, citizenship, or motive;

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33  SECTION 2. Arkansas Code Title 20, Chapter 9, Subchapter 6, is amended

34 to add an additional section to read as follows:

35  20-9-607. Written consent -- Long-acting reversible contraception.

36  (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a healthcare

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1 provider shall require written consent from a parent or legal guardian before

2 prescribing long-acting reversible contraception to a person who is younger

3 than eighteen (18) years of age.

4   (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply if the person is an

5 emancipated minor.

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