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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REQUIRE A HEALTH INSURER TO CONTRACT WITH A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO REQUIRE A HEALTH INSURER TO CONTRACT WITH A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 472"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 472 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maloch"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6df2c62c-2efa-488f-aeb3-061ed332e56b"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "cbbe34e82524fbe0cb8d9725b264818b77aa12c29ade5698ca292ce4619ff147"
+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 SB 472 (2019) — TO REQUIRE A HEALTH INSURER TO CONTRACT WITH A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## 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=SB472-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 472** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB472.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maloch — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-04** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-07** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **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
+- **2019-03-07** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-18** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-18** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2019-03-18** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-03-18** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-03-18** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2019-03-26** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-03-26** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2019-03-26** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-27** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-03-27** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-01** Notification that SB472 is now Act 589 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6df2c62c-2efa-488f-aeb3-061ed332e56b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+