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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ESTABLISH COVERAGE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MORBID OBESITY UNDER THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO ESTABLISH COVERAGE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MORBID OBESITY UNDER THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2022F"
+identifier: "SB 87"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 87 (2022F)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dotson", "Rice"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-15T21:39:39+00:00"
+last_action: "2022-03-02T18:54:54+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98fb1d22-dcae-4ed7-8801-cd21164791c6"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "d728a6a5e00761a409c09b83045f2c1d8fbdf113c0350ced6a8753453920e776"
+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 87 (2022F) — TO ESTABLISH COVERAGE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MORBID OBESITY UNDER THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 109** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2022F%2FPublic%2F&file=109.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2021%2F2022F)
+2. **SB 87** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2021/2022F/Bills/SB87.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dotson — primary (person)
+- Rice — primary (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
+- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Godfrey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- Jett — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Love — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-15T21:39:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2022-02-15T22:17:05+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-16T20:43:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-02-17T17:21:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-17T17:21:13+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2022-02-17T17:21:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2022-02-17T17:43:09+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2022-02-17T17:59:13+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-22T21:02:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-23T19:22:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-23T19:22:46+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2022-02-23T19:22:58+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2022-02-28T18:09:34+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2022-02-28T18:09:43+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2022-02-28T18:46:53+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2022-02-28T18:46:57+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-02T18:54:54+00:00** Notification that SB87 is now Act 109 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98fb1d22-dcae-4ed7-8801-cd21164791c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+