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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ENHANCE COVERAGE OF PROSTATE CANCER SCREENINGS BY HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS."
+description: "TO ENHANCE COVERAGE OF PROSTATE CANCER SCREENINGS BY HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1042"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1042 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "F. Allen"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-12-21T19:13:40+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-02-14T22:58:52+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0a55bb1-d2f2-491f-8bb2-d8e2d1e430b5"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "5cc36c03d78dc905687ca26662e5b8222cc53f4e0c8b3776b5ee71200f34ecf2"
+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 1042 (2023) — TO ENHANCE COVERAGE OF PROSTATE CANCER SCREENINGS BY HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 66** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=66.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1042-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1042** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1042.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D. Wallace — primary (person)
+- F. Allen — primary (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-12-21T19:13:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-01-09T20:00:06+00:00** 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`
+- **2023-01-25T16:54:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-30T14:35:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-01-30T14:35:17+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-01-30T16:07:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-02-01T19:40:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-01T21:41:33+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-02-01T21:41:47+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-07T19:13:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-08T19:37:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-08T19:37:56+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-02-08T20:39:06+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-02-08T20:39:10+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-02-08T21:11:22+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-02-14T22:58:52+00:00** Notification that HB1042 is now Act 66 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0a55bb1-d2f2-491f-8bb2-d8e2d1e430b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+