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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
+description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1565"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1565 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Vaught"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-07T14:41:45+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-10T21:20:37+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c2c1676-72f0-4c57-83bc-962eee57b1ea"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "3320b9b04f85cf469e270e1b9c8f939200ea6851cb3a9c152486bc6fdc357519"
+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 1565 (2023) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 512** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=512.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **HB 1565** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1565.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C. Tucker — primary (person)
+- Vaught — primary (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
+- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-07T14:41:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-07T22:36:14+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-09T18:21:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-13T19:05:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-13T21:50:29+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-13T21:50:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30T18:19:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-04T20:38:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-04T20:38:19+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
+- **2023-04-04T22:21:49+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-04T22:21:50+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-05T14:09:44+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-10T21:20:37+00:00** Notification that HB1565 is now Act 512 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c2c1676-72f0-4c57-83bc-962eee57b1ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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