---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE NEWBORN SCREENING FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; AND TO MANDATE THAT INSURANCE POLICIES COVER NEWBORN SCREENING FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY."
description: "TO REQUIRE NEWBORN SCREENING FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; AND TO MANDATE THAT INSURANCE POLICIES COVER NEWBORN SCREENING FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1074"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1074 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Mayberry"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-12-28"
last_action: "2019-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0997c399-3f17-4ee7-941e-4b14f5e9dfcf"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f966305c650d8bd18163e8ac768026b93a7a3ce3ce19247969d8fbf0ef297707"
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 1074 (2019) — TO REQUIRE NEWBORN SCREENING FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; AND TO MANDATE THAT INSURANCE POLICIES COVER NEWBORN SCREENING FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY.

## 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=HB1074-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1074** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1074.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Mayberry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-12-28** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** 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`
- **2019-01-22** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-01-23** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-23** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-01-28** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Received from the House.
- **2019-01-28** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-31** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** Ordered immediately returned to the House.
- **2019-01-31** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-01-31** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-04** Notification that HB1074 is now Act 58 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0997c399-3f17-4ee7-941e-4b14f5e9dfcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).