---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PREPAID FUNERAL BENEFITS LAW; AND TO CLARIFY THAT CERTAIN LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS ARE TO BE VERIFIED WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PREPAID FUNERAL BENEFITS LAW; AND TO CLARIFY THAT CERTAIN LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS ARE TO BE VERIFIED WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1391"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1391 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Capp"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e53443dd-9175-460c-9a32-d0d5b5a9e3b8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "62aec6ad5828c41cbf17e7fb71e85ab985fc31b2c89a22a7c3fee4e064676c85"
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 1391 (2019) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PREPAID FUNERAL BENEFITS LAW; AND TO CLARIFY THAT CERTAIN LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS ARE TO BE VERIFIED WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1391** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1391.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

- Capp — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-06** 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`
- **2019-02-20** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-20** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-20** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-28** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-13** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-13** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-18** Notification that HB1391 is now Act 500 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e53443dd-9175-460c-9a32-d0d5b5a9e3b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).