---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY CONCERNING PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS; AND TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY CONCERNING PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS; AND TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 520"
citation: "Arkansas SB 520 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-08"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5180d2ab-aafa-4b9f-ab9c-a0e07c4fb190"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ef577fc713224240798f390d593dc6d3b33c970f948f126008b068a3ce1cd7e2"
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 520 (2019) — TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY CONCERNING PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS; AND TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT.

## 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=SB520-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 520** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB520.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-08** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-12** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-12** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-12** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2019-03-26** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-01** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-01** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-02** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-02** Amendment # 4 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-02** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 5 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-04** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-04** Amendment # 5 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-04** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-05** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-05** 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`
- **2019-04-08** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-09** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-09** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-10** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB520 is now Act 994 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5180d2ab-aafa-4b9f-ab9c-a0e07c4fb190`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).