---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1181"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1181 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14T15:45:35+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-19T18:13:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5128b44-ac8a-4bed-97fd-7449c569b6aa"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ebf42015786fd11ef367a4be6cc08723853c90afa902393a498279d1ae870fd1"
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 1181 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1181-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1181-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1181-H3.pdf)
4. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1181-H4.pdf)
5. **HB 1181** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1181.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14T15:45:35+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-14T21:36:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:37:22+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-26T14:37:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-26T17:20:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T19:06:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T19:07:25+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T21:05:11+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-23T20:28:23+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-23T20:28:27+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-23T21:18:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T19:36:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-05T19:36:16+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-05T20:53:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-08T14:36:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-13T19:19:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T19:19:31+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-13T21:16:11+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-13T21:16:23+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-14T20:24:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T20:24:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-14T20:25:04+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T21:57:52+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T21:57:54+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T13:42:44+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-19T18:13:58+00:00** Notification that HB1181 is now Act 750 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5128b44-ac8a-4bed-97fd-7449c569b6aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).