---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ENACT THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL OMNIBUS."
description: "TO ENACT THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL OMNIBUS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1238"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1238 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowery", "M. Pitsch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25T18:04:36+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T18:04:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac20fe70-fed7-4201-8da7-ece2187ffa57"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "550ecf429c61dc519db7c8625ae61b7042e0e09bec58918e7c101e16d0dda159"
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 1238 (2021) — TO ENACT THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL OMNIBUS.

## 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%2FHB1238-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1238** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1238.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowery — primary (person)
- M. Pitsch — primary (person)
- J. Hendren — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T18:04:36+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T19:41:49+00:00** 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`
- **2021-02-24T17:55:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-25T14:35:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-25T14:35:18+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-25T17:12:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-01T19:18:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01T22:05:40+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-01T22:05:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09T22:47:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10T20:58:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-10T20:59:05+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-10T22:24:10+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-10T22:24:20+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-11T14:58:40+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T18:04:46+00:00** Notification that HB1238 is now Act 367 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac20fe70-fed7-4201-8da7-ece2187ffa57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).