---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS CREDIT FOR REINSURANCE LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS CREDIT FOR REINSURANCE LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1240"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1240 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowery", "M. Pitsch"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25T18:09:49+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T18:27:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12a58d92-14c3-4aa5-9b2d-f8c617d521fb"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9e392dbb55df9afc71ba41df97a0be66ada589f17bdf604432c3c66763e00478"
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 1240 (2021) — TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS CREDIT FOR REINSURANCE LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FHB1240-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1240-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1240** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1240.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T18:09:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T19:42:18+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`
- **2021-02-04T14:36:40+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-04T14:36:43+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-04T16:51:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T14:02:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T14:02:51+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:07:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T16:51:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01T18:41:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T18:41:18+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-01T21:08:21+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-01T21:08:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T20:22:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07T20:06:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T20:06:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-07T20:07:01+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-07T22:02:22+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-07T22:02:24+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-08T14:43:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-12T18:27:33+00:00** Notification that HB1240 is now Act 672 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12a58d92-14c3-4aa5-9b2d-f8c617d521fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).