---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MULTIPLE EMPLOYER WELFARE ARRANGEMENTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MULTIPLE EMPLOYER WELFARE ARRANGEMENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1714"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1714 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T20:18:59+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-28T19:32:48+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09ee092c-45b1-414a-91ac-cd5b2edcc1f4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5eb29c5019dc7171a67ae29d65518244cf5fee5e5d9ea3152a3d04be40d08b5f"
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 1714 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MULTIPLE EMPLOYER WELFARE ARRANGEMENTS.

## 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%2FHB1714-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1714** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1714.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T20:18:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T23:35:15+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`
- **2021-04-14T16:19:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-15T13:35:27+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-15T13:35:30+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-15T18:23:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T18:42:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T22:30:07+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:30:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T00:11:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-23T02:30:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-23T02:30:45+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-04-23T02:49:29+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T02:49:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:05:57+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-28T19:32:48+00:00** Notification that HB1714 is now Act 979 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09ee092c-45b1-414a-91ac-cd5b2edcc1f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).