---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY PROTOCOLS."
description: "TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY PROTOCOLS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 99"
citation: "Arkansas SB 99 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bledsoe", "Vaught"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-12T16:23:38+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-22T15:18:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6ec1d9a-f2f7-4708-9b51-3aad2384faed"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "94575e6884602a3c9e851c1c128bf57655ae54714b82e1fc9f46c5c82f479cf1"
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 99 (2021) — TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY PROTOCOLS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB99-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB99-S2.pdf)
3. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB99-S3.pdf)
4. **SB 99** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB99.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bledsoe — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12T16:23:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T17:14:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T20:15:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-21T20:16:03+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25T16:08:51+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-01-25T16:09:03+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-25T19:07:41+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-25T19:08:38+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T14:46:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
- **2021-01-28T14:46:39+00:00** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-28T19:12:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-28T19:13:11+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01T21:58:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-03T20:49:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T20:49:50+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-03T22:28:14+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-03T22:46:57+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T17:50:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08T19:53:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-08T19:53:46+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-08T21:21:44+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-08T21:21:58+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-09T15:39:16+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-09T15:39:21+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-22T15:18:02+00:00** Notification that SB99 is now Act 97 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6ec1d9a-f2f7-4708-9b51-3aad2384faed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).