---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES REAPPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES REAPPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1371"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1371 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-08T16:36:41+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-27T19:07:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84df99fe-978e-430d-8ff9-f280ac9e7695"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bc684902db00cf0259e59d5a827558484c692540a119774e36445c2fa207d642"
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 1371 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES REAPPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=144.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1371** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1371.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-08T16:36:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-08T23:00:48+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`
- **2023-02-21T16:16:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22T20:49:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-22T20:49:24+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-22T22:56:39+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-02-22T22:56:43+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-23T20:12:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-23T20:12:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-23T20:12:57+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-02-23T20:51:29+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-02-23T20:51:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-02-23T21:45:07+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-02-27T19:07:29+00:00** Notification that HB1371 is now Act 144 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84df99fe-978e-430d-8ff9-f280ac9e7695`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).