---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1565"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1565 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-07T14:41:45+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-10T21:20:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c2c1676-72f0-4c57-83bc-962eee57b1ea"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3320b9b04f85cf469e270e1b9c8f939200ea6851cb3a9c152486bc6fdc357519"
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 1565 (2023) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 512** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=512.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1565** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1565.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-07T14:41:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-07T22:36:14+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`
- **2023-03-09T18:21:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:05:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T21:50:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-13T21:50:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T18:19:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04T20:38:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T20:38:19+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-04T22:21:49+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-04T22:21:50+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-05T14:09:44+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-10T21:20:37+00:00** Notification that HB1565 is now Act 512 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c2c1676-72f0-4c57-83bc-962eee57b1ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).