---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT."
description: "TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 94"
citation: "Arkansas SB 94 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Achor", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-23T19:33:11+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-24T15:56:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cb6fdc0-ea53-4875-9cea-032be92d4f8c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "437de4ff94956586b9e967191cd59a34ebd4496154efc8e9488613c61c5f708d"
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 94 (2023) — TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 302** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=302.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB94-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 94** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB94.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Achor — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23T19:33:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-23T21:07:53+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09T14:12:29+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2023-02-09T14:12:33+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-09T14:13:17+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-02-09T17:13:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-09T17:13:12+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T19:21:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01T19:41:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-01T19:41:13+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-01T21:21:14+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-01T22:33:01+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`
- **2023-03-08T17:46:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:30:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T19:30:24+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-13T21:52:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-13T21:52:27+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-14T13:05:47+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-14T13:05:51+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24T15:56:58+00:00** Notification that SB94 is now Act 302 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cb6fdc0-ea53-4875-9cea-032be92d4f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).