---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2024F"
identifier: "HB 1078"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1078 (2024F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-03T14:44:22+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-30T18:26:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/909c8ebb-de36-4bb1-8094-fb52d4f97df4"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "34be45caf6192b3899ca6fcf8c8aed4ad56b6603f16ed0f8257c82865bf728bb"
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 1078 (2024F) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1078** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2024F/Bills/HB1078.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-03T14:44:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2024-04-10T19:16:54+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`
- **2024-04-18T17:42:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-23T18:14:52+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2024-04-23T18:14:56+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-23T21:23:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2024-04-24T18:36:58+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2024-04-24T18:36:59+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2024-04-24T18:37:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-24T18:37:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-24T20:28:03+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2024-04-24T20:28:09+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-25T16:57:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25T16:57:31+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-25T16:57:33+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2024-04-25T18:24:52+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2024-04-25T18:41:24+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2024-04-30T18:26:26+00:00** Notification that HB1078 is now Act 132 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/909c8ebb-de36-4bb1-8094-fb52d4f97df4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).