---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR BREASTFEEDING AND LACTATION CONSULTANT SERVICES."
description: "TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR BREASTFEEDING AND LACTATION CONSULTANT SERVICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1333"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1333 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hudson", "J. Scott"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 32
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-30T21:41:02+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T20:33:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df5e5418-01b6-4cd6-9d6d-a617ae38ef72"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "76f92eabf051439f3658a59c5be29f1615809527557037cffe3d363faad9b5cd"
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 1333 (2025) — TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR BREASTFEEDING AND LACTATION CONSULTANT SERVICES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 627** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=627.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1333-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1333-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1333-H3.pdf)
5. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1333-H4.pdf)
6. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1333-S1.pdf)
7. **HB 1333** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1333.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hudson — primary (person)
- J. Scott — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales Worthen — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30T21:41:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-30T23:02:43+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`
- **2025-02-03T14:31:59+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-03T14:32:02+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03T16:11:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-12T13:36:27+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-12T13:36:29+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-12T18:20:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-13T13:35:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-13T13:35:55+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13T15:46:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-19T20:04:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 4 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T13:39:08+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-20T13:39:11+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-20T15:39:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-31T19:12:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T00:17:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-01T00:18:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T12:57:45+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-04-02T12:57:57+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-02T18:08:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T18:08:43+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:31:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T00:31:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T00:31:57+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-09T16:01:38+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-09T16:01:48+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T00:22:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T19:40:23+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-10T19:40:26+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T19:40:28+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T20:33:09+00:00** Notification that HB1333 is now Act 627 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df5e5418-01b6-4cd6-9d6d-a617ae38ef72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).