---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE PHARMACY NONDISCRIMINATION ACT; TO REQUIRE PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS TO ACCEPT ANY PHARMACY OR PHARMACIST WILLING TO ACCEPT RELEVANT AND REASONABLE TERMS OF PARTICIPATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE PHARMACY NONDISCRIMINATION ACT; TO REQUIRE PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS TO ACCEPT ANY PHARMACY OR PHARMACIST WILLING TO ACCEPT RELEVANT AND REASONABLE TERMS OF PARTICIPATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 103"
citation: "Arkansas SB 103 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Penzo", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-27T15:03:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T18:06:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b958428-c26b-4ced-912b-1aee60510d8e"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a6352f68ee5d0b319e2dcbb4520dcff6f702891bdbed877fb6d34e74312c784f"
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 103 (2025) — TO CREATE THE PHARMACY NONDISCRIMINATION ACT; TO REQUIRE PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS TO ACCEPT ANY PHARMACY OR PHARMACIST WILLING TO ACCEPT RELEVANT AND REASONABLE TERMS OF PARTICIPATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 425** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=425.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB103-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 103** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB103.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Penzo — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — primary (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27T15:03:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-27T19:38:43+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T18:53:43+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-03-17T18:53:47+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-17T18:53:53+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-17T21:19:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T21:19:58+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T18:43:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19T19:20:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-19T19:20:22+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-19T19:20:32+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-19T21:33:01+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-19T22:24:03+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`
- **2025-04-01T01:00:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T21:23:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:23:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-01T21:23:39+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-01T23:20:19+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-01T23:20:25+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-02T13:27:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-02T13:27:26+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T18:06:57+00:00** Notification that SB103 is now Act 425 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b958428-c26b-4ced-912b-1aee60510d8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).