---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO INCREASE REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR CERTAIN DENTAL SERVICES AND TO SET AN ANNUAL REIMBURSEMENT CAP FOR ADULT DENTAL SERVICES."
description: "TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO INCREASE REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR CERTAIN DENTAL SERVICES AND TO SET AN ANNUAL REIMBURSEMENT CAP FOR ADULT DENTAL SERVICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 347"
citation: "Arkansas SB 347 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Penzo", "J. Mayberry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27T20:46:10+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-23T21:55:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3d14b24-0d9b-4c93-a0e1-ce1ac2c879f2"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "361eca25f66f4278ee1696f907ff08a67b24b894c5d161ceaddbc06be6427353"
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 347 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO INCREASE REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR CERTAIN DENTAL SERVICES AND TO SET AN ANNUAL REIMBURSEMENT CAP FOR ADULT DENTAL SERVICES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1025.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB347-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB347-S1.pdf)
4. **SB 347** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB347.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Penzo — primary (person)
- J. Mayberry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27T20:46:10+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-27T21:49:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:27:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T21:53:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T21:53:55+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T23:50:11+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:09:18+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`
- **2025-04-14T21:26:38+00:00** Motion to Return to Senate as Requested Objected to
- **2025-04-14T21:26:53+00:00** Objection Withdrawn
- **2025-04-14T21:27:03+00:00** Returned to the Senate as requested.
- **2025-04-14T21:49:24+00:00** Returned from the House as requested.
- **2025-04-14T21:50:16+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which SB347 passed. Motion Carried
- **2025-04-14T21:50:47+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T22:18:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T22:18:12+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-14T22:18:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-14T22:18:25+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-14T22:40:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-14T22:40:40+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-14T22:42:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T22:42:24+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-14T23:41:47+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-14T23:41:50+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T18:30:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16T15:43:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T15:43:49+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T16:32:02+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T16:32:06+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T19:18:11+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T19:18:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-23T21:55:54+00:00** Notification that SB347 is now Act 1025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3d14b24-0d9b-4c93-a0e1-ce1ac2c879f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).