---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; TO STUDY THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; TO STUDY THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2017S1"
identifier: "HB 1004"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1004 (2017S1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gillam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-01"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/849ce9cd-e3d6-429d-9bdc-2dd4272a1af0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/dfadooas/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7b0a4328842c909d42f3b64dbaa3ce769fd6eb5fce259e23588d50591e0196ad"
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 1004 (2017S1) — CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; TO STUDY THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1004** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2017S1/Public/HB1004.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–6** (pass) · legislature
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gillam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-01** Filed `introduction`
- **2017-05-01** 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`
- **2017-05-01** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-02** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-02** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2017-05-02** Received from the House.
- **2017-05-02** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Insurance and Commerce `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-02** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-03** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-03** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2017-05-03** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2017-05-03** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2017-05-03** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2017-05-03** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2017-05-04** Notification that HB1004 is now Act 4 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/849ce9cd-e3d6-429d-9bdc-2dd4272a1af0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).