---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO EXPAND ACCESS TO ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS THAT ALLOW MORE SMALL BUSINESSES TO BAND TOGETHER TO PURCHASE INSURANCE."
description: "TO EXPAND ACCESS TO ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS THAT ALLOW MORE SMALL BUSINESSES TO BAND TOGETHER TO PURCHASE INSURANCE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1837"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1837 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCollum"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e0de780-7cea-4d97-a70d-5ea7d6e18d12"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "24f05445c669563e72b8d7b72284dd3d2ab5a7a0acd71e1f90277c25ed8fc6e9"
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 1837 (2019) — TO EXPAND ACCESS TO ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS THAT ALLOW MORE SMALL BUSINESSES TO BAND TOGETHER TO PURCHASE INSURANCE.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1837** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1837.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCollum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-14** 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`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-28** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-01** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-05** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-08** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-11** Notification that HB1837 is now Act 919 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e0de780-7cea-4d97-a70d-5ea7d6e18d12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).