---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING PHARMACEUTICAL DISCOUNTS FOR INSULIN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING PHARMACEUTICAL DISCOUNTS FOR INSULIN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021S2"
identifier: "SB 7"
citation: "Arkansas SB 7 (2021S2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Sullivan", "Payton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-12-06T20:18:59+00:00"
last_action: "2021-12-09T21:37:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23d5a1ff-d805-4461-85d7-770cb389db5d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bda5136b4f3d4ba4d6ea87717eddf94b101ac780e1c5b2df99c028a2cc2c33f0"
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 7 (2021S2) — TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING PHARMACEUTICAL DISCOUNTS FOR INSULIN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 7** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021S2/Public/Searchable/SB7.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Sullivan — primary (person)
- Payton — primary (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-06T20:18:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-12-07T17:10:54+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-12-07T20:28:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-08T15:57:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-12-08T15:57:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-12-08T15:58:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-12-08T16:39:30+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-12-08T17:21:36+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`
- **2021-12-08T20:57:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-12-09T16:17:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-12-09T16:17:24+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-12-09T16:17:32+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-12-09T17:10:47+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-12-09T17:10:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-12-09T17:10:55+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-12-09T17:11:01+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-12-09T21:37:33+00:00** Notification that SB7 is now Act 9 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23d5a1ff-d805-4461-85d7-770cb389db5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).