---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT FOR A FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR BILLS RELATED TO HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS; AND TO REPEAL THE BILL FILING DEADLINE FOR BILLS AFFECTING HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS OF ENTITIES OF THE STATE."
description: "TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT FOR A FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR BILLS RELATED TO HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS; AND TO REPEAL THE BILL FILING DEADLINE FOR BILLS AFFECTING HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS OF ENTITIES OF THE STATE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1080"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1080 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "Hester"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13T15:07:45+00:00"
last_action: "2025-01-27T23:40:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e420f2c9-ab48-4eb6-8ffa-f51396d93b10"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "71b0709d008042ed70e61d4409b5146af3f6b015ac174d97d051a674f9758174"
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 1080 (2025) — TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT FOR A FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR BILLS RELATED TO HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS; AND TO REPEAL THE BILL FILING DEADLINE FOR BILLS AFFECTING HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS OF ENTITIES OF THE STATE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=2.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1080** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1080.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T15:07:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T21:19:55+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15T19:37:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T16:53:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-16T18:26:12+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-01-16T18:26:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T19:43:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-22T20:17:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T20:17:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-01-22T21:05:26+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-01-22T21:05:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-01-22T21:05:35+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-01-27T23:40:09+00:00** Notification that HB1080 is now Act 2 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e420f2c9-ab48-4eb6-8ffa-f51396d93b10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).