---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FROM OBTAINING CERTAIN PHARMACY PERMITS."
description: "TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FROM OBTAINING CERTAIN PHARMACY PERMITS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1150"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1150 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Moore", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T15:03:25+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T20:31:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1916dee0-0b1b-4330-b1a7-e267e6dc4dbf"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "12b1e139ee52bd41dba61b70dfa460603f2d4af3b9bc47919079b2122dd058ae"
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 1150 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FROM OBTAINING CERTAIN PHARMACY PERMITS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 624** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=624.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1150-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1150-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1150-H3.pdf)
5. **HB 1150** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1150.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Moore — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T15:03:25+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-16T22:47:44+00:00** 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`
- **2025-02-11T14:31:03+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-11T14:31:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-11T16:19:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T13:34:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-18T13:34:14+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-18T16:27:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T13:53:21+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-01T13:53:29+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-01T15:35:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T18:29:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T21:09:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T23:36:49+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-03T23:36:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:38:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T20:58:00+00:00** Motion for Immediate Consideration. Motion Carried.
- **2025-04-09T20:59:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T20:59:35+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T21:59:24+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T21:59:26+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T16:19:28+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T20:31:13+00:00** Notification that HB1150 is now Act 624 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1916dee0-0b1b-4330-b1a7-e267e6dc4dbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).