---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TRIAGE, TREAT, AND TRANSPORT TO ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TRIAGE, TREAT, AND TRANSPORT TO ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1286"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1286 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-28T23:00:12+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T23:25:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aab3396b-4e9b-4228-947a-5dc98b204fca"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "002ce7a5e68fefebca9b03ea412adfed6f916eed46ba68b66b85248eb82821e7"
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 1286 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TRIAGE, TREAT, AND TRANSPORT TO ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 199** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=199.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1286-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1286** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1286.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Boyd — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28T23:00:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-29T23:37:12+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`
- **2025-02-11T19:34:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T20:15:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12T22:38:33+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-12T22:38:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T21:22:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T19:54:21+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-19T19:54:32+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-19T20:41:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-20T17:51:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-20T17:51:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-02-20T21:28:31+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-02-24T19:52:30+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-02-24T19:52:33+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-24T19:52:36+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-27T23:25:22+00:00** Notification that HB1286 is now Act 199 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aab3396b-4e9b-4228-947a-5dc98b204fca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).