---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1301"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1301 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-29T19:48:24+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:26:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94996af2-433c-4e83-ad25-4c674a75e290"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d23cfcddd7cd3b1598bdbea028eb6922f21772a851a908f01c5098ac4ec8f07c"
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 1301 (2025) — TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 511** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=511.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1301-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1301-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1301-H3.pdf)
5. **HB 1301** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1301.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29T19:48:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-29T23:41:26+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`
- **2025-02-05T14:24:20+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-05T14:24:25+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05T15:55:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-20T14:32:04+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-20T14:32:08+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:20:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-12T18:25:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T13:35:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-13T13:35:17+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13T15:46:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T19:14:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T23:12:10+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-17T23:12:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:14:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T21:46:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T21:46:09+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-03T23:00:35+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-03T23:00:41+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-04T16:12:21+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T21:26:53+00:00** Notification that HB1301 is now Act 511 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94996af2-433c-4e83-ad25-4c674a75e290`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).