---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY AND FAIL FIRST PROTOCOLS CONCERNING CERTAIN PRESCRIBED VENTILATORS."
description: "TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY AND FAIL FIRST PROTOCOLS CONCERNING CERTAIN PRESCRIBED VENTILATORS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1321"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1321 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Wooldridge"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-30T17:18:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:27:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21bff29e-671d-4cd6-8ae3-af3a97e282dc"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "18ce32c9fbae04ba91d544fb2ec49a66c18e5c055be82d01e1294e0acc65aec8"
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 1321 (2025) — TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY AND FAIL FIRST PROTOCOLS CONCERNING CERTAIN PRESCRIBED VENTILATORS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 513** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=513.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1321** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1321.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Wooldridge — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30T17:18:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-30T22:59:01+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`
- **2025-03-19T20:04:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T19:46:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:17:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:17:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:14:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T22:35:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T22:35:52+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:15:33+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:15:41+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T15:09:27+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T21:27:11+00:00** Notification that HB1321 is now Act 513 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21bff29e-671d-4cd6-8ae3-af3a97e282dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).