---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REGULATE A VISION BENEFIT MANAGER; TO AMEND THE VISION CARE PLAN ACT OF 2015; TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT."
description: "TO REGULATE A VISION BENEFIT MANAGER; TO AMEND THE VISION CARE PLAN ACT OF 2015; TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1353"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1353 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Eubanks"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-31T18:31:12+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T22:48:49+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfc77259-01f4-4508-9b02-3c58642ba8b6"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b0929876223907b37c039cbefda2720502282ee39e855e819fd7d6dd8d40c131"
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 1353 (2025) — TO REGULATE A VISION BENEFIT MANAGER; TO AMEND THE VISION CARE PLAN ACT OF 2015; TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 142** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=142.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1353** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1353.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Eubanks — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Magie — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Steimel — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31T18:31:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T23:21:15+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`
- **2025-02-05T22:05:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T20:00:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T23:33:41+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-10T23:33:53+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T16:47:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T20:16:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T20:16:11+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-19T21:40:37+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-19T21:40:39+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-20T15:25:40+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-25T22:48:49+00:00** Notification that HB1353 is now Act 142 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfc77259-01f4-4508-9b02-3c58642ba8b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).