---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY EXPANSION BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY EXPANSION BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1384"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1384 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03T20:50:50+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T23:24:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c7fe3be-68cb-4ee8-be7d-43db2c683886"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fbc4f7caab69fc61a27888ee8393f252896d8353d706eaacf419c209b4392c63"
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 1384 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY EXPANSION BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 196** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=196.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1384-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1384** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1384.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03T20:50:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T23:30:01+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T14:33:24+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-10T14:33:26+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-10T18:35:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-11T18:08:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T20:06:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12T20:06:45+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-12T22:43:45+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-12T22:43:57+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T19:39:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25T21:26:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:26:27+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-25T21:26:35+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-25T22:26:40+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-25T22:26:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-26T17:47:46+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-27T23:24:59+00:00** Notification that HB1384 is now Act 196 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c7fe3be-68cb-4ee8-be7d-43db2c683886`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).