---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR SEVERE OBESITY TREATMENTS."
description: "TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR SEVERE OBESITY TREATMENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1424"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1424 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-06T17:06:13+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T20:33:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d6c76fe-f936-42e4-838e-2fa479379ac0"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0e1f86f16771d3700390f1c200b1f5d59e4a96f332c2949268998a874744a72a"
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 1424 (2025) — TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR SEVERE OBESITY TREATMENTS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 628** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=628.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1424-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1424-S1.pdf)
4. **HB 1424** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1424.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06T17:06:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-06T23:27:40+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`
- **2025-02-27T14:43:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-27T14:43:50+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T17:57:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-12T18:25:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T20:03:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T22:39:23+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-13T22:39:31+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T20:01:11+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-01T20:01:19+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-04-01T20:01:25+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-01T22:29:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T22:29:34+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:32:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T01:46:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T01:46:19+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-09T16:02:51+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-09T16:02:58+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T00:23:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T19:41:21+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-10T19:41:24+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T19:41:49+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T20:33:45+00:00** Notification that HB1424 is now Act 628 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d6c76fe-f936-42e4-838e-2fa479379ac0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).