---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1426"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1426 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-06T17:09:33+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:09:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a07070a7-99ab-42c5-a440-1e352bc0169e"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "afb3fd6f6e7e4cdcab7885c26bb73f540da5dda0bfcba8be1a0d865142401246"
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 1426 (2025) — 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 569** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=569.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1426-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1426-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1426** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1426.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06T17:09:33+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-06T23:28:06+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`
- **2025-02-10T14:35:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-10T14:35:13+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-10T18:38:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T00:58:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T18:45:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-01T18:45:11+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-01T19:44:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T19:22:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T00:42:42+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-03T00:42:51+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:32:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T01:48:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T01:48:10+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:22:54+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:22:56+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:22:59+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:09:28+00:00** Notification that HB1426 is now Act 569 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a07070a7-99ab-42c5-a440-1e352bc0169e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).