---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY."
description: "TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1583"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1583 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "J. Boyd"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T20:08:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-20T15:44:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aa2d9eb-1bcf-4610-bdfe-68f463430ee7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5ab0f1a0ea7e9c5d3c50b86bb1d782310db558861b6ebb1f91e4ec8f59fa5cc3"
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 1583 (2025) — TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 348** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=348.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1583-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1583-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1583** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1583.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- J. Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T20:08:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T23:06:02+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`
- **2025-03-05T22:01:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T14:30:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-06T14:30:53+00:00** Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-06T19:56:39+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-10T18:47:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-10T22:47:09+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-10T22:47:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T18:43:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17T20:49:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:50:06+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-17T22:45:15+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-17T22:45:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-18T16:33:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-20T15:44:38+00:00** Notification that HB1583 is now Act 348 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5aa2d9eb-1bcf-4610-bdfe-68f463430ee7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).