---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE ANY WILLING PROVIDER LAWS; AND TO AMEND THE PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 1995."
description: "CONCERNING THE ANY WILLING PROVIDER LAWS; AND TO AMEND THE PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 1995."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1587"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1587 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T20:25:37+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T18:52:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca130ff8-e212-4256-866b-bc4a9bce0611"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a9c18c178cac12f666e65f674380ee8bc58fd715d417edf97c97351d2722d3d2"
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 1587 (2025) — CONCERNING THE ANY WILLING PROVIDER LAWS; AND TO AMEND THE PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 1995.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 310** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=310.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1587** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1587.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T20:25:37+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T23:06:58+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`
- **2025-03-05T21:48:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:26:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T23:13:42+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-06T23:13:51+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T18:47:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12T21:11:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T21:11:21+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:04:47+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:04:49+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T14:59:16+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T18:52:22+00:00** Notification that HB1587 is now Act 310 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca130ff8-e212-4256-866b-bc4a9bce0611`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).