---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; TO CLARIFY MARKETING BY PROVIDERS UNDER THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; TO CLARIFY MARKETING BY PROVIDERS UNDER THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 222"
citation: "Arkansas SB 222 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T22:42:03+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T20:58:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38fdac8e-8988-4f34-aa25-b3e1203ef700"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b49a1077cc6e025f0ee26d9bf5218f46f207f206ae7bf91e62d8c12890104a6f"
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 SB 222 (2025) — TO AMEND THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; TO CLARIFY MARKETING BY PROVIDERS UNDER THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 301** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=301.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB222-H1.pdf)
3. **SB 222** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB222.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)
- A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12T22:42:03+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-12T23:03:01+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T23:23:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27T19:17:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27T19:17:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-27T19:17:33+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-27T20:40:08+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-27T23:22:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T18:19:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10T13:29:59+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-10T13:30:01+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-10T17:43:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-11T19:30:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T19:30:22+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-11T19:30:35+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-03-11T21:25:39+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-03-11T21:25:57+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T18:47:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13T18:52:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-13T18:52:16+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-03-13T18:52:26+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-03-13T18:52:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T18:52:46+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-13T18:53:02+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T21:03:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-03-13T21:03:38+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18T20:58:24+00:00** Notification that SB222 is now Act 301 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38fdac8e-8988-4f34-aa25-b3e1203ef700`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).