republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1555.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO INCREASE COVERAGE FOR MEDICATIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR TOBACCO CESSATION IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.	TO INCREASE COVERAGE FOR MEDICATIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR TOBACCO CESSATION IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1555	Arkansas HB 1555 (2019)	bill		enacted	A. Collins	2	18	3	2019-02-25	2019-04-12	openstates	ocd-bill/c2dc5e68-381e-438a-845d-ab259cfc8f93	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	cdcdd5f0080ec0ac925f7960ed4c5794cb5d047f11334424a3767d80364670eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1555 (2019) — TO INCREASE COVERAGE FOR MEDICATIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR TOBACCO CESSATION IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1555 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and failed. — 48–24 (fail) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 63–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Collins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-25 Filed introduction
• 2019-02-25 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
• 2019-03-04 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2019-03-04 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2019-03-04 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-03-14 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-18 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2019-03-19 Motion by Representative Capp to reconsider HB1555 vote passed
• 2019-03-19 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-19 Received from the House.
• 2019-03-19 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-08 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-08 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2019-04-08 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-04-08 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-04-09 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-04-12 Notification that HB1555 is now Act 959 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2dc5e68-381e-438a-845d-ab259cfc8f93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).