republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/sb-472.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE A HEALTH INSURER TO CONTRACT WITH A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO REQUIRE A HEALTH INSURER TO CONTRACT WITH A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	SB 472	Arkansas SB 472 (2019)	bill		enacted	Maloch	2	21	2	2019-03-04	2019-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6df2c62c-2efa-488f-aeb3-061ed332e56b	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	cbbe34e82524fbe0cb8d9725b264818b77aa12c29ade5698ca292ce4619ff147	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 472 (2019) — TO REQUIRE A HEALTH INSURER TO CONTRACT WITH A LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDICARE, MEDICAID, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 472 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maloch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-04 Filed introduction
• 2019-03-04 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-03-07 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2019-03-07 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-03-07 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-03-07 Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2019-03-14 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-18 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-18 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2019-03-18 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2019-03-18 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2019-03-18 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
• 2019-03-20 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-26 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-26 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2019-03-26 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2019-03-26 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2019-03-26 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2019-03-27 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2019-03-27 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2019-04-01 Notification that SB472 is now Act 589 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6df2c62c-2efa-488f-aeb3-061ed332e56b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).