republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1176.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 ENSURE THAT REIMBURSEMENT IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED VIA TELEMEDICINE CONTINUES AFTER THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO ENSURE THAT REIMBURSEMENT IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED VIA TELEMEDICINE CONTINUES AFTER THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1176	Arkansas HB 1176 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Davis L. Johnson	4	34	4	2021-01-13T20:21:28+00:00	2021-04-08T19:48:17+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3399dbd8-9526-4d40-bc28-035318905e81	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	c59012e7c9db2d48abb6a68b3466dcdd7d1b299afccfb40dd4e13ab0da18e758	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1176 (2021) — TO ENSURE THAT REIMBURSEMENT IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED VIA TELEMEDICINE CONTINUES AFTER THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1176 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 88–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Davis — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-13T20:21:28+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-13T22:02:55+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
• 2021-02-02T14:36:55+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-02T14:37:01+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-02T16:29:51+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-04T17:51:20+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2021-02-08T14:36:59+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-08T14:37:08+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-08T16:11:37+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-09T19:17:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-09T21:42:22+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-02-09T21:42:36+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T14:06:47+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-04T14:06:56+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-04T19:09:28+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-04T19:09:44+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-08T23:02:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-09T20:43:07+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-09T20:46:11+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-03-09T20:47:08+00:00 Returned To the House as passed as amended.
• 2021-03-09T21:33:24+00:00 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-03-09T21:33:33+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-03-30T23:28:45+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-31T18:31:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-31T19:57:26+00:00 Motion to expunge vote on HB 1176 passes
• 2021-03-31T19:58:44+00:00 The vote by which HB1176 Passed was expunged.
• 2021-03-31T19:58:50+00:00 Motion to rerefer back to committee passed
• 2021-03-31T19:59:38+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T18:59:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2021-04-05T18:19:06+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2021-04-05T18:19:10+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-05T18:19:15+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-06T16:16:44+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-08T19:48:17+00:00 Notification that HB1176 is now Act 624 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3399dbd8-9526-4d40-bc28-035318905e81. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).