republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1459.md

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Bill	TO ENSURE THAT ALL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ARE REIMBURSED FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES BY THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.	TO ENSURE THAT ALL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ARE REIMBURSED FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES BY THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1459	Arkansas HB 1459 (2021)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Penzo	3	19	2	2021-02-09T19:47:45+00:00	2021-04-19T18:21:53+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/aaaabaa1-6f82-4b20-a9f2-5db6a99ef33d	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	a85eeab7a885aee66e1311ee2406d8003e6636403c7168b00acc6c133931d74e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1459 (2021) — TO ENSURE THAT ALL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ARE REIMBURSED FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES BY THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.

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. HB 1459 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Penzo — primary (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-09T19:47:45+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-09T22:20:33+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
• 2021-02-23T14:24:41+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-23T14:24:45+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-23T16:31:02+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-22T13:34:00+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-22T13:34:04+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-22T15:31:11+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-01T23:39:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-05T19:27:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-05T21:34:44+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-05T21:34:59+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13T18:47:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-14T20:32:07+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14T20:32:32+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-14T21:58:19+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-14T21:58:21+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-15T13:42:54+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-19T18:21:53+00:00 Notification that HB1459 is now Act 764 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aaaabaa1-6f82-4b20-a9f2-5db6a99ef33d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).