republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1709.md

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Bill	TO PROVIDE GUIDELINES ON HOW REBATES ARE OFFERED BY A PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER THAT SELLS INSULIN IN THIS STATE.	TO PROVIDE GUIDELINES ON HOW REBATES ARE OFFERED BY A PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER THAT SELLS INSULIN IN THIS STATE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1709	Arkansas HB 1709 (2021)	bill		enacted	D. Sullivan Payton	5	34	4	2021-03-11T19:16:05+00:00	2021-05-03T21:15:04+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c66b03c1-33f9-4848-8437-54342980edd8	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	b5e9f25f1c8c46a80084110cf115f0f6b2c772eba8a6ceeadbbb83ffcfeda2ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1709 (2021) — TO PROVIDE GUIDELINES ON HOW REBATES ARE OFFERED BY A PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER THAT SELLS INSULIN IN THIS STATE.

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. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB 1709 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 80–4 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in. — 91–1 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 84–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• D. Sullivan — primary (person)
• Payton — primary (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Bragg — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Hawks — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-11T19:16:05+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-11T23:33:44+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
• 2021-03-18T23:05:12+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-03-22T13:36:18+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-22T13:36:21+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-22T15:31:40+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-23T20:48:43+00:00 Motion to rerefer back to committee passes
• 2021-03-23T20:49:31+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-04-08T19:30:24+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2021-04-12T13:36:24+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-12T13:36:27+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-12T16:06:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-13T18:31:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-13T21:25:15+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-13T21:25:29+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-15T13:10:19+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-04-15T13:10:28+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-04-15T18:10:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-15T18:10:51+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-19T13:40:45+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
• 2021-04-19T13:40:53+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-04-19T18:11:17+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-19T18:11:27+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-19T23:12:09+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-21T21:14:52+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-21T21:14:53+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1 and #2
• 2021-04-22T00:37:04+00:00 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
• 2021-04-22T00:37:11+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T22:42:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 committee-passage
• 2021-04-26T18:42:54+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2021-04-26T18:44:16+00:00 Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
• 2021-04-26T18:44:21+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-27T15:10:35+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-05-03T21:15:04+00:00 Notification that HB1709 is now Act 1104 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c66b03c1-33f9-4848-8437-54342980edd8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).