republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1862.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 PROHIBIT REQUIRING CERTAIN REFERRALS FROM A PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER IN ORDER FOR A BENEFICIARY IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO RECEIVE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.	TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING CERTAIN REFERRALS FROM A PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER IN ORDER FOR A BENEFICIARY IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO RECEIVE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1862	Arkansas HB 1862 (2021)	bill		enacted	L. Johnson	2	16	2	2021-04-01T19:51:48+00:00	2021-04-25T18:14:32+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6be0cd93-c7e3-4b96-979d-8c56d89ffa2f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	09911904bc8e039e2bfc3209a126ef6f101f0a58b2cdd1f95858f1459299a379	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1862 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING CERTAIN REFERRALS FROM A PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER IN ORDER FOR A BENEFICIARY IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO RECEIVE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1862 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• L. Johnson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-01T19:51:48+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-04-01T22:43:38+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
• 2021-04-07T13:35:56+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-07T13:36:02+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-07T16:17:10+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-08T19:29:10+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-12T20:00:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-12T22:12:37+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-12T22:12:47+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-15T19:16:15+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-20T21:32:31+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-20T21:32:50+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-20T23:07:57+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-20T23:07:59+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-21T15:20:44+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-25T18:14:32+00:00 Notification that HB1862 is now Act 886 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6be0cd93-c7e3-4b96-979d-8c56d89ffa2f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).