republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-143.md

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Bill	TO ENSURE THAT BENEFICIARIES OF THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM HAVE ACCESS TO NEW PRODUCTS AND LABEL EXPANSIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.	TO ENSURE THAT BENEFICIARIES OF THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM HAVE ACCESS TO NEW PRODUCTS AND LABEL EXPANSIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 143	Arkansas SB 143 (2021)	bill		enacted	Irvin M. Gray	3	28	3	2021-01-19T17:13:57+00:00	2021-04-20T15:06:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/01414c64-6b49-417c-b7a9-4eb45bb1a5fd	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	080da4bb13af77c9ec22ff6706ff14304fc8312df8e20f7371bd8aec73843c2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 143 (2021) — TO ENSURE THAT BENEFICIARIES OF THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM HAVE ACCESS TO NEW PRODUCTS AND LABEL EXPANSIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 143 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• 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

• Irvin — primary (person)
• M. Gray — primary (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19T17:13:57+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-19T20:13:40+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-04T14:23:47+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-02-04T14:23:56+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-02-04T19:05:12+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-04T19:05:27+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-02-08T22:27:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-09T19:31:07+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-09T19:31:50+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-02-09T22:11:45+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-02-09T22:23:50+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
• 2021-03-16T13:45:46+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-16T13:45:48+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-16T16:23:02+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-01T19:02:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-06T19:39:06+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T19:40:15+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-04-06T22:45:48+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1.
• 2021-04-06T23:16:58+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-13T18:33:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-14T18:20:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-14T18:20:57+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-04-14T18:21:16+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-04-14T18:21:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14T18:22:19+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-15T15:40:12+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-15T15:40:27+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-20T15:06:45+00:00 Notification that SB143 is now Act 745 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01414c64-6b49-417c-b7a9-4eb45bb1a5fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).