republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1186.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE PAIN RELIEF PARITY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PAIN RELIEF PARITY IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.	TO CREATE THE PAIN RELIEF PARITY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PAIN RELIEF PARITY IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1186	Arkansas HB 1186 (2025)	bill		enacted	C. Penzo Vaught	5	26	0	2025-01-22T14:18:40+00:00	2025-04-21T16:43:17+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d96b586d-558b-4ed5-8d7f-da10f9581c7c	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	d120541d4dcc46b6a67fb3731af663d5a1f5f06b13ddef7a36296a78108f3ff5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1186 (2025) — TO CREATE THE PAIN RELIEF PARITY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PAIN RELIEF PARITY IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM.

Version chain

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

1. Act 960 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB 1186 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• C. Penzo — primary (person)
• Vaught — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-22T14:18:40+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-01-22T22:37:48+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
• 2025-01-28T14:31:56+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-01-28T14:31:58+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-01-28T15:20:17+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-11T19:35:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2025-02-12T14:37:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-12T14:37:47+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-12T16:26:44+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-13T20:03:29+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-13T21:46:00+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-02-13T21:46:10+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-05T13:59:45+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-03-05T13:59:54+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-05T19:59:12+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-05T19:59:20+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T18:43:39+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10T20:39:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10T20:39:19+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-10T22:56:38+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-10T22:56:46+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T18:28:17+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T18:39:54+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T18:39:58+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T18:40:00+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-21T16:43:17+00:00 Notification that HB1186 is now Act 960 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d96b586d-558b-4ed5-8d7f-da10f9581c7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).