republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1353.md

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Bill	TO REGULATE A VISION BENEFIT MANAGER; TO AMEND THE VISION CARE PLAN ACT OF 2015; TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT.	TO REGULATE A VISION BENEFIT MANAGER; TO AMEND THE VISION CARE PLAN ACT OF 2015; TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1353	Arkansas HB 1353 (2025)	bill		enacted	D. Wallace Eubanks	2	13	0	2025-01-31T18:31:12+00:00	2025-02-25T22:48:49+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dfc77259-01f4-4508-9b02-3c58642ba8b6	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	b0929876223907b37c039cbefda2720502282ee39e855e819fd7d6dd8d40c131	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1353 (2025) — TO REGULATE A VISION BENEFIT MANAGER; TO AMEND THE VISION CARE PLAN ACT OF 2015; TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 142 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1353 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• D. Wallace — primary (person)
• Eubanks — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Eaton — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Henley — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• Magie — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Steimel — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-31T18:31:12+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-03T23:21:15+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-05T22:05:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-10T20:00:21+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-10T23:33:41+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-02-10T23:33:53+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-18T16:47:39+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-19T20:16:02+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-19T20:16:11+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-02-19T21:40:37+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-02-19T21:40:39+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-02-20T15:25:40+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-02-25T22:48:49+00:00 Notification that HB1353 is now Act 142 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfc77259-01f4-4508-9b02-3c58642ba8b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).