republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1531.md

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Bill	TO PROHIBIT PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS FROM RESTRICTING OR LIMITING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS TO A LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF OUT-OF-STATE PHARMACIES.	TO PROHIBIT PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS FROM RESTRICTING OR LIMITING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS TO A LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF OUT-OF-STATE PHARMACIES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1531	Arkansas HB 1531 (2025)	bill		enacted	Achor J. Boyd	5	25	0	2025-02-19T20:24:32+00:00	2025-04-16T20:34:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d03838c0-e04e-461b-a006-543eb1841a14	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	55b1bfdae4a36670bc9e7d08e22a06a92476c6c7856b7bbc6b1716e49d4b9a27	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1531 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS FROM RESTRICTING OR LIMITING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS TO A LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF OUT-OF-STATE PHARMACIES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 630 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB 1531 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Achor — primary (person)
• J. Boyd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19T20:24:32+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-19T22:36:30+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
• 2025-03-18T13:33:55+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-18T13:33:59+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-18T16:27:25+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-19T23:44:57+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2025-03-31T13:32:39+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-31T13:32:42+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-31T18:58:58+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-01T19:20:51+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T00:20:53+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-02T00:21:01+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T18:34:27+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07T13:45:21+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-07T13:45:28+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-07T21:03:28+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-09T02:05:21+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T02:05:33+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-09T16:04:17+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-09T16:04:26+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-10T00:26:14+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-10T19:42:58+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-10T19:43:01+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-10T19:43:03+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-16T20:34:45+00:00 Notification that HB1531 is now Act 630 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d03838c0-e04e-461b-a006-543eb1841a14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).