republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-257.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; TO EXTEND THE APPEAL PERIOD FOR PROVIDERS IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM; AND TO REQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION IN NOTICES OF ADVERSE DECISIONS.	TO AMEND THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; TO EXTEND THE APPEAL PERIOD FOR PROVIDERS IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM; AND TO REQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION IN NOTICES OF ADVERSE DECISIONS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 257	Arkansas SB 257 (2025)	bill		enacted	C. Penzo Lundstrum	3	24	0	2025-02-19T16:03:06+00:00	2025-04-10T21:00:54+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/144bda82-28be-48f9-94e9-409571945e1d	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	34b5eaa8aa84085e02db98a94530e7397b6c94f0fed572a46af961dedb5f8a64	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 257 (2025) — TO AMEND THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; TO EXTEND THE APPEAL PERIOD FOR PROVIDERS IN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM; AND TO REQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION IN NOTICES OF ADVERSE DECISIONS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 515 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 257 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19T16:03:06+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-19T19:41:20+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-25T19:55:56+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-26T20:06:51+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-26T20:07:00+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-02-26T21:10:21+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-02-26T23:37:58+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
• 2025-03-19T13:34:29+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-19T13:34:31+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19T21:19:17+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-01T18:22:14+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-02T20:30:06+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T20:30:17+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-03T01:02:30+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-03T01:02:41+00:00 Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T18:42:57+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07T18:33:15+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-07T18:33:30+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-04-07T18:33:36+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-07T18:33:45+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-07T18:33:50+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-08T14:37:57+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-08T14:38:03+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-10T21:00:54+00:00 Notification that SB257 is now Act 515 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/144bda82-28be-48f9-94e9-409571945e1d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).