republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-491.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE A VENDOR THAT CONTRACTS WITH THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DIVISION TO SUBMIT DATA FOR VERIFICATION BY AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT; TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A VENDOR THAT PROVIDES INACCURATE DATA; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO REQUIRE A VENDOR THAT CONTRACTS WITH THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DIVISION TO SUBMIT DATA FOR VERIFICATION BY AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT; TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A VENDOR THAT PROVIDES INACCURATE DATA; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 491	Arkansas SB 491 (2025)	bill		enacted	Achor K. Hammer	3	28	0	2025-03-17T21:39:19+00:00	2025-04-22T21:45:14+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6c64088c-6a55-446c-8cbd-2044effad8ba	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	efc0859a8288d14b2e73138d0e86f9d64cc9ba076de7599988b7770fa9caee5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 491 (2025) — TO REQUIRE A VENDOR THAT CONTRACTS WITH THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DIVISION TO SUBMIT DATA FOR VERIFICATION BY AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT; TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY ON A VENDOR THAT PROVIDES INACCURATE DATA; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 956 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 491 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Achor — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-17T21:39:19+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-17T23:09:13+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20T18:56:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31T20:47:08+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-31T20:47:14+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-03-31T20:47:25+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-03-31T22:39:25+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-01T02:23:46+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-14T21:27:08+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-15T13:32:05+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-15T13:32:07+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-04-15T14:39:31+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-16T15:34:11+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T15:34:13+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-04-16T15:34:22+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-16T17:17:45+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-16T17:18:01+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-16T17:18:08+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-16T17:18:14+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T17:18:19+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-16T17:18:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T17:18:52+00:00 Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
• 2025-04-16T17:19:23+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which Emergency Clause failed of adoption. Motion carried.
• 2025-04-16T17:19:42+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-04-16T17:19:50+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T19:20:01+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T19:20:04+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22T21:45:14+00:00 Notification that SB491 is now Act 956 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c64088c-6a55-446c-8cbd-2044effad8ba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).