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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1287: TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT; TO DEFINE "DOWNCODE" UNDER THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT; AND TO REQUIRE NOTIFICATION BY CONTRACTING ENTITIES OF DOWNCODING.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1287 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on January 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO AMEND THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT; TO DEFINE "DOWNCODE" UNDER THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT; AND TO REQUIRE NOTIFICATION BY CONTRACTING ENTITIES OF DOWNCODING. Primary sponsor: Missy Irvin (Republican), Lee Johnson (Republican). Most recent recorded action (February 25, 2025): Notification that HB1287 is now Act 136.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Missy IrvinPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate24
Lee JohnsonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse47

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that HB1287 is now Act 136
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.
  5. Returned to the House as passed.
  6. Read the third time and passed.
  7. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE
  9. Received from the House.
  10. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  11. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
  12. Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source