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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1424: TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR SEVERE OBESITY TREATMENTS.

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 1424 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR SEVERE OBESITY TREATMENTS. Primary sponsor: Blake Johnson (Republican), Lee Johnson (Republican). Most recent recorded action (April 16, 2025): Notification that HB1424 is now Act 628.

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
Blake JohnsonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate21
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 HB1424 is now Act 628
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
  5. Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
  6. Re-referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE
  7. Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
  8. Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
  9. Read the third time and passed.
  10. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  11. Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE
  12. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

Showing 12 most recent of 24 actions. Full history

Sources

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