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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1505: TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC EMPLOYER TO OFFER AND PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR LICENSED COUNSELING FOR A PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED A TRAUMATIC EVENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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 1505 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on February 17, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC EMPLOYER TO OFFER AND PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR LICENSED COUNSELING FOR A PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED A TRAUMATIC EVENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. Primary sponsor: Clarke Tucker (Democratic), Wing. It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 25, 2025): Notification that HB1505 is now Act 398.

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): Democratic 2 · Republican 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Clarke TuckerPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate14
WingPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Sonia BarkerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse96
Tony FurmanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse82
Lee JohnsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse47
Mindy McAlindonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse10
Johnny RyeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse36
Jamie ScottCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate12

“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 HB1505 is now Act 398
  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. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
  7. Read the third time and passed.
  8. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  9. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE
  10. Received from the House.
  11. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
  12. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

Showing 12 most recent of 18 actions. Full history

Sources

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