HB 1150 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FROM OBTAINING CERTAIN PHARMACY PERMITS.

Act 624 generally prohibits Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs) from holding retail pharmacy permits in the state, directly affecting PBMs, retail pharmacies, and their patients. The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy will identify existing retail pharmacies affiliated with PBMs and notify them of this prohibition by January 1, 2026. Affected pharmacies must then notify their patients and prescribing healthcare providers that they can no longer dispense retail drugs after this date. However, an exception allows for temporary "limited use permits" for PBM-affiliated pharmacies if a rare, orphan, or limited distribution drug is otherwise unavailable to patients in the market. This exception for limited use permits is set to expire on September 1, 2027.

Issues: ✗ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

Signed into Law

Apr 2025

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Signed Apr 16, 2025

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What changed between versions

Act 624 → HB 1150 · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from 'Act 624' to 'HB 1150' for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025. This appears to be a procedural update reflecting the bill's new designation and session information rather than substantive policy changes.

TECHNICAL

Removed the reference to 'Act 624 of the Regular Session' from the header.

Added new header information including the bill number 'HB 1150', session details '95th General Assembly Regular Session, 2025', and enrolling dates 'H2/11/25 H3/18/25 H4/1/25'.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 16, 2025

Signed into law

Notification that HB1150 is now Act 624

lower

Apr 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned from the Senate as passed.

lower

Apr 9, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned to the House as passed.

upper

Apr 9, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read the third time and passed.

upper

Apr 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass

upper

Apr 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned by the Committee Do Pass

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Introduced

Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

lower

Mar 18, 2025

Introduced

Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

lower

Feb 11, 2025

Introduced

Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

2 primary · 21 co-sponsors