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ArkansasHB10912025 Regular SessionHouse
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
Sponsored By: Joint Budget Committee
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
9 provisions identified: 9 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Food benefit funding for WIC families
The law provides $60 million from health department cash funds for WIC food benefits. This supports low-income women, infants, and children from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. This funding provision does not set each person's benefit amount or change who qualifies.
Funding for health and breast care
The law provides about $330.97 million for Arkansas health department operations from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. This includes about $22.33 million for grants and aid, $850,441 for kidney disease, and $30 million for infectious disease control. Breast care receives about $8.04 million in spending authority. The department must budget, allocate, and spend at least $4.755 million annually on breast screening, diagnosis, treatment, and outreach. It must report those amounts by each January 1 before a General Assembly session. Operations may employ up to 2,218 regular workers and 222 temporary or part-time workers under state pay rules. Major spending lines include about $122.60 million for salaries, $44.74 million for related employee costs, and $84.52 million for operating expenses. Another $13.63 million is available for professional fees. These provisions do not set individual benefit amounts or eligibility rules.
Funding for deaf interpreter advisory board
The law provides $25,000 from the Interpreters Fund for Arkansas's interpreter advisory board expenses. The board concerns interpretation between hearing people and people who are Deaf, Deafblind, Hard of Hearing, or Oral Deaf. Funding runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. This pays board expenses; it does not guarantee interpreter services or household payments.
Grants support nuclear emergency planning
The law provides $325,000 for nuclear emergency planning grants and aid from the Arkansas Nuclear Planning and Response Fund. Funding runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The provision does not name grant recipients or create household payments.
Building funds for local health units
The law provides $1.95 million from the State Health Building and Local Grant Trust Fund. Funding runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It supports buying, building, and improving state health buildings. Grants to local health units can pay for construction, expansion, or renovation. This funds facilities rather than direct household payments.
Carryover supports emergency care or contraception
Beginning July 1, 2025, the health department director can transfer up to $3.7 million in carryover funds. The money is available for use in the next fiscal year. It must support an improved, connected emergency management system for trauma, stroke, and heart attacks, or long-acting reversible birth control through local health units. The director decides whether and how to transfer the money; neither use receives a guaranteed amount. This authority applies through June 30, 2026, with carryover reporting to the Legislative Council or Joint Budget Committee.
Funding for trauma and emergency care
For July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law provides about $26.22 million for Arkansas's trauma system. Public Health Fund money includes about $24.24 million for trauma system expenses. The system may employ up to 18 regular workers and two temporary or part-time workers under state pay rules. Salary funding is about $1.10 million, with $400,304 for related employee costs. Another $60,000 from the Emergency Medical Services Revolving Fund supports operations and grants to licensed emergency medical service providers. Unspent trauma funds remaining on June 30, 2025, can carry into the next fiscal year for the same purposes. The department must explain this carryover to the Office of Budget before June 30, 2026. These provisions do not create direct household payments.
Health department creates shared services office
The law creates health department Shared Services and provides $425,501 from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It authorizes one regular Secretary of Health position and seven temporary or part-time positions under state pay rules. Funding includes $225,306 for regular salary, $132,867 for temporary help, and $67,328 for related employee costs. The chief fiscal officer can set up payment accounts and direct transfers within department appropriations. The department can also transfer program money to the Public Health Fund to reimburse expenses through indirect cost allocation. Separately, the department must pay War Memorial $50,000 on July 1, 2025, from Operations using non-general revenue. All spending remains subject to appropriation limits and state purchasing, budget, and financial rules. These provisions fund agency administration, not household payments.
Funding for independent practice credential reviews
The law provides $350,000 for the Full Independent Practice Credentialing Committee from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It covers staff, operations, and member mileage and daily allowances for meetings, briefings, and hearings. The state's chief fiscal officer selects the state treasury cash fund used for payment. This funding does not change credential eligibility or healthcare professionals' practice rights.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Joint Budget Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/7/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, April 7, 2025 4:08:28 PM
Yes: 35 • No: 0
House vote • 4/3/2025
House Vote - Thursday, April 3, 2025 4:18:09 PM
Yes: 93 • No: 1 • Other: 1
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1091 is now Act 538
4/10/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
4/8/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
4/7/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
4/7/2025HouseReturned to the House as Passed.
4/7/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
4/7/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
4/7/2025SenateRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar.
4/3/2025SenateReceived from the House.
4/3/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
4/3/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
4/3/2025HouseConsidered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
4/3/2025HouseRULES SUSPENDED
4/3/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
4/2/2025HouseREPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
3/12/2025HouseAmendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
3/12/2025HousePlaced on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
3/12/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
1/13/2025HouseFiled
1/13/2025House
Bill Text
HB1091 - Introduced
1/13/2025
Act Version
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