All Roll Calls
Yes: 128 • No: 1
ArkansasHB15832025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY.
Sponsored By: Mary Bentley (Republican), Justin Boyd (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More health coverage for acquired brain injuries
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered Arkansas health plans must cover medically necessary care for brain injuries acquired after birth. This applies when plans are offered, issued, renewed, delivered, or extended in Arkansas. Covered care includes cognitive, communication, functional, and behavioral therapies; neuropsychological testing; neurofeedback; and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation. It also includes day treatment, community reintegration, home and community services, and post-acute residential treatment. Plans cannot impose lifetime or unreasonable yearly limits on treatment days or sessions, charge higher cost sharing than other benefits, or reduce other benefits. Any inpatient rehabilitation cap must be listed separately from post-acute rehabilitation limits. Exclusions include dental- or vision-only, disability income, workers’ compensation, accident-only, hospital-indemnity, specified-disease, long-term-care-only, and state and public school employee plans. Credit insurance, certain liability supplements, and automobile or homeowners medical-payment coverage are also excluded. Only qualified brain injury specialists can conduct prior approval and treatment-use reviews, and the Insurance Commissioner must establish faster appeals of adverse decisions. Acute and post-acute rehabilitation providers must meet customary licensing, accreditation, training, and experience standards.
Medicaid home care for brain injuries
Arkansas’s Department of Human Services must seek a Medicaid waiver or add people with acquired brain injuries to an existing waiver. This pathway is for Arkansas Medicaid members who need home and community services for their brain injuries. Access depends on obtaining the waiver or adding these members to an existing waiver program. The law does not set a start date or dollar amount for these services.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Mary Bentley
Republican • House
Justin Boyd
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/17/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, March 17, 2025 3:49:55 PM
Yes: 34 • No: 0
House vote • 3/10/2025
House Vote - Monday, March 10, 2025 1:47:04 PM
Yes: 94 • No: 1 • Other: 2
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1583 is now Act 348
3/20/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
3/18/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
3/17/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
3/17/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
3/17/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/17/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
3/13/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE
3/10/2025SenateReceived from the House.
3/10/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
3/10/2025HouseREPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
3/6/2025HouseAmendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
3/6/2025HousePlaced on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
3/6/2025HouseReturned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 & 2
3/5/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE
2/25/2025HouseFiled
2/25/2025House
Bill Text
HB1583 - Introduced
2/25/2025
Act Version
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