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ArkansasHB16772025 Regular SessionHouse

TO AUTHORIZE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS TO MAINTAIN EMERGENCY MEDICATION KITS.

Sponsored By: Mary Bentley (Republican), John Payton (Republican)

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1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Emergency medicine kits for addiction treatment patients

Arkansas alcohol and drug treatment programs, including stand-alone detox centers, can keep emergency medicine kits. These kits meet immediate patient needs when medicine from other sources cannot arrive soon enough to prevent harm. Programs must have a doctor or other medical staff and be able to give controlled substances and noncontrolled prescription drugs. Each program must name one pharmacy to supply and oversee its kit. That pharmacy must be licensed by Arkansas and registered with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Kits must stay in a locked container or cabinet behind a locked door, accessible only to licensed medical staff. Only licensed medical staff can give kit medicine, following a doctor's or advanced practice registered nurse's order and federal prescribing rules. The pharmacy must replace used medicine within 72 hours, based on a prescription for the patient who received it. Kits cannot contain Schedule II controlled substances. The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy must set rules for kit contents, quantities, storage, security, use, and access.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Mary Bentley

    Republican • House

  • John Payton

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • RJ Hawk

    Republican • House

  • Richard McGrew

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 230 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/9/2025

Senate Vote - Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:45:53 PM

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/1/2025

House Vote - Tuesday, April 1, 2025 2:53:53 PM

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 3/10/2025

House Vote - Monday, March 10, 2025 2:08:53 PM

Yes: 98 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Notification that HB1677 is now Act 637

    4/16/2025House

  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.

    4/10/2025House

  3. TO BE ENROLLED

    4/9/2025House

  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.

    4/9/2025House

  5. Returned to the House as passed.

    4/9/2025Senate

  6. Read the third time and passed.

    4/9/2025Senate

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

    4/7/2025Senate

  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE

    4/1/2025Senate

  9. Received from the House.

    4/1/2025Senate

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

    4/1/2025House

  11. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

    3/31/2025House

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

    3/31/2025House

  13. Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.

    3/31/2025House

  14. Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1

    3/20/2025House

  15. Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE

    3/10/2025House

  16. Returned by the Committee Do Pass

    3/6/2025House

  17. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE

    3/4/2025House

  18. Filed

    3/4/2025House

Bill Text

  • HB1677 - Introduced

    3/4/2025

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  • Act Version

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