# Arkansas SB25: AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. Arkansas SB25, AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Joint Budget Committee; status enacted, last action 2025-04-14 (Notification that SB25 is now Act 607) (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-SB25-2025 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Arkansas SB25 - State: Arkansas - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. - Status: enacted - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-07 - Last action: 2025-04-14, Notification that SB25 is now Act 607 - Sponsor: Joint Budget Committee - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 2 (126 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 9 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Funding protects prepaid funeral customers: benefit, low. From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law funds funeral oversight and prepaid contract recovery. Funeral Services gets $612,164, including $55,000 for loans. The Prepaid Funeral Benefits Division gets $466,924 for staff and operations. Another $500,000 from the prepaid trust fund covers rec… - Cancer relief funding for participating firefighters: benefit, low. The law sets aside $250,000 from the Arkansas Firefighter Cancer Relief Network Trust Fund for firefighter relief. Funding runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. Relief is for firefighters diagnosed with cancer who participate in a firefighter cancer relief network. The law does not set eac… - Funding supports Medicare counseling and protection: benefit, low. From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, federal funds support Medicare assistance and health information counseling. The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act program gets $1.28614 million for staff, outreach, and enrollment assistance. Senior Medicare Patrol gets $815,853, includi… - Funding pays public employee claims: benefit, low. From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law funds claims for state and local public employees. State employee claims get $15.5 million from the Workers’ Compensation Revolving Fund. Public school employee claims get $400,000, county employee claims get $200,000, and city employee claims get $… - Funding pays tax and fee refunds: benefit, low. The law provides $11 million for the Arkansas State Insurance Department to pay tax and fee refunds. The money comes from a revolving fund for July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It supports refunds to people or entities owed money. The appropriation does not set refund eligibility or each recipie… - Funding covers state insurance pool claims: benefit, low. From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law funds public insurance and bonding claims. It authorizes $75 million from the Arkansas Multi-Agency Insurance Trust Fund for expenses and claims. The Governmental Bonding Board gets $1.705 million from the Self-Insured Fidelity Bond Trust Fund, incl… - Funding supports Arkansas cyber incident response: benefit, low. The law provides $10 million for the Arkansas Cyber Response Board’s program from its dedicated trust fund. The funding covers program expenses from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It does not identify households receiving services or provide direct household payments. - Funding for insurance oversight and protection: benefit, low. From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law funds Arkansas insurance oversight and consumer protection. Department operations get $15.426841 million, including $500,000 for AHIM expenses. Insurance fraud investigations get $1.641563 million. Continuing education staff get $31,184, criminal ba… - Funding keeps healthcare price data available: benefit, low. The law provides $3.2 million from the Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative Fund for the statewide healthcare database. Funding runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It covers database operations, maintenance, data collection, data management, and responses to data requests. This su… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Joint Budget Committee ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-08 | House | House Vote - Tuesday, April 8, 2025 4:13:55 PM | pass | 92 | 0 | 1 | | 2025-04-07 | Senate | Senate Vote - Monday, April 7, 2025 4:10:09 PM | pass | 34 | 0 | | ## Actions (21) - 2025-04-14: Notification that SB25 is now Act 607 (Senate) - 2025-04-09: DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. (Senate) - 2025-04-09: Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor. (Senate) - 2025-04-08: ORDERED ENROLLED (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Returned from the House as passed. (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Returned To Senate as Passed. (House) - 2025-04-08: EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED (House) - 2025-04-08: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. (House) - 2025-04-08: Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass. (House) - 2025-04-08: RULES SUSPENDED (House) - 2025-04-07: Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. (House) - 2025-04-07: RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE (House) - 2025-04-07: Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House. (Senate) - 2025-04-07: EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED (Senate) - 2025-04-07: Read the third time and passed. (Senate) - 2025-04-03: REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED (Senate) - 2025-04-03: Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed. (Senate) - 2025-04-03: Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment. (Senate) - 2025-04-02: Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 (Senate) - 2025-01-13: Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE (Senate) - 2025-01-07: Filed (Senate) ## Bill text - SB25 - Introduced, 2025-01-07: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB25.pdf) - Act Version: [PDF](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=607.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R) ## Related bills - HB1265: AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. (enacted) - HB1237: TO PROHIBIT MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS FROM SOLICITING INJURED INDIVIDUALS; AND TO SET PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITION OF SOLICITATION OF INJURED INDIV… (failed) - HB1686: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LICENSES TO CARRY CONCEALED HANDGUNS. (failed) - SB440: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE USE OF ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS; AND TO REGULATE ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS FACILITIES. (failed) - HB1695: TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO ALLOW A MUNICIPALITY TO PETITION TO SET ASIDE THE SALE OF PROPERTY TO CERTAIN P… (failed) - HR1012: TO AMEND THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY; TO REQUIRE THAT A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BE SELECTED A… (failed) ## Sources - [SB25 - Introduced (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB25.pdf) - [Act Version (PDF)](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=607.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R) ## Related - [HB1265: AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1265-2025) - [HB1237: TO PROHIBIT MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS FROM SOLICITING INJURED INDIVIDUALS; AND TO S…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1237-2025) - [HB1686: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LICENSES TO CARRY CONCEALED HANDGUNS.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1686-2025) - [SB440: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE US…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-SB440-2025) - [HB1695: TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HB1695-2025) - [HR1012: TO AMEND THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-HR1012-2025) - [Arkansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/arkansas/bills) - [Arkansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/arkansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AR-SB25-2025 (as of 2026-10-19).