HB 1217 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

TO ESTABLISH THE INTERSTATE MASSAGE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS.

HB 1217 establishes Arkansas as a participating state in the Interstate Massage Compact, creating a formal agreement with other states to streamline massage therapy licensing. The bill creates a Compact Commission that can charge annual assessments on member states to cover its operational costs, with fees allocated via a Commission-determined formula. This directly affects massage therapists seeking to practice across state lines in participating jurisdictions and Arkansas' regulatory oversight of the profession. The bill was enacted as Act 267 on March 12, 2025, enabling Arkansas to join the interstate agreement.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Signed into Law

Mar 2025

Introduced Jan 24, 2025 Signed Mar 12, 2025

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What changed between versions

Act 267 → HB 1217 · 1 edit

MINOR

The bill text has been updated from 'Act 267 of the Regular Session' to 'HB 1217' with new session information for the 95th General Assembly Regular Session of 2025. The changes appear to be primarily formatting and session identification updates rather than substantive policy modifications.

TECHNICAL

Updated session identification from Act 267 to HB 1217 with new date stamps (H2/13/25 and H2/24/25) and session year information.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Mar 12, 2025

Signed into law

Notification that HB1217 is now Act 267

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned from the Senate as passed.

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Upper · Passed

Returned to the House as passed.

upper

Mar 5, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read the third time and passed.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

upper

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

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

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Returned by the Committee Do Pass

lower

Feb 24, 2025

Introduced

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

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

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

lower

Jan 24, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors