Arkansas 2025 Regular Session

Arkansas House Bill HB1390

Introduced

2/4/25

Refer

2/4/25

Report Pass

2/6/25

Engrossed

2/11/25

Enrolled

2/18/25

Chaptered

2/20/25

Passed

2/20/25

Caption

An Act For The Department Of Human Services - Division Of Aging, Adult, And Behavioral Health Services Reappropriation.

Summary

HB1390 is a reappropriation bill for the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services. It carries forward unspent balances from a prior appropriation so they remain available after July 1, 2025 for two capital projects: up to $2,000,000 for costs associated with construction, replacement, renovation, upgrade, and addition of a warehouse distribution building for the Arkansas Health Center, and up to $1,175,065 for repair or replacement of roofs at the Arkansas State Hospital. The bill is a fiscal measure rather than a policy change. It authorizes continued use of previously approved capital-improvement funds, subject to state fiscal controls, and includes standard provisions limiting obligations to available treasury funds, allowing supplemental use of grants, donations, federal funds, and unobligated agency cash, and requiring compliance with purchasing, accounting, budgetary, and revenue stabilization laws. It also contains an emergency clause making the act effective July 1, 2025 so the agency can proceed without interruption.

Impact

HB1390 does not create new programs or alter substantive eligibility or service rules; instead, it extends the life of existing capital-improvement appropriations for DHS aging, adult, and behavioral health facilities. Its practical effect is to preserve funding authority for facility infrastructure work at the Arkansas Health Center and Arkansas State Hospital, while keeping those expenditures within existing state fiscal-control statutes and appropriation limits.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have been noncontroversial and broadly supported. It passed the House 96-0 and the Senate 34-0, indicating unanimous approval in both chambers. With no committee transcript available and no recorded opposition in the voting history, the overall sentiment was favorable and procedural, consistent with a routine budget reappropriation measure.

Contention

No notable substantive contention is reflected in the available record. The only issues addressed in the bill are standard appropriation mechanics—how much money may be reappropriated, what projects it may fund, and the requirement that spending comply with state fiscal laws. Because the measure simply preserves previously authorized capital funds for specific DHS facilities, there is no evidence of disagreement over policy, beneficiaries, or program design.

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