Arkansas panels favor plan to shrink Medicaid rolls

Arkansas Online: Legislation endorsing a plan to scale back Arkansas' expanded Medicaid program cleared committees of the state House and Senate on Monday during the first day of a special legislative session.

House Bill 1003 and its identical counterpart, Senate Bill 3, will go to the floor of their respective chambers today.

If they pass, the bills will each move to the other chamber. A final vote from each chamber on Wednesday would then send the bills to Gov. Asa Hutchinson for his signature.

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