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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1947"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1947 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fortner"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-27"
+last_action: "2019-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf0095b5-507f-45b6-b417-e70098246ecc"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "ac469802c0cf0ff9cbf77ad672318470a32f48f4b273bd29b74a3ed725997e6e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas HB 1947 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 1947** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1947.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–2** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and failed. — **8–22** (fail) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **20–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fortner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-27** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-27** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
+- **2019-04-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-09** Returned To the House as Failed to Pass
+- **2019-04-09** Returned From the Senate having failed to pass.
+- **2019-04-10** Returned To the Senate as requested.
+- **2019-04-10** Returned From the House as requested.
+- **2019-04-10** Motion to Expunge the Vote
+- **2019-04-10** The vote by which HB1947 Failed to Pass was expunged.
+- **2019-04-10** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-10** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2019-04-10** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-04-10** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2019-04-15** Notification that HB1947 is now Act 1031 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf0095b5-507f-45b6-b417-e70098246ecc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+