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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MILITARY SERVICE AND VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE REISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE TO A SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A RECIPIENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MILITARY SERVICE AND VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE REISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE TO A SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A RECIPIENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 499"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 499 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-05"
+last_action: "2019-04-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cbcc419-1d38-443c-a438-09c4a73dc377"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "72ebfd89944c848bf13b4a5eb3162792960f7856be70eecc72ee23a942f50114"
+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 SB 499 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MILITARY SERVICE AND VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE REISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE TO A SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A RECIPIENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB499-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 499** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB499.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Hammer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-11** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-12** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-03-12** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-03-12** 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`
+- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-20** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-20** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-20** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2019-03-26** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
+- **2019-04-09** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-04-09** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2019-04-09** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-09** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-04-10** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-04-10** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB499 is now Act 993 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cbcc419-1d38-443c-a438-09c4a73dc377`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+