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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THE OFFENSE OF RACING A VEHICLE ON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THE OFFENSE OF RACING A VEHICLE ON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 247"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 247 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Holcomb"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-01T18:47:53+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-05-03T19:20:32+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43cd94a-b0b2-485d-b146-5b9d2a627671"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "12a2b50bc6d3cc5af0643fda13407f35350863c9736b5c4fa4f8d1473bf7bbc0"
+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 247 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THE OFFENSE OF RACING A VEHICLE ON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB247-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB247-S1.pdf)
+3. **SB 247** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB247.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Holcomb — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-01T18:47:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-01T19:16:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-04T19:24:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-08T19:16:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-02-08T19:17:02+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-02-08T21:42:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-09T19:48:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09T19:49:34+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-02-09T22:12:30+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-02-09T22:25:06+00:00** 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`
+- **2021-02-23T22:24:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-24T20:18:44+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-20T18:07:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-21T13:36:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-21T13:36:38+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-21T16:01:42+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-21T21:03:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-21T21:03:23+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-22T02:50:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed, as amended, Amendment #1.
+- **2021-04-22T02:51:22+00:00** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22T19:13:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-26T18:39:21+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-26T18:39:39+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-26T18:39:48+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-04-26T18:40:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26T18:40:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-27T13:30:53+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-27T13:30:55+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-03T19:20:32+00:00** Notification that SB247 is now Act 1061 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f43cd94a-b0b2-485d-b146-5b9d2a627671`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+