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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISTRACTED DRIVING; AND TO CREATE ASHTON'S AND ABBIE'S LAW."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISTRACTED DRIVING; AND TO CREATE ASHTON'S AND ABBIE'S LAW."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1486"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1486 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hudson", "Irvin"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-02-22T20:11:33+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-04T15:10:14+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4fc14c2-aa31-4476-8d60-3ac6220c769e"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "5f64ac15b0794c9568f617a3ec2cd12949fb378de475832ed8c716981e002b3d"
+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 1486 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISTRACTED DRIVING; AND TO CREATE ASHTON'S AND ABBIE'S LAW.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 445** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=445.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1486-S1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1486** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1486.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **23–4** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **80–5** (pass) · lower
+- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **85–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hudson — primary (person)
+- Irvin — primary (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-22T20:11:33+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-22T22:32:41+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`
+- **2023-02-28T17:34:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-01T19:48:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-01T21:13:33+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-01T21:13:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-08T14:12:46+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2023-03-08T14:12:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-08T14:13:00+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-03-08T19:41:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-08T19:41:26+00:00** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-09T17:38:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-13T19:33:23+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-03-13T19:34:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-13T19:34:29+00:00** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
+- **2023-03-13T22:11:05+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2023-03-13T22:11:13+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28T17:31:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-29T18:51:29+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
+- **2023-03-29T18:51:31+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-30T14:19:14+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-04T15:10:14+00:00** Notification that HB1486 is now Act 445 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4fc14c2-aa31-4476-8d60-3ac6220c769e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+