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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PERIOD OF TIME CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO WAIT TO COMPLETE THE DRIVER'S EXAMINATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PERIOD OF TIME CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO WAIT TO COMPLETE THE DRIVER'S EXAMINATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1548"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1548 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "M. McElroy"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-06T16:33:10+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T16:54:03+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7840d412-5b85-4973-a7fc-96727d9141b9"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "52574dec32f01bd07dbfa9f840df64f81f55f3fd82b324faa65007d9e2856dfb"
+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 1548 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PERIOD OF TIME CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO WAIT TO COMPLETE THE DRIVER'S EXAMINATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 550** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=550.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1548-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1548** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1548.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D. Wallace — primary (person)
+- M. McElroy — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-06T16:33:10+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-06T22:27:06+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`
+- **2023-03-28T17:32:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-29T13:30:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-29T13:30:52+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-29T16:26:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-30T19:39:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-30T19:39:26+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-31T01:40:01+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-31T17:40:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-05T21:31:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-06T17:44:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-06T17:44:54+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-04-06T17:45:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T18:56:17+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T18:56:21+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-06T20:10:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-11T16:54:03+00:00** Notification that HB1548 is now Act 550 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7840d412-5b85-4973-a7fc-96727d9141b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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