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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REQUIRE THAT THE DRIVER’S INSTRUCTION MANUAL AND THE DRIVER’S LICENSE EXAMINATION INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SAFE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE."
+description: "TO REQUIRE THAT THE DRIVER’S INSTRUCTION MANUAL AND THE DRIVER’S LICENSE EXAMINATION INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SAFE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 78"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 78 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Johnson", "McAlindon"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2025-01-16T17:06:43+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-02-18T21:16:22+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab42a788-f83c-4a65-ae9c-51aceb52d75a"
+source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "c0db4e9e485fd1708e2c38ef57010799f5ceaac77d4ee8f847001c7abd85ef16"
+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 78 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THAT THE DRIVER’S INSTRUCTION MANUAL AND THE DRIVER’S LICENSE EXAMINATION INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SAFE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 117** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=117.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
+2. **SB 78** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB78.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Johnson — primary (person)
+- McAlindon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16T17:06:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-16T17:47:04+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-03T21:34:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-04T19:56:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04T19:56:32+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2025-02-04T21:51:08+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2025-02-04T22:55:38+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`
+- **2025-02-11T16:46:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-12T20:50:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12T20:50:38+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
+- **2025-02-12T22:35:09+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2025-02-12T22:35:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2025-02-13T15:28:16+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2025-02-13T15:28:21+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-02-18T21:16:22+00:00** Notification that SB78 is now Act 117 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab42a788-f83c-4a65-ae9c-51aceb52d75a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+