---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF A \"TOW BUSINESS\"."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF A \"TOW BUSINESS\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1324"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1324 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rye"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-02-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bf6710e-6187-48a3-85f2-82894e24c79c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "285afe575371eb68d68520bbbf59d0ccf293e37de50d390737d5e15e5e236565"
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 1324 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF A "TOW BUSINESS".

## 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=HB1324-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1324** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1324.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **81–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **57–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rye — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-31** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** 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`
- **2019-02-05** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-07** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-12** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-12** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-13** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-02-13** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-02-14** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-02-14** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-18** Notification that HB1324 is now Act 176 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bf6710e-6187-48a3-85f2-82894e24c79c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).