---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"MOTOR VEHICLE\" UNDER THE OMNIBUS DWI OR BWI ACT; AND CONCERNING A TEST FOR BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT WHEN A MOTOR VEHICLE OR BOATING ACCIDENT OCCURS."
description: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"MOTOR VEHICLE\" UNDER THE OMNIBUS DWI OR BWI ACT; AND CONCERNING A TEST FOR BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT WHEN A MOTOR VEHICLE OR BOATING ACCIDENT OCCURS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1411"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1411 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5efecb02-44e7-4da4-8bd3-22f42218bdbf"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "964383c921b97968d429173de9d5d872e119c0a294ae27d36fac34857c436b7a"
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 1411 (2019) — CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "MOTOR VEHICLE" UNDER THE OMNIBUS DWI OR BWI ACT; AND CONCERNING A TEST FOR BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT WHEN A MOTOR VEHICLE OR BOATING ACCIDENT OCCURS.

## 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=HB1411-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1411** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1411.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **27–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and failed. — **12–11** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-08** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-21** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-28** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-04** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Motion to Expunge the Vote by Which HB1411 Failed.
- **2019-03-04** EXPUNGED
- **2019-03-04** Hold in the Chamber
- **2019-03-13** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-25** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-25** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-26** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
- **2019-03-26** Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-29** Senate amendment # 1 & 2 read and concurred in.
- **2019-03-29** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-01** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-02** Notification that HB1411 is now Act 654 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5efecb02-44e7-4da4-8bd3-22f42218bdbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).