---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANTIQUE MOTOR VEHICLE SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANTIQUE MOTOR VEHICLE SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1496"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1496 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fortner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-18"
last_action: "2019-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee027eb9-259f-4912-8733-ef7fd77fd20e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "eee37e590c910df494d3663cdfd04cf1328fa9441dff30292cf2414d53f667a6"
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 1496 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANTIQUE MOTOR VEHICLE SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1496** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1496.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and failed. — **13–14** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–4** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **24–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fortner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-18** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** 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`
- **2019-02-19** 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 TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** Returned To the House as Failed to Pass
- **2019-02-27** Returned From the Senate having failed to pass.
- **2019-02-28** Returned To the Senate as requested.
- **2019-02-28** Returned From the House as requested.
- **2019-03-04** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1496 failed to pass.
- **2019-03-04** EXPUNGED
- **2019-03-05** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-05** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-05** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-06** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-07** Notification that HB1496 is now Act 368 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee027eb9-259f-4912-8733-ef7fd77fd20e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).