---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A TITLE FOR A WATERCRAFT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MOTORBOAT REGISTRATION AND TITLING ACT."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A TITLE FOR A WATERCRAFT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MOTORBOAT REGISTRATION AND TITLING ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 479"
citation: "Arkansas SB 479 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecc75c5b-7100-494a-9f71-915a1928ad5b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "85c5395b6a06015985b9371737835996722a21ee7718cf31dbe1bfb150ee0e06"
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 479 (2019) — TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A TITLE FOR A WATERCRAFT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MOTORBOAT REGISTRATION AND TITLING ACT.

## 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=SB479-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 479** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB479.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and failed. — **15–12** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **24–5** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **71–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Sample — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-12** Motion to Expunge the vote by which SB 479 failed to pass.
- **2019-03-12** EXPUNGED
- **2019-03-12** The vote by which SB479 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-03-13** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-14** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-14** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-14** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - 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** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-26** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-26** 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`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-02** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-02** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-03** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-08** Notification that SB479 is now Act 733 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecc75c5b-7100-494a-9f71-915a1928ad5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).