---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS NEW MOTOR VEHICLE QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"MOTOR VEHICLE\"."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS NEW MOTOR VEHICLE QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"MOTOR VEHICLE\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1230"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1230 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Richmond"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-21T19:58:45+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-09T16:24:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3055d02f-75d6-422b-b493-1b7361d04ad5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f73d02442aeefb9ef152e9a2a40ea1541000989140859a1ee502508dfbb1d9b3"
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 1230 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS NEW MOTOR VEHICLE QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "MOTOR VEHICLE".

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1230-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1230** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1230.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Richmond — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21T19:58:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-21T22:30:03+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`
- **2021-01-26T20:48:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27T14:44:14+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-27T14:44:18+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-27T16:24:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-28T19:10:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T22:32:51+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-28T22:33:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Transportation, Technology, and Legislative Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T19:11:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-03T21:15:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T21:15:58+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-03T22:26:38+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-03T22:26:41+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-04T15:01:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-09T16:24:06+00:00** Notification that HB1230 is now Act 92 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3055d02f-75d6-422b-b493-1b7361d04ad5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).