---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE UNLAWFUL PASSING OF A SCHOOL BUS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE UNLAWFUL PASSING OF A SCHOOL BUS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1265"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1265 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd", "L. Eads"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25T21:15:56+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-04T14:57:50+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4e41213-c9fa-48ef-9fcf-33d703a35a48"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bd9044760c7a11616f5e6c0f2f0e3f95d63e2b96af729616230542323789e161"
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 1265 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE UNLAWFUL PASSING OF A SCHOOL BUS.

## 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%2FHB1265-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1265** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1265.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)
- L. Eads — primary (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T21:15:56+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T21:42:19+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`
- **2021-01-28T22:37:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-02T19:13:59+00:00** Motion to rerefer back to committee
- **2021-02-02T19:14:09+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T22:42:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08T14:40:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-08T14:40:24+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-08T16:12:48+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-09T19:24:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09T22:05:03+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-09T22:07:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25T19:26:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01T21:13:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01T21:13:55+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-01T22:52:51+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-01T22:52:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-02T16:59:26+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-04T14:57:50+00:00** Notification that HB1265 is now Act 264 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4e41213-c9fa-48ef-9fcf-33d703a35a48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).