---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE OF A COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE OF A COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1846"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1846 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Holcomb"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31T15:47:52+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-19T18:15:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c81ff5f8-18f2-4423-9356-06837d17b570"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0608e301194e25bdd13d2b2fd07b123444145a2ff3d9b47538ce193b7b79a260"
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 1846 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE OF A COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1846** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1846.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-31T15:47:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-31T22:32:15+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`
- **2021-04-06T17:09:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T18:44:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:17:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:17:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:23:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14T20:08:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T20:08:24+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:03:13+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:03:15+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T13:45:42+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-19T18:15:11+00:00** Notification that HB1846 is now Act 753 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c81ff5f8-18f2-4423-9356-06837d17b570`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).