---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN A VEHICLE MAY BE DRIVEN UPON THE LEFT LANE OF A MULTILANE HIGHWAY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN A VEHICLE MAY BE DRIVEN UPON THE LEFT LANE OF A MULTILANE HIGHWAY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1849"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1849 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Collins", "G. Leding"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31T20:09:50+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T20:53:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c341f458-8427-4a6c-9451-fa6bafa71ac3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9ffceec66eb34bf067fa84714afd21113df1cee1a21841f1faa186eed19eef38"
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 1849 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN A VEHICLE MAY BE DRIVEN UPON THE LEFT LANE OF A MULTILANE HIGHWAY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1849** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1849.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **27–4** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **55–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Collins — primary (person)
- G. Leding — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-31T20:09:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-31T22:33:08+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`
- **2021-04-13T18:06:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14T19:36:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T22:27:07+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-14T22:27:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T18:48:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26T21:38:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T21:38:10+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:01:10+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:01:12+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T15:11:32+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T20:53:40+00:00** Notification that HB1849 is now Act 1090 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c341f458-8427-4a6c-9451-fa6bafa71ac3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).