---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS OF TAXICAB, AUTOMOBILE, OR SIMILAR VEHICLE ENGAGED IN CARRYING PASSENGERS FOR HIRE."
description: "TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS OF TAXICAB, AUTOMOBILE, OR SIMILAR VEHICLE ENGAGED IN CARRYING PASSENGERS FOR HIRE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1237"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1237 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-24T20:03:39+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-13T15:13:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2a88275-8e60-4be7-bb68-2cef060d556f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cafd92b05aec46f922afa1dfec16445a0ce1d23b8ea255e9fb4a533224bd1364"
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 1237 (2023) — TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS OF TAXICAB, AUTOMOBILE, OR SIMILAR VEHICLE ENGAGED IN CARRYING PASSENGERS FOR HIRE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 804** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=804.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1237-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1237** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1237.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **68–13** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **20–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Boyd — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)
- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24T20:03:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-24T22:29:42+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`
- **2023-03-28T13:30:56+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-28T13:31:04+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-28T16:20:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-30T16:47:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03T20:37:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T00:21:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-04T00:21:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06T16:04:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T22:35:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T22:36:01+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T23:43:01+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T23:43:10+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T15:31:02+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-13T15:13:29+00:00** Notification that HB1237 is now Act 804 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2a88275-8e60-4be7-bb68-2cef060d556f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).