---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING VEHICLES, BOATS, OR FARMING EQUIPMENT WITH A REMOVED, DAMAGED, MUTILATED, OR DEFACED SERIAL NUMBER OR VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER."
description: "CONCERNING VEHICLES, BOATS, OR FARMING EQUIPMENT WITH A REMOVED, DAMAGED, MUTILATED, OR DEFACED SERIAL NUMBER OR VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 237"
citation: "Arkansas SB 237 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-09T18:15:02+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T21:45:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de6745c0-fdf8-4d81-9e1a-edaa64fa0685"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6c5f2ce460e56cae1124f21a7cd1b487fc9b7d268890e8e73924926d19528236"
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 SB 237 (2023) — CONCERNING VEHICLES, BOATS, OR FARMING EQUIPMENT WITH A REMOVED, DAMAGED, MUTILATED, OR DEFACED SERIAL NUMBER OR VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 762** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=762.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 237** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB237.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **77–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-09T18:15:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-09T20:38:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03T17:58:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04T18:22:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T18:22:17+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-04-04T22:12:06+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-04-05T00:54:59+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06T16:20:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-07T14:33:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-07T14:33:07+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-07T17:27:43+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-07T17:27:47+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T19:16:15+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-07T19:16:18+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-12T21:45:17+00:00** Notification that SB237 is now Act 762 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de6745c0-fdf8-4d81-9e1a-edaa64fa0685`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).