---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AN AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT DEVICE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AN AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT DEVICE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 481"
citation: "Arkansas SB 481 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "L. Fite"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-24T20:31:49+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T21:30:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/720ed38d-8921-4140-b428-7d90d14f6a8c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "77eb52bf76ff41685525914de08eeee762717a53993a56fc86e948f9263342dc"
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 481 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AN AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT DEVICE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 707** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=707.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB481-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 481** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB481.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **82–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- L. Fite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-24T20:31:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-24T20:50:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T18:21:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30T19:12:43+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-30T19:12:47+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-30T21:39:28+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-31T00:24:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-31T00:25:12+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-31T01:11:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-31T01:46:21+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`
- **2023-04-04T16:39:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-05T20:43:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T20:43:30+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:12:43+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:12:45+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:58:28+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-06T14:58:32+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-11T21:30:26+00:00** Notification that SB481 is now Act 707 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/720ed38d-8921-4140-b428-7d90d14f6a8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).