---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT PEDESTRIANS ON A CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAY."
description: "TO PROHIBIT PEDESTRIANS ON A CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 504"
citation: "Arkansas SB 504 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Petty", "Pearce"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28T14:56:43+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T13:34:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e739fd82-9a3d-4efc-8233-fc5f21616a32"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "232222206ebac00e2fbbb403d6f10d0552ed477547fb84dfa1ae84b1e78f64f6"
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 504 (2023) — TO PROHIBIT PEDESTRIANS ON A CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 779** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=779.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB504-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 504** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB504.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **84–5** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Petty — primary (person)
- Pearce — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-28T14:56:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-28T18:55:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04T17:49:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05T18:09:01+00:00** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T21:32:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T02:24:59+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2023-04-06T02:25:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-04-06T02:25:26+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-04-06T04:07:11+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-06T16:29:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T16:29:29+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-04-06T18:41:10+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`
- **2023-04-07T14:05:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-07T16:18:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-07T16:18:32+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-07T17:25:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-07T17:25:03+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T19:12:58+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-07T19:13:00+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-12T13:34:46+00:00** Notification that SB504 is now Act 779 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e739fd82-9a3d-4efc-8233-fc5f21616a32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).