---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL POSITIONS AND MOTOR VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL POSITIONS AND MOTOR VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1697"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1697 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dotson", "Joey Carr"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T14:49:28+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-08T16:53:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98525753-d37d-4525-9920-8ae07403a9c8"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "46f5cf4226d41c3b85e1e1a2dbd155292fddad15f490e2e8b1ce2638b6c681e3"
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 1697 (2025) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL POSITIONS AND MOTOR VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 477** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=477.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1697** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1697.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Dotson — primary (person)
- Joey Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06T14:49:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T23:15:37+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T18:39:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19T19:54:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-19T19:54:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-20T00:32:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T00:32:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T18:49:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01T22:00:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T22:00:45+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-01T22:01:25+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-01T22:51:53+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-01T22:51:55+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-02T15:27:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-08T16:53:07+00:00** Notification that HB1697 is now Act 477 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98525753-d37d-4525-9920-8ae07403a9c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).