---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REPEAL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO REPEAL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND."
description: "TO REPEAL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO REPEAL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 416"
citation: "Arkansas SB 416 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "M. Shepherd"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-10T19:41:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-09T18:12:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b19ef95c-3caf-449e-9a05-f32cfa911610"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cb47850a2ef088080d8d27205323a8739df30baf167d9f236853f1fc3e0003a3"
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 416 (2025) — TO REPEAL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO REPEAL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 493** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=493.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 416** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB416.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- M. Shepherd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-10T19:41:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-10T20:15:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T23:58:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19T19:58:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-19T19:58:39+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-19T21:34:07+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-19T22:25:53+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`
- **2025-04-01T15:37:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T20:29:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T20:29:10+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-03T00:56:48+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-03T00:56:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-03T14:20:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-03T14:20:28+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-09T18:12:30+00:00** Notification that SB416 is now Act 493 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b19ef95c-3caf-449e-9a05-f32cfa911610`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).