---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF THE WOMEN VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE; AND TO REPEAL THE PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR LICENSE PLATE."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF THE WOMEN VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE; AND TO REPEAL THE PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR LICENSE PLATE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 45"
citation: "Arkansas SB 45 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Painter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13T17:43:22+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-17T19:35:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b10cacff-19cb-406a-8d92-d7b99c8d0f59"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "30375731c5bc637e681563fc053bd0d61255093d62f184f27b5e7ebefde5207e"
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 45 (2025) — TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF THE WOMEN VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE; AND TO REPEAL THE PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR LICENSE PLATE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 51** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=51.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB45-H1.pdf)
3. **SB 45** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB45.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Painter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T17:43:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T19:18:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27T20:37:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28T19:48:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T19:48:12+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-28T20:17:09+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-28T23:18:53+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`
- **2025-02-04T16:44:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T19:37:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-05T19:37:41+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05T19:55:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-06T21:15:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T21:15:20+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-02-06T23:35:42+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-02-11T19:52:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-11T19:53:05+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-02-11T19:53:19+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-02-11T19:53:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T19:53:49+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-11T21:50:24+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-11T21:50:27+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-17T19:35:20+00:00** Notification that SB45 is now Act 51 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b10cacff-19cb-406a-8d92-d7b99c8d0f59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).