---
type: "Bill"
title: "CREATING CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR OWNERS OF STOLEN AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OR AN OFF-ROAD VEHICLE WHEN AN OFFENSE IS COMMITTED BY ANOTHER PERSON WHO STEALS THE OWNER'S AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OR OTHER OFF-ROAD VEHICLE."
description: "CREATING CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR OWNERS OF STOLEN AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OR AN OFF-ROAD VEHICLE WHEN AN OFFENSE IS COMMITTED BY ANOTHER PERSON WHO STEALS THE OWNER'S AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OR OTHER OFF-ROAD VEHICLE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1497"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1497 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-18"
last_action: "2019-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7efbc4fb-e8b6-44cd-be59-3f5f330242a6"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0b08c4a8eb0c37980e9f5f3b1f003f8994846fe1cd45c32ad42ffdc77a718241"
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 1497 (2019) — CREATING CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR OWNERS OF STOLEN AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OR AN OFF-ROAD VEHICLE WHEN AN OFFENSE IS COMMITTED BY ANOTHER PERSON WHO STEALS THE OWNER'S AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OR OTHER OFF-ROAD VEHICLE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1497-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1497** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1497.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vaught — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-18** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-21** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-21** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-13** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-13** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-19** Notification that HB1497 is now Act 518 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7efbc4fb-e8b6-44cd-be59-3f5f330242a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).