---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1947"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1947 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fortner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf0095b5-507f-45b6-b417-e70098246ecc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ac469802c0cf0ff9cbf77ad672318470a32f48f4b273bd29b74a3ed725997e6e"
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 1947 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1947** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1947.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–2** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and failed. — **8–22** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **20–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fortner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-27** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-27** 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`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** Returned To the House as Failed to Pass
- **2019-04-09** Returned From the Senate having failed to pass.
- **2019-04-10** Returned To the Senate as requested.
- **2019-04-10** Returned From the House as requested.
- **2019-04-10** Motion to Expunge the Vote
- **2019-04-10** The vote by which HB1947 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-04-10** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-10** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-10** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-10** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-15** Notification that HB1947 is now Act 1031 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf0095b5-507f-45b6-b417-e70098246ecc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).