---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE A STUDY AND ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS AND PROCESSES OF THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION."
description: "TO REQUIRE A STUDY AND ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS AND PROCESSES OF THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 385"
citation: "Arkansas SB 385 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/887e6300-ce78-4870-b72e-33090a8ba7e3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bbe538d7617330107decc3b81200484b4a8dfb812420eee25d8049a42e073e89"
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 385 (2019) — TO REQUIRE A STUDY AND ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS AND PROCESSES OF THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 385** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB385.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-19** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-25** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-25** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-25** 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`
- **2019-02-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-28** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-28** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-04** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-04** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-05** Notification that SB385 is now Act 298 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/887e6300-ce78-4870-b72e-33090a8ba7e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).