---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE A BLOOD TYPE DESIGNATION TO BE PLACED ON A DRIVER'S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE A BLOOD TYPE DESIGNATION TO BE PLACED ON A DRIVER'S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1315"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1315 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dees", "Torres"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-30T16:03:19+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T22:49:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef0b0e12-ba9a-4bac-8676-33827a695b5b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b82d6ece35ac200fd3d279b638457580b95fb6e3f01fc37e1ba879d4869d3fe5"
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 1315 (2025) — TO AUTHORIZE A BLOOD TYPE DESIGNATION TO BE PLACED ON A DRIVER'S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 147** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=147.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1315-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1315** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1315.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dees — primary (person)
- Torres — primary (person)
- A. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales Worthen — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- McGruder — cosponsor (person)
- N. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30T16:03:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-30T22:57:31+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`
- **2025-02-11T16:45:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T14:36:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-12T14:36:18+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-12T16:24:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-13T19:55:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T21:58:34+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-13T21:58:43+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17T23:17:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T17:29:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-18T17:29:16+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-18T19:35:17+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-18T19:35:19+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-20T15:25:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-25T22:49:06+00:00** Notification that HB1315 is now Act 147 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef0b0e12-ba9a-4bac-8676-33827a695b5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).