---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE; TO CREATE MOBILE WORK ZONES; AND ASSESS A FINE FOR A MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATION IN A MOBILE WORK ZONE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE; TO CREATE MOBILE WORK ZONES; AND ASSESS A FINE FOR A MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATION IN A MOBILE WORK ZONE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1596"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1596 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Steimel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-26T15:14:54+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T19:03:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9df4d9b-c8b3-4806-8855-779413fbc146"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "efbeb649d36266593c90234d6734d383eac6865c1afe6d2623bf56658bee94f6"
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 1596 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE; TO CREATE MOBILE WORK ZONES; AND ASSESS A FINE FOR A MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATION IN A MOBILE WORK ZONE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 327** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=327.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1596** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1596.pdf)

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Steimel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26T15:14:54+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-26T23:33:14+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`
- **2025-03-04T17:03:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T20:42:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T23:23:40+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-05T23:23:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10T22:38:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11T21:07:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T21:07:16+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-11T21:36:04+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-11T21:36:06+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-12T13:02:03+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T19:03:39+00:00** Notification that HB1596 is now Act 327 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9df4d9b-c8b3-4806-8855-779413fbc146`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).