republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1561.md

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Bill	TO AUTHORIZE THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES OR FULLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON THE STREETS AND HIGHWAYS OF THIS STATE UNDER AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AUTHORIZE THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES OR FULLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON THE STREETS AND HIGHWAYS OF THIS STATE UNDER AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1561	Arkansas HB 1561 (2019)	bill		enacted	McCollum	1	15	2	2019-02-25	2019-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/5f8ef021-cf53-427e-aaee-63f7ecb013a5	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	3fe27a3f5c358728a16d28f38256a75cc80e8654cb5354006c039f6c91dc673d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1561 (2019) — TO AUTHORIZE THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES OR FULLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON THE STREETS AND HIGHWAYS OF THIS STATE UNDER AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. HB 1561 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 27–5 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 91–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCollum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-25 Filed introduction
• 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
• 2019-02-28 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
• 2019-03-04 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2019-03-05 Received from the House.
• 2019-03-05 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-03-11 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-12 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-12 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2019-03-12 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2019-03-12 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-03-12 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-03-12 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-03-14 Notification that HB1561 is now Act 468 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f8ef021-cf53-427e-aaee-63f7ecb013a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).