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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1561"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1561 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCollum"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f8ef021-cf53-427e-aaee-63f7ecb013a5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3fe27a3f5c358728a16d28f38256a75cc80e8654cb5354006c039f6c91dc673d"
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 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](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1561.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed. — **275** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **911** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f8ef021-cf53-427e-aaee-63f7ecb013a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).