republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1548.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PERIOD OF TIME CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO WAIT TO COMPLETE THE DRIVER'S EXAMINATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PERIOD OF TIME CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO WAIT TO COMPLETE THE DRIVER'S EXAMINATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1548	Arkansas HB 1548 (2023)	bill		enacted	D. Wallace M. McElroy	3	18	2	2023-03-06T16:33:10+00:00	2023-04-11T16:54:03+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7840d412-5b85-4973-a7fc-96727d9141b9	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	52574dec32f01bd07dbfa9f840df64f81f55f3fd82b324faa65007d9e2856dfb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1548 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PERIOD OF TIME CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO WAIT TO COMPLETE THE DRIVER'S EXAMINATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 550 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1548 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 32–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• D. Wallace — primary (person)
• M. McElroy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-06T16:33:10+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-06T22:27:06+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
• 2023-03-28T17:32:06+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-03-29T13:30:37+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-29T13:30:52+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-29T16:26:35+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-30T19:39:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30T19:39:26+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-31T01:40:01+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-31T17:40:12+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T21:31:45+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T17:44:48+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T17:44:54+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-04-06T17:45:00+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T18:56:17+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T18:56:21+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T20:10:56+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-11T16:54:03+00:00 Notification that HB1548 is now Act 550 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7840d412-5b85-4973-a7fc-96727d9141b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).