republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1745.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS TO POSSESS A UNITED STATES WORK AUTHORIZATION; TO REQUIRE THE OPERATOR OF A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE TO HAVE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY; AND TO CREATE RELATED OFFENSES.	TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS TO POSSESS A UNITED STATES WORK AUTHORIZATION; TO REQUIRE THE OPERATOR OF A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE TO HAVE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY; AND TO CREATE RELATED OFFENSES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1745	Arkansas HB 1745 (2025)	bill		enacted	Hawk K. Hammer	4	22	0	2025-03-11T21:10:17+00:00	2025-04-14T22:11:42+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/43179fb8-2ea3-4f57-93f7-0435594c96f2	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	3033330a8b9e2c16da5d87b16e7323c8558ae244ea4b8897908896441046ced8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1745 (2025) — TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS TO POSSESS A UNITED STATES WORK AUTHORIZATION; TO REQUIRE THE OPERATOR OF A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE TO HAVE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY; AND TO CREATE RELATED OFFENSES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 604 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1745 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Hawk — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Henley — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Schulz — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-11T21:10:17+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-11T22:00:45+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
• 2025-03-18T18:28:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-19T13:29:26+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-19T13:29:28+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19T21:15:49+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-20T18:42:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-20T23:24:30+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-20T23:24:37+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-31T22:40:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01T14:10:18+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-01T14:10:24+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-01T19:00:19+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-03T19:12:37+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03T19:12:48+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-03T20:25:30+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-03T20:25:43+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-08T16:37:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-09T19:11:29+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-09T19:11:32+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-09T19:11:34+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-14T22:11:42+00:00 Notification that HB1745 is now Act 604 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/43179fb8-2ea3-4f57-93f7-0435594c96f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).