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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1697: TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL POSITIONS AND MOTOR VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1697 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on March 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL POSITIONS AND MOTOR VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. Primary sponsor: Jim Dotson (Republican), Joey Carr (Republican). Most recent recorded action (April 8, 2025): Notification that HB1697 is now Act 477.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jim DotsonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate34
Joey CarrPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse34

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that HB1697 is now Act 477
  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  3. TO BE ENROLLED
  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.
  5. Returned to the House as passed.
  6. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
  7. Read the third time and passed.
  8. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  9. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE
  10. Received from the House.
  11. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
  12. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source