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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1796: TO REQUIRE THE DISPLAY OF GENDER INFORMATION ON AN ARKANSAS DRIVER’S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD.

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 1796 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas House on March 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO REQUIRE THE DISPLAY OF GENDER INFORMATION ON AN ARKANSAS DRIVER’S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD. Primary sponsor: Blake Johnson (Republican), Howard Beaty (Republican). Most recent recorded action (April 16, 2025): Notification that HB1796 is now Act 711.

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
Blake JohnsonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate21
Howard BeatyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse95

“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 HB1796 is now Act 711
  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. Read the third time and passed.
  7. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE
  9. Received from the House.
  10. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  11. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  12. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

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