All Roll Calls
Yes: 127 • No: 1
ArkansasHB14752025 Regular SessionHouse
TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF GREEN LIGHTS; TO AMEND THE RESTRICTIONS ON LAMP COLORS; TO AMEND THE COLORS OF LIGHTS THAT MAY BE USED BY EMERGENCY VEHICLES; AND TO DEFINE A ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE VEHICLE.
Sponsored By: Steve Crowell (Republican), Joey L. Carr (Republican)
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Roadwork vehicles can use green warning lights
Qualifying roadwork vehicles can use amber, white, or green flashing, rotating, or oscillating warning lights, alone or combined, during hazardous use. State, county, or city agencies must own or contract for the vehicle and determine it is needed for hazardous roadway service. Public service company or privately owned vehicles qualify when the Arkansas Office of Motor Vehicle approves their hazardous use under its rules. These vehicles must still obey traffic signals and speed limits; adding lights alone does not make a vehicle a roadwork vehicle. The legal definition of these warning lights now expressly includes roadwork lights and devices that imitate them.
Drivers face limits on colored warning lights
Drivers cannot display red, green, or amber flashing or rotating lights unless Arkansas law authorizes them. Attaching one of these lights to a vehicle counts as initial evidence that it was displayed. Purple lights are forbidden except during funeral processions. Front-facing red, blue, or green lights are generally banned, with exceptions for expressly authorized red lights and qualifying roadwork warning lights. Flashing lights are limited to authorized emergency vehicles, school buses, funeral processions, turn signals, hazard warnings, and qualifying roadwork vehicles.
Green lights alone confer no emergency status
Under the emergency-management rule, emergency vehicles must be identified by a green flashing light or rotating beacon. A roadwork vehicle using these lights does not automatically become an emergency vehicle. The Arkansas Division of Emergency Management director must designate it for that status. A separate rule requires other emergency-vehicle operators to use only white or amber emergency or warning lights, except police, fire services, and ambulances. Qualifying roadwork vehicles are also exempt from that color limit.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Steve Crowell
Republican • Senate
Joey L. Carr
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/25/2025
Senate Vote - Tuesday, February 25, 2025 3:29:28 PM
Yes: 35 • No: 0
House vote • 2/19/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, February 19, 2025 1:42:26 PM
Yes: 92 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1475 is now Act 209
2/27/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
2/26/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
2/25/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
2/25/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
2/25/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
2/25/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
2/24/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE
2/19/2025SenateReceived from the House.
2/19/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
2/19/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
2/18/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE
2/13/2025HouseFiled
2/13/2025House
Bill Text
HB1475 - Introduced
2/13/2025
Act Version
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