All Roll Calls
Yes: 219 • No: 6
ArkansasHB18452025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
TO ALLOW THE ELECTRONIC ADMINISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE OWNERSHIP OF MOTOR VEHICLES; TO AUTHORIZE ELECTRONIC LIEN, TITLING, AND REGISTRATION SYSTEMS; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF A SECURE DIGITAL TITLE SYSTEM.
Sponsored By: Ricky Hill (Republican), Mike Holcomb (Republican)
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Bill Overview
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6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 3 costs, 1 mixed.
Digital title options for vehicle owners
Arkansas agencies can choose to start electronic title, registration, and lien systems, including secure digital titles that replace paper titles. These systems must meet state security standards and, when appropriate, connect in real time to the national vehicle-title system. They can handle dealer applications, lender filings, and proof of local personal-property tax assessments. Owners can sign title and registration applications and certificates electronically; ink signatures and witnessed marks remain accepted. Required acknowledgments still need an authorized official, and owners must sign the front of titles unless an exception applies. Key electronic lien and titling provisions take effect only after the motor vehicle office certifies system implementation and files that certification.
Electronic mileage disclosures for vehicle transfers
Vehicle mileage disclosures and related notices can be written or electronic. Electronic disclosures must follow 49 U.S.C. § 32705(g), as it existed on January 6, 2025. Disclosures must state total mileage or identify mileage as not actual; false statements remain prohibited and penalties still apply. Buyers acquiring vehicles for resale can accept only complete disclosures, and written or electronic powers of attorney are allowed when lienholders hold titles. Lessees must disclose mileage to lessors, who must give lessees notice explaining the disclosure rules and penalties.
Drivers must show vehicle registration certificates
The person driving or controlling a vehicle must keep its registration certificate in the vehicle or carry it. They must make it available for display when police or a motor vehicle office officer or employee asks.
Transaction fees for electronic vehicle services
Arkansas can hire qualified vendors to develop and operate its electronic vehicle systems. Under a contract that costs the state nothing, the vendor must charge system users a fee for each transaction. Fees cannot exceed reasonable costs to develop, implement, train users for, and manage the systems. The law sets no dollar amount or flat dollar cap.
Dealers must switch to electronic paperwork
Vehicle dealers must use the electronic lien, title, and registration systems within one year after the systems begin operating. Exceptions apply where the law provides them or the state finance secretary grants a dealer a waiver. Dealers submitting fewer than 25 applications annually are expressly allowed to submit electronically.
Electronic liens can delay title issuance
Once the required system-implementation certification is filed, liens, releases, and security interests can be sent electronically to Arkansas's motor vehicle office. Electronic releases have the same legal effect as paper releases, and certified electronic lien records are admissible in state proceedings. A lien satisfaction must name the person satisfying it, give their address, and include other information the office requires. With electronic processing, a title need not be issued until the last lien is satisfied and a clear title is issued to the owner. For mileage-disclosure duties, a title subject to an electronic lien counts as held by the lienholder.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Ricky Hill
Republican • Senate
Mike Holcomb
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/16/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, April 16, 2025 1:36:45 PM
Yes: 91 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/10/2025
Senate Vote - Thursday, April 10, 2025 4:04:59 PM
Yes: 29 • No: 6
House vote • 3/31/2025
House Vote - Monday, March 31, 2025 2:29:13 PM
Yes: 99 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1845 is now Act 926
4/21/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
4/16/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
4/16/2025HouseSenate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
4/16/2025HouseReturned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
4/15/2025HouseRe-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE
4/10/2025HouseReturned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
4/10/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
4/10/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
4/10/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
4/7/2025SenateRe-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE
4/3/2025SenateREPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
4/3/2025SenateAmendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
4/3/2025SenateWithdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
4/3/2025SenateRules suspended.
4/3/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE
3/31/2025SenateReceived from the House.
3/31/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
3/31/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
3/20/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE
3/18/2025HouseFiled
3/18/2025House
Bill Text
HB1845 - Introduced
3/18/2025
Act Version
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