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1 State of Arkansas A Bill
2 95th General Assembly
3 Regular Session, 2025 HOUSE BILL 1359
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5 By: Representatives Gazaway, M. Shepherd
6 By: Senators C. Tucker, J. Bryant
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8 For An Act To Be Entitled
9 AN ACT TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO TITLE 19 OF
10 THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC FINANCE; AND FOR
11 OTHER PURPOSES.
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14 Subtitle
15 TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO TITLE
16 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING
17 PUBLIC FINANCE.
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19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
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21 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code � 19-4-803(c), concerning exemptions from the
22 laws concerning the expenditure of cash funds, is amended to read as follows
23 to repeal obsolete language and make stylistic changes:
24 (c) The Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool, created under
25 the Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool Act, � 23-79-501 et seq., and its
26 board of directors, and the Arkansas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty
27 Fund and its advisory association, referenced under the Arkansas Property and
28 Casualty Insurance Guaranty Act, � 23-90-101 et seq., and the Arkansas Life
29 and Health Insurance Guaranty Association and its board of directors,
30 referenced under the Arkansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
31 Act, � 23-96-101 et seq., are hereby exempt from the provisions of this
32 subchapter.
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34 SECTION 2. Arkansas Code � 19-5-922(b)(2), concerning the State
35 Insurance Department Trust Fund, is amended to read as follows to repeal
36 obsolete language:
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1 (2) The fund shall be used:
2 (A) To defray the expenses of the State Insurance
3 Department in the discharge of its administrative and regulatory powers and
4 duties as prescribed by law and as set out in the State Insurance Department
5 Trust Fund Act, � 23-61-701 et seq.; and
6 (B) To defray the administrative expenses and losses
7 incurred by the Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool of the
8 Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool Act, � 23-79-501 et seq., or its
9 successor; and
10 (C) To fund capital expenditures and training for fire
11 departments certified by the Division of Emergency Management.
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13 SECTION 3. DO NOT CODIFY. CONSTRUCTION AND LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
14 It is the intent of the General Assembly that:
15 (1) The enactment and adoption of this act shall not expressly
16 or impliedly repeal an act passed during the regular session of the Ninety-
17 Fifth General Assembly;
18 (2) To the extent that a conflict exists between an act of the
19 regular session of the Ninety-Fifth General Assembly and this act:
20 (A) The act of the regular session of the Ninety-Fifth
21 General Assembly shall be treated as a subsequent act passed by the General
22 Assembly for the purposes of:
23 (i) Giving the act of the regular session of the
24 Ninety-Fifth General Assembly its full force and effect; and
25 (ii) Amending or repealing the appropriate parts of
26 the Arkansas Code of 1987; and
27 (B) Section 1-2-107 shall not apply; and
28 (3) This act shall make only technical, not substantive, changes
29 to the Arkansas Code of 1987.
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