An act TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO 10 CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS BASED ON 11 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, the official text

Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language would be added to present law.

1 State of Arkansas                 As Engrossed: H2/20/25
2 95th General Assembly
                                          A Bill

3 Regular Session, 2025                                            HOUSE BILL 1460

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5 By: Representatives Rose, L. Johnson

6 By: Senator J. Dotson

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8                        For An Act To Be Entitled

9   AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO

10  CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS BASED ON

11  CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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15                       TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS

16                       TO CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND

17                       COUNCILS BASED ON CONGRESSIONAL

18                       DISTRICT.

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20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:

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22  SECTION 1. Arkansas Code � 15-4-202(a)(2)(A), concerning the members

23 of the Arkansas Economic Development Council, is amended to read as follows:

24  (2)(A) At least three (3) members shall be appointed from each of

25 the four (4) congressional districts existing on January 1, 2012 as they

26 exist at the time of appointment.

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28  SECTION 2. Arkansas Code � 15-6-104(b)(1)(A)(ii), concerning the

29 Arkansas Rural Development Commission, is amended to read as follows:

30                       (ii) One (1) member shall be appointed from each of the

31 four (4) congressional districts of the state as constituted January 1, 1990,

32 as they exist at the time of appointment and shall be a resident of a rural

33 area of that congressional district.

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35  SECTION 3. Arkansas Code � 15-75-201(b)(1), concerning the members of

36 the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, is amended to read as follows:

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1   (b)(1) There shall be one (1) member appointed by the Governor from

2 each congressional district, as the districts existed on January 1, 2007 as

3 they exist at the time of appointment.

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5   SECTION 4. Arkansas Code � 23-112-201(b)(1), concerning the Arkansas

6 Motor Vehicle Commission, is amended to read as follows:

7   (b)(1) One (1) commissioner shall be appointed from each of the four

8 (4) congressional districts of the state as constituted July 1, 1975 as they

9 exist at the time of appointment, and five (5) members of the commission,

10 including the consumer representative and the representative of the elderly,

11 shall be appointed from the state at large.

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