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1 State of Arkansas A Bill
2 95th General Assembly
3 Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 169
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5 By: Senators C. Tucker, J. Bryant
6 By: Representatives Gazaway, M. Shepherd
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8 For An Act To Be Entitled
9 AN ACT TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS
10 CONSTITUTION; TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION,
11 AMENDMENT 51; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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14 Subtitle
15 TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE
16 ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION; AND TO AMEND
17 ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51.
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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 Constitution, Amendment 51, � 6(a)(2), concerning
22 voter registration application forms, is amended to read as follows to
23 correct a grammatical and punctuation error:
24 (2) Such forms shall include, in identical print, statements
25 that:
26 (A) Specify voter eligibility requirements;
27 (B) Contain an attestation that the applicant meets all
28 voter eligibility requirements and that the applicant does not claim the
29 right to vote in another county or state;
30 (C) Specify the penalties provided by law for submission
31 of a false voter registration application;
32 (D) Inform applicants that where they register to vote
33 will be kept confidential;
34 (E) Inform applicants that declining to register will also
35 be kept confidential; and
36 (F) Inform applicants that they will be required to verify
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1 their registration when voting in person or by absentee ballot by providing a
2 required document or identification card as provided in Arkansas
3 Constitution, Amendment 51, � 13.;
4 (G) Inform the applicant that if the voter registration
5 application is being collected by a third-party voter registration
6 organization, the third-party voter registration organization may be unable
7 to deliver the application to the permanent registrar in the county in which
8 the applicant resides before the thirty-day voter registration deadline to
9 vote in the next election and that the applicant may elect to deliver the
10 application in person or by mail; and
11 (H) Inform the applicant of the process to determine if
12 the application has been received by the Secretary of State.
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14 SECTION 2. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 51, � 9(a), concerning
15 eligibility to register to vote, is amended to read as follows to correct a
16 grammatical and punctuation error:
17 (a) All persons may register who:
18 (1) Have not been convicted of a felony unless the person's
19 sentence has been discharged or the person has been pardoned;
20 (2) Have not been adjudged mentally incompetent by a court of
21 competent jurisdiction; and
22 (3) Meet one (1) of the following requirements:
23 (A) Are qualified electors who have not previously
24 registered;
25 (B) Will become qualified electors during the thirty-day
26 period immediately prior to the next election scheduled within the county; or
27 (C) Are otherwise qualified electors but whose
28 registration has been cancelled in a manner provided for by this amendment.;
29 and
30 (4) Are citizens of the United States.
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32 SECTION 3. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 51, � 11(a), concerning
33 cancellation of voter registrations, is amended to read as follows to correct
34 a grammatical and punctuation error:
35 (a) It shall be the duty of the permanent registrar to cancel the
36 registration of voters:
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1 (1) Who have failed to respond to address confirmation mailings
2 described in section 10 of this amendment and have not voted or appeared to
3 vote in an election during the period beginning on the date of the notice and
4 ending on the day after the date of the second general election for federal
5 office that occurs after the date of the address confirmation notice;
6 (2) Who have changed their residence to an address outside the
7 county;
8 (3) Who have died;
9 (4) Who have been convicted of a felony and have not discharged
10 their sentence or been pardoned;
11 (5) Who are not lawfully qualified or registered electors of
12 this state or of the county; or
13 (6) Who have been adjudged mentally incompetent by a court of
14 competent jurisdiction.; or
15 (7) Who are not citizens of the United States.
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17 SECTION 4. DO NOT CODIFY. CONSTRUCTION AND LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
18 It is the intent of the General Assembly that:
19 (1) The enactment and adoption of this act shall not expressly
20 or impliedly repeal an act passed during the regular session of the Ninety-
21 Fifth General Assembly;
22 (2) To the extent that a conflict exists between an act of the
23 regular session of the Ninety-Fifth General Assembly and this act:
24 (A) The act of the regular session of the Ninety-Fifth
25 General Assembly shall be treated as a subsequent act passed by the General
26 Assembly for the purposes of:
27 (i) Giving the act of the regular session of the
28 Ninety-Fifth General Assembly its full force and effect; and
29 (ii) Amending or repealing the appropriate parts of
30 the Arkansas Constitution; and
31 (B) Section 1-2-107 shall not apply; and
32 (3) This act shall make only technical, not substantive, changes
33 to the Arkansas Constitution.
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