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1 State of Arkansas A Bill
2 95th General Assembly
3 Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 170
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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 TITLE 1 OF
10 THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING GENERAL PROVISIONS; AND
11 FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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14 Subtitle
15 TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO TITLE 1
16 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING GENERAL
17 PROVISIONS.
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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 Arkansas Code � 1-2-125 is repealed because the section has
22 expired.
23 1-2-125. Electronic document submissions and publications.
24 (a)(1) A state agency, a court, or a local government entity that is
25 required by law to accept, solicit, or publish any information, record,
26 report, application, or other required material may accept, solicit, or
27 publish the information, record, report, application, or other required
28 material in an electronic form.
29 (2) If a state agency, a court, or a local government entity
30 accepts, solicits, or publishes the information, record, report, application,
31 or other required material in an electronic form under subdivision (a)(1) of
32 this section, the state agency, the court, or the local government entity
33 shall also comply with existing requirements in law concerning the
34 acceptance, solicitation, or publication of information, records, reports,
35 applications, or other required materials.
36 (3) A state agency, a court, or a local government entity may
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1 require an electronic form of receipt verification of information, records,
2 reports, applications, or other required materials accepted, solicited, or
3 published in an electronic form.
4 (b) If as provided by this section, a state agency, a court, or a
5 local government entity decides to accept, solicit, or publish the
6 information, record, report, application, or other required material in an
7 electronic form, the state agency, the court, or the local government entity
8 shall:
9 (1) Notify the Legislative Council within thirty (30) days of
10 its decision and the justifications for the decision; and
11 (2) On or before the expiration date of this section, advise the
12 Legislative Council as to the sections of the Arkansas Code that should be
13 amended to allow indefinitely for the discretion to accept, solicit, or
14 publish the information, records, report, application, or other required
15 material in an electronic form.
16 (c) This section expires four (4) years after August 1, 2017.
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18 SECTION 2. DO NOT CODIFY. CONSTRUCTION AND LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
19 It is the intent of the General Assembly that:
20 (1) The enactment and adoption of this act shall not expressly
21 or impliedly repeal an act passed during the regular session of the Ninety-
22 Fifth General Assembly;
23 (2) To the extent that a conflict exists between an act of the
24 regular session of the Ninety-Fifth General Assembly and this act:
25 (A) The act of the regular session of the Ninety-Fifth
26 General Assembly shall be treated as a subsequent act passed by the General
27 Assembly for the purposes of:
28 (i) Giving the act of the regular session of the
29 Ninety-Fifth General Assembly its full force and effect; and
30 (ii) Amending or repealing the appropriate parts of
31 the Arkansas Code of 1987; and
32 (B) Section 1-2-107 shall not apply; and
33 (3) This act shall make only technical, not substantive, changes
34 to the Arkansas Code of 1987.
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