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1 State of Arkansas A Bill
2 95th General Assembly
3 Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 176
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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 15 OF
10 THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING NATURAL RESOURCES AND
11 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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14 Subtitle
15 TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO TITLE
16 15 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING
17 NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC
18 DEVELOPMENT.
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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 � 15-11-205, concerning the Secretary of the
23 Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, is amended to read as follows:
24 (d)(1) The department may enter into contracts with department
25 employees for the provision of golf lessons at the department's golf courses
26 if the:
27 (A) Lessons Golf lessons occur outside of the employee's
28 normal working hours;
29 (B) Employee is a Class A member or an apprentice of the
30 Professional Golfers' Association of America or the Ladies Professional Golf
31 Association; and
32 (C) Director of the State Parks Division has approved the
33 contract as being in accordance with department standards and procedures for
34 concession and operating contracts.
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36 SECTION 2. Arkansas Code � 15-11-503(4), concerning definitions under
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1 the Arkansas Tourism Development Act, is amended to read as follows to add
2 clarifying language:
3 (4) "Eligible company" means any corporation, limited liability
4 company, partnership, registered limited liability partnership, sole
5 proprietorship, business trust, or any other entity that invests:
6 (A) A minimum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)
7 in a high-unemployment county or one million dollars ($1,000,000) in any
8 other county for the purpose of constructing, operating, or intending to
9 operate a tourism attraction project, whether owned or leased, within the
10 state that meets the standards promulgated by the director pursuant to � 15-
11 11-504; or
12 (B) For the purpose of constructing, operating, or
13 intending to operate a tourism attraction project, whether owned or leased,
14 located in a Natural State Initiative Opportunity Zone that meets the
15 standards promulgated under �� 15-11-504 and 15-11-512:
16 (i) A minimum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars
17 ($250,000) in a high-unemployment county; or
18 (ii) Five A minimum of five hundred thousand dollars
19 ($500,000) in any other county;
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21 SECTION 3. Arkansas Code � 15-11-804(a), concerning selections for the
22 Arkansas Great Places Program, is amended to read as follows to repeal
23 obsolete language and update references:
24 (a)(1)(A) The Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism shall select
25 four (4) eligible organizations for participation in the Arkansas Great
26 Places Program by July 1, 2012.
27 (B) An eligible organization selected for participation in
28 the program under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section shall participate in
29 the program for a two-year period.
30 (C) The department shall select an eligible organization
31 under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section from each of the four (4)
32 congressional districts.
33 (D) Two (2) of the four (4) eligible organizations
34 selected under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section shall be located in
35 counties of twenty thousand (20,000) residents or fewer.
36 (2)(A) After July 1, 2012, the department The Department of
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1 Parks, Heritage, and Tourism shall select by July 1 of each even-numbered
2 year no more than four (4) eligible organizations for participation in the
3 program Arkansas Great Places Program.
4 (B)(2) An eligible organization selected for participation
5 in the program under subdivision (a)(2)(A)(a)(1) of this section shall
6 participate in the program for a two-year period.
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8 SECTION 4. DO NOT CODIFY. CONSTRUCTION AND LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
9 It is the intent of the General Assembly that:
10 (1) The enactment and adoption of this act shall not expressly
11 or impliedly repeal an act passed during the regular session of the Ninety-
12 Fifth General Assembly;
13 (2) To the extent that a conflict exists between an act of the
14 regular session of the Ninety-Fifth General Assembly and this act:
15 (A) The act of the regular session of the Ninety-Fifth
16 General Assembly shall be treated as a subsequent act passed by the General
17 Assembly for the purposes of:
18 (i) Giving the act of the regular session of the
19 Ninety-Fifth General Assembly its full force and effect; and
20 (ii) Amending or repealing the appropriate parts of
21 the Arkansas Code of 1987; and
22 (B) Section 1-2-107 shall not apply; and
23 (3) This act shall make only technical, not substantive, changes
24 to the Arkansas Code of 1987.
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