An act TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF 10 EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOR CAPITAL 11 IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, the official text

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

1 State of Arkansas           A Bill
2 95th General Assembly

3 Regular Session, 2025                                            SENATE BILL 335

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5 By: Joint Budget Committee

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8                             For An Act To Be Entitled

9   AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF

10  EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOR CAPITAL

11  IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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15                       AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION -

16                       ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CAPITAL

17                       IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION.

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

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22  SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF - CAPITAL

23 IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. There is hereby appropriated, to the Department of

24 Education - Arkansas School for the Deaf, to be payable from the Development

25 and Enhancement Fund, the following:

26  (A) for various maintenance, renovation, equipping, construction,

27 acquisition, improvement, upgrade, and repair of real property and

28 facilities, in a sum not to exceed...............................$35,000,000.

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30  SECTION 2. DISBURSEMENT CONTROLS. (A) No contract may be awarded nor

31 obligations otherwise incurred in relation to the project or projects

32 described herein in excess of the State Treasury funds actually available

33 therefor as provided by law. Provided, however, that institutions and

34 agencies listed herein shall have the authority to accept and use grants and

35 donations including Federal funds, and to use its unobligated cash income or

36 funds, or both available to it, for the purpose of supplementing the State

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1 Treasury funds for financing the entire costs of the project or projects

2 enumerated herein. Provided further, that the appropriations and funds

3 otherwise provided by the General Assembly for Maintenance and General

4 Operations of the agency or institutions receiving appropriation herein shall

5 not be used for any of the purposes as appropriated in this act.

6   (B) The restrictions of any applicable provisions of the State

7 Purchasing Law, the General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, the

8 Revenue Stabilization Law and any other applicable fiscal control laws of

9 this State and regulations promulgated by the Department of Finance and

10 Administration, as authorized by law, shall be strictly complied with in

11 disbursement of any funds provided by this act unless specifically provided

12 otherwise by law.

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14  SECTION 3. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of the General

15 Assembly that any funds disbursed under the authority of the appropriations

16 contained in this act shall be in compliance with the stated reasons for

17 which this act was adopted, as evidenced by the Agency Requests, Executive

18 Recommendations and Legislative Recommendations contained in the budget

19 manuals prepared by the Department of Finance and Administration, letters, or

20 summarized oral testimony in the official minutes of the Arkansas Legislative

21 Council or Joint Budget Committee which relate to its passage and adoption.

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23  SECTION 4. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is found and determined by the General

24 Assembly, that the Constitution of the State of Arkansas prohibits the

25 appropriation of funds for more than a one (1) year period; that the

26 effectiveness of this Act on July 1, 2025 is essential to the operation of

27 the agency for which the appropriations in this Act are provided, and that in

28 the event of an extension of the legislative session, the delay in the

29 effective date of this Act beyond July 1, 2025 could work irreparable harm

30 upon the proper administration and provision of essential governmental

31 programs. Therefore, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Act

32 being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health

33 and safety shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 2025.

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