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1 State of Arkansas As Engrossed: S4/7/25
2 95th General Assembly
A Bill
3 Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 610
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5 By: Senator J. Dismang
6 By: Representative Eaves
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8 For An Act To Be Entitled
9 AN ACT TO AMEND THE GENERATING ARKANSAS JOBS ACT OF
10 2025; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY; AND FOR OTHER
11 PURPOSES.
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14 Subtitle
15 TO AMEND THE GENERATING ARKANSAS JOBS
16 ACT OF 2025; AND TO DECLARE AN
17 EMERGENCY.
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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 � 23-4-1304(e)(2)(E), as enacted by Acts
22 2025, No. 373, � 16, concerning the time allowed for review of an annual
23 update filing by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, is amended to read
24 as follows:
25 (E) The commission shall complete its review of each
26 annual update filing and issue its order within sixty (60) days ninety (90)
27 days following the date of the annual update filing.
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29 SECTION 2. Arkansas Code � 23-4-1306(e)(1), as enacted by Acts 2025,
30 No. 373, � 16, concerning an order approving a rider rate schedule under the
31 Generating Arkansas Jobs Act of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
32 (e)(1) Upon receipt of an electric distribution cooperative's or an
33 electric generation and transmission cooperative's filing to implement the
34 rider rate schedule and each annual update under this subchapter, the
35 commission shall issue an order approving the rider rate schedule and each
36 annual update to recover strategic investments under this subchapter if the
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1 commission determines that the electric distribution cooperative's or the
2 electric generation and transmission cooperative's application complies with
3 and therefore is in the public interest the provisions of this section.
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5 SECTION 3. Arkansas Code � 23-4-1306(e)(2)(E), as enacted by Acts
6 2025, No. 373, � 16, concerning the time allowed for review of an annual
7 update filing by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, is amended to read
8 as follows:
9 (E) The commission shall complete its review of each
10 annual update filing and issue its order within sixty (60) days ninety (90)
11 days following the date of the annual update filing.
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13 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is found and determined by the
14 General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the General Assembly passed
15 Acts 2025, No. 373, to allow for significant investment in electric public
16 utility infrastructure and natural gas public utility infrastructure to
17 enable this state to attract and serve economic development projects across a
18 variety of industries, as well as to continue reliably supporting existing
19 and new customers; that an engrossing error was discovered during the review
20 of Acts 2025, No. 373; and that this act is immediately necessary to correct
21 the engrossing error found during the review of Acts 2025, No. 373.
22 Therefore, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act being immediately
23 necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety shall
24 become effective on:
25 (1) The date of its approval by the Governor;
26 (2) If the bill is neither approved nor vetoed by the Governor,
27 the expiration of the period of time during which the Governor may veto the
28 bill; or
29 (3) If the bill is vetoed by the Governor and the veto is
30 overridden, the date the last house overrides the veto.
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32 /s/J. Dismang
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