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AR Code § 9-30-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 3 - Minors|Chapter 30 - Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention|§ 9-30-108. Criteria for grants or loans

 Regarding the Children's Trust Fund, in making grants or loans to a local council, the Department of Human Services shall consider the degree to which the local council meets the following criteria:   (1)  (A) Has as its primary purpose the development and facilitation of a community prevention program in a specific geographical area.  (B) The prevention programs shall utilize trained volunteers and existing community resources wherever practicable;    (2) Does not provide direct services except on a demonstration project basis, or as a facilitator of interagency projects; and  (3) Demonstrates a willingness and ability to provide prevention program models and consultation to organizations and communities regarding prevention program development and maintenance.
AR Code § 9-30-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 3 - Minors|Chapter 30 - Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention|§ 9-30-109. Children's Trust Fund

 (a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a special trust fund to be known as the “Children's Trust Fund”.  (b) All county clerks in this state shall charge a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) in addition to all other fees prescribed by law for each marriage license issued, and the clerks shall transmit the ten-dollar fee to the Treasurer of State who shall deposit it into the trust fund as special revenues.  (c)  (1) Until the balance of the trust fund reaches ten million dollars ($10,000,000), not more than eighty percent (80%) of the money credited to the trust fund during any fiscal year shall be disbursed during that fiscal year.  (2) When the balance in the trust fund reaches ten million dollars ($10,000,000), disbursements from the trust fund shall be limited to the amount in excess of ten million dollars ($10,000,000).    (d) The Treasurer of State shall credit to the trust fund all moneys earned on the trust fund balance.  (e) No more than twenty percent (20%) of the revenues derived from the marriage license fees during any fiscal year shall be used to cover the administrative costs of the trust fund.  (f) The twenty-percent limitation does not apply to capital expenditures.
AR Code § 10-2-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-101. Time for meeting

 (a)  (1) The General Assembly shall meet in regular session at 12:00 noon on the second Monday in January in each odd-numbered year.  (2)  (A) However, in any odd-numbered year following the election of a nonincumbent governor, the General Assembly upon convening at 12:00 noon on the second Monday in January may remain in session only for such time not to exceed two (2) days as is necessary to open and publish the votes for various constitutional offices, to swear in the state constitutional officers and members of the General Assembly, to organize and select officers, and to otherwise prepare for the regular session.  (B) The General Assembly may then stand in recess for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days.      (b)  (1) The General Assembly shall meet in a fiscal session to consider appropriation bills in each even-numbered year at 12:00 noon on the:  (A) Second Monday in February in years in which the preferential primary election is held in May under § 7-7-203; and  (B) Second Wednesday in April in years in which the preferential primary election is held in March under § 7-7-203.    (2) A bill other than an appropriation bill may be considered in a fiscal session if two-thirds (2/3) of the members of each house of the General Assembly approve consideration of the nonappropriation bill.
AR Code § 10-2-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-102. Duties of Secretary of Senate, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, and other officers

 (a) The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, with their respective clerical forces, shall perform all duties required in the engrossment and enrollment of bills and all necessary work as clerks of committees.  (b) The employees of the Senate shall perform such duties during the regular session of the General Assembly and during the interim between the convening of special sessions, fiscal sessions, and the regular sessions of the General Assembly as may be provided by the Rules of the Senate or by the Senate Efficiency Committee, subject to the approval of the Senate.
AR Code § 10-2-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-103. Coordinator of House Legislative Services

 (a) The Coordinator of House Legislative Services shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives with the approval of the House Management Committee.  (b)  (1) The Coordinator of House Legislative Services shall perform such duties as may be provided by Rules of the House of Representatives and as provided by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the House Management Committee.  (2) In addition thereto, the Coordinator of House Legislative Services shall hereafter perform all duties imposed upon the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives now provided by law or authorized by Rules of the House of Representatives especially with respect to the disbursement of House funds, the keeping of fiscal accounts and records, the signing of official documents, and the acquisition of stationery, postage, and other supplies for the House of Representatives and its members.  (3) [Repealed.]
AR Code § 10-2-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-104. Duties of assistant sergeants at arms

 The assistant sergeant at arms in each house shall perform the duties of doorkeeper and postmaster of his or her respective house.
AR Code § 10-2-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-105. Administration of oaths

 (a) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may administer oaths to the members and officers of their respective houses.  (b) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or the chair of a committee of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, or his or her designee, may administer oaths to witnesses in any case under their examination.
AR Code § 10-2-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-106. Elections

 In all elections made by either house or by a joint vote of both houses, the votes of a majority of all the members present shall be necessary to a choice, and when an election shall be by joint vote, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall grant the person so elected a certificate thereof, which, in all cases in which a commission is required, shall be sufficient to authorize the granting of the commission.
AR Code § 10-2-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-107. Election of Speaker of the House of Representatives in doubt — Procedure

 (a) If, after the biennial general election and prior to the convening of the regular session, a statement signed by fifty (50) or more members of the House of Representatives who will serve at the next-following regular session of the General Assembly is filed with the current Speaker of the House of Representatives stating that the members believe that the formal election of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives is in doubt, then the current Speaker of the House of Representatives shall call a one-day organizational meeting of all members and members-elect of the House who will serve at the next regular session. This meeting shall be held for the single purpose of designating the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the next General Assembly.  (b) If the special organizational meeting of members of the House is called, all members and members-elect of the House who will serve at the next-following regular session of the General Assembly shall be entitled to receive per diem and mileage for attending the meeting.
AR Code § 10-2-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-108. Manuscripts of daily proceedings — Journals

 (a) Whenever the daily proceedings of either house of the General Assembly shall be made up in manuscript form, the manuscript shall be signed each day by the presiding officers of the respective houses and attested by the secretary or clerk thereof.  (b) In addition to the transcribed record of the journals of either house, the manuscript proceedings shall also be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, which manuscript proceedings shall be kept and preserved by the Secretary of State.  (c) A certified transcript of the proceedings of each house of the General Assembly shall be filed with the Secretary of State as a public document and shall be made available in the office of the Secretary of State for the inspection of any citizen requiring information therefrom, but the journals shall not be printed by the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 10-2-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-109. Joint sessions

 (a) When by the Constitution or laws of the state a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives is required, they shall assemble with their clerks on the day and at the hour previously agreed on for that purpose in the hall of the House of Representatives.  (b) When the meeting is assembled, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives shall preside in conjunction, and the meeting shall be governed by such standing rules as shall have been adopted for that purpose by the concurrence of both houses. They shall have power to punish any person other than a member for disorderly or contemptuous behavior in their presence by fine and imprisonment in the same manner and to the same extent as either house may do for like conduct before it by the Constitution and laws of this state.  (c) Any member of either house who shall be guilty of disorderly behavior in the presence of the meeting may be punished by the house of which he or she is a member in the same manner as if the offense had been committed in the presence of that house.
AR Code § 10-2-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-110. Disorderly conduct

 (a) If any person, whether a member or not, shall be guilty of any disorder in the presence of either house or a Committee of the Whole, or in a joint meeting of both houses, while in session, the presiding officer of the house or joint meeting or Chair of the Committee of the Whole may order the person into immediate custody. The sergeant at arms shall immediately take the person into custody and detain him or her until the further order of the house, joint meeting, or Committee of the Whole, before which offense was committed.  (b) If any person, whether a member or not, shall disturb the proceedings of any committee of either house or be guilty of disorderly conduct in their presence, the house appointing the committee may punish the person in the same manner as if the offense had been committed in the presence of the house. If the disorder or offense shall be committed before a joint committee of both houses, the President of the Senate shall issue process, and both houses shall proceed in joint meeting.
AR Code § 10-2-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-111. Unauthorized use of roll call system — Penalty

 (a) Any person who, by tampering with the mechanism of the electric roll call system in the Chamber of the House of Representatives, shall willfully cause the vote indicated at any station to be incorrectly recorded shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, he or she shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).  (b) Any person not a member of the House of Representatives who, during the taking of a vote on any matter before a session of the House or during the calling of a roll in the House, shall operate a voting station of the electric roll call system shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, he or she shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
AR Code § 10-2-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-112. Prefiling of bills and resolutions — Assignment to committee — Printing

 (a)  (1) The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, under the direction and supervision of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, shall establish a system for the prefiling of bills and resolutions beginning on:  (A) November 15 of each year preceding a regular session of the General Assembly;  (B) The second Monday of January of each year of a fiscal session of the General Assembly which is held in a year in which the preferential primary election is held in May under § 7-7-203; and  (C) The second Monday of March of each year of a fiscal session of the General Assembly which is held in a year in which the preferential primary election is held in March under § 7-7-203.    (2) A nonappropriation bill may not be prefiled prior to a fiscal session due to the requirement in Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 86, that a concurrent resolution be approved by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members elected to each house before either body may consider a nonappropriation bill.  (3) Under that presession filing system, each member-elect of the General Assembly and holdover member of the Senate who will be serving at the next-following regular session of the General Assembly shall be permitted to prefile bills and resolutions for the next regular session as soon as the members-elect of the next General Assembly are certified to the Secretary of State.    (b) The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, respectively, shall assign numbers to House and Senate bills and resolutions.  (c) The Speaker-elect of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall provisionally assign all prefiled bills and resolutions to committees. Upon the convening of the General Assembly, the respective bodies shall review the assignment of the bills and resolutions made prior to the convening of the session by the Speaker-elect of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and shall make official assignments of the bills and resolutions in accordance with their respective rules.  (d) The legislative printing contract which includes the printing of bills, resolutions, committee reports, special reports, approved acts, and other specified legislative documents shall include the printing of prefiled bills and resolutions filed pursuant to this section.
AR Code § 10-2-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-113. Senate confirmation of board and commission appointees

 (a) All appointments made by the Governor of members of boards and commissions of the State of Arkansas, except appointments of members of boards and commissions governed by specific constitutional provisions that may be in conflict with this section, shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate. However, if any such appointment is made while the General Assembly is not in session, the person so appointed may qualify and hold office until the appointment shall be rejected by the Senate.  (b)  (1) The Governor shall submit to the Senate within thirty (30) days after the General Assembly convenes in a regular session and within fifteen (15) days after the General Assembly convenes in a fiscal session the names of all appointments to boards and commissions of this state made subsequent to adjournment of the Senate at the last regular session or fiscal session of the General Assembly.  (2) Upon the convening of a special session of the General Assembly, the Governor shall immediately submit the names of all appointments to boards and commissions of this state made subsequent to adjournment of the Senate at the last regular session, fiscal session, or special session of the General Assembly.  (3) All appointments of members of boards and commissions of this state made while the General Assembly is in session shall be submitted immediately to the Senate.    (c) If an appointment is rejected by the Senate, the person rejected shall not thereafter be eligible to serve in the position or exercise the powers of the position, unless the appointment of the person is first approved by the Senate.
AR Code § 10-2-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-115. Introduction of bills affecting public retirement programs

 (a) Any proposed legislation affecting any publicly supported retirement system or pension plan to be considered by the General Assembly at a regular session shall be introduced in the General Assembly during the first fifteen (15) calendar days of a regular session.  (b)  (1) No such bill shall be introduced after the fifteenth day of a regular session unless its introduction is first approved by a three-fourths (¾) vote of the full membership of each house of the General Assembly.  (2) Additionally, if the General Assembly recesses for longer than three (3) consecutive days during the first fifteen (15) days of a regular session, the fifteen-day introduction deadline shall be extended for a time period equal to the recess.    (c) A bill affecting any publicly supported retirement system or systems shall not be introduced or considered at any special session or fiscal session of the General Assembly unless the introduction and consideration of the bill is first approved by a three-fourths (¾) vote of the full membership of each house of the General Assembly.
AR Code § 10-2-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-116. Authentication of laws passed over veto

 (a) When a bill that has passed both houses of the General Assembly shall be returned by the Governor without his or her signature and with his or her objections thereto, and, upon reconsideration, shall pass both houses by the constitutional majority, it shall be authenticated as having become a law by a certificate endorsed thereon or attached thereto, in the following form:  (b) The certificate, having been signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall be deemed a sufficient authentication thereof, and the bill shall again be presented to the Governor to be by him or her deposited with the laws in the office of the Secretary of State.    “This bill having been returned by the Governor with his or her objections thereto and, after reconsideration having passed both houses by the constitutional majority, has become a law this day of
AR Code § 10-2-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-117. Authentication of bill becoming law without Governor's signature

 Every bill which shall have passed both houses of the General Assembly and shall not be returned by the Governor within five (5) days, having thereby become a law, shall be authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form:   “This bill having remained with the Governor five (5) days, Sunday excepted, and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this day of . Secretary of State”.   Click to view form.
AR Code § 10-2-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-118. Vacancies during recess

 (a) When any member elected to either house of the General Assembly shall resign in the recess thereof, he or she shall address and transmit his or her resignation in writing to the Governor.  (b) Whenever the Governor shall receive any resignation or notice of vacancy or when he or she shall be satisfied of the death of any member of either house during the recess thereof, he or she shall without delay issue a writ of election to support the vacancy.
AR Code § 10-2-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-119. Vacancies during session

 (a) When any member shall resign during any session, he or she shall address his or her resignation to the presiding officer of the house of which he or she is a member, which resignation shall be entered upon the journal.  (b) In all cases of vacancies happening or being declared during any session of the General Assembly, by death, expulsion, or otherwise, the presiding officer of the house in which the vacancy shall happen shall immediately notify the Governor, who shall immediately issue a writ of election to fill the vacancy.
AR Code § 10-2-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-2-120. Elections to fill vacancies

 (a)  (1) When any vacancy shall happen in the Senate for a district composed of more than one (1) county, the writ of election shall be directed to the sheriff of the county first named in the law establishing the district.  (2) When the vacancy shall happen in a senatorial district which shall have been divided or altered after the general election next preceding the occurrence of the vacancy, the writ of election shall be directed to the sheriff of the county first named in the old district.  (3) When any vacancy shall happen in either house for any county which shall have been divided after the general election next preceding the occurrence of the vacancy, the writ of election shall be directed to the sheriff of the old county.    (b) The sheriff to whom any writ of election shall be delivered shall cause the election to supply the vacancy to be held within the limits composing the county or district at the time of the next preceding general election. He or she shall issue his or her proclamation or notice for holding the election accordingly and transmit a copy thereof, together with a copy of the writ, to the sheriff of each of the counties within which any part of the old county may lie, who shall cause copies of the notice to be put up. The election is to be held accordingly in those parts of their respective counties which composed a part of the old county or district for which the election was held at the last preceding general election. The returns shall be made and the certificate of election granted in the same manner as if no division had taken place.