Some lawmakers are hoping their colleagues will consider their non-budgetary bills during the fiscal session that began last week.
While Arkansas has yearly legislative sessions, lawmaking during even-numbered years is typically limited to fiscal bills. Lawmakers can introduce non-fiscal legislation with a two-thirds vote in each chamber.
This year, lawmakers have introduced proposals to raise the homestead tax credit, limit the state’s school voucher program and roll back swaths of the 2023 cryptocurrency mining law that restricts local regulations.
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The Arkansas Data Centers Act was introduced about a week before the 2023 legislative session ended and passed both chambers with bipartisan support. Green Forest Republican Sen. Bryan King has since spearheaded an effort to change the law, saying it passed with too little scrutiny…