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Staff summarizes Act 505 (2025) changes to Arkansas open-meetings rules; remote attendance restricted for municipal bodies
Summary
A staff memo reviewed changes from Act 505 of 2025 to the Arkansas open-meetings law, including new notice requirements and a restriction that municipalities and their boards/commissions cannot allow remote voting attendance as previously practiced.
A staff member summarized Act 505 of 2025 and its effects on Arkansas public bodies at the July 19 Springdale Airport Commission meeting, emphasizing new definitions of meetings, expanded notice requirements and limits on remote attendance for municipal governing bodies. The presenter said the law clarifies what constitutes a meeting and what does not,…
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