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Panel approves bill letting Code Revision Commission make technical corrections after constitutional amendments
Summary
Senate Bill 376 would authorize the Arkansas Code Revision Commission to make non-substantive edits (renumbering, redesignation, typographical fixes) when multiple acts amend the same section during a session, extending existing authority to sections affected by constitutional amendments; the committee passed it after member questions and assurances.
A Senate Insurance & Commerce committee approved a bill that would expand the Arkansas Code Revision Commission’s authority to make technical edits to statutory text that results from acts of the General Assembly, including those implementing constitutional amendments.
Senator Raiford, who presented Senate Bill 376, said the measure is part of the code-revision package and is designed to let the commission "square up" language — renumbering, redesignating and correcting…
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