Arkansas Code Title 10, Chapter 2, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 10-2-101 - Time for Meeting. [Effective Until December 31, 2016.]
  (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)...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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.
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 10-2-112 - Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions -- Assignment to Committee -- Printing. [Effective Until December 31, 2016.]
  (a) (1) The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, under the direction and supervision of the Speaker...
• § 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...
• § 10-2-114 - Bills Imposing New or Additional Costs on Municipality or County -- Fiscal Impact Statements.
  (a) (1) Any bill filed with the Senate that requires an expenditure of public funds by a municipality or county or otherwise imposes a...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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,...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 10-2-121 - Designation of Members to Assist Boys State and Girls State -- Compensation.
  (a) The Speaker of the House of Representatives is authorized to designate up to ten (10) members of the House of Representatives at any...
• § 10-2-122 - Designation of Members to Represent State At National Conferences -- Expenses.
  (a) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate or the Chair of the Senate Efficiency Committee, or both, are hereby authorized to designate one...
• § 10-2-123 - Institute of Legislative Procedure.
  (a) The General Assembly hereby determines that the conducting of an Institute of Legislative Procedure prior to the convening of regular sessions of the...
• § 10-2-124 - Bills Introduced to Change Existing Circuit Court Districts.
  (a) All bills introduced in either house of the General Assembly to change any of the existing circuit court districts through redistricting or by...
• § 10-2-125 - Employees and Officers.
  (a) The House Management Committee with the approval of the Speaker of the House of Representatives may employ at its discretion employees of the...
• § 10-2-126 - Assistant to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
  (a) The Assistant to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall be under the direction of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.(b)...
• § 10-2-127 - Fiscal Impact Statement.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, "fiscal impact statement" means a realistic written statement of the purpose of...
• § 10-2-128 - Observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.
  In respect to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and in observance of his birthday, neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate shall convene...
• § 10-2-129 - Drafting and Information Requests to Legislative Employees.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Legislative employee" means an employee of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Bureau of Legislative Research,...
• § 10-2-130 - Use of Education Studies Commissioned by General Assembly.
  (a) (1) Any cost study analysis, cost study audit, adequacy study, or other study commissioned or funded by the General Assembly concerning the state's...
• § 10-2-131 - Internet Broadcast of Proceedings.
  (a) During regular sessions, fiscal sessions, and special sessions of the General Assembly, the House of Representatives and the Senate may broadcast live audio...
• § 10-2-132 - People First Advisory Legislative Sessions Concerning Disability Issues.
  Each biennium, the House of Representatives and the Senate shall establish a People First advisory legislative session concerning disability issues and authorize staff assistance...

Last modified: November 15, 2016