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AR SB202

Bill

Status

Passed

2/25/2015

Primary Sponsor

Bart Hester

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Origin

Senate

90th General Assembly (2015 Regular)

AI Summary

  • Creates the "Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act" to improve intrastate commerce by ensuring businesses, organizations, and employers are subject to uniform nondiscrimination laws across the state regardless of location.

  • Prohibits counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions from adopting or enforcing ordinances, resolutions, rules, or policies that create protected classifications or prohibit discrimination on bases not contained in state law.

  • Exempts rules or policies that pertain only to employees of counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions from the prohibition.

  • Declares an emergency based on the existence of 75 counties and 500 cities and towns that could each create separate discrimination systems, necessitating immediate uniform statewide standards.

  • Became law on February 23, 2015 without the Governor's signature.

Legislative Description

To Amend The Law Concerning Ordinances Of Cities And Counties By Creating The Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act And To Declare An Emergency.

Last Action

Notification that SB202 is now Act 137

2/25/2015

Committee Referrals

City, County and Local Affairs2/9/2015
City, County & Local Affairs2/2/2015

Full Bill Text

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