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AR SB202
Bill
Status
2/25/2015
Primary Sponsor
Bart Hester
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AI Summary
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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.
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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.
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Exempts rules or policies that pertain only to employees of counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions from the prohibition.
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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.
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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