Arkansas 2025 Regular Session

Arkansas Senate Bill SB138 Compare Versions

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1	1	Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language would be added to present law.
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3	3	State of Arkansas 1
4	4	95th General Assembly A Bill 2
5	5	Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 138 3
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7	7	By: Senator J. Boyd 5
8	8	By: Representative Gramlich 6
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10	10	For An Act To Be Entitled 8
11	11	AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WAR REENACTMENTS 9
12	12	AT SCHOOLS; TO PERMIT AN UNLOADED FIREARM OR REPLICA 10
13	13	OF A FIREARM AT CERTAIN WAR REENACTMENTS AT SCHOOLS; 11
14	14	AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 12
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17	17	Subtitle 15
18	18	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WAR 16
19	19	REENACTMENTS AT SCHOOLS; AND TO PERMIT 17
20	20	AN UNLOADED FIREARM OR REPLICA OF A 18
21	21	FIREARM AT CERTAIN WAR REENACTMENTS AT 19
22	22	SCHOOLS. 20
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24	24	BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 22
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26	26	SECTION 1. Arkansas Code § 6 -5-501 is amended to read as follows: 24
27	27	6-5-501. Definitions. 25
28	28	As used in this subchapter: 26
29	29	(1) “Revolutionary War” means the insurrection of the thirteen 27
30	30	(13) original American colonies that led to the formation of the United 28
31	31	States of America and lasted from 1775 -1783; 29
32	32	(2) “Civil War” means the 1861 -1865 American Civil War; 30
33	33	(3) “Civil War-era weapon” means an instrument used in offensive 31
34	34	or defensive combat during the Civil War or a modern reproduction; 32
35	35	(4) “Civil War reenactor” means a member of an organized group 33
36	36	acting out historical events from the Civil War and carrying an actual weapon 34
37	37	from that era or a reproduction; 35
38	38	(5)(3) “French and Indian War” means the portion of the war 36 SB138
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41	41	between France and Great Britain that took place in what is now the United 1
42	42	States of America from 1754 -1763; 2
43	43	(4) “Mexican-American War” means the war between the United 3
44	44	States and Mexico from 1846 -1848; 4
45	45	(5) “School official” means a public school district 5
46	46	superintendent or principal, a private school superintendent or principal, a 6
47	47	president, chancellor, or dean of a publicly supported institution of higher 7
48	48	education, or a president or dean of a private institution of higher 8
49	49	education; and 9
50	50	(6) “School property” means any building, bus, campus, ground, 10
51	51	recreational area, athletic field, or other area or structure owned or in the 11
52	52	charge of a public school district, a private school, a publicly supported 12
53	53	institution of higher education, or a private institution of higher 13
54	54	education.; 14
55	55	(7) “War of 1812” means the conflict between the United States 15
56	56	and Great Britain from 1812 -1815; 16
57	57	(8) “War reenactor” means a member of an organized group acting 17
58	58	out historical events from a war defined in this section and carrying an 18
59	59	actual weapon from that era or a reproduction of a weapon from that era; and 19
60	60	(9) “War-era weapon” means an instrument used in offensive or 20
61	61	defensive combat during a war defined in this section or a modern 21
62	62	reproduction of such an instrument. 22
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64	64	SECTION 2. Arkansas Code § 6 -5-502 is amended to read as follows: 24
65	65	6-5-502. Weapons. 25
66	66	(a) A person in this state who is a Civil War war reenactor as defined 26
67	67	in § 6-5-501 may carry a Civil War war-era weapon on school property for 27
68	68	educational purposes so long as a school official grants approval in advance 28
69	69	and, if the weapon is a firearm, the firearm is unloaded. 29
70	70	(b) Subsection (a) of this section applies to the following wars: 30
71	71	(1) The Revolutionary War; 31
72	72	(2) The Civil War; 32
73	73	(3) The French and Indian War; 33
74	74	(4) The Mexican-American War; and 34
75	75	(5) The War of 1812. 35
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