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