Arkansas 2025 2025 Regular Session

Arkansas Senate Bill SB283 Draft / Bill

Filed 02/24/2025

                    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 283 3 
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By: Senators K. Hammer, A. Clark, J. English, Gilmore, M. Johnson, M. McKee, Stone 5 
By: Representatives Beaty Jr., Bentley, Brooks, Childress, Furman, Hawk 6 
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For An Act To Be Entitled 8 
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNCLAIMED 9 
PROPERTY; TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN NONPROFIT 10 
ORGANIZATIONS ARE EXEMPT FROM THE LAW CONCERNING 11 
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 12 
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNCLAIMED 16 
PROPERTY; AND TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN 17 
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ARE EXEMPT FROM 18 
THE LAW CONCERNING UNCLAIMED PROPERTY. 19 
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 21 
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 SECTION 1.  Arkansas Code Title 18, Chapter 28, Subchapter 2, is 23 
amended to add an additional section to read as follows: 24 
 18-28-232.  Applicability — Definition. 25 
 (a)  As used in this section, "nonprofit organization" means: 26 
 (1)  A corporation governed by Arkansas Code Title 4, Chapter 28 27 
or Title 4, Chapter 33 to extent that it is applicable to nonprofit 28 
corporations; or 29 
 (2)  An organization exempt from federal taxation as a nonprofit 30 
entity under § 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 501(a) or as 31 
an exempt organization under §§ 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(6), 501(c)(12), 32 
or 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3), 26 U.S.C. 33 
§ 501(c)(4), 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(6), 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(12), or 26 U.S.C. § 34 
501(c)(19), as they existed on January 1, 2025. 35 
 (b)  This subchapter does not apply to a nonprofit organization that 36    	SB283 
 
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has an annual revenue of less than five million dollars ($5,000,000). 1 
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