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This bill makes numerous technical corrections and clarifications to various sections of Title 17 of the Arkansas Code concerning professions, occupations, and businesses. The bill addresses a wide range of professional licensing and regulatory matters across multiple fields, including body art, dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, podiatric medicine, psychology, and acupuncture. Key provisions include updating language around licensing requirements, removing obsolete references and date-specific provisions, clarifying criminal offenses and penalties, and making stylistic changes to existing statutes. For example, the bill modifies regulations for body art student artists, updates temporary licensing procedures for dentists, clarifies nursing license violations, and removes time-specific language from various professional board regulations. The changes are primarily technical in nature, aimed at improving the clarity and consistency of existing laws without making substantive changes to the underlying regulatory frameworks. The bill also includes a legislative intent section emphasizing that these are technical corrections and should not be interpreted as repealing or substantially altering existing law.

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