Bill > SB172

This bill makes several technical corrections to the Arkansas Code concerning education, primarily focusing on removing obsolete language, correcting grammatical errors, and clarifying references in existing educational statutes. Specifically, the bill repeals section 6-13-1006(c) regarding the first meeting of an education service cooperative board of directors, amends the language for board director elections, and completely eliminates section 6-15-215 related to the Arkansas Smart Core Incentive Funding Program, which had expired in 2020. The bill also makes a grammatical correction to computer science course requirements, updates reference language for teacher compensation schedules to include open-enrollment public charter schools, and adds codification for salary increase procedures at higher education institutions. Additionally, the bill includes a legislative intent section that emphasizes these changes are technical in nature and are not meant to repeal or conflict with other legislative acts from the Ninety-Fifth General Assembly. The primary purpose is to clean up and streamline existing educational statutes by removing outdated or unnecessary language and ensuring accuracy in legal references.