SB79
To Amend the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023; to Provide for the Regulation of Digital Asset Mining Businesses; and to Declare an Emergency.
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACT OF 2023; TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESSES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
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House Convenes
Matched: “SB79 Irvin”
...o present the bill in the merchant's clause have passed madam clerk please read senate bill seventy nine cinema seventy minutes my representative more to amend the arkansas data centers act of twenty twenty three to provide the regulation o...
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City, County & Local Affairs Committee- House
Matched: “…DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. SB79 Irvin TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACT OF 2023; TO PR…”
Senate Bill 78 and Senate Bill 79. If anyone like this, uh, speak today for against those bills, you can sign up. Uh, at this time, we will mov'e forward at this time, we'd ask, uh, Senator Bryant and Representative mcclure to come and pres...
... 78 what that attempts to do is treat crypto mining in, in, in partnership with Senate Bill 79. Treat crypto mining more is like how we deal with racetracks. In the 19 nineties. This body passed regulations statewide on race tracks because ...
...ere's going to be a window of time in between State regulatory control. If we can get Senate Bill 79 through, versus if Senate Bill 78 goes through, there'll be a window while we promulgate rules and get things set up for this industry that
...hat both of these are in the bill. Uh Both of these are not only Senate Bill 78 Senate Bill 79 and they are identical originally, they were, they took a little bit of different routes. Senate Bill 78 originally as filed took a broader route...
But in the future, as these things attempt to come online in addition to Senate Bill 79 which will be the regulatory authority of the State that will go through that permitting process and ask those questions and identify owners and identif...
constructed. That would be the, the hope is that Senate Bill 79 would define those parameters a little, a little broader to make sure we are not depleting those natural resources to make sure that if you put 20 facilities within, you know, ...
...t we are protected and protect our agriculture within the State. Ok. Representative Richardson, you're recognized. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um So, uh Representative Bryant, you talked a little bit about um Senate Bill 79 associated with the
... so in 78 it will be incumbent upon anybody that has standing within 2000 ft if SB 79 passes will be driven upon complaint. And so if the complaint is made to the department of energy environment. They will dispatched their investigators to...
...I was just kidding. Um You just discussed a moment ago that there are some differences in regulation between SB 78 and SB 79. But then you said previously that you thought that these two bills were complimentary. How will we reconcile those
Senate Convenes
Matched: “SB79 #2 Irvin Irvin TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACTS OF 2…”
... madam president members has been a lot of discussion about this since lee what senate bill seventy nine does is it comes along side senate bill seventy eight and provides a state presence of regulatory oversight specific to this industry t...
...oreign ownership and with that i'm be happy to answer any questions and before we get the questions senator just remind the body that this is the senate bill seventy nine that we had it after the amendment and suspended the rules earlier to
Agenda items (3)
- SB79 #2 Irvin Irvin TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACTS OF 2023; TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESSES AND BUSINESSES UTILIZING A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
- Suspend the Rules to put SB 79 on Today's Calendar
- SB79 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACTS OF 2023; TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESSES AND BUSINESSES UTILIZING A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
City, County & Local Affairs Committee - Senate
Matched: “…hua Bryant RE-REFERRED TO COMMITTEE Number Sponsor Subtitle SB79 Irvin TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACTS OF 2023; TO P…”
...derator urban we're going to start with you about you've got a an amendment for senate bill seventy nine and would you like to exponge the vote by which the last moment was adopted and started new yes please all right got a motion from serv...
Senate Convenes
Matched: “SB79 #1 Irvin TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACTS OF 2023; T…”
City, County & Local Affairs Committee - Senate
Matched: “Amendments to SB 79”
... if you want to go ahead and do the fine doing that so if you want to explain your minimum central urban members that has senate bill seventy nine yeah so as senator bryant stated we weren't conjointly to make sure that we had the strongest
Documents (3)
- Agenda — CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Apr 30, 2024 · April 30, 2024
- Agenda — CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE AND HOUSE, Apr 23, 2024 · April 23, 2024
- Agenda — CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE AND HOUSE, Apr 18, 2024 · April 18, 2024