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10-2-129. Drafting and information requests to legislative employees — Definitions.
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10-2-129. Drafting and information requests to legislative employees — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Legislative employee” means an employee of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Bureau of Legislative Research, Arkansas Legislative Audit, and the Arkansas Code Revision Commission; and
(2) “Legislator” means any member of the General Assembly or a member-elect of the General Assembly.
(b)(1) A drafting request or information request made to a legislative employee by or on behalf of a legislator is confidential.
(2) The identity of the legislator making the request, except to the extent necessary to fulfill the request, and the existence of the request shall not be revealed to any person who is not a legislative employee without the consent of the legislator.
(c)(1) Any supporting documents submitted or caused to be submitted to a legislative employee by a legislator in connection with a drafting or information request are confidential.
(2) Except to the extent necessary to fulfill the request, the document, copies of the document, or the identity of the person, firm, or association producing it shall not be provided to any person who is not a legislative employee without the consent of the legislator.
(d) Unless made public by the legislator, a drafting request, information request, supporting documents, and the drafts or the work product for a drafting request or information request are not public records under § 25-19-103.
(e)(1) The Legislative Council may authorize the staff of the bureau to provide assistance to state agencies and constitutional officers in preparing legislation.
(2) If the Legislative Council authorizes the staff of the bureau to provide assistance to state agencies and constitutional officers in prep
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 10-2-129
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10-2-129. Drafting and information requests to legislative employees — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Legislative employee” means an employee of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Bureau of Legislative Research, Arkansas Legislative Audit, and the Arkansas Code Revision Commission; and
(2) “Legislator” means any member of the General Assembly or a member-elect of the General Assembly.
(b)(1) A drafting request or information request made to a legislative employee by or on behalf of a legislator is confidential.
(2) The identity of the legislator making the request, except to the extent necessary to fulfill the request, and the existence of the request shall not be revealed to any person who is not a legislative employee without the consent of the legislator.
(c)(1) Any supporting documents submitted or caused to be submitted to a legislative employee by a legislator in connection with a drafting or information request are confidential.
(2) Except to the extent necessary to fulfill the request, the document, copies of the document, or the identity of the person, firm, or association producing it shall not be provided to any person who is not a legislative employee without the consent of the legislator.
(d) Unless made public by the legislator, a drafting request, information request, supporting documents, and the drafts or the work product for a drafting request or information request are not public records under § 25-19-103.
(e)(1) The Legislative Council may authorize the staff of the bureau to provide assistance to state agencies and constitutional officers in preparing legislation.
(2) If the Legislative Council authorizes the staff of the bureau to provide assistance to state agencies and constitutional officers in preparing legislation, the request, supporting documents, working papers, and drafts in the possession of the bureau are confidential and are not public records under § 25-19-103.
(f) Nothing in this section prohibits a legislative employee from working on similar or identical drafting requests or information requests from more than one (1) legislator.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
25-19-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1)(A) “Custodian”, except as otherwise provided by law and with respect to any public record, means the person having administrative control of that record.
(B) “Custodian” does not mean a person who holds public records solely for the purposes of storage, safekeeping, or data processing for others;
(2) “Disaster recovery system” means an electronic data storage system implemented and maintained solely for the purpose of allowing a governmental unit or agency to recover operational systems and datasets following the occurrence of a catastrophe, including without limitation an act of war, an equipment failure, a cyber-attack, or a natural disaster such as a tornado, earthquake, or fire;
(3) “Format” means the organization, arrangement, and form of electronic information for use, viewing, or storage;
(4) “Medium” means the physical form or material on which records and information may be stored or represented and may include, but is not limited to, paper, microfilm, microform, computer disks and diskettes, optical disks, and magnetic tapes;
(5)(A) “Municipally owned utility system” means a utility system owned or operated by a municipality that provides:
(i) Electricity;
(ii) Water;
(iii) Wastewater;
(iv) Cable television; or
(v) Broadband service.
(B) “Municipally owned utility system” includes without limitation a:
(i) Consolidated waterworks system under the Consolidated Waterworks Authorization Act, § 25-20-301 et seq.;
(ii) Utility system managed or operated by a nonprofit corporation under § 14-199-701 et seq.; and
(iii) Utility system owned or operated by a municipality or by a consolidated utility district under the General Consolidated Public Utility System Improvement District Law,
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-19-103
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 25-19-103. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.