Scope
Act 173 of the 2024 Fiscal Session (Senate Bill 78) amends the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023. As opened, it adds to the requirements a digital asset mining business shall comply with the application of noise-reduction techniques, including liquid or submerged cooling and fully enclosing the envelope, and provides that a prohibited foreign party shall not acquire or hold any interest in a digital asset mining business in Arkansas. Its emergency clause makes it effective on the date of the Governor's approval, and it prints APPROVED: 5/3/24.
- Geographic scope
- Arkansas
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Arkansas General Assembly
Dates
- Adopted
- 3 May 2024
- Effective
- 3 May 2024
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 3 May 2024
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
Act 173 of 2024, approved on 3 May 2024 with an emergency clause, amends the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 to require noise-reduction techniques for digital asset mining businesses and to bar prohibited foreign parties from holding interests in them. It is a separate act from Act 851 and from Act 174 of 2024.
What this does not establish
- The effective day is derived from two quotations: emergency-clause alternative (1), the date of the Governor's approval, and the approval line APPROVED: 5/3/24.
- The amended requirements apply to digital asset mining businesses under the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023; the act does not regulate data centers generally.
- The prohibited-foreign-party definition refers to a federal regulation as it existed on January 1, 2024; that regulation was not opened.
- Act 173 amends earlier code sections; it does not say it repeals Act 851, so it is not recorded as replacing that act.
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- Related, not a replacement Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Act 851) (In effect)
Sources
https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2024F%2FPublic%2FACT173.pdf