Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
5 instruments in Arkansas. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsRaised the homestead property tax credit from $600 to $675.
Amended Ark. Code Ann. § 26-26-1118(a)(1)(A) from $600 to $675 for assessment years from January 1, 2026; approved May 1, 2026. The credit was $425 before Act 3 of the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session raised it to $500 and Act 330 of 2025 to $600. County collectors say a veteran or spouse receiving the § 26-3-306 exemption is not eligible for the credit. Flagged because the Department of Veterans Affairs property tax guide, revised October 2024, still prints $425.
▲▼Expands and restrictsLets a home held in a trust or family LLC qualify, but reprints the 40-acre limit that Act 407 had raised to 160.
Rewrote Ark. Code Ann. § 26-3-306(a)(2) so a homestead owned by the veteran's revocable trust, an irrevocable trust of which the veteran is a beneficiary, or an LLC whose only members are the veteran and spouse qualifies, with proof filed under a new § 26-3-306(b)(3). Effective for assessment years from January 1, 2026; approved April 17, 2025. Its text restates the pre-Act 407 figure of 40 acres. Because it was signed after Act 407 and takes effect a year later, Ark. Code Ann. § 1-2-207(b) would let its 40 acres prevail from assessment year 2026 if the two are read as irreconcilable.
▲▼Expands and restrictsMakes the VA letter a one-time filing, but lets a collector reclaim up to three years of taxes on an erroneous exemption.
Added a subdivision to Ark. Code Ann. § 26-3-306(b): the VA letter "is required to be submitted only one (1) time" and "annual submission of a letter from the department is not required", with a duty to report a change of status or property and a new letter for a new homestead. Added § 26-3-306(g) letting a collector remove an erroneous exemption and collect up to three years of taxes. Effective for assessment years from January 1, 2025; approved April 17, 2025. Flagged because Saline, Pope and Miller county collectors still tell veterans the letter must be filed every year, and because Act 880 added a different subdivision with the same number.
▲Expands benefitsRaised the land around a disabled veteran's home that the exemption covers from 40 to 160 acres.
Amended Ark. Code Ann. § 26-3-306(a)(2)(A)(ii) so the homestead includes up to 160 contiguous acres not used commercially, for assessment years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. Approved March 25, 2025. Flagged because Act 880 of 2025, approved three weeks later, rewrote the same subdivision and reprinted "forty (40) acres" with effect from assessment year 2026. For 2025 only Act 407 is in force. From 2026, Ark. Code Ann. § 1-2-207(b) gives an irreconcilable conflict between acts of one session to the act signed last, which is Act 880, unless the reprint is read as no conflict at all; nothing we found has settled it. The veterans agency's October 2024 property tax guide predates both.
▲Expands benefitsCreated the Arkansas Heroes Scholarship and counts a military disability retirement as well as a 100 percent rating.
Enacted Ark. Code Ann. §§ 6-82-2501 to 6-82-2508 in the Arkansas ACCESS Act. A disabled veteran is a person awarded Armed Forces disability retirement benefits or VA compensation for 100 percent permanent and total disability; residence is one of three alternative routes; children are covered to 26 and spouses until remarriage; the award covers costs beyond federal DEA for eight semesters. Repealed the law enforcement dependents subchapter but only amended § 6-82-601, the Military Dependents Scholarship. Approved March 18, 2025; effective August 5, 2025. Flagged because the Division of Higher Education describes only the 100 percent route and a strict one-year residence rule, and the old Military Dependents Scholarship rules are still codified.
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