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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 568: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAXES APPLICABLE TO LITHIUM EXTRACTION AND DEVELOPMENT; TO PROVIDE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR LITHIUM RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SEVERANCE TAX ON LITHIUM.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 568 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas Senate on March 27, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAXES APPLICABLE TO LITHIUM EXTRACTION AND DEVELOPMENT; TO PROVIDE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR LITHIUM RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SEVERANCE TAX ON LITHIUM. Primary sponsor: Lane Jean (Republican), Steve Crowell (Republican). It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 23, 2025): Notification that SB568 is now Act 1012.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lane JeanPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse99
Steve CrowellPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate3
Wade AndrewsCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse98
Carol DalbyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse100
GilmoreCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Dolly HenleyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse88
Matthew ShepherdCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse97
Matt StoneCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate2

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that SB568 is now Act 1012
  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
  3. Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
  4. ORDERED ENROLLED
  5. Returned from the House as passed.
  6. Returned to the Senate as passed.
  7. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  8. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  9. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE
  10. RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
  11. Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
  12. Read the third time and passed.

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source