2016 Arkansas Code
Title 10 - General Assembly
Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings
Subchapter 1 - -- General Provisions
§ 10-2-101. Time for meeting. [Effective December 31, 2016.]

(a) (1) The General Assembly shall meet in regular session at 12:00 noon on the second Monday in January in each odd-numbered year.

(2) (A) However, in any odd-numbered year following the election of a nonincumbent governor, the General Assembly upon convening at 12:00 noon on the second Monday in January may remain in session only for such time not to exceed two (2) days as is necessary to open and publish the votes for various constitutional offices, to swear in the state constitutional officers and members of the General Assembly, to organize and select officers, and to otherwise prepare for the regular session.

(B) The General Assembly may then stand in recess for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days.

(b) (1) The General Assembly shall meet in a fiscal session at 12:00 noon on the second Monday in February of each even-numbered year to consider appropriation bills.

(2) A bill other than an appropriation bill may be considered in a fiscal session if two-thirds (2/3) of the members of each house of the General Assembly approve consideration of the nonappropriation bill.