Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 67: JURISDICTION OF MATTERS RELATING TO

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 67

AMEND. 67. JURISDICTION OF MATTERS RELATING TO
JUVENILES AND BASTARDY.
The General Assembly shall define jurisdiction of matters relating to juveniles (persons under
eighteen (18) years of age) and matters relating to bastardy and may confer such jurisdiction
upon chancery, circuit or probate courts, or upon separate divisions of such courts, or may
establish separate juvenile courts upon which such jurisdiction may be conferred, and shall
transfer to such courts the jurisdiction over bastardy and juvenile matters now vested in county
courts by Section 28 of Article 7 of this Constitution.
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment was proposed by
S.J.R. 1 (see Acts 1987, p. 2878) and was adopted at the
1988 general election by a vote of 439,179 for and 258,278
against.
Amendment 80 to the Arkansas Constitution, effective
July 1, 2001, established circuit courts as the trial courts of
original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters not otherwise
assigned pursuant to the Constitution and specifically
provided that “jurisdiction conferred on Circuit Courts
established by this Amendment includes all matter previ-
ously cognizable by Circuit, Chancery, Probate and Juve-
nile Courts …”.
Effective Dates.
Ark. Const. Amend. 67: Jan. 1, 1989.