Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 97: [JOB CREATION, JOB EXPANSION, AND ECONOMIC

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 97

AMEND. 97. [JOB CREATION, JOB EXPANSION, AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT] (CONST., ART. 12, § 5, AMEND. 62, §§ 1(B), 2, 5, 9,
AND AMEND. 82, AMENDED; CONST. AMEND. 62, § 3, REPEALED).
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment amended Ark.
Const., Art. 12, § 5, Amend. 62, §§ 1(b), 2, 5, 9, and Amend.
82, and repealed Amend. 62, § 3. The amendments are
incorporated within those sections. Amendment 97 was
proposed by S.J.R. 16 during the 2015 Regular Session and
adopted at the 2016 general election by a vote of 689,980
for and 366,020 against. The amendment was effective
December 8, 2016.
Amend. 97, § 1, provided: “INTENT. The intent of this
amendment to the Arkansas Constitution is to encourage
job creation, job expansion, and economic development.”
Amend. 97, § 9, provided: “SEVERABILITY. The provi-
sions of this amendment are severable, and if any should
be held invalid, the remainder shall stand.”
The bracketed heading was added by the Publisher.
744 Amend. 94 CONSTITUTION OF ARKANSAS

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