Arkansas Act 707 of 2025: nuclear generation feasibility study

Arkansas Act 707, approved 16 April 2025, requires a state feasibility study of new nuclear generation, including small modular reactors and microreactors, but only after the act is funded. It is temporary uncodified language and it does not permit a plant.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · Arkansas Act 707 of 2025
Issued by: Arkansas General Assembly
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Affects: State programme administration
In effect from: 16 Apr 2025 · actual · day
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Arkansas Act 707 of 2025 (HB 1572), enrolled act (Enrolled Act 707 PDF opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Uncodified temporary session law. The Department of Energy and Environment must engage a consultant to study new nuclear generation in Arkansas, including small modular nuclear reactors and microreactors. The hiring duty starts 60 days after the effective date on which the act is funded. A report is due to the Governor and named legislative officers no later than 15 months after the act's effective date. The act authorizes no plant and states no appropriation.

Not approved or still pending

The study engagement waits until the act is funded, and no appropriation or award was opened. No executive order and no Arkansas Public Service Commission order were opened. No project is linked. The study does not approve a reactor.

Dated lifecycle

16 Apr 2025 · actual · day · Enacted — The enrolled act prints APPROVED: 4/16/25. (Arkansas Act 707 of 2025 (HB 1572), enrolled act)
16 Apr 2025 · actual · day · Took effect — Emergency clause: the act is effective on the date of the Governor's approval. Section 1(a) starts the consultant engagement only within 60 days after the effective date on which the act is funded. The opened act does not show that funding, so the study duty is not recorded as started. (Arkansas Act 707 of 2025 (HB 1572), enrolled act)

Projects or designs named by the source

None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.

Sources

Arkansas Act 707 of 2025 (HB 1572), enrolled act (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)