# Arkansas HB 1799 (2023) → Act 851 — Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (bill record) > *Transcription of the Arkansas General Assembly bill-detail record for HB 1799 of the 2023 regular session, retrieved 2026-05-29. Wayback Save-Page-Now not attempted (`wayback: ~`); the official bill PDF is also available at `arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=/Bills/2023R/Public/HB1799.pdf`.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Arkansas General Assembly (arkleg.state.ar.us) - **Bill:** HB 1799, 2023 Regular Session → **Act 851 of 2023** - **Retrieved:** 2026-05-29 ## Extract - **Official title (verbatim):** "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACT OF 2023; AND TO CLARIFY THE REGULATION OF THE DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESS." - **Act number:** Act 851 of 2023. - **Sponsors:** Rep. McClure (lead); Sen. J. Bryant (primary). - **Key dates:** introduced 2023-03-30; enacted 2023-04-13. Progressed through the House Advanced Communications and Information Technology Committee and the Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee; Senate Amendment #1 adopted before final passage. - **Operative areas** (per the title and secondary summaries; the full operative text is in the bill PDF): establishes a framework for **data centers**; **clarifies the regulation of the digital-asset-mining business**, including limits on local governments imposing discriminatory policies (e.g., **special sound limits** on home-based digital-asset mining or requirements not applied to traditional data centers); directs the APSC not to set unreasonably discriminatory utility rates for digital-asset-mining businesses (subject to public-entity utility exceptions). ## Notes - **Tier 2** — a primary public record (state legislation, official Assembly portal). - Act 851 of 2023 is the statutory backdrop to the corpus's Conway thread: the Chamber's statement to the City Council that Project Stratus "is not a data mining center" distinguishes the project from the digital-asset-mining category Act 851 regulates, and the [[Conway Data Center Noise Ordinance (O-23-55)]] sits against Act 851's preemption of special sound limits on digital-asset mining. It is the 2023 predecessor to the [[Act 548 (2025)]] data-center sales/use-tax-exemption framework. - Cited by: [[Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Act 851) and 2024 Amendments]].