# Act 174 of 2024 (SB 79) — Permitting and Regulation of Digital Asset Mining Businesses > *Enrolled/engrossed act text (As Engrossed: S4/24/24), 11 pages. The original PDF is preserved alongside this extract.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Arkansas General Assembly, 94th General Assembly, Fiscal Session 2024 - **URL:** arkleg.state.ar.us FTPDocument (ACTS/2024F/Public/174.pdf) - **Published:** engrossed 2024-04-24; Act 174 of the 2024 Fiscal Session - **Archived:** 2026-06-10, by Invoke-WebRequest (TLS 1.2, browser UA) - **Wayback snapshot:** none found via availability API; SPN retry pending ## Extract (key provisions) **Title:** "AN ACT TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESSES; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE PERMITTING AND REGULATION OF DIGITAL ASSET MINING BUSINESSES; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES." Sponsors: Senators Irvin, J. Bryant; Representative J. Moore (SB 79). - Section 1 amends § 14-1-602(b) (legislative intent/findings of the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023). - The act establishes a state permitting and regulation framework for digital asset mining businesses (the "permitting and regulation" title clause) administered through state authority, complementing Act 173's local-ordinance and foreign-ownership provisions. - Emergency clause: effective immediately on approval. ## Notes - Tier: 2 — enrolled act text from the state legislature's official document service; primary public record. - Companion act to [Act 173 of 2024](act-173-of-2024.md) (same Fiscal Session, overlapping sponsors). The wiki's prior shorthand — "Act 174 (SB 79) created a state permitting framework ... and added a foreign-ownership restriction" — is corrected by the enrolled texts: the **foreign-ownership prohibition is in Act 173 (§ 14-1-606)**; Act 174 carries the state permitting/regulation framework and the intent-findings amendment. - Cited by: [[Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Act 851) and 2024 Amendments]].