Representative Dan M. Douglas
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Committees
- Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate)
- ALC - PEER
- Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC)
Recent Meetings
| Date | Committee | Speaking Time |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 17, 2020 | Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) | 80s |
| Dec. 17, 2019 | ALC - PEER | 191s |
| Dec. 17, 2019 | Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) | 147s |
| March 19, 2013 | — | 2s |
| March 19, 2013 | — | 21s |
| March 18, 2013 | — | 63s |
| March 15, 2013 | — | 56s |
| March 15, 2013 | — | 374s |
| March 14, 2013 | — | 25s |
| March 13, 2013 | — | 75s |
| March 8, 2013 | — | 77s |
| March 7, 2013 | — | 6s |
| March 6, 2013 | — | 420s |
| March 4, 2013 | — | 90s |
| Feb. 27, 2013 | — | 160s |
| Feb. 25, 2013 | — | 49s |
| Feb. 22, 2013 | — | 30s |
| Feb. 7, 2013 | — | 1294s |
| Feb. 6, 2013 | — | 52s |
| Feb. 5, 2013 | — | 9s |
| Feb. 4, 2013 | — | 35s |
| Jan. 30, 2013 | — | 19s |
| Jan. 23, 2013 | — | 38s |
Recent Transcript Excerpts
Does anybody have any other business that should come before this committee at this time? If not, then we shall stand adjourned.
has any members anybody have any questions for mr scoggins saying none then thank you very much sir we appreciate that thank you okay
recognized Brian. Thank you for being
reports that we're supposed to hear annually. First of all we have the ADFA report. Brian Scoggins you're recognized to come up and tell us what you all been doing over there this year Brian. We're all ears to hear it. Good things I'm sure. And if there's something bad you just lie about it okay. Now tell us the good the bad and the ugly here. You're
shut your mouth boy all right uh members the next item of business we have it are a couple of
it longer if you want to no sir i think representative jack you're no longer recognized okay
favor signify by saying aye aye oppose nay motion passes all right thank you mr secretary thank
okay we have a motion second members any discussion on the motion okay if not all in
explanation uh representative jet i have a motion at the proper time mr chairman
the dicamba rules that we discussed last week sent back to the plant board. Secretary Ward, you are recognized to tell us what the plant board did when they got this back in few and precise words. Yes, sir.
All right, members, we're going to call this meeting to order. Senator Hill, do you have any
year. All right. All right, members, one item of business for action today,
that are going to be left out in the cold or going to a nursing home, which is going to cost us more money. So I would just encourage us to take a strong look at the Milliman study, try to get that information out as soon as possible because all these providers have to figure their budgets and figure out if they're going to be losing money or not and if they're going to continue to service this clientele. Yes, sir. We'll certainly do that. Thank you, Representative.
it and where they came back with that number okay well i i just have have grave concerns that we're going to have a lot of providers go out of business or quit servicing medicaid clients we're going to have a lot of people unemployed because this group does employ a lot of people throughout the state, and we're going to have a lot of frail and elderly people that want to stay in their homes and are best service there
In this Milliman study, the rate increase, the way I understand this, we're giving them $0.25 an hour now, And then, have we any idea what the increase would be, the new base rate from Milliman, to figure into next year's budget? At this point, we don't know
hour increase now according to some providers i've talked to they're losing money right now or just barely breaking even and a lot of these will go out of business i talked to one provider that said he'll have to lay off 625 employees and quit servicing all Medicaid clients. And these people will have to transfer a lot of them into nursing homes where we pay $5,400 a month instead of $1,500, $1,600 a month.
in 2016, the minimum wage was $8 an hour. Beginning of 2020, it's going to be $10 an hour. That's a $2 increase per hour in the minimum wage. 2011, it'll be $3 an hour, because 2021 will go to $11. And while we appreciate the effort here to give them something, we've got the minimum wage that has increased three dollars an hour or will have by 2021 and we're just giving them 24 25 cent an
here who does have those the way i understand it was 1.4 percent is
on personal care. Okay. So we're talking about 25 cent an hour increase whenever since the, well, according to the figures I have
representative douglas thank you mr chair mark good to see you this morning i appreciate this this increase that this work uh we have the total dollar amount uh we don't have a figure here in our information on how much per hour that will increase the the rates could you give us how much increase that this is going to be i don't believe i have that
Bills Discussed
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