Representative Joe Farrer

Meeting — March 14, 2013 (20:54)

It's because we screen for it. If we stop screening for tuberculosis, and it's still out there. It's in my hospital every month. I see some in there. If we stop screening for it, even with medical professionals, we will have a – it will be starting

Meeting — March 14, 2013 (20:50)

bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's a reason why we don't have much tuberculosis anymore.

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (12:15)

Let me ask you this question. Do you think maybe you should, if you're having this meeting, maybe you should hold it until you have the meeting? Or

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (11:48)

Well, they said they're against it.

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (11:33)

Arkansas Game of Fish have any input on this at all? They do. Can we hear that input?

Meeting — March 12, 2013 (1:05:25)

PT, OT, and speech right now are considered specialists by most insurance carriers, and the co-pays are significantly higher. So what this bill does will be it makes PT, OT, and speech co-pays, the same as primary care physicians. This decreases the cost of health care to out-of-pocket

Meeting — March 12, 2013 (1:05:42)

expenses to most patients. And I appreciate a good vote. Representative Farrar has

Meeting — March 12, 2013 (1:05:07)

so I want to explain something. When I say PT, OT, and speech, I mean physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. So it's just a habit for me, so just forgive me. What this bill does is decreases the cost of health care for patients receiving these therapies.

Meeting — March 8, 2013 (16:58)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Joe Farrar, representing District 44. I'm here today to present Bill 277 from the Senate. And with me I have Dr. Steve Forbush, a physical therapist, along with me. So I'd like to just turn the floor over to him and let him explain the

Meeting — March 1, 2013 (38:13)

a question. MR. Would you try to address or have somebody address the concerns that Little Rock has on the access to the amount of channels they're saying may be limited to three and they may need five? Could somebody

Meeting — March 1, 2013 (37:16)

before Mr. Carpenter said that the small rural communities may lose Internet access. Could you help me with that? Well, first of all, we're talking about a video bill

Meeting — March 1, 2013 (32:48)

If you had to prioritize here on one, two, and three on your issues, how would you prioritize? Access, public access? I would prioritize PEG first. And let

Meeting — March 1, 2013 (32:03)

Tom. MR. Hi. MR. It's been several years since we've talked. MR. And I've gotten gray. MR. Yeah, me too. Have you sat down with the cable companies and visited?

Meeting — Feb. 25, 2013 (58:36)

State, who decides the filing fees? The Secretary of State's office does. So they'll have complete discretion to set it to whatever they want? They will.

Meeting — Feb. 25, 2013 (9:12)

DF&A figured $1,000 per firefighter at a 7% tax rate, and they estimated about half of the firefighters would take advantage of this. I appreciate a good vote.

Meeting — Feb. 25, 2013 (8:46)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What this bill does is it gives voluntary firefighters a $1,000 tax deduction for any damages to the personal property while performing their duties and any equipment that they buy to perform their duties. The bill would give the same benefits to the voluntary firefighters as it does to the paid firefighters we have now. The fiscal impact on this is less than $50,000.

Meeting — Feb. 21, 2013 (4:21)

you know these these they go off into fields and old homes and everything like that so that's mostly personal property as the vehicles I guess they could burn their clothes to representative Bell

Meeting — Feb. 21, 2013 (1:39)

art there he said he'd give it to you if you wanted it I can tell you but he will best

Meeting — Feb. 21, 2013 (1:37)

it about five minutes ago the gentleman from DNFA

Meeting — Feb. 21, 2013 (0:33)

when they buy their equipment to help them fight the fires and if they damage their personal property during that fighting of the fires I think this is a good bill we need to help these guys out guys and gals out these are first responders and anything we can do to help them I'm for so I appreciate a good vote committee I