Representative John W. Walker
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It's the difference between a volunteer. And if they're volunteering, that's one thing. Absolutely. If it's employment, then it would seem as if wage and hour laws ought to have some applicability. Representative Walker,
matter. But my question is, if they're employees, shouldn't they be paid rather than volunteers?
also backs that up. Let me ask then. Is there anything that regulates what the camps may pay to workers? Or may they pay them anything they want to? Assuming that we
be either not paid, paid 50 cents an hour, a dollar an hour, or two dollars an hour?
glad to take them. Representative Walker, for what purpose? A question you recognize. What does this do? Does this mean that people can work in organized camps and religious nonprofit educational conference centers without those centers having to adhere to the minimum wage laws? That's correct. There
state. Well, question, Mr. Speaker. Well, I'm trying to understand how the state benefits if you, in effect, saying to somebody, you come here and you do business in our state, and you can make as much money as you want to, but you don't have to pay but X dollars. Isn't that against capitalistic principles?
and make $100 million or more, but then it pays no more taxes than what you have
purpose? You recognize? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Now, let me understand this. A captive insurance company in Arkansas, so defiant, may be a hugely successful business
does not give them double dipping? Oh, no, not at all. Thank you. Representative Gossage has explained the bill.
And then if they happen not to remain as resource officers, what happens to them then when they go back to being just normal
invoice the school district for the money. Further question, Mr. Speaker, do you recognize? They are eligible, are they not, to participate in either the municipal police retirement system or the county retirement system?
Representative Walker, for a purpose. Question you recognize. Are these resource officers employees of the school district or are they employees of the local police force who ascend to the school district? That's a great question, Mr. Walker, and
And that makes no sense. I mean, the idea cannot go forth from this chamber that the right to bear arms is a right to bear arms against this government. Representative Walker
Mr. Speaker, fellow members of the House, I fear that this legislation does nothing other than afford people the opportunity. If they don't like the government at the time, be it Governor Beebe or some other governor, Governor Hutchinson possibly, and there is an emergency and the National Guard is called out, a person may be able to keep his gun in
the face of a declaration that he can't in order to bear arms against the government.
the big bucks for. Well, isn't that the governor's prerogative, to try to protect the people of the state through the use of the National Guard and the state militia and to try to
deal with the general common good rather than a particular individual right that
Second question, Mr. Carter. Mr. Speaker, how is one to determine whether someone is misusing a firearm during a time of emergency?
or while people are otherwise in distress and the very nature of their living is at stake, the governor does not have power to send out the National Guard or to otherwise cause the police to repress and suppress the possibility of people using their
question. Is it your position that during a Katrina, Hurricane Sandy-type situation, the so-called right to bear arms or to have a weapon while one is floating down the river
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