Representative Patti Julian

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (9:27)

well. Well, I'm really thinking about the judges who hear domestic cases. No, now that I did a lot of

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (8:15)

with the committee? Yes, and And I'll fill you with a

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (8:03)

Representative Gillen, I neglected to ask you, when you had the joint interim study, did we have some of our judiciary members who sit on domestic cases as witnesses or consult

Meeting — Jan. 30, 2013 (49:24)

the other, all the facilities rather evenly? I mean, I noticed, I mean, there's some battery charges and some assault charges. There's one rape, some sexual assault. I have concerns about, you know, where are they with regard to the people who, you know, are there for disorderly conduct. Normally,

Meeting — Jan. 30, 2013 (48:52)

of suspected abuse or neglect that got referred to the state police, the more violent offenders in your care, do they tend to be congregated at one facility facility that perhaps is more secure than the facilities, or are they spread amongst

Meeting — Jan. 30, 2013 (48:30)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Representative Julian, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was just looking at, I guess I kind of jumped ahead, but I was looking at the commitments by charge and sort of looking at the number of what I would call violent commitments against persons and then relating it back to what you said perhaps about the number of investigations

Meeting — Jan. 23, 2013 (51:00)

a question. You said a temporary license, and while they go through the regular licensing process, if they wish, I mean, is

Meeting — Jan. 23, 2013 (16:40)

Do you happen to know how many of them would qualify for the parameters for living there set out? I mean, are we under building? That's

Meeting — Jan. 23, 2013 (16:25)

remember how many people were in the Little Rock home when we closed it. About 70. But I was curious why you capped the number at 150 beds. If we have that many veterans still living in Arkansas,

Meeting — Jan. 16, 2013 (8:45)

daughter and I'm happy to be on this committee living in North Little Rock and and representing that area we have a great many people from the base who live in my district and so this will be a very

Meeting — Jan. 16, 2013 (8:33)

Thank you. I'm Patty Julian, District 38, which is North Little Rock and a small part of Sherwood. I'm a retired lawyer I'm about to celebrate my 33rd anniversary and I have a grown

Meeting — March 14, 2013 (1:08:56)

do you recognize? This is really no different than provisions we have in other parts of the law, say contracts, where somebody with a sort of superior power position is forced to pay attorney fees if they're found not to be correct in their adjudication of the matter. Is that right?

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (6:11)

you have guardian of the person and guardian of the Estate is the terminology is there. So we want to be consistent with the rest of the Arkansas code. Okay. Thank you Okay, any other further questions from the committee?

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (5:56)

now we've changed it to a state. I always think of an estate as somebody who's passed away Was there some reason particular reason we were changing it from property? Representative Julian,

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (5:22)

licensed social worker and there's criteria laid out in the statute and certain things that they have to meet

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (5:40)

criteria as the current public guardian okay thank you Okay. Representative Julian, you recognize? In the cleanup language on line 18 where we've changed the guardian of an adult or it used to read property of an adult and

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (5:17)

the public guardian that's laid out in the statute they need to either be an attorney or a

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (4:52)

approval to do that we would have to get approval for the positions as well as

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (4:18)

Guardian cannot serve everyone. He has to take the ones of the most need and the most dire circumstances. And so there's also an administrative assistant in the office that helps keep the paperwork straight. If I could have a follow-up. Go

Meeting — March 13, 2013 (3:46)

hearing the at least once a year the guard the guardian has to provide an accounting to the court regarding finances the the public guardian there's there is a social worker that works in the office of public guardian that the public guardian oversees that that visits once a month to ensure that the wards needs are taken care of the like I said the caseload was 250 wards the The Office of Public Guardian receives approximately ten referrals a week because of funding, the Office of Public