Representative RJ Hawk

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:59:42)

and about a potential amendment for covering the standing portion? Yes. Was there a reason

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:59:48)

why we didn't try to do an amendment to help alleviate that? Because if a victim doesn't

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:59:08)

Okay, thank you. Representative Hawke, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Brown, after the last time that

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:59:22)

we were here, we heard from prosecutors that they were concerned with standing, right? That was something that was said quite a bit. It wasn't just by one. In fact, I think there was one prosecutor that had been a victim, right? Have you had, prior to this, did you have any conversations with the prosecutors on that

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:39:03)

me to. Yeah, really, this is just concerning voter assistance at the ballot box. I'm going to let Mr.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:39:08)

Madison tell the details of the bill, so if there's any

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:38:44)

District 81. Mr. Chair, if you don't mind, I'll have Chris Madison with me at the table. Of course, Mr. Madison, you're recognized.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:26:54)

So let me just make it clear though, so for in my instance as well as other candidates in Saline County, the Republican women, they didn't register as a PAC like they were supposed to. a bunch of checks, and then next thing I know, I was on the front page of the paper as taking the illegal contribution. So with this bill, that would not make me on the front page. It would not be

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:26:49)

Ray, I appreciate this because I fell victim to this last go around.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:22:07)

thank you mr. Chair, Representative Pilking. What was the idea behind a whole week? Like, rather than just like, because I know there's some companies that will only give three days, right? Why a whole week

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:09:52)

And I keep seeing representatives come in the room and things like that. Is this going to be the last bill, or what are we doing here? Because I just, like I know we all got bills to get out, but we had an agenda to do constitutional amendments, and we have yet to get to those.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:09:22)

Mr. Chair, real quick before we get started on this, I'm just asking maybe Carly or you, if we keep hearing bills, we're going to be here all night. And we were intended for constitutional amendments.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:07:50)

for that one section, I get what you're saying. Okay, thank you. Seeing no other

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:07:25)

so I just want to confirm what you just said. So we're taking out the Ethics Commission. So we're cherry-picking Ethics Commission for all the rest of the commission just so we can get the bill passed. Is that correct?

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (46:27)

And so with all that being said, I think this is a good first step. I don't think there's any harm in doing this to try

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (45:54)

I was just telling Representative Collins just a minute ago that whenever on the two vehicles I have for my business, The other day we were doing our taxes, and one of my property management employees, we found that there were six trips to Oaklawn over the past year through the tracking that we had. And I went and asked him, he said, well, I went down to make a couple horse bets. Well, he was doing that during work hours. And we didn't, it was just a slap on the wrist, said let's not do that anymore, but it allowed for us to track that and correct the problem at the time.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (45:21)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Colleagues, I think that we live in the 21st century and things are going digital and we've got to be able to find cost-saving measures in any way we can do it. And I think that this is a good first step to that. You know, when it comes to state vehicles, they need to be used for state purposes. And in that case, I think that the state should be able to track this. Going to do paper and logs are the old way of doing things, and there's more efficient ways to go about and figure out maintenance and things of that nature to find those cost-saving measures.

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (30:39)

In your opinion, from based on the conversations that you've had, the savings that would be made on, you know, having these trackers and things would further be a good thing in what the cost of this would be. Yeah, I believe we'll hit breakeven relatively

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (30:32)

that we'll need? But I guess my point of this was, in your opinion, being the Chief Financial Officer of the state,

State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs (House) — April 2, 2025 (29:48)

question is, I think the last time we heard this bill, we were talking about cost of these trackers for each vehicle. I believe Representative Clowney said it was going to