Senator Jim Hendren

Meeting — Jan. 22, 2020 (40:17)

can you get them a card or have one somehow waiting for them at the apartment I think we can work through that because I certainly see that the risk of four digit numbers you know floating out in everywhere if there's no security there but if we're going to go with cards there needs to be some ability for us to do that without having to come face to face fill out a form and do all that stuff you're telling me that we can do that yes sir I have no problem with

Meeting — Jan. 22, 2020 (39:46)

this last christmas i had a family that i'd done my whole life who that exact situation need to be at Children's for a couple weeks with a child. And my only request is that we be able to do what was just mentioned because it would have been, they live in Rogers, I live up in Gravett. It would have been a pain to go try to find a way to give them one of my cards and then try to find a way to get it back. As long as we have the ability to call down and you guys can authenticate us somehow or you know us that we can say, look, they're going to be using the apartment for a couple weeks. I'm not going to be there.

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Feb. 18, 2020 (22:27)

there some reason why there's no texas data do we know what they do uh texas was we

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Feb. 18, 2020 (21:38)

Okay. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Madam Chair. Senator Hendren. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to know, you mentioned the ability you have if somebody has been unethical or whatever to deny them the license, or have you actually done that? Have people been denied a license because of some sort of unethical behavior in their business? I really can't

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:33:30)

and then come back with a restructure plan that they have to present

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:33:05)

Yeah, okay. So it sounds like what I'm hearing is I think that most people understand we've got to do something other than just pull it out of hide in one swoop but maybe something a little bit better than what we have as far as language goes with some clarity. So I don't know whether that can be cleaned up and satisfy folks, because I agree, you know, maybe some sort of thing, at least look at it for the first year or two

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:32:31)

revenue term back approximately for the next fiscal year if you had to take it out of that, if they defaulted? $21 million. $21 million. So you could just take it all out of that $21 million term back, but the ones who really pay the price of that are the ones

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:32:27)

Yes, July 1 is the next fiscal year. So what is their general

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:32:05)

$6 million over the next four months. So what is their total that they would be getting over the next fiscal year? Over the remainder of this fiscal year, about $7 million? No, for the following fiscal year, because they're good until the end of this fiscal year, correct? Well, this $6 million must be repaid by a close of business on June 30th. Right, which is when the next fiscal year starts?

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:31:33)

So what happens, I kind of like to always ask

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (4:31:36)

when we start talking about killing something, what happens if this language isn't passed? Do they just default on the $6 million at the end of the fiscal year, or where would we be? There would be

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (2:15:31)

So it is to enable you to make those changes that would enable us to see the savings that we all want to see in transformation? Yes, sir. Now, I'm all for oversight, and we certainly, the legislature needs to know when those type of things are occurring. But we can, on one hand, demand that you present savings and show the efficiencies, but then, on the other hand, not give you the ability to make those changes. Yes, sir. Thank you.

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (2:14:29)

doing this through attrition so if one of those HR persons leave and now I have two and I decide to fill that with those two people and eventually fill it with one and allocate the expenses based on the percentage of work that that person is doing for each of those agencies. Is that what we're trying to allow happen here?

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (2:13:56)

and with the hope of some efficiency and some more savings in the way we run state government, was the goal. So I guess I want to ask, from a practical example, with this language or without this language, if I've got three departments, three agencies now consolidated under one department each three of those has an HR person so we have three but we also know that one person through consolidation could do the entire job and I one of the things we did was we're not doing this through layoffs we're

Joint Budget Committee - Pre-Fiscal Session Budget Hearings — March 4, 2020 (2:13:46)

you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Bleed, I just want to ask a practical question about this, because, again, as we went through the transformation process, which, as we know, was long and well debated,

Meeting — March 26, 2020 (1:42:03)

Don't all cram out the doors and get jumbled together. Let's try to leave here with nobody sick. Thank you all for all your help

Meeting — March 26, 2020 (1:41:33)

So if you're not going to be here for either one of those votes, make sure that you fill out the proxy form and make sure that in that you know who your designee is and your designee knows who they are. And all those members that are watching online, I appreciate your staying with us and participating in the process. I've gotten texts from some of them. This live streaming turned out to have more benefits than just transparency. So 3 o'clock tomorrow as we leave here, don't make everything we've done for naught.

Meeting — March 26, 2020 (1:41:08)

Hendricks, recognize. Members, thank you for your compliance

Meeting — March 26, 2020 (1:41:12)

with the weird circumstances we find ourselves in. I hope everybody is comfortable, but I want to again tell you, if you're not going to be here in the morning, tomorrow we're going to meet at 3 p.m. That's the same time the House is coming into a session. And then we'll have the final vote, the vote on the House bill that comes over at midnight tomorrow night.

Meeting — March 26, 2020 (1:38:06)

rules for the purpose of calling the roll