Senator Jim Petty

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:40:17)

they did identify there were shipments in pretty healthy numbers. that answers my question. Thank

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:39:58)

As an example, Kansas identified nearly 200,000 shipments after they implemented their shipping law, and Tennessee had 185,000 nearly. You're talking about pounds. Shipments. Shipments. Is there a

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:29:45)

With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:29:15)

18 states, including Texas and Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana, have similar shipper reporting laws. And again, FedEx, UPS, DHL currently have software to create these reports. It will just essentially give us a gauge of the volume of alcohol shipped into the state. And then after that, the FNA can determine if there's anything else we need to do regulatory-wise or enhancement of collections of any lost revenue.

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:28:42)

The quarterly report would not provide specific information about that like the name or address. It just requires the zip code where the alcohol was delivered and the company that fulfilled that order. We worked with the Arkansas Trucking Association, had some amendments there. We had a late amendment by FedEx. I worked with them and their government relations team to satisfy them, and there's no known opposition at this time to this bill.

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:28:09)

The purpose of this bill is simply to give the state a two-year gauge of the volume of alcohol being shipped into Arkansas. As it stands now, we really don't know. With a few exceptions, it's currently illegal to ship alcohol into the state, but it is happening. SB-447 requires the common carriers like FedEx, UPS, DHL file quarterly reports with DFNA documenting the amount of alcohol they're bringing into the state and who shipped it. It does not create a sting operation on the consumer.

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:27:52)

Mr. Chair. Jim Petty, Senator, District 29. Members, I know it's late, and you've heard lots of bills, and we're all just getting started in a lot of ways. I was in here a few days ago. This is the common carrier shipper bill.

Transportation, Technology & Legislative Affairs (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (1:27:47)

clear to present your bill. There we go. All right. Thank you,

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (35:27)

said that they thought they had 60 days, but they really didn't legally

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (35:30)

have 60 days, and this is going to make it legal for them to have 60 days to assess. Is that what I heard? That is absolutely correct. All right. Thank you. Any other discussion? All right.

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (31:51)

50%. And one follow-up, sir. So, and where is that

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (31:03)

so when you say sales tax, we're not talking about the normal 10% sales tax? Are we talking about an excise tax? We would hope

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (27:22)

that they can actually go in and make those notices and ordinances and public input sessions and so forth. OK. Any of the members have any questions? Anyone from the audience want to speak for it?

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (26:51)

in the paper or something, the tax had to expire for three months, even though the citizens had voted to extend it. It was an administrative oversight during a transition period between a new county judge and an old county judge. And so because of the statute and the notice requirements, it had to expire. There was no way around it. and so all this is doing is saying since they're tracking it, you need to check this and make sure you comply with the requirements in an ample time

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (26:16)

And it's all around administrative notifications. And this bill is simply going to direct DF&A in order to, they already do certain notifications anyway. They're going to provide them, in essence, you should consult an attorney. There are several areas that you need to be aware of to effectively and legally extend this. And that's all this is, is to give them. What ended up happening was because of one of the failed notices or filing of an ordinance

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (25:44)

What is necessary to extend a tax that is set to expire, specifically in one of my counties, but also in having conversations through that process with DF&A, which was as helpful as they could be in trying to resolve the issue. It's apparent that it is very confusing. We all agree it's very confusing on all of the reporting requirements necessary to effectively extend a tax that the citizens have voted on.

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (25:21)

yourself and you can begin. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Jim Petty, Senator, District 29. So this bill,

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (25:30)

SB 577, is simply attempting to give some guidance to the county or municipality administration around extending a tax that is expiring or not extending a tax.

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (23:37)

2024, 2025, 2026, and since it's not changing anything in terms of assessments, it's just defining what fair market value that was assessed on January 1st meant, which again is based on case law and practice and so forth, so. - Fair enough. - Any other questions? Anybody from the

Revenue & Tax (Senate) — April 2, 2025 (23:30)

the bill itself. And I can comment to that. In drafting, BLR did have input, because we talked about, you know,