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Senator Jonathan Dismang

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Committees

Recent Meetings

Date Committee Speaking Time
Sept. 15, 2026 ALC - PEER 543s
Aug. 20, 2026 ALC - Administrative Rules 172s
Aug. 19, 2026 ALC - State Insurance Programs Oversight Subcommittee 527s
Aug. 18, 2026 ALC - PEER 59s
June 17, 2026 ALC - State Insurance Programs Oversight Subcommittee 264s
June 16, 2026 ALC - PEER 1238s
June 15, 2026 ALC - Administrative Rules 164s
June 3, 2026 — 181s
May 6, 2026 — 109s
May 5, 2026 — 767s
May 5, 2026 Revenue & Tax (Senate) 18s
May 4, 2026 Revenue & Tax (Senate) 471s
April 29, 2026 — 1501s
April 28, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 157s
April 28, 2026 — 261s
April 27, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 59s
April 23, 2026 — 448s
April 23, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 54s
April 22, 2026 JBC-Special Language 470s
April 22, 2026 — 850s
April 22, 2026 JBC-Special Language 363s
April 22, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 1925s
April 21, 2026 JBC-Personnel 98s
April 21, 2026 — 76s
April 21, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 402s
April 16, 2026 — 427s
April 16, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 385s
April 15, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 80s
April 15, 2026 — 1382s
April 14, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 4999s
April 14, 2026 JBC-Claims (8AM-9AM) 234s
April 8, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 192s
April 8, 2026 — 1347s
March 19, 2026 ALC - Administrative Rules 41s
March 17, 2026 ALC - PEER 500s
March 5, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 732s
March 4, 2026 Joint Budget Committee 2729s
Feb. 17, 2026 ALC - PEER 1124s
Jan. 16, 2026 Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) 115s
Jan. 15, 2026 ALC - Administrative Rules 212s
Jan. 13, 2026 ALC - PEER 779s
Dec. 19, 2025 Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) 84s
Dec. 16, 2025 ALC - PEER 1720s
Dec. 15, 2025 ALC - Hospital, Medicaid, & Developmental Disabilities Study Subcommittee 315s
Dec. 12, 2025 Legislative Joint Auditing 313s
Nov. 21, 2025 Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) 141s
Nov. 19, 2025 ALC - State Insurance Programs Oversight Subcommittee 313s
Nov. 18, 2025 ALC - PEER 685s
Oct. 27, 2025 Joint Performance Review (JPR) 599s
Oct. 17, 2025 Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) 35s

Recent Transcript Excerpts

Meeting — March 20, 2025 (2:04:46)

budget calendar, House Bill 1147, the Secretary of State, and House Bill 1246 for Rich Mountain. Do we have any questions, or would anyone like to pull those out from the batch? We're going to vote those just as a batch to keep having to call everyone's name twice. All right, seeing none.

Meeting — March 20, 2025 (57:17)

they say the fix was for presenting an ID for a grantor or a grantee that was not an individual?

Meeting — March 20, 2025 (56:16)

this though, so not all grantors, grantees are individuals and so they don't have ID's. They're most often going to be an LLC or an incorporated entity of some kind or a trust or a revocable trust or lots and lots of things that do not have ID's because they're not individuals. But the way this reads, I think, unless I'm misunderstanding something, there's not some provision which would allow for something different to happen for a non-individual entity.

Meeting — March 20, 2025 (55:52)

for a question. So when I was reading through this, it's the requirement of a driver's license to be presented by the grantor or the grantee. One of the two has to be present unless it's being done by an attorney, a real estate professional, or a broker agent, a bank, mortgage company, lending institution, title agent, or commissioner of state lands. When I read

ALC-Highway Commission Review & Advisory Subcommittee — Sept. 18, 2019 (3:55)

we were looking at is if you look in just the progress uh quarterly report and you flip over and any one of these projects you see a contract bid amount that would have been the starting amount and the second amount would be the current contract amount and you know there was usually a difference between those two and my understanding the report that they're presenting that that those amounts actually over time the difference between those two washes out and so that there's actually if you just did five years it would have been an 8.3 million dollar difference between the contract bid amount and the actual contract amount that was paid. Correct. Thank you. Any other questions?

ALC - Administrative Rules — Sept. 18, 2019 (51:52)

i think that i appreciate also the information on page five where you've outlined all the different funding sources that are available to those do you know the impact to the medicaid budget by chance or what the current spend is for this category within medicaid

ALC - Administrative Rules — Sept. 18, 2019 (51:19)

they're trying to employ um I mean they have to have a full-time nurse you know right for someone who is in a wheelchair and um but that is completely really unresponsive I mean it's so I I do understand this and actually I've heard from some of my schools like I said on the flip side of this where they've not been able to really keep up with the true cost of providing the actually care that they are required by law to to provide for those students so i do appreciate it

ALC - Administrative Rules — Sept. 18, 2019 (51:06)

question. Thank you. Sorry, it's me. I switched seats. No, I appreciate the rule. I've heard from my schools, actually, that do have those higher catastrophic cases where, you know, they struggle to pay for what

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (3:04:45)

I mean, if you're – I mean, at some point, your actions become part of the contract too, typically. That

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (3:04:16)

today. I just think it would be helpful for the discussion that we're having to know what happened, what the expectations are, and then what changed. Does that make

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (3:04:41)

Which is typically how it goes in most instances.

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (3:03:57)

Thank you, sir. Senator Dizbank. Is it possible to get a copy of the statement on this lease when

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (3:04:03)

it was, I don't know if it was XTO or who had it prior to? I would be curious to see how they treated the 1-8th in their payment schedule, if that makes sense.

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (2:42:25)

Net proceeds. Because I don't think anyone's going to argue about the bills needing to have more detail. No one's going to fight about that. I don't think y'all would either. What we're arguing about is net proceeds. So what's different in this than what the courts have determined it

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (2:42:08)

difference between what they're trying to put in statute, the House members trying to put in statute, and in what has been the reasonably understood by the courts to be the definition of, I mean, what we're here for, right?

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (2:40:53)

How do you think that this definition differs from? What do you mean this definition? The one that's being established by statute. That's why you're here. Yeah. Well, this definition is completely created by them to do what they want to

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (2:41:08)

do. How does it differ from the court case determined, you know, reasonably used definition that's just normal? How does

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (2:39:48)

Okay. But it's not defined by statute. It's not defined in the statute itself. It's defined by court cases. I would agree with that. That's a fair. Okay, and so there's been another interpretation by a later court case, or are they relying solely on

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — March 20, 2025 (2:38:46)

A new company comes in. They decide that net proceeds, definitions not established. So they've now set legal precedents for what that means. Is that fair? I don't

Bills Discussed

Bill Title Mentions
SB252 TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF HEALTH RISKS CAUSED BY VAPOR PRODUCTS AND E-LIQUID PRODUCTS; AND TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF … 6
HB1635 AN ACT FOR A GRANT FOR AN ARKANSAS TEACHING VETERINARIAN HOSPITAL AT THE LITTLE ROCK ZOO FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF … 6
HB1163 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 5
HB1052 AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR STATE TURNBACK FOR COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES BY THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF … 4
SB1 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS SENATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2026-2027 FISCAL YEAR. 4
HB1034 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2026-2027 FISCAL YEAR. 4
SB345 TO PROMOTE TOURISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF THE PRIVATE CLUB PERMITTING PROCESS OF HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, AND LARGE-EVENT … 4
HB1577 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT - GRANTS FOR PERPETUAL CARE CEMETERIES APPROPRIATION FOR THE … 4
SB54 AN ACT FOR THE AUDITOR OF STATE - DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 3
HB1093 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION REAPPROPRIATION. 3
HB1206 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND APPROPRIATION FOR … 3
SB73 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION. 3
SB391 TO CREATE THE ROBOTICS COMPETITION GRANT PROGRAM FOR ELIGIBLE ROBOTICS TEAMS IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS FOR THE PURPOSE OF … 3
SB82 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS; TO ESTABLISH THE PROCEDURE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS WHEN A CANDIDATE WITHDRAWS … 3
SB362 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION YOUTH ORGANIZATION GRANTS APPROPRIATION FOR THE … 3
SB183 TO AMEND CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW; TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS OR CARRYOVER FUNDS TO PAY FOR AN ETHICS … 3
SB365 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS SMALL BREWERY ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE OPERATION OF THREE SMALL BREWERY TAPROOMS BY A HOLDER OF … 3
SB92 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 3
HB1089 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - ARKANSAS WATERWAYS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 3
HB1089 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - DISBURSING OFFICER SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION. 3
HB1649 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 2
HB1639 AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES - SEXUAL ASSAULT NURSE EXAMINER PROGRAM APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 … 2
HB1689 TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN STATE-SUPPORTED … 2
HB1398 TO REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO SUPPORT, ESTABLISH, AND IMPLEMENT A CARDIAC EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN THAT INTEGRATES NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ELEMENTS. 2
HB1601 TO REQUIRE STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO PROVIDE CAREER COUNSELING AND OTHER RESOURCES TO CERTAIN STUDENTS. 2
HB1099 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES APPROPRIATION. 2
HB1633 TO AMEND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS WHO TRANSFER SCHOOLS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. 2
HB1105 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - SECRETARY'S OFFICE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 2
HB1106 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 2
HB1001 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. 2

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