Senator Mary Anne Salmon

Meeting — March 31, 2011 (26:28)

is probably the last bill I'll run in my career, so I appreciate your good vote. Thank you. Well, thank

Meeting — March 31, 2011 (25:35)

Okay. Have the court reporters weighed in on this in any way? Now, this has nothing to do with the court reporters. Okay. This is on appeal, and it's just a copy of what they've already done. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, I got some. They thought it did, and I got some pretty bad e-mails for some of them, but it does not affect them. This is the cost of an

Meeting — March 31, 2011 (25:18)

it coming down? The current price is on page 27 there. It's $2.50 per page, no matter how many pages you get. Oh, okay. Okay. And I've talked to Martha Miller at the Association of Counties and she said they were fine on this.

Meeting — March 31, 2011 (24:31)

That's up to 4,000 pages, and then it's 50 cents for any pages over 4,000. I think it's a good bill. It will help people get the record on appeal and won't break them up when they're doing it. The rest of the things, as far as preparing a case, are the same. The certificates and seal is $5 still, and I didn't change anything but just the pages. I think it's a good bill.

Meeting — March 31, 2011 (23:57)

so they can appeal the case. Even in a small case, it might take $1,200 to $1,400 to $1,800. And my bill says that you pay $2.50 for the first 1,000 pages, then it cuts it to $2 for the next 1,000 pages, $1.50 for the next 1,000 pages, and $1 for the next 1,000.

Meeting — March 31, 2011 (23:27)

If I don't have my glasses, I might as well not be here. This bill is to reduce the cost of preparing a case record on appeal. Right now, to prepare a case record, it costs $250,000 per page, and sometimes corporations have to pay $50,000 to $100,000 or even just a very large case to get a copy of the record

Meeting — March 29, 2011 (10:29)

It deals with dogs and cats. And I have Billy Grace from the animal shelter in North Little Rock, and he can explain exactly what the bill does. Mr. Grace, if

Meeting — March 29, 2011 (10:15)

get that out, too. But go ahead and proceed, Senator. Okay. This is simply a bill to require that pets adopted through a pound, a shelter, a humane organization, or animal rescue group be sterilized before the adoption is complete.

Meeting — March 23, 2011 (6:06)

or is that other one going to be broken out into a different contract? I'm going to get my attorney to

Meeting — March 23, 2011 (4:57)

You would agree that that's what we've done? I would agree with that. And there you have it from the mouth of an attorney. If

Meeting — March 23, 2011 (2:08)

what the amendment says if you'll look in section B subsection A there it doesn't prevent the parties to lease to the lease from agreeing to a continuous drilling provision in order to extend the lease term. And so that simply says you can have an agreement to go ahead with the lease and that the agreement must be in bold, enlarged, or other distinctive print. Basically, that's it.

Meeting — March 23, 2011 (1:36)

or what did we call it, a pooling unit, a section or pooling unit, that has not had any activity, that's any development or exploration on it, in a year's time, you may what may you do you can choose not to extend the lease on the property and then

Meeting — March 23, 2011 (1:09)

Ms. Salmon, you may begin on your bill. Okay. I'd like to say that Representative Shepard had a problem with my bill originally, and so he and I agreed on this amendment, and it's sort of an agreed-upon amendment that's his on this. But the main thing that this bill does is if there is some of your property, a unit

Meeting — March 23, 2011 (0:32)

And I need a copy of it because my cartridge ran out in my printer, and so, oh, thank you. This