Senator Ricky Hill

Meeting — April 1, 2025 (3:18:33)

those countries. The restrictions in partnership with foreign adversary countries, and the imposition of criminal penalties for misappropriation of trade secrets and intellectual property by the foreign adversaries. With that, I'll take any questions. Any

Meeting — April 1, 2025 (3:18:00)

Inspector General to address alleged violations to comply with the four that I just mentioned. It's a prohibition of cultural exchange agreements with foreign adversary countries and reporting obligations. The screening process for hiring institutions and federal research expenditures of 10 million or more. The foreign adversary travel monitoring program restrictions and reporting on travel to and from that based off from the universities or the colleges that people are traveling to

Meeting — April 1, 2025 (3:17:27)

of our foreign adversaries whose interests are not aligned with the state of Arkansas or the U.S. It addresses the following key areas. It discloses past gifts of $250,000 or more since 2019, makes them disclose future gifts of $250,000 or more. Disclose past contracts of $250,000 or more with people from these countries, and also any disclosure for the future. It's an investigative process by the

Meeting — April 1, 2025 (3:17:19)

Colleagues, this is a bill that is a comprehensive attempt to protect our institutions from those

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:51:33)

reason I read it is for what I just asked the secretary over here. The only thing

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:50:50)

the bill? Yes, let's give you a moment, and while we're doing that, I'd like to put Secretary Ward on the spot while we're here. Again. but allowing him to make a

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:51:03)

statement that there is no significant changes in this bill that's in any way sneaky. Yes, sir. We have

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:49:40)

we're actually increasing the hopefully the new name animal health board to three veterinarians instead of two. So it'll be three of those on there because they are dealing with the livestock and poultry in the state of Arkansas plus the health and well-being of the food supply chain. So we want three veterinarians on there for that. And then I'll let Secretary Ward go through every other change that's on here? Because I did notice some lineouts and some underlinings. So he's going

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:49:14)

changes in there. That's what he told me, so

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:49:36)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The main thing I wanted to point out besides the name change that we're doing,

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:48:56)

Senate Bill 550. Yes, sir. Mr.

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (Senate) — April 1, 2025 (2:49:04)

to have Secretary Ward to come down here as well.

Legislative Joint Auditing - Educational Institutions — Dec. 12, 2019 (43:32)

come up next. Well, hey, Chuck will be facing it too. So thank you. Just keep being proactive on it. Thank you. Okay, Ms. Mayberry.

Legislative Joint Auditing - Educational Institutions — Dec. 12, 2019 (42:56)

but I don't want you to get a false hope because we do not know what the next scam is, what the next hacker is, until it happens. Yeah. When you have that loss is when you get – the good guy is always playing defense. The bad guy is always on offense. When we get one thing stopped, there's going to be another, And I think you're on the right track as far as setting up the IT overall to go that route. But I do expect to see us back here next year discussing something, just because that's the nature of the beast we're dealing with now.

Legislative Joint Auditing - Educational Institutions — Dec. 12, 2019 (42:51)

with you 100% on what you're saying as far as getting these issues fixed and stuff,

JBC-Special Language — April 1, 2025 (36:15)

and getting money from the state of Arkansas for horseback riding lessons. That's

JBC-Special Language — April 1, 2025 (36:24)

not part of education. I don't know anything about that organization and

JBC-Special Language — April 1, 2025 (36:35)

not be what I would understand as education. Okay, because they were listed as a 501c3 as well, doing it as extracurricular activities, community service, and I want to make sure

JBC-Special Language — April 1, 2025 (35:55)

right all right thank you Senator Petty. Senator Hill, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Senator Petty, looking at this, I want to go back in time here. I want to say community service on page two in career exposure. You know, we're looking at adding money to this. I want to think about a group out of northwest Arkansas that I saw that was actually doing horseback riding lessons

JBC-Special Language — April 1, 2025 (30:27)

right question. Okay, you were recognized to present your amendment. Amended bill? Amended