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Repair the machine mr clerk. As everyone voted. Has everyone voted. Cast that the better mister click. But a fifty three years in twenty four days. The present bill has best. Mister sarson in order to wear purpose. It met the governor. So governor you recognized. Yeah I am here to listen what the house has to say codes based off my age and I need here what you all are talking about in order to accomplish what i. And sit down for a little bit to hear you are talking about thank you. Yeah. The. Mr clerk please read house bill the thousand and three. Also one thousand three representative westbrook and act to provide relief the hospital patients to declare an emergency and for other purposes. Representative wesbrook you are recognized the explain the bill. The. Good morning my fellow or kansas we we've been brought here today to help pass the bill I myself come from a lower income family my family does that make that much money and we sometimes struggle to pay to build. So you may be thinking why does this have anything to pertain to me. Most of the state argues are is made up of lower income families who struggle to pay bills and whenever it does have time to pay bills usually they cannot come across come across pay them. What I would like to bring to your attention is the high cost of a hospital bills what I would propose is a five five percent decrease on this bill and this money will not come from taxes this money will come straight from the loans act thank you. Representative whisper has explained the bill. Representative and where purpose again you have been recognized. Thank you mr speaker I would just like to bring your attention that this bill is very socialist it goes against our capitalism and it would affect a lot of rural hospitals so where i'm from in washington county if this was passed our hospital would probably go bankrupt and then the citizens in washington county would have to drive multiple hours to the nearest hospital to be able to receive health care. Does anyone wish to speak for the bill reps out of flowers you or recognize. Thank you mister speaker am speaking for this bill because he is right that this bill will help low income families with with the hospitals because hospital bills right now our outrageous and I believe with this bill it can help though it come from is in low income areas especially where I live in the delta because we don't we don't have many hospitals over there and when we do get there the hospital bills are to the roof so I believe that this bill can help low income families but not disrupt the source of change but anything like that thank you for a purpose to speak against the bill you have been recognized thank you mister speaker. While I applied the intent of this bill and the idea I definitely agree that hospital costs need to be reduced this is not the way to go about it this bill forces an immediate decrease in profits of hospitals now who is that in effect certainly not going to affect the people up at the top it's not going to affect the executives of these hospitals it's not going to affect those that are making the most salary who are they going to take that money out of there take the money out of the low income the nurses the janitors those who are already scraping to get by working at these hospitals and in this medical profession this is the real life impact of this bill it's not going to solve anything overnight and this is a problem that can't be fixed overnight this is a problem that requires careful deliberation and thus declaring this and emergency act is reckless in careless. Does anyone wish to speak for the bill. Representative hark for a reason. You have been recognized. I have to agree with a andrews it will it will punish the smaller hospitals and small towns and also he said we're taken in away from the learns act and that's a lot of time and money drawn from there from that product in that the learns act that we've worked so hard and so long to get for our schools it's just punishing their and smaller things thank you. Represents a painted for what purpose immediate consideration. It's a problem unavailable. Motion for the housing immediate consideration all the paper ci opposing. Most incurred. Question before the house is pairs it of house bill a thousand in three prepared the machine mister clark. Hello has everyone voted. Has everyone voted cass at the bella mister click. Barbara of seven years in seventeen. The present bill has failed. Out of interest for a purpose. The proper motion not to be done all those in favor ci are those opposing. The motion is filled. All right does everybody understand what just happened there. I got to talk about my hands again sorry the clinton is two motions is it's emotion to in our. It can't be brought back with a bill like that though when seventy people voted against it which is basi. You may or may not need typically see the cleature in both of fifty one fifty two fifty three sunday majorities or sixty seven sixty eight sixty nine votes on a a two thirds it's it's so that boat can't be reconsidered your meeting reconsidering and also tightening it at the same time so it can't be brought back so it's it's done basically it's it's locked in but. That and we vote motions audibly unless noted otherwise you have to be loud one way of the other when you leave it to the vote to the chair you can leave it up to debate that was probably coin flip either way because nobody voted so when you both yay. Mr glirk please read hospital number a thousand and four. House bill one thousand four representative. And activate the school technology safety act and for other purposes. Representative sabatini you are recognized to explain the bill. Thank you mr speaker i'm due to sabatini representing district six senders county and speaking on behalf of the house education committee i'd like to start with a fuse statistics so please bear with me as we all know are consistent consistently been ranked in the bottom ten nationwide and education and recently as low as forty eight bottom to in the country by sums excuse me by some sources. Additionally arkansas I was ranked in the top fifteen states for the most reported bullying incidents and I believe it did direct result of this is that eighteen point nine percent of our consider teenagers have admitted consideration of suicide and nearly fifteen percent as a twenty twenty two have dropped out of high school. No a problem that we have in the state or nationwide with our youth is an overreliance and an overexposure to technology. What the education committee committee is suggesting that we limit school issued technology from grades kindergarten through eighth to being left in the classroom not being brought home with students. Great night through twelve high school would be allowed to bring home school issue technology whether that be chromebooks ipads or any other forms of technology used by the students home with them to work on their projects. This is because it prevents students from getting it of earth use me having an overreliance on their technology and being exposed to content that they are not mature enough to see additionally with cell phones in the topic of bullying I think we have all know an incident in our school or someone with cyber believed a fight was recorded someone was ridiculed using technology. If our students are not safe in school they will not be motivated to learn and we will not ever move out of the bottom time in our education so we suggest is that grades k through eighth will not be allowed to have phones in school and grades nine three twelve will be allowed to have phones at lunch this will be regulated using its your best and fraction system to discourage students from using their phone and class the specifics of that infraction system will be left to their school districts do you have any questions. Representative richardson for a purpose to question you have been acknowledged two questions. I'm sorry restate we state that quite i'm sorry if I had two questions I asked one that asked for one another one later on or asked in both once you would ask for your question once he's answered you'd ask for a follow up yes sir so first question do you leave you represent the fact that arkansas use. Those things do you believe really believe that phones are the main cause that do you think there'd be education funding quality of teachers and our rural schools that w. Development of those would be the main causes that we should focus on to try and improve our education ratings. I don't believe the technology is the main cause of that issue but I believe it's part of it and of our students are more motivated in school and more well rounded students than I believe that we will see an increase in that education I do agree with you we need more funding for a rule schools we need more motivated teachers but I believe it also starts with motivated students are not distracted or being over exposed to technology follow a question you are recognized could you also destroy more what exactly you mean by tear system or a factor system that you say would be the availability to enforce this bill yes right so an example of that could be the first time the student is using their phone in a time that is not allowed it then they were the phone would be taken they would receive a lunch attention the second time their phone will be to take in they would receive an after school detention it would work up the more infractions you have the more it would increase and i'd also like to add that in case of an emergency where a student needs to contact their parents there would be allowed to go to the front office to either use the office phone or their cell phone thank you thank you today. Representative nearby what purpose you recognize apologies for my voice but a whole. Student will need to be contact. Have to contact the school system and not. Yes so the parent could call the front office in a situation where they need to contact their student and in case of an emergency the student would go to the teacher and the teacher would allow them to use the phone in the office. You are recognized. Right so in a situation where it could be something is small as a student like forgetting their commission forms forgetting though launch whatever or in the situation of our female students needing hysterian products through any situation like that they need to contact the parent that would be allowed thank you and i'd like to add and the case of a severe emergency obviously then. The the school would contact the family if it was a severe medical emergency or a threat inside the b. Prepared for purpose question who have been acknowledged on page two section b line to it says monitor the use of technology by students is that include all technology you know that phones laptops personal ones that the soons would have no privacy on those devices monitoring me in school on devices I know in my district we have the system called go guardian that can monitor what students are looking at as well as another system that will already the technology administrator at the building if inappropriate things are being viewed on school devices as for what they're viewing on their personal devices for high school students that would allow to use their phones during the light we believe that the system will encourage students to be mature with their devices by the time they get to that age they should know what they're doing how to use their technolog. Representative richardson put purpose been acknowledged does this system merely prohibit the students from using their cell phone during the prohibited hours or does this system confiscate the cell phones so by a teacher or an administrator and then return them at a later time for lunch so that is something that was discussed within our committee but with the logistics of it it would be prohibiting and discouraging students from using their phones and like we talked about with the infraction system if a student is caught using their phone there is consequences for that that builds up as with repeat of things so no not confiscation and phones because that logistically would not be possible thank you. Representative magazine landing forward purpose question you have been acknowledged how exactly do you plan on emp. Right that's a good question and like we said I know each school district is different so the exact specifics of the infraction system would be left up to the school district. But I believe that when we started a younger age than students have the mentality that they don't have as much of a reliance and technology so by the time to get to high school and they they were are going to have their funds they're gonna have their funds at lunch they're going to be more prepared and more matured to know not to use that so obviously with students now that are used to having their phones in class every day there's going to be some growing pans in the early years but starting from kindergarten going all the way through senior year I think in a few years we're going to see that this post evidence thank you thank you. Representative of salvatini has explained the bill. Anyone like to speak against the bill. Represent a little bit for purpose motion. I motion for immediate consideration. I'm not going to take it their motion at this time represent rifle of purpose you have been acknowledged. A go against this bill because I feel like it wouldn't make that much of a drastic change towards bulling and I feel like it would just encourage the bully to find other ways to bully if not. Would anyone like to speak for the bill represent appears what reason. Speak for the bill you have been recognized. Begin mister speaker so I believe that this bill is a great opportunity to limit ways that woolies could bully specially cypriot willing I know it my school especially a big issue right now is students are using ai to create fake newed pictures of other students and then sending them around which slanders are their students and could affect them for the rest of their lives and I think this is this is a good way to limit on that I believe if we start limiting ways that people could bully other people eventually there's not going to be very much other ways and I think it is our duty to help our students especially all of us have students in our district that are experiencing these things and so II think that this bill should pass thank you represent a porner who had purpose you have been recognized. So I was in the committee room whenever we meet we are coming up with this bill and however the language is wrong on the monitoring the use of technology for the students because it's too bright case on any school could take advantage of the monitor students too much. Anyone would like to speak for the bill representative flowers for it purpose. You are recognized. Some may say that this bill is bad because it it takes away students right but I believe that this bill will help students in a better way because saba billion israel it is very real and any it will cause more to help in on the bank on the page with monitor and the schools of this school technology that's not really a broad topic is just we have to monitor a students on their electronics because they can be done things that is not relevant to school purposes at all so when it says that um that we'll be taken soon as phones are believe that that is the excellent thing because phones are a big distraction in the school classrooms from my experience it is a very very big distraction in in the learner process so I believe that this bill shared parents so please vote for the bill thank you. Anybody wish to speak against the bill representative lynch for purpose against your you have been recognized. Thank you speaker I flat gives no reason to pass his bill because it's our reading policies in school where you don't worry most of the other is our parties where like you can have your phones and so I think so are these unnecessary pass allow already passes escort they stop you from having your funds and stuff like that and martin your devices and artists does really no reason to pass along with all the party at the school so I was here while she passed this is anyone for the bill representative ladyman for purpose you have been recognized. Okay so I am speaking for this bill because I go to a very small school and everybody there has access to a phone they had access to a phone full time last year and this year the school passed a policy in which um they really hammered down on the technology uses within not just a school classroom but in the lunchroom as well and over this past year that that policy has been in place I have found that students at my school have heard many more genuine connections there has been a lot less drama over social media or making fun of other people online and there has just been an overall great increase in the positivity like the atmosphere in the score and so from personal experience I can say that this bill I think would be extremely helpful to the students at any school thank you. Represent a separate for. Motion for consideration state your motion immediate consideration to proper motion not the better are those in favor of ci are those opposing the motions passed. Representative seventeen. The question before the house is passes of house bill a thousand four prepared the machine mr clerk. Has everyone voted has everyone voted cast that the bella mister clinton. Bible of twenty three years in fifty four days the bill has failed. And represented oven just for purpose point of personal privilege. The. We're going to take a five minute recess and we'll talk. The house of here we says for five minutes. Gentleman the bathroom lens bathroom is through that door in in that hall if you need anything in there so when over here moving back in about five minutes. Hey guys I really quick if you got it we really we asked on time so five minutes legitimately said you got to go the bathroom there's some bathrooms down here but as soon as that bomb minds up you're going to hear the the horn get back in your seats as quick as possible go. Yeah. The. Okay guys weren't take this a quick moment I think it's about here so the actual speaker of the arguments are house representatives is here matthew shepherd from elderly he's going to come out down and give you guys some wisdom he's been one of the longest running speakers he's a dear friend of mine and so with no further do the arkansas house representative speaker the house made you show thank you. Mr speaker. Members of the boy's state house representatives we I want to welcome you to the state capital today it was thirty one years ago that hours at boy state myself and recall very very finally my experience that voice state made a number of friends that continue to have through the years I don't think I was really elected anything but that's beside the point boy state was a great experience and I hope that you've had a a great week I know it's probably been a tiring week and you're probably looking forward to to be in back home but I hope you enjoyed this morning and today if the architects stay capital I want to congratulate you on your accomplishment of being elected to the house that the house representatives we've met in this chamber for over a hundred years actually I think just over a hundred and ten years so there's been a lot of history that's been made here in this very room and one of the things that I think about as speaker of the house and having served in the house for fourteen years and having been speaker longer than anybody else in the history of the state is just how fortunate that I and my colleagues have been to have that option to serve here and represent the folks in our respect of districts you probably know that each of us is house members we represent about thirty thousand or kansas and we come from all corners of the state and I can say this that one of the things I really love about the houses you have all kinds of different backgrounds from you know different ages different parts of the state different experiences and we come together every two years and regular session every other year in fiscal session and then for special sessions and somehow we're able to come together and find consensus on the vast majority of things that are brought before us and we have a lot of varied backgrounds i'm an attorney a practice law on elder we have was rj at. Radio personality we have a former wrestler we have reps in mcrooms and real estate we have another attorney over here representative brown and then course reps of andrews auctioneer cattlemen real estate agent but all of our men but we come together and we do the people's work and so I hope you've enjoyed your experience act congratulates you I wish you well on your senior year and if there's anything in the act never do for any one of you please let me know and with that i'll turn it back over to the speaker thank you. The. The. Representative andrews point purpose when a purpose point of personal privilege you recognized. I would just like to take a moment for us to all bank all the legislators for being here today with us on helping us along this experience and just be in here for us guiding us taken tom out of their busy personal lives to be here with us today so let's all give all the legislators that are present here today around a pause. The. This. All right gentlemen go give you just a little bit of a a road map as we as we finish up the day you've done the house bills you finished what we call the house portion of the counter now we move into senate bills typically we don't run all the senate bills only we only typically run senate bills that pass the senate but in an opportunity to give more people the opportunity to speak and present we're going to run all four of those bills I don't believe all four of them passed the senate I think only a couple maybe three similar to what she did with the house bills that we would typically send house bill one thousand one one thousand two down to the senate three and four would not go because they failed but since we got a little bit of time as i've talked to the folks boy state we've got to have a hard stop at approximately eleven twenty five ish. Giver take they're going to send the other buses but they're holding the house in the senate buses so you've got roughly forty five fifty minutes give or take for these four bills proceed accordingly because we are going to hard to stop you at eleven twenty five is if we don't get there we have any questions or anything for we get going on the senate counter very well I will yield and we will continue thank you. Mr clerk please read senate bill one. Reject two here we got sponsors on three and four we do is there anyone here to run senate bills one into we didn't have to have a house sponsor we didn't have a house sponsored either one of those bills named by well in iran senate bill wanted to. What who wants sent bill one set representative shepherds which clerk. Mr clark please read cynibil one center bill one by senator shepherd and actually create the drug and alcohol rehabilitations and their grant program to declare an emergency and for other purposes represent a separate you are recognized to explain the bill. Thank you. It is no question. That drug abuse and substance abuse is a major problem not only in arkansas but in the nation. So I believe that this bill will be great start in arkansas to help mitigate this problem. This bill will declare a state of emergency. Stating that drug and substance abuse is in fact a major problem and that we do need to take steps to address it. This bill will make sure to allocate funds in many ways to help rehabilitate those who are victims of substance and drug abuse thank you. Representative separate has explained the bill within one like the speak against the bill. Reserve hollow food purpose to speak against the bill you are recognized. Look it it's no secret that you know drugs are a major issue in this nation you know every single state you know including arkansas has to struggle with these issues and I think that I can speak for all of us when I say that we want to address the however it is my belief that rehabilitation facilities are a band fix to a greater issue um it is of my opinion that the greater issue in the reason for this incessant drug use ends you know addictions that are you know sweeping our great state a lot of that comes down to a lack of drug education and simply you know poor economic stability at our state. So while I feel that this bill is has good intentions at heart I feel that it fails to address the greater issue behind the problem of um addiction and rampant drug use and for that reason I urge all of you to vote against this bill thank you. Would anyone like to speak for the bill representative ray for what purpose against the bill. Representative for purpose for the bill you have been acknowledged. As many view from roots county may know i've watched many members of my family struggle from drug addiction and alcohol abuse. And i've watched them also struggle to find rehabilitation centers that would accept them because we are a family who does not have that much money we can't afford to send a lot of our family members to these abilitation centers because of the price that comes along with them I think that this bill creating more rehabilitation centers and having more options for people to go and go through these real biltation processes is a wonderful thing that would really benefit people from my area in areas around the state thank you. Seven over a point purpose to speak against the bill you are recognized. While we sympathise with those that have fallen to drugs and alcohol we must also reconsider the fact that taxpayers may not want to pay money for those that have just thrown their lives away selflessly we need to reconsider this bill please vote against this bill. Representative where purpose you are recognized. As a member of the committee who worked with this bill we realized that if we took tax out of every single item they were sold then the bill just would not work and it would cause taxpayers unnecessary suffering what we decide was that if we should tax the alcoholic beverages that these such alcoholics but then therefore it could help and sustaining them kind of rephrase from buying these products we also have decided that this bill will not be to eliminate it but just help the people who are under alcohol of affects. Collins ford purpose. You are recognized. I would like to say that. When we are talking my stuff like this we always talk about what we can do to help those who are recovering but why not just get to the source when I get to the source of drugs and alcohol and stop stop it there we talk about the education by why not just eliminate the problem in entirely. Representative claiming for a purpose or you are recognized. Although I agree with my colleague that just spoke by I think that for the ones that are in addiction and are struggling I think they do need the help and the availability of aid to go through the struggle that they're going through an overcome the addiction so I think that it does benefit that we open up more availability of this aids for the people that are in struggling with desert dictions thank you for woolworths what purpose you are recognized. We have already spent many million dollars on programs in grants of this nature and I think if anything we should revert re evaluate these all this money we are spending and look at alternative options cause we just keep throwing money out and we are it's only increasing tax. It's not going well. Represent a flowers for a purpose emotional for immediate consideration states for emotion immediate consideration is a proper motion none of animal are those in all those in favor of ci all those our posts. Most incurred. Question before the house is passes of c bill one pair the machine mr clerk. You're voting on the bill as an emergency clause and the emergency class has everyone voted. Cast at the bella mr clerk. With the vote of thirty two years in forty days. The present bill has failed. Are just just a little word we we missed it we we miss earlier there were islands emergency clauses not boss anytime there's a bill with an emergency clause that means that bill becomes effective as soon as it passes the house the senate in the governor sides it type of bill that's passed in the chamber without an emergency calls takes comes effective anyone days after we signed up journal so that's the importance of this vote a vote for mercy clause requires a two thirds vote if this bill had passed by simple majority of fifty one fifty two fifty three votes we will come back and voted again on the emergency clause because you need you that the bill is declared an emergency and you have to have that clause passage was two thirds of of the forum for to become effective so that's why see in an emergency calls in this case the bill failed so it d. Mr clerk please read cynic bill to. Bill to representative berks and activate the step up arkansas act and for other purposes. Representative bergs you are recognized the explain the bill. Arkansas like many other states in this great union is facing a crisis were experiencing unemployment at levels that are much greater than those we have seen before as a nation in in the wake of the pandemic part of this is it sectors are changing new jobs are opening up that we have not seen before a new opportunities and we are not prepared for them especially not an arkansas as a result we need to work together we into establish partnerships like this bill the step up arkansas act proposes between trade businesses and trade schools if we have the education necessary we can provide the jobs necessary to keep people employed and keep people promoting our economic growth as a state this bill suggests that personal per student they will receive two thousand dollars to attend these trade schools now that may seem like a hefty price to pay but the economic value that each of these semesters will generate is far greater than two thousand dollars additionally these schools themselves will receive tax credits of one thousand five hundred dollars in order to maintain these partnerships between the public schools and the private businesses which are referred to as public private partnerships under the spell this bill seeks to solve the problem of how it will we in a changing future maintain arkansas relevance and maintain arkansas power the real answer is we need to maintain arkansas work force. And that can be best achieved by the passage of the step up architects. Forward purpose you have been recognized where will the two thousand dollars come from the two thousand dollars will come from the already existing surplus within our. However we do seek to contribute as as this program grows we will also see an increase in economic value and thus more taxes will be collected because more people be employment paying taxes so that's surplus should bounce right up like that since. Representative mckenzie for purpose and recognized so would the students that attend these trade schools will they be under contracts with the businesses after they finish school yes I believe they were thank you. Represented me grew with purpose question you have been recognized so is there a age limit for this this bill does not propose an age limit I think proposing it become a productive because unemployment effects are people that everyone wants to get a job and education should be accessible to all people in this bill should provide that in a to provide equal opportunities regardless of each other and of richardson for purpose question you have and recognized so correctly if i'm wrong with nothing in here actually says that the tuition for the student is being waived for the trade school so to me it seems that this two thousand dollars stipend will go directly to paying a tuition and the fifteen hundred dollars tax credit which is further increased profits to me personally this she seems like an attempt for a shady representative would be able or a shady personal government would be able to use this bill although I agree with the intent of it the wording makes it seem like some money goes make use this bill to just. Funnel a exorbitant amount of money to um a friend. So my question is. Um is the tuition waived and if not or just just please clarify that yeah under this bill the tuition is not waived however the statement that you were talking about goes to the students not to the schools the two thousand dollars type and so the students do at the opportunity to use that money on tuition or however they deem necessary which I would assume is tuition if they're going to be schools which can be expensive and additionally the tax credits are only available to those business participating or not yet to these businesses and the schools participating in the program and assert I assume that that would require regular vending as well to make sure that these business and the schools are participating in the program are participating in the program not spot. Represent a fight for a purpose you'll be recognized so is there any way to prevent students from just taking the money then that first semester. I mean as I stated before I believe the students are under contract when they enter this program to attend the schools and to work the businesses therefore after so I mean you can't really pocket the money and walk away under that because you you're under contract you're going to get sued but I think that's about all the questions I have in me right now but thank you as for being interested due to time or only be taken one for in one against would anyone well represent a books as explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill representative of gas away. You have been recognized. Thank you speaker this bill I agree with richardson that it is easy to follow money and do shady activities with this bill also I believe that given the two thousand dollars it is impossible to know if these students will use it accordingly to things that they actually need this could just be away for them to get a free two thousand dollars to use on whatever they may please and I believe that that is a useless use of other taxpayer money thank you. Represent a firm in for purpose for you have been recognized. So I would like to see as a truth in myself the impact that i've had on free schooling for the trades has been really being to me I understand the value that it has in smaller communities and I understand the economic stability that comes from the trees this bare room that were sitting in was built by people that devoted their lives to the trade so I think that that's something that we need to kind of continue to invest in so. Representative would you like to close for your bill you've been recognized. This bill is designed to give arkansas a competitive advantage tradesmen are responsible for the development and the growth of our nation and especially in our world today where we have many businesses that are being outsourced they are being set to other countries other states arkansas needs to retain that competitive advantage trades are the way to do it by supporting this bill you are supporting the education and the growth of students across our great state by standing against this bill for slightly for lack of a better word for for shoddy reasoning your risking throwing away our future for a little more than concern over work seems to be a well managed and well protected program. I think personally as someone who sees the work trade to do every day as someone who's attended a school where we have had trade programs trade courses we need this we need this to be the best that we can be into grow as a state as ourselves and grow into the kind of state that we can be proud of. It was out of burks has closed for the bill the question before the house is passage of senate bill to prepare the machine mr. Has everyone voted has everyone voted cast at the bella mr clerk babot of thirty three years in thirty nine days the bill has failed. Mr clerk please read senate bill three. Senate bill three representative the larrel and act to create the teacher recruitment act so lavy and additional tax on nicotine products to provide funding for teacher and sensitive incentives to collect to declare an emergency and for other pers. Representative you are recognized. The. Thank you speaker I speak on behalf of senator cash I speak on behalf of the education community but was importantly I speak on behalf of every single member of the house we are all students and one of the major problems is teachers. All our teachers are quitting a lot of teachers you're not the best quality for well rounded education and we aimed to fix that our first problem with retreat in and retain and high quality license classroom teachers and the one of our proposals ways to have tuition reimbursement more grants personally for my score we have more lee way when it comes to higher up education because we have a promise that promised that we can get education and I feel like their education for teachers is the backbone of our country not just for a state before the country in order to do that we aim to have a two cent increase in nicotine products because nicotine is rising in ours north chest in our state but also in our country nicotine is an important problem so if more people are by nicotine we fell a reason would are we should have an increase in the price by two cents that way those fines can come into our finds four education so we can pay night from not free education for teacher majors but more of a discount more of a um I forgot to word by. The discount basically. Put purpose. Organized how old are your whereas yours intention for how to distribute tuition reimbursement for those teachers stuff is how are you planning on handing out those grand. Your question was like how are related can can you refer to question please i'm sorry death how were you like when you're choosing or figuring out how to hand out the reimbursements to teachers or to pay for their education that you was a big part of this bill how was yards and ten. So that comes from the two cent nickel team tax so we are going to use those funds that we guy for teachers with for pack and it also comes to what if there is too much teachers there's also a big problem that since we are given a more freedom for teacher education that there might be more which more teachers because we have to get more funds so I feel if it comes time we might have to have more of an increase of the nicotine prior you have been recognized apologize I may be nice to have it I meant for distributing choosing what teachers get those scholarships to which is not a proposal i'm sorry which is so there is true that is also true that there is no hat there is also more of a date we have to choose the rate teachers that may come from tested to the side if you're fit quality become the rate teacher because education is important so I feel like we have to choose the right to choose so if they want to become a teacher you have like a standardized test to become one to have the chance to get this discount thank you represent of course with purpose recognized what would you do for the would every potential cap to the amount of teachers they qualify for this program or if there is a slow plus of teachers that are platform due to they know that they're financing. That is a great point that there might be two mh teachers out there might be too much you would only become teachers order my eight so yeah we will have a cap um right now there is a lot of school districts in a lot of schools are in our country so I feel for the bigger schools or might be I feel for each district there might be around maybe a one thousand or five hundred cap for an amount of teachers available for each district. Present cooper who would purpose a question recognize thank you my question is how long does this grant for students who are becoming teachers how long would it require for them to beat. Accountability we hold them to so that they stay in the teaching field and do n. That is a great point and I forgot to I actually forgot to say that i'm sorry there will be salary increases for so if you stay being a common teacher you get a salary increase for five year if you stay being a teacher for five years you get an increase in ten years you get increased probably every five years you would get increased to salary. Representative make near for purpose motion can't take any it's in proper. As we might talk about earlier no procedure motions are allowed as. As long as he's in the way. Representative gasoline what purpose question is they use figure my question is on the standard as tested you proposed where do the funds who make that test and to administer that test where do they come from it apartment of education where make the standard based has to for students want to become teachers follow up. Recognized things figure on. You would be allocating it to five hundred to a thousand teachers per district would that be factored to the size of the district because for a smaller scores they may not have that many teachers and that's just something that I was wondering yeah they would that would be a factor the size of a district yeah thank you. Representative for purpose. So what would be the plan for teachers that already have their degrees that feel that they have been wrong that they have not been able to get there college paid force and out there in debt because this was. Um thank you for the question that is true part of the learns act is dad no matter for your new teacher if you are an experience teacher you get the same amount of salary and I aim to fix that that there will longer you are as a teacher I filled in more experienced you are so I feel like they would get more of an increase of salaries for their dedication becoming a teacher. Representative what they want to leave the world. The. Just have to leave I will leave. Would anyone like to speak against the bill. Was out of pon forward purpose. Recognized. As it was stated it was proposed that there would be a two cent tax on these products but there's nothing said to the fact of it being per product in package so I feel like my my parents are smokers they buy cartons of smoking uh of cigarettes which is a lot big package and only having a two cent tax on that seems extremely unfair for when it would be the same tax for items that are a lot smaller than that and would not have the same effect. Representative there would purpose motion states emergency immediate cons. That's a proposal is not available are those in favor of say yeah we'll see all those that are policy now me most and carries. The. The. Question for the house. Is the passage of senior bill prepared the machine mr clerk. Has everyone voted has everyone voted cast that the ballot mr clerk. But the vote of twenty eight years in forty five days the present bill has filled. Mister click please read senate bill for. The. Cynical for representatives cargon. And actually establish a cells tax on e cigarettes and for other purposes. The. Represent cargain you are recognized to explain the bill. We all know the e cigarettes are becoming much more popular and are becoming a alternative in to many people to normal cigarettes and this bill proposes a one dollar fifty cents tack or one dollar fifty cents tax for per unit on cigarettes sold the revenue collected would go to fifty percent health care fifty percent department of veterans affairs and fifty percent public school districts in order to raise awareness for said uh drugs and nicotine I will take two questions so we can hurry this along. Represent mckenzie forward purpose recognized so would this tax be on top of sales tax but would it be its own would be factored in much like the tax already put on cigarettes it would be on top of the sales tax okay thank you. Representative macaroni forward purpose question recognized how much of a increase with the speed increase and what a tax increase at the moment there is a tax on cigarettes but as far as we could find out in committee there's no tax on his following. Recognized would this be on veeps or pods or both the vehicle and the or the signal at night only beat. When anyone will represent the cargains has explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill representative recognized. I got two main qualms with this bill first for an item that costs five dollars a dollar fifty tax is I mean insane it it's literally like thirty percent of the product cost in addition to the sales tax repaying and secondly bapes if we're not taxing the parts additionally if we're taxing just the days you can buy parts and refill your vehicle that seems like an opportunity whilst to get more revenue for this program thank you. Representative rose forward purpose. Nice. Thank you the text they were held there were help teenagers will. And this were mostly this one mostly decrease over time because over time they will probably more increase more tax with the veeps and with many of the children that are rolling up nowadays or saying their vehicles and ease or goes are now and i'd enormous for everyday life so I think this will help drastically if you vote for because this will help for a schools to start having to stop chooser from finding veeps or even buys and request representative gardens do you wish to close for your bill. You're recognized. The dollar amount of the tax that was proposed is very similar to the proportions of the tax on cigarettes that is why it was joseph and that is why we are expanding it to easily I would appreciate a good vote. Representative has closed for the bill the question before the house is passage of senior bill for prepared the machine mr clerk. Has everyone voted has everyone voted cast at the belly mrperiod clerk. With fifty four votes yea in twenty one boats need the current bill has passed. Let me let me just chime in here and and and I apologize we're wrapping up and i'll be brief apologies we did not have time for that I think there were. Two things was last couple of bills were tax bills if you will then had tax increases or dealt with that depending on what they affected and when the underlying tax was inactive for the constitution they would have required a heighten threshold that bill got fifty four votes with seventy seven that bill would have gotten the necessary two thirds to to to pass but there are some tax issues and that's why in the weeds for you that require sixty seven and or. I don't know representative hot leaving a representative. Yeah I guess a great job today you know this my second year to do this I think you guys were probably more active more engaging than the last year's group so great job by everybody here hope you learn something that you know on one thing that that we always talk about is that we work for you I mean you guys may be in high school but you know you're still constituents to everybody in this house in this chamber and so remember the names that you see in front of you right go to the arkansas house of representatives website you guys have a question email us and and you know you went through this process you know what we go through now and send if you got a question to concern send you representative and email you can actually go on the website and type in your address and if you don't know your representative is you can find that by just typing your address in and it'll pop up so hey great job I want to give bring up representative agree real quick you'll have a few things to say and then we'll wrap things up with our final motion thank you thank you representative department just want to thank all you all for being here and take it apart and understand how important ideas I was wondered about when a one each one of us is one hundred of us that's one hundred chances out of three million people in arkansas that we get to sit here it's a privilege to sit here and it's very important what we do when we're sitting here it's very important that the laws affect all the citizens in arkansas they affect the money they affect the hail they ficked everything so it's really important what we do so when you sit in that saturday when we sit in there to the first time I walked in here looked up at that one that how privilege I was to be able to sit in here and to take that responsibility extremely serious it's proud to see how in here I hope you'll understand what this means and and helps inspire you to the future you're seeing the speaker. Within boy state so there's people sitting in here today that may someday sit in one of these seats so I hope I don't want to thank you for coming in taken part in this and probably all for making it to this point and thank you very much. The. Motion you recognized there being no further business this session of architects our boys state is adjourned that's a proper motion it's not debatable all in favor of ci any apple seen. The most impasses arkansas boy state is hereby a joint sign die.