Senate Floor Session

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Senate will be gone to order are there any requests for leave this time sender history center flowers center letting center please call the wrong board brand called well chesterfield clark crowl davis days dismine dotson english flip out flowers leave gilmore hammer hester hikil arvin bike johnson mark johnson king letting leave love murdoch mckey more that leave patent pence out excuse me pins out perry rice stone step afail saliban tucker wallace thank you madame secretary and everyone in the chamber and in the galleries would please rise for a prayer lead by saint president protempt bartester followed by the pledge of alleged sender has pray with me follow we love you we are grateful for the opportunity to give us we are grateful for your guidance for other we asked that this body would come for you today with a pure heart and clarity of mine and wisdom that you would offer us that we would work well with all that we everyone we come in contact with to serve the people of arkansas well we assess in your name aimen applied to leaders to the fire for the analysis into the republic for which is saying one underground just as far as thanks and history ladies and gentlemen in the galleries welcome to your arkansas states in it it is our expectation that interview for exercise. Proper requirement and gathering yourselves according leader in today's proceedings without objection the rules will be suspended and senate will expense with the reading of the journal morning hour has now begun are there any announcements or introductions at this time there are mark johns and you're recognized thank you madame president would it be appropriate to to bring the resolution our will be need to so I will I will ask for leave for my guess who are my constituent at inferned all arkansas is bobby joe landscaso I bring gas away in cheryl and gasoline yell might have seen a long saturday they are a horse called mystic there who's from ferndale arkansas and I asked leave it they had private the floor for today thank you sender are there items at the desk yes madam president state of our solid slide department proclamation for as the fiscal session of the ninety fourth general similarly entered into recess on my second twenty twenty four now therefore we the understand speaker of the house of representatives and pressure protemble the senate here bad direct of the fiscal session of the ninety four chair assembly of the state of arkansas shall reconvene at eleven forty five am thursday my nan twenty twenty four for the purpose of completing the work of the twenty twenty four fiscal session and adjourning signing that in witness where we have until signed our names up arab and cause the great sill of the side of arkansas to be a fixed at the state capital in a little while on this eighth day of may in the year the lower twenty twenty twenty four son speaker the house matthew shepherd president part of the senate forecaster thank you. Please I would ask the body to please keep any conversations to very quietly and or if they need to be louder please check them outside to wait wait we can get through but limited business at that we do take today appreciate you are very much to the present senate dear madam president this is to inform you that on my three twenty twenty four I reviewed and improve the following measures that the physical session of the ninety fourth journal assembly said it will three act one fifty seven centimeter for at one fifty eight centimeter ten act on fifty nine will eleven act one sixty seven tane act one sixty one senate bill twenty eight at one sixty two single twenty nine act one sixty three will thirty one act one sixty four centimeter forty seven act one sixty five single fifty one eight one sixty six senate will fifty three account one sixty seven seven fifty four act one sixty eight percent of fifty eight at one sixty man save a sixty at one seventy simple sixty three act one one seventy one civil seventy seven act on seventy two cent of seventy eight and one seventy three simple seventy nine egg one seventy four seven eighty active one seventy five signal uh eighty one act on seventy six and senate resolution too sincerely sarah sainter's government stayed bark and stuff things filed save resolution forty minutes central mark johnson to recommend are concerned mystic band as the twenty twenty four kentucky darby winner senate resolution forty calendar man president at yes senator johnson and the four week take better the morning hour has now expired we will now start the business agenda some of my gods made present move that we. Spend the rules and take up a cent resolution for you at this time all those in favor of suspending the rules to take out senate resolution forty at this time for sixty five percent I can't be a hole time saver rules or suspended for five cinema resolution for the best central mark johnson to recommend arguments are owned mystic day and as the twenty twenty four kentucky derby winner senator johnson you're recognized thank you madame president and I like to have the owners of my stick band to join me appear chairline and brat guess why lance gas away barbie joe falcon appearing stand with me uh how I don't have to turn out what happened if he watched it on saturday that much they said you know when they say a nose you know horse has accountable long nose but they may have a nostril I mean it was like that but for an exciting thing to them and it's we tell the government will get first we still kentucky coach now we've stolen their trophy for the derby so we're so kind and I just wanted to to recognize them and and let I think you're the spokesperson are who they but they're they're my neighbors and ferndale and uh say yell come shoot german feed to say a few words thank you we really do appreciate your recognizing mystic day on and we're just very proud and humbled to own him and to bread him it's it's really a dream come true and just so so excited for this amazing by saying we are blessed beyond measures you would say anything else glad it caused before the state of arkansas communities and foreign day for a now south of store. Good recognition for the whole state now and communities oakland port a company yes madam president move the adoption of the same resolution forty to send our chance in all those in favor of center resolution for you to recognize ones our own mystic man as the two thousand twenty four kentucky there when a replaced signal saying I opposed senate resolution forty is adapted congratulations these they send it will fail in research for a couple of months allow photographs. It's. Yeah. The. The. Senor be called back to order sender hester your recognized members i'm about to make a motion but before I make that motion I want you to know this motion is debatable membership speak for it and against it as suspect there will be a few members that might have something to say so we're not what looking for a quick vote we want to make sure members can be heard that want to be heard but my motion is after we've just seen that the house has adjourned sanitar and make a motion that the senate in this fiscal session in ninety four two assembly I move that we adjourn sanitar anyone wish to speak against senator this may is recognized you speak on the motion members I don't think you really have a much of a choice but to adjourn sanitaries a little bit of a different i'll just say it real quick it's some not debatable if we can even debate this because sanitize part of the motion I think that that allows us to but we may have to revisit this some point and have a more formal if it gets into a bigger disagreement again the discriminant. And I think we are derelict in doing that now and we've passed out the appropriation for the game and first people could say whatever they want to about the timing of it or even how it transpired but we did our part on the sinner side to the point I think the mass majority would even recall it and make an amendment if that's what we needed to do to assure that the good people that game and fish could get paid you know the debate with the commissioner whatever not commissioner but with the uh director and all those sorts of things fine they can have that but I have a hard time believing that we couldn't have created an amendment or the house couldn't have created amendment passenger and we would have an appropriation available to them and so for that i'm disappointed and now some people are going to try to say who that blame and I think everybody may generally be in blame except for the members of this chamber again we've done our part with passion appropriation there are in excess of the majority that were opposed to appropriation we've had debates about appropriations in this chamber and maybe twenty five percent and members are posts something we have some hard debates discussions and we pass it out both only why because the majority gets to make that decision it's a very different thing when the majority is opposed to something and then no one was willing to amend it to make the need to change and that's what the house has found themselves in and what i'm disappointed to see. Again II hate the fact that the only place that we now have to go is to move signing down in the income into a special session and if you want to do the math it's going to be a lot more expensive than what the percentage increase would have been for the director. But with that said III think we needed to firmly state our position this is an appropriation that we widely classed in this chamber that we are willing to accommodate changes to the majority the members in the house. But now have no option but to significant without an appropriation for game fish. Yeah. Then you pay in your recognized for a question thank you for the matter so can can one chamber force the other chamber to sign a dire or does this can can on chamber and this fiscal session without the approval of the authority from the other chamber be in the agreement and that I mean I guess probably a question for you I mean my opinion is we have nothing if we were left in the past year being devoted out they could be gone and go home the problem is the bill is on their side in the arkansas speak to follow the neither chamber can be at recess for more than three days without permission from the other dream so if they have voted the signing and we don't they can force the session to be over if we need to recall this I mean I wouldn't want to suggest this without a vote we recall the bill but we recall the bill to make amendments and we do not vote to sign up where does that leave the the chamber this is beyond my pegret and so i'm going to ask her counter to the center thread some of these questions that member was my hand I think you're corrected one chamber cannot unelaterally in the session that being said they do have the prerogative to a journal at a turn for the day and it just so happens that this is the last day of the assessment and so it has the effect of a significant german without our considered I think for our purposes what that means is that we can continue to found up to eleven fifty nine p but once a clock strikes and midnight we're adjourned whether we like it or not and that's constitution. With respect to your question about recesses we have already passed a resolution authorizing both houses to recess for more than three days and so I don't think that's a play for a number of reasons but but chiefly because the session is as a constitutional matter unless we extend it at midnight tonight thank you matter your recognized just just and again this would have been up on the house also but I don't know we probably never never seen this before but since we're in the day that we're supposed to sign down the way up to eleven fifty nine I wonder if we could request at the house we export their vote which they just took so that they would come back in and then we somehow get an agreement that we can withdraw the bill in amendment and then send it back to them so you I don't know if that may be something that really doesn't expect you to answer on the spot because I know that's different than anything we don't but i'm wondering if if the house could expondet vote if they so desire so so I think initially i'd give the carrier that dead I can't speak to what the house can do and what the rules allow for I think it's a practical matter if I were working through that situation the problem would be that when you adjourn at least under our rules without a day or a time specified there is an automatic time specified and that is the next legislative day in october I think it's the next legislative day at one thirty the problem in the problem that was identified I think by simply paying as well as that there is no next legislative day and so I don't know that they have a mechanism to reconvene in order to uh expand that vote and. Again I cannot speak for the house on that but in the least from last day and point I wouldn't man if we took a minute surprising here and the rest of the body but I wouldn't matter if we took a little bit of time to see if there's some ever new for us to do that that we haven't thought about uh because again we're all we're looking we're going to try to come back into a space of station which is going to cost they asked them out of money more than what the ad only is on that appropriation and again if the house is in the situation where the senate needs to withdraw the bill I believe you know center dish language meeting that we if we withdraw the bill and amended it down here and sent it back possibly that work but again I would like for us to look into that somewhat thank you center hill feel recognized you want to steal for their back is anyone blacking them to go on the resolution that allowed us to be so I don't think the resolution is controlling right now I think the resolution was to either reconvene before noon which we've already done or adjourned by joint proclamation before may night at new and so both of those absence of past in in so we have reconvened and the house has just made a motion on its floor to address outside of the resolution process thank you. Senator tucker you're recognized thank you madam president about the question for mr tree. Since the house has adjourned at this point is it even possible for us to recall the bill and bring it back here in order have they essentially ceased to exist to the point where we can't recall it and build a bank the bill I think I think the bill has been returned out of having having failed to pass and that's a hand and she needs to make that known to the body not me but we may have the bill in our possession thank you. Notice of the retarian of senate bill twenty one having failed to pass from the house if they're sanitage on. Send you a chance for field you're recognized thank you madame chew it would take remind me of the the number is necessary then to extend the session because you're going to have to do that because waiting out the instant day in my eleven fifty nine yes maybe when I will make sure the alaska philip to step back as soon as council to england question and out of the house I know there's lots of conversations going on in the chamber II would ask that if members are having sad conversations at this obviously very important many people like questions please if you need to have those conversations take them out in the whole we have the signing diabete for us on the housing the bill has been returned to the senate however if they are adjourned even if we choose we would have to it we can't get this done by eleven fifty nine tonight we would have to have a motion from both houses in order to extend the session that's correct I am correct you're correct to send the certain yet three force vote from both chambers that would have to happen before midnight tonight and as a practical matter the house has left the house has left it less to change so there's no way of extending the session without their vote II can't I can't tell you whether or not they have a mechanism for returning on the same day that they've returned that that is a house matter in a house procedural issue but right now unless we have a unless they choose to explain to the signing down and then decide on the three fourths vote to extend this session we're going to have some different company is the correct I think that's fair thank you. The. Okay. Fender has through your recognized hey members thank you for your patience i'm i'm going to withdraw my motion at this time and then i'm going to ask for recess for a brief period for us to visit I wouldn't do my best to visit with the speaker see if there's any potential path for for resolution but at this time I withdraw my motion to sanita to give us just a uh a moment to catch our breath visit with the speaker no one's left the capital yet and on on either chambers my understanding and so i'm going to i'm an at this time I withdraw my motion and I asked for recess sender has for his withdrawn his motion they said it was found in recess. The. The. The. The. The. The. Senate will come back to order some of this mayor your recognized thank you man president members i'd like to make a motion to exit in the session as were constitutionally allowed but without objection at all. Check out any objections rolled about reports reports manufacturing please roll the boat board board brand card will chest fill clark crowl davis days this mine that's an english flipper flowers leave your more hammer hester hecky hell arvin blake johnson mark johnson king ledding play life a key mordacle patent pinso perry rice stone stubborf salvador tacker wallace any senator he not voting any other senator which the What is the purpose of this extending it if they're still going to be dan we will have done everything that we can to ensure that game in fish has a budget before we leave the fiscal session that's the purpose of what we're doing in of the house doesn't want to do that very thing than that's fine that's their business but as far as anybody has ever talked to this been associated with the senate no one recalls not passing an appropriation before we leave no one recalls having to have a special or governor costs into special session because we didn't do our job and we're supposed to do a job and nobody has ever heard of us extend in a session without a similar vote from the house of represent exactly all of it's in president so we're going to go ahead anyway okay I thought it here so but like with this as it probably needs to clear first something that i've said i'm going to ask the senate council to clarify any issues that may have seen unresolved yet just just as a point of clarification that vote did not extend the session for us we cannot utilate the extend the session we we've done our part to extend the session but if the house does not reciprocate the session is over at midnight thank you center this minute you'll recognized that thank you i'd like to make a motion to exponentially aren't I need to suspend first now we do not okay I need to make a motion expensive over which senate bill twenty one past and loses can be procedure on i'll get to where we're going to if we get through some of those hurdles motion to it's fine the boat by which senate bill twenty one was passed in the emergency class adopted this is debatable is anyone wish to speak against or for. Motion to exponent and all this not available even though this cheap sheet that was provided to me by council so based on that determination and senator has closed all those in favor to expand please see the family saying I opposed as habit motion period I can make a motion to spend the rules to put senate bill twenty one back on the calendar for purpose of amendment secretary second reading for purpose amendment promotion this is a excuse me. All those in favorably significant I any opposed as have it motion couriers a member of the reader said they'll twenty one some of this may or recognize members this is the memory we've talked about this changes uh the amount that's currently was a minute to from a hundred ninety thousand two hundred and fifty seven thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars which is the current pay rate for the director plus three percent so with that i'd like to make a motion that we adopt center bill through I mean amendment three to send a bill twenty one any questions anyone will speak against the four sender mark johnson you're reconnected for a question it is my is the one fifty seven two sixteen inclusive of the three percent or includes the first person thank you sir thank you say none sender is closed all those in favor of adopting the amendment please take the five percent I think in the opposed has had it and then is adopted recess said it will span in reserves for approximately five minutes into we receive the bill back their minute thank. 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Senator come back to order man secretary of your items at the desk yes we are many aren't gross bills to him as for single twenty one badge budget compare the engross country with the original fans and correctly impressed then this mean you're recommended in the place and it make a motion to spend the rules place in a bill twenty one on today's calendar for third reading and passage motion is stated by a single this main all those in favor of police second part of saying I any opposed to has had it mentioned here sin bill twenty one band joint budget and act to make an appropriation for personal services and operating expenses for the art consult state game and fish commission for the fiscal year ending june thirty twenty twenty five some of this manual regard bill as amended appreciate any questions if we have them we have to take any questions then the chest fulfilled your recognized for a question thank you madame care sent due to my has a house going home I don't know where the senate we're going to do this in this business people's business and this is I just need to know have they gone home and is this all in every utility but if it makes us feel better it is a big point I don't feel good about the position we're in in any way again I just to go back to the very beginning our number one priority as a legislature is not passed policy but to pass the budget and we're going to do our part to pass the budget that should be agreeable to both chambers and if this is the house doesn't want to come back in you know for further consideration in to try to adopt this which I think it should be easily agreed to buy the vast majority seventy five percent plus in the house then then that's their will but it's not hours and so again II want to make sure we've done all we can in ross. Leaving the door open for them to take further action if they don't want to choose to walk through their door I can't make them thank you any other questions seeing now the questions senator has closed many sector please roll the boat is there any objection madam secretary of winds well about board bright called well chesterfield car clark crowe davis these this mine dates and english flipo flowers leave gilmore hammer hester hickey hill irvin bike johnson mark johnson king letting leave love the key margaret believe payment pins out period rice stone stepperfield sullivan tucker wallace any senator wish to change her vote send it or keen not moding any other senators any other senators see no other please cast up the balance by vote of thirty one yay zero eight one nine senate bill twenty one passes and the corresponding emergency clause is adopted transmit to the house send a host of your recognized hey members thank you for your for your patience they are just AAA a small point of clarification you know this the house can't sign out without our permission we cannot sign it out without their permission we did not get permission for the house the soni daf near their welcome to make that motion but until we agree that's you know that did not technically happen now we do recognize if they don't come back in and they don't vote to extend session this happens at midnight either way right so our hope is you know like synergist making said that we that we've came here we've done we've done our job. Um also what we've done here we talked about this uh over the last several days of our parliamentary in this this bill the game and fish it went through the proper procedure all the way through budget it was read three times on our floor sit down to the house this is something that was that just showed up overnight this is something that uh all membership had a very clear understanding of what happened so I appreciate all the members a stick and with us today doing we think it's the is the best thing to do and with that i'm just going to make a motion to adjourn not a motion sonny die in hopes that the house will reconvene in past this budget but with that I make a motion to adjourn the type of clear recognized i'm going to need to come back to signed out sometime again if the house meets in extense fifteen days i'm sure we will however motion to john all those involved. Is there a point of order with motion to adjourn all those in favor of the signature of san francisco as heaven motion