House Convenes

Check check one two. Yeah. The. Come order I invite the member staff press and guess in the galleries to stand and be led in prayer by dark doctor jonathan kelley senior pastor first practice church in hot springs guest of blast warn and the the remain standing to be learned in the pledge allegiance by representative line. By what we bought. I mean so god I pray that the hearts in mi. We ask that your favor would fall upon those in our state who are struggling right now they're without a job. The loss of a loved one. Child in lord we know that life. We lift up those who were down try to. And god are always in my. Our children have our teenagers of the future leader. Great that their hearts in m. In election. Members please indicate your presence by pushing your yellow president button prepared machine mister clark. Members were going to have to do that again please hit your yellow present button. Cassette developed mister clark with ninety nine present house of chair sees a quarter are there any requests relieved representative back for what purpose leave for representative bentley is leave granted for representative bentley. Representative jeff reward law moves we dispensed with the reading of the previous day stern no objection so order are there reports from select committees. Read the reports madam clark mr speaker rear committee on do I budget at home was a fired house will ten thirteen household ten fourteen house will ten twenty eight house will ten sixty eight household ten eighty households and eighty one household ten eighty two house will ten eighty three household ten eighty four household ten eighty five house bill ten eighty seven household ten eighty eight house will ten eighty nine household ten ninety one house will tell money to hospital ten ninety three house will ten ninety four household ten ninety five big report we have into same consideration here if it's on the same recommendation that it do pass effectively seventeen lane jean chair are there reports from standing committees are there any executive communications. Okay members are our our consultant state troopers are corporal lindi cartright and corporate john havington please welcome them to the chamber. Represent birth what purpose of order at may I request leave for representative robin lunchton there was a miscommunication but we she will not be here is leave branded for representative lunchton. Represent dobbie for what purpose i'd like to a personal privilege you recognize like a for house members to recognize former house member former chair of transportation and former chair of the arkansas department of our dot I guess is what we say present hickerson from text recounted. The. Yeah. The. Members person was my seat mate for a term and she's really not that friendly so. Members we have some we have a lot of guests here today and the east gallery we have the grab it high school lions boys twenty twenty four four a state championship wrestling team. The. Also in the east gallery we have the asu mountain home government economics class their guest of representative steps in painter. The. Represent painter for what purpose you recognize. Appreciate it mister speaker today isn't really an honor for me because one of my college meant tours is here mister richard walker she is retiring but also today it's her birthday and I just want to say happy birthday and thank you for everything you did for me when I was in college thank you. The. Also in these gallery we have leadership logan county and they're my guest. Also in east gallery we have the senior class from the christian ministries of hot springs the guest of representative richard mcgrew. In the west gallery we have you have a monocello agricultural policy classic company by their instructor lanny davis their guest of representative more law baby and falcon. Also in the west gary we have the public school by attitudes from across the state maybe well maybe we don't. Okay. And directly behind me in to be the IP gallery we have caroline lewis kevin lewis tony louis shark james louis sharp john chart and camera and lewis they are the guest of representatives trace final. Represents final for what purpose point of personal prove what you recognize i'd like to take a little bit of time here to honor caroline louis and her family we're here to honour nobody's that that family up there has a combined between her and enough will have a combined hundred and five years of volunteering for a local county fairs district fares and youth wivestock shows so I want to take a moment to really appreciate because we all have a near dear to our heart county fares probably at we've all participated there been a part of it so misleading your family appreciate all you've gone for county fairs across state of arguments are thank you and appreciate you. The. Also in the vip gallery have western watch congressional aid for US congressman mark rein of tennessee the guest of represent steve hollow. And also in the vip gallery we have listed with pulling market humphreys on myer misty hot robin connel representing children's act advocacy centers of arkansas guests of representative dan bought. The. Madam clark read house resolution one thousand six. House resolution one thousand six by representative duke to recognize the grab it high school lion boys wrestling team as a twenty twenty four four a stampion present duke you recognize explain your resolution. Thank you mr speaker I am really excited those who all they have ruled schools and I know there's a lot of you to do in small schools understand the significance maybe in a different way of a state championship these restling boys and they're all up there and the end girls because we have some ladies part of our wrestling program as well I think one our third year of wrestling and grab it in they when the state championship this year I don't understand anything about wrestling but I understand a whole lot about the significance of indian your season on a win because I never ended any of my athletic seasons on a win so I am a super excited to have them hit here and to see how they have started creating a tradition for our board's voice sports and state championships. How the clerk read the resolution in its entirety man clark please read the resolution in its entirety whereas the twenty twenty four gravite high school lians boys wrestling team when the state championship and for a division at the time of it and literate on february twenty third and twenty fourth twenty twenty four and said a tournament high with one hundred eighty four points and whereas the thirteenth qualified team members were named to the state team in earn metals of the state recently turning it included why and state champions login miller importer board two runner app called him a google take up gay lured and gear my worth second runners at patent bonus jake mayo elected cutter frank and tassie bennett vita and third renders a mate mature benevita clayton now and aden holloway and whereas the twenty twenty four grave high school lion boys riskly team and a record of seventeen to six for the season and a record of thirteen one and four a and whereas the twenty twenty four grave high school line boys wrestling team also place second at door state in the first in the four a north regionals and whereas the twenty twenty four graphic high school lion boys rustling team has been supported in the successes by an excellent team of coaches and other staff members including a heroine chris weller greg miller bj heroin and brag malts and whereas the twenty twenty four gravite high school my boys were sleep teams motto was gg for grab it goes goals and grab it went go now therefore be it resolved by the house representatives that the ninety four general same way of the state of arkansas. Members if we could recognize the are they the wrestling group up in the in the east gallery. The. Represent duke is close for the resolution would anyone like to speak against the resolution for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution one thousand six all in favor of say I oppose nathe resolution is adopted the resolution passed your nanusly. Yeah. Yeah. Madam pork read house resolution one thousand seven house resolution one thousand seven by representative due to recognize the grab a high school lady lines cross country team as it's going twenty two and twenty twenty three for the state champions and four eighty one conference channels represent duke recognize explained resolution. Thank you mister speaker and I was not expecting our cross country girls to be able to join us today and I found out last minute that some of them were able to be here and again this is such a wonderful tradition they have started in grab it we haven't had state championships until the last couple of years and so i'm really pleased there are ladies are here with us back to backstate championships and i'm excited for you guys to honor them i'd appreciate a good vote and mr speaker if you would have the clerk re. Man clerk read the resolution in its in party whereas the twenty twenty three grave a high school lady lines girl cross country team won the four estate championship and hot springs on thursday november second twenty twenty three and whereas the twenty twenty three grab a high school lady lions girls cross country seemed victory and four AG initiate marks the historic achievement by making the team back to back for a state champions and for a one conference stamping to twenty twenty two twenty twenty three and whereas the twenty twenty three grab at high school lady lions girls cross country team was laid by the arkansas women's cross country coach of the year chris weller and where is the twenty twenty three grab a high school lady lions girls cross country team was laid by renaissance julie horton gear ralph litsy garcia annan kedrosky certainly cheer note madia thorton in lily short and whereas grabbit high school senior julia horton earned a silver metal in the race finishing the course with a time of twenty minutes and seven seconds and whereas grab a high school soft marker a rail finished a fifth place with the time of twenty minutes fifty seconds and whereas grabbit high school junior lithi garcia finished and seven place with the time of twenty one minutes in fourteen seconds and whereas grabbit high school singer anna cadroski finished in twenty fourth place with the time of twenty two twenty three and whereas grab at high school junior cessily chair notes they have finished and twenty six place with a time of twenty two twenty thirty man and whereas grab a high school sophomore ninety a thought and finished in sick steve fifth place with the time of twenty four fifty nine and whereas grave a high school sophomore lealy share finished in sixty six place with the time of twenty five o two and whereas the twenty twenty three have a high school lady lions girl cross country team is a reminder that with personal variance team work in unwavering determination a team can end up victorious and whereas the grab a high school leading lions girls cross country team returns and twenty twenty four is a number two rank team in four a by only sixteen points now therefore be it reserved by the arkansas house represents ninety four general samely and the state of arkansas that the house of representatives recognizes the grab a high school lady lines press country team as a twenty twenty two twenty twenty three four a state champions and. For a conference champions representative duckers presenter to resolution she's closer to the resolution when anyone like to speak against the resolution for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution one thousand seven all in favor say I propose nay the resolution is adopted let the record indicate that the boat was unanimous please drive in recognizing. The. Yeah. The. Yeah. Madame clerk read house resolution one thousand eight customer resolution one thousand eight by representative duke to recognize the grave high school lady lines girls are fourteen as the twenty twenty three four state champions represent the correct nice to explain the resolution thank you mr speaker and thank you members I know we have a lot of resolutions running for these teams but there's such a unique thing and we're very excited about it unfortunately my software softball girls when I able to join us today because their estate chasing another state championship but there hopefully watching online and we're very proud of them but the success that they had last year and hopefully will be able to honor them again next year mr speaker if you would have a clerk read the resolution it's entirely. Man please please read the resolution whereas the twenty twenty three grab a high school lady lines girl software seem one before a state taking shape after defeating the period's lady hawks with score of five to one in common arkansas on may nineteen twenty twenty three and whereas brick handle was named the most valuable player of the championship gain and whereas the twenty twenty three grab a high school lady lines girl software team has an outstanding banning average heating over four hundred as the team throughout the spring season and whereas the grab at high school lady lives girl software team completed a twenty twenty two twenty twenty three season with a record of twenty three to and where is the grave high school lady lines grow software team was lead by help head coat samantha luther and assisting coach kevin call and whereas the grab at high school lady lines girls are both contribute their success to playing with great and heart and never giving up and understand the importance of playing together as a team in which every players roll is important now therefore be a result of the house representatives that the ninety fourth you know assembly of the state of arkansas that the house representatives recognize their graphic high school lady lines girl software team as the twenty twenty three four age to eighteen of the. Represent duke has explained the resolution when anyone liked speaking its resolution would anyone like speak for the resolution representative duke is closed for the resolution the question for the house is the passage of house resolution one thousand eight all in favor say are any opposed resolutions adopted. Members are doctor the day as doctor thomas de graph the third of little rock and our nurse the day is brinding him. Madame clark please read house resolution ten twenty two as resolution ten twenty two by representative to recognize that a visa neglect of children is a significant public health problem to community important work being done to combat this public health problem and so for claim april seventeenth twenty twenty four his children's overseas center date represent bought you recognized to explain the resolution thank you mrperiod speaker i'm sad that former first lady susan had just think it and join us today but I want to thank her for her tireless work for the children that suffer through different victims that happen to them in their lives and and her tireless work for cac's she's always been a great champion for them it's always been an honor of mine to be able to support the child advocacy centers and today we would like to recognize april seventeenth as c AC day if you've never turned one of those standards then I would encourage you to go to wine the very innovative way of helping child victims in a way that I don't think we ever for solve prior to them come into arkansas and there are twenty seven cac's throughout arkansas they've served the nine thousand and estimated nine thousand four hundred and twelve child victims per providing eighty thousand victim advocacies and support services the majority of the nine thousand four hundred and twelve children are twelve and under so you can see that a lot of the victims in the state of arkansas extremely young and it's important that they get the services that they need to be productive and to overcome what's happened to the um chart advocacy sooners of arkansas the leading state wide organization supporting the multi disciplinary response to child abuse so these centers are amazing again if you've not a winter visited one I want to really encourage you to go do that it's pretty cold that the kids don't have to read live what they go through over and over and. Over again it's all taken place in that once center so with that mr speaker I would appreciate a good vote from the members and I would ask at the clock reading title only and clark please read the resolution by title only to recognize there are visa neglect of children is a significant public health problem so community important work being done to come at the public health problem it's a proclaim april seventeenth twenty twenty four as the children's advocacy saturday represent bought his explain the resolution when anyone like speak against the resolution what he would like to speak for the resolution represent bodies closed for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution ten twenty two all in favor say are any opposed resolution is passed. The. The. Madame clark please read house resolution ten thirteen house resolution ten thousand by representative wouldn't authorize the introduction of non appropriation built him in the uniform classification and compensation act. So wouldn't your recognize to explain the resolution thank you speaker colleagues today asking that we be permitted to introduce the bill there's a dresses and acquitting he's in the. They come effective july the first i'm going through and give you a brief over a few of the of the bill that we're asking to be in a doors number one it provides a one to market adjustment sale reincrease for state employees not to exc thirty percent number two who will adjust the pay grades g one two five. And then i'll move up to fifth and moving all employees grades up to the same police good hell with a starling salary of thirty. Well per year the third increases the maximum will say of all current playgrounds but ten percent this this has changed does not provide a ten percent increase to employees it merely moves it only changes the maximum salary that is currently. Forward the changes the rules related to has duty paid for employees at the department of correct. The change will allow a correction of temporarily a sign the maximum security duty to receive this has done duty pay while working in those facilities number five. I would remind you that we're voting on the right to be able to. The car into it will be addressed as other bills and. It creates a special cop and social awards system for the employees working the housing outstanding performance income and in completing significant projects darn as I am or for taken an additional duties. An agency these the. An agency must provide the plan for the start of a ward prior to providing them to employees and the plans must be approved of a legislative council or the joint budget committee. To being in there. The plan may include a bonus payment of up to five thousand dollars or an agency many providers additional incident names and leave leave to existing employees of up to forty hours the agency will determine which type of a ward will be. See employees cannot receive more than two of these special coop and social awards during a buy any him which would be basically one a year. D the office of personal management will approve the end of virgin or wards and provide a monthly report to the alc and detail the awards that have been provided under these players agencies must find the funding for these awards within their existing funding and show the access to the performance phone to provide payment awarded through these plans fixed creator recruiting in sony system for agencies to all for monetary and leave incentives to. Employees ever one of these sections. Going through looked at the generally below that are in mile with the personnel matters and stuff. An agents in most provider play for these and so in these prior to provide. The plan may include a bonus playman about two five thousand dollars which may be paid in full or through installments or an agency may choose to provide additional incident to believe to employees. Exactly branch employees or not eligible to receive a recruiting incentive. Agencies must be have the funding for these and so within their existing funding and show me as the performance earned to provide incentives as a department of transfer relationship services most of them in the amendments or reversions to the special compensation plan they recruitment in san plans and merit increases place system to the legislative. Some of those are check in balance in each. Yeah. And the attention and also or recruiting and also is it really. Compensation awards and there's a sa. Relative to fire and sure that would you. Before the rules commit. Represent whiteness explained the resolution when anyone like speak against the resolution. Representative tash you recognize to speak against the. Argument speaker I may actually not speak against the resolution in its entirely as all of you know as we discussed in rules that I support a pay raise for our state employees but is representative won't mention while ago we discussed in root rules and and we had a great discussion and I assume they are in about a concern that I had in many of you have concerning this special compensation for five thousand dollars bonus and or a week of additional vacation my concern is this that the way that our readers and I understand the meal that that that particular part of it is left up to a supervisor and in style government i'll understand the supervisors when they do a performance evaluation they make a recommendation I mean you know supervisors only human and sometimes these are value which is these recommendations for the special bonuses they're subjective and sometimes we run into a situation for we have more income and was one employee that were supervising them we doing someone else and what I don't want to see is doing is creating a situation what we've got supervisors and state government that are picking and choose and losers and winners and that's exactly what i'm afraid will happen with their special compensation of a five thousand dollars bowlers and what is the language say language says that if someone performs an additional task. Well there's no definition in that bill of what the allegation of taskiers are could ask one of you to go do something and you go during and out of find that is an additional task if i'm your supervisor then I put you in for this compensation for an additional five thousand dollars bonus or for and our weeks vacation and then another employee says well I could have performed the same tires why did you call me so I could have been received the bonus and i'm afraid of what we're going to do is we have a state employee on one side of the state that has a supervisor that puts the immense for this bowl is because they perform some additional test it's not the fan and only other side of the state we've got a supervisor that has an employee that performs the same additional test but they don't put to me and for and i'll assure you that word travels across the state and one I don't want to see happening someone that was in state government and was a supervisor and supervised many many personal like some of you in this room for over twenty five years i'm afraid from where you start picking and choose in winners that we're going to create a moral problem where it calls decision among state employees and we're going to call us hard failings and so representative has assured me I don't know where this bill is common if it's coming to state ages or some other committee but he's assured me and rules when I ask him and i'm telling you it was no he agreed with me that there's an age big something done about that particular part of the bill in that language obvious would you stay in here today and make you aware of my concerns so that you understand more i'm coming from agree that it's a good bill I agree or state employees need to raise that part of the bill I have a concern where and I think we need to be extremely careful about as we move forward with their. Hopefully we like representative what you say at an applauding for doing the we can fix this in committee and hopefully that's what we're going to be able to do but I wanted you to know the plan you wanted to hear from I would you to hear per may uh that's the plan and hopefully we can move forward in succeeding in getting that done but that's my concerns with the bill thank you for listening toshisp. Thank you miss speaker hello france. This may be the last chance to get to do something like that so anyway i'd like to address not only some of the concerns that my colleague are represented mentioned but this is a good bill there's a lot of our good resolution there's not a lot of hard work and effort it gone into this from all the cabinet secretaries the directors OPM governor staff in one of the best things about this is the g as the paste pay grades of gs one two three and four all those individuals are going to get a great pay race we have a tremendous problem trying to a recruit and retain a employees at that lower level so this is going to be a tremendous boost to to their ability to feed their families in and II think it will help a lot in the retention arena for our state employees that does those lower grade so that's a good thing the recruiting and senate we want to recruit the best of the best say over the crime left we need a high quality medical examiners so we need to be able to have uh some way to have an incentive to recruit them to the state of arkansas on this while allow the cabinet secretary cabinet secretary to do that so let's talk about special compensation so coming from a guy who's been in the federal sector for many many years and a guy who was a cabinet secretary to have about six hundred state employees the current policy right now we are very limited in being able to uh incentivise our employees for doing a great job so one of the ideas on the special compensation has taken from the federal government because if I have an employee this doing the outstanding job and I don't have the budget or the money that I can give them a a cash and set up I cannot I can give them a. Twenty seven hour time off award or forty hour time off ward once a year but the concerns I think that representative tash mentioned those will be addressed in a you know each cabinet secretary they're going to have the required to have a panel of individuals who see all these wards and they can fare it out you know a lot of the issues in the concerns that represent of tosh a mentioned but we have got to find better ways to recognize outstanding employees in state government and this is a great way to do it so from a cabinet secretary of you don't have the money in the bank to be able to give somebody two or three thousand dollars then you know elicit can call a minute so how you're doing a great job let me give you a forty hour time off award or twenty seven hours or a whatever it may be so there's a lot of great things and more of it'll come out when that whenever the bill goes to committee but i'll i'm i'm a hundred percent behind this resolution and I would ask that you supported as well thank you thank you represent various booking for the resolution when anyone likes speaking the resolution what anyone likes speak for the resolution representative it reckon has closed. Let me say we have the r. We're going to retain we've got to have a. The situation in the market place. In here who hasn't heard about the tide library supply and the competitiveness. And we were attempting to make state government as competitive as we pass. Agree with the captain toss related to. The. And I have visited with the governor's office about it and I have shared with them that if we continue down this track that the plans that they're agencies prepare and present to the secretary and the secretary that's of plans they need to have mergerable call on a territive point that are evaluated it's just not in the is difficult if any spocer compensation player. A supervisor care for our easer more favorable work ethical another. The. And it's exceeds what they normally do in this different and we want to reward or the agency was too really ward on the out to be. Is good. This is what they did and this is why we're giving. And then it will have to come to the ALC. All were asking for today is the app. And for you to ha. And then the committee meetings it's a process. But we're the dark situation. We're going to have. Oh oh. Person wouldn't as close for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution ten thirteen prepare the machine matter clark. The. Everyone voted as everyone voted cast up the ballot madam clerk babot of eighty six years one day and eight present the resolution is passed madam clerk please read house resolution tin fourteen house resolution ten fourteen by representative miller to authorize the introduction of a non appropriation bill to prohibit the use of a computer software manufactured assembly or developed by a covered foreign entity in digital asset mining. You recognize explain the resolution. The. At all all right. Their sex of these r. I'm trying to be very brief probably by the time we get through all of. But anyway. I'm just going to say. I've heard the questions about you know i've got some i've got some anxiety. I understand that um i'm. And um and nobody's in more of a. However we have a job to do and sometimes you know we have. That's close to the crypto. I don't really want to get into a. All i'm here to do is say let's d. Let's have the debate let all th. I don't care who runs it I just want to see the right thing to get done. I'm going to have. Question you recognize for a question so I was like the associate things were what are understanding i'm very simple mind i'm in a farmer so dark former we're real slow are you taking a bird shot approach here with shooting all these bullets to see which one actually hits our is there one of these is more important than others are can you can't explain why you need six to to take care of one issue. Um i'm not taking a bird. And i. I don't feel like. Conversation had we have to pass a resolution in order to deal. That's why. Explain the resolution would anyone like to speak against the resolution. Represent ray you reckon that speak against. Thank you colleagues I could first I just want to say something general on this topic I think with at the risk of stating the obvious I think that all of us agree and realize that this point that digital asset mining bitcoin mining whatever you want to call it if it's done improperly and by the wrong people there are negative extranalities that pretty much everybody I think by the the the at this point is an agreement that we want to address and we've seen those issues play out with the facility at at bono and partner county and i've been out to that facility and seen it and i've heard the noise that it makes and I can't imagine what it's like to live next door to that facility it has to be torture and many of you probably saw that on the c b s the question that we face today is which piece of substantive legislation should we consider in the middle of a budget session and I think we ought to be fairly selective about which ones we choose to take up I think we ought to take up the ones that address issues that we have consensus about dealing with and when it comes to this issue I think there are some things that we have consensus on when it comes to for example noise mitigation sound reduction for number one for an ownership of these entities number two and then the location though that that they shouldn't be able to proper next to a church school or a residential area I think those are things that we all generally agree on this resolution doesn't address that thankfully we do have some resolutions that do address that senator josh bryants and representative mcclurs resolution does address those issues uh senator irvan and representative moors resolution does address those issues. Um you know as I was listening to the debate on this resolution in committee yesterday there were a couple of things that kept being said over and over the things like well it's not well understood there so much that we don't know we don't know what we don't know those were all direct quotes from the presentations that I heard and I think that passing a law just because we don't understand something is a bad way of rushing into passing a law and legislating I kept hearing people say what about the computers uh I think someone said what about asthma what about it to tell me more asking a question is not evidence asking a question is not an argument and i've heard people say we should just approve all of these resolutions and then send them all to the committees and I don't think that's our job here today I think our job is to figure out which resolutions address the specific problems that we know are afflicting our cansands and then pass those that resolution or those resolutions send them to the committees and then fix this issue I know the senate voted a mall through I don't think it's too much of a secret that there's a lot of political matter machinations going on down there and II understand that but that's not a great way to make policy I think we can do a better job by vetting these individual resolutions picking one or two to refer to committee that address the issues that we know our candidates are dealing with so this resolution specifically bands computers that were made or assembled by a cover and a covered foreign entity in the bill i'm a hundred percent for addressing the foreign ownership of these entities but it's not clear to me from. Any of the presentation in committee or any of the presentation of the bill on the floor minute ago what would be accomplished by banning computers made in a foreign country i'm open to the i'm open to the argument that i'm missing something but none of that evidence has been present most of these computers is I understand it are made in malaysia and indonesia they're run with parts made about companies like texas instruments in video and so forth there's a lot of things there manufactured in china that run on US parts like all of our iphones I think the same goes for for testles my understanding is also the these machines that are used to mind digital assets are our single purpose machines they're not can't use them to spy on people or anything like that so just asking questions about this I don't think is an argument I would also point out on the this resolution also makes it a felony a class definitely to own one of these computers or to use it for for digital asset mining so would just make it illegal it would make you a felon if you engage in digital asset mining and use it the bill doesn't have a fiscal emp are a sentencing impact statement that I that I can tell so I think we should absolutely prohibit for an ownership of these types of entities II just don't think we're accomplishing anything with this particular resolution because it doesn't do any of those things so I would ask for a no vote in this resolution so that we can move on to consider the the resolutions that actually address the issues outlined. Question you recognize for question and thank you for everything you stated I simply want to do was best for our cances and mister speaker on off this is the appropriate question to representative ray but you stated we should choose the best wines out of the six that are proposed here which winds are the best I think the winds are the the resolution by senator bryant and representative of mcclure address all of the issues that I outlined that we know are tangible problems that have been documented in our stay also think that senator urban and representative more resolution addresses some of those issues uh there pieces of those resolutions that I prefer more than others but those are the two that I think address most clearly the issues some i'd appreciate another. Thank you miss speaker thank you colleagues I must speaking specifically for this particular resolution as this is the one we need to go with but i'm speaking for all eight hundred it is my belief that we simply do not have the knowledge right now here in this body the go this one is the one I want to go with I think we need to take these and I know that it may take a little more time to do this but I think that time will be well invested because here about a year ago we literally squeezed one off in our foot and we have the self inflicted wound that we have to address. In the only thing worse than doing nothing at all is doing something happened and then going back out to our constituents and trying to explain to them why we still screwed it up the second time around trying to limit this to just a couple that might be that you know one or two of us says this is great and that's great well I think there's good parts and all of them that all of them are worth looking at and doing some hard work and coming up with the best solution that we can so that when your constituent calls you you have an answer that you can stand behind other than well we just wanted to get the heck out of here and so we pick on went with their and i'm sorry that it didn't help you and your particular situation we may come at the end of all this with all of these and go jeez this is not good enough let's put it international study less work on it and then we take care of it at the next regular session I hope not I hope we can put a patch on this thing at least because right now there's a lot of our own colleagues here that are catching a lot of grief and one of these days one of these things are going to show up close to where you live and your people are going to be upset too I don't have any in my district I haven't really paid any tens of this until we got down here but I know it's coming and I want at least be able to say that you know we tried to work the problem the whole problem instead of just going well i'll do this one or i'll do that one that way we can get out and get back to where we need to go and do what we need to do this is too important to take a short cut thank you. Richmond spoke and for the resolution when he would like to speak against the resolution. Making this speaker colleagues I represent the community of bono it's my citizens that are suffering underneath the crypto mind that uh you all heard about on the c b s evening news and through some of the other folks we have got to do something to give those folk some relief one of the fundamental jobs of government is a protection of its citizens and by us failing to address this is us failing to protect our citizens like we are supposed to. I too because this is my district and i'm here technology chair I too had some bills ready I was ready for some resolutions but I decided after I learned about representative miller's work representative mcclerrer center brian that they had all these resolutions that I felt that I would be better served as your technology chair to be want to help moderate to bring and rain all these together to create a product that we can all go home and be proud of to regulate this industry properly so I didn't do any of that stuff what i'm going to ask for you today is the go ahead less pass all eight of these out to give us the flexibility that we need to create the regulations in the protections that our citizens nor not only need but deserve a representative ray has brought up some good points let us hash all that out in the committee assuming all that's going to come to my my committee give us the flexibility to hash all that out in the committee to process that everybody come to the table so that we have the flexibility to do what we need to get done i'll say this was seventeen ninety nine that's the house bill that representative richmond talked about whether we pass that or not we would still be in the same boat I know that bills getting a lot of flag better regard if we had done nothing we would still be in the same situation as we are now the cities in the counties just do not have the weight of law to deal with this properly we have got to handle it from here at the state level and that is what I am asking you to do i'll go ahead and take a question they'll have a closing statement after representative what purpose just kind of want to understand what you think the goal is we're doing here is the idea where we want to pass all of these resolutions outside the committee and the end up with one bill with all of these ideas hashed out in committee so that I mean I don't think that the house laws where we need to be hashed not all of these different ideas that that that's my hope is that we consolidate these down into one or two good bills that we can bring back to the florida my hope is that we don't come. Back with a separate bills I want to come back with one or two good products that we can vote on in and be good. Question so if you could help me I represent it makes a since your you represent the folks in that area what is the primary problem that we're attempting to solve noise and foreign ownership thank you and and that represent under for what purpose you're recognized at representative meeks does the technology committee have the horse power to do what needs to be done in the next two weeks I believe so and I don't like wacamol here. Question how does this resolution are bill if and all deal. Well I think that says someone the foreign energy indigent last at mining. And again this is just to make sure that we have this is just to make sure that we have all the flexibility that we need to get something down what I don't want to happen is for us to come up with a solution and then be hampered because we don't have the right flexibility created by having these resolutions nut pass. You recognize I guess besides the title had as. What again dealing with the foreign ownership again i'm just trying to create the most flexibility so that the sponsors in my committee have all the tools that we need in order to get this done and there's probably some of the tools here that we won't need and we won't use or that we could delay until the twenty five section but we need to have that opportunity to figure out which one which one of those we will need and what mean hawk for what purpose question you recognize representative makes you said this technology chair your hope is that all these representatives would get together have you had an opportunity to talk with all of them to get that goal or is this just upon the sky I hope this is going to happen i've been talking to these representatives for months now though I and all the ones I have talked to so far have all been open to working together come up with a solution representative rose for what purpose of question thank you representative the meeks thank you have been reading through these and you can kind of get him a little merge together if you're not careful but I did hear the question about the foreign ownership and you said that this bill addressed that but as I was reading through just kind of clarify this is talking about covered foreign entity that has produced the computers themselves not foreign ownership of the digital asset mining facility sorry could you clarify if if this bill is about ownership of the facility or the production of the equipment please thank you right and and i'm trying to when i'm super speaking i'm trying to speak generally of all eight bills because I don't want to have to come back up your eight times and to sport all that so again my hope is to get as many of these past as possible to create the flexibility we need to get this done a follow up mister share and I guess that's that's my question is is we're voting on these I would like personally be able to make a specific vote so are you saying that this particular bill that we're discussing does not cover foreign ownership from my understanding it doesn't cover the the ownership of the facility it's the equipment that. It's being produced okay thank you baby for purpose parliamentary enquiry let's hear your inquiry my my question in the earth are to based on what representatives say is under under our rules like can you take all of the resolutions that are presented and prepare one bill and consolidate those or do you have to have individual bills for each of the resolutions parliament parliamentarian can correct me a part it incorrect ultimately the resolution you have to part of the constitution in the joint rules you have to have a resolution identical resolution's pass on both ins to allow the introduction of a bill and so any bill that is filed has to relate back to a resolution so there can be no that there would be the only bills that can be filed would be a bill that ties back to a resolution has been passed and adopted by both things so there can't be some separate bill filed in a later date per the rules now if there is discussions if there's things that need to be tweaked within the confines of the resolution has been passed that can be incorporated in that bill then that is possible uh but it's fairly limited. The ability because it ultimately has to relate back to the resolu. Some ability to make some changes to adder deteract from a bill but there can't be there can't be necessarily a a separate bill filed it may be that things. Perhaps of ubank's for purpose question. So we have more we have multiple resol. And all of them may not incorporate all aspects of what the. More if if several of these resolutions were passed there could actually be several bills. Could possibly be passed by both in. And they could comple. By the s. Session there are multiple bills. Then you get into the discussion about what was passed when was it when did it go into law and ultimately. And even involve code revision but with regard to them. Certainly could they also be. Each bill just gets. Colleagues are also represented brown for what purpose question. I'm gonna ask this of representative right not when a chime representative makes I just want understand that if we pay. That there can be aspects of a each wresolution that you determine are totally unworkable unnecessary or that by looking at all the concerns you can come up with a consensus on the best way to address an issue is that do I have a correct understanding I mean can we actually toss some of these ideas out that might be in a resolution yes matt my whole bears is that by time this process is done we can consolidate and come back to the house with two three good bills to to address this but I want to make sure because none of us knows the future that we have all the tools that we need to handle this properly follow up it and to be sure but doing this we're going to try to come up with the legislation that does not conflict with each other is set correct that is my hope representative back for what purpose you recognize tell I think this is a question passed by for the parliamentarian the final bill that would come out the committee that we all work that got worked out the committee came back. The speaker says it would refer back to one of these resolutions so does that mean that that final bill could refer to multiple resolutions that we pass so there would be one bill that would refer to maybe i'm a users example their six resolution. Reps and millers where they could they refer to like maybe three a half and then get some of the other resolutions how does that work I might make myself clear there are no. Prominentary can correct me for wrong ultimately it's hard to answer these because it ultimately depends on what what the bill says and then we we have to review that myself in the parliamentarian would have to review that to see does it relate back and and a lot of it depends on the language of the resolution and then the language of the bill that is filed but ultimately the bill has to relate back to a resolution that has been filed does that mean that it multiple components could go into one I would have to we would have to see the bill because I don't think we can sit here and answer I would say it would probably be very difficult to because quite honestly the the it's very specific to the fact that you have to pass a resolution to introduce the bill might that mean that you have that even if there was items agreed to or that folks wanted to pass there might have that might have to be separated into these multiple bills because ultimately it comes back to the resolution that has been before the house before the senate and has been bought it on and and in that case would have been approved by a super majority so III think anything we say at this point largely speculation except that I think the parliamentary advice would be if these if this passes any bill that's failed needs to relate back as closely as possible or within reason and and be able to relate back to a resolution because the far they get away from that the there could be questions around. And that and that's why I want to try to get all these past is to make sure we've got all the tools um in and colleagues i'll all finish up by saying this and again if anybody has any questions on this topic because I know it's a fairly complicated topics please see me afterwards or sweet work through this and i'll be happy to try to answer some of those further but the main point I want to leave you with his desk in this field like any other field there's good actors and bad actors and unfortunately in the last year we've had bad actors come into our state with complete disregard to the welfare of our citizens and our natural resources and it's our responsibility to take action to fix that on behalf of our citizens so that I would ask please for a good though before we before we go to those who might want to speak against just to be clear I don't want to set anything that influences the the bottom line is that the bill when filed we have to see that it's I mean anything that we're saying your speculation because they're I mean that act we couldn't get into all the possibilities of what could occur but obviously I would just refer back to the joint rule in the constitution as far as what the process is in the process refers to the passage of a resolution that then allows the introductor for the introduction of a bill represent makes it spoken for the resolution when anyone might speak against the resolution what anyone like speak for the resolution representative you recognize speak for the res. Thank you speaker this is a tough subject for physical session and we can't I have the there's like replaced mates I didn't want to come up your eight times because we don't just have safe we've got I resolutions I think I believe they all need to pay asked but after the only thing is in november of twenty two uh my district got hit hard with it it would count in works and i've heard to conversations had we not passed eight fifty one we would still have the problem with them that is true to to certain extent but also after searching my birth town hall was a gentleman from new york that came to harrison with eight fifty one in his hand and is that we are here because you all did it that's what the public sale so I have I requested at a special session to discuss this and was told there was enough interest to do it and II think we've got her sale for bigger home since then it's the there is just lots of things out there and we can set here all that but we can figure that in committee are constitutes have not had a chance to have their concerns in my opinion I think we should pass all it over not just this this is I think which apparently we can do that in our committee and we can decide what but again II don't believe it's fair trouble constituently to leave here even though it's a principle session and not address this issue thank you for something there are spoken for the resolution when he would like to speak against the resolution would in when like speak. Thank you mister speaker colleagues how is it paying on speaking but listening to the debate has encouraged me to do so. Many of you have heard the story of mine involvement with crypto but for those who haven't I thought i'd share it. Back in june of july I remember it was hot it was warm but it wasn't quite yet hot. A good friend of mine who is adjusted to the piece of faulter county called me up and said hey matt we're doing a noise ordinance on the crypto there are bono or trying to try to come out and see the facility and I had seen it so said sure and you said I got my kids would think that's all right so that's fine so we drove out there. We went to the crypto facility and there's a substation electrical substation just down the highway from its feeds it crossed the highway by about a hundred hundred for the arts from the entry not even across from the property directly in front of the lady at bono whose house has been in the news. Any part distruck he rolled down the windows we sat there for just a minute we're actually wait for someone else who's going to meet us and take us to the house. We're just shooting the breeze or some of the birds kids in the back seater carrying on about pokimon or something I don't know what. In this security guard walks out of the crypto. And he he's about us he's looking at us you know he wants us to make sure that we know that he knows where they're okay whatever he looked like he was rejected from others country fried chicken places in the gas station so that I don't know what greasy shirt the home on yards. And he had a little ford escort there in front of the facilities said security on the side. These watching us and then it goes already pops the trunk of his while I now deem the tactical for escort then he pulls out an ar fifteen he turns around and he shows it to us he's very proud of his his rifle and he makes this big production of loading it one shell the time myself honest in any cycles the guide he wants to make sure that we know he's got a chamber. And then he gets into the front seat of his tactical for escort and pulls out his tactical gopro start surveiling us. Now first thought they went to my mind is this is ludicrous. This is the reaction we get just for being out here to listen a second but worse is dude do you really think you're the only person that's armed in the sole situation but. Now will admit that i'm not the sharpest tool in the shared I know a little bit about crypto not a whole lot better a little bit. And I would admit that I was born at night. But it wasn't last night and I know what I saw and I saw someone come out of a crypto facility one of these bad actor crypto facilities like representative spoke about pulled out a firearm and made a big production of loading it because a legislator and a jp had the temerity to pull in across the road down the highway just for a list. Now I haven't decided which the resolutions i'm going to support but I think I would encourage each of you let's send these to committee let's send all of them to committee let's hash it out in committee and let's get a solution to cars constant constituents we need to stop this now and get to the bottom of this and I appreciate a good vote. Left the well when he went like speak against the resolution when anyone likes pick for the against resolution representative richardson your recognized speak against resolution. Thank you mister speaker II wasn't going to come and speak against this particular resolution but III want to go back to the point that this resolution doesn't address the challenges that you shouldn't have had to deal with representative you shouldn't have had to deal with that but this resolution does nothing for that it doesn't address any aspects associated with that this resolution. Prohibits certain items for being used in our state those items may or may not we we don't have the full impact of what that looks like are they currently being used by legitimate businesses what is the risk associated with those items there's not really any risk and if you know the technology you know that my biggest concern is that when we get out of this session after having all of these crypto mine bills come through we've created more of a problem they will be started with and we have a real risk of doing that so passing resolution sticking all those resolutions back in the committee so that they can be discussed in and considered is not the right option the right option is first to consider each resolution on its merits does it address the problems that we've considered which is noise or potentially foreign ownership in these in these specific buildings or businesses we need to address those problems as a constituent says ask us to do and all the rest of that needs to be considered as a secondary item that's why i'll be voting now and I encourage you to do this. Represent rose for a purpose you recognize representative richardson could you tell me why you me think that prohibiting the use of computer or software manufacturer assembled or developed by covered foreign entity in digital asset mining would be bad why it would be bad to why should we prohibit it why should we prohibit it II don't think that we necessarily should prohibit it in this specific case most all of these technologies aren't even manufactured are created as already has been said by representative right that these are not even a manufacturer to create it in those foreign entities anyway um but there are other technologies there are other businesses other data centers that may be using these items the other piece of that is if we're not going to address the phones that ipads the iphones those are where we really get the the the challenges the malware the infectious uh viruses and things that are associated with that's where those things could come up these devices can't even have those in a follow up better it doesn't do us any good I guess yep my last question would be you know if that concern were present do you think it should be the same concern of our government issued computers that are made in china well sure absolutely alright thank you. Representative richmond for a purpose motion media consideration representative richardson is was still in the well so i'm gonna hold the world. Represent richmond media consideration. It's proper motion it's not debat. Give me a moment to let the parliamentarian. Members before before we take up the motion i'd ask at as the parliamentarian to to verify some information since we've had a number of questions and would would refer you back to the resolution such as this resolution itself that refers to this is a resolution for senator king that sinner king is authorized to introduce a bill which has introduced will read substantially as follows so that's the language in the resolution so these questions about what can be introduced and what can be done i'll refer you back to the resolution okay we have a motion for immediate consideration that's not debatable all in favor say I any opposed habit. Question before the house is the passage of house resolution ten fourteen prepare the machine madame clerk. Has everyone voted as everyone voted. Cast up the ballot madam clerk by vote of fifty four years twenty seven days and twelve present the resolution is fail made a clerk please read house resolution. House resolution ten eighteen by representative miller to authorize the introduction of non appropriation bill to amend the arkansas data center's act of solution twenty three and ten in the uniform money services act. Yeah. Represent miller you recognize to explain the resolution. I'm josh miller I think we met last week real quick i'll just like to remind the right like the speaker just said we are not passing bills representative ray of well good while ago came down here and did an excellent job. And I give him credit for that I just uh but the word bill passed this bill if we passed this bill we're not voting on a bill. Providing a resolution to allow us to have the discussion be used possibly some aspects that are in these resolutions to create a good meal we've all been here long enough to see that sometimes a bill is drawn up and then as you go along in the process you are live oh here we need to address them and then that leads to another thing I think there's a good consensus of members here who feel like we have some. That need to be addressed I don't know what all they're going to be i'm not afraid to say it I don't know. What I do know is that we need to look into it and this is the mechanism that allows us to look into it and do something about it I ran around all the time I see our electric substations their water departments water towers cell phone towers all of our utility infrastructure i've never seen an armed guard at any of those. The crypto miles and that's fine i'm all for care going. Maybe we ought to look into this these resolutions simply give us the ability to do that and a draft language i'm for all eight not just mine. For the other time as well and ask the child join me why care the hands of the committee and the vested parties are the interested parties that are going to be dealing with this and when that has uh. Repson millers explain the resolution when he would like speak against the resolution represent a you recognize speak against the resolution. Thank you mr speaker colleagues i'm not going to repeat all of what I said a second ago I saw something smiling when I said that but but I will say again this resolution the substance of this resolution does not address any of the problems that we know are real the problems that are documented the problems have sound of excessive noise the problems of foreign ownership the problems of location of these facilities this resolution does not address any of that this what this resolution does is it would require citizens in our state to get a government license to interact with the block chain network on their home computer the licenses that are required under the uniform money services act these are money transmitter licenses these are licenses that banks have to have. Simply put that is not what that is not what digital asset minors do um the securities and exchange commission for example has waiting and said that bit court people who mind bitcoin are not money transmitters. You we have a congressman in arkansas who's the vice chair of the house financial services committee in washington DC has anybody has anybody sponsoring this resolution asked him if this would solve any problem or if this is even necessary. I do in to help be a part of the solution and solve the problems that are facing us on this issue this is just not the resolution to do it so I would again ask that you vote against this resolution so that we can move on to the ones that better address these issues thank you. Represent ray is spoken against the resolution to anyone like speak for the resolution representative duffield you recognize speak for the resolution. Thank you mister speaker i'll keep the short. We made a mistake and we have an opportunity to fix that mistake here and when you cause a big of a problem as we have and potential profit this state because let me tell you something these crypto minor companies there on record one companies on record they have said that their goal is to bring fifty cripped online to the state of arkansas that's one company so when everybody think really hard about how you're going to vote on this because if you go back home and you have a cripped online come to your facility and the county judge and the core court none of your local officials can do one thing about it they're going to look at you and they're gonna say that you do everything in your power did you look at all the options to protect the people in your district what are you gonna save a situation what bonno happens in your district where they're dealing with that noise twenty four hours a day they're stuck they cannot fill the property it's a natment we think we're going to be down here for too long to discuss all these issues think about that lady and bonno that has to deal with that sound twenty four hours a day we need to look at all of the potential options to fix a problem i'll say one more quick thing. I'm a small business own I know many of you are. Do you think that it's right that our businesses massage and a gravel company you're real estate business all the other business we own farmers we have more regulation than these cryptomats because right now they don't have any argue to vote for this resolution and all the rest on vote for all of them let's look at all the potential fixes and let's take hard look like let's make this right let's make this right with the people of arkansas thank you for town. Represent duffille spoken for th. Thank you mister speaker representative definitely respected your passion and your figure in your in your appeal the question I wanted to ask had to do with how this particular resolution fixed the mistake that was referenced and so i've not heard how this does that which is why I will be voting now on this resolution thank you. Represent rose are spoken against resolution when anyone likes before the resolution reps and mac royal recognize speak for the representa. You know you said you made a mistake I made a mistake. We got in a hurry we want to go home amdum as box and hammers out in the world crypto my word still don't but I won't take when you get one in your different you go to college in a hurry only. And I won't tell you something else that people will look back in they'll see how you voted today. The. I'm not asking you for to give a kidney. All my masking is this take our time go through the committee like we always do seven bills if you listen to our seven hundred I trust my colleague you might the right decision and listen to them you don't have to pass them but just listen to giving me the chance and that's all my asking we owe our people there and if you don't think they will come to your community one endomous is coming they came to the city council which is only thirteen miles from my house is in representative first and district where it is going to be on my power agree entrust me the people will call you and they will look up these votes appreciate a good well represent mac royal spoken for. Thank you mr speaker just address a couple of times representative rose sort of to your question what my thinking is we don't know I don't know miss my resolution I don't know who the bad actors are I don't know who the good actors are I don't want to punish the good ones but I do want to keep the bad ones out of arkansas and and this is a it is the language in this resolution is a tall for us to do that that can be discussed in in going into what the found bill would be that this body would pass I think it's a worthwhile discussion so that's why i'm present the resolution I asked for a good b. In the question before the house is a passage of house resolution ten eighteen parent machine madame clark. As everyone voted. Asked up the ballot madam clerk. The resolution is fail madam clerk please read house resolution ten fifteen passed resolution ten fifteen by representative miller to authorize the introduction of a non appropriation built him in the arkansas data centers act of twenty twenty three inter men the requirements for a digital asset mining business or business using a block chain network. Thank you mister speaker again just another opportunity for us to have a discussion to fix the problem i'm appreciated. Thank you mister speaker colleagues job is be really brief this resolution deals with a lot of different topics some of the language in it is appears to be deplicative for macdate fifty one it attempts to regulate sound but I think both representative mcclewer and representative more resolutions actually regulate sound more strangently than what this resolution calls for but the thing that really worries me about this resolution is that it broadens the definition of digital asset maining to include quote or business utilizing a block chain network and I think that's a released significant change there may have a lot of unintended consequences because there's all sorts of businesses that utilize black chain technology everybody from amazon to walmart visa mastercard you name it so I worry about the unintended consequences of this particular bill and I just think we have better resolutions available to consider and I would ask for a no vote so that we can move on to considering that. The resolution would anyone like speak for the resolution would anyone like to speak against the resolution. Represent miller is closed for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution ten fifteen prepared the machine made a part. As everyone voted. Cast up the ballot madame clerk by vote of forty six c a's thirty four days and eleven present the resolution is fail madam clerk please read house resolution ten seventeen house resolution ten seventeen my representative miller to authorize the introduction of a non appropriation built them in the arkansas data center's active twenty twenty three and regulate the impact of water usage and electric grade by block chain networks and digital asset mining millery recognized explain the resolution. Crypto mining facilities are using a lot of our utilities using a lot of water is something that needs to be looked at the bottom to been discussed feel like this all at least me disguised and potentially if the need if if the committee felt the main to. So with that I would like to reduce a representative david right. Yeah. Representative miller his explaining the resolution would be would like to speak it's the resolution representative ray you recognize speaking it's resolution. I thank you mister speaker I do appreciate my friend representative miller injecting a bit of level into this discussion colleagues this bill this resolution look I understand in respect the concern about power and energy and all of those topics we have had I think over a dozen at this point committee meetings of the various committees talking about this particular topic and it's been discussed over it over and it every single meeting that we've had entered and the coops have said that they had they do not have concerns about these particular businesses putting a strain on our energy grid in fact I called again and spoke to some of those folks this morning just to make sure that their opinion had not changed and they believe that because of the interruptibility of the service and because they have the ability to penalize and find these businesses if they do not if they do not do what they're supposed to be doing then if you actually go back to and I know there were problems with act eight fifty one that we are going to hopefully address this session but one of the things in act fifty one act eight fifty one that was actually pretty thorough and extensive was how it dealt with energy usage it says that additional a digital asset minding business may operate in the state if it complies with quote any rule or rate for utility service provided by or on behalf of a public entity but that's not all the bill said the bill went on to say that the digital asset mining business shall quote operate in a manner that causes no stress on an electric public utilities generation capacities or transmission work additionally your. It's estimated that texas mines about fifty percent of all bit coin mind in america and texas has many more issues with water scarcity than we do in arkansas if you look at the states that mine bit coin or the leading miners a bit coin there are not articles generated about issues being created with water that's just not that's just not a thing that's something that came up in a committee meeting here a few meetings back and it just keeps getting repeated and repeated in the form of a question which again is not evidence that something needs to be changed in the law so I would just ask that we focused on the issues that we know we need to solve the sound the noise the foreign ownership the location and that we move on to those resolutions thank you for what purpose question you recognize representative rate a believe he just mentioned that that you that water conception has not been an issue and what about reports from cars economy taxes where one bit coin mind is using one point five million gallons of water per day and ranchers in that same community were forced to sell their cattle because of water use its issues I don't know what that's from that that hadn't been presented in any of the committee or testimony on the bill so I don't know I don't even know what the source of that is but thank. Thank you mister speaker and I don't want to be to dead horse here colleague some i'll just give you a little background on my situation couple weeks after the session ended last year I started getting a flurry of calls from undistrict about a crypto. What's a crypto mind you know i've heard of heard a bit coin but I thought of it is like a forty year old guy in his mom. Didn't realize it was a huge for s. You know market situation said you all pass act eight fifty one this is going to provide our town from stopping this crypto mine city official city council members the mayor they they share those fears thankfully the town of verdict that disaster the the planning commission did not grant the permit for the business the city council did not approve it before active for p. In place II don't think they could have prevented it they didn't. This specific resolution I know is talking about energy and water usage. Representative more district the crypto man there is drilling a well into the aquifer the water use there the water in that aquifer is used by the rice farmer soybean farmers you know there are huge part of the industry of our state against huge in our state we all support we all support those farmers we don't want anything to happen. Fifty cripped on minds in the state. I just want to back up with all my colleagues that have come before me have said let's give are constituents every tool possible to solve this issue i'm up support all these resolutions I voted for all of them so far i'm going to vote for the rest of them there may be parts now I don't agree with we can have sight out we can get those things fixed but i'm standing here on behalf of mac and situates. We can't wait till next session we're gonna have more crypto mind you're going to have in your district all going to be getting those calls and my district problem the sole for now but market situations are still worried that they that they could come back so I just asked you that let's work together. To try to get these things they get this issue fixed and protect darken stitch let's protect their property protector health projector safety thanks. For the resolution when anyone like. Thank you mister in regards to this resolution and and some comments by representative right earlier. I can see while they wouldn't have a big problem with it but now they're making a lot of money. Forgive me and I mean no disrespect the the power countries but i'm taking that and you can. I'm not saying the power covers you know anything wrong by no means you must say in that but you know can I understand why they would not want legislation that would look in this sure making a power money. Private companies. Entering into business with the sta. Quite the way they said so i'm just that much have the conversation when I recommended this is going to let them have. The tolls necessary to address this if they deem it necess. That I appreciate it. Miller has closed for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution ten seventeen prepared the machine matter clark. As everyone voted has everyone voted cast up the ballot madam clerk but a boat of sixty five years fifteen days and eleven present the resolution is fail and clerk please read house resolution ten sixteen house resolution ten sixteen by representative miller to authorize the introduction of a non appropriation bill to require a digital asset mining business of a rat notification before purchasing land or building are beginning construction of a digital asset mining facility to millery recognized explain the resolution thank you mister speaker again. Some language that could be helpful and regulating this when the bill comes about. Represent miller has explained the resolution would anyone like speak in the resolution representative ray you recognize against the resoluti. Thank you mister speaker I know that elicit in a few laughs I promise i'm not doing this because it's fun colleagues again same deal with this resolution it just simply doesn't address any of the real documented problems that we know exist that we know we need to fix this deals with notification before purchasing land this bill states that if you want to buy land that you intend to use for digital asset mining that you have to with six months prior notify the public service commission why. The public service commission regulates energy usage it doesn't regulate land usage. This is not a requirement of that the state imposes on any other sort of business not that i'm aware of even businesses that are both energy intensive and produce a lot of noise so I just think we ought to continue sticking to addressing the issues that we know will solve the problems that are currently in our state and I would encourage another. Question it recogni. Made a lot of points on these bills and I really came in here prepare to indeed vote present on a couple of minutes voted yes on the last couple because um it seems that we really are engaged in almost a committee process where we're hearing. Water usage and it's pretty specific and while I and i'm getting to my question while I think that this should be done in a special session that many of us voted for this without understanding the applications. Umm it's it's disturbing me that we seem to be asked to vote on this based upon specifics and merits on the issue and so my question to you is you know you're bringing a lot of point it information in front of many others who i'm not sure how many people read all of these bills. Um to keep them from going through a process what what would be wrong with addressing these issues in committee where the committee would be charged with um voting against it not letting out at letting it out of committee rather than not letting it into committee to address these issues especially for something is important as water or permitting or whatever yeah thank you for that question so there's a reason that we have a two thirds threshold to bring up a substantive legislative matter and that's because we're in the middle of the budget session and we have the ability to discuss substantive matters and make changes to the law and substantive ways and i'm in favor of doing that in the right way in a targeted way that addresses the the real documented problems that we face if we were to approve all these resolutions and just send them to committee in my opinion we'd be creating a massive birds nest that we'd have to then untangle because we're going to have two bills and insurance and commerce in two and city county local and to and in energy and two in uh to in in we may have there's one that created one of the creative felony that one may have ended up in judiciary there's one later that creates a tax we may wanna that one might want to go to revenue and tax and so I the reason the threshold is two thirds is because this is where we're supposed to make the tough decisions on these things not just kick the can down the road and say I don't everybody get to everybody's gets the same the same way I think we ought to pick the ones that have been drafted the best and most closely addressed the issues that we face. Thank you represent ray spoken to. Uh couple things. I believe that this resolutio. The. Consider this most car candidates they're based in best. And. But yourself in this years of of misglad I sanderson in bono. You shy now if one of these is coming and you've got notice if you're thinking about buying property in an area there would be a way for you to know hey you might not want to buy out there because in foremost or whatever there's gonna be a crypto man come in those who kind of things they are helpful to our candidates and also another paying in regards to you know creating a birds nas we have an excellent speaker and and i'm not just saying that. He's my friend but I i'm really he is not we're not creating birds near a bills get filed they go to the correct committee i'm no doubt that that would happen if bills get filed as a result of these resolutions a bill are multiple bills of governor the correct committee. That's for good b. For the house as a passage of house resolution. As everyone voted. House resolution ten nineteen my representative miller so authorized the introduction of a name appropriation bill to require a digital asset mini business to pay a fee for external extraordinary electrical energy usage. Thank you we're about to know here hopefully. The whole lot of different industries. Legislation at times the government hands to not fee this end. They need. Crypto money. So I understand this bill are this resolution to introduce a bill correctly is your imposing a fee which would be attacks correct. But can you please enlighten us on that difference because of the to the government is still attacks on the people that had to pay it. Would be happy to and I wouldn't. I would say this you're right and I was I was joking earlier but you're absolutely rock. Chinese. Using our power taken our land the managing our property w. And I think the state all I have the ability to impose fees on the like they impose on all the restaurants all the time every day that I last w. Had a question representative miller didn't you earlier speak to their being good actors in this industry is that correct that's correct um so you're follow up so your position on this would be regardless of those good actors we should institute fee tax levied on them as well because of the bad actors represent rose i'm not running a bill today i'm running a resolution that would allow for the discussion and the invest. Of our colleagues see what would be best not running and build a follow up I understand I just was replying to your statement that that would be why you'd have the fee is for the bad actors and I was curious to your thoughts of the ones that referred to his good actors with a supplied of them. The risk of getting off way off the topic here I would say that my law would be to create a fair playing field. I think a lot of other industries are feed there's peas levy why would we not regulate and do that if we if the committee or whoever is looking into this funds and it's necessary in this industry why would we just exempt them rather the mat like they have been thank you for taking my question represent unger for a purpose question recognize a represent miller i'm under the impression that these crypto mines have to post a bind pacifically because of the select trap electricity usage in my in my wrong I wouldn't know so i'm not a crypto mine bond posting expert at the sport smarter body to have the amb. Yeah. Thank you mister speaker colleagues the last one i'm going to speak on today hopefully the sell session this resolution includes a new tax you can call it a fee if you want they are not the same thing a fee is a they are substantially substantively different things a fee is basically a for it for a specific use attacks as ju- is to raise money and I appreciate representative ward law pointing that out this bill is fairly similar to a provision that was proposed in president byden's twenty twenty five budget that instituted a thirty percent excise tax on digital asset mining I didn't come down here to raise taxes on our candidates on businesses are on individuals and I don't plan to start and honestly this bill I think is probably the worst of the batch it is essentially a defacto ban on bitcoin mining it it does not say that in the legislation it doesn't outright prohibit it it just taxes it to a level where it doesn't make any sense for anyone to engage in it it would sort of be like saying well i'm not i'm not going to band firearms i'm just going to slap a hundred dollars per box tax on the ammunition that's essentially how this would function so again I would ask that we've got no one this one and then we can take up the other sim duffilled for what purpose question you recognize a representative bray how many current crypto mining operations are you aware of that are arkansas owned and operated I don't know the number that are owned by do you say arkansas owned I don't know the breakdown on that but I will say to your point I do favor doing something to prohibit foreign ownership by china and other covered entities which is a provision that's going to be contained in these other bills that we're going to hopefully. Take up. Represent flowers you recognize speak. Just this issue of taxes I was looking. Um when act eight fifty one was passed and I just found it. And in. On the second page it says it through the enactment of this sub chapter the general assembly intends to win recognize that data center is creates pay taxes and provide general economic value to local communities and the state and two clarify the guidelines need it to protect data asset minors from discriminator. Seems to me that this bill was initially intended to recognize that taxes are apart of what these daily centers would do and that they're needed to be some protections however there aren't enough protections for the people and for our communities and while I do again believe that we should have a special session to deal with this among many other issues that we need to be dealing with in the state in a special session I just find it ironic that this has devolved to a back and forth about fees and taxes when in the language of the initial bill it recognized that taxes would be collected by these day to centers and for that reason i'm voting yes. Thank you mr speaker I was going to kind of help address that yes the uh instead of forming a question I thought it be easier to do in this fashion so the the data centers do pay significant taxes all day to center and end that's primarily due to excise taxes associated with electricity so they use a a significant amount of electricity which we've already heard which is actually a good thing for our coops in our electorate companies that access watch can be used in that fashion they get the charge for it we have access capabilities because we can always turn these data centers all. But in that process they pay a significant excess tax I think I was told recently that they're on in the neighborhood of twelve point two for this year twelve point two million to be paid. A big help to the archains and across the board. Thank you and members appreciate your indulgen. Uh couple things thank you represent flowers for carrier down point that out in the original bill thanks we've heard all kind of stuff job creation all the step where is that I would see it and lesson I don't like the ideas of previous. I don't like more than that is given the chinese of free ride in arkansas this body has voted to not allow to buy farmway no flood drones all those call stuff why would we give them free access to our power brand and everything else and have no mechanism in place fees should that made arrive and with that. Miller is closed for the resolution the question before the house is the passage of house resolution ten nineteen appear the machine. As everyone voted as everyone voted. Ballot madam clerk. As a resolution ten of them by representative a clear to authorize the introduction of non appropriation built him in the arkansas data centers act of twenty twenty three to the end to prohibit foreign party controlled ownership of a digital effect mining business. Thank you mister speaker don't we wish we had the information that we have today when we originally voted on theirs it would have been a different. I will thank you all of you for your questions your comments. Your input because we do have a serious situation and we need to address it we're all elected to come here and in part to fix problems sometimes you fix one problem and in doing so you reveal another problem initially it was my intent to protect the power generation and power grid protect our kansas on the issue of electrical power and transmission to make sure that we didn't have grid failure to we so- that we have seen in other states that portion was written with the help of arkansas public service commission and with our electorate utility providers there has been not today but there have been comments about a rush at the end of the last session we all know what was going on how fast it was the bill begin being drafted in february wearing as we moved through on we moved it out and moved into the other end there was another amendment added to it by the municipal power providers of course at that point in time we're out of time and it came back we had to get through committee and back through obviously there have been unintended consequences on other portions of the will also. There was a under estimation of the number of crypto man operators who had already begun building before the bill was passed or had already purchased land with building. So what does this resolution do if we pass it in a cent to committee these will be the topics that the pine details will be worked out on it clarifies a means and confirms local control to counties and the cities they can handle such issues as notification on their new community for any new locations that are going noise reduction I don't need to go through everything that we have reason rehashed here of how bad it is but no is reduction would be reduced by requiring fully imposed envelope on all sides and I know there's debate over the enclosed envelope or two thousand feet from the nearest residential or commercial structure. And addition use a closed loop liquid or some first pooling that is sealed what are uses that's been up huge concern I have no idea how one of these places used one point five million gallons so if it's a sealed system that's a good star the exception would be if a county or city have sights that resolve for use that allow different areas so what about those who violate the noise who would you call if the power goes back to the city into the county and they have the origins is that where it's going to start if they don't and we have this on the books or something similar to the books I think what you will hear and hr ten twenty is that they will contact the department of energy and environment they will be responsible for monitoring the same letter so that might I might be corrected on that just a moment land owners that are within two thousand feet of the nearest property line of a crypto mounting facility may file suit to enforce compliance with city and county orders one of the things has been an issue is who is going to enforce the laws model control can regulate the water permitting and the amount of water usage are ruled water supply systems are much smaller and much different than our municipal supply systems they should be able to regulate from what they have there prohibited foreign ownership I didn't say channel superhibited foreign ownership of a citizen of any country that is on the US list of international traffic and arms regulations as we have seen this last weekend this this world can change rapidly I do not want to limit something to china I want to limit it to any adversary of the united states. Well who would our report concerns of ownership to that would go to the arkansas office of agriculture intelligence review ownership to review the ownership that is the group that is now being the ownership of the bar agricultural lands that are being purchased they can refer to the ag office then if those issues are not resolved it can move to a judicial foreclosure china is a problem but so are some other countries so let's not move with ourselves just to china but anybody that's deemed to enemy the united states there's many details that we have to work out without any doubt this also includes an emergency card it includes an emergency cause with no grandfather provisions. This will include any new facilities that are being currently being proposed are currently being built i'm sure that's going to store some discussion. The time to comply for existing facilities will be set at ninety days retroactively if a part of existing facility is less than two thousand foot from a residential commercial building after ninety days if they haven't followed whatever we vote on then they will be able to file suit for compliance. This is brought it addresses all the main topics and I feel if we get it to committee we can work out the details and pass something that will protect our cansons and with that I would appreciate it that. The question before the house is the passage and house resolution ten oh nine prepar. Is everyone voted everyone voted. Cast up the ballot madam. Madame clerk please read house resolut. Pass resolution ten twenty by representative dear my more to authorize the introduction of a non appropriation built him in the arkansas data center's acts of twenty twenty three to regulate digital effect mining businesses and businesses utilizing a block chain network into declare an emergency. Thank you mister speaker my fellow colleagues this is a really important issue. Higher state as a whole. Last year shortly after. And two and a half weeks after the community of dewit learned that there would be a crypto man but right outside of the. Every person that called me or I called them back as quick as that could. The community is a small. You proud to grow up kind of place where they pray friday night before football games and place are patriotism runs deep. These cryptomans were very not well understood both back during when we. I've done a lot of research and i've come to a pretty good understanding of the nature of this. All the issues that you've heard of whether it's noise the foreign ownership the power electrical use the water use there's all very complex issues my concern is that if there is a bad actor in which there are many. How is a s. To stand up to a bill. Are they going to use the courts are they gonna hire their city attorney when these bad actors can hire the most powerful law firms in our sta. Go through the courts yes but al. They oversight through department of energy and environment that will have the ability to create rules that will then be approved by us to legislate a body through AL. What we're asking here is. Any other industries. And you may ask why can't we wait. The special session or why can't we wait until the twenty twenty five session will we have a constitutional right and while we have never done this to my knowledge past non budgetary items during a fiscal session our abili. These crypto mans the bad actors in particular have come in our state many of them owned about th. With the chinese communist party like the one indeed with at only have they pulled a gun and assault rifle on one of your colleagues. They've subpoenaed me asking for my personal records and docto. Bad actors. And it must be made sure. Of our states. Question apologize for not getting with you on this earlier but a few minutes ago representative ray asked us to vote no one one of these resolutions because it had language and here that said business is using a block chain network I noticed your bill also says business is usualizing at watching network and you kind of just tell me a little bit about what that means as far as you know i. Yes i've met with mark senate coast. The. Representative for what purposes question you recognize do you know if you guys plan to be striking the language concerning fees as well far from this resolution or your future bill so we will are planning to amend this language. What we're not. We're mainly focused on the. That'll be approved the alac later should their. Follow up and I appreciate that yet pay that car dealer license for every year and i'm not crazy about it but I think the language in the resolutions had feen out to exceed five thousand do you plan for that language to continue i'll have a discussion with you afterwards along. Question representative thank you for bringing this I agree with you is there any way that the language could be changed instead of relying on adequate as an enforcement arm may be going directly to the attorney general. Discussing that with the representative unger thank you for your question I would have to talk abo. The question for the house is a passage of house res. There. Passed up the ballot madam clerk by vo. The. Morning hour is ended. Madame clark please read senate bill one center bill one by representative wing and act for the I can sell senate appropriations for the twenty twenty four twenty twenty five fiscal year. Colleagues i've never been happy at or present a bill like this. So this is the senate version of their session expenses and they have passed ours and so that means it's just like the one that we sent to them just a little bit less cool however I would appreciate a good vote thank you. Explain the bill what he would like to speak against the bill would anyone like to speak for the bill representative wing is closed for the bill the question before the house is the passage of senate bill one prepared machine man clark. Voting on the bill in the emergency clauses everyone voted has everyone voted cast up the ballot madame clerk babble of ninety seventy eight zero nine zero present the bill and emergency clause had passed members removed the yellow budget calendar representa. Actually the first ones and amendment represent jean. Moves that we place. House bill ten thirty one second reading for the purpose of a minute without objection. Amendment number one amendment number wonder how ten thirty reps of jeannie recognized explain the amendment. Thank you speaker amendment one to house bill ten thirty this is the treasure this is the state turnback money all are doing is bumping up the city share. The. There are another one hundred million and also the candidate share that ads nanny million national dollars on state turn back on sales tax that's all this member does. Any questions. Appreciate a good vote on the amendment of some jean is explained the amendment would even when like speak against the amendment would anyone like speak for the amendment represent jean it's close to the amendment the question for the house is the adoption of amendment number one house bill ten thirty all in favor say I in the opposed. Thank you speaker colleagues we're going to go to the bottom end of the appropriations we're going to pick up HRT and t n HR tin eleven these are duplicate resolutions and this is the. The eh the dummy resolution if you will for the RSA and next week or the week after we'll fill in the the the details of the revenue stabilization that's what we're going to do on the s so uh we just need to adopt this and then will fill in the uh the body of it when we get the revenue stabilization and we're gonna batch both these bills t and t and ten eleven and. We will adopt emergency clowes on both of them any questions appreciate a good vote. The. Representative g. With that objection the bills will be batched the question before the house is the passage of house bill the house resolution ten ten and. The. Repair the machi. I'm clark read the bills for the third time as a resolution tintan house resolution ten eleventh. Has everyone voted as everyone voted cast up the ballot made a clerk by vote of ninety six years. Thank you speaker dollars we have a lot of house bills here today a lot appropriations have asked kevin anderson. To go through any of these and. Not a man holds on them note none of them had substantial increases of the. And we're going for out to batch as many of these change is we can. But i've had several members already I will give you time to look over these three sheets and i'll tell you what has been asked to pull out for separate votes these are beat these are after be pulled out for separate votes house bill. One thousand and seven. House bill ten twenty four. The. House bill ten thirty two. The. House bill ten thirty eight. House bill ten sixty six. House bill ten sixty seven. House bill ten seventy. The. House bill ten seventy one and house bill ten seventy six and we'll give you some time any other members for any reason. Wants additional bills pulled out and voted on separately. Representative world off purpose you're recognized at two seven requests mister chair you would indulge me i'd like to vote on house bill ten seventy five separately. You won't house bill ten seventy five for a separate vote to vote and i'd like to pass over completely house bill ten fifteen until tomorrow put it on to mars calendar in fifteen yes sir thank you mister representative bought to what purpose your request can we poor house bill ten twenty five for a separate vote health bill ten twenty five for a separate bob okay represent calling to up purpose requests you recognize could we please paul ten twenty seven for a separate house bill ten twenty seven yes effort vote. Represent painter for what purpose you recognize b one zero five seven for a separate vote ten fifty seven ten fifty seven separate vote yes. Any others. Represent johnson for what purpose i'd like to have ten fifty here recognize i'd like to thank you sir I might have house will teen fifty pulled for a separate in fifty five hundredth. Now we'll keep bowing with candidates why would imagine. Is that it all we're going to vote on the batch with the exception of all you can stay with me. Ten oh seven we're passing over ten fifteen tilt more and twenty four. Ten twenty five. Ten twenty seven. Ten thirty two ten thirty eight ten fifty ten fifty seven ten sixty six. T and sixty seven. Ten seventy ten seventy one ten seventy five in ten seventy six. The rest of these will be batched. Well after clerk to please read the bill for the third time and you'll be voting on the bill and the merchant clause appreciate a good vote read the bill third time. 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You're burning on the bills and the emergency cloud cast up the ballot mad employer ninety two ya zero days and one present the bills have passed representative jean recogni. Thank you miss speaker will take these up one at a time the first one on the list is house bill ten o seven sport cultural this is the check off programs that have a hundred percent special revenue does the cat fish uh the wheat cattle those promotion boards any questions appreciate a good vote on the ball and merchant close things. Man park read the bill for the third time hospital one thousand seven. Repair the machine mister clark. You voting on the bill and emergency clause on house bill ten oh seven is everyone voted cast up the ballot madam plart ninety eight six days and zero present representative recognized all right members we have some technical difficulty the machine didn't work so we're going to vote the batch again so bargain I don't know what to tell you just didn't work but anyway so we're going to. Read over the bills again and make make a vote on the batch this is on the backs that of the bills are to have passed out less start to read it for the third time and the votes are for the bill and then virtually clause. Made play agreed to build third time. 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Members were going to have to recess for about five minutes try to get these technical problems cleared up. House will come back to order. Ok members are. Voting machine or shop then we'll not handle batch boat so what we're going to do is bring the batch is back to more we'll go ahead and both the single votes today I don't figure out on a roll call stuff today so we'll we'll bring the matches back tomorrow if we get them technical people to hear but we're going to take up house bill ten twenty four this was pulled out the bad for a separate vote this is the department of human services to tobacco settlement problem it's seventy percent federal money thirty percent tobacco settlement money many question your one vote is for the mail merger clause miss break the corporate bill third time made employer agreed to bill the third time ten twenty four. Representative jean is presented the bill does anyone want to speak against the bill for the bill. Representative jeans close for the bill repairs machine mister clark made employee. You burning on the bill and emergency clause has everyone bought it. Cassette ballot made clear with eighty years twelve days in two present the bill and emergency close past represent january english college from his house bill ten twenty five i'll pull out this is the tobacco prevention into station it is made up of tobacco settlement money any questions. If your one vote is for the bale and the emergency clause speaker at the corporate the bill third time madame clark read the bill third time house bill ten twenty five. Represent jane is presented to build with anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill. Represent jeans close for the bill prepared the machine mister clark. You voting for the bill and emergency class. The room about it. Cassette development place for seventy five seventeen days in poor present bill and emergency mergers he clause passed represent jane recognize. The misspeaker colleagues next bill of house bill ten twenty seven this is part of commerce is the arkansas rehabilitation services. Their appropriation in the questions. Your buildings for the voted for the bill of the mercy calls mispicker the court bill thirteen. Madam parker to build their time as well ten twenty seven. Representative jean is presented to bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representing his clothes for the bill the question before the house is the passage of house bill ten twenty seven prepare the machine and employer. Cassette ballot madame clerk ninety four is one day in one present don't emergency calls pass representative jean recognize famous speaker colleagues the next property is house bill ten thirty two is from the treasure but this is the city candy tourism tax also there has some animal risk you money in there in equat. Male your voters for the bill in the merger calls me speaker the clerk re the bill third time i'm clerk read the bill for the third time ten thirty two representative jeans presented the bill when any light speak against the bill for the bill representative jeans closed for the middle question before the house is the passage of house built ten thirty two the machine. Voting on the bill and emergency clause has everyone bought it guess at the ballot madame eighty three as eight days and five present the bill and emergency calls pass representative jane recognized thank you miss figure it's his house bill ten thirty eight this dark's all governor's mantine commission. Any questions your one vote will be for the bill the merchant claws miss clark read the bill third time prepared to change its presentative bill would anyone like to speak against the bill represent maybe recognize to speak against the bill. Thank you mister speaker I am not down here to try to convince any of you to vote against this bill i'm down here to explain why I am voting against this bill and why you will see my name in red on a lot of other bills here in the future the discussion yesterday between legislative audit and the ages office if we think about the past there's really nothing we is legislators can do about what's taken place from this point forward it's being sent to a prosecuting attorney who will make a decision it'll be possibly sent to a judge who will make a decision it is out of our hands there's nothing we can do about the past i'm here today to talk about the future and what i'm concerned about we are in the process of voting on appropriations for this next fiscal session and I think it's very unclear as to how our constitutional officers will actually be looking at their budget and what they're going to be able to do i'm concerned that we might be giving them a blank check to do whatever they want to do in the past whether you agree with legislative audit or not this is the way it's been done in the past there's been an accounting procedure that's been followed it's been considered the law and now there's question as to whether or not it is the wall and so I don't feel comfortable voting on budgets that I think are constitutional officers will have the opportunity to have a boy check I can't do that we have an opportunity while we're here to fix it there's a few ways we can go about doing it one is complicated. It can be done and it's probably the best way to do it but through a resolution through a bill and actually do it right. Again doing it right there's a shorter version and there is a really big massive version that massive version really needs to probably be done in twenty twenty five after speaking to BLR but we could do a smaller version and get that pass now we're already passed the date of proposing a resolution that would take a two thirds boat in this chamber but we can do that if you are think this is a good thing to do we can do that it's up to us it's a rule that we can say let's ignore this rule and allow a bill to be heard and get something passed and fix it there is another way they can be done it can be done through special language that's not really the best way to do it but it's probably the easiest most efficient i've had blow working on a proposal and I just now got it I haven't had a chance to look at it I would be happy to share it with anybody again this was the bill version I don't know how much different it would be for special language there's a lot of things that need to be figured out and i'm certainly not standing here telling you on the expert on it maybe you are maybe you want to help me maybe you're on that committee that is special language and you want to tell me hey I don't agree with this it's not getting through special language you know all i'll give up but my conscious. Cant write a blink cheque i'm gonna be held accountable to my constituents for this next fiscal session. Anything it's going to be interpreted the way it might now be interpreted we need to fix it again that's fine boat yes on the bill i'm not trying to convince you i'm just explaining why I will be voting no on several constitutional officer related appropriations and there might be some that I miss that I don't understand this is all really confusing there might be some that I you know don't understand may not be affected by this or might be affected by this so give me a little bit of grace in that but that's why i'm voting now thank you. Person may be spoken against bill would anyone like to speak for the bill represent population you're recognized speak for the bill. Not really speech more of a question I had for represent maybe I just want to make sure this is very clear with the members this is for the mentioned commission it is not for the governor's office so thank you represent pocketing in the antenna spoke for the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative jean are you close representative jean is closed for the bill. Question before the house. Madam park read the bill third time house will ten thirty eight prepare the machine madam plart. He voting on the bill and emergency clause has everyone voted gas at a ballot madam player ninety eight four days in one present bill emergency falls past representative jean you recognize favorite speaker we're down to the house bill ten fifty the department of transformation shared services many questions. Your one vote is for the bill the merchant clause miss breaker had the clerk read the b. Representative jean is presented to bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative jean is close to the bill madam clerk read the bill third time question before the house is passage of house bill ten fifty further machine madam part. But it on the bill and emergency class has everyone bought it cast up the ballot made employer. Thirty seven yay three day and five present billing emergency calls pass representative jean recognize. Being with speaker colleagues were down to house bill ten fifty seven this is a issue mountain home their ops budget any questions. Being known you're one vote is for the bail and mercy clause miss speaker at the clerical bill third time representative jean is presented to bill with anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative jean is close for the bill madam clark read the bill for the third time fifty seven question before the house is the passage of house bill ten fifty seven the machine madam park. 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All right members the last bill we will come come back with a batch tomorrow when everything's working properly but our last bill for the day is house bill ten seventy six department of commerce this is after efforts budget. So you know and your one vote is for the bailey mercy clause the speaker the kirk brief bill third time representative jean is presented to bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative jean is close for the bill madame clerk read the bill for the third part still ten seventy six question before the house is the passage of house bill ten seventy six prepared machine madame clark. You're voting on the bill and emergency class as everyone voted. Asset the ballot made employer. They denied two days and four present to bill and emergency clause have passed. Mr buying to recognize members we just to update you on what happened there the batch was not able to record we couldn't print it so we don't know if it was a quarter not so therefore we've had to skip over those and we'll bring those back tomorrow we'll get it. Back with that batch tomorrow it may be that the batch was too big we don't know but. Will vote those other the bills that we in the bags today will remain on the counter and will be there tomorrow. To clarify what happened there representative makes you recognize for motion thank you miss speaker after the announcements reading of the bills transferring the bills placed in the counters on the desk members amending their own bills and owner members members withdrawing their own bills finalizing resolutions reading communications and any remaining committee reports I move that we adjourn until one o'clock tomorrow afternoon propromotion non debatable all in favor say I was nay motion adopted. Are there any announcement representative jean for what purpose to announcements you recognize special language subcommittee will meet tomorrow morning at seven thirty and joint budget will meet it nine am in big mac a representative waiting for what purpose announcement you recognize house management will meet tomorrow at twelve thirty in room one thirty eight are there any other announcements the desk will remain open as needed for the reading of the bills and upon completion of the items named in the adjourned resolution the house will be adjourned and tell one PM tomorrow.