Senate Convenes

I. Yeah. All. I. The senate will be called order are there any quest for leave at this time center urban you are recognized yes i'd like to ask leave senator boyd leave and i'd ask for a senator subtlefield and as leave for center murder thank you madame secretary please call the role more I believe brant card will just fulfil car co- crowl davis days this mine gotson english flapper flowers gilmore hammer hester hickey hill arvan like johnson mark johnson king king glading laws mackey mark on the leave patent pinza perry petty rice down step afield on leave sullivan tucker wallace. The seller will be led and prayer by pastor told me that senator bend you more you are recognized thank you mister president if you would stand but before we pray i'd like to introduce my pastor interim pastor martubert first babbed his cross that he heads up eventualism revitalization for the state bad as convention so if you would as he's praying pretty long with him because he has to be my pastor so with that past year please price good morning privilege to be with you join me as we pray have a father we come before you today with grateful hearts thanking you for every blessing you've put up on our lobs individually and as a state we thank you that we live in a state where we still believe in the power prayer where people still believe that you listen to your people when they pray. Thank you for your incredible blessings but lord we also ask for your forgiveness on hallway often fail you fail to pray fail to seek you we seek your hands of blessing back lord help it says we seek your face to be in right relationship with you we thank you that you've invited us to come boldly before you throw the race so that we may receive mercy and grace to help in time of need and lord we're living in towns where we desperately need you we're aware that we have access to you through your son our lord jesus christ and his death barrel in resurrection so lord it's a privilege for me today to private for these that you put an authority a pray for them father these that you have said in positions of authority and I pray for them like moses that you would give them discretion in wisdom to speak truth to power like near my problem you were given vision to see how to rebuild broken down walls like roof your servant we asked that you would remand them that they are here for such a term as this like david approach that you would empower them and to lead was skilled for hands and integrity of heart like solomon I ask you to give them wisdom when they make hard choices but lord more than anything uh pride that you would make us more like your son our saver the war jesus and our prilor that you would give them the same attitude that was in him who although he existed in the form of god did not regard equality with god a thing to be grassed but he emptied himself taking this former service and being made in likeness of me and it appearance is a man he humbled himself but the chemical media to the point of death even death on the cross and for that reason lord you highly exalted him and bestowed on him. The name that is above every name that at the name of jesus every knee will be and those in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father have your hand upon these today as they serve you and the people of our state in jesus name we pray a man. Bart center get more your recognized members I was be remits if I didn't do this but I was looking for it sign who was sitting back there jason tolbert you may know jason I guess he stepped out of the room but I just wanted to flag that their is right there glad to have him as well he works at washington about this and he's been around the state quite a bit doing various things we're glad to have as well he's also a member of the ethics commission so if you have any questions he'd be happy to give you direct answers on them ladies and gentlemen the galleries welcome to the arkansas senate is our expectation each you will exercise proper the coreman government yourself accordingly during today's proceedings without objection the rules will be suspended in the senate will dispense with the reading of the journal the morning hour has now begun are there in any announcements or introductions at this time saying no matter secretary farther adams at the desk yes sir we are committee on and grasp bills to was referred belt twelve by joint budget compared then gross copy with the rich on band same correctly engrossed budget joint budget where your committee and ingress bills whom was ferred by twenty budget compare the english copy of the rich on bands I am correctly ingressed joint budget and leaving the base yeah several senator letting you are recognized thank you just wanted to introduce our doctor the day doctor jonatha uh in is the theology and page management here in little rock and she is sender clark tuckers considering but she is not here he is not here today we also of course want to welcome our nurse the day for indicate. Is there any further business to come before the body in the morning hour if not the morning hour has expired we will now start the business agenda are there any announcement this time. I actually I will have an announcement for for we get going a members if you see here we got couple of possible clean up bills and then we got all the crypto bills that we were going to talk about I think we need to make a decision as a body each individual person will do what they want but we could have a lot of debate on these now or we could save the debate for committee and on our four later but II just wanted to roll that out we we could be here for hours and hours and hours now for the same debate organic committee for the same debate we're going to have on the floor again but that's a few exponential to consider that as we get your one today that's all for me. Center installation one mass introduce mine to authorize introduction of a non appropriation bill to amend the revenue stabilization law to create funds to repeal phones and to make transfers to and from funds and fund accounts there this may not recognize this is just allow us to to have an RSA bill when we get concluded session there's two versions of this because there's one center version in one house version they will be identical but that's the reason there's actually two there's a house version and it doubles up so that's explanation for us I want to be the same press or two serious main explain are there any questions just wrong if you don't mind sittered as my own page two online fifteen the text of pinotis described do you know what the particular thing is of nine lens it's fine members from page what now for page two okay I think it's learn fifteen which could we struck through the taxes on these described in that quarter that code if you don't know I doubt okay yeah are there any other questions seeing now what he would like to speak against bill for the resolution for the resolution c nine this may has closed on the resolution madame secretary please call the role. Board is only leave brand card well called well. Chesterfield chesterfield clark clark crawl davis dees this mine dots and english flapper flowers flowers gilmore hammer hester hickey hecky hill I like johnson mark johnson king leading love mck murdoch is only payton penzo petty rice stone several filled on leave sullivan tucker wallace is there any member like to both it has not or change your vote senator clark I said they're hicky I tucker chesterfield anyone else seeing security cast at the ballot by vote of thirty two years no nays the resolution has passed out oh it's adopted a members I will say just for clarification purposes should have sir everything we do today on the business agenda will be will be roll call senate resolution today by central design to authorize their reduction of a non appropriation bill and meaning the revenue stabilization. Creating funds repealing funds and making transfers to and from funds and band accounts said this may not recognize just for clarification that page two line fifteen were described we success twenty six sixteen sixteen d two that's actually the text archaeolog's impact in where we're eliminating that with this bill are there any questions i'd like for him to retract that statement from the way before we feel sir would they be stated that there's not drunk please that is not true it was a joke but it it any other question would have like to speak against the resolution for the resolution senator dismaying is closed on the resolution madame secretary please call the road members please speak up bowed only bright called well chesterfield chase to fail clark crawl davis they dismine that and english english flip though flowers flowers gilmore hours is a hammer hester hakey heal arvin by johnson mark johnson king glading love mckey murdak on leave patent pinso petty price stone stabber filled on leave sullivan tacker wallace would any member like to vote that has not or change their vote. Sir chesterfield I anyone else seeing non matter of secretary cast up the ballot by vote of thirty two years and zero the resolution is adopted it members I want I will clarification because from what I said early I got some looks in the crowd like the constitution requires a two thirds threshold on these resolutions move forward so just so there's no question we're going to roll call to make sure that we're honoring the constitution alright moving on center resolution far by central branch to authorize introduction of a non appropriation bill to amend the arkansas data center's act of twenty twenty three and to prohibit foreign party controlled ownership of a digital asset manning business center brought you a recognized thank you then thank you members i'm going to kick us off on our crypto discussions for today it was like we got several on the board to discuss uhm i'd like to start out by clarifying something about active fifty one twenty twenty three that that bill did not authorize crypto industries and in the state of arkansas they were already here they are already up and running they had been for years they're simply looking for a preemptive approach to protect their investment perhaps they knew a pending calamity I don't think they did but I did not ask them that direct question I personally think local control especially with regards to personal property is a hard subject master if the ongoing struggle a word of your rights and in my rights beginned with the term of rights sometime being hard to pin down I know we've got one shot to course correct on this issue until we meet back in twenty twenty five it is my goal with this resolution to target the issues now realized within our communities I want to target the nuisances of the industry and not the nuances of the industry. Several years ago these mining businesses began to operate in our state and the conditions were known some undesirable lands were now being sought local construction teams are now being deployed electric utility sales were going uh rate payers got an investment in their grid which helped keep their rates lower all local and state taxes were being paid and no complaints from our local officials or state officials or our citizens to their local constitutions or known II research these facilities I knew no uh bad actors being claimed some communities didn't even know they're operating in their in their areas so what changed that was the question II had to ask and the timing of these changes could not have been less unfortunate for the sponsors of active fifty one what change was careless out of state out of country actors coming into our state and turning on their investments of many of which were already had the grounds broke when they are just ready to hit the power button what change as we found out what nuisances could be created by this industry so begs the question that if there is a group of industry leaders that have been operating for years within our borders of our state and good partners in their communities what factors are led to their success the answers I found were both relatively simple a good relationship with their local leaders the amendments I propose restores this authority to the local leaders to govern these businesses in good faith in due process noise levels were nominal or non existence due to the investments these industry leaders made in north reduction methods and procedures the amendments are proposed require these noise reduction implementations to be utilized born approved location as to not create a disturbance and the majority ownership and control these businesses were local arkansas or american citizens. The administrator also proposed will force minimal ownership investments by nation's ever series and allow for a more transparent look into their operations so members over ninety three million americans use crypto currency as a digital asset it is my hope that we can solve the new set issues and continue to learn more about the industry and how we can best management in our state so i'm close to are there any questions for brought on this resolution seeing no i'm what anyone like to speak against the resolution for the resolution seeing nine percent of round are you close on your resolution senator brown is closed back secretary please call the role in leave bracket called well called well chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl davis ds this mine that's english flipper blowers gilmore hammer hester hickey hill like johnson mark johnson king ledding gladding love mckey murder some leave payton pinzo petty rice rice stone stability on a leave sullivan tucker tucker wallace would anyone would like to boat that has not or change their vote senator call well hi so letting that loading. Anyone else we give the board madame secretary cast up the ballot by vote of twenty eight years one day and three non voting the resolution is adopted. Senate resolution ten minutes senator king this is the one you have. I'm in a song on a second team so resolution eleven centre king to authorize the interroduction of a non appropriation bill to require a digital asset manning business to pay a fee for extraordinary electrical uh emergency usage senator king you are recognized so it's been a good deal in caucus yesterday which I know had a lot of our members so i'll just try to go that if any members didn't get to hear they can ask me any questions basically we've learned now that crypto minds and blocked ten pluck chain technology is out there it's a new industry there is no enter industry in arkansas like this they require a lot of energy use many times a lot of water they don't employ very many jobs but we've had that debate but basically because this is a new industry that we've had to do things look into the ownership looking into we don't know much about digital currency many people I had to learn a lot after this bill was passed so basically just like any other business out there all of our taxpayers these appropriation bills includes fees because it's a new industry I don't feel like that the taxpayers the regular taxpayers should pay to have to look out after another industry i'm in the farmer business we have to do that so we take care of our own industry and this should be the same so basically would take a fee and off that based on energy usage that one thing that is common about all these that I found is it is the amount of energy being used so it be based off energy use it understand this is just a resolution it's just a direction we can have a debate about the details about this later so it's about the energy use it's half would go to securities department crypto currency in our committee and aging children we found out they elderly fraud there was almost two million dollars ability to fraud and crypto crypto currency and digital currency seems to be more popular with younger people so we don't know about so this is a new emerging. Area that were having to get through so most of it would go to the securities part of it would go to energy environment because the water usage uh important will go the attorney general to be able to investigate or not what these are basically with these actors it's are you who you say you are in are you do and what you say you're going to do and it's about keeping up the regulations and no one because you've get a hand out later and I handed out the republican caucus here's a new times did as a uh article on this and you'll see the ownership change in their shell companies monson brooke brooklyn new york no one's there this is a billion dollar company and you can't track or find and it's very hard and they can they can more find anything else so this is just basically trying to set off any direction to have a discussion to find out are you who you say you are in are you doing what you say you're going to do. Are there any questions for he would like to speak against the resolution for the resolution center team and closely are i'm close since madam secretary please call the role in leave bright carlwell chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl davis that days this mine thoughts and thoughts and english flipper flowers gilmore hammer hester hickey hill arvin like johnson blake johnson mark johnson king I leading leading love love mcke mckey murdoch on leave payton penzo petty rice stan steve filled on leave sullivan tucker tucker wallace when any member like the boat that has not heard change their voters dots and no anyone else seeing the amount of secretary cast up the ballot by vote of twenty one years for six numbering the resolution is not adopted. Senate resolution twelve by centre king tattor has introduction of a non appropriation bill to prohibit the use of a computer or software manufactured as them all or developed back cover covered foreign entity in digital asset man senator king your recognize thank you mister president uh members we voted on a bill that passed almost unanimously here in the senate except for some excuse people I was excuse that they would have out of board it banned the use of chinese drones to be used this crypto mining industry this is not in american jobs creator the facility and harrison was going to use ten megawatts of power which is like six seven thousand homes it was only going to ploy two three people that's it these things are not job creators clearly and they use a lot of power we've already been chinesed around so basically it falls at legislation all this equipment from articles in new york times to the wall street journal all this equipment computers network software is almost excuse me in china this is a china jobs creator it's not american jobs creator so this would basically follow introducing a bill to uh follow what the drone so anyway with that are taking questions any questions thirteen c nine percent of right you recognize for question I guess that how much of our technology comes out of china there's probably a lot but you have companies like apple that may do you don't have a company like bit main which is a chinese company that uh I mean they're not producing by an electrical core these are computers it's a new industry we don't know much about it so I think that we should follow locked the drones like you voted for that you know if we're going to buy and drowns why are we not being computers software technology all this almost all comes from channel. All of our computers and technology from china i'm for in this new industry that is used for crypto currency and issue currency that we don't know so much about following what your vote was on drones and boating to being in center hammer you recognize thank you just clarify one particular issue is this bill going to make it impossible to import from china any and all ugh technology software ip the whole thing yeah I mean once again this is a reluctant resolution to to it's about a direction following what we are you and most of senators have already voted on the drones so it's just a direction to details and all that stuff needs to be debated so I feel like that would just have a discussion we've already cloud the ground of the drones and this one would just follow that mature you're recognized unlike the drones though the drones were targeted for one specific reason and purpose as fire as why we voted not to import drums from china this is a broad blanket that's going to catch everything we're not just going to address the crypto mining issue but we're going to put a blanket over everything is that a fair statement now I don't think so I think this is the direction in it says it's just about the certain countries it's about the equipment in stop used for cryptomized me these crypto my machines are subs- specifically designed to do crypto money but that's my point though this is specifically too crypto mini only it's not for the personal residential use of somebody that's got a laptop in their home or somebody that's purchased software you know to run their computer program the intent of the bill in the directions the details can be worked out but if you have a home computer that is not used for crypto mounting then it in. Nineteen is that it shouldn't apply to that thank it should be used to be here's crypto money senator solid and your recognized thank you mister chair for you mentioned a number of times job creation are we setting a precedent that the finance will now sanction or not sanction businesses based upon the number of jobs that are created for where those jobs come from if it's a new standard worth trying to set you mentioned in several times yeah I mean we're set a standard on drones already that chinese drones eventually will be banned here so I just follow in the same thing that was ploud before we heard of the question the question is discussion that we're going to have are you attempting to say a new standard precedent for the senate that we're going to sanction or not sanction businesses based upon how many jobs they create if they create one or thousand and where those jobs come from are you asking us in this bill the set that new president that will be in determining factor in our I don't think so i'm just making the the factual point that these crypto minds are taken advantage of our cheap energy they're taken advantage of our laws that were passed I mean clearly were in federal lawsuits now because of the bill that got past I mean this bill was drafted by the satoshi action fine by the rose law firm in the social action phones and national crypto mining uh abergac group whatever but they don't disclose their donors and I think it's very troubling that they don't disturb disclose our owners but I think that you know if you're looking at it yeah on the jobs part they're not creating jobs that jobs it's being created from the crypto mining is from the computers that's are specifically used for this for the software that is the jobs are being created in china going this body or base decision and. And sanctuary that sanction bills and so it's based upon their jobs all the other federal true agreement you mentioned that a bunch of time that it's important that business has create jobs here in the state of arkansas and this bill in some ways and based on your comments of standards that the number of jobs created is a standard and a precedent that we need to be involved by the standard of jobs is not being created it's where the software and everything it's just like the drones we said a standard on drones that own jobs on drones where they're so once again we we've already set a standard with your own system kind of plow in the same ground in same direction center clark you're recognized thank you mister chair center king if my memory serves me when we passed the walls on drawns we were asked to it seems like but but will the rest who are not it had to do with the fact that we didn't know what technology was in the drawns and whether china might be using those grounds with technology in them that we're not aware of despite on the US the us just find road is that that's correct not this following thing we don't know what to technology that's going out with this either the let me follow up and more on the bar products of that is support it somebody created jobs somewhere else to create your own time of the china we're not going to about so we've got these are crippled money facilities throughout the state throughout the country we don't know how many we've already determined that we don't know how many intents computer of software being used in since there's no regulation we have no idea what's actually in that software we have no action. What in the hardware we don't know what they might actually have potential of doing here in this country is that correct that's correct we don't know what computers are software can change we don't know and so they seem like they could be a lot more dangerous than the drawers I think that's very good I think the new york times did a great article on put now about the national security threat because of the structures near power state or tears near substation so yeah we just don't know what we don't know they know just like this last bill that got past they knew what it was going to do we did not know and we're not tough and as a bob product this bill were to house for because it's about security but it's a bad product if they continue to put in these facilities they would have to buy a computer somewhere else other than china to go win those facilities no thank you senator bryant you're recognized just to make sure on the drone bill and private citizens and and private businesses from buying jones or just state agency I think it was state agencies but this follows a much bigger problem and as sinner clark alluded that it has to be without there with citizens in everybody else I mean this software could change in the next day we just don't know what we don't know but what we do know ears that this is a national security reason issue it's a critical national security issue. We don't know what these players are going to do so we have to this is just direction to have a debate i'm not saying this bill is going to pass but it is what it is and I think that we have to do we have to know what's going on center blake johnson you're recognized so what are agency in the state of arkansas uh overseas air international commerce there's not that's part of the discussion that was part of the fee bill that I just talked about that we've got to sit need to set a mechanism up to watch these companies and know are you who you say you are in what you say you what you're going to do so and where we do any other business out there I mean in your development was there any conversation about the commercial cause in the constitution and you know our role is in in you know inside the state of arkansas uh these these products are sold internationally from from national nation and they come in the mistake but the federal government is regulatory agency on that is that not true that's true but I don't think we need to rely on the federal government all the time I mean the FBI counters here they have all their issues doing it when we have an issue of popular I think we need to be helpers in that and trying to find out like I said this is a direction it follows the direction of what the drone bill was we don't know what we don't know the idea that the the national security threat out there that I feel like that this needs a discussion that's all the seats senator jim dots on your wreck they must chair senator king man I agreed this needs discussion as far as national securities concerned specifically related to the bill that would be filed if this is authorized to pass on page two white starting online thirty work it says additional. A digital asset mining business upon conviction is guilty of the class a misdemeanor of felony II don't think i've seen before we're a business can be convicted of a of a crime and misdemeanor and I may be wrong in that I don't know but I just don't recall seeing that anywhere if you're if this goes forward would you be identifying a person that would be guilty of it in amending this well if you put something out in you do something that you have to put a penalty I put a penalty in there that's just upper debate in discussion so I mean this is a if you go out here and we pass laws and they don't have any teeth to it then we find out later we didn't pass laws to have teeth and we have to come back later if you do something activity that's against the law for example it used to if you spread litter out here outside of out of what the bounds were in your bar plans with the end you had a penalty that you could you could get you had a penalty to that and so this just powers at the same way any other business it does something outside of state law does the general speaking penalties are tied to individuals not to corporations or businesses for corporation or businesses is operating equipment in its determined that you know it could be detrimental to national security and they continue to do it I think that that is I mean we don't know what we don't know alright document about it afterwards thank you seeing no further questions that are picking you are recognized he has a repair center king of course i'm in client on his resolution to drive up to trade for all of them because I think the discussions will that uh the committee was going to try to get get in there and develop one or two bills that correct something nassy is a problem however with this particular one there's just four words that that if you could just explain it to me so I would know I would page two and twenty six. What what do we mean whenever we say home digital asset money I understand the thing with the companies and corporations or whatever they have done is what what is met with those who work I mean those words mean that these these crypto currency digital asset mining could happen in residential areas at home it could happen in a business it could happen in the cripped omans were saying i'm just saying we're starting out in your direction and that we're going to end I mean whether you're doing it in your home or you know same way with chickens I keep coming back to this thing you have regulations with the individual chickens that may pop up or do something you also have something with larger poultry forms it's just trying to get an idea through this that's fair but I guess my question is going to be are we going to develop a definite true definition of what many years because I wouldn't want somebody if they were trading in the big development you know for them to think that was that so that would be mine we suggested what the thing is that is it somehow if that gets incorporated into another bill if this gets pairs that we somehow define the minority I think that's that's fair I think that's part of the discussion what's why you have a debate that's why I feel like with everything that has happened in this new world of AR I mean you talk about blocking that is still a you talk about these data information collection facilities that I mean all this requires power computer software everything and there's just it's almost like open harmer the movie if you watched it once the atomic bomb went off we everybody had to rethank everything about what they did i'm just trying to say we got to rethink that's digital asset currency stuff we got a understand this asset mining we have to understand something that we we have not been able to agree with you sooner keying and truthfully there were some uninternet consequences with the other one and then I just want to go ahead and bring that up you know I don't want us to think that I think that's fair and that's why when it comes to my other bill in the digits money it comes to more bankers and people like that on the other bill will talk about that I think that. Bring in an added those questions or fair but I can say it yet open harmer our world that would that happen before the open harmer and the automatic bomb got tested well you know I want that happen everything change and I do think where they are I think with digital acid currency being used and going forward I mean i'm old and after member sitting a federal reserve board up there with one of the bank boards when you talk about internet banking and we didn't know what was going to go on so I think we've got to start that discussion and that's that's all this is and bring up questions shut it off at this time with our national security and not know and what we know what what what we know now with these crypto minds in the digital asset currency in that fraud that is going on they're not so better they're no longer taken double bags full cash around it's all crypto currency so we're going to have to have a discussion on that in a field it's time to start there but johnson you're recognized thank you mister president so king as i've told you I support all of your bills and in cancer and that we have to go through this exercise to bring it up in fiscal session however i'm already getting off the rails of I think should or hit these questions is not about the resolution that is before us or not about the bill and i'm not clear we're talking about the one that is l HR two seven four we not right now I chose to simply what you mean the BLR designation since it doesn't have a bill yet now this has appeal number SR twelve and and as our twelve you may be looking at a pass copy they got toiled is about the use of computer software manufacturers but just get up disoncess and I think so he these questions about the uniform money services at yeah that's a different bill that's coming up here's form coming back. This my parents used to vote for all your resolutions that reserve a right not against the bills especially if they're not amended to enter some serious it's all i'm asking the the serious question I have on theirs when I read it just just reading it straight out any off the shelf pc iraq you could buy probably will be all or in part assembled in china and that would mean they couldn't buy any computer unless they hard someone to piece it together in the us now i'm not saying that's against that yeah thank you but can you address my concern that this just doesn't allow anybody good actors bad actually anybody else in between to buy any piece of hardware that was assembled in china even if it was by company by the united states like hp if it's producing a word documentary sell document now I don't think that that's not in my attention in the direction my teacher is a crypto currency part which we already know the fintile trade with china and all these other things are in the digital currency round I think that we have to have a discussion if excellent documents and word documents were being used in the criminal and fares activity you know I mean but we're talking about a currency I mean we're talking about whenever you have we're getting in a little bit more currency that can be used it's trace back to another foreign country we don't have the law enforcement people to track back there I mean so we're in a thing of like this is just starting discussion I mean we already had the concern about drones what I mean drawns to me is this the currency aspect of this part is far more expansive and everything we don't know so yeah II think that it's too starting to discussion about this being in something in ground we've already ploughed and are revoted on that we saw a concern to be in chi. On these may drones what about software what about specific computers use for crypto currency this does not include the computer that your use in the day unless you're using a crypto currency computer than maybe you need to purchase up I don't know but we're talking about people hardware that depend on how it set up program could be used for ordinary purposes that anyone would use one what you don't want us to be banning the shelf of the I don't either on the other hand I recognized it we're dealing with an adversary that could be in bad chips in the board that we don't know about absolutely there but i'm just trying to say i'm a vote for your resolution with the understand that the bill needs to have a lot of cleanup absolutely no question about it I do not have eighteen to do anything of that and let me understand with this crypto currency when he saw the silk road pop up where they were using digital currency and thought they did no one knew who they were I mean once again he talked a lot long sports and dinners the the the fraudsters and the hackers in there their way of head of us in this government relations are regulations and everything is fallen behind because we just didn't know what we don't know with this in almost like a situation as popper i'm just saying this is just the starting point of a discussion there's no home computer anything like that other than specifically that will be talked about other than crypto currency and digital currency anything used towards that thank you but these I will keep saying the same thing the crypto currency world no question about it new york times was street journal all these these are channel job creators that's all they are seeing no further questions would anyone like to speak against the bill for the resolution center john patent you're recognized to speak for was there anyone to speak against her but no sir john painting you're recognized to speak for the resolution. Thank you mister president colleagues i'm not going to anything you don't already know I just want to kind of bring it back to our mind because of procedure we have to vote on resolution to have bills and bill toddles all of these resolutions are regarding the crypto mining i've read allowed i'm not sure there's there may be one of them that I could vote for in its current form but for the most part these are not bills that I could vote for in their current form but if we are going to take up the issue we don't need to tire hands on how broad or how narrow that is you should be these resolutions cover different ideas about how we might can correct what's happened with the crypto mining here in arkansas and i'm voting for all of them so that the committees hands will not be tad unlimited did just one bill total i'd appreciate a positive they are like to speak against the resolution for the resolution center clark you're recognized you'll go next. We all know hello colleagues we all know that there's a general consensus which the constitution bears out with the required two thirds vote both chambers to hear anything uh not to turn this into a regular session and so we're very careful about what we hear as a body behind closed doors we have we have decided to hear a couple of issues pay plan and crypto money and certainly concerns about noise are big when you live close to one but this issue uh struck me as maybe the most important issue of all this bill may not come out of committee and I don't I don't look at these builder all tight I haven't I don't remember presenting a perfect bill yet that didn't need to be tweaked and and worked on so i'd not judge in the bills by every word the ten on but because we have that committee process where you actually have had testimony so far that we lock it we don't like it or we get need to make all these changes the but these massive computers located normally close to electrical substations I don't wait a year to hear testing these companies can come in and tell us why such a king is all wet and that there's no problem and i'd love to hear that that may be the truth of their experts can come in and tell us the potential problems I don't think we do anything or not I will say it again I don't want to wait a year to hear about this subject and be able to act on it if we hear something that really needs to be acting on so I would urge you to vote that we get for this resolution so that we can hear this bill would he would like to speak against the resolution. No for the resolution now center king you like to close. Members I just want to talk to that center patent said about time your hands we don't know the fraudsters the criminal element what happened with this last bill they knew exactly what that was going to do you know what we had to find out later this is the same way we should take off in a direction that our hands are not tied and we need to have it open discussion about it that's it our national security is be at stake here it really is into not take that and account to me it's detrimental to all of us i'm not saying home computers we have that discussion but we need to have this discussion and not tie the hands we got our hands todd the cities in counties got their hands tod last time. Guess look what happened now you have ordinary citizens out here and do it have in the private record subpoenaed okay because the bill that they taught you they got the hands today we don't need to be time hands anymore secretary please call the role bowed leave brat cardwell chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl crawl davis days dismine datson english flipper flowers gilmore hammer hester hickey hill arvin like johnson mart johnson king a leading leading laughed love mck murdark and leave payment pinso pairty rice stan stabberfield on leave solomon tucker wallace would be member like to both that has not or change their vote anyone give the board out of secretary cast up the ballot by vote of twenty six years one bargain boating the resolution is adopted so it works solution thirteen massenger king to authorize the interreduction of allowing a preparation bill to men arkansas data centers act of twenty twenty three and to amend the uniform many services act center king you're recognized. Thank you mister president in the original bill act eight fifty one that should have been discussed some of the most important issues I think maybe should have been should have been discussed was they exempted the rose law firm in the stocy group which is a dark money group that we don't know who their donors are put in language in there exempting theirself in the universal money services act as a transmitter I don't know what their intent was in that I feel like we should have some discussion about it we know that crypto currency digital fraud is being used by him as it has been used by criminal elements I mean it's like a three car garage we have securities maybe commodities and you have in the fares aspect this is nothing that many the people in washington DC have been saying about so the fact that as a bank they have to conform to these things uh I feel like that we need to have a discussion on that they should conform to it too as their definition is it's a currency so no one these things is why they exempted theirself we don't know but I feel like we need to have a discussion on it any questions for shared teams so bright you're recognized like it's going to repeat the did you read the statute of the uniform money services I did where that the banks credit cards are exempt from that act that is entirely understand that there is a lot of money orders all those things there are money transfer things that are had do have to conform to it and I feel like why did the statoshi group put that language in our let me ask you why did the stoch group put the language in the law in the first place to exempt himself i'm not gonna answer for them but it's it's money where that that's that you deal with with moneygram western union absolutely ever you can even go to a store and buy these accordance why and credit cards are exempt from that while thank you for the room russian testify to that that's why the accusations are or probably not wanted but that's why I would. But I feel like this is enough part money orders have to go by the so I feel like digital currency we just need to have a discussion folks but there is a reason why that they exempted theirself in that language and we were not told about it is it nefarious I don't know is it not but I feel like that's an important issue with digital currency and everything going around today that we need to have a discussion on it any other questions see no more it would like to speak against the resolution for the resolution so the keen you recognize to close this just make him comply with the currency that they have to with money orders let's just start that discussion about secondary please call the role leave brand card well chesterfield chesterfield clark cark crawl davis days this mine this mine data english flipper flowers gilmore hammer hester hickey hill oven blake johnson mark johnson king I bloody letting blah live the k murder and leave payment pinso petty rice stand staffer filled on leave sullivan tucker tucker wallace wallace would any member like to vote that has not or change their vote center dismaying a anyone else. Anyone else madam secretary cast up the ballot but there are twenty seven years one name for non voting the resolution is adopted. Senate resolution fourteen by centre king to authorize international banana preparation bill to amend the arkansas data center's act of twenty twenty three and to regulate the impact on water usage and electric grade a black change networks and digital asset manning a center king recognition mister president basically what happened after we pass that bill there were some crypto minds now they're kind of as I say they pop up like most rooms after spring rain meaning these crypto minds like you see and bono and what attempted in harrison in the weird they're just shipping containers doesn't take much to put them up and these people purchase the land their substations all this controversies happens that those people into terminal and we long with our energy good uses we know what the issues in texas that you had with the storms that energy grid is a important issue national security's issue from the new york times article so basically there's two things these things need basic is a lot of energy and a lot of water in most cases so this which is start a pair that may already be ploud ground some in some cases with the pse but it just start a six month word communities with no six months in advance where this is coming in if we're going to build a prison out here if we're going to be able to cole plan or those top things people should know this is a new industry that no one knows anything about so this which is gives six months notice out there it's just a direction to try and let these people know instead of it popping up their pushing their holland containers and putting in hay bails up in everything that you can imagine in these top things so it just gives six months notice and in the water supply to it's very important block in northwest arkansas where they're expecting the growth to be a million people we all get our water from beer like so alan fortin very used to talk about how there's going to be a ceiling on water at some point tom you can't keep growing. Water is going to be the biggest issue in a lot of these situations possibly and so we just need to know where you have planning to know about water use it spare to awkward for down there yet barmers and people have to go by regulations crypto months though I am not so we need to know six months advance gives some heads up these things can morph into a lot of different things with computers and next to substations just give some heads up to communities and stuff before they know what what's going on with these crypto mines are blocking any questions thirteen seeing no what I would like to speak against the bill for the resolution for the resolution seeing nonsense you're recognized to close for your resolution and close man sector please call the role i'd leave branch called will chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl davis days to hear it days this may english flipo flowers gilmore hammer hester hiki hill urban like johnson mark johnson king ledding flooding love love making more dark on leave patent penzo paddy rice stone staffer filled on leave sullivan tucker tucker wallace would anyone would like to change their vote both that has not seen manner secretary cast up the ballot. About twenty eight yay zero nays and poor non voting a resolution is adopted center resolution fifteen by central king father as the election banana appropriation bill to require a digital asset manning business to provide an out of occasion before purchasing land or a building or beginning construction of additional asset manning facility senator king you're recognized thank you mister speaker you know thomas jefferson one of the most freedom loving foundering fathers and liberty talked about the ability to give people local decisions in local control ronald reagan talked about the best government is the government's closest to the people when those the people making a decision a lot of governments like socialism it's a few people in a part and room to side and everything best for everybody this bill is basically a repeal bill of the last bill it would include an extra language for water includes extra language for foreign ownership which I think we need to go down that path we need to give the cities in county stability to flexible emergency decisions let me give you an example of what time the hands out here people is such a bad issue number one you have a city up here that is trying to recreate a real jobs make fifty hundred jobs I think you may be on the wrong bill for you on SR fifteen century no attorney okay sorry we'll back it okay we'll go back to fifteen. Fifteen I have is a nobody should be all good. Okay fifteen is an overlocation bill that are talking about so. Basically what they give the six months notification before they've start construction. Yeah. I'll take a question no questions any questions and I would you would like to speak against the resolution for the resolution staying on center king would you like to close i'm close so do you thought about him secretary please colorado leave brand card well chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl davis days this man this mine thatson english flipper flowers gill more hammer hammer hester hickey hill arvin like johnson mark johnson king are leading leading love love mckey murder leave payton in the party rice stone stepperfield leave sullivan sullivan tucker tucker wallace. Would anyone ever like to vote that has not or change your vote senator hammer this many are anyone else made of security cast up the ballot that vote of twenty seven ya zero nas and bob numbering the resolution is adopted since resolution sixteen method king to authorize the reduction of a non preparation bill to amend the arkansas data center's act of twenty twenty three and to men the requirements for additional asset manning business or business using a what chinese network senator king your recognition as I said earlier ronald reagan said the best government is a government closest to the people they knew that you want to make the chance changes it's in your city council that thomas chairperson who that too what I was saying earlier was you have seen smaller towns or cities out here and understand these things are not going into being county they're going in the rule areas for the most part you have the small towns it out here and there's a situation out there that they're looking at this whole situation with frida because they have a situation in their industrial part zone that the power is limited in there so they have a situation where they're trying to recreate a real jobs maker that may employ fifty or hundred jobs and if there is a block chain or a crypto mind that goes in there and takes up the power then they're locked in making a decision we need these cities in counties to have more freedom and flexibility and do this the other bills are talked about provide state oversight in the us but to hand cup our cities and counties there is no way to know every situation it's going to happen in every town in every count in your district you know sinner stone talked about hunting launched down their hunting lodges are not an issue in my district they are any is that's why we talked a sinner patent said earlier very importantly that we don't tie the hands of people out there this also address is some language in the water usage also address its born language it. Ownership and you can understand that born ownership they can have front people that on these crypto minds so we need to be continually watching them the best defence that we have is for our cities in counties to have flexibility out there let's say there's a national security issue if we tire the hands of people with legislation like we done home crypto mining we don't know what's going to happen out there maybe there's nothing nefarious maybe there's not anything out there but we need it out of the cities and counties are going to be our first longer defeats in the founding of our country was built on local citizens since the community stepping up it lexting concord against the largest most powerful army in the world that came in there that's why our founding father saw it like thomas chairman thought it was so important to let them had the flexibility in dealing with this we can do not need to talk a local hands anymore if we do that we could shut off in some of these situations as I mentioned earlier you could shut off real jobs makers that come in so we needed though out more flexibility out there repeal the law puts maybe some language language in there about water usage as I keep saying very critical in beeber like supplied so much water even to care and boom be related to split between care on bitten county you could have cities in my area sinner hesters over here maybe they're recruiting a big jobs maker or need jobs to spot water there some of these water systems want to make money we could be money makers over there and deplete the water systems over there that slow down jobs there do we know that's going to happen or not know that's going to happen we don't that's why we need to flexibility out there to do what the allow these cities accounting some more utility hands and legislation the worse off it is for our citizens any questions for center key saying no what it would like to speak against the resolution for the resolution. Seeing answer keen your recognized clothes I can say that mentioned about lexington concord and that's where common citizens got up and stood up against the biggest army this thing that we've tarkening government today we crop all the time about washington DC tider handstone they don't know arkansas they're making all these laws up there whatever it is and they don't care about arkansas we cannot do that to our cities and counties we need to give them the flexibility to do what they need to do if there is a national security reason or something popular and affairs with home concrypto mining if there is something popup it's going to be a city in county that it's going to be able to have the flexibility to deal with faster than us that have to come in the session either every year two years of secretary please call the role but I believe brand cardwell chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl davis days dismaying dotson english flipo flowers gilmore hammer hammer hester yes hickey hill urvin like johnson mark johnson king letting letting love love mckey mack murder leave payton pinson party rice stan stabithill leave sullivan tucker tucker wallace would remember like to both it has not or change their voters hammer. I tester no dots and non loading anyone else made him secretary please cast up about twenty four years three days and bob numbering the bill has for the resolution is adopted by the way michael i'd like to make a motion to expond to vote on s j r leven you know me i'm going to give you forever bring it back up i'll breathe you plenty plenty of notice so I just want to exponents about I don't do things sneaky I don't lot of people don't deceive one so if you do something i'm not going to do that so I just want to expense about just leave it open that's it you have plenty of notice fabric want to bring it up again the motion is to expand the vote by which s are eleven fail by mister mart johnson you're right because this explained what require a role cover no it does not thank you you've heard the motion to explain to the vote about which SR eleven failed follows in favor they are the posts they know motion carries. Yeah. Senate resolution seventeen massacre irving to authorize the interroduction of a non appropriation bill to him in the arkansas data center's act of twenty twenty three to regulate digital asset manning businesses and businesses you utilizing a cha- a block train network and declare an emergency center urban you're recognized thank you mister president thank you senators for your attention uhm with this resolution does would be to just grant permission for a bill to be filed that would said in place at time to create a state oversight of the industry which would be in collaboration and partnership with the local and governments and that's the primary function of this foreign national ownership is reflective in the bill similar to what you have found in several senator brian's bill and senator king spill um and then there's certain levels that for sound annoys which are the two biggest nuisances that senator brian alluded to and his comments and with that i'd be happy to take any questions again this creates a state oversight role and the time that would be necessary to develop that state oversight rule through the collaboration working with the department of energy and environment and the legislative branch would be happy to answer any questions it is question center flowers you're recking asked for question for a I have a car resolution just based on what you have explained here are you saying you are not necessarily repealing a striking any language from the app that was pay in the last week of session last year. Sponsored by senator joshua and brian but rather you just look really state oversight agency or something what what we're yet senator flowers striking anything from the original act is that when i'm because it was our intent it was the intention of the members that I worked with that this bill be able to answer that question yes that to consist with what senator brian has already proposed we didn't want double that effort here just wanted to create some oversight eh well create a regulatory framework of oversight at the state level yes ma'am which is basically a necessary function of government like we deal with any other business and industry fifty one in place and just at his oversight is that what you're saying no man there I clearly support changes to the original act i've to resolution no mem- that the this resolution that's bill and was intended and developed to live and coexist with senator bryant's proposal in his legislation as well as what senator king has proposed weird and we are simply just a drafting the ability to have a state oversight uh registry and and regulation just just like that's consistent with car dealerships were any other industry in the state of arkansas deals with operating and making sure that they operate and get face and that gives us the ability as a state to come in with oversight and regulation that's necessary and appropriate and measured and consistent with what we do with the other industries. So this resolution basically just addresses that portion of this industry and the issues surrounding it thank you for the question so they're flowers I do have another question because I wouldn't follow in some news accounts and of course my constituents are pretty upset yes ma'am about that app that would pay a flash to clarify the the smooth and I want to know it could a reps a couple of times where I think someone in the senate are you have a pose to do a study on eight fifty one yes man there has been there have been to my knowledge there have been three committee meetings held with tastimony senator brian a interim study proposal has been introduced by senator brian senator king and senator urban myself yes we we have we have introduced inter-interest study proposals on these issues yes heard from my constituencies that they versations with signature haven't heard of any being about conversation or instead of them since I believe he's seen online I have been seeing the media report that I was just wondering so if something passes at the continue would be at on study proposals or. Withdrawn go by the way side again this resolution outlines the process that follows administrative procedures act however I can only speak from my interim study proposal which is in public health and the intention we have assigned that to the labor and environment subcommittee and which senator flippo is the chair and as we proceed that'll be the determination of senator flipo and that subcommittee as how they proceed with the interest state proposal senator bryant did file an isp is that correct in city county local and I believe they've had a meeting uhm to on that interest interim study proposal as well and those meetings are online because they were live streamed so you could go back to the legislative website and watch the testimony senator king also held a meeting with children use youth and children committee with tatsumony and I do believe that the newspaper and the media did report on all of those uh different committees but i'd be happy to forward all of that to you senator yes ma'am. Any other questions seeing how we would like to speak against this resolution for the resolution center urban I close the resolution i'm closed again and I just believe that state oversight process is necessary and this would start that process and committee clearly uhm subject to amendment and the collaboration of the members of the committee and this legislative body thank you better secretary please call the role bowen leave brand card well chesterfield chesterfield clark crawl crow davis days this mine gatson dats and english flipper flowers flowers gilmore hammer hammer hester hickey hill arvin like johnson blake johnson mark johnson king leading leading love love making murder leave hate pinso pinso pay brice stan stabberfield leave sullivan tucker tucker wallace would anymore like to both it has not heard changer vote for penzo no hammer I blake johnson i. Anyone else dotson anyone else matter secretary cast up the ballot by vote of twenty five years two days in barbara boating the resolution is adopted are there any announcements at this time madam secretary please other items at the desk yes mister president that is the passage of a house bill thousand one and a marching to class by the house now is the passage of the house built ten oh three and emergency class by the house anything else are there any announcements from anyone from anything that asked me to do that the senate will stand in a german subject clearing the desk until one PM on monday one PM on monday we are adjourned.