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House Convenes

April 2, 2019 ·1:30 PM ·3:12:57
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Bills discussed (80)
Bill Title Sponsor Status
HB1839 Act 1053 · 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1839 L. JohnsonDPA 1 TO PROHIBIT A MINOR FROM PURCHASING A PREPA…”
 TO ESTABLISH THE PREPAID MOBILE DEVICE PROTECTION ACT. L. Johnson Notification that HB1839 is now Act 1053
HB1928 Act 1028 · 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1928 V. FlowersDPA 1 TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF…”
 TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REQUIRE ALL OPEN PUBLIC … V. Flowers Notification that HB1928 is now Act 1028
HCR1014 · 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HCR1014”
 TO CONGRATULATE THE LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY LADY WARRIORS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. Sorvillo Approved by the Governor
HR1043 · 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HR1043 Glover TO RECOGNIZE THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF ROBERT S.MOOR…”
 TO RECOGNIZE THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF ROBERT S. MOORE JR. TO THE STATE AND TO … Glover READ AND ADOPTED.
HR1069 · 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HR1069 Beck TO CONGRATULATE THE WONDER VIEW HIGH SCHOOL LADY DARED…”
 TO CONGRATULATE THE WONDERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL LADY DAREDEVILS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. Beck READ AND ADOPTED.
HR1071 · 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HR1071 M. Gray TO CONGRATULATE THE MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL LADY BEAR…”
 TO CONGRATULATE THE MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL LADY BEARKATZ FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. M. Gray READ AND ADOPTED.
HB1090 Act 895 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…eaker we are committee on joint budget to whom was deferred House Bill 1090 and House Bill 1105 beg leaves report that we've had the sa…”
 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - DIVISION OF RACING APPROPRIATION FOR … Joint Budget Committee Notification that HB1090 is now Act 895
HB1094 Act 778 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1094 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS WATERWAYS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION…”
 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS WATERWAYS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. Joint Budget Committee Notification that HB1094 is now Act 778
HB1105 Act 896 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ee on joint budget to whom was deferred House Bill 1090 and House Bill 1105 beg leaves report that we've had the same under considerati…”
 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - MANAGEMENT SERVICES DIVISION APPROPRIATION FOR … Joint Budget Committee Notification that HB1105 is now Act 896
HB1120 Act 897 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…er with your committee on joint budget to whom was referred house bill 1120 beg leave to report that we've had the same under considera…”
 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. Joint Budget Committee Notification that HB1120 is now Act 897
HB1134 Act 779 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1134 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE APPROPRIATI…”
 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL … Joint Budget Committee Notification that HB1134 is now Act 779
HB1197 Act 1008 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “joint budget to whom was deferred House Bill 1197 beg leaves report that we've had the same under considerati…”
 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. Joint Budget Committee Notification that HB1197 is now Act 1008
HB1218 Act 636 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ures from the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. House Bill 1218 is Act 636. House Bill 1269 is Act 637. House Bill 1345 is…”
 CONCERNING THE SERVICES OFFERED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT BY THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY. Tosh Notification that HB1218 is now Act 636
HB1221 Act 780 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1221 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT APPROPRIATION FOR THE…”
 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. Dotson Notification that HB1221 is now Act 780
HB1263 Act 651 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…he 92nd General Assembly. House Concurrent Resolution 1013. House Bill 1263 is Act 651. House Bill 1278 is Act 652. House Bill 1399 is…”
 TO AUTHORIZE A PHARMACIST TO INITIATE THERAPY AND ADMINISTER OR DISPENSE, OR BOTH, CERTAIN TYPES … Eaves Notification that HB1263 is now Act 651
HB1298 Act 948 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1298 J. Mayberry TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PAYABLE RATE OF…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PAYABLE RATE OF AN ANNUAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT RECEIVED BY … J. Mayberry Notification that HB1298 is now Act 948
HB1333 Act 950 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1333 Warren TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT AND…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT AND ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE TIER TWO … Warren Notification that HB1333 is now Act 950
HB1346 Act 826 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1346 Warren TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OF MILITARY…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OF MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT UNDER THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC … Warren Notification that HB1346 is now Act 826
HB1382 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1382 Sorvillo TO EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INF…”
 TO EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 AND KEEP CONFIDENTIAL … Sorvillo Sine Die adjournment
HB1417 Act 1012 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1417 Watson TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 TO P…”
 TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 TO PROTECT THE IDENTITY OF CERTAIN … Watson Notification that HB1417 is now Act 1012
HB1444 Act 642 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1444 is at 642. House Bill 1459 is at 643. House Bill 1471 is at…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DATE TO HOLD CERTAIN RUNOFF ELECTIONS. Breaux Notification that HB1444 is now Act 642
HB1459 Act 643 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1444 is at 642. House Bill 1459 is at 643. House Bill 1471 is at 644. House Bill 1524 is at…”
 TO REQUIRE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE AUDIT TO CONDUCT A REVIEW OF SELECTED POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND TRANSACTIONS … G. Hodges Notification that HB1459 is now Act 643
HB1471 Act 644 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1444 is at 642. House Bill 1459 is at 643. House Bill 1471 is at 644. House Bill 1524 is at 645. House Bill 1529 is at…”
 TO CREATE THE MENTAL HEALTH FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING BILL … C. Fite Notification that HB1471 is now Act 644
HB1521 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1521 M. Gray TO ESTABLISH RULES TO IMPROVE CONTRACTING AND SERVI…”
 TO ESTABLISH RULES TO IMPROVE CONTRACTING AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF MEDICAID NONEMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION AND TO … M. Gray Sine Die adjournment
HB1524 Act 645 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…642. House Bill 1459 is at 643. House Bill 1471 is at 644. House Bill 1524 is at 645. House Bill 1529 is at 646. House Bill 1551 is at…”
 TO ESTABLISH A CHIROPRACTIC STUDENT PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM. Boyd Notification that HB1524 is now Act 645
HB1529 Act 646 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…643. House Bill 1471 is at 644. House Bill 1524 is at 645. House Bill 1529 is at 646. House Bill 1551 is at 647. House Bill 1740 is at…”
 REQUIRING TRAINING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OVERDOSE AND … Womack Notification that HB1529 is now Act 646
HB1551 Act 647 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…644. House Bill 1524 is at 645. House Bill 1529 is at 646. House Bill 1551 is at 647. House Bill 1740 is at 648. House Bill 1804 is at…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF … Eubanks Notification that HB1551 is now Act 647
HB1630 Act 963 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1630 Lundstrum TO EXEMPT CERTAIN INFORMATION PERTAINING TO A LAW…”
 TO EXEMPT CERTAIN INFORMATION PERTAINING TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION … Lundstrum Notification that HB1630 is now Act 963
HB1631 Act 784 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…in committee on public transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1631. Beg leave to report that we've had the same under consider…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS. Vaught Notification that HB1631 is now Act 784
HB1665 Act 965 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1665 Brown TO STRENGTHEN VOTER TRUST IN THE ELECTION PROCESS; AN…”
 TO STRENGTHEN VOTER TRUST IN THE ELECTION PROCESS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION … Brown Notification that HB1665 is now Act 965
HB1740 Act 648 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…645. House Bill 1529 is at 646. House Bill 1551 is at 647. House Bill 1740 is at 648. House Bill 1804 is at 649. Sincerely, Asa Hutchi…”
 TO CLARIFY AND MODERNIZE PROCEDURES REQUIRED FOR POLITICAL PARTY PRIMARIES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW … Cloud Notification that HB1740 is now Act 648
HB1750 Act 789 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…in committee on public transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1750. Beg leave to report that we've had the same under consider…”
 TO ENSURE THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAS ADEQUATE INFORMATION TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ON HIGHWAY … Lundstrum Notification that HB1750 is now Act 789
HB1761 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…e on public health, welfare, and labor to whom was referred House Bill 1761. 61 Senate Bill 339 Senate Bill 564 beg leaves report we've…”
 TO CREATE THE EGG PROVIDER PROTECTION ACT. Crawford Sine Die adjournment
HB1778 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1778 Sorvillo CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.”
 CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Sorvillo Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment
HB1800 Act 855 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1800 A. Davis TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MAJOR HISTORIC REHABILITATI…”
 TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MAJOR HISTORIC REHABILITATION INCOME TAX CREDIT ACT. A. Davis Notification that HB1800 is now Act 855
HB1804 Act 649 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…646. House Bill 1551 is at 647. House Bill 1740 is at 648. House Bill 1804 is at 649. Sincerely, Asa Hutchinson. April 2nd, 2019, to t…”
 TO CLARIFY DATES AND PROCEDURES CONCERNING NOMINATIONS BY POLITICAL PARTIES. Cloud Notification that HB1804 is now Act 649
HB1815 Act 975 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1815 Perry TO AMEND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION PROCESS F…”
 TO AMEND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF … Perry Notification that HB1815 is now Act 975
HB1821 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1821 Murdock TO PROVIDE FOR MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES THAT AD…”
 TO PROVIDE FOR MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES THAT ADDRESS THE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES; TO PROVIDE FOR … Murdock Sine Die adjournment
HB1845 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…eaker we are commuting a revenue taxation to whom was for a House Bill 1845 House Bill 1930 House Bill 1942 House Senate”
 CONCERNING THE SALES AND USE TAX LEVIED ON THE PURCHASE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, TRAILER, … Gates Sine Die adjournment
HB1886 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1886 Lundstrum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND C…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. Lundstrum Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment
HB1906 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ittee on public transportation to whom To whom was deferred House Bill 1906, House Bill 1917, House Bill 1956, beg leave to report that…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MANDATORY SEAT BELT USE. Sorvillo Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment
HB1911 Act 1027 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…e a committee on revenue and taxation to whom was referred, House Bill 1911. Begley to report that we've had the same under considerati…”
 TO AMEND THE INCOME TAX ACT OF 1929 CONCERNING WHO SHALL BE TREATED AS THE … M. Gray Notification that HB1911 is now Act 1027
HB1917 Act 924 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ransportation to whom To whom was deferred House Bill 1906, House Bill 1917, House Bill 1956, beg leave to report that we have had the…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION ACT. Payton Notification that HB1917 is now Act 924
HB1920 Act 925 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1920 Capp TO CONSOLIDATE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAMS IN THE STATE;…”
 TO CONSOLIDATE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAMS IN THE STATE; TO AMEND THE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT ACT … Capp Notification that HB1920 is now Act 925
HB1927 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…re commending on public transportation to whom was deferred House Bill 1927, beg leave to report that we've had the same under consider…”
 TO ESTABLISH THE TIRE MANUFACTURING AGE DISCLOSURE ACT; AND TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF THE MANUFACTURING … V. Flowers Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment
HB1930 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…muting a revenue taxation to whom was for a House Bill 1845 House Bill 1930 House Bill 1942 House Senate”
 TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO DELEGATE CERTAIN DEBT … M. Gray Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment
HB1932 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…e a committee on revenue and taxation to whom was referred, House Bill 1932, instead of Bill 576. Begley to report that we've had the s…”
 TO REQUIRE THE ELECTRONIC FILING OF INCOME TAX RETURNS BY CERTAIN TAX PRACTITIONERS; AND TO … M. Gray Sine Die adjournment
HB1942 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…taxation to whom was for a House Bill 1845 House Bill 1930 House Bill 1942 House Senate”
 TO CREATE THE SALES AND USE TAX REDUCTION STUDY. Ladyman Sine Die adjournment
HB1944 Act 1061 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1944 S. Meeks CONCERNING BLOCK CHAIN TECHNOLOGY.”
 CONCERNING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY. S. Meeks Notification that HB1944 is now Act 1061
HB1955 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ting a public health welfare and labor to whom was referred House Bill 1955 beg leave to report we've had the same under consideration…”
 TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT NO. … Ladyman Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment
HB1956 Act 1063 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…whom To whom was deferred House Bill 1906, House Bill 1917, House Bill 1956, beg leave to report that we have had the same under consid…”
 TO PROVIDE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS FOR A NONCONSENT TOWING ROTATION SYSTEM FOR HEAVY-DUTY MOTOR … Watson Notification that HB1956 is now Act 1063
HB1958 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1958 Eaves TO AMEND THE CREDIT REPAIR SERVICES ORGANIZATION ACT…”
 TO AMEND THE CREDIT REPAIR SERVICES ORGANIZATION ACT OF 2017. Eaves Sine Die adjournment
HCR1013 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ures from the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. House Concurrent Resolution 1013. House Bill 1263 is Act 651. House Bill 1278 is Act 652. Ho…”
 TO CONGRATULATE THE BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL LADY PIONEERS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. S. Smith Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's …
SB184 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB184 G. Stubblefield(Gonzales) TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF CERTIF…”
 TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS BY REMOVING SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS. G. Stubblefield Sine Die adjournment
SB240 Act 988 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB240 D. Wallace(Warren) MOTION TO EXPUNGE THE VOTE BY WHICH FAIL…”
 CONCERNING THE REEMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT … D. Wallace Notification that SB240 is now Act 988
SB278 Act 801 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB278 G. Stubblefield(Hawks) TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FA…”
 TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES AND ABORTION REPORTING; TO AMEND THE BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION … G. Stubblefield Notification that SB278 is now Act 801
SB339 Act 804 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…welfare, and labor to whom was referred House Bill 1761. 61 Senate Bill 339 Senate Bill 564 beg leaves report we've had the same under…”
 TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT OF, BARRING OF, AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST A PHYSICIAN FOR HIS OR … Irvin Notification that SB339 is now Act 804
SB374 Act 807 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB374 Rapert(Gazaway) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PENALTIES RELAT…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PENALTIES RELATED TO ADMINISTRATIVE INSPECTION WARRANTS EXECUTED BY THE ARKANSAS … Rapert Notification that SB374 is now Act 807
SB397 Act 729 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB397 D. Wallace(Brown) TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING LIFETIME HUNTI…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING LIFETIME HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES FOR A RESIDENT DISABLED VETERAN; … D. Wallace Notification that SB397 is now Act 729
SB429 Act 771 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB429 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - C…”
 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, GRANTS AND PROGRAMS … Joint Budget Committee Notification that SB429 is now Act 771
SB441 Act 928 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB441 Bledsoe(Lundstrum) TO ADD RESTRICTIONS REGARDING ADVERTISIN…”
 TO ADD RESTRICTIONS REGARDING ADVERTISING OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND USE OF CERTAIN SYMBOLS. Bledsoe Notification that SB441 is now Act 928
SB455 Act 883 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB455 T. Garner(Cavenaugh) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CATASTROPH…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CATASTROPHIC LEAVE FOR MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES. T. Garner Notification that SB455 is now Act 883
SB457 Act 884 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB457 B. Ballinger(Payton) TO REGULATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF REAL…”
 TO REGULATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF REAL PROPERTY OF THE STATE AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE … B. Ballinger Notification that SB457 is now Act 884
SB468 Act 811 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB468 B. Sample(Penzo) TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERSONAL C…”
 TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERSONAL CARE SERVICE PROVIDER, PRIVATE CARE AGENCY, AND HOME … B. Sample Notification that SB468 is now Act 811
SB479 Act 733 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB479 B. Sample(Lynch) TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A…”
 TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A TITLE FOR A WATERCRAFT; AND TO CREATE … B. Sample Notification that SB479 is now Act 733
SB480 Act 734 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB480 Irvin(Lowery) TO ESTABLISH THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPL…”
 TO ESTABLISH THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES BY A HEALTHCARE … Irvin Notification that SB480 is now Act 734
SB512 Act 736 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB512 Bledsoe(D. Ferguson) TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF BENEF…”
 TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFITS TO A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER. Bledsoe Notification that SB512 is now Act 736
SB524 Act 888 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB524 B. Ballinger(Dotson) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTRONIC…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF … B. Ballinger Notification that SB524 is now Act 888
SB534 Act 738 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB534 B. Johnson(Christiansen) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISTRA…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISTRACTED DRIVING TO COMPLY WITH DISTRACTED DRIVING REQUIREMENTS UNDER FEDERAL … B. Johnson Notification that SB534 is now Act 738
SB564 Act 820 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…or to whom was referred House Bill 1761. 61 Senate Bill 339 Senate Bill 564 beg leaves report we've had the same under consideration an…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, RETURNING MILITARY … Irvin Notification that SB564 is now Act 820
SB575 Act 743 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB575 Flippo(Eubanks) CONCERNING THE FINES, FEES, AND COSTS THAT…”
 CONCERNING THE FINES, FEES, AND COSTS THAT MAY BE ASSESSED FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS. Flippo Notification that SB575 is now Act 743
SB582 Act 772 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB582 B. Johnson(Richmond) TO PROVIDE A SALES AND USE TAX REFUND…”
 TO PROVIDE A SALES AND USE TAX REFUND FOR MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT USED TO MODIFY, … B. Johnson Notification that SB582 is now Act 772
SB583 Act 773 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB583 J. Cooper(Dotson) TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTIN…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN DEBIT CARD AND CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS. J. Cooper Notification that SB583 is now Act 773
SB584 Act 774 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB584 J. Dismang(M. Hodges) TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE…”
 TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE SPACE ON INCOME TAX FORMS … J. Dismang Notification that SB584 is now Act 774
SB590 Act 775 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB590 G. Leding(Boyd) TO PROVIDE THAT A COTTAGE FOOD PRODUCTION O…”
 TO PROVIDE THAT A COTTAGE FOOD PRODUCTION OPERATION IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS IS EXEMPT FROM THE … G. Leding Notification that SB590 is now Act 775
SB601 Act 776 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB601 ElliottLove) TO AUTHORIZE AND EXPEDITE NECESSARY IMPROVEMEN…”
 TO AUTHORIZE AND EXPEDITE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE LITTLE ROCK NINE MEMORIAL ON THE STATE … Elliott Notification that SB601 is now Act 776
SB612 Act 1000 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…re commending on public transportation to whom was deferred Senate Bill 612, beg leave to report that we've had the same under consider…”
 CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; TO AMEND THE DEFINITION … J. Cooper Notification that SB612 is now Act 1000
SB615 Act 777 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB615 G. Leding(D. Ferguson) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE APPL…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CONTINUING CARE PROVIDER REGULATION ACT TO … G. Leding Notification that SB615 is now Act 777
SB85 Act 985 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB85 A. Clark(Burch) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SERVICE OF A PE…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SERVICE OF A PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS. A. Clark Notification that SB85 is now Act 985
SB99 Act 719 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB99 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF M…”
 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR … Joint Budget Committee Notification that SB99 is now Act 719

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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 13:30
I call the House to order. I invite the members, staff, press, and guests in the galleries to stand and be led in prayer by our House Chaplain, Dr. Rex Horn, and to remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to be led by Representative Chris Ritchie. Let's pray,
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Speaker 7 13:49
please. Our Father, we're thankful for this day, this beautiful day. We thank you, Lord, for the men and women, our representatives from across the state who've come to do the business of the citizens of our state today. We're reminded of our responsibility as we think of the Old Testament prophet Micah who said our responsibility and what's required of us of God is to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God. We pray that we might be exemplary in all three areas, and Lord, we thank you for these who've given themselves to public service. bless them and bless them as the session winds down bless them as they return home and bless their families and other responsibilities is our prayer in jesus name amen
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 14:37
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 15:56
cast up the ballot mr. clerk with 100 members present the chair sees a quorum are there any requests for leave just
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Speaker 16 16:21
checking Representative Frederick Love moves
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 16:24
we dispense with the reading of the previous day's journal no objections so ordered are there reports from select committees read the reports Mr. Clerk Mr. Speaker we are committee on
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joint budget to whom was deferred House Bill 1197 beg leaves report that we've had the same under consideration here with the turn the same with the recommendation that do pass respectfully submitted Lane Jean chair Mr. Speaker we are committee on joint budget to whom was deferred House Bill 1090 and House Bill 1105 beg leaves report that we've had the same under consideration here with turn the same with the recommendation due pass as amended number one respectfully submitted lane jean chair mr speaker with your committee on joint budget to whom was referred house bill 1120 beg leave to report that we've had the same under consideration here with turn the same with the recommendation of due pass as amended number three respectfully submitted lane jean chair are there reports from standing committees read reports mr clark mr speaker with your committee on public transportation to whom To whom was deferred House Bill 1906, House Bill 1917, House Bill 1956, beg leave to report that we have had the same under consideration and here with the term the same with the recommendation that do pass, respectfully submitted, Mike Holcomb Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are commending on public transportation to whom was deferred Senate Bill 612, beg leave to report that we've had the same under consideration, here with the term the same with the recommendation that do pass, as amended number one, respectfully submitted, Mike Holcomb Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are commending on public transportation to whom was deferred House Bill 1927, beg leave to report that we've had the same under consideration, here with the term the same with the recommendation that do pass, as amended number two, respectfully submitted, Mike Holcomb Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are in committee on public transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1750. Beg leave to report that we've had the same under consideration. Here would turn the same with the recommendation that it do pass in concurrence with Senate Amendment No. 1. Respectfully submitted to Mike Holcomb, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are in committee on public transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1631. Beg leave to report that we've had the same under consideration. Here would turn the same with the recommendation. It do pass in concurrence with Senate Amendments No. 1 and 2. Respectfully submitted to Mike Holcomb, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are in committee on public health, welfare, and labor to whom was referred House Bill 1761. 61 Senate Bill 339 Senate Bill 564 beg leaves report we've had the same under consideration and here with the turn of the same with the recommendation do pass respect to submitted Jack Ladyman chair. Mr. Speaker we are commuting a public health welfare and labor to whom was referred House Bill 1955 beg leave to report we've had the same under consideration here with turn the same with the recommendation that do pass as a minute number one respectfully submitted Jack Ladyman chair Mr. Speaker we are commuting a revenue taxation to whom was for a House Bill 1845 House Bill 1930 House Bill 1942 House Senate Bill 585 beg leave to report that we've had the same under consideration and Here with the term, the same with the recommendation of due pass, respectfully submitted, JoJet Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on revenue and taxation to whom was referred, House Bill 1911. Begley to report that we've had the same under consideration. Here with the term, the same with the recommendation of due pass, as amended number one, respectfully submitted, JoJet Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on revenue and taxation to whom was referred, House Bill 1932, instead of Bill 576. Begley to report that we've had the same under consideration. And here with the term, the same with the recommendation of due pass, as amended number two, respectfully submitted, JoJet Chair.
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Is there any unfinished business? Are there any executive communications? Read the letters from the governor, Mr. Clerk. April 1st, 2019, to the
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Speaker of the House. Dear Mr. Speaker, this is to inform you that on April 1st, 2019, I approve the following measures from the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. House Bill 1218 is Act 636. House Bill 1269 is Act 637. House Bill 1345 is Act 638. House Bill 1395 is Act 639. House Bill 1398 is Act 640. House Bill 1409 is Act 641. House Bill 1444 is at 642. House Bill 1459 is at 643. House Bill 1471 is at 644. House Bill 1524 is at 645. House Bill 1529 is at 646. House Bill 1551 is at 647. House Bill 1740 is at 648. House Bill 1804 is at 649. Sincerely, Asa Hutchinson. April 2nd, 2019, to the Speaker of the House. Dear Mr. Speaker, this is to inform you that on April 2nd, 2019, I approve the following measures from the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. House Concurrent Resolution 1013. House Bill 1263 is Act 651. House Bill 1278 is Act 652. House Bill 1399 is Act 653. House Bill 1411 is Act 654. House Bill 1446 is Act 655. House Bill 1508 is Act 656. House Bill 1562 is Act 657. House Bill 1572 is Act 658. House Bill 1675 is Act 659. Sincerely, Asa Hutchinson.
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Representative Johnson moves that we place House Bill 1839 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection, read Amendment No. 1, Mr. Clerk. Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1839. Representative Johnson, we'll pass over Amendment No. 1. Representative Flowers moves that we place House Bill 1928 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read amendment number one Mr. Clerk. Amendment number one to House Bill 1928. Representative Flowers you're recognized to explain
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Representative Vivian Flowers Unverified 21:27
the amendment. Colleagues these were just amendments to make a good bill stronger. These These amendments were recommended by the FOIA Task Force, and the amendment and the bill got out of committee without any objection and with unanimous support. With that, I'd be open to any questions, and if not, I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Flowers has explained the amendment. Would anyone
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like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? flowers is closed for the amendment the question for the house is the adoption of amendment number one to House Bill 1928 all in favor say aye any opposed the amendment is adopted mr. clerk please read house resolution 1069 house
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resolution 1069 by representative Beck to congratulate the Wonder View high school lady daredevils for their achievements represent back you're
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recognized to explain the resolution thank you speaker mr.
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speaker colleagues I'm down here to this resolution is pretty simple it's to congratulate the one of you high school daredevils on their achievement which is winning the class 1A state tournament. Now we all know it takes a really good team to do this. They were fast and you could even if you didn't get to see the game you missed a great game because the other team was frustrated with how well these girls played that day and just did a great job while they were down there. And we know it takes a great team to win a state tournament but it takes a super great team to win back-to-back state tournaments and these girls have done that not only that their program is so strong that uh six out of the last nine years they've been down there in the class a tournament at finalists in the class a tournament so so with that i'm going to ask that the resolution be read in its entirety mr speaker mr clark please read the
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resolution whereas the 2019 wonderview high school lady daredevils basketball team claimed the Class 1A state championship trophy after the Lady Daredevils defeated the rule special Lady Rebels with a score of 68-46 at the Bank OZK Arena in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and whereas this is the Lady Daredevils' third state championship overall and second consecutive state title, and whereas the Lady Daredevils were led by senior guard Faith Byers and finished the game with 17 points, 11 rebounds, 5 steals, and 2 assists, and whereas the Lady Daredevils' defense led the way for the 19 steals and the 28 points from turnovers, and whereas the Lady Daredevils' Devils four seniors teamed up for 58 points and 19 rebounds and whereas the Lady Daredevils four seniors won a total of 112 games during their high school careers and whereas the Lady Daredevils will were led and coached by Jared Squires now therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 92nd General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the House of Representatives congratulate the members of the Wonder View High School Lady Daredevils basketball team on winning the 2019 Classic 1A state championship Thank you, and I'd appreciate a good
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vote. Representative Beck has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution? Would anyone like to speak for the resolution? Representative Beck is closed for the resolution. The question for the House is the adoption of House Resolution 1069. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The resolution is adopted. Mr. Clerk, please read House Resolution
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1043. House resolution 1043 by Representative Glover to recognize the many contributions of Robert S. Moore Jr. to the state and to extend congratulations on his induction into
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the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame. Representative
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Glover, you're recognized to explain the resolution. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, thank you. Colleagues, before me is a resolution 1043 to recognize the many contributions of Robert S. Moore, Jr. and to congratulate him on his induction into the Tourism Hall of Fame. And Robert Moore Jr. is a farmer and a politician, and he was inducted into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame on February of 2019. He served in the House of Representative District Number 12 for three terms and also served as the Speaker of this House for the 88th General Assembly. He was appointed to the Highway Commission by the Governor Mike Beebe. And like many of you colleagues, Robert has just kept on serving and giving back to his community. So I encourage all of you to join me in the recognition of his contribution and congratulate him on his induction into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame. Mr. Speaker, will you have the clerk to read the resolution in full? Mr. Clerk, please read the resolution. Whereas Robert S. Moore Jr., a farmer and politician, was inducted into the
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Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame on Monday, February 25, 2019, during the 45th Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism. And whereas the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame honor is presented to individuals who have been actively involved in the tourism industry for many years and who have made substantial contributions to the betterment of the industry as a whole. And whereas Mr. Moore served as three terms in the House of Representatives, representing District 12, and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 88th General Assembly. And whereas Mr. Moore worked with Dr. Ruth Hawkins and Delta Scenic Byways to secure national scenic byway recognition for Arkansas Highway 4. And whereas Mr. Moore worked with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to secure funding for the scenic overlook and boat ramp near the Delta Heritage Trail on the Mississippi River to acquire 10,000 acres, now known as the Choctaw Island Wildlife Management Area. And whereas Mr. Moore sponsored and passed the Delta Geotourism Incentive Act and the Arkansas Historic Rehabilitation Income Tax Credit Act. And whereas Mr. Moore worked along with the Arkansas State Police for the extension of the Delta Heritage Trail and secured funding for the paved levy trail on which the levy fest was hosted for 10 years. And whereas Mr. Moore and his wife Beverly have donated property to Arkansas City, the Shea County, and Arkansas State Parks for the establishment of the city, county, and state parks. and whereas Mr. Moore's contributions to Arkansas are extensive from heading and guiding executive agencies to farming the state's land to crafting laws. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 92nd General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the House of Representatives recognize Mr. Robert S. Moore, Jr. for his contributions to the state and recognize him for his induction to the Arkansas Tourism
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Hall of Fame. Representative Glover has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution? Would anyone like to speak for the resolution? Representative Glover is closed for the resolution. The question before the House is the adoption of House Resolution 1043. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? The resolution is adopted. Mr. Clerk, please read House Resolution 1071. House Resolution 1071
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by Representative Gray to congratulate the Melbourne High School
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Lady Bearcats for their achievements. Representative Gray, you're
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Representative Michelle Gray Unverified 30:13
recognized to explain the resolution. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So this is officially my fourth and last team from my district that won a state championship. So I'd like to recognize we have them in the West Gallery, the Lady Bearcats from Melbourne. So this is my alma mater, I guess you would say, where I went to school, where I played basketball, and I'm very proud of them for winning the 2A state championship, and I just wanted to let everyone know this is their first five-on-five state championship. The last time, they've won once before, it's my understanding, in 1973. That was before my time, Representative Wardlaw, back when it was three-on-three. So this is their first five-on-five state championship, and just a little tidbit that one of someone that I know and work with told me about these ladies is their coach. I went to school with their coach, probably with most of their parents, but they do team building exercises in the beginning of the year and then throughout the year to try and build that cohesiveness. So I'm told that this group of girls has been frog gigging outside my back door. Look at them, they're all laughing, outside my back door where I live in the pond. So what I want to tell you guys it's next year when you go come get me i want to go with you when we go frog gigging i think that'd be great i'd love to host you for that so with that said i'd like to congratulate the lady bearcats on their state championship and mr speaker if you could please have the clerk read the bill the resolution in its entirety mr clerk please read the resolution whereas the 2019 melbourne
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lady or melbourne high school lady bearcats basketball team claimed the class 2a state championship trophy after the lady bearcats defeated the riverside lady rebels with a score of 48-23 at the Bank OZK Arena in Hot Springs, Arkansas. And whereas the Lady Bearcats earned their first 5-on-5 state title and their second state title overall. And whereas the Lady Bearcats were led by sophomore Regan Rapert, who finished the game with 12 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 4 steals, which earned her the most valuable player honors. And whereas Regan Rapert, Josie Roark, and Kelly Webb were all named tournament players. And whereas the Lady Bearcats held the Lady Rebels to their lowest point total of the whole season and whereas the team was led by head coach Eric Teague and whereas each player on the Lady Bearcats team committed herself to excellence and was supported by her school, family, and community. Now therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 92nd General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the House of Representatives congratulate the members of the Melbourne High School Lady Bearcats basketball team on winning the 2019 Class 2A state championship. Representative
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Gray has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to to speak against the resolution? Would anyone like to speak for the resolution? Representative Gray is closed for the resolution. The question before the House is the adoption of House Resolution 1071. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The resolution is adopted. Without objection, we're going to move to the supplemental calendar. Mr. Clerk, please read House Concurrent Resolution
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1014. House Concurrent Resolution 1014 by Representative Cervillo to congratulate the Little Rock Christian Academy Lady Warriors for their achievements. Representative
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Cervillo, you're recognized to explain the resolution.
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Representative Jim Sorvillo Unverified 33:38
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. May I have Representative Colin McCullough and Davis join me down here, please? Representative Davis, do you want to join the Little Rock Connection? What can you say? Ladies and gentlemen, if I had chosen these young ladies to coach instead of the house team, I can guarantee you I would probably be at the University of Arkansas right now interviewing for the top job. But I do want to say to you, I have followed these young ladies over the last several years And you could tell they were destined for just tremendous capabilities. And the thing that I like so much, not only the quality that they play, but how they live their lives. They have a great testimony. And as you know, today sports have gotten kind of violent, and they bring a lot of class to it. So I am so proud to recognize Little Rock Christian Academy's Lady Warriors 5A state championship basketball team. Could we have a resolution read in its entirety? Mr. Clerk, read the resolution. Whereas the 2019 Little Rock Christian Academy Lady Warriors basketball team claimed the Class 5A state championship trophy after the Lady Warriors defeated the Jonesboro Lady Hurricane 63-35 at the Bank OZK Arena in Hot Springs, Arkansas. And whereas this is the Lady Warriors' first basketball state championship title. And whereas the Lady Warriors were led by sophomore Winter Rogers, who finished the game with 22 points, 13 rebounds, 3 blocks, and 2 assists, which earned her most valuable player honors. And whereas Reagan Bradley, who scored 34 points in the quarterfinal victory over Niddleton, was named the tournament's most valuable player. And whereas the Lady Warriors were well led and coached by head coach Ronald Rodgers. Now therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 92nd General Assembly of the state of Arkansas, the Senate concurring therein, that the House of Representatives congratulate the members of the Little Rock Christian Lady Warriors basketball team on winning the 2019 Class 5A state championship. I also would like to recognize head coach Ronald Rogers, assistant coach Brian Roney and Ronnie Sanders. Congratulations, team. Would you stand up? Thank you.
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Representative Servillo has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution? Would anyone like to speak for the resolution? Representative Servillo is closed for the resolution. The question before the House is the adoption of House Concurrent Resolution 1014. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The resolution is adopted. Representative Johnson moves that we place House Bill 1839 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection, read Amendment No. 1, Mr. Clerk. Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1839. Representative Johnson, you're recognized to explain the amendment. Thank you,
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Representative Lee Johnson Unverified 37:30
Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this is a bill that went to Insurance and Commerce Committee, generated a lot of good discussion, and out of that discussion we made some amendments that I think makes it a better bill, and I appreciate a good vote on these amendments. Thank
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you. Representative Johnson has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Johnson is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1839. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment's adopted. It's the end of the morning hour. Members, the Doctor of the Day is Dr. Regis L. Renard of Little Rock and the Nurse of the Day would be Brenda Hewitt and Sherry Bernard. We also have with us, in addition to the basketball teams that we've already recognized, We have former Arkansas Razorback basketball player Ernie Murray, who is a guest of Representative Murdoch, and he is in the North Gallery. We also have junior Miss Baxter County Fair Mackenzie Payton, a guest of Representative Speaks, Marsh Davis, Fortner, and Payton in the North Gallery. Members moving to the yellow calendar,
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Representative Lane Jean Unverified 39:17
Representative Jean, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, we're going to match without objection to the first three bills, House Bill 1094, Arkansas Waterways, House Bill 1134, Treasurer State of Arkansas, and also House Bill 1221. There's no GR increase, and the only one that has any GR in it is House Bill 1094 of the Waterways Commission. There is no increase on it. If you'll remember the amendment from Thursday or Friday, the Treasurer's Department does have an $834,000 increase on salaries that was agreed to in budget after much give and take. So anyway, we're going to batch these three bills. Have any questions on any of these bills? Need to pull any of these bills out of the batch for any reason. none remember your one vote is for each one of the three bills and the mercy clause mr. speaker have the clerk read a bill the third time mr. clerk
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please read the bills for the third time house bill 1094 house bill 1134 house bill
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 40:26
1221 representative gene has explained the bills prepare the machine mr. clerk As everyone voted, cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 95 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, the bills have passed, and the emergency clauses. Representative Gene, you
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Representative Lane Jean Unverified 40:58
recognize. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, we're going to pass over again Senate Bill 429, Arkansas Economic Development Commission put it on the calendar for tomorrow. So we're up to Senate Bill 99. There was much discussion and debate. If I can answer any questions, I'll try to do so at this time.
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Representative Whitaker, for what purpose? Question, please. You're recognized. Chairman Gene, I'm just curious, because there seems to be some confusion back home. Does SB99 appropriate funds for all of Medicaid or just the expansion? It's for the traditional
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Representative Lane Jean Unverified 41:33
Medicaid and also the Arkansas Works, which used to be the private option. Thank you so much.
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Representative McCollum, for what purpose? Question. We recognize. Well, along those lines, then, if that's the case, would you be willing to not run this today and to separate those out? That's something a budget committee
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Representative Lane Jean Unverified 41:54
would have to do. No other questions? Remember, your one vote is for the bill and the mercy clause. Mr. Speaker, the clerk, read the bill for the third time.
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Read the bill for the third time. Senate Bill 99. Representative Gene has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Bentley, you're recognized to speak against
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Representative Mary Bentley Unverified 42:27
the bill. Colleagues, I have some real concern about this bill, some real stomachache with the fact that we have increased Medicaid spending in our state to the tune of 48%. In 2013, our Medicaid spending was $4.5 billion, and this bill today is $8 billion. We're on a road that we cannot pay for. Unfortunately, Representative Miller's bill failed in a committee today, a bill that I think would help this be foreseeable in the future, but it's not. I'm really concerned about the minimum wage increase yesterday because all of our providers for senior citizens, development delay, those kids, all those kids are in trouble. because down the road, with this minimum wage increase, we're going to see tens of millions of dollars increase in Medicaid. We're in trouble, and I'm going to vote against this bill today because we need to look at it. We need to plan for the future, and I just don't see one.
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Thank you. Representative Bentley has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Flowers,
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Representative Vivian Flowers Unverified 43:36
you recognize I speak for the bill. Colleagues, I, like many of you, have concerns. Perhaps my concern and what I would like to see passed might not be the same bill you would like to see passed. Clearly in light of the challenge and responsibility of Medicaid and what is happening in Washington and what is happening in the courts, there needs to be a lot of planning. There will be a lot of changes. But no matter what, we still have a responsibility to our constituents. We still have children. We still have seniors in nursing homes. We still have people who work every day who are relying on us to make sure that we take care of them and make sure that they're not left out on the cold. And no matter what we want to do or talk about or see past, we still have to leave this place next week, or a week after, or whenever, or Friday, we still have to make sure that our people are taken care of. And all of the planning that we want to do and that we will do will not change that. So I just encourage you and ask you to vote for this bill so that we can move on with the people's business and do the planning that we need to do as it relates to Medicaid. And with that, I'll take any questions. Okay, thank you. Representative Flowers has
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spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Jean is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 99. Prepare the machine Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Voting on the bill and the emergency clause. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 75 yeas, 18 nays, and two present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1700. House
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Bill 1700 by Representative Wooten to require the Department of Education to inform an educational entity to which an individual applying whether the individual is eligible for employment based on the results of the individual's background checks. Representative Wooten, you're
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Representative Jim Wooten Unverified 46:19
recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This bill came about as I was visiting with my superintendents prior to the session. And one of them brought to my attention that he had had a situation where he had a cafeteria employee, I believe, who had worked for the school district for 10 years. And apparently he assumed, as did his other staff, that they had, she had passed the background check. But apparently she had not. Some other employees, 10 years later, determined or found out or provided the superintendent with information that she had a mild treatment of children charged against her. And we got to checking into it and come to find out there is no requirement for the State Department of Education to inform the superintendent when someone fails or passes. Now, I think they have access to a registry, but when you're running through all your employees and you're trying to hire them, it's kind of difficult. Now, in this bill, we're not asking for any information about the crime, the up and down, the bad of the occurrence. All we're asking is that the superintendent be advised, yes or no. You can, yes, employ this employee, or no, you can't. And that's all we're about. Now, all the other information, and I want to make that very clear, because when we first submitted the bill, Chairman Cozart brought to my attention that it might be a violation of privacy. But the way we're handling it here, and we have worked with the Department of Education on it, it will not be. but it certainly will reduce the liability of the school districts for them to be aware of an employee that they're about to hire that is a child abuser and with that I'll ask for a good vote or answer any questions representative Wooten has explained the
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bill would anyone like to speak against the bill. Before the bill, Representative Wooten is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of HB 1700. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 94 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill
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Chair Unverified 49:30
1821. House Bill 1821 by Representative Murdoch. To provide for Medicaid reimbursement rates that address the minimum wage increase, to provide for immediate and ongoing regular reviews of Medicaid reimbursement rates and mythologies, to enter declared emergency. Representative Murdoch, you recognize,
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 49:43
explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, thank you
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Representative Reginald Murdock Unverified 49:48
for giving me this opportunity to finally get a chance to bring this great piece of legislation legislation before you. This is a piece of legislation that many of you have signed on to, and you know the history of this. We started talking about these issues about the third week of the legislative session, and we met for about seven straight weeks to consider all the factors that now you're coming to hear about here as we present this bill. There's been a lot of conversation, and I'll try to save most of the time to answer your questions if there are any, But the legislation just does two things clearly. One, it provides a stopgap measure, financial band-aid, for a few providers that have ran into financial, if you will, some financial peril due to the minimum wage increase. It's not an end-all. It's not something that's going to take care of all of their problems, but that's a small part of the bill. The second part of the bill, which is the teeth of the matter that has, in my meeting with DHS, they told me that that's the problem with the bill. This is a real problem. It's not the money. The real problem is we do not want to see this put into statute. Well, I thought that was insulting, and some of you were in the meeting. We come here, 135 of us, we're elected to come here and make laws so that when we're not here, be it through not being elected death or whatever the case may be then the laws of the state are carried out that will protect the citizens the businesses everybody that live in this state so for them not to want us to put into statute regulations and rules that would provide for just good governance and good guidance for these measures that's all the review process did will do is put into statute the rules and regulations. We do it all the time in state government. Throughout state government, that's what we do. That's what we're elected to do. We do not make policy via executive order. An executive order or anything from the executive branch is not how we make policy. Now, in a perfect world, what we do is we work with the executive branch. We work with all branches of government to formulate good policy. Sometimes that works smoothly, sometimes it don't. In this particular case, for whatever reason, DHS had failed for many years to review the many providers in the state for the services that they offered to some of our most vulnerable citizens. They did not do it. They acknowledged that publicly and privately that they had not done it. So what happens in this state when something does not happen? A citizen, a business, they call upon us, the ones that they have elected to represent them, to go and speak and advocate for their issues. That's what we've done during those seven weeks as we try to bring this legislation together. We wanted them to come to the table. DHS generally will come to the table, and they will offer, well, I think this will work. This won't work. When you look at this this way, this never happened, never happened to after the bill was filed, they came to the table or they did not come to the table. They start calling some of you. And then all of a sudden, I got a call from my good friend Kelly Link, and he wanted to let me know, hey, we agree with what you're doing. We think it makes sense, but this is the way we want you to do it. The governor is going to issue a letter this afternoon about four o'clock. And when the governor issues this letter, that's what we want you to use. I said, whoa, Kelly. I said, we're a legislative body. I said, now, the way we do it here is stakeholders come together, we meet with one another, we listen to one another, we consider one another, and then we try to formulate good policy that will be representative of everyone's input. We don't take a letter from anyone and say, we're just going to do this. I asked the question. I said, so in this letter that's going to come, they later turned it to an executive order. It went from a letter to an executive order. So it grew a little bit in stature, if you will, but not really. So I asked them, what will this letter include? And more importantly, who will it include? Well, we talked to DHS, and DHS just wants it done this way. I said, what about the providers? I said, what about everyone else that's involved, all the stakeholders that's involved in this process, did you bring them to the table? Well, no, we did not do that. Well, I said, this is what we've done. We've brought everybody to the table for about seven weeks, and I've invited all of you, all you send me, stand back there and announce, and many of you have come. Over 40 of you have signed on to this piece of legislation because we did it the right way. We did it the way that we do business here and we should do business here. If DHS has something to offer in the way of changes, amendments, to make it better, bring it, let's do it. So finally, they said, we're ready to meet. They heard you say, hey, we're not going to accept it like you're doing it. You need to meet. I went to committee, and that committee, Representative Payne made a great statement. He said, Representative Murdoch, I hear what you're saying, but will you consider what DHS is saying, and will you pull it down and meet with them? Now, I think I could have got it out of committee that day. I had the support. But what I wanted to do is be an example of doing it the right way, the democratic way, the way we do business here. I pulled it down. The next day, DHS sent me a document. Kelly Link sent me a document, which was an executive order. I text Kelly I said Kelly is this your way of meeting with me because we have not discussed anything that goes into this so he said yeah we'll meet with you so they agreed to meet but when we agreed to meet when they agreed to meet and we met all that was offered was this we really don't like that you're going to put in the statue we really don't like that you're going to do what you were elected to do we want you just to take the executive order and then allow DHS to do what to do. Well, ladies and gentlemen, like I used to tell my children, if you allow daddy in your business, then daddy going to create what you're going to be able to do more than you want him to. If DHS had done what they were supposed to do and charged to do and admitted that they have not done, then we would not have been called upon to do it. Now that I'm called upon and we've spent the time and we've invested in this and we've come up with a piece of legislation that's representative, that's inclusive, and that's responsible, then I would be remiss if I did not come before you today to present this legislation. Now you know I know that there's games at play. There's all kinds of inaccurate information that's being brought to you. But I wanted to come to this well to have an opportunity for you to ask me that question. Those questions. Because some of you, many of you, and I dare to say all of you care about the facts of this matter versus what someone else told you to do. So I stand before you presenting this bill that does those two things. It provides a stopgap measure for a few providers that determined that they needed some help. Several providers came to the table and they said, hey, we can make it through as long as the review is going to come pretty soon. then we'll be able to wait. But it's not that they don't need it, but they didn't have to be a part of this first group. So that's a one-time thing that is what that stopgap financial measure will be. Then after that, the review process will go on, and it's to be determined. If you look at the legislation, that review process is to be determined. It's not any guarantee rate increases, no guarantees. The only thing that I want and that we all should want is that everyone come to the table and it would not be done by mandates or by orders. With that
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I'll answer any questions. Representative Brown for what purpose? Question. You're recognized
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Speaker 141 58:37
for a question. Representative Murdock, how many
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minimum wage increases have these providers had to absorb in the last nine years of how many
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Representative Reginald Murdock Unverified 58:47
I don't know for sure I think one or two I'm not I'm not totally sure exactly how many they've
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 59:05
had to absorb thank you representative Rye for what purpose question you recognize for a question Representative
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Murdoch. Yes, sir. From what you're saying here today, with minimum wage changing and doing the things that had to take place there, I don't think there's any choice here, is there, sir?
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Representative Reginald Murdock Unverified 59:22
Not in my view, it's not. I appreciate that. I think we ought to do some consideration for this group. That I appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Murdoch has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
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for the bill represented mayberry you're recognized to speak for the bill
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Representative Julie Mayberry Unverified 59:50
members thank you i'm going to keep this really short but i stood here from the well not too long ago and i said these exact words along the lines of everyone deserves the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that's what this bill is doing it's making sure that the providers who are taking care of our weakest and most vulnerable population are being taken care of. And I ask that you vote positively for this bill. They are dealing with the minimum wage increase that we all know is fact, and we need to help
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them. Thank you. Representative Mayberry spoke for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? the bill. Representative Murdoch, would you like to close for the... Representative Murdoch is closed for the bill. Question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1821. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. You're voting on the bill and the emergency clause. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 85 yeas, 8 nays, and 3 present, the bill and the emergency clause is passed. Representative Gray, for what purpose? Point of personal privilege. You're recognized for a point of personal privilege. Thank you Mr.
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Speaker. I just want to make this real quick but today in the Senate Senator Irvin ran a resolution to recognize May since we're almost towards the end to recognize May is the month of cystic fibrosis month and we did not run a resolution on this side so real quick I just wanted to take a moment to recognize a family that we have in the West Gallery. Lance and Carmen Smith are the proud parents of their son, Crosby. Crosby was diagnosed at 15 days old with cystic fibrosis. He's super excited. He's been waving at me from the gallery since they got up there. And essentially, just to bring awareness to this issue, since I didn't have a resolution, I just want to take this moment to tell you that they've been great activists within the community of cystic fibrosis, they've helped to raise nearly $100,000 to help find a cure for cystic fibrosis. And in November, they went to the New York City Marathon to help raise awareness and to gather funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. So I'd just like to take this opportunity to tell Crosby hello, and we're very proud of you. And just thank you all for what you do to raise awareness to cystic fibrosis. So thank you.
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Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1800. House Bill 1800 by Representative Andy Davis to create the Arkansas Major Historic Rehabilitation income tax credit act representative davis
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you recognize explain the bill thank you mr speaker
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Representative Marsh Davis Unverified 1:03:17
members house bill 1800 creates a major historic restoration tax credit major being a it would be a major project it's a little background we have a historic restoration tax credit available now it's really only good for projects worth up to about one and a half million dollars for that one and a half million dollar project that would qualify for about a $140,000 tax credit. This is something that, this is one of those things I could tell you that all our neighbors do, right? All our neighbors give 25% credit for major historic restoration projects. We don't have that currently. So this would be a separate system but modeled after the existing. So the qualifications to qualify for the tax credit would be the same as the existing system, but this new one would be only for projects worth more than one and a half million dollars. Now, one key thing that I need to clear up, if you looked online and you saw a fiscal impact statement, that's for the original draft of the bill where I tried to actually fund the tax credit. It's been amended as it sits today, it's not actually funded. Took the governor's advice and we amended the bill and used language that we have in the movie tax credit. So basically it says this major historic tax credit fund is created and here's how you would qualify for the tax credit, but there's no funding there unless we decide to put it there, which we're not doing in this bill. So this would create the tax credit, this create the qualifications for it, so on and so forth. So I won't go on down the road if somebody came to the governor say and said we think restoring this hotel would be a major economic benefit economic development project and the governor agreed he could for example for example there's no agreements take two three million dollars out of quick action closing and with council approval put it into this fund and then we could fund that tax credit but with the passage of this bill there's no funding there we would have to take future action to actually fund the credits. Any questions? Seeing none, I appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Davis has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Davis is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1800. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk 84 a 7 days and 2 present the bills passed mr. clerk read house bill 1815 house bill
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1815 by representative Perry to amend the death certificate registration process for the signature of the medical certificate of death represent Perry
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recognize explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, House Bill 1815 is designed to help Arkansas families obtain a death certificate in a timely fashion. Without a death certificate, families cannot access funds, insurance funds, that is, turn off utilities, make bank changes, and oftentimes cannot obtain pertinent information. This bill will require those who sign death certificates to do so within three business days. They'll also require them to use the Department of Health's electronic system, which we've had in place for about five years, which is called e-RAVE. Currently, about 78% of the hospitals, hospice, and doctors already use it. Once set up, it is something the staff can do for them. The problem is with the others who do not and most of the times will not. The small group is keeping Arkansas families from closure, creating extra days off work, and unnecessary burdens. Instead of using typewriters, postal service is sometimes taking months and months to get them. More than half of the other states have a mandatory electronic process, which processes swift service for families. Texas has a 99% utilization rate and penalties that are more than double this proposed bill. This bill creates a $250 penalty for those who don't use the system. And amendments from the hospital administration or hospital association and physicians were adopted to make this bill fair to them. It doesn't apply in cases that are sent to the mental examiner. where the cause of death needs to be determined. The bill has been requested by and supported by the Arkansas Funeral Directors Association representing nearly 400 funeral homes in Arkansas. They've identified that the failure to use eRAVE in the delayed death certificates as the number one problem in Arkansas's funeral service. I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Perry has explained the bill. Would anyone
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:08:38
like to speak against the bill? For the bill. Representative Perry is closed for the bill. Question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1815. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Does everyone vote it? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 92 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1417. House
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Bill 1417 by Representative Watson to amend the Freedom of Information Act of 1967 to protect the identity of certain persons assisting in criminal investigations and to create an exemption of the Freedom of
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Information Act of 1967. Representative Watson,
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Representative Danny Watson Chair Unverified 1:09:38
you recognize explain the bill. thank you mr speaker thank you colleagues house bill 1417 is in reference to confidential informants in my previous life i dealt with this quite a bit law enforcement municipal police chief association several police chiefs came to me with this legislation. Legislation is very, very needed not to get into the weeds with too many people. There are some things that do not need to be disclosed when there's an ongoing investigation for sanctity of life purposes. The legislation passed out of state agencies this past week, but with one caveat, and that was a desire or a request for us to meet with FOIA. Two and a half hours later this past Friday, I met with FOIA task force, Representative Gray, Hope Police Chief, Arkansas Municipal League and several more police chiefs. Collaboratively, this was what was determined. Disclosure of the individual's identity could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of the individual or member of the individual's family within the first degree of consanguinity. FOIA was good with this and every entity present in the FOIA task force. There's any questions?
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If not, I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Watson has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Watson is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1417. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot Mr. Clerk. 86 aye, 0 nays and 2 present. The bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 19-20. House Bill
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19-20 by Representative Kapp to consolidate venture capital programs in the state to amend the Venture Capital Investment Act 2001 and to repeal the Arkansas Risk Capital Matching Fund Act of 2007. Representative Kapp, you're recognized to explain the bill.
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Representative Sarah Capp Unverified 1:12:47
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1920 is an act concerning the consolidation of venture capital programs in the state to amend the Venture Capital Investment Act of 2001 and to repeal the Arkansas Risk Capital Matching Fund Act of 2007 and for other purposes. This bill was brought to me by the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, better known as ATFA. This bill is agency legislation that the governor has approved. It creates efficiencies by consolidating five programs with the same overall goal into two programs. By simplification, this bill will make the programs easier to administer by staff and the ATFA board and easier for the users of the program. To provide you some background, APFA was tasked with implementing the state's venture capital programs beginning in 2001 with the passage of the Venture Capital Investment Act. Since 2001, four other programs related to venture capital have been created by the legislature or through federal agencies. The purpose of each program is to help startup technology companies source and secure venture capital funding. These companies are critical to the state's economy because they typically employ high-skilled and high-wage employees. One of the specific goals of the program is to support companies that pay salaries higher than the local or state average salary. The existing program goals are consistent with Governor Hutchinson's economic development goals. Current assets of all programs combined are approximately $40 million, with approximately $37 million in investments and approximately $3 million in cash. Previous funding sources have included the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, the U.S. Department of Treasury State Small Business Credit Initiative, and the Governor's Quick Action Closing Fund. The existing programs are funded from the existing cash funds. The programs receive no annual funding from the state budget, or any other source. All previous funding for the programs was received prior to 2014. To summarize, this bill creates efficiencies by consolidating five programs with the same overall goal into two programs. This bill maintains the same overall goal of the existing programs, which is to increase the availability of venture capital for Arkansas technology companies. This bill does not create any new programs. It does not create any new funding or add any funding to the budget. This bill is also consistent with the governor's transformation plans as it will generate operational efficiency over the long term. This legislation does not affect the budget or APFA or any other agency. The governor's office and the APFA board are supportive of this bill and I would appreciate a good vote representative cap has
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:15:59
explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative cap is closed for the bill question before the house is the passage of House Bill 19-20. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 92 yeas, 0 nays, and 1 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1521.
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House Bill 1521 by Representative Gray, to establish rules to improve contracting and service delivery of Medicaid non-emergency transportation and to ensure compliance with federal
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:16:52
regulations. Representative Gray, you recognize.
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Representative Michelle Gray Unverified 1:16:55
Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So this bill originated from the non-emergency transportation procurement issue that we had across the state starting in January, but most specifically in central and north-central Arkansas. DHS went to a different, they procured, they bid out a new net provider. That net provider took, I believe, four of the seven regions of the state, and that net provider actually had no vehicles of their own. And so they were trying to subcontract. They couldn't find subcontracts. So what happened to my constituents and a lot of your constituents is they went without transportation. They couldn't get to dialysis. They couldn't get to their pain management appointments, and they were going through withdrawal, they didn't get to their early intervention day treatment programs, they didn't get anywhere. The few times I had people picked up, I had them left at pharmacies or had them left at doctor's offices where they were there for hours. So I worked on that for weeks and weeks. It ended up in the end, the non-emergency transportation providers' contracts were canceled for lack of performance, for better legal words. And so what I was trying to do was ensure that the way we procured that in the past didn't happen again. So this bill sat out there for probably a month as I was trying to work on exactly what to do. What they had asked for was a non-emerge, or was an RFP process, but I felt that that RFP process, it kind of locked us into one procurement style, and I didn't know that I necessarily agreed with setting that policy. So we worked with DHS, and some of the net providers worked with DHS is more accurate. And so what we came up with was this. DHS shall adopt rules, I think it's before January 2021, because we won't bid these services out, or we shouldn't bid them out for roughly another six years. But they shall adopt rules to attest to the operational stability of any company that is to be awarded the contract. I'm hopeful that in those rules, they will look at readiness reviews and actually making sure that as a new company takes over, they actually have the necessary vehicles and the necessary cameras and everything they need to actually perform the job. And that goes into the other piece was transition planning to make sure that our constituents are taken care of and they get to their appointments like they're supposed to do. It was none of their fault that this happened, but they're the ones who actually paid the price for that. And then also I put in this bill that any procurements must follow the federal regulations. So the IFB that they used before, it was awarded solely on cost. So they say they looked at other qualifications in just qualifying the bids, but then they look solely on cost. So what I'm saying is they have to actually follow the federal regulations that surround non-emergency transportation, because there are some actually set, where they have to look at other qualifications such as experience, performance, references, and not just the cost of the procurement itself. So Hopefully this helps us six years from now and we'll have a much better transition during this bidding process. I'd be glad to take any questions. Seeing none, I'd appreciate a good vote. And I also want to thank, there's several other representatives in here, but Les Warren and Representative Evans, Marsh Davis. There were several of us that worked on this day in and day out while this was happening up in our district. I just wanted to thank you guys for helping me and my district through this. Thank you. Representative
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Graves, explain the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill. Representative Graves, close for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1521. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. Ninety-four yeas, zero nays, and two present. The bill is passed. Members, Representative Eves has some special guests in the North Gallery with us today. He has his daughter, Taylor, and her boyfriend, Colton Howell. If you'll join me in welcoming them to the Howells.
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Mr. Clerk read House Bill 1630. House Bill 1630 by Representative Lundstrom to exempt certain information pertaining to law enforcement officers from the Freedom of Information Act of 1967 and concerning public record websites.
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:21:49
Representative Lundstrom, you're recognized. Explain the bill. Thank
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Representative Robin Lundstrum Unverified 1:21:52
you, Mr. Speaker. This bill has actually changed a little bit since we first started. We are now making this a study group, and it will include members of a variety of different fields. What this bill will do, and what I hope will do, is we'll come back and report to state agencies in about a year, and hopefully we'll be able to protect some undercover police officers in this state, some DEA agents, and some FBI agents who have asked for some protection. And with this, hopefully, we will offer them some security and some peace of mind for their families, and we can report back to state agencies what we have found. With that, I would appreciate a good
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:22:30
vote. Thank you. Representative Lundstrom has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Lundstrom is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1630. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk with 82 yeas 3 nays and 3 present the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk read House Bill 1346. House Bill 1346
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by Representative Warren to amend the law concerning the purchase of military service credit under the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System by a member of the General Assembly. Representative
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:23:23
Warren you're recognized explain the bill thank you mr.
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speaker colleagues this bill is making one
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Representative Les Warren Unverified 1:23:32
change to the APERS retirement plan with respect to the general assembly every other retirement plan we have allows for the purchase of military service credit in order for a member of the general assembly to be allowed to purchase military service credit they must have five years of actual service If they have the five years of actual service and choose to purchase military service credit, this bill allows them to do that. I'm not one who has served in the military, but I believe it's something we should offer to those who have. In my books, it's a fairness issue. With the passage of this bill, every state retirement plan will have this provision. I'd be glad to take any questions. If not, Representative Sullivan,
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:24:25
for what purpose? Question. You're recognized. I'm just wondering if
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we should not be moving the other way since we have our spending continues to go up and up and up. And we are giving double credit or additional credit. And it just looks like we're going a direction rather than taking double service away. We're adding to it. So is this adding to our financial difficulties that our state is having now? Thank you. We had a
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fiscal impact study done, and basically they said that the effect would be negligible on the cost to the system, so. Representative Slate, for what purpose?
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Representative Keith Slape Unverified 1:25:07
Question. You're recognized. Representative Warren, is this abling them to purchase their military time to go into the APROR system, correct? So if
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Representative Les Warren Unverified 1:25:17
they have five years of actual service in the General Assembly, they're allowed to purchase up to five years of military service credit. So it wouldn't be a necessary strain upon
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the retirement system with them purchasing that time? Not from what I've been told. Of course. I would appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Warren has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? representative warren is closed for the bill the question before the house is the passage of house bill 1346 prepare the machine mr clerk has everyone voted cast the ballot mr clerk by a vote of 79 yeas six nays and six present the bill is passed Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1944.
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House Bill 1944 by Representative Meeks concerning blockchain technology. Representative Meeks,
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you're recognized to explain the bill.
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Representative Stephen Meeks Unverified 1:26:38
So, colleagues, I'm proud to bring you House Bill 1944 this afternoon. You may remember during the Governor's State of the State Address, one of the things that he talked about was he would like to see blockchain technology come to our state, and that's what this bill does. This bill lays the framework to allow blockchain technology to come to our state. As a matter of fact, he called me right before session to let me know that he had told a group that was meeting in northwest Arkansas about this bill, and they were very excited to see this come to our state. If anyone is interested, I'll be happy to try to explain what the blockchain is, but barring that, essentially all this does is this allows for blockchain technology to come to our state. It allows for smart contracts. Things that would traditionally take weeks now would be able to happen almost instantly in a secure fashion under this technology. So with that, I will take any questions. Barring none, I appreciate a good vote. Rep. Meeks has explained the bill. Would anyone like to
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:27:34
speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Rep. Meeks is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1944. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone When voted cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 92 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read
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House Bill 1958. House Bill 1958 by Representative Eaves to amend the Credit Repair Services Organization Act of 2017.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:28:15
Representative Eaves, you're recognized to explain the bill.
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Representative Les Eaves Unverified 1:28:17
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues, this is just a pretty simple bill. It amends Act 944 of 2017, it simply adds a sentence that signifies where correspondence is originating from when a credit repair organization prepares a dispute for a consumer. With that, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Eaves, does it explain the
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bill? Anyone like speak against the bill? Would anyone like speak for the bill? Representative Eaves is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1958. Prepare the machine Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted cast up the ballot Mr. Clerk. By vote of 89 yeas, 0 nay and 1 present the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1665. House
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Bill 1665 by Representative Brown to strengthen voter trust and trust in the election process and to amend the law
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Representative Karilyn Brown Unverified 1:29:23
concerning election process and administration. Representative Brown, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank You Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this bill for which the Secretary of State Elections Division and the State Board of election commissioners are in agreement primarily updates terminology and makes minor grammatical corrections it clarifies procedures and reduces opportunities for election fraud by those assisting disabled voters and with that I'd ask for a good vote thank
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you representative Brown has explained the bill would anyone like speak against the bill would anyone like speak for the bill represent Brown is closed for the bill the question before the house is the passage of house bill 1665 prepare the machine mr. clerk has everyone voted cast about mr. clerk by vote of 86 yeas three nays and two present the bill is passed mr. clerk please read Senate bill
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441 Senate bill 441 by representative Lundstrom to add restrictions regarding advertising of medical marijuana and use of certain symbols
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Representative Robin Lundstrum Unverified 1:30:48
represent Lundstrom you're recognized to explain the bill thank you colleagues our mr. speaker I'm currently the alcohol tobacco board it has set a level of rules for advertising This is the base for advertising for medical marijuana. This would codify those rules and put them into law. It's basically like setting a foundation for a good house. This makes advertising for medical marijuana look like medical marijuana advertising. It looks respectable, makes it medical, and keeps it medical. So far, everybody's on board. The industry is neutral, and I'm glad to say we're actually all working together, and this sets a good base for our state. And with that, I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Lundstrom has explained the bill. Would
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:31:30
anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative House, you're recognized to
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Representative Douglas House Unverified 1:31:37
speak for the bill. Thank you, colleagues. I do endorse this bill. Imagine driving down the street with your kids or grandkids and flashing neon signs and things like that, Daddy, Mama, what's And that's what this is designed to prevent. It's a good bill. The Attorney General has been brought in on this, and they helped draft it. They're the ones that have got to defend it against First Amendment challenges. This is a good bill. Thank you, Representative Lundstrom, for working on it so hard.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:32:12
Representative House has spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Lundstrom is closed for the bill. The question for the House is the passage of Senate Bill 441. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk my vote of 85 yeas two nays and five present the bill is passed mr. clerk please read Senate bill 455
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bill 455 by representative Cavanaugh to amend the law concerning catastrophically for municipal employees represent Cavanaugh you're recognized to
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh Unverified 1:32:57
explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, Senate Bill 455 just sets up the framework so that municipalities can set up a catastrophic leave bank for their employees. It's permissive. It doesn't require them to do so, but it sets up the framework so they can do so if they want to. We've made amendments so that towns that already have this policy in, that it can be more generous and they can keep their policy. And I would take any questions if you have any. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Kavanaugh has explained the
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:33:28
bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Kavanaugh is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 455. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 95 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 457. Senate
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Bill 457 by Representative Payton to regulate the administration of real property of the state and political subdivisions of the state. We'll
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pass over Senate Bill 457. Clerk please read Senate Bill 85. Senate
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Bill 85 by Representative Birch. To amend the law concerning service of a petition to terminate parental rights. Representative
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Representative LeAnne Burch Chair Unverified 1:34:28
Birch you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank You Mr. Speaker. Colleagues this deals with an area of law that it kind of nuanced again that child maltreatment stuff, but if you've had anyone in your family or you've known anyone who was involved with a foster care case where termination of parental rights was considered, you know how serious it is, how lasting an impact it can have on many, many lives. Parent counsel, the persons that are appointed to represent parents who don't have the ability to contract with an outside attorney, parent counsel are appointed to represent the parents in these kinds of cases, and they said that we really looked at things a little bit too strictly, and we would like to have the court be able to look at things a little bit more broadly with regard to efforts made by parents towards the last minute, the 11th hour of a permanency plan. What does that mean? When kids are removed and put into the foster care system, you generally see that there is a plan that's laid out that can last up to a year for parents to have the ability to rehabilitate themselves or the circumstances on which the children were removed. If towards the end of that year, no progress or little progress has been made, the court can entertain a petition to terminate parental rights. This makes two changes to the law such that parents who come in kind of at the last minute, but because of circumstances, perhaps they were jailed, perhaps they had reasons that were beyond their control for them to come in to the case early on, their efforts when they do come in can be considered and given proper weight. It really gives a little bit more discretion to the judge to consider. It doesn't make any responsibilities on the judge to change their feeling about it, but it really does offer a door to parents to give a little bit more hope that if they were in circumstances that prevented them from doing a permacy plan early on, they can come in and still make every effort to try to get their children back. I'd be happy to entertain any questions. Seeing none, I'd appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:36:34
Representative Birch has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Birch, it's closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 85. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? I cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 95 yeas, 1 nay, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 534.
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Senate Bill 534 by Representative Christensen to amend the law concerning distracted driving to comply with distracted driving requirements under federal law. Representative
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Christensen, you're recognized to explain the bill.
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Representative Craig Christiansen Unverified 1:37:44
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. The question that I was asked before I came down here is why are we doing this now on distracted driving? why are we making it a primary offense? Well, folks, we already have this law as a primary offense. The problem is we're not in compliance with federal law, and therefore there's things left on the table that could come back to Arkansas. This bill, Senate Bill 534, amends our existing distracted driving law. It was entitled Paul's Law. Paul's Law was enacted nearly a decade ago, and I'm sure you will agree that technology has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. As a primary offense, this is already law, but it's not current because it doesn't address that new technology nor the current language used by the federal government. This bill will put us in compliance with NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and bring us in compliance with those regulations and will then enable the Arkansas State Police and other agencies to apply for and receive safety grants and other incentives. It's important for you to know that this is a good amendment to an existing law, but vernacular is important and the correct language in our code matters to apply and receive federal funding. And right now, ladies and gentlemen, we are leaving that money on the table in Washington and not bringing it back home to Arkansas, where it can be used for educational programs to improve the safety of our driving public. This bill does the following. It defines texting and devices as used in federal definitions. It allows courts to have a base fine of $25. Currently in Arkansas, the base fee is up to the judge. And folks, that's one of the reasons we're leaving that money in Washington, because we don't have a baseline for our minimum fees. It excludes devices like GPSs and music players and CB radios and things like that. It allows for making phone calls, performance of official duties for first responders, reporting illegal activity, helping an emergency in similar circumstances. But it clearly provides restrictions on the following. Children under 18 years of age, complete prohibition of using a cell phone, except in an emergency 18 to 21 years of age hands-free and or in an emergency school zone prohibition which you have already voted on in this chamber already this session and highway work zones a complete prohibition except in an emergency most importantly this is well thought out comprehensive legislation becoming good public policy that will definitely save lives. It has the support of numerous organizations, including the Arkansas State Police, the Arkansas Children's Hospital, the Injury Prevention Center, and other law enforcement agencies. With that, I'm open to any questions that you might have, but remember this is a bill that is amending an existing law that is 10 years old.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:41:03
Representative McCollum, for what purpose? Question.
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Representative Austin McCollum Unverified 1:41:08
You're recognized. I believe I like what you're doing here. I did have a question with the way we're defining texting. At the end, it's saying that or engaging in any other form of electronic data retrieval or electronic data communication. To me, that would be any application, including a GPS, that Waze comes to mind because it's actively sending data back and forth, whether or not it's manual or not. there are many
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Representative Craig Christiansen Unverified 1:41:35
devices such as GPS representative column that are out there that are interactive but in this case once you program before you leave your driveway where am I going that will be sufficient and then it will you will get the interactive response have you
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Representative Austin McCollum Unverified 1:41:56
well follow-up you recognize and did I understand correctly it in the bill we're saying that if you're under 18 that you can't even use hands-free cell
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Speaker 216 1:42:04
phone. That is correct, because distracted driving
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Representative Craig Christiansen Unverified 1:42:07
at that particular point in time, and I will tell you, Representative McCollum, my 17 year old is highly in favor of this because he knows that I am a primary violator and have been for a long time. I've had to amend my personal habits while driving, as many of us do. We find ourselves picking up the phone and we answer it, and we find ourselves responding to that text, and we're programmed, and this is a means of changing that programming. With that, any further questions? I would ask for a good vote.
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Representative Christensen has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Christensen is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 534, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 67 yeas, 12 nays, and 8 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 582.
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Senate Bill 582 by Representative Richmond to provide a sales and use tax refund for machinery and equipment used to modify, replace, or repair molds and dyes used in manufacturing.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:43:27
Representative Richman, you're recognized to explain
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Representative Marcus E. Richmond Chair Unverified 1:43:34
the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues, for those whistles of support. I appreciate that. Currently, under the law, a manufacturer, any equipment that he purchases directly that is directly involved in the manufacturing process, he gets a tax break on that. There's an exemption. However, under the same current law, if he purchases equipment that is used to repair or modify equipment that is used in the manufacturing process, he gets no tax exemption on that. That bill 582 is going to change that to where he will get a tax exemption on the equipment that he purchases that is used to modify or repair the equipment that directly involved in the manufacturing process. That's what I know about this particular bill. The other thing I know about this bill is there is a fiscal impact. In fiscal year 20, it will be about $116,000, in fiscal year 21, a little over $200,000, and then in fiscal year 22, $265,000. The fiscal impact is so insignificant as far as DFA is concerned, they have no problem with this bill, they're just neutral on the bill. It's not an issue to them. With that said, however, $100,000, $200,000, $265,000 to that manufacturer could mean he hires an additional employee. He hires two additional employees. He expands his business. He hires carpenters and other personnel that comes in and works on that expansion. To him, $100,000, $200,000 is a significant amount of money. And that's why I would ask for a good vote. Representative Richmond has explained the bill.
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Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Richmond is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 582. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. vote of 90 a zero nay and two present the bill is passed mr. clerk please read Senate
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bill 584 Senate bill 584 by representative Monty Hodges to require the Department of Finance and Administration to provide space on income tax forms for an individual taxpayer to designate more than one account for direct deposit of the
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taxpayers refund representative Hodges you're recognized to
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Speaker 226 1:46:27
explain the bill thank you mr. speaker and colleagues no I do not have a steel mill bill today but I do have a bill that that has potential of those steel mill workers that's making all that money to do save a little bit of it Senate bill 584 as a line for savings empowering people to exercise personal responsibility for their own financial future the recent federal government shutdown brought much-needed attention to the fact that most Americans don't save enough for emergencies much less for retirement a a home, or higher education. SB 584 will provide Arkansans an opportunity to exercise personal responsibility for their finances by adding the option to their state income tax forms to direct deposit all or a portion of the refund into a savings account. Currently, there is only one option for direct deposit in a bank account. According to National Conference of state legislatures, tax refunds are often the largest lump sum payment a family receives all year. Data from Prosperity Now reveals that in Arkansas, only half of the population had emergency savings over the last year. That's $1.5 million. I mean, that's 1.5 million people who don't even have a saving account. Behavioral economics research shows that when we make it easy to save, people will save. Providing an easy way for people to save some of their tax refund will increase saving rates and boost economic opportunity, according to national research projects on financial security and mobility. Adding a second direct deposit line to state income tax forms makes the process of saving easier and helps Arkansans take control of their financial destiny and with that I would appreciate a good vote thank you. Representative Hodges has explained the bill would anyone like
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:48:25
to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Hodges is closed for the bill the question for the house is the passage of Senate Bill 584, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By vote of 94, yea, 0, nay, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate
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Bill 575. Senate Bill 575 by Representative Eubanks concerning the fines, fees, and costs that may be assessed for certain violations.
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Chair Unverified 1:49:08
Representative Eubanks, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this bill deals with a seatbelt violation. It caps the fine at $45 unless you go to court to fight it, and if you're found guilty, you're responsible for additional fees. Court costs. The seatbelt violation is still a primary offense. It doesn't jeopardize any federal funding. City and counties helped draft this bill, and the state police do not oppose this bill. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Eubanks has explained the bill. Would anyone like
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:49:41
to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Eubanks is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 575. Prepare the machine Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? cast out the ballot Mr. Clerk by a vote of 89 yeas 1 nay and 0 present the bill is passed Mr. Clerk please read Senate
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Bill 479 Senate Bill 479 by Representative Lynch to authorize and require the issuance of a title for a watercraft and to create the Arkansas Motorboat Registration and Titling
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:50:27
Act Representative Lynch you're recognized to
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Representative Roger D. Lynch Unverified 1:50:30
explain the bill Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I bring to you Senate Bill 479. This bill is an act to authorize and require the issuance of a title for a motor craft and to create the Arkansas Motor Boat Registration and Titling Act on any boat that's manufactured and sold after January 1, 2020. So this does not require any existing owner to go back and retitle a boat. but this is on boats that are manufactured after January 1st and sold after January 1st, 2020. This bill is supported by Game & Fish, law enforcement, and lending institutions. It has no known opposition. It does five things. One, it provides proof of ownership. Secondly, theft protection. Third, liens can be perfected. Fourth, boat titling would be consistent with surrounding states, and fifth, it would make Arkansas eligible for future possible federal grants.
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And with that, I'd take any questions. Representative Meeks, for what
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Representative Stephen Meeks Unverified 1:51:41
purpose? Please. You're recognized. Is there going to be a registration or title fee that the boat owner is going to have to pay, and will this registration be required once or year after year, or can you
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Representative Roger D. Lynch Unverified 1:51:51
kind of go into those details for us, please? So this is a one-time registration. It costs you the same as it does the title of the car, $10. And what you get for that service, of course, is the proof of ownership. The DMV will also make copies of your bill of sale and all the other paperwork associated with the sale of the boat so that if sometime in the future the boat is stolen, that information will be available from the Department of Motor Vehicles. all right no other questions i'd appreciate a good vote thank you representative lynch has explained
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the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill would anyone like to speak for the bill representative lynch is closed for the bill the question for the house is the passage of senate bill 479 prepare the machine mr clerk has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk by vote of 71 yeas 15 nays and three present the bill is passed mr. clerk please read senate
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bill 184 senate bill 184 by representative gonzalez to amend the definition of certified registered nurse anesthetist by removing supervision requirements representative gonzalez you're recognized to explain the bill
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 1:53:07
thank you mr speaker I hear a lot of noise. This
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 1:53:14
is the one we've all been waiting for. We'll get this one over with, and y'all quit getting the emails, I promise. Well, maybe. I can't promise that. I hadn't sent them. Okay, Senate Bill 184 simply removes, under the supervision of, and replaces it with, in coordination with in the Nurse Practice Act. This is for Certified Registered Nurse Anathesis, removes supervision requirement, and replaces within coordination with. It was funny this morning on a totally different bill, I got a text from a lobbyist that I found out later is actually working against this bill. This didn't apply to this, but he said, we all know the way to kill a bill is to muddle and confuse the issue, you have to ask yourself why are they just now raising these bogus arguments? I thought, wow, how much does that apply to this bill? It's not the one he's talking about, but there's been lots of misinformation about this that started out in committee. One of the first things that said, I'll hit the highlights of things that have been said, that CRNAs are not safe, removal of supervision is not needed, they mentioned dental deaths in Texas, that CRNAs just wanted to open up pain clinics, and that if we do this, that we won't get reimbursed from Medicare anymore. All those things are false. of the letters that we got, you would think that the people who are sending these, and a lot of them being physicians, don't realize how CRNAs practice today. In rural settings, currently, in all of our critical access hospitals in the state, CRNAs do 100% of the anesthesia care in critical access hospitals. That happens today. If they weren't safe, we would all know about it. There have been no complaints to the nursing board about CRNAs maiming people or anything else. so we know that they're safe because we know that they're out there practicing today there's 600 plus cRNAs out in the state practicing today there's 200 something anesthesiologists other letters would leave you to lead you to believe that cRNAs are supervised by anesthesiologists which is the case in some of our larger hospitals it is not the case in in all hospitals for some hospitals, that model works really well for them and they'll be able to keep that model. We are not dictating to hospitals here how they have to practice. If they decide that they need supervision of CRNAs in their hospital then they can put that in their policies and they can keep operating just like they are today. We're not looking to change that at all. There was actually a letter sent from a doctor at UAMS on UAMS letterhead that spoke about, well, started in about how unsafe CRNAs were to start with and went through a bunch of different things, how unsafe they were. And at the bottom of the letter, if you'll give me just a minute, actually I may not have printed that out, but she, anyway, this doctor accused the Heart Hospital of operating illegally by using unsupervised CRNAs in practice, resulting in the deaths of patients. So she accused them of killing people by using unsupervised CRNAs. Number one, that doctor did not have permission to send that out on UAMS letterhead. UAMS trains anesthesiologists, and they're starting a program to train nurse anesthetists. They are neutral on this bill. They have no opinion on it whatsoever. That doctor also had to write a retraction letter saying she did not have permission to send that out on UAMS letterhead. and Dr. Cam Patterson that's the head of UAMS had also had to send an apology letter out to the heart hospital as did Dr. Kimbrough that wrote that letter. As far as the Texas dental deaths go that were mentioned in committee we had BLR do a little bit of research on that to see exactly what the case was there. There were 19 cases. I'll read what BLR said about it. They did a blue ribbon study in Texas to figure out what exactly was going on there. BLR found the study. They found six cases as major sedation anesthesia events, cases that resulted in mortality or permanent morbidity, and was directly related to mishandled sedation anesthesia and 13 cases as mishaps, resulting 13 cases of mishaps, cases and adverse events occurred without permanent injury and was directly related to mishandling of sedation anesthesia. In these 19 cases, no CRNAs were named as providing the anesthesia sedation, so there has been one thing after another that's misleading information out there on this. They are just trying to confuse the issue. CRNAs are perfectly safe to work with. The issue of pain clinics. CRNAs can open pain clinics today with a doctor. That's not going to change. And the reason that won't change is because it still has to be a doctor that orders anesthesia. CRNAs have no prescriptive authority. They can't order the prescription. There has to be a doctor that orders it. There's always going to be a doctor in the presence of these nurse anesthetists as the doctors are performing surgeries. There's not going to be CRNAs out there putting people to sleep for no reason. There will always be a doctor there in the case of a surgery or major operation or something like that where the pain clinics come in is that they are qualified to do nerve blocks and certain procedures like that. We're not talking about pain clinics that, you know, just distribute pills. We're not talking about the pill mill pain clinics that we think of today when we talk about this or when we talk about the pain clinics. As far as the Medicare issue, Medicare allows states to decide if they want supervision or not. So there's currently 40 states that do not require supervision in any of their legislation or code, medical board rules, nursing board rules, or anything like that. 17 of those states have decided to completely opt out of supervision with Medicare. But as long as we have the supervision language in our code, we wouldn't ever even have the option to opt out of the Medicare supervision. But there's 40 states that do not have supervision in their code, only 17 that have opted out. I think that covers most of the main points that I wanted to hit. Do you all have any
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questions? Representative Cloud, for what purpose? Question, please. You're recognized. Representative Gonzalez, you've told us a whole lot of things that will not change. Would you please define exactly what will change with this
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:01:25
bill and in coordinating with, please? Yeah, so there is a perceived liability in rural areas for some surgeons that have less training in anesthesia than the CRNAs do. So when a physician comes from one of those 40 states that doesn't require supervision, and they're looking at going to work in one of our rural hospitals, and they say, oh, well, I have to now supervise anesthesia. Well, I don't know that I'm real comfortable with that. So it just removes that perceived liability there of, well, I mean, just the liability. It removes the liability from that care. Possibly give them a little more comfort in coming to work in our rural hospitals.
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Representative Ferguson, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized. I just wanted to address the UAMS issue. I mean, I think it might not be a question of whether UAMS agrees or disagrees. Earlier in the session, an APRN also sent out a letter on UAMS stationary, and Dr. Patterson asked them to retract it as well. I think it's just UAMS policy that they not, if they want to advocate for something, they do it personally, but not do it in the name of UAMS.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:02:40
Is that what you understand? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, they did not have permission to advocate on behalf of UAMS, and UAMS remains neutral on this legislation. Right. It's not
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Representative Deborah Ferguson Unverified 2:02:51
just because it's CRNAs. I mean, it was for the APRNs as well. Right. That's for
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:02:56
everybody. None of the physicians or anybody else working there has permission to speak on behalf of UAMS. I know y'all got lots of information on that. Surely y'all had some questions.
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Speaker 251 2:03:12
But I'll move out and let some
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 2:03:19
people come speak against this. Representative Gonzalez has explained the bill. would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Cloud, you're recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr.
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Representative Joe Cloud Unverified 2:03:39
Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Representative Gonzalez said one of the main reasons, if not the only reason, for this bill is for the rural areas, and maybe, possibly, I believe was the word he used, decreasing liability. I'm not a trial lawyer, but I've been on the other side of the fence here, and I would welcome obviously any lawyers in the group to speak to this, but if there's going to be a lawsuit, everybody's going to be involved, and that surgeon in the operating room is going to be at the head of the list. So this bill will not decrease liability, I promise you that. So I would ask you to consider a no vote.
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Thank you. Representative Clout has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Richmond, you recognize, speak
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Representative Marcus E. Richmond Chair Unverified 2:04:41
for the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Colleagues, I've had the displeasure of being put out and put down, I guess, five different times for different surgeries another thing and during that time right before I blink out the last thing I have never seen a doctor ever supervising the medication that I'm receiving now they may be somewhere but in my opinion if there is a problem it's already too late and each time I have managed to wake up again so i would ask that you consider that and please vote for this thank you representative
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richmond spoken for the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill representative birch you
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Representative LeAnne Burch Chair Unverified 2:05:36
recognize speaking against the bill thank you mr speaker i was going to ask how you knew, Representative Richmond, that that wasn't an anesthesiologist who is a medical doctor that was administering your anesthesia in any of those five circumstances. So a little context for me. My son is an anesthesiologist in the Army. He became a medical doctor at UAMS. I know a lot of the kids that are, I still consider kids, that went through school with him. And while I was in the Army for more than three years, I practiced risk management at three, well, two of the Army's bigger hospitals. So I look at a lot of research. It's very important to me. So when we started getting emails and calls about this, I started trying to pull together some things. And I wanted just to share with you some of the information that I think may have been, and I can interpret differently than what you've heard already. So just to be really clear, the differences between the CRNA and an anesthesiologist is really not what's so big here. It's about risk and safety of patients. Although a nurse anesthetist is a nurse, can be a nurse anesthetist with six or so years of training, an anesthesiologist trades in his 13th year of training after high school. He's going to take his boards. In fact, his oral boards are tomorrow, Wednesday, God willing. So you have to know it's controversial and scary, right, because of all the information that you've received. So about that opt-out thing, in 2001, the Fed said that you can opt out, you can still get Medicare, but you can opt out of having supervision if you're a CRNA. The states have to do it, you have to have the authorization in the law, the governor has to get with the nurse board and the medical board, and this is a step to allow that to happen. But let me tell you, Of those 17 states that have opted out in the last five years, only one has done it. That was Kentucky. And in fact, before that, the last one that did this opt-out was 10 years prior, and then it was California. So think, if this was such a great and safe thing for people to be doing, wouldn't we be seeing the trend to be escalating and more states doing it? In fact, because of the statistics and the concerns with regard to this no supervision concern. I don't think we are. The number 40 was referred to, and I got that a couple of times. About 40 other states have removed supervision, so I went to look at that. In fact, that number is really misleading because many of the states require more supervision, and I've got the list of every state if you want to look, and of the five that don't require supervision or collaboration, one is Alaska, one is Montana, one is Utah. Obviously, we're looking at very rural sites where maybe a surgeon or doctor couldn't get someplace quickly. The states that require different and might not have supervision in their language have things like ordered by physician, physician direction, direction and supervision, consultation and or collaboration with physician, or a written protocol. So they might not have the word supervision in their language. They have something even more strong. So you keep hearing about this, and you may have seen the email. I certainly saw a lot of them that said this is about rural health care access. And the truth is, CRNAs are absolutely doing the bulk of the care. They even have a provision where they get paid the same thing as anesthesiologists in critical access health care sites, which is a great thing. We pay a lot of money, and we expect to have the best care, and we want to do that. But every one of those still has supervision or some kind of oversight where somebody is looking over by a medical doctor. If you think that rural hospitals are having trouble recruiting surgeons because of this issue, you probably didn't talk to very many surgeons or rural hospitals this weekend, and I did. I also found four recent studies on whether opt-out states have greater rural inpatient or outpaced health care access, and all four of those studies concluded no. I'll be happy to get them for you. Even the AANA website states there's no increased liability for doctors that supervise CRNAs. The people that did contact me to vote yes for this bill attached studies from 1998. Again, the opt-out requirement started, or the ability to do that was in 2001, and I saw one from 2010. They didn't attach the 2017 research that statistically shows that surgery procedures where CRNAs work without physician supervision, that's not what we have right now, but it's what it would be if this bill passes. They have worse outcomes, more complications, and they require additional treatment. That 2017 study, I have it on my desk, estimates that these cost individuals an average of $1,800 higher per surgery. What's even scarier in this language, though, and what you need to know is no other state in the nation has language like this. It's not defined in coordination with, it's nowhere else. It's open to interpretation, and when you do that, lawyers make a lot of money, and I'm a lawyer, and words matter. And in this case, when it's not defined, it leaves, again, open interpretation when there's been a bad outcome, because that's when the suits are going to happen. Are you willing for that bad outcome to have happened to a family member or to a constituent? We recently debated practicing telemedicine without a face-to-face visit. Getting medical treatment over the phone from someone that might coordinate with your anesthesia provider in an emergency puts people at risk. People with money and people in places like the big cities are always going to have access to the doctors, the anesthesiologists, to the best equipment. We are putting people in rural health care at risk if this bill passes. So the biggest statistic that I want to consider as I vote on this is that 2012 research that found that states that have opted out of the requirement for CRNAs to be supervised by a physician have shown an 80% increase in risk of complications and adverse outcomes for patients, and a separate study showed that where there are complications, the death rate increases to 7 per 1,000 surgeries. One is too many. Is it an acceptable risk for you to take, to open the door, to be the only state in the nation with undefined language such as this? It's too big a risk for me. I ask you to vote no
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for this bill. Representative Birch has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Bentley,
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you recognize I speak for the bill. Colleagues like Representative Birch, I spent the weekend visiting with my hospital administrators throughout my district who are 100% in favor of this bill because every day throughout the vast majority of the hospitals in Arkansas, there's not anesthesiologists around. The only anesthesiologists around are here in Little Rock or in Fayetteville. They're not in rural Arkansas. Every day, those CRNAs are doing an awesome job taking care of patients like they have for hundreds of years. It's just the facts. Nurses were doing it before doctors were doing it. So they're doing safe care, proven care, and tomorrow they're going to take care of 90% of our patients, over 90% of our constituents are going under. It's going to be with a CRNA, and they're going to do an awesome job. This is perceived liability, not liability. We know that everyone in there is still liable, but it's perceived liability, and I've talked with folks that are very concerned about their podiatrists, their general surgeons. They haven't studied anesthesiology. they don't know how to put a patient out and they're right in the order to put it out because they trust the CRNA to do it I'm not going to be a broken record but our healthcare costs are skyrocketing this is one step in the right direction to do a tiny, tiny speck of competition and we can't sit back and say we're going to keep doing the same old thing and wonder why our costs are continuing to go up and up and so I can tell you that the administrators at my hospital are 100% in favor of this and I will be voting for this bill and I appreciate a yes vote thank you
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Representative Bentley has spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative McGee, you're recognized to speak against the bill.
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Thank you. Broke the mic. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to address a couple of issues. In Arkansas last year, there were about 300,000 patients that underwent surgery, 300,000. Now, you've heard the comment that 90% of people CRNAs are doing their anesthesiologist. That may be true, but two-thirds of that 300,000, two-thirds, 200,000 of them are done by CRNAs that are under supervision by an anesthesiologist. That's a fact. They're not done in coordination with, they're done under the supervision of the physician that's there. So the biggest key issue that I have is when this all came out through the Senate, there was a mandatory language that was offered to address some of these situations. And all the mandatory language said was, where there's an anesthesiologist, you keep the words under direct supervision. That's what they do today. That's what's happening out there in the world today. It's not going to change. So just leave that. Out in the rural access, rural hospitals, the language that was offered to use in coordination with, but they wanted something else, and they just asked the medical society, asked that the doctor that's responsible for that sign the chart. Those were reasonable, reasonable amendments that would accomplish their goals. Those were rejected. So I think that the language that was offered directly dealt with what the CNAs have complained about for years and that they weren't actually being supervised by the physician that's there at the time of surgery. Why they want to completely change this, it's beyond me. So with that, I don't know why this legislation is needed. It's not going to change really what's going on out there in the world. I think that they need physician supervision. Thank you. Representative McGee has spoken against the
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bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Brown, you're recognized to speak for
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Representative Karilyn Brown Unverified 2:16:56
the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am going to be voting for this bill, and I'm going to read you a letter. I apologize, but I think it says it all. This letter is from Kevin Spears, Chief Operating Officer of Stone County Medical Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. He says he strongly supports Senate Bill 184. We are a critical access hospital with two operating suites and an endoscopy suite, performing 1,500 procedures annually. We care for patients within Stone County as well as many from surrounding counties. We care for some of the most vulnerable Arkansans, many of whom are financially unable to travel long distances to receive care. We rely solely on certified registered nurse anesthetists. Representative McGee, for what purpose?
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It was my impression that we weren't allowed to read someone else's material from the
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well. Representative Brown, the remarks from the well need to be from yourself as opposed to from another
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person. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I apologize for that break in procedure, but I will be speaking for this bill because I believe one of the greatest things that we need to accomplish is to getting health care out to our rural areas. These CRNAs are currently operating there. The surgeons that do work in these centers are not supervising the CRNAs during a procedure. They are performing procedures. Removing this word does not change what actually occurs in that operating room. It simply removes a stigma that the surgeons may feel who might be needed in that hospital. And with that, I would truly appreciate a good vote for this bill. Thank you. Representative Birch,
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for what purpose? Question. Representative Brown has left the well. Representative Brown has spoken in favor of the bill, would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Gray, you recognize to speak against the
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Representative Michelle Gray Unverified 2:19:19
bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So this bill, I have to go a couple different routes with this bill because I'm going to tell you guys, I'm going to start here. I'm going to start with the personal side of it. I'm kind of getting hammered back home from this bill because as Representative Brown spoke to the bill, Kevin Spears is the administrator of Stone County Hospital in Mountain View, Arkansas, and that's in my district. I have not been told personally that he is in favor of this bill, And I have not been told by the administration of his parent hospital, White River Health System, that they are in favor of this bill. And it's my understanding they are neutral on this bill as they employ an anesthesiologist who has nine CRNAs that he supervises and that he works with. They have a model that works great for them. And so what I want to say with this is, I'll try not to make it personal again. And I had another email from a physician from Stone County. I believe the entire chamber got it. I have great respect for that physician. He's a surgeon. But his wife's a CRNA, and he failed to put that in his email out. When he sent it out to everybody, he's with a business there in Mountain View. So this kind of got personal for me as I feel like I've been getting attacked on this bill because everybody's trying to hit me because I'm Stone County and I was on the committee. So this bill failed once with, I think it got nine yes votes, or might have got ten yes votes. And then it passed the second time with 11 yes votes. So it's been very controversial. But my question this whole time has been, what are we trying to fix? That's why I brought up my hospital, because the model they employ, they have an anesthesiologist, and that model works great. I think there are some hospitals in the state that don't have an anesthesiologist on staff, and their model works great. But no matter whether you have an anesthesiologist or you don't have an anesthesiologist, anesthesiologist, you still have physician supervision. There's still a physician in that operating room with you supervising. Nowhere in the current scope bill does it say it has to be an anesthesiologist supervising. It has to be a physician with a higher level of education and training supervising what's going on in that OR. So my question is, what is it that we are trying to fix? Because I haven't been, I don't see how it's broken anywhere in the state. I don't see how we can make it any better. This doesn't add to quality. This won't bring anybody else to rural Arkansas. Where are all the hospitals at in rural Arkansas coming and saying, apparently I have one in Stone County saying that, although I'm not entirely sure that the other, you know, White River Health System has supported that decision, saying this will help us. They have plenty of CRNAs and they have an anesthesiologist already. In coordination with isn't defined in this bill, So why don't we define it? Well, we don't want to define it. It's not defined in any other state scope bill in Arkansas or, according to Representative Birch, that she could find nationally. It's not there. So why not just remove that section altogether? Why don't you just strike out the coordination, the supervision and coordination with a licensed physician? If we don't need anything, if they're going to coordinate with physicians anyhow, then just strike that entire language and be done with it. But that's not what we did. I was told that a compromise was offered up between the anesthesiologists and the CRNAs to essentially better define the bill to rural Arkansas. If you say it's about rural Arkansas, then let's do that. And all that Representative Gonzalez, I know he'll probably speak to that when he comes down. But essentially, I was told that they came to the table multiple times trying to ask for that. If that's what this is about, it's rural Arkansas, then let's make that about this. And they were refused. So I would like for Representative Gonzalez to address that. So with that said, I just don't know, and that's what we could never figure out. We were going back and forth and back and forth. There's Representative Gonzalez I was looking through. We were going back and forth and back and forth in committee. What's this actually about? It's about liability. No, it's not about liability because where are the doctors lined up or the physicians lined up saying, you need to save us from liability? And have you ever, since we've been down here, how many groups have actually said, such as the CRNAs are trying to say here, give us more liability? They don't do that. So my question and the question for most of the public health members that were against this is, what is it we are trying to do here? This doesn't fix anything. So with that, I can tell you, I got passionate, and it got a little personal for me with my hospital getting involved. But with that, I plan to vote no. And I'd appreciate anyone else that wanted to follow suit and vote no as well.
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Thank you. Representative Gray has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Davis, you're recognized to speak
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Representative Marsh Davis Unverified 2:24:01
for the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I didn't really plan on coming down here, but after listening to all the back and forth, a couple of things that have come to mind. One is it seems as though what we're doing with the bill, the purpose of the bill, is to actually put the law to match what's already in practice. It sounds like this is what we're already doing. It doesn't necessarily match the terminology in the law, so we're correcting that. As for coordination not being defined in the law, neither is supervision. The one thing I wanted to point out was that actually, if you just continue reading in the existing language, it says administration of anesthetics under the supervision of, but not necessarily in the presence of, a licensed physician, so on and so forth. If the supervisor is not in the presence of the CRNA, then what are they doing beyond coordination?
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I appreciate a good vote. Representative Davis has spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Johnson, you're recognized to
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Representative Lee Johnson Unverified 2:25:13
speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. Of all the scope bills we've done, this is the one that feels like it's gotten the most off the rails. We heard a lot of things said in and out of committee. We've heard a lot of things said today on both sides of the issue, and most of them really weren't by legislators. A lot of things coming from two groups of people, professions, that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. This is from anesthesiologists, and this is from CRNAs. These are both colleagues that I've worked with for many years and have a lot of respect for, but it feels like they got off topic really quick. This bill is not about the competency of CRNAs to do their job. CRNAs are very well trained. I trust them to provide anesthesia to anyone in my family. As Representative Davis pointed out, they are not currently required to practice in the presence of a physician. They are currently allowed to practice free from the presence of a physician. What we're doing by changing this word supervision to coordination, in my mind is creating confusion. Confusion over who's in charge and who's really responsible and possibly confusion during a critical time in a patient's care. Currently in the ER, if a patient goes south, I know who's in charge. I'm in charge. If a patient goes south and it's a trauma, I'm in charge until the surgeon arrives. The surgeon is more qualified than me to manage that trauma patient, and now he's in charge. I think the worst thing you could possibly do is create a situation where now you have confusion in the operating room over who's really supervising the patient. Coordination is ill-defined. I don't think the way the current statute is written is good, and I made that comment in committee. I've talked to Representative Gonzalez. I feel like this could be markedly improved. I'm voting no against this bill because I think it's confusing. I don't think it improves the status quo, but I think there is room to improve the status quo. And as I've said to Representative Gonzalez, if this doesn't pass, I'm committed to working with him to come to some sort of compromise that I think will make the situation better for both the CRNAs and the anesthesiologists. And with that, I'd appreciate a no
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vote. Thank you. Representative Penzo, for what purpose? Representative Johnson. Bushen. Representative Johnson already left the well. Representative Johnson has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Penzo, you're
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Representative Clint Penzo Unverified 2:27:50
recognized to speak for the bill. When this bill first came out, of all the scope of practice bills, this was probably the one that scared me the most until I realized that the CRNAs were already providing anesthesia to patients. And then I was really confused about what the hassle is. This, and the question I was going to ask Dr. Johnson, or Representative Johnson, pardon me, was if that's hospital policy, how the hierarchy is set, who's in charge in the room, or state statute dictates that. I believe that the hospital has policies and procedures. This is permissive language that doesn't change anything in a facility if they still choose to have an anesthesiologist in charge in that room. Currently, under state law, we have CRNAs administering anesthesia to patients underneath the supervision of a podiatrist who may have zero training or experience in anesthesia. So they are supervising somebody that is better trained than they are in that particular field. So I think the coordination with is more applicable. We've had two people down here speak against this that are saying it's okay to do this in rural Arkansas, but just not in the cities. If it's okay in rural Arkansas, why is it not okay in the cities? I mean, I just don't understand if they're willing to allow this to happen in rural Arkansas, and it's up to the facility to tell their employees who's in charge in that emergency room. I mean, this all comes down to people like to throw around local control. Let the facility determine who's in charge in the emergency room. Thank you.
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Representative Penzo has spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Gonzalez,
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you're recognized to close for the bill. I was just told to make it quick, so I'll try to wrap this up pretty fast, Monty. So just to address a few of the things that were set up here against this, the doctors don't have to be liable for the anesthesia care that they have less training in, okay? There is a perceived liability, yes, the CRNAs and the physicians and everybody else will get named in a lawsuit. That happens today, but with that language of supervision in there, it puts them at a perceived greater liability than what they have to be at for something that they are not as trained as the CRNA that's working underneath them. The people who do the most risk management, insurance companies. That's their business model. They do it for a living. Medical malpractice is not any higher for a CRNA than it is an anesthesiologist, and actually the rates have dropped over the years, so it's gotten cheaper. And if this wasn't safe in the 17 states that have opted out, would they not rescind their opt-out? It's very simple. All the governor has to do is send a letter saying, we no longer want to opt out. But that's not been the case. They have not opted out. Some of the studies that were cited were, you know, from 2001 or whatever they said was after the opt-out. Well, in 97, the federal government just completely removed supervision in Medicare. The Bush administration came in and gave the state's authority to opt out. So there was a little confusion there in that time frame between 97 and 2001 when all that happened. But now states do have the authority to opt out. you heard talk about the definition of supervision that's in our current law. It says under the supervision of, but not necessarily in the presence of. So I would say, you know, that's even less defined than coordination that we're trying to replace it with. Last session, it was offered to strike all of that language like was mentioned in an amendment here, and that was fought against. There's no way that they wanted that to pass. Nobody brought an amendment to me, the House sponsor of this bill, until yesterday afternoon when it was on the calendar. It was the first I had heard about an offer of an amendment from the Medical Society. Now granted, the Medical Society doesn't really like me much, so they don't really want to work with me. But, you know, never mind that, I am the House sponsor, so they could have brought me an amendment. But that did not happen. And like Representative Penzo said, why would it be okay to have unsupervised CRNA in a rural area but not in an urban area? I mean, if they're safe for one population, they're safe for another. The lives of our rural population isn't any less important than our urban population. The CEO of Stone County Medical did send a letter. I have that letter right here. I'll quote one sentence from it if I'm allowed. I'm the Chief Operating Officer of Stone County Medical Center in Mountain View, Arkansas, and strongly support SB-184. Representative Gonzalez, as I
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 2:33:42
alluded to earlier, your statements from the well need to be your statements. Okay, thank you, sir.
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Colleagues, that's all I've got. this removes a perceived liability you heard a couple of doctors that came down here and spoke against this. It's not really going to change the way things operate now it will just give us the option to opt out and remove that perceived liability. I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Gonzalez is
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 2:34:17
closed for the bill. The question before the house is the passage of Senate Bill 184. Prepare the machine Mr. Clerk. As everyone voted, cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 49 yeas, 37 nays, and 5 present, the bill has failed. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 278.
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Senate Bill 278 by Representative Hawkes to amend laws concerning abortion facilities and abortion reporting, to amend the born-alive infant protection laws, and to require additional knowledge under the Women's Right to Know Act.
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Representative Spencer Hawks Unverified 2:34:59
Representative Hawks, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Colleagues, SB 278 is a good bill that is here to protect our children and our mothers. What SB 278 does is it codifies the Eighth Circuit Court's opinion on abortion clinic regulations in the Arkansas Department of Health rules and regulations. Abortion patients will have the access to a 24-hour telephone consultation with either a registered nurse or a physician associated with the abortion facility. The abortion facility shall have written procedures for emergency transfers. The abortion facility shall be within 30 miles of a hospital that provides gynecological or surgical services. The abortion facility shall have an emergency drugs and equipment on site. This bill also requires abortion doctors to report any abortion that results in a live birth and includes penalties for failing to comply with the abortion reporting requirements. This bill also amends the Women's Right to Know Act of 2015 by requiring a signed form listing acknowledging all possible complications from abortion from 48 hours to 72 hours. Folks, this is a good bill, again, that protects our mothers and our children, and I'd appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 2:36:17
Representative Hawks has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Hawks has closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 278. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 75 yeas, 13 nays, and when present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 468.
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Senate Bill 468 by Representative Penzo to amend the requirements for a personal care service provider, private care agency, and home health care services agency regarding visits to a patient's home and the distance of an office from the patient's home.
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Representative Penzo, you're recognized to explain the bill.
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Representative Clint Penzo Unverified 2:37:15
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is not a scope of practice bill. Okay, Senate Bill 468 is a bill that addresses the excessive regulations that Arkansans currently have in place in the unskilled home care marketplace. The unskilled caregivers help clean, cook, assist others with activities of daily living, and provide respite care for the other caregivers. This bill requires the Department of Health to adopt new rules of provision of unskilled home care in Arkansas using the advice of a temporary advisory council of industry stakeholders that is created for a finite purpose and for a very limited period of time. It'll only go through November 1st of 2019 to ensure that the regulations are more consistent with home care regulations in the surrounding states. This will remove the requirement that our RN must visit a client's home who's receiving unskilled care every 62 days to observe the unskilled caregiver. Currently a nurse has to go out and a skilled individual nurse has to watch unskilled activities being taken place by the caregiver. Instead this bill would require that new rules be adopted to require a qualified supervisor to visit the home at a frequency that is aligned with the client's needs. Qualified supervisor is defined in this bill and it mirrors the definition from Texas. Because these services are unskilled services, it is not necessary to have a nurse, watch a caregiver clean, prepare meals, etc. In addition, the current payment model from DHS does not support an RE incoming to a client's home. This bill would eliminate that unfunded mandate. Having said that, there are still RNs from both DHS and Optum that are still involved in assessing these individuals, and this bill does not change that. Lastly, the rules currently require that a physical office be kept within a 50-mile radius of the client's home. This bill would extend that radius to a minimum of 100 miles. This bill will reduce unnecessary government regulation, will facilitate our regulations being more in line with Texas and Missouri and will allow home care providers to more efficiently provide care to their clients. I've talked to Representative Miller about this as he is involved with receiving this type of care, as is my sister, I believe I've talked to you all about that before, she was diagnosed about two and a half years ago with ALS, so she has unskilled caregivers come into her home and help her you know with bathing and cooking and things of that nature and it makes no sense that a nurse comes out to tell them if they're doing those things adequately the company can send out someone else to make sure that employee is providing the appropriate services i don't think a skilled individual needs to be overseeing non-skilled activities if have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. If not, I just would appreciate
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Representative Deborah Ferguson Unverified 2:40:42
a good vote. Representative Ferguson, for what purpose? Can you address the Medicaid Inspector General spoke against this bill in committee. She said she thought it would increase the
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cost because there would be more fraud in the system. She did come speak against it. She is concerned about fraud in general. She She thinks that there is rampant fraud in this field. The argument that a nurse or another employee from the company committing fraud is going to turn that person in, that makes no sense. The logic behind what she was arguing, I'll say that everybody but one person on the committee agreed with that as it passed out with just one dissenting vote. So I believe in my opinion there are plenty of other medical professionals and I will I will state I know that when my sister when her caregiver comes up the first thing she does is walk over to my sister and ask her for cell phone because she has to log on to my sister's phone to time in so I mean that's that's part of where and that's that's being implemented for all the companies that aren't using it will be mandatory the electric verification process so I mean that part of the fraud portion is going to be done away with so I really don't see how a non skilled or skilled person is going to help reduce fraud when they come into the home it's a it's an invalid argument and I think the majority of
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Speaker 280 2:42:21
people probably agree with that representative Walker what purpose question
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Representative John W. Walker Chair Unverified 2:42:25
you're recognized did I understand you to say that it's not necessary for regulation purposes to have them to have a skilled person supervise an unskilled person I'm saying that that is that what you said that's all I'm about to repeat what I said my question was based on that premise isn't it true that even though these people are unskilled it is important for them to be able to read write understand they do have to apply bandages they have to apply medication they have to help at least from time to time they help they're not allowed they're not allowed to provide skilled service it
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Representative Clint Penzo Unverified 2:43:04
depends aren't they allowed to depend are they required
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Representative John W. Walker Chair Unverified 2:43:10
from time to time to help bathe people yes all right and i know those circumstances they have to observe whether or not persons are debilitating or perhaps injured and things like that and that that has to be reported to a nurse or some other medical person isn't
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Representative Clint Penzo Unverified 2:43:29
that part of what they are expected there are multiple people involved as far as nursing professionals that come in and out and check up on the patients this is somebody that has to come in and make sure that they're washing the clothes foods in the fridge you don't need an RN you can have another skilled level and it doesn't say what that person has to be so I mean it doesn't need to be
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Representative John W. Walker Chair Unverified 2:43:58
a nurse that comes into the home would are you just opposed to regulation because it's
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regulation no represent Douglas for purpose question recognized
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Representative Dan M. Douglas Unverified 2:44:12
represent Penzo last fall whenever the new Medicaid rules came out on home care and assisted living I can you refresh my memory did they not say that the state of Texas and other states around do not require these registered nurses to be on staff because during the assessment period and other things are additional nurses on staff and that this bill would just put Arkansas in line with surrounding states that that is correct thank you thank you appreciate a good
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vote Rep. Penzo has explained the bill,
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:44:49
does anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 468. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. With 72 yays, 15 nays, and one present, the bill passes. Mr. Clerk, please
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read Senate Bill 590. Senate Bill 590 by Representative Boyd to provide that a cottage food production operation in certain situations is exempt from the definition of food service establishment.
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Representative Justin Boyd Unverified 2:45:36
Representative Boyd, you're recognized to present the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think this bill is a little more fun than some of them we've had today. This bill is about freedom and entrepreneurship. This is a bill where the political left can meet the political right, and there's plenty of room in the middle to accommodate all of the moderates. So what this bill does is it does a slight but important expansion of the Cottage Food Act that was passed in 2011 by former State Rep. Lori Benedict and Senator Missy Irvin. So what it does is it allows pop-up shops. So say I own a business, and I think it would be beneficial for me to have a cottage food industry person come in. and I can allow them to come in and have a pop-up shop. So it's very simple, but very important, and I'll take any
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Representative Dan M. Douglas Unverified 2:46:27
questions. Douglas, for what purpose? Representative Boyd, is this about
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Representative Justin Boyd Unverified 2:46:33
selling cottage cheese? Thank you, Representative Douglas, for that important question. So just in case somebody doesn't understand what a cottage food is, it's not cottage cheese. That would not be an example of one. So currently, Arkansans are allowed to produce baked goods, candies, fruit butters, jams, and jellies and sell them in a limited number of places, including county fairs, farmers markets, and special events. And this would include pop-up shops. You recognize for
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Representative Dan M. Douglas Unverified 2:46:58
a follow-up? So that means somebody could bake food at home and take them out and sell them at a bake sale or whatever, and they'd be covered here? Right.
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Representative Justin Boyd Unverified 2:47:08
Specifically, what this does is, I mean, so there are certain things you cannot do. like you can't do smoked meats, but like jams, jellies, honeys, brownies, those type products can be made and sold at certain events, but specifically this allows pop-up shops, which would be inside another business. Thank you for those good questions. Seeing no further questions, I'd
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appreciate a really good vote. Representative Boyd has
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:47:32
explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Boyd has closed for the bill. The other question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 590. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 91 yea, 0 nay, 0 present, the bill passes. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 397. Senate Bill 397 by Representative Brown.
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to amend the law regarding lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for a resident disabled veteran and to include a lifetime combination hunting and fishing license with a state
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:48:20
duck and trout stamp. Representative Brown,
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Representative Karilyn Brown Unverified 2:48:30
you're recognized to present the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I'm presenting Senate Bill 397 on behalf of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and with the support of the Arkansas Veterans Caucus. The Game and Fish Commission wanted me to share with you that the current cost of a lifetime hunting and fishing license to the general public is $1,000. The proposed cost for the Disabled Veterans Lifetime Hunting and Fishing License is $52.50. This bill would double the reach of eligibility for disabled veterans and from currently 7,000 disabled veterans at 100% disabled to cover 14,000 additional veterans who are 70% disabled or greater. The Game and Fish Division, Department of Game and Fish worked diligently with the Department Veterans Affairs to get this language correct and charging the one-time cost allows the agency to get federal certification for conservation grant dollars for ongoing projects. So with that I would ask you for a good vote. Thank you. Representative Brown has explained the
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:49:55
bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Brown are you closed for the bill? Representative Brown is closed for the bill. The question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 397. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. With 91 yay, 0 nays, 0 present, the bill passes. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 583. Senate Bill 583 by Representative
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Dodson to amend the Arkansas Municipal Accounting Law concerning debit cards and credit card
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Representative Jim Dotson Unverified 2:50:42
payments. President Dodson, you're recognized to present the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, if you will recall, earlier this session we passed SB 98, which is now Act 195. It allowed municipalities to accept payments with credit and debit cards, including their transaction fees charged to the municipality. known at that time some municipalities that own utilities embed those transaction fees in their charge. Act 195 has the same potential, has the potential to create audit problems for these municipalities, thus the need for Senate Bill 583 today. Neither Act 195 nor today's SB 583 have emergency clauses, so if SB 3 is passed today, they will both take effect 90 days following signing die, correcting this problem before it becomes an issue. Are there any questions? We would appreciate a good vote. Representative Dodson has presented the bill.
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:51:35
Would anyone like to speak against the bill, for the bill? Representative Dodson has closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 583. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. With 89 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present, the bill passes. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 480.
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Senate Bill 480 by Representative Lowry to establish the Health Care Contracting Simplification Act and to prohibit anti-competitive practices by health care insurers. Representative
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:52:16
Lowry, you're recognized to present the
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Representative Mark Lowery Unverified 2:52:26
bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 480, I understand, was presented in the House Insurance and Commerce Committee very ably by Representative Ferguson. I should have allowed her to come do this instead. This was brought by the Arkansas Hospital Association. It simplifies and clarifies contracting standards between healthcare providers and insurers, specifically by doing several things. One, it establishes the fundamentals of a healthy contract, which would be that providers and insurers should be free to contract separately with other parties. At any time, both parties should have access to a complete contract, including all amendments. Both parties should be aware in advance if any unilateral changes to a contract are made. Contracts should be reopened for negotiation at least every three years. And then lastly, terminating an existing contract should not be necessary for a contract renegotiation. The major insurance companies that this really has been addressing, Blue Cross and Centene, they removed their initial opposition to this, and the insurance department is neutral. As far as I know, there's not any known group opposed, so I'd appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:53:47
Representative Lowry has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill or the bill? Representative Lowry, close for the bill. The question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 480. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. With 88 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present, the bill passes. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 512.
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Senate Bill 512 by Representative Deborah Ferguson to provide for the assignment of benefits to health
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:54:29
care provider. And Ferguson, you're recognized
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Representative Deborah Ferguson Unverified 2:54:35
to present the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This bill, this allows assignment of benefits for insurance. And what that means, typically now with most insurance providers, you go to the hospital or the doctor and you sign a form saying it's okay for them to send the check to the hospital or doctor. And the advantage of that is that they know what your deductible is, they know what the allowable is, they know what your co-pay is. They take all that out and then they apply the allowable, not the amount they charge, but the allowable to your account. And then if there is a remaining bill, they send you a statement. In some cases, insurance don't allow assignment of benefits, so they send the check to the patient and the patient's completely confused, they don't get it to the doctor, then they end up going to collections or having a big bill. So all this says it says the patient may assign benefits. They're not required to, but just if they want to assign the benefits and let the hospital or doctor's office carry, take care of all those applying payments and then bill them, they're allowed to. Representative Ferguson has
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:55:42
explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Ferguson is closed for the bill. The question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 512. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. With 94 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present, the bill passes. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate
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Bill 615. Senate Bill 615 by Representative Deborah Ferguson to amend the law concerning the applicability of the continuing care provider regulation act to life care providers. Representative Ferguson,
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:56:27
you're recognized to present the bill.
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Representative Deborah Ferguson Unverified 2:56:32
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this is actually Senator Letting's bill. There is a continued care provider regulation act for life care providers, and life care providers are those places where you may have a senior living center, then they have assisted living, and then they have nursing home that sort of all go to the same. You know, they transition from place to place as the patient gets worse uh but all this bill is about uh it in the in the bill it defines what the board would be and this allows that one resident of the community be on the board it's just a it's just a board change representative
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:57:13
ferguson has explained the bill would anyone like speak against the bill for the bill representative ferguson is closed for the bill the question before the house is passage of senate bill 615 prepare the machine mr clerk has everyone
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voted and cast up the ballot with 89
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:57:40
yeas 3 nays 1 present the bill passes mr clerk please read senate bill 524.
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Chair Unverified 2:57:47
Senate bill 524 by representative Dodson to amend the law concerning electronic voting equipment and to authorize the State Board of Election Commissioners to perform post-election audits of votes tabulated electronically. Representative Dodson, you're recognized
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Representative Jim Dotson Unverified 2:58:02
to present the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, members. Senate Bill 524 is brought to us by the State Board of Election Commissioners. The purpose of this bill is to have election equipment audited post-election to ensure accuracy in the election equipment. The audit will select by lot the counties, polling sites, early voting locations, and vote centers to be audited. Included in the audit will be at least four counties with populations under 100,000, one county with population of more than 100,000, and at least one county from each of the congressional districts. This would not be a recount of any election and will have no legal effect on the outcome of the election. I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Dotson has explained the bill.
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Representative Ken Bragg Chair Unverified 2:58:46
Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Dotson is closed for the bill. The question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 524. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. With 94 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present, the bill passes. Representative Warren moves that we expunge the vote by which Senate Bill 240 failed to pass. That's a proper motion. Representative Warren, you're recognized to
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Representative Les Warren Unverified 2:59:25
explain your motion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As Paul Harvey used to say, and now for the rest of the story, I stood before you yesterday to present Senate Bill 240 because I was chairman of the public retirement. There was not a House sponsor on that bill, so it was assigned to me. I did not agree with that bill, but I got asked to present it. I agreed with the issue that Representative Tosh had with that bill. And Representative Tosh, Senator Wallace, and I have worked with people at VLR. We have got an amendment to fix that so that, and Representative Tosh has given you a thumbs up on that, but we are ready to expunge the vote and take care of it, so I'd appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:00:26
Representative Warren has explained the motion. Would anyone like to speak against the motion? Would anyone like to speak for the motion? Representative Warren is closed for the motion. The question before the House is the expungement of the vote by which Senate Bill 240 failed. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. Representative Warren moves that we place Senate Bill 240 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection, read Amendment 2, Mr. Clerk. Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 240. Representative Warren, you're recognized to explain
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Representative Les Warren Unverified 3:01:03
the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Basically, we're doing a couple of things here. The one thing that Representative Tosh wanted included in this is it sets it up where the person who is retired after they sit out for 180 days cannot go back to the same agency that they retired from. The other thing that they're doing is they're having an effective date of January 1st, 2020. That makes it where there's time to have the information out there so that everybody knows what the playing field is like. Lastly, with the effective date of January 1st, 2020, Anyone who has been in the system, retired up to that date, cannot go and be part of this new plan. Anyone after January 20th can retire and be part of the plan. Before, you can't do it. After, you can. Those are the changes. I would appreciate a good
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:02:11
vote. Representative Warren has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Warren is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the option of Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 240. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment is adopted.
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Chair Unverified 3:02:32
Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill 601. Senate Bill 601 by Representative Love to authorize and expedite necessary improvements to the Little Rock 9 Memorial on the
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:02:41
state capitol grounds. Representative Love, you're recognized to
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Representative Fredrick J. Love Unverified 3:02:45
explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon, colleagues. Last day of the bill, I'll bring to you Senate Bill 601. Senate Bill 601 is an act just to allow for the Secretary of State to make a correction to the typographical error on a plaque accompanying the Little Rock Nine Memorial. Basically, we're going to be granting the Secretary of State the authority to change one word, and the word is that of equality to inequality. I was asked the stance of the Secretary of State on this bill. The Secretary of State did work with Senator Elliott in drafting this bill. If there's no questions, I appreciate a good vote. Representative Love has explained the
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:03:29
bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Love is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 601. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By vote of 95 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Members, we're going to go back up the agenda, and Mr. Clerk, please read
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Chair Unverified 3:04:13
House Bill 1882, 1382. House Bill 1382 by Representative Sorvillo. So to exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967 and keep confidential records and information concerning a lottery winner.
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Representative Jim Sorvillo Unverified 3:04:25
Representative Sorvillo, you recognize. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. and colleagues. Listen, it was a great privilege that you've given me to come back, and I so appreciate it. With that, I'd ask you to give me a good vote.
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:04:43
Representative Servillo has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Lowry, you recognize?
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Representative Mark Lowery Unverified 3:04:59
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just trying to figure out which one you're getting more tired of, me speaking against this or him coming
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Speaker 321 3:05:13
back three times. Oh, okay. Well, in that case, Representative Servillo will appreciate
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Representative Mark Lowery Unverified 3:05:21
that. The issues are still the same. You know, we talk about not passing local legislation, And really, this is the most local of local. We've heard that this is not going to affect any more than 16 people over a two-year period, 16 individuals. And I just don't think that that rises to the level worthy of legislation. So I ask that you would vote it down for the third time. Representative Lowry has spoken against the bill. Would anyone
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:05:51
like to speak for the bill? Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Cervillo, you are recognized to close for the bill.
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Representative Jim Sorvillo Unverified 3:06:04
Thank you very much, and I ask you for a
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:06:10
good vote. Representative Cervillo is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House
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Bill 1382. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. everyone voted cast
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:06:34
up the ballot mr. clerk I vote 55 yeas 30 nays and for present the bill is passed let's see five hands that's that's see sound the ballot mr. clerk Call the roll.
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Barker. Bentley. Boyd. Bragg. Brown,
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Birch, Christensen, Cloud, Clowney, Collins, Cooper, Crawford, Dalby, Andy Davis,
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marsh davis deffenbaugh de la rosa douglas eves eubanks evans deborah ferguson kenneth ferguson FIGHT, FLOWERS, GLOVER, GODFREY, GRAY, HAWKS, HILLMAN, GRANT HODGES,
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Hallowell, House, Johnson, Kelly, Ladyman, Lynch, Maddox, McGee, McCollum, McCullough,
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Meeks, Murdoch, Nix, Petty, Pilkington, Strike,
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Strike, Pilkington, Richardson, Richmond, Rye,
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Scott, Brant Smith, Wardlaw, Warren, Watson, Whitaker,
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:10:08
53 yeas, 30 nays,
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Before present, the bill is passed. Representative Meeks, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. After the announcement, reading of the bills, transferring of the bills, placing the calendars on the desk, members amending their own bills with their own amendments, members withdrawing their own bills, finalizing resolutions, reading communications, and any remaining committee reports, I move that we adjourn
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:10:34
until 1.30 tomorrow afternoon. Proper motion. It's not debatable. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Are there any announcements? Representative Douglas, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized.
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Representative Dan M. Douglas Unverified 3:10:45
Ag Committee will meet tomorrow morning 10 o'clock for one concurrence in Senate Amendment. Representative Jean, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Joint budget
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will meet tomorrow morning 9 a.m. Big Mac A. Representative
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Representative Lane Jean Unverified 3:10:56
Cozart, for what purpose? Education will meet 10 minutes
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Representative Bruce Cozart Unverified 3:11:01
on adjournment, but we will allow those that are in state agencies to make that meeting and then come to
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ours. Representative Barker, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Aging, children,
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youth, military, and legislative affairs will meet at 10 a.m. in room 130.
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Representative Lanny Fite, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. City, county, local will meet at 10 a.m. in the morning. Representative Blake. Oh. Representative Lowry, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. House Insurance and
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Commerce will meet at 10 a.m. in the morning, room 149. Representative
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:11:39
Wing, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. We
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Representative Carlton Wing Unverified 3:11:42
have two birthdays today. Another reason to smile. Representative Miller, who is not here at the moment, but tell him happy birthday. And our Chief of Staff, Roy Ragland. Happy
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Representative Matthew J. Shepherd Chair Unverified 3:12:00
birthday. Representative Cap, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. House
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Representative Sarah Capp Unverified 3:12:03
rules tomorrow, noon, Big Mac V. Representative Dalby,
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for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Judiciary will meet
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Representative Carol Dalby Unverified 3:12:09
in 20 minutes, room 149, to take up the rest of the Senate bills. Representative Vaught,
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for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Prayer caucus in
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the morning. If you've not come, you don't want to miss tomorrow. I've got a special somebody coming, and you will be blessed. Representative
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Representative Dwight Tosh Unverified 3:12:28
Tosh, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. State agencies will meet in 10 minutes. we're going to hear one bill it's very important that you be there in 10 minutes room 151 thank you representative ladyman
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for what purpose announcement you're recognized public health will meet in
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Representative Jack Ladyman Unverified 3:12:40
20 minutes we'll reconvene in 20 minutes any other announcements the desk
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will remain open as needed for the reading of the bills and upon completion of the items was named in the adjourn resolution.
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The House will be adjourned until 1.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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Agenda

Morning Hour

Call to Order

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Prayer

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Roll Call

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MOTION TO AMEND

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HB1839 L. JohnsonDPA 1 TO PROHIBIT A MINOR FROM PURCHASING A PREPAID MOBILE DEVICE; AND TO ESTABLISH THE PREPAID MOBILE DEVICE PROTECTION ACT.

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HB1928 V. FlowersDPA 1 TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REQUIRE ALL OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS TO BE RECORDED.

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RESOLUTIONS

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HR1069 Beck TO CONGRATULATE THE WONDER VIEW HIGH SCHOOL LADY DAREDEVILS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS.

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HR1043 Glover TO RECOGNIZE THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF ROBERT S.MOORE JR. TO THE STATE AND TO EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS ON HIS INDUCTION INTO THE ARKANSAS TOURISM HALL OF FAME.

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HR1071 M. Gray TO CONGRATULATE THE MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL LADY BEARKATZ FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS.

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HCR1014

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HB1886 Lundstrum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS.

HB1778 Sorvillo CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

HB1821 Murdock TO PROVIDE FOR MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES THAT ADDRESS THE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES; TO PROVIDE FOR IMMEDIATE AND ONGOING REGULAR REVIEWS OF MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES AND METHODOLOGIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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HB1382 Sorvillo TO EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 AND KEEP CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION CONCERNING A LOTTERY WINNER.

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HB1800 A. Davis TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MAJOR HISTORIC REHABILITATION INCOME TAX CREDIT ACT.

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HB1815 Perry TO AMEND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH.

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HB1920 Capp TO CONSOLIDATE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAMS IN THE STATE; TO AMEND THE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT ACT OF 2001; AND TO REPEAL THE ARKANSAS RISK CAPITAL MATCHING FUND ACT OF 2007.

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HB1417 Watson TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 TO PROTECT THE IDENTITY OF CERTAIN PERSONS ASSISTING IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS; AND TO CREATE AN EXEMPTION TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967.

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HB1521 M. Gray TO ESTABLISH RULES TO IMPROVE CONTRACTING AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF MEDICAID NONEMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION AND TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS.

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HB1630 Lundstrum TO EXEMPT CERTAIN INFORMATION PERTAINING TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND CONCERNING PUBLIC RECORD WEBSITES.

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HB1346 Warren TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OF MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT UNDER THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM BY A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

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HB1298 J. Mayberry TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PAYABLE RATE OF AN ANNUAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT RECEIVED BY A RETIRED MAYOR.

HB1333 Warren TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT AND ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE TIER TWO BENEFIT PLAN FOR THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

HB1944 S. Meeks CONCERNING BLOCK CHAIN TECHNOLOGY.

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HB1958 Eaves TO AMEND THE CREDIT REPAIR SERVICES ORGANIZATION ACT OF 2017.

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HB1665 Brown TO STRENGTHEN VOTER TRUST IN THE ELECTION PROCESS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCESS AND ADMINISTRATION. Barker) TO PROMOTE HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM; TO ESTABLISH AREAS OF A CITY OR TOWN THAT HIGHLIGHT RESTAURANT, ENTERTAINMENT, AND HOSPITALITY OPTIONS T O ESTABLISH TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT DESIGNATED ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS

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REGULAR SENATE BILLS

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SB441 Bledsoe(Lundstrum) TO ADD RESTRICTIONS REGARDING ADVERTISING OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND USE OF CERTAIN SYMBOLS.

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SB455 T. Garner(Cavenaugh) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CATASTROPHIC LEAVE FOR MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES.

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SB457 B. Ballinger(Payton) TO REGULATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF REAL PROPERTY OF THE STATE AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE STATE.

SB85 A. Clark(Burch) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SERVICE OF A PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS.

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SB374 Rapert(Gazaway) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PENALTIES RELATED TO ADMINISTRATIVE INSPECTION WARRANTS EXECUTED BY THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

SB534 B. Johnson(Christiansen) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISTRACTED DRIVING TO COMPLY WITH DISTRACTED DRIVING REQUIREMENTS UNDER FEDERAL LAW.

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SB582 B. Johnson(Richmond) TO PROVIDE A SALES AND USE TAX REFUND FOR MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT USED TO MODIFY, REPLACE, OR REPAIR MOLDS AND DIES USED IN MANUFACTURING.

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SB584 J. Dismang(M. Hodges) TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE SPACE ON INCOME TAX FORMS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER TO DESIGNATE MORE THAN ONE (1) ACCOUNT FOR THE DIRECT DEPOSIT OF THE TAXPAYER'S REFUND.

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SB575 Flippo(Eubanks) CONCERNING THE FINES, FEES, AND COSTS THAT MAY BE ASSESSED FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS.

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SB479 B. Sample(Lynch) TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A TITLE FOR A WATERCRAFT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MOTORBOAT REGISTRATION AND TITLING ACT.

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SB184 G. Stubblefield(Gonzales) TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS BY REMOVING SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS.

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SB278 G. Stubblefield(Hawks) TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILITIES AND ABORTION REPORTING; TO AMEND THE BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION LAWS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT UNDER THE WOMAN'S RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT.

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SB468 B. Sample(Penzo) TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERSONAL CARE SERVICE PROVIDER, PRIVATE CARE AGENCY, AND HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES AGENCY REGARDING VISITS TO A PATIENT'S HOME AND THE DISTANCE OF AN OFFICE FROM THE PATIENT'S HOME.

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SB590 G. Leding(Boyd) TO PROVIDE THAT A COTTAGE FOOD PRODUCTION OPERATION IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS IS EXEMPT FROM THE DEFINITION OF "FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT".

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SB397 D. Wallace(Brown) TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING LIFETIME HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES FOR A RESIDENT DISABLED VETERAN; AND TO INCLUDE A LIFETIME COMBINATION HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSE WITH A LIFETIME STATE DUCK AND TROUT STAMP.

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SB583 J. Cooper(Dotson) TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN DEBIT CARD AND CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS.

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SB480 Irvin(Lowery) TO ESTABLISH THE HEALTHCARE CONTRACTING SIMPLIFICATION ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES BY A HEALTHCARE INSURER.

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SB512 Bledsoe(D. Ferguson) TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFITS TO A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER.

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SB615 G. Leding(D. Ferguson) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CONTINUING CARE PROVIDER REGULATION ACT TO LIFE CARE PROVIDERS.

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SB524 B. Ballinger(Dotson) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO PERFORM POSTELECTION AUDITS OF VOTES TABULATED ELECTRONICALLY.

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SB240 D. Wallace(Warren) MOTION TO EXPUNGE THE VOTE BY WHICH FAILED; CONCERNING THERE EMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

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SB601 ElliottLove) TO AUTHORIZE AND EXPEDITE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE LITTLEROCK NINE MEMORIAL ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS.

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HB1094 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS WATERWAYS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCALYEAR.

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HB1134 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCALYEAR.

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HB1221 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

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SB429 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, GRANTS AND PROGRAMS APPROPRIATION.

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SB99 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

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