Senate Convenes
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Bills discussed (174)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1041
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB 1041 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC CONTRACTS. | Ladyman | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1075
Act 825
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1075 J. Mayberry Maloch TO AMEND THE ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXP…”
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TO AMEND THE ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE PROGRAM ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN … | J. Mayberry | Notification that HB1075 is now Act 825 |
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HB1385
Act 983
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB 1385 TO AMEND THE LAW TO CREATE A DEFINITION OF "SCHOOLHOUSE" WI…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW TO CREATE A DEFINITION OF "SCHOOLHOUSE" WITH REGARD TO BUSINESSES REGULATED … | J. Mayberry | Notification that HB1385 is now Act 983 |
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HB1435
Act 952
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB 1435 TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO REIMBURSE FOR…”
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TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO REIMBURSE FOR RIDESHARING APPLICATIONS. | Pilkington | Notification that HB1435 is now Act 952 |
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HB1822
Act 1052
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB 1822 CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AT RAILROAD…”
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CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Christiansen | Notification that HB1822 is now Act 1052 |
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SB520
Act 994
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB 520 TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND…”
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TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY CONCERNING PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS; AND … | K. Hammer | Notification that SB520 is now Act 994 |
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HB1217
Act 1010
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1217 Tosh Garner CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION OF AND FORENSIC TESTI…”
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CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION OF AND FORENSIC TESTING OF FIREARMS BY THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY. | Tosh | Notification that HB1217 is now Act 1010 |
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HB1404
Act 828
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1404 Speaks Flippo TO AMEND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT'S BUDGET. | Speaks | Notification that HB1404 is now Act 828 |
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HB1440
Act 829
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1440 D. Ferguson Irvin TO ESTABLISH THE MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIE…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW COMMITTEE. | D. Ferguson | Notification that HB1440 is now Act 829 |
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HB1498
Act 832
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1498 Speaks Sturch TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS PUBL…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL COMPUTER NETWORK. | Speaks | Notification that HB1498 is now Act 832 |
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HB1538
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1538 Clowney Leding CONCERNING LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW; AND TO A…”
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CONCERNING LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS … | Clowney | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1552
Act 837
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1552 Godfrey Eads TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING NURSING LICENSURE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING NURSING LICENSURES. | Godfrey | Notification that HB1552 is now Act 837 |
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HB1567
Act 839
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…ll 1538, that one passed 91 to 0. House Bill 1552, 90 to 0. House Bill 1567, 95 to 0. House Bill 1618, 89-0.”
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CONCERNING INVESTIGATIONS INTO SEXUAL ASSAULT; CONCERNING SEXUAL ASSAULT COLLECTION KITS; AND CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION OF … | Lundstrum | Notification that HB1567 is now Act 839 |
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HB1609
Act 1014
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1609 #1 Gazaway Cooper TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE O…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. | Gazaway | Notification that HB1609 is now Act 1014 |
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HB1618
Act 840
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…1 to 0. House Bill 1552, 90 to 0. House Bill 1567, 95 to 0. House Bill 1618, 89-0.”
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TO CREATE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR WASHER-EXTRACTORS USED BY A FIRE DEPARTMENT. | Gonzales | Notification that HB1618 is now Act 840 |
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HB1634
Act 842
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “House Bill 1634, 93-0. House Bill 1641, 92-1. House Bill 1699, 90-2. House…”
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TO INCLUDE ACTS COMMITTED BY A VICTIM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNDER THE STATE'S RAPE SHIELD … | Petty | Notification that HB1634 is now Act 842 |
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HB1641
Act 843
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “House Bill 1634, 93-0. House Bill 1641, 92-1. House Bill 1699, 90-2. House Bill 1702, 86-0. House…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RULES INVOLVING SCOLIOSIS SCREENING IN SCHOOLS. | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1641 is now Act 843 |
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HB1648
Act 1018
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1648 #1 F. Allen Chesterfield TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL…”
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TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS AND HEROES IN THE TEACHING MATERIALS REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN … | F. Allen | Notification that HB1648 is now Act 1018 |
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HB1699
Act 846
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “House Bill 1634, 93-0. House Bill 1641, 92-1. House Bill 1699, 90-2. House Bill 1702, 86-0. House Bill 1724, pass 97-0.”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING SALES OF RAW MILK TO AUTHORIZE THE SALE OF RAW … | Eaves | Notification that HB1699 is now Act 846 |
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HB1702
Act 848
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1702 Speaks Cheatham TO AMEND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATI…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT'S BOND … | Speaks | Notification that HB1702 is now Act 848 |
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HB1724
Act 850
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1724 M. Gray B. Johnson TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TAX PROCEDURE ACT…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TAX PROCEDURE ACT CONCERNING HOLDING ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS BY ELECTRONIC MEANS. | M. Gray | Notification that HB1724 is now Act 850 |
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HB1789
Act 1022
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB 1789 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF TRAFFICKING; AND…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF TRAFFICKING; AND TO CREATE AN OFFENSE FOR … | Penzo | Notification that HB1789 is now Act 1022 |
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HB1801
Act 856
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1801 L. Johnson Irvin TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM T…”
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TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO COVER AN ADDITIONAL ALBUTEROL INHALER FOR CERTAIN MEDICAID … | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1801 is now Act 856 |
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HB1855
Act 859
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1855 Hillman Hill TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PERMITS FOR THE HA…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PERMITS FOR THE HAULING OF AGRONOMIC OR HORTICULTURAL CROPS IN … | Hillman | Notification that HB1855 is now Act 859 |
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HB1900
Act 862
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1900 L. Johnson Irvin TO AMEND THE STATUTES CONCERNING THE LIMIT…”
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TO AMEND THE STATUTES CONCERNING THE LIMITATIONS ON FINANCIAL PENALTIES IN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT SYSTEMS. | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1900 is now Act 862 |
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HB1901
Act 1026
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1901 #1 F. Allen Chesterfield TO CREATE THE ACADEMIC SUPPORT SCH…”
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TO CREATE THE ACADEMIC SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIP. | F. Allen | Notification that HB1901 is now Act 1026 |
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HB1910
Act 864
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1910 M. Gray B. Johnson TO PROVIDE FOR CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDN…”
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TO PROVIDE FOR CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TAX PROCEDURE ACT TO BE PUBLISHED … | M. Gray | Notification that HB1910 is now Act 864 |
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HB1934
Act 867
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1934 Cozart English TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING AUDITS OF S…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING AUDITS OF SCHOOLS. | Cozart | Notification that HB1934 is now Act 867 |
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HB1937
Act 868
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB 1937 CONCERNING THE TRANSITION FROM LOCAL DISTRICT COURTS TO STA…”
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CONCERNING THE TRANSITION FROM LOCAL DISTRICT COURTS TO STATE DISTRICT COURTS. | Dalby | Notification that HB1937 is now Act 868 |
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HB1953
Act 870
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1953 M. Gray Teague TO ADOPT RECENT CHANGES TO THE INTERNAL REVE…”
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TO ADOPT RECENT CHANGES TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. | M. Gray | Notification that HB1953 is now Act 870 |
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HCR1014
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HCR1014 Sorvillo Bond TO CONGRATULATE THE LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACA…”
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TO CONGRATULATE THE LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY LADY WARRIORS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. | Sorvillo | Approved by the Governor |
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SB577
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB 577 TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PERSONS SERVED UNDER THE ASSISTED…”
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TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PERSONS SERVED UNDER THE ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAM TO ONE THOUSAND … | K. Hammer | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB654
Act 1002
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB 654 TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS; AND TO AUTHORIZ…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS; AND TO AUTHORIZE A CIVIL PENALTY FOR MISREPRESENTING … | J. Dismang | Notification that SB654 is now Act 1002 |
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SB682
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…s now Act 677. Sincerely, Asa Hutchison, Governor. File it. Senate Bill 682 by Senator Ingram, concerning the sentencing and parole eli…”
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CONCERNING THE SENTENCING AND PAROLE ELIGIBILITY OF A DEFENDANT WHO ENTERS INTO A NEGOTIATED PLEA … | K. Ingram | Sine Die adjournment |
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SR34
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SR34 Elliott TO COMMEND THE MISS HERITAGE SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITIO…”
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TO COMMEND THE MISS HERITAGE SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION. | Elliott | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1018
Act 824
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1018 Sorvillo Sturch TO AMEND THE POPULATION REQUIREMENTS THAT C…”
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TO AMEND THE POPULATION REQUIREMENTS THAT CONTROL THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS WHO SERVE ON A … | Sorvillo | Notification that HB1018 is now Act 824 |
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HB1122
Act 899
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1122 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1122 is now Act 899 |
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HB1255
Act 1011
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar. Committee on Public Health to whom was referred to House Bill 1255 by Representative Dodson. Recommended do pass as amended nu…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LICENSING, REGISTRATION, AND CERTIFICATION FOR CERTAIN PROFESSIONS; AND TO ESTABLISH … | Dotson | Notification that HB1255 is now Act 1011 |
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HB1346
Act 826
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1346 Warren Sample TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OF M…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OF MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT UNDER THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC … | Warren | Notification that HB1346 is now Act 826 |
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HB1400
Act 827
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1400 Cozart Sturch TO REQUIRE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION A…”
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TO REQUIRE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION TO CONDUCT … | Cozart | Notification that HB1400 is now Act 827 |
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HB1433
Act 951
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on Public Health, to whom was referred, House Bill 1433 by Representative Rushing, recommend do pass. Calendar. Com…”
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TO AUTHORIZE INDIVIDUALS WITH PRIOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT … | Rushing | Notification that HB1433 is now Act 951 |
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HB1441
Act 1032
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1441 #1 Bentley Irvin TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOMES…”
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TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOMES BY CREATING THE MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOMES QUALITY REVIEW … | Bentley | Notification that HB1441 is now Act 1032 |
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HB1449
Act 831
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1449 Sullivan Garner TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOMESTEAD" AS U…”
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TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOMESTEAD" AS USED IN AMENDMENT 79 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION … | Sullivan | Notification that HB1449 is now Act 831 |
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HB1453
Act 953
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on Public Health, to whom was referred, House Bill 1453 by Representative Penzo, recommend do pass. Calendar. Commi…”
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TO CREATE THE PERINATAL PALLIATIVE CARE INFORMATION ACT. | Penzo | Notification that HB1453 is now Act 953 |
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HB1484
Act 954
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…o pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1484 by Representative Watson recommended to pass.”
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TO CLARIFY THE PROCEDURE FOR DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED BODIES IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. | Watson | Notification that HB1484 is now Act 954 |
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HB1491
Act 1033
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1491 #1 Miller Hammer TO ELIMINATE THE WAITING LIST FOR THE ALTE…”
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TO ELIMINATE THE WAITING LIST FOR THE ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES WAIVER PROGRAM, ALSO KNOWN AS … | Miller | Notification that HB1491 is now Act 1033 |
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HB1545
Act 957
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1545 by Representative Allen recommended to pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE HEALTH SERVICES PERMIT COMMISSION. | F. Allen | Notification that HB1545 is now Act 957 |
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HB1554
Act 838
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1554 Penzo Leding TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROCEDURES FOR…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROCEDURES FOR ANNEXATION INTO AN ADJOINING MUNICIPALITY. | Penzo | Notification that HB1554 is now Act 838 |
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HB1555
Act 959
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…o pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1555 by Representative Collins recommended to pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO INCREASE COVERAGE FOR MEDICATIONS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR … | A. Collins | Notification that HB1555 is now Act 959 |
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HB1557
Act 1034
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “your committee on ag right, to whom was first House Bill 1557”
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TO CREATE AN EXEMPTION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO EXEMPT … | House | Notification that HB1557 is now Act 1034 |
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HB1621
Act 841
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1621 Dotson Bledsoe TO CREATE THE PRIMARY PREVENTION PROGRAMS AC…”
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TO CREATE THE PRIMARY PREVENTION PROGRAMS ACT. | Dotson | Notification that HB1621 is now Act 841 |
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HB1622
Act 961
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on Transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1622 by Representative Collins, recommended do pass. Calendar. C…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR APPLYING FOR A DRIVER'S … | A. Collins | Notification that HB1622 is now Act 961 |
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HB1625
Act 962
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ass. 313. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1625 by Representative Gassaway recommend do pass. Calendar. Com…”
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TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF ENCOURAGING THE SUICIDE OF ANOTHER PERSON. | Gazaway | Notification that HB1625 is now Act 962 |
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HB1626
Act 1016
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1626 #1 Cloud Ballinger CONCERNING THE OFFERING OF AN ACADEMIC S…”
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CONCERNING THE OFFERING OF AN ACADEMIC STUDY OF THE BIBLE COURSE IF STUDENTS REQUEST THAT … | Cloud | Notification that HB1626 is now Act 1016 |
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HB1630
Act 963
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…er 1. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for House Bill 1630 by Representative Blundstrom, recommended due pass. Calenda…”
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TO EXEMPT CERTAIN INFORMATION PERTAINING TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION … | Lundstrum | Notification that HB1630 is now Act 963 |
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HB1633
Act 1017
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1633 by Representative Tosh recommended do pass as amended numbe…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING WITNESS INTIMIDATION, RETALIATION, TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE, JURY TAMPERING, AND BRIBERY. | Tosh | Notification that HB1633 is now Act 1017 |
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HB1651
Act 1035
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1651 #1 Ladyman Irvin TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE LAWS REGARDING TRE…”
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TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE LAWS REGARDING TREATMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; … | Ladyman | Notification that HB1651 is now Act 1035 |
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HB1665
Act 965
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for House Bill 1665 by Representative Brown, recommended due pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO STRENGTHEN VOTER TRUST IN THE ELECTION PROCESS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION … | Brown | Notification that HB1665 is now Act 965 |
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HB1666
Act 966
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1666 by Rep. Brown, recommend”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … | Brown | Notification that HB1666 is now Act 966 |
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HB1673
Act 1037
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…mber one. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1673 by Representative Petty recommended”
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CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE OF A NO CONTACT ORDER. | Petty | Notification that HB1673 is now Act 1037 |
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HB1674
Act 913
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…o pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1674 by Representative Petty recommended to pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ARRESTING AUTHORITY; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COLLABORATIVE MULTI-AGENCY ALLIANCE TO … | Petty | Notification that HB1674 is now Act 913 |
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HB1686
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1686 by Representative Collins recommend do pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "MARITAL PROPERTY" FOR PURPOSES OF DIVISION OF PROPERTY IN AN … | A. Collins | Died on House at Sine Die Adjournment |
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HB1693
Act 1019
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1693 by Representative Wing, recommended do pass as amended numb…”
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TO AMEND THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER-GENERAL CONTRACTOR METHOD OF PROCUREMENT PILOT PROGRAM. | Wing | Notification that HB1693 is now Act 1019 |
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HB1695
Act 1020
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1695 #1 Scott Bond TO PROTECT CHILDREN WHO ARE BEING TRAFFICKED…”
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TO PROTECT CHILDREN WHO ARE BEING TRAFFICKED FROM BEING PROSECUTED FOR PROSTITUTION. | Scott | Notification that HB1695 is now Act 1020 |
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HB1697
Act 845
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1697 S. Meeks Ballinger TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FIN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE; AND TO ALLOW REIMBURSABLE TRAVEL EXPENSES TO BE … | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1697 is now Act 845 |
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HB1698
Act 1039
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1698 by Rep. De La Rosa, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FILING AND PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS; AND … | Della Rosa | Notification that HB1698 is now Act 1039 |
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HB1701
Act 847
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1701 J. Mayberry Sturch TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT THAT A STUDE…”
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TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT THAT A STUDENT PARTICIPATING IN AN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY, INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITY, OR … | J. Mayberry | Notification that HB1701 is now Act 847 |
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HB1706
Act 914
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1706 by Rep. Bragg, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on St…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANNUAL CAREER SERVICE RECOGNITION PAYMENTS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES. | Bragg | Notification that HB1706 is now Act 914 |
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HB1707
Act 967
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ss. Calendar. Committee on Public Health Team is remembered House Bill 1707 by Representative Caff들을 recommend you pass Calendar. Commi…”
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TO AMEND THE ADULT AND LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY RESIDENT MALTREATMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN … | Capp | Notification that HB1707 is now Act 967 |
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HB1708
Act 849
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1708 V. Flowers Leding TO END CHILD MARRIAGE; AND TO AMEND THE L…”
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TO END CHILD MARRIAGE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR … | V. Flowers | Notification that HB1708 is now Act 849 |
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HB1712
Act 1042
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass Calendar. Committee on Public Health Team is כל � r a house Bill 1712 by Representative Wardlaw”
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TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THAT INFORMATION OBTAINED ON HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES BE CONFIDENTIAL. | Wardlaw | Notification that HB1712 is now Act 1042 |
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HB1733
Act 969
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1733”
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CONCERNING A THREAT TO COMMIT AN ACT OF MASS VIOLENCE ON SCHOOL PROPERTY. | Gazaway | Notification that HB1733 is now Act 969 |
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HB1734
Act 905
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1734 by Representative Gassaway recommend do pass. Calendar. Com…”
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CONCERNING THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES TO A VIOLATION OF AN ORDER OF PROTECTION. | Gazaway | Notification that HB1734 is now Act 905 |
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HB1745
Act 851
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1745 L. Johnson Irvin TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING PRESCRIPTION…”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING PRESCRIPTION ASTHMA INHALERS IN SCHOOLS DISTRICTS AND PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS; … | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1745 is now Act 851 |
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HB1747
Act 852
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1747 Dotson Ballinger TO EXPAND THE TYPES OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENT…”
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TO EXPAND THE TYPES OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND EVENTS THAT MAY BE DISCUSSED, READ, OR … | Dotson | Notification that HB1747 is now Act 852 |
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HB1751
Act 853
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1751 Lundstrum Pitsch TO AMEND THE MINIMUM WAGE ACT OF THE STATE…”
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TO AMEND THE MINIMUM WAGE ACT OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. | Lundstrum | Notification that HB1751 is now Act 853 |
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HB1762
Act 833
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1762 Crawford Pitsch TO AMEND THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A GUARDIAN.”
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TO AMEND THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A GUARDIAN. | Crawford | Notification that HB1762 is now Act 833 |
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HB1765
Act 1021
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1765 #1 Maddox Maloch TO ESTABLISH THE DIRECTED TRUST ACT.”
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TO ESTABLISH THE UNIFORM DIRECTED TRUST ACT. | Maddox | Notification that HB1765 is now Act 1021 |
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HB1775
Act 974
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1775 Bentley Flippo TO CREATE THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR A…”
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TO CREATE THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ABLE-BODIED ADULTS ACT OF 2019. | Bentley | Notification that HB1775 is now Act 974 |
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HB1782
Act 1044
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1782 by Representative Kapp recommended to pass. Calendar. Commi…”
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CONCERNING COURT COSTS AND FEES FOR SPECIALTY COURT IN THE STATE'S DISTRICT COURTS. | Capp | Notification that HB1782 is now Act 1044 |
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HB1785
Act 854
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1785 L. Johnson Pitsch TO CREATE THE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION…”
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TO CREATE THE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY EXPANSION BOARD; TO REQUIRE THE BOARD TO DISTRIBUTE … | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1785 is now Act 854 |
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HB1800
Act 855
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1800 A. Davis Dismang TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MAJOR HISTORIC REHA…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MAJOR HISTORIC REHABILITATION INCOME TAX CREDIT ACT. | A. Davis | Notification that HB1800 is now Act 855 |
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HB1802
Act 907
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1802 by Representative Lowry recommended to pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO REVISE THE FAMILY SUPPORT CHART TO REFLECT PAYOR AND RECIPIENT INCOME. | Lowery | Notification that HB1802 is now Act 907 |
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HB1803
Act 1045
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…to pass Calendar. Committee on Public Health Team was about House Bill 1803 by Rep desire to gerir orig absolutes. Allen. Recommended d…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS BLUE RIBBON PANEL ON PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH. | F. Allen | Notification that HB1803 is now Act 1045 |
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HB1810
Act 1047
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1810 by Representative Penzo recommended to pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO PROVIDE FOR QUALIFIED SPOUSAL TRUSTS IN ARKANSAS. | Penzo | Notification that HB1810 is now Act 1047 |
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HB1817
Act 1050
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…1. Calendar. Committee on City County local to whom is for House Bill 1817 by”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING NATIVE WINE INCENTIVE GRANTS; TO AMEND THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF … | Capp | Notification that HB1817 is now Act 1050 |
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HB1827
Act 976
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1827 D. Ferguson Wallace TO REPEAL THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSA…”
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TO REPEAL THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS NEWSPAPER RECYCLING ADVISORY COMMITTEE. | D. Ferguson | Notification that HB1827 is now Act 976 |
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HB1837
Act 919
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…r. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom was referred House Bill 1837 by Representative McCollum. Recommended do pass. Calendar.…”
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TO EXPAND ACCESS TO ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS THAT ALLOW MORE SMALL BUSINESSES TO BAND TOGETHER … | McCollum | Notification that HB1837 is now Act 919 |
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HB1839
Act 1053
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom is for House Bill 1839 by Representative Johnson. Recommended do pass. Calendar. C…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE PREPAID MOBILE DEVICE PROTECTION ACT. | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1839 is now Act 1053 |
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HB1841
Act 857
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1841 L. Johnson Pitsch TO CREATE THE OSTEOPATHIC RURAL MEDICAL P…”
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TO CREATE THE OSTEOPATHIC RURAL MEDICAL PRACTICE STUDENT LOAN AND SCHOLARSHIP; TO CREATE THE OSTEOPATHIC … | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1841 is now Act 857 |
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HB1842
Act 1054
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1842 by Rep. Pilkington, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee…”
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TO STREAMLINE THE GRIEVANCE PROCESS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE … | Pilkington | Notification that HB1842 is now Act 1054 |
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HB1847
Act 858
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1847 J. Mayberry Pitsch TO REVISE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDA…”
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TO REVISE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS REGARDING SITE SELECTION FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FACILITY … | J. Mayberry | Notification that HB1847 is now Act 858 |
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HB1849
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ber one. Calendar. Committee on transportation, who Airport House Bill 1849, by Representative Del Rosso, recommended to pass. Calendar…”
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TO AMEND THE PERMANENT AUTOMOBILE LICENSING ACT OF 1967; AND TO SUSPEND THE ANNUAL MOTOR … | Della Rosa | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1850
Act 1055
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar. Committee on Public Health to whom was referred to House Bill 1850 by representative McCollum. Recommended do pass. Calendar.…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW … | McCollum | Notification that HB1850 is now Act 1055 |
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HB1851
Act 908
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1851 by Representative Bentley recommended”
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CONCERNING THE ISSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF PROTECTION. | Bentley | Notification that HB1851 is now Act 908 |
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HB1854
Act 1056
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1854 #1 Hillman Caldwell TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE P…”
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TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE PLANT BOARD. | Hillman | Notification that HB1854 is now Act 1056 |
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HB1856
Act 1057
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar. Committee on Public Health to whom was referred to House Bill 1856 by Representative Dodson. Recommended do pass. Calendar.”
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TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM CONSENTING OR APPROVING THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL … | Dotson | Notification that HB1856 is now Act 1057 |
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HB1861
Act 860
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1861 D. Ferguson B. Davis TO REQUIRE THE POSTING OF A WARNING SI…”
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TO REQUIRE THE POSTING OF A WARNING SIGN IN AN ESTABLISHMENT THAT SELLS OR DISPENSES … | D. Ferguson | Notification that HB1861 is now Act 860 |
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HB1866
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1866 by Representative Petty recommended to pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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CONCERNING EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, PARDON, AND COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE. | Petty | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1875
Act 978
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ss. Calendar. Committee on City County local to whom is for House Bill 1875 by Representative Drew Davis. Recommended due pass. Calenda…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT. | A. Davis | Notification that HB1875 is now Act 978 |
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HB1877
Act 861
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1877 D. Ferguson Leding TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOME-BREWED…”
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TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOME-BREWED BEER"; AND TO AUTHORIZE A MANUFACTURER OF HOME-BREWED BEER … | D. Ferguson | Notification that HB1877 is now Act 861 |
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HB1880
Act 909
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1880 by Representative Dalby recommended do pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURTS OF INDEPENDENCE, FULTON, AND IZARD COUNTIES. | Dalby | Notification that HB1880 is now Act 909 |
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HB1881
Act 920
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1881 by Representative Petty. Recommended due pass. Calendar. Co…”
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CONCERNING THE INVESTIGATION INTO A MISSING OR UNIDENTIFIED PERSON; AND CONCERNING THE NATIONAL MISSING AND … | Petty | Notification that HB1881 is now Act 920 |
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HB1893
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1893 by Representative De La Rosa.”
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TO AMEND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE … | Della Rosa | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1894
Act 922
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom is for House Bill 1894 by Representative House. Recommended”
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TO PROVIDE ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS ACCESS AND INFORMATION CONCERNING STATE-SPONSORED LIFE INSURANCE. | House | Notification that HB1894 is now Act 922 |
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HB1896
Act 1025
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1896 #1 Gates Clark TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMEN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. | Gates | Notification that HB1896 is now Act 1025 |
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HB19
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1934, passed 85 to nothing. House Bill 19, hang”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1907
Act 923
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1907 by Representative Powell. Recommended due pass. Calendar. C…”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION; AND TO EXEMPT PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING FROM … | Hollowell | Notification that HB1907 is now Act 923 |
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HB1908
Act 863
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1908 M. Gray Teague TO CLARIFY THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR A…”
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TO CLARIFY THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR A TAXPAYER TO FILE AN AMENDED TAX RETURN; … | M. Gray | Notification that HB1908 is now Act 863 |
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HB1915
Act 1060
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Committee on Public Health to whom was referred to House Bill 1915 by representative Womack. Recommended do pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING OPEN BURNING OF VEGETATIVE STORM DEBRIS. | Womack | Notification that HB1915 is now Act 1060 |
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HB1920
Act 925
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ue pass. Calendar. Committee on ag right, to whom was first House Bill 1920 by Representative Capp, recommend due pass. Calendar. Commi…”
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TO CONSOLIDATE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAMS IN THE STATE; TO AMEND THE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT ACT … | Capp | Notification that HB1920 is now Act 925 |
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HB1928
Act 1028
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1928 by Representative Flowers. Recommended due pass. Calendar.…”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REQUIRE ALL OPEN PUBLIC … | V. Flowers | Notification that HB1928 is now Act 1028 |
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HB1931
Act 866
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1931 M. Gray Teague TO AMEND PROCUREMENT LAWS TO PROHIBIT CONTRA…”
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TO AMEND PROCUREMENT LAWS TO PROHIBIT CONTRACTS WITH A BUSINESS THAT IS SUBJECT TO A … | M. Gray | Notification that HB1931 is now Act 866 |
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HB1936
Act 926
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1936 by Representative Birch. Council kiş. Councilmember Hob noo…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MEDAL OF HONOR COMMISSION; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL … | Burch | Notification that HB1936 is now Act 926 |
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HB1943
Act 1030
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom is for House Bill 1943 by Representative Kavanaugh. Recommended do pass”
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TO AMEND THE PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT; AND TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF "PERSONAL INFORMATION" … | Cavenaugh | Notification that HB1943 is now Act 1030 |
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HB1945
Act 869
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on transportation, who knowledge Software House Bill 1945, by Representative”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS … | Holcomb | Notification that HB1945 is now Act 869 |
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HB1947
Act 1031
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Calendar. Committee on Transportation, who is for House Bill 1947 by Representative Fortner, recommended do pass. Calendar. D…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EYESIGHT TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE. | Fortner | Notification that HB1947 is now Act 1031 |
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SB100
Act 769
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…557 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 573 by Senator Letting. Senate Bill 100 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 105 by Joint Budget. Senate Bi…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB100 is now Act 769 |
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SB101
Act 874
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB101 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF D…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES APPROPRIATION … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB101 is now Act 874 |
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SB102
Act 875
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB102 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF A…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB102 is now Act 875 |
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SB104
Act 911
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB104 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF C…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB104 is now Act 911 |
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SB105
Act 770
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 573 by Senator Letting. Senate Bill 100 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 105 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 429 by Joint”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF STATE SERVICES FOR THE … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB105 is now Act 770 |
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SB110
Act 876
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB110 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION APP…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB110 is now Act 876 |
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SB113
Act 107
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was referred Senate Bill 113 by Senator Elliott recommended do pass. 313. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ARKANSAS HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE; TO TRANSFER THE … | Rapert | Notification that SB113 is now Act 107 |
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SB122
Act 986
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…s. Calendar. Committee on Joint Budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 122 by Joint Budget recommended do pass.”
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AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB122 is now Act 986 |
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SB136
Act 877
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on Joint Budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 136 by Joint Budget recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND - GRANTS AND AID TO LOCAL … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB136 is now Act 877 |
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SB179
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB179 #3 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN TERMS OF…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN TERMS OF OFFICE AND THE REORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. | M. Johnson | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. |
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SB182
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB 182 TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR MORE OPTIONS IN THE LEVYING A…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR MORE OPTIONS IN THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF … | A. Clark | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB206
Act 800
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Budget. Senate Bill 206 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 585 by Senator Dismayne. Sen…”
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CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF A PERSON'S OBLIGATION TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER; AND CONCERNING … | Irvin | Notification that SB206 is now Act 800 |
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SB252
Act 878
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…r. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom was referred Senate Bill 252 by Senator Hammer, recommend do pass to concurrent Amendmen…”
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TO PROVIDE FOR INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR TREATMENT OF PEDIATRIC AUTOIMMUNE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH STREPTOCOCCAL … | K. Hammer | Notification that SB252 is now Act 878 |
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SB278
Act 801
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB278 #1 G. Stubblefield TO AMEND LAWS CONCERNING ABORTION FACILI…”
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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 |
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SB287
Act 802
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB287 #1 A. Clark TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CHILD MALTREATMENT…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CHILD MALTREATMENT INVESTIGATIONS AND THE PLACEMENT OF A NAME ON … | A. Clark | Notification that SB287 is now Act 802 |
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SB315
Act 803
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ittee on Enrolled Bills to whom was referred the following, Senate Bill 315 by Senator”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DRIVER'S LICENSE REINSTATEMENT FEES. | K. Hammer | Notification that SB315 is now Act 803 |
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SB339
Act 804
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…206 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 585 by Senator Dismayne. Senate Bill 339 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 374 by Senator Rapert. Senat…”
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TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT OF, BARRING OF, AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST A PHYSICIAN FOR HIS OR … | Irvin | Notification that SB339 is now Act 804 |
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SB342
Act 805
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Hammer, Senate Bill 342 by Senator Cooper, Senate Bill 492 by Senator Garner,”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE CONTRACTORS LICENSING BOARD; AND TO AMEND THE LICENSING REQUIREMENTS … | J. Cooper | Notification that SB342 is now Act 805 |
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SB344
Act 806
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB 344 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FILING OF A MECHANIC'S OR M…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FILING OF A MECHANIC'S OR MATERIALMAN'S LIEN. | B. Ballinger | Notification that SB344 is now Act 806 |
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SB36
Act 871
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB36 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRI…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB36 is now Act 871 |
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SB374
Act 807
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…585 by Senator Dismayne. Senate Bill 339 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 374 by Senator Rapert. Senate Bill 449 by Senator Irving. Senat…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PENALTIES RELATED TO ADMINISTRATIVE INSPECTION WARRANTS EXECUTED BY THE ARKANSAS … | Rapert | Notification that SB374 is now Act 807 |
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SB409
Act 1075
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on State Agencies, to whom was referred Senate Bill 409 by Senator Filippo, recommended to pass. Calendar.”
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TO ALLOW FOR THE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION OF AN INVITATION FOR BIDS AND ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF … | Flippo | Notification that SB409 is now Act 1075 |
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SB411
Act 1076
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on city, county, local, to whom was first Senate Bill 411 by Senator Stubblefield recommend due pass. Calendar. Commi…”
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TO PROHIBIT MUNICIPAL SANCTUARY POLICIES. | G. Stubblefield | Notification that SB411 is now Act 1076 |
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SB429
Act 771
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 100 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 105 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 429 by Joint”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, GRANTS AND PROGRAMS … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB429 is now Act 771 |
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SB447
Act 808
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB447 #1 J. Hendren TO INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT…”
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TO INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT; TO MAINTAIN FUNDING FOR CURRENT PROPERTY TAX RELIEF; … | J. Hendren | Notification that SB447 is now Act 808 |
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SB449
Act 809
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 339 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 374 by Senator Rapert. Senate Bill 449 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Hester. Senat…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE SAFE … | Irvin | Notification that SB449 is now Act 809 |
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SB455
Act 883
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ss. Calendar. Committee on City County local to whom is for Senate Bill 455 by Senator Garner recommend due pass to concur in House Ame…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CATASTROPHIC LEAVE FOR MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES. | T. Garner | Notification that SB455 is now Act 883 |
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SB457
Act 884
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for Senate Bill 457 by Senator Ballinger, recommended due pass to Concurrent Ho…”
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TO REGULATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF REAL PROPERTY OF THE STATE AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE … | B. Ballinger | Notification that SB457 is now Act 884 |
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SB461
Act 1077
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB461 #3 K. Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AND TIMING OF TAX COLLECTION IN CERTAIN … | K. Hammer | Notification that SB461 is now Act 1077 |
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SB463
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Committee on State Agencies, to whom was referred Senate Bill 463 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended to pass. Calendar. Com…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVES AND REFERENDA; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSING, REGISTRATION, … | M. Johnson | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB464
Act 810
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 374 by Senator Rapert. Senate Bill 449 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Hester. Senate Bill 504 by Senator Irving. Senat…”
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TO ENSURE THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF CERTAIN PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN THE EXECUTION OF A PERSON FOR … | Hester | Notification that SB464 is now Act 810 |
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SB485
Act 885
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB485 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE APPROPRIATION. | G. Leding | Notification that SB485 is now Act 885 |
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SB492
Act 812
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Hammer, Senate Bill 342 by Senator Cooper, Senate Bill 492 by Senator Garner,”
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TO PROMOTE HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM; TO ESTABLISH AREAS OF A CITY OR TOWN THAT HIGHLIGHT … | T. Garner | Notification that SB492 is now Act 812 |
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SB504
Act 813
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 449 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Hester. Senate Bill 504 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 511 by Senator Hill. Senate…”
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TO EXTEND THE EXPIRATION DATE FOR THE PALLIATIVE CARE AND QUALIFY OF LIFE INTERDISCIPLINARY TASK … | Irvin | Notification that SB504 is now Act 813 |
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SB511
Act 814
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 464 by Senator Hester. Senate Bill 504 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 511 by Senator Hill. Senate Bill 541 by Senator Garner, Senate…”
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CONCERNING THE THIRTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT; AND CONCERNING LONOKE COUNTY STATE DISTRICT COURT AS IT WILL … | Hill | Notification that SB511 is now Act 814 |
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SB514
Act 677
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…asures of the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. Senate Bill 514 is now Act 677. Sincerely, Asa Hutchison, Governor. File it…”
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TO REGULATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THIRD-PARTY SPOOFING PROVIDERS. | J. Dismang | Notification that SB514 is now Act 677 |
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SB524
Act 888
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…er 1. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for Senate Bill 524 by Senator Ballinger, recommended due pass to Concurrent Ho…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF … | B. Ballinger | Notification that SB524 is now Act 888 |
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SB538
Act 815
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB538 #1 J. Sturch TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT T…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL AND TRADITIONAL … | J. Sturch | Notification that SB538 is now Act 815 |
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SB541
Act 816
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 504 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 511 by Senator Hill. Senate Bill 541 by Senator Garner, Senate Bill 552 by Senator Teague, Senat…”
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RELATING TO THE PRIVILEGE FROM DISCLOSURE TO AUTHORITIES FOR EVIDENCE CONCERNING A SERMON, RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, … | T. Garner | Notification that SB541 is now Act 816 |
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SB552
Act 817
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 511 by Senator Hill. Senate Bill 541 by Senator Garner, Senate Bill 552 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 564 by Senator Irving, compa…”
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CONCERNING THE REORGANIZATION OF LOCAL DISTRICT COURTS INTO STATE DISTRICT COURTS. | Teague | Notification that SB552 is now Act 817 |
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SB557
Act 818
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 557 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 573 by Senator Letting. Sena…”
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TO DESIGNATE WASHINGTON, ARKANSAS, AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BOWIE KNIFE, ARKANSAS HERITAGE SITE. | Teague | Notification that SB557 is now Act 818 |
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SB561
Act 819
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB561 #1 J. Hendren TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAX REFORM ACT OF 2019…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAX REFORM ACT OF 2019; AND TO REFORM THE SALES TAX, … | J. Hendren | Notification that SB561 is now Act 819 |
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SB564
Act 820
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 541 by Senator Garner, Senate Bill 552 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 564 by Senator Irving, compare the enrolled copies with the ori…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, RETURNING MILITARY … | Irvin | Notification that SB564 is now Act 820 |
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SB573
Act 821
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 557 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 573 by Senator Letting. Senate Bill 100 by Joint Budget. Senate…”
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CONCERNING PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO MINORS IN A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; CONCERNING PAROLE DISCHARGE FOR OFFENDERS … | G. Leding | Notification that SB573 is now Act 821 |
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SB585
Act 823
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Budget. Senate Bill 206 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 585 by Senator Dismayne. Senate Bill 339 by Senator Irving. Sen…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FIREFIGHTER CANCER RELIEF NETWORK TRUST FUND. | J. Dismang | Notification that SB585 is now Act 823 |
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SB619
Act 1084
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Matched: “SB619 L. Eads TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ARKANS…”
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TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ARKANSAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD. | L. Eads | Notification that SB619 is now Act 1084 |
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SB652
Act 1086
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “referred Senate Bill 652 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended due pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO NAME THE OFFICE BUILDING LOCATED AT 501 WOODLANE, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS; AND TO HONOR … | M. Johnson | Notification that SB652 is now Act 1086 |
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SB657
Act 1087
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Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on Transportation to whom was referred Senate Bill 657 by Senator Sample, recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE METHOD BY WHICH THE OFFICE OF DRIVER SERVICES MAY … | B. Sample | Notification that SB657 is now Act 1087 |
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SB660
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Matched: “SB660 T. Garner TO MODERNIZE THE CONCEALED HANDGUN LICENSING FRAM…”
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TO MODERNIZE THE CONCEALED HANDGUN LICENSING FRAMEWORK; AND CONCERNING THE POSSESSION OF A HANDGUN. | T. Garner | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB663
Act 946
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Matched: “SB663 Maloch TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DONORS OF FOOD; AND TO E…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DONORS OF FOOD; AND TO EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR DONORS OF … | Maloch | Notification that SB663 is now Act 946 |
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SB664
Act 1088
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Matched: “SB664 #1 Elliott TO REQUIRE THAT NEW INMATES RECEIVE READING ASSE…”
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TO REQUIRE THAT NEW INMATES RECEIVE READING ASSESSMENTS AND DYSLEXIA SCREENINGS; TO REQUIRE READING AND … | Elliott | Notification that SB664 is now Act 1088 |
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SB667
Act 947
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Matched: “SB667 K. Ingram TO AMEND AN EXEMPTION TO THE ARKANSAS CLEAN INDOO…”
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TO AMEND AN EXEMPTION TO THE ARKANSAS CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT OF 2006. | K. Ingram | Notification that SB667 is now Act 947 |
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SB670
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “whom was referred Senate Bill 670 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended due pass as amend numb…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WORKERS AND OTHER ELECTION OFFICIALS; AND TO AMEND A … | M. Johnson | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB677
Act 1089
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB677 Elliott TO REQUIRE THAT YOUTHS UNDERGO READING ASSESSMENTS…”
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TO REQUIRE THAT YOUTHS UNDERGO READING ASSESSMENTS AND DYSLEXIA SCREENINGS; TO REQUIRE READING AND DYSLEXIA … | Elliott | Notification that SB677 is now Act 1089 |
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SB679
Act 1090
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…due pass. Calendar. Committee on City County to whom is for Senate Bill 679 by Senator Ingram recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee o…”
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TO AMEND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT REVENUE BOND ACT OF 1985. | K. Ingram | Notification that SB679 is now Act 1090 |
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SB68
Act 872
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Matched: “SB68 AN ACT FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS APPROPRI…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB68 is now Act 872 |
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SB93
Act 873
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Joint Budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 93 by Joint Budget recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB93 is now Act 873 |
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called to order. Madam Secretary, will you call the
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roll? Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson Letting, Malik Pitch, Rapert, Rice
Sample, Stubbeville Sturge, Teague Wallace I ask all senators
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and guests in the gallery to please stand as
we are led in prayer by Senator Jim Hendon Let's pray Our Heavenly Father we thank you for your
many blessings. We thank you for this place where we can come and gather together God, we just ask that you give
us wisdom, that you give us courage and discernment. Lord, help us to seek to do your will, and we just ask that that will be the guiding principle in all that we do. We ask your protection for those who are traveling and for those
who will be traveling home this weekend. Watch over our families. Just help with everything we do to honor and glorify you.
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In Jesus' name, amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for
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which it understands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam Secretary,
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the item's at the desk. Yes, sir. We're
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your committee on ag right, to whom was first House Bill 1557
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by Representative House, recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee on ag right, to whom was first House Bill 1920 by Representative Capp, recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee on city, county, local, to whom was first Senate Bill 411 by Senator Stubblefield recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee on City County to whom is for Senate Bill 679 by Senator Ingram recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee on City County local to whom is for Senate Bill 455 by Senator Garner recommend due pass to concur in House Amendment No. 1. Calendar. Committee on City County local to whom is for House Bill 1817 by
Representative Kapp recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee on City County local to whom is for House Bill 1875 by Representative Drew Davis. Recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on City County Local to whom was referred House Bill 1041 by Representative Lady Men. Recommended due pass. Calendar. As amended number one. Committee on City County Local to whom was referred House Bill 1385 by Representative Mayberry. Recommended due pass as amended Number 1. Calendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom was referred Senate Bill 520
by Senator Hammer, recommend do pass as amended Number 5. Calendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom was referred Senate Bill 252 by Senator Hammer, recommend do pass to concurrent Amendment Number 1. Calendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom was referred House Bill 1837 by Representative McCollum. Recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom is for House Bill 1839 by Representative Johnson. Recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom is for House Bill 1894 by Representative House. Recommended
do pass. Calendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom is for House Bill 1943 by Representative Kavanaugh. Recommended do pass
as amended number one. Calendar. Committee on
Joint Budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 93 by Joint Budget recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Joint Budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 122 by Joint Budget recommended do pass.
Calendar. Committee on Joint Budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 136 by Joint Budget recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was referred Senate Bill 113 by Senator Elliott recommended do pass. 313. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1625 by Representative Gassaway recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1686 by Representative Collins recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1733
by Representative Gassaway recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is board House Bill 1734 by Representative Gassaway recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1782 by Representative Kapp recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1802 by Representative Lowry recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1810 by Representative Penzo recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1851 by Representative Bentley recommended
to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was 4th House Bill 1866 by Representative Petty recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1880 by Representative Dalby recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1937 by Representative Dalby recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1633 by Representative Tosh recommended do pass as amended number one. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was Furt House Bill 1673 by Representative Petty recommended
do pass as amended number one. Calendar. Committee on Public Health, to whom was referred, Senate Bill 577 by Senator Hamer, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health, to whom was referred, Senate Bill 654 by Senator Dismayne, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health, to whom was referred, House Bill 1433 by Representative Rushing, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health, to whom was referred, House Bill 1453 by Representative Penzo, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1484 by Representative Watson recommended to pass.
Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1545 by Representative Allen recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1555 by Representative Collins recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom is for House Bill 1674 by Representative Petty recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health Team is remembered House Bill 1707 by Representative Caff들을 recommend you pass Calendar. Committee on Public Health Team is כל � r a house Bill 1712 by Representative Wardlaw
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Committee on Public Health to whom was referred to House Bill 1915 by representative Womack. Recommended do pass. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom was referred to House Bill 1255 by Representative Dodson. Recommended do pass as amended number one. Calendar. Committee on Public Health to whom was referred House Bill 1435 by Representative Pilkington, recommended to pass as amended No. 1. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies, to whom was referred Senate Bill 409 by Senator Filippo, recommended to pass. Calendar.
Committee on State Agencies, to whom was referred Senate Bill 463 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was
referred Senate Bill 652 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to
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whom was referred Senate Bill 670 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended due pass as amend number one.
Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for Senate Bill 457 by Senator Ballinger, recommended due pass to Concurrent House Amendment Number 1. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for Senate Bill 524 by Senator Ballinger, recommended due pass to Concurrent House Amendment Number 1. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for House Bill 1630 by Representative Blundstrom, recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was for House Bill 1665 by Representative Brown, recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1666 by Rep. Brown, recommend
do pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1698 by Rep. De La Rosa, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1706 by Rep. Bragg, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to House Bill 1842 by Rep. Pilkington, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1881 by Representative Petty. Recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1893 by Representative De La Rosa.
Recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1907 by Representative Powell. Recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1928 by Representative Flowers. Recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom is Ferd House Bill 1936 by Representative Birch. Council kiş. Councilmember Hob nooit, O are U.S. Councilmember Hob spot. Councilmember Hob os Cum di Gade, Colling WКак nt yield ses home. Councilmember Hob today. Councilmember Hob wait a minute? Mayor Taito, 26 members of the committee. Councilmember HobIG. Councilmember Hob no 202, credit 못 off Спасибо.
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Transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1693 by Representative Wing, recommended do pass as amended number one. Calendar. Committee on Transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1822 by Representative Christianson, recommended to pass as hurdle number one. Calendar. Committee on transportation, who Airport House Bill 1849, by Representative Del Rosso, recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee on transportation, who knowledge Coffee have fallen Scotland 1917, by Representative Payton, recommended to do pass. Calendar. Committee on transportation, who knowledge Software House Bill 1945, by Representative
Holcomb, recommended to pass. Calendar. Calendar. Committee on Transportation, who is for House Bill 1947 by Representative Fortner, recommended do pass. Calendar. Dear Mr. President, will your Committee on Enrolled Bills to whom was referred the following, Senate Bill 315 by Senator
Hammer, Senate Bill 342 by Senator Cooper, Senate Bill 492 by Senator Garner,
Senate Bill 557 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 573 by Senator Letting. Senate Bill 100 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 105 by Joint Budget. Senate Bill 429 by Joint
Budget. Senate Bill 206 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 585 by Senator Dismayne. Senate Bill 339 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 374 by Senator Rapert. Senate Bill 449 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Hester. Senate Bill 504 by Senator Irving. Senate Bill 511 by Senator Hill. Senate Bill 541 by Senator Garner, Senate Bill 552 by Senator Teague, Senate Bill 564 by Senator Irving, compare the enrolled copies with the original and find
the same correctly enrolled in at 11 a.m. delivered to the governor for his approval.
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File it. Just file it. File it. Dear Mr. President, this is to inform you that on April 3, 2019, I approve the following measures of the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. Senate Bill 514 is now Act 677. Sincerely, Asa Hutchison, Governor. File it. Senate Bill 682 by Senator Ingram, concerning the sentencing and parole eligibility of a defendant who enters into a
negotiated plea with the state and concerning the duties of the prosecuting attorney, Senate Bill 682.
Judiciary. Members, do we have any announcements or introductions? Senator Chesterfield, you're
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recognized for an announcement. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. It is my understanding that the ladies who have been so helpful to our pages are going to be concluding their work soon. And their director is here. Ms. Felicia, would you come down?
She has made, I want you to introduce yourself to this
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group, if you would. Doctor. Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Felicia Hobbs, and it has been my pleasure to serve working alongside with the pages. It has been a remarkable experience. I'm a retired school principal and this is one unique way that I still get to
work with students. So thank you for the opportunity and we have
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two other ladies who have worked, are they in the chamber? They're not in here but we want to thank them as well. This is
the first time we've had presented to us what the key, what schools they were in, what they wanted to do in life, what they were already doing. I think it's
important if they come down here that they have that full experience and we get to know what a wonderful job our children are doing. So thank you to you and to the staff. You have been wonderful. We appreciate
you. Thank you, Senator Chesterfield. Any other announcements or introductions? Senator You're recognized, sir. I have
two pages today. I think they may be the last two pages. We have Carson Palmer here in the back. Stand up, Carson.
And Gresham Messersmith. They're two pages today. They're both 12 years old in sixth grade. Carson is at Christ the King. And Gresham is at Holy Souls. And they're both athletes. And they're having a great experience because they're the only two here. So let's give them a big round of applause.
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All right. Any other introductions? Announcements? All right.
Time for the morning hour agenda.
House Concurrent Resolution 1014. House
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Concurrent Resolution 1014 by Representative Severo to congratulate the Little Rock Christian Academy Lady Warriors for
their achievements. Senator Vaughn, you're recognized, sir. The Little
Rock Christian was here two days ago. Representative Servillo had him in the House, and there was some miscommunication about getting the House concurrent resolution over here, so I just ask for a good vote, please.
We want to congratulate them on their achievements and state championship, I do
believe, so thank you. All in favor say
aye. Aye. All opposed? It's been adopted. Senate Resolution
34, Madam Secretary. Senate Resolution 34 by Senator Elliott to commend the Miss Heritage Scholarship Competition.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Madam Chair, I was contacted
by a couple of folks who wanted me to run this resolution.
They were going to try to be here. They are not here. So I feel no compulsion to have to read it to you. But it's a heritage thing that African-American, the HBCUs, are doing to promote citizenship and so forth. So I ask you for a good vote. All in favor of the
resolution, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Resolution is adopted. Is there any further
business to come to us before the morning hour?
If not, Senator Hendon, you're recognized, sir. okay members
if you got your calendars you want to pull them out we're going to go through the potential bills that are going to be batched the other thing is I guess somebody found their iPad we found an iPad but I guess somebody got it okay so pull out your calendar on house bills these are the bills that right now will be batched at the end of the house calendar I'll go over them again later but let me just
kind of go through these you've got them in a different
All right, so House Bill, all of these bills got 90 votes or better in the House, and you can take a look at them yourself, but again, that doesn't mean they're good bills, certainly. House Bill 1075. These will be batched. All right, let me just confirm something. Okay, disregard, the first one is House Bill 1217 that will be in the batch.
The next one is House Bill 1404, that one passed 95 to nothing. House Bill 1440, passed 95 to 1. House Bill 1498, passed 92 to 0. House Bill 1538, that one passed 91 to 0. House Bill 1552, 90 to 0. House Bill 1567, 95 to 0. House Bill 1618, 89-0.
House Bill 1634, 93-0. House Bill 1641, 92-1. House Bill 1699, 90-2. House Bill 1702, 86-0. House Bill 1724, pass 97-0.
Last page, House Bill 1745, pass 94-0. House Bill
1785, 95-0. House Bill 1801, pass 88-0. House Bill 1855, 88 to 0. House Bill 1900, passed 93 to 1. House Bill 1910, passed 96 to nothing.
House Bill 1934, passed 85 to nothing. House Bill 19, hang
on just a second.
And the last one is House Bill 1953, it passed 92-0.
okay so if you have any questions on that list I'll go over the list again I
won't give the counts but I'll go over the list again after we've seen if any of these are going to be pulled out no House Bill 1075 has been pulled so it will not be in the batch. Okay? So I'd make a motion that we batch those bills.
Wait, wait. I'm going to wait until we get a final list, all right? So after we have a chance for you all to go through there and pull any that you want out, what I would encourage you to do is before you go pull it, go talk to the person who's handling it and see if there's a question you can get answered so that we don't end up pulling 10 bills and then they all get to vote rolled on them. But if you've got a question, certainly pull them, okay? thanks
members you've heard senator hindron those bills that were to be
badged if you would let him know which ones you'd like to pull out of the batch the time we get to the house bills We'll now move on to Senate bills to.
members if you have a bill to be pulled out of the batch would you please notify joseph so we don't have everybody coming up here to talk to ann if you would notify joseph to pull out a bill from the batch
Members, we'll now move on to Senate bills to concur in House amendments. I remind you that we do have to vote on the amendment first
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and then the underlying bill. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 278.
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Senators Doublefield, you recognize them. This is just a concurring House amendment.
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Are there any questions for Senator Stubberfield
on the amendment? All for the amendment say aye. Aye.
All opposed? No. We'll now hear Senate Bill 278. Senate Bill 278 by Senator Stubberfield
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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 Women's Right to Know Act. Same bill, colleagues,
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this is the same bill I ran about a month ago.
I think you all are aware of what it does. It was amended to separate the 72-hour waiting period from the 48th. I'd ask for a good vote.
Are there any questions for Senator Stubblefield? Anyone to speak for or against the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote? There is an objection. Madam Secretary, please call the roll, Senate Bill 278. Ballinger?
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Aye. Bledsoe? Aye. Bond? No. Caldwell? Aye. Cheatham? Aye. Cheatham?
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Aye. Chesterfield? Aye. Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne, Eads, Eads, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flowers,
Garner Hammer Hendron Hester Hickey
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Hill Ingram Irvin Blake Johnson Mark Johnson Letting.
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Letting. Mallet. Pitch. Rapert. Rice. Rice.
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Sample. Stubbafil. Stubbafil. Sturge. Teague. Teague. Wallace.
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I'll get to you senators senator sample is I
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senator eats is I senator Chesterfield is no
senator T is I senator rice is I any other senators who wish to change their vote senator Cheetah I Aye. Can
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I go out of order? Sure. All you put? Any senators
who wish to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot. Vote of 29 yeas, 5 nays. The bill has passed. And roll it. We'll now
move to Senate Bill 287 to concur and house a minute.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Johnson. You're recognized. Members, up in our VIP gallery, I would like to introduce to you two distinguished guests from the Masonic Grand Lodge of Arkansas, J.D. Sexton, the Grand Master, and Brad Phillips, our Grand Secretary. Please make them welcome.
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Brief announcement. Senator Rayford, you're recognized. Members want
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to introduce today if he would stand Dr. Gary Stewart from Family Practicing Conway. Please make him welcome and nurse Brenda Hewitt. Senator Chesterfield. Mr. Chair, point of personal privilege,
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I referred to the ladies before but Ms. Cynthia Haas and Ms. Judy Sims are now in the chamber. We want to I
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recognize them, but are they in the chamber?
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They're not in the chamber yet. Well, they're not in the chamber. Anyway,
that's their name. Thank you. Okay. Senators, any other announcements before we move on? If not, Senate Bill 287 to concurrent
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House amendment. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 287. Senator Clark,
you're recognized. Thank you. This is just adding a House sponsor.
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You've heard the amendment. Any opposition? All four? Say aye.
Now we'll hear the underlying bill, Senate Bill 287. Amendment
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is adopted. Symbol 287 by Senator Clark, to amend the law concerning child maltreatment investigations and the placement of a name on the Child Maltreatment Central Registry and to repeal certain provisions of the Child Maltreatment Act.
This basically allows them to do less investigations and end an investigation. It passed the
Senate with 35 votes and the House with 95 votes.
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I'd appreciate a good vote. Senators, you've heard an
explanation of the bill. Anyone to speak for or
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against the bill? Hearing none, any objection to rolling the vote? Seeing none, Madam
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Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell. Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismain, Eades, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson,
Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbeville, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Any senators who wish to change their vote? Seeing
none, cast up the ballot, vote of 35 yeas, 0 nays. The bill has passed. Roll it. Senate Bill
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344 to concur in House Amendment. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill
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344. Senator Ballinger, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President.
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This was a circuit clerk's bill that we had that was primarily clean up. There was one issue there that dealt with the legal description that Senator Hickey actually had some concerns about when it passed through before. The Bar Association also had some concerns, so that's what this amendment did, is basically take out any concerns, and everybody's happy with
it now. Would appreciate a good vote. Further explanation of the amendment? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Amendment is adopted. We'll now hear the underlying bill, Senate Bill
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344. Senate Bill 344 by Senator Ballinger to amend the law concerning the filing of a mechanics
or material man's lien. This, as
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I said, is a clean-up bill for the
certain clerks. I appreciate a good vote. You've heard
an explanation of the bill. Anybody speak for or against the
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bill? Say none. Any objection to rolling the vote? Say none. Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Pitch,
Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge,
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Teague, Wallace. Any senator who wishes to change
their vote? Seeing none, cast up the ballot. The vote of 35 yays, zero nays. The bill has passed. Enroll it.
Senate Bill 447. To concur and house
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amendment. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 447. Senator Hendricks, you're recognized.
Thank you, Mr. President. This just changes it going from general revenue, the excess in this property trust relief fund, over into long-term reserve agreed upon amendment. You've heard an explanation
of the amendment. Anyone who wishes to speak for or against the amendment? Say none. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? the amendment
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is adopted. Senator Chesterfield? They say the third time is the charm, okay? Would Cynthia and Judy please stand? Cynthia Hobbs and Judy Sims, would you please stand?
Thank you ladies for your service And thank you Mr. Chair for continuing to indulge me Until I finally got
it right I appreciate it We will now hear
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the underlying bill Senate Bill 447 Senate Bill 447 by Senator Hendren To increase the Homestead Property Tax Credit to maintain funding for current property tax relief,
to provide for the use of the excess funds in the property tax release trust fund, and to declare an emergency. Senator
Hendren, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, members. This passed 34 to nothing last time down here. Get your money for the voting machines and gives the homestead credit up to $375. Appreciate a good vote. You've heard an explanation of the bill.
Is there anyone to speak for or against the bill? Seeing none, is there any objection to rolling the vote? Seeing
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none, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne,
Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Any senators who wish to change their vote? Seeing none, cast
up the ballot with a vote of 35 yeas, 0 nay. Senate Bill 447 has passed. Enroll it.
Senator English, you're recognized for Senate Bill 538 to concur in House Amendment. Thank you. This
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is the House Amendment. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 538. Thank you. House Amendment. Appreciate a good vote.
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You've heard the amendment. Any questions on the amendment? All in favor of the amendment,
say aye. All opposed? Amendment is adopted. We'll now hear the underlying bill, Senate
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Bill 538. Senate Bill 538, by Senator Sturge, to
amend provisions of the code with respect to open enrollment, public charter school, and traditional public school waivers, and to amend provisions concerning schools of innovation. Senator English,
you're recognized. Thank you. This is technical corrections for waivers for Open Enrollment Public Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools. I've heard an explanation of the
bill. Anybody to speak for or against the bill?
Seeing none, is there any objection to rolling
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the vote? Seeing none, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbeville, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Any Senator who wishes to change their
vote? Seeing none, cast up the
ballot. With the vote of 35 yeas, 090, Senate
Bill 538 has passed. Enroll it. We'll now take up Senate Bill 561. Amendment 1 to
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Senate Bill 561. Senator Hendren, you're recognized. Yeah, this
amendment just changed one date on the transfer from the Secretary of State's office to the DF&A for
the franchise, so they have a contract they have to deal with, but other than that, left the bill the same. You've heard an
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explanation of the amendment. Any questions on the
amendment? All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Amendment is adopted.
Senator Hendren, you are recognized to underline bill, Senate Bill
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561. Senate Bill 561 by Senator Hendren, to create the Arkansas Tax Reform Act of 2019 and to reform the sales tax, income tax, property tax, and franchise tax laws of the state. Thank you, Mr. President. This one
passed 32 to 1 first time through, and again, all it does is implement
the recommendations of the Tax Reform Task Force, mainly administrative recommendations with regard to assessment coordination, with regard to ATVs,
with regard to a whole bunch of things. The only fiscal impact was for DF&A to do a biennial report of the effect of exemptions and
tax credits. Appreciate a good vote. I've heard an explanation of the bill. Is there
anyone to speak for or against the
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bill? Seeing none, is there an objection to rolling the vote? Seeing
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none, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill,
Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallet, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbofield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Any senator who wishes to change their vote, seeing
none, cast up the ballot. Vote 35 yea, 0 nay. Senate Bill 561 has passed
and roll it. Senators will now move to Senate bills with Senate amendments. Senate bills with Senate amendments. Senate Bill
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Senator Johnson, you're recognized, sir. My bill, my
amendment. Appreciate a good vote. Heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor, say aye. Aye.
All opposed? Amendments adopted. Senator Engrossing. Senator Engrossing. Now take up
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Senate Bill 461. Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 461.
Senator Hammer, you're recognized to explain the amendment. Senate Bill 461. Thank you, Mr. President.
This amendment comes as a result of conversation in here. It addressed two issues. one with regards to the quorum court it now reads shall review and approve or disapprove dot dot dot Senator Hickey that was to your issue and then it also added the statement that collection after January 1st of each year a delinquent assessment that existed prior to January 1st 2020 is deemed uncollectible senator flowers that addressed your issue and then I did some checking with
legislative audit. When it comes to the majority of the fire departments that have gotten into trouble with their finances, it deals with volunteer fire departments that are non-profit. And so this bill deals with those that are part of the fire protection district. So the majority of the problem deals with the non-profits. And I appreciate a good vote.
Senators, you've heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of
the amendment, say aye. All opposed? Amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing.
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Moving on to Senate Bill 664. Senator Elliott. Senate
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Bill 664, Amendment 1. Senator Elliott, you're recognized
for explaining Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 664. Thank you. My bill,
not your amendment. How's that? You've heard an explanation
of the amendment. All in favor, say aye. All opposed? Amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossi.
Senator Clark, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would ask the body that you suspend the rule so that we can place SB 182 back on its second reading for the purpose of amendment. You've heard
the motion to place Senate Bill 182 on second reading for purpose of amendment. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion is adopted.
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Senator. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 182.
Senator, you're recognized to explain your amendment. This amendment, I placed the bill and amendment on all of your desks today. This is a municipal league bill. and the bill allows the city volunteer fire departments to place their dues on the tax bill. This has the same amendment as on Senator Hammer's bill that the city council
will have to approve anything over $100 per year. I'll be happy
to take any questions. Senators, you've heard an explanation of the amendment. Any questions? All in favor of the amendment say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Amendment is adopted. Send to Engrossom.
Senator Hammer, you're recognized for motions. Thank you, Mr.
President. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules to place Senate Bill 520 on the calendar for amendment.
I heard an explanation of the motion to put Senate Bill 520 on second reading for purpose of amendment. All in favor of
the motion say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion is adopted. Senator, you're recognized to explain
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your amendment. Amendment 5 to Senate Bill 520.
Thank you. This is the PBM bill. We've come into agreement with the governor's office, passed out this morning. I'd like to go ahead and get this dealt with today. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules to have Senate Bill 520 placed on today's agenda at the end of the
Senate bills for the third reading and passage, just so you know what I'm going to ask for.
Thank you. Okay, Senators, we'll take those separately. You've heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. The amendment is adopted. Send it to engrossing. When it comes back, it will go at the bottom of the Senate calendar. Is there any objection to that motion? Seeing none,
the motion is adopted. Thank you, Senator Henry. Thank you all.
Page 2, House Bills with Senate Amendments. House Bill 1441, Senator Irvin, you're recognized to explain
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the amendment. Amendment 1 to House Bill 1441. You're recognized,
Mayor. Thank you. It's a misspelled word. Thank
you. We've heard an explanation of the amendment. Anybody opposed to the amendment? Without objection, amendment is
adopted. Senator Engrossing. Senator Hammer, you're recognized for House Bill 1491.
Senator Hendren, you're recognized, sir. Okay, members, if you look at the House with Senate amendments, House bills with Senate amendments calendar right there, we've got about 10 or 12. These have to go back to the House to concur. I think most people are going to want these considered today. So what I'd like to do is, if there's not an rejection, is put all these at the end, have a supplemental calendar for these House bills to be considered after we adopt the amendments later on today so we can send them back down. So I'd make that motion. Senators, you've heard an explanation of the motion.
Any discussion on the motion? Senator Irvin? Can we also see
if we get, well, are you going to try to batch those or no? We'll look at them
and see if there's potential to batch them. But, yeah, this will just get them engrossed where we can hear them today and send them back down. If we can
batch them, that would be great. Senators, you've heard the motion. Anyone else to speak on the motion? Say none. All in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Motion is adopted. We will place those on a supplemental calendar.
Senator Hammer, again, we'll go to you for an explanation on House Bill 1491. Amendment
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1 to House Bill 1491. Senator, you're recognized. Thank you,
members. This was an agreed-upon amendment. Representative Miller is carrying this, and what it did was just move the date earlier so we go ahead and get those that are on the waiting list on there. It also created a little flexibility as far as the department being able to access the funding in order to get the folks off the waiting list, and I'd appreciate a good vote.
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Heard an explanation of the amendment. Any question
on the amendment? All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Amendment is adopted. Send to engrossing. Senator Cooper, you're recognized for an explanation of House Bill 1609,
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Amendment No. 1. Amendment 1 to House Bill
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1609. Senator, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. House Bill 16 on that amendment is to add heroin and fentanyl to the list of substances.
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Appreciate a good vote. You've heard an explanation to the
amendment. Any discussion on the amendment? All in favor say aye. All opposed? Amendment is adopted.
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Send to engrossing. Senator Ballinger. Amendment 1, the House Bill 1626. Senator Ballinger, you're recognized,
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sir. This amendment actually took the controversial part of this bill and took it out.
So instead of it being a mandate of 15 students or more, it just is a mandate to the Department of Education to develop the curriculum, which they're okay with it. They're doing it anyway. We use their language for the
amendment. So I appreciate a good vote. You've
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heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say
aye. Aye. Any opposition? Seeing none, amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing. I would like to make a
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motion to move that to the end of the House calendar so we can take it up today so we won't run out of time.
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We did that with all of these. Senator Henry,
cover it, everybody. Good, you got it, sir. All right, Senator Chesterfield, House Bill
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1648. Amendment 1 to House Bill 1648. You're recognized now. Chair, my amendment, my bill.
I'd appreciate a good vote. Heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Any opposed? Seeing none, the amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing. Senator Irvin.
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Amendment 1, the House Bill 1651. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. Thank you. My
bill, my amendment. Heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Seeing no
opposition, Senator Engrossing, the amendment is adopted Senator Bond Amendment 1 to House
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Bill 1695 Agreed to amendment with the sponsor, appreciate a good vote You've
heard an explanation of the amendment, all in favor of the amendment say aye
Any opposed? Seeing no opposition, the amendment is adopted Senator Engrossing, Senator Malik House Bill 1765. Amendment
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1 to House Bill 1765. Senator Ballack, you're recognized. Thank
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you, Mr. President. This is an agreed-upon amendment with the sponsor.
Heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye.
Aye. Any opposed? Say none. Amendment is adopted. Send to engrossing. Senator Caldwell.
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Amendment 1 to House Bill 1854. Senator Caldwell, you're recognized. Thank you, Governor. This
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is Representative Hillman's bill. He came and testified for the amendment for the act committee. I appreciate a good vote. Senators, you've heard an explanation of the
amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye.
Any opposed? Seeing no opposition, amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing. Senator
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Clark. Amendment 1, the House bill 1854. 1896, I'm sorry. Senator Clark, you're recognized to explain the
amendment. Oh, there's it. This is
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the next one. Representative Gates' bill and Representative Gates' amendment. Senators,
you've heard an explanation of the amendment. All
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in favor of the amendment, say aye. Any
opposed? Seeing no. Opposition. Amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing.
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Senator Chesterfield. Amendment 1, the House Bill 1901. Senator Chesterfield, you recognize to
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explain the amendment. Thank you. My amendment to Senator Allen's bill with his approval. Heard an
explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Seeing no opposition, the amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing. Senator Disman.
Senator Disman, you're recognized. Thank you, Senator. Members, we had a couple of bills pass out of committee pretty late
and then another one that didn't pass out until
today, and I'd like to be able to have those heard since they are House bills with amendments. So I'd like to make a motion
to spin the rules so that we consider amendments on House Bill 1822, House Bill 1435
and House Bill 1041 Senators you've heard the motion to put House Bill 1822 House Bill 1435 and House Bill 1041 they do have Senate amendments to put them on the calendar for consideration
Senator Rice Senator Svang so the motion to adopt there's some agreement against all the part with inside all the parties that were involved in this bill so there's a pretty large amendment here so uh but again it is now at this point agreed upon so i appreciate a good vote on the amendment we'll be placing them at the end
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of the house calendar is that correct uh adoption i'll be we adopt these amendments
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first and then i'll make a motion from the
end of the calendar okay i don't have vote to you All right, Senators, we'll take these motions
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one at a time. This motion is just to place these three bills on our... I understand. Motion to suspend the rules to
consider the amendments today to these three bills. All in favor say aye.
Aye. Any opposition? Seeing none, motion is adopted. Yes, Senator Rice. Okay, again, clarify
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for me, I was out in the hall.
these are simply being put on the calendar for
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consideration at the end of the day they will
have opportunity to debate okay thank you Senator Disman you're recognized sorry I explained this amendment already my bill my
amendment appreciate a good vote you've heard an explanation of the amendment on House Bill 1822 all
in favor say aye amendment 1 to 1822 all opposed say no opposition the amendment is
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adopted Senator Engrossing Amendment 1 to House Bill 1435
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Senator Disman, you're recognized Get my bill and my
amendment Heard an explanation of the amendment All in favor of the amendment, say aye Aye Any opposed? Seeing no opposition, amendment is I'm sorry? The
screen's not right Oh, there we are House Bill 1435, amendment number 1 Any opposition? Seeing no opposition, amendment is adopted Senator Engrossing, Senator Disman
And then House Bill 1041, this is actually Senator Stubblefield's amendment to this bill.
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Amendment 1 to House Bill 1041. Senators, you've heard
an explanation of Amendment 1 to House Bill 1041. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Any opposed? Seeing none, amendment is adopted. Send to engrossing. Senator Disman, you recognize one
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have four buildings to add to the end of the house calendar
I apologize, we're looking for the amendment to 1435. 1435 has just been an A.
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Now, I just need to move them all to
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the end of the House calendar, the four, count 630, 454. Senator Spang,
you're recognized for another motion. Thank you, Senator.
I'd like to make a motion to spin the rules to add House Bill 1822, House Bill 1435, Senate Bill 654, and House Bill 1041 to the end of the House calendar for consideration
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today. Senators, you've heard the motion by Senator Dispain to move the engrossed versions of House Bill 1822, House Bill 1435, House Bill 1041, and then Senate Bill
654 to the bottom of the House calendar for today.
Yes, ma'am. House Bill 1822, House Bill 1435, House Bill 1041, and Senate Bill 654 to the end of the House calendar today. All in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Motion is adopted. Those four bills will be moved to the bottom of the House calendar.
Senators, we are doing very well. Thank you for your patience. Senate bills for third reading and passage will be moving on to Senate Bill 619. Senator, Senator Ballinger, did
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you still have, I'm sorry, Senator Eads, do you still have one withdrawn, sir?
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Senator Ballinger, you're recognized to explain. Thank you, Mr. President. So we worked till late last night, till like 1030 at night, working on an amendment. So those of you in judiciary knew that we dealt with a bill that kind of was some reforms in adoption law. So we sat down with the adoption attorney, with the folks from the Bar Association, and basically what we're doing is we're amending out the parts of the bill that were offensive to them, and we're just dealing with the first two sections of the bill that everybody's okay with. So Bar Association is okay with it if we amend it.
But in order for us to do that, we actually have to pull the bill out of committee for the purposes of amend it, amend it and engross it and send it back to committee. Does anybody have any questions? So my motion is to pull the bill from Senate Judiciary for the purposes of amendment to re-refer back to
committee. House Bill 1789. Senators, you've heard the motion. Is there any objection to the motion for House Bill 1789 to be pulled out of Judiciary and put on the second reading for purpose
of amendment. Seeing no objection and then re-referred back to committee. Any objection to that motion? Seeing
no objection, the motion is adopted. House Bill 1789 will be placed on the second reading for purpose of amendment
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and re-referred back to DSJ. Amendment 1 to House
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Bill 1789. Okay, so I explained this amendment a little bit. It is real simple. The sections 1 and 2 of this bill deal with human trafficking. There's universal support for that amongst the Bar Association, amongst the bill drafters, obviously,
or the sponsors of the bill. And so what it will do is leave that part in and take everything out that
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offended the bar, and I appreciate a good vote on this amendment.
Senators, you've heard an explanation of the amendment. Any explanation?
Seeing none. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Any opposed?
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Seeing none, the amendment is adopted. Send to engrossing. Senator Clark,
did you have a motion on House Bill 1385?
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Senator Clark, you're recognized. Amendment 1 to House Bill 1385. What's
the motion? Move for adoption of the amendment. Move for adoption of Amendment 1 on
House Bill 1385. Senator Sheridan's explanation of the amendment. On favor of the amendment, say aye. Aye. Any
opposed? Seeing no opposition, the amendment is adopted. Senator Engrossing. Thank you. Senator Flowers?
You recognize? I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules to put House
Bill 1937 at the bottom of the agenda. It passed out of the Judiciary Committee last night, as the recommendation do pass. I'd like for it to be voted on today. Senators, you've heard the
motion to suspend the rules to put House Bill 1937 at the bottom of the House calendar today.
All in favor of that motion, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Seeing no opposition, the motion is adopted. Thank
you. Thank you, Senator Files. Okay. Any other housekeeping issues? Seeing none, we are now back
to Senate bills for third reading and passage. Senator Eades, Senate Bill 619.
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Senate Bill 619 by Senator Eads, to amend the membership requirements for the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Senator Eads, you're
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recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, this bill provides some more flexibility for
the governor as he's making appointments to the Higher Ed Coordinating Board. What it said previously is that on six of the positions you had to have been served on a two-year public education board or higher education board of an institution or have served on a four-year institution board.
What they're saying now is that you just have to be a qualified elector and have graduated either from a two-year or a four-year institution. That way they have a little larger pool to be able to choose from. And then there was a question in committee about those that maybe have attended a private institution, a higher ed institution as well, and I've got the language ready, and we're going to amend that on the House end down there to add that so they have even more flexibility and a larger pool to choose from, and I would answer any questions. Any questions for Senator Eads?
Seeing none, anyone who would like to speak for or against the bill? Seeing none,
Senator has closed for his bill. Is
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the vote? Seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill,
Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbafield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Any senator who wishes to change their vote? Seeing none, cast up the ballot.
nays, Senate Bill 619 has passed. Transmit to the House. Senator Gardner. I was going to make a
Senator Gardner is recognized for a motion. Thank you, Mr. President. This
bill blew up the last 24 hours. This bill establishes what we did in 2007 because we have to tell cities and counties what the actual intent and the word of the law is. Now, whatever you think about guns or the enhanced carry, you should be concerned that when we debate something highly controversial and we pass something out and is signed into law, but is blatantly being ignored.
That should be an issue for all of us. Since some of the misinformation and how this worked the last 24 hours, I'm going to refer, make a motion to refer this to interim study. Mr. President, make the motion.
You've heard Senator Gardner's motion is to refer Senate Bill 660 to interim study. All in favor of the motion, say aye.
Any opposed? Seeing no opposition, the motion is adopted. Thank you, Senator Gardner.
Senator Malik, you're recognized, sir. Senate Bill 663 by Senator Malik.
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To amend the law concerning donors of food and to exclude liability for donors of food. Senator, you're
recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. members, this bill was requested by the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance. We have what I call a good Samaritan law that provides for the donation of food to the Hunger Relief Alliance, and it
just referred to canned food, and they wanted to add live food, defined here as live or recently deceased animals. Basically, if I wanted to donate a steer to the Alliance, or even if someone had harvested a deer and took it immediately to a place that it could be donated to a food bank or Hunger Relief Alliance, they would have the same protections as someone donating canned food. So I'd be glad to answer any questions. Otherwise, I
would appreciate a good vote. Any questions for Senator Malik?
Say none. Anyone who wishes to speak for or against this
bill? Say none. Is there any objection to rolling
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the vote? Say none. Madam Secretary, please roll the vote on Senate Bill 663. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Darner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallett, Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample, Sutterfield,
Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Any senator who wishes to change their vote? Seeing none cast up the ballot with a vote of 35 yeas, zero nays. Senate
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Bill 663 has passed. Transmit to the House. Senate Bill 667. Senate Bill 667 by Senator Ingram to amend the exemption to the
Arkansas Clean Indoor Air Act of 2006. Senator Ingram, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Chair. This is simply
a bill that will—the Clean Air Act, it reads designated smoking areas on the gaming floor of any franchisee
and all we need to do is amend it, strike franchisee. And now the language, because of Amendment 100, is casino licensee. We have to take any questions. Senator Garner. Senator, anyone can take a question
for Senator Garner? Yes. Thank you. I'm absolutely
fine with this. There's no franchisees outside of, like, Oakland and them, like the casinos now. That's not, like, a broader pool of people that we're restricting.
No, this is the original exemption for the Clean Air Act.
It referred to franchisees, which obviously at that time was just Oak Lawn and
South. Thank you. Anyone who wishes to speak for or against the bill? Say none,
Senator. Have you closed for your bill? Senator
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is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Say no objection. Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismaine, Eves, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey,
Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Senator Davis is present. Any other senators who wish
to change their vote? Senator Rayford is no. Senator Mark Johnson is no. Any other senators who wish to change their vote? Senator Davis is now no. Senator Hester is no. Senator Clark
is no. Any other senators who wish to change their vote? Senator Hammer is no. Any
others? Seeing none, cast up the ballot. With the vote of 29 yeas, 6 nays, Senate Bill 667 has passed. Transmit to the House.
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Senate Bill 677. Senate Bill 677 by Senator Elliott.
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To require that youths undergo reading assessments and dyslexia screenings, to require reading and dyslexia services, and to require the Division of Youth Services Teachers known best practices of scientific reading instruction. Senator, you're recognized to
explain your bill. Thank you. Members, some of you will remember perhaps that we have been since 2011 working at making sure kids who are dyslexic learn to read.
In the process, though, we found we had a larger reading problem. And what we've done since that time is not only address the issue that some kids can't read because they're dyslexic, but that we'd missed a lot of kids in between. And we have, since that time, required everybody to use the science of reading to teach kids to read, but that was K-12. What this bill does is include the kids who are in our juvenile facilities as well, because we don't want to miss them. So if anybody has any particular questions,
I will answer them, but I don't think anybody is against making sure we teach kids how to
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read. Are there any questions? Senator Garner, you're recognized.
Thank you. Do we currently do this reading assessment? Say that again, please. Do we currently do any kind of reading assessment? And if not, what would that look like? Do we currently do a reading assessment, and we're just adding dyslexia
to that reading assessment? And if we do not do that reading assessment, what would it look like in practicality? Would they take a
test? Oh, yes. What it looks like is, I can't give you all the particulars right now,
But there are assessments that are designed to reveal whether or not, for example, you have a marker of dyslexia, like at the K-12 level, between K and 2, all of those kids are given an assessment to determine whether or not they have markers. If you have a marker of dyslexia, then you move further to see if you're actually dyslexic, and that's when the interventions come in. So it would be that same kind of process for the kids who are in our juvenile facilities as well.
You recognize for a follow-up? Thank you. So the age is a juvenile. I mean, what's the age? Can it be a 15,
16, 17-year-old? Something like that. For example, the kids who are at Alexander, for example, we have
about, what, five facilities around the state, I think. So I'm talking about those kids. Yeah. Yeah, most of them are teenagers, as far as I know. So a 19-year-old can be? Some
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are 11. Okay. Senator Garner, you through? Senator Johnson, you're recognized.
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We've discussed in the past how sometimes if we had caught these problems that these young people have early, that total change in the trajectory of their life could be avoided, included, including perhaps being into juvenile treatment. Do you agree? Yes, I do agree, and that's what
the original laws are doing now, because we're catching them
back in K-2 through second grade, if everybody's doing what they're supposed to do. So this
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could possibly even decrease the population in the Department of
Correction and other such things in the future.
That's right. The next bill coming about this will be about the folks who are in the Department
of Correction. So we will cover that trajectory from the time from K-12 through if somebody is in the juvenile facility through if they're in ADC. That's the next bill. We'll close that loop. Thank you, Senator. Yeah. Okay. Senator Chesterfield, you're recognized. Thank
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you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Senator Elliott, for taking my bill. I'm calling my own name. Jesus.
One of the things that Senator Garner asked about how would it happen, Is it not true that these kids are assessed before they are placed into particular areas when
they enter the juvenile system? Yeah, they get
an assessment now. What they don't get is particularly an assessment for dyslexia, and so that will
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just be added to it. But it could become a part of the assessment instrument that's already in place, so there's nothing that they have
to develop except the dyslexia discovery tool.
It will, because that's exactly what we do with K-2.
Two, before we passed the bill, they were also already supposed to be assessed for reading issues and we added to that dyslexia. And by the way, Senator Sturge and others in the Education Committee, when I presented this bill, I told the Education Committee that DHS, DYS had not talked with me yet. We have, and they are good with it. In fact,
they are excited about it, so. Are there any other questions? Would anyone like to speak against
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the bill or for the bill? Are there any objections to rolling the vote?
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Roll the vote. Okay. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark,
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Cooper, Davis, Dismayne, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield,
Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35. In favor, Senate Bill 677 passes. Transmit to the House. Senator Hammer, you had made a motion to place 520 at the end of the Senate calendar. It is not back from engrossing, but we will entertain a motion on Senate Bill 577, if you'd like to make that motion right now.
You're recognized for a motion. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to make a motion to spend the rules that had Senate Bill 577 to the bottom of the agenda of
the House calendar. came out of committee last night, do pass, and would like to add it to the calendar. Appreciate it.
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Motion to place Senate Bill 577 at the end of the House calendar. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Motion carried to be placed at the end of the House calendar. Members, I think we're going to go to the Budget Committee and get that taken care of, or the Budget Calendar,
if we can find Senator Teague before we move to the House bills. we're going to move
to the budget calendar members we have uh five bills to be amended and three budget bills senator
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hendrick you're recognized yeah thank you mr president uh
members you all have heard a lot
talk about potential extractions and so on and we did put a rule in place that those would not be considered until Monday. That was at my request and my motion. I think in order to give a fair opportunity for any extracted bill to be considered and heard, we need to move that up because as I've said earlier we may potentially end on Wednesday and more likely Thursday or Friday. But again So what I'm going to ask at this point is that we suspend the rule that requires extractions to be heard not before Monday, April the 8th.
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That's my motion. Senator Hinder, let me ask you if it might be worded as the same vote requirement, a motion to expunge
the vote? That's right. By which we pass. So let me just word it that way, to expunge the vote by which we put that deadline of April the 8th
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in place. All right, members, this is a debatable motion. It requires 24 votes. The motion is to
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expunge the vote by which we set April the 8th as the first day that we could extract from a committee. Is there any discussion, any debate on the bill or on the motion? It requires
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24 votes. All in favor of the motion to expunge, say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. No. Chair is unable to determine. If we've got 24 votes, please call the roll. This is
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on the motion to expunge the vote by which we established April 8th as the first date that
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we could extract a bill from committee. This is on the motion to expunge. Call the roll. Ballinger. Aye. Bledsoe. Aye.
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Bond. Bond. No. Caldwell. Aye. Cheatham. Cheatham. Chesterfield.
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Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eads, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flowers, Flowers,
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Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey,
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Hill, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake
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Letting. Letting. Mallet. No. Pitch. Yes. Rapert.
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Stubbafield. Aye. Sturge. Sturge. Teague. Teague. Wallace. Aye.
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Would anyone like to vote who has not voted or changed their vote? Senator Cheatham is no. Senator Hill is no. Senator Letting is no. Are there any others? I want to give everybody an opportunity. Any others? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 18 in favor, 11 opposed. The motion fails.
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All right, members, five amendments. Amendment 3 to
Senate Bill 36. This moves the Commission for Parent
Council from AOC to the Public Defender Commission. No revenue involved. We're doing amendments. I appreciate a
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good vote. Is that no amendments? This is amendment 30, Senate bill number 36.
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All in favor of this is an amendment, all in
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favor of the amendment say aye. Opposed, no. Amendments adopted. Amendment 1 to Senate
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Bill 68. Senate Bill 68, Administrative Office of the Courts Appropriation Amendment. Same thing, moving the
Commission for Parent Counsel from ALC to the Public Defender, swapping them around. Any discussion?
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All in favor of the amendment say aye. All opposed, no.
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Amendments adopted. Senate Engrossians. Amendment 4 to Senate
Bill 102. Members, this is the Act for DHS, Division of Aging, adds a section of special language effective June 30, 2019, and each year after, to allow the agency to keep up to $500,000 general revenue funds from all GR accounts besides Medicaid that would normally
be recouped into the general revenue allotment reserve funds. These funds are then to be used to increase the amount of funding to senior citizen
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center. Any questions? All in favor of the amendment say aye. Aye. All opposed no. The amendment is adopted. Send in Grossman. Amendment
2 December 104. Members this adds a two and
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a half million appropriation to support the Commission on Parent Council. Any questions? All in favor of the amendment, say aye.
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All opposed, no. Motion carried. Amendment adopted. Amendment 1,
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Senate Bill 485. Add Senator Davis as a co-sponsor.
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Questions? All in favor of the amendment, say aye. All opposed, no. Amendments adopted. Send to
engrossing. Madam Secretary, do you have a disclosure for Senate Bill
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101? Are we going to vote it separate? Yes. Or how
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would you want to do it? We'll vote it separate. You want
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to vote it now? We'll just vote it now. That's all right. I'll read this. Okay. Okay. Dear Ms. Cornwell, pursuant to Senate Rule 24.06-3A to comply with the definition of family
in 24.02 and language in 24.062, any matter and other terms in 24.062A, the following disclosure is provided. My wife is employed by the University of Arkansas Partners for Inclusive Communities, here and after referred to as partners. This is disclosed on our statement of financial interest. Symbol 101 of 2019 contains a waiver for a grant program being administered by partners. My wife receives no monetary benefit from this waiver. I plan
to participate and vote on this legislation. Sincerely, Senator Ingram. Okay. So, member, Senate Bill
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101 is an act for the Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disability Service Appropriation. We're going to vote it now. Yes. Read it across.
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Senate Bill 101 by Joint Budget, an act for the Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disabilities Services, Appropriation for 2019-2020 Fiscal Year. Any questions for Senator T? Anyone want to speak against or for?
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Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger,
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Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not,
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cast up the ballot by a vote of 35. In favor, Senate
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Bill 101 passes. Transmit to the House. All right, members, I have Senate Bill 110, Arkansas Economic Development Commission Appropriation,
and House Bill 1122, Arkansas Department of Emergency Management Appropriation. And I'll remind y'all that my daughter works at the Department of Emergency Management. I would answer any questions. Mr. President, I move that we batch the vote and roll it.
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Any objections to batching Senate Bill 110 and House Bill
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1122? All right, we'll be voting on both those bills
without objection. Senate Bill 110, House Bill 1122. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismain,
Eades, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Bledding, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubbeville, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast
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up the ballot by
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a vote of 35 in favor. The bill passed, transmit 110
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to the House, and return 1122 to the House.
Okay members, we're getting ready to start House bills, so I want to review with you the list of the ones that are going to be batched. These will be batched at the end, so we'll do all the regular House bills first and then we'll vote the batch. So if you want to mark on your calendar the ones that
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are in the batch that have not been removed are 12-17,
14-04, 14-40, 14-98, 15-67, 16-18, 16-34, kind of sounds like
Bingo. 1641, 1699, 1702, 1724, 1745, 1785, 1801, 1855, 1900, 1910, and 1934. Okay, that's the
batch as it stands.
We'll make the motion to run those in the batch at the end, and there is
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still time if somebody wants to remove any of those. Senator Tee, Senator Hendren, I had 1552 on. Is it
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off or is it off? Yeah, it got pulled. It got pulled. Okay, from my list, I believe 1538, 1552, and
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1953 were pulled from the original batch. That's correct. 1953 was pulled from the original batch.
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Senator Johnson, you're recognized. Okay. From the original list, 1538 was removed from the
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batch, 1552 was removed, and 1953 was removed. Okay. thank
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you all all right so we've got a motion to batch those with those removals let's
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wait and do the motion to the end of the calendar right at the end of the calendar we'll
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vote those by batch at the end of the calendar
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to move to the house bills senator Sturge House House Bill 1018. House Bill
1018 by Representative Saverlo to amend the population requirements that control the number
of directors who serve on a school district board of directors. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President.
Colleagues, we've had a bill, a law on the books since 1999 that established with school boards had daily memberships over 24,000 that they could have nine school board members as opposed to five or seven. All we're doing with this law is changing that threshold from 24,000 down to 20,000. It still is permissive language. It says still says that they may have up to nine but it gives them flexibility. As far as I know this affects two schools right now and we're just trying to make sure that it's, I think, a little more easier to do as far as that threshold from 24,000 to 20,000.
I appreciate a good vote. It passed out of
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the House unanimous. Are there any questions? Would anyone like to speak against or for? Senator Elliott,
you're recognized to speak against the bill. You're recognized. Thank you. My reason for speaking against this bill has to do with the long-running issue we're having right here in Pulaski County in the Little Rock School District because we do not have some great sound reason we are changing this number. It almost sounds ludicrous to even say anything about it, but if
you live in here and you see the constant drumbeat of the next thing and the next thing and the next thing that's changed specifically for Little Rock school district, except there's one other included here, I guess, to make it look better. I wouldn't have any problem with changing this number whatsoever if we were changing this number the way you would change it in your school district, because the way you would change it in your school district is by your duly elected school board that represents
What we face here in Pulaski County, we have one person who is our school board, and that's Commissioner Johnny Key. And one person will be in charge of deciding for us whether or not we want to change this number. And we are not changing this number for any reason other than to have an agenda carried out before the people get to make this decision for themselves. That's why I'm speaking against this bill. If it were in your district, you would care. I would ask you to care
that it's not in your district, because this is absolutely not as innocent as it appears. If it changes in your district, you're going to have representation. Changes in my district, Senator Chesterfield's district, Senator Bond's district, we don't get to have representation. I really wish you would not be okay with that, but I suspect. Senator Elliott has spoken against the bill. Would anyone
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like to speak for the bill?
Against the bill, Senator Sturge is closed. Question for the Senate is the passage of House Bill 1018.
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Bledsoe? Bledsoe? Aye. Bond? No.
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Caldwell? Caldwell? Caldwell, Cheatham, Cheatham, Chesterfield,
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Clark, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Davis, Dismang,
Aye. Eads. Aye. Elliot. No.
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English. English. Flippo. Aye. Flowers. Flowers.
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Garner. Yes. Hammer. Yes. Hendron, Hester, Hickey,
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Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark
Mark Johnson. Mark Johnson.
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Letting. Letting. Mallet. Mallet. Pitch. Rapert. Rapert. Rice. Rice.
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Thomas, Sample, Stubbefield, Stubbefield, Sturge,
Any members wish to change your vote? Senator Cheatham is a no, Senator Teague is a no, Senator Hill is an aye, and Senator Flowers is an aye. Anyone else wish to change their vote? Senator Ingram is a no. Anyone else? All right. Cast up the ballot with a vote of 20 yees, 7 nays. The bill passes. Return to
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the House. Senator Malik. House vote 1075 by Representative Mayberry and Senator Malik to amend the Achieving
a Better Life Experience Program Act and to provide for an income tax deduction for contributions to a disability savings account. Senator Malek, you're
recognized. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, we created this program, I think, last session, Achieving a Better Life Expectancy. It allows people to put money into an account. It's administered by the Treasurer's Office, and it was set up initially where the earnings would be tax-free, and they could only withdraw the money for certain qualified expenses
for a disabled beneficiary. What this bill does is allows a deduction for the initial contribution into the ABLE account. Each person is limited to $5,000. Again, they could only withdraw it for those qualified purposes or it would not be deductible. It has a very minimal impact and no opposition. And so I would be happy to answer any questions or would appreciate a good vote. Are there any questions on
the bill? Any questions? Seeing none. Anyone who wishes to speak for or against the bill?
Seeing none, you've closed for the
bill. Is there an
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objection. Please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismaine, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson,
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Letting, Malik, Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield,
Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to
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change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1075 passes. Return to the House. The next bill will be part of the batch. We will move to House
Bill 1346, Senator Sample. House Bill 1346 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
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General Assembly. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. President, House Bill 1346 makes a change to the April's retirement plan with respect to the General Assembly. Every other retirement plan allows for the purchase of military service credits. In order for a member of the General Assembly to be allowed to purchase of military service credits,
they must have five years of actual service. If they have those five years of action service and choose to purchase a military service credit, this bill will allow them to do so. And for the record, I have no military service, so it's not doing me
any good. Are there any questions? Would anyone like to
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speak against the bill or for the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote?
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Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallock, Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample, Stubbafill,
Teague Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1346 passes. Return to the
House. We will move to House Bill 1400. House Bill 1400 by Representative Cozart to require the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on
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Education to conduct a biennial study and file a biennial report regarding certain information concerning the Succeed Scholarship Program.
You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, this bill by Representative Cozart just allows for the House Ed Committee and
the Senate Ed Committee to have a report on the Succeed Scholarship. If you'll recall, we've put in $1.5 million in the past for that. It will be increasing this next year. The House Ed Committee and the Senate Ed Committee get no logistics as far as details on how How many kids are actually going to public school, private school, switching back and forth, how well they're doing on assessments.
We're not asking for individual information or any identity information for students, just an overall idea of how this scholarship is working.
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With that, I appreciate a good vote.
Any questions for Senator Sturge? Senator Garner, you got a question or okay, all
right. Anyone like to speak against or for? Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Balinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Cheshfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram,
Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Gledding, Malik, Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample, Stubbafield, Church T. Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the
ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1400 passes. Return to the House. We'll pass over House Bill 1404 and 1440. They'll be part of the batch. We'll move to House Bill 1449. House
Bill 1449 by Representative Sullivan. An act to amend the definition of homestead is used in Amendment 79 of the Arkansas Constitution for property tax purposes to include the dwelling of a beneficiary of a revocable trust. Senator Garner, you're recognized. Thank you,
Mr. Chairman. Mr. President, excuse me. Right now in Arkansas law, we're allowed to use a homestead credit if you have a revocable or irrevocable trust. If the principal place of residence for the person to form the trust. What happened was there's a situation where a veteran's mother left
him in a trust, so he's a benefactor of it, and that veteran has severe mental issues and isn't able to basically take care of himself. So this will allow that veteran to get that homestead credit, even though he's a beneficiary of it and he lives
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primarily in that house. I'll take any question on it. Are there any questions? Would anyone like to
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speak against the bill or for the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne,
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Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Ludding, Mallett, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by
a vote of 35 in favor, House Bill 1449 passes, return to the House. House Bill 1498 is part of the batch. We will move to House Bill 1538.
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House Bill 1538 by Representative Clowney and Senator Letting concerning landlord
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and tenant law and to amend the law concerning the protection of victims of domestic abuse. Senator Letting, you're
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recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I'm carrying this bill on behalf of Representative Clowney, Representative Kapp, and Representative Gasway. I myself am not on the bill. It's meant to help victims of domestic violence in Arkansas. It would allow somebody who has a documented incident of domestic violence to terminate their lease early without being subject to an early termination fee.
The incident of domestic violence would have to be contained in a court order, so it can't be someone just saying, you know, my boyfriend's beating up on me, that kind of thing. It has to be a documented incident, and it has to be within the last 60 days. It can't be three months ago or even within the last year. The only penalty that this bill would exempt the tenant from is the early termination fee. They would still be liable for any damages done to the property. The Arkansas Realtors, the Landlords Association of Arkansas, and the Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence all support the bill, and until today
it has not received a single no vote, and let's hope
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that... Any questions? Senator Hickey is recognized to speak against
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the bill. You're recognized. Thank you, members. Full disclosure, I think this is general in nature, but I probably don't have to do it, But as an abundance of caution, most of you all know that I own rental property and have owned it for years. This bill on the surface is for victims of domestic abuse.
And I'll be honest with you all, I have dealt with that for years and try to help out as much as I can. And we can say it exactly the way it is. It's normally a female that is the victim and the male and have tried to help. But the way this bill is written is just not good at all for the property owner. So let me kind of go over some of this. And I heard what Senator Letting said about the court order. But if you'll look on page, and this is the least of the worries, but if you look on page
one, it says, as evidenced by a documented incident of domestic abuse. That doesn't say court order. I'm not even for sure that that is a police report, to be honest with you. It is just, as it says, a documented incident. So I'm not sure what that definition means. What this bill allows is it allows for the victim, once they notify the landlord, to stay in the property for 60 days.
while they're in the property the bill does say that they have to pay the rent which that is a good thing the bad thing is is other aspects of the rent which landlords deal with continuously are not in here to be able to get those those people out as most of you know apartment complexes and other community housing like that they're all living close to each other and there's other aspects that need to be complied with. So in other words, if you have a pet policy in place
that says you can't bring a pet in, you wouldn't be able to get those people out the way that the way that this bill is written. They could bring 10 pit bulls there. You have to allow them to remain for the 60 days. Now, the way the bill is written, it says that you're entitled to other remedies, if you look on page 2, line 15, you're entitled to other remedies, of course, to go back to court, but the key to this is on line 19, where it says, after the termination of the tenancy,
which would be after the 60 days. Again, whenever you have a situation like this, especially in these apartment complexes and this, the tenants are required to live peaceably with the other residents of the property. This right here, you know, you could have someone that could stack trash out on their porch, out in the yard, whatever else that would, you know, that they wanted to do. There could be loud parties, noise of all sorts and types. There could be other
fights there, but you're going to be required to let them stay for the whole 60 days. Senator Higgin,
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will you take a question? Yes, most definitely.
Senator Hendren, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. So is your objection to the bill, then, just the 60 days, you don't object to
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the portion that allows the lease to be terminated? Well, that's not good also, but
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no. I mean, the thing is, after dealing with this type of stuff for years and years, you know, if somebody gets in a situation like that, that is probably up to the landlord, you know,
say well I'm going to go ahead and let you out of your lease you go about your way leave the place clean you know I've even went as far I've even went as far to say that you know let's just say that both of the people were on the lease, the man and the lady, if the lease was about to expire keep them there so that you could rewrite the lease so that you could get you could get the man off of the thing. Again, so yes, that's an issue that, that's the issue
that it would, you would allow them to go ahead and break the lease, but it's
not as bad as this other stuff where you couldn't get them out if they were to have violations that were in your
lease agreement. So again, so you have problems with the lease termination portion, but you're more concerned about the uh
60 days requirement that you basically have to allow them to stay there so you're assuming again that something that they begin to do something that they weren't doing prior that you would have evicted them for that that
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could happen at any moment yes sir okay
any other questions senator pitch senator your profession you have an organization the home builders i assume is what it's called I'm unfamiliar with the exact name but my question was I'd heard and maybe the sponsor wants to reference this that the Board of Realtors were okay with this bill and when I checked with my Board of Realtors past chairman I didn't get that answer so I'd like either you or the sponsor to reference that so well I
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haven't I haven't spoken I can only tell you this and I'm going to go public with
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this type of thing at this point. My experience over the last few years is that the Realtors Association is always more in line with what the landlords and things of that nature to try to get a fair and equitable type solution worked out. I have never seen where the Landlords Association represents the landlords. I can promise you the last few years that I've been down here I
I have not seen that they have. I don't understand it, but they do not represent the landlords of the state of Arkansas. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Are there
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any other questions? Senator Raper. Thank you for speaking on the bill. Of course, we heard this in committee, and I just wanted to work into this. that would you agree that sometimes these bills do not include references to the entire code.
So when you referenced specifically on page one regarding a documented incident of domestic abuse, agreeing that sometimes they don't have the rest of the code, we did ask that question, Senator, because I picked up on that too, what is documented. And it was established that in the section that it's referring to which is 1816 112 it does describe by definition what that documented incident is which I believe is a court order and the sponsor can speak to that
I was in looking at this I did not and it may be that I'm just not reading it that way could you tell me what you see in there that makes you think that this just would disavow any other opportunity for you to take action because I see even in the bottom that you could withhold their deposit if they're done something to you know leave the place in a filthy way when they left
there just tell me what specifically you see so that I can see that because I we ask
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a lot of questions sure and I'll be happy I'll be happy to run down the line
by line on page two B. It says that they'll be entitled to remain at the residence for at least 60 days. Of course, they had to give notice, but we're going to assume that they've done that. So once they've done that, then you come down to three, and it says right there that the landlord shall not require or force a residential tenant to vacate the residence before the expiration of the 60 days. Okay, so that particular sentence is what requires the landlord to allow them to stay for 60 days.
Now, what it also does, and this is rightfully so, it says that the tenant will be allowed or shall pay the rent during that time. but there's no other allowances for other terms of the lease at that point now you think that there might be because if you look at 15 it says is entitled to all remedies available under the agreement but you've got to go all the way down to 19 because and if you read that it says
the last five or six words after the termination of the Tennessee. So in other words, of course, if they've done some things that are in violation of your lease, you would have a legal remedy to take them to court. But as far as during that 60 days, you're just going to have to live with them being there. Is that
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good enough, Senator? Senator Garner? Senator Garner, you're recognized.
I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. Thank you. I think that's important, what you're hitting on. So during that 60 days, say you go there day one after the notice and everything, and you realize they're just being destructive behavior and they're destroying your property. By the way, this is written, for the 59 days remainder, you would have no course to stop them from destroying your property, doing damage, doing things like that, until after that 60 days where then you could go back and recoup money or other things. So during that 60 days, it's basically anything they want
to do. You have very little recourse to actually stop them.
Is that the correct kind of
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way this would work? Yes, sir. That's exactly correct. And in addition to that, there's also another aspect that this bill doesn't even address. Let's say that this documented incident is reported to you, but your lease is going to expire in five days. Nothing here even addresses what you would do with the expiration of the lease. These tenants would be allowed to stay in that property basically without a lease in place.
Most lease agreements, most not all, are written that they are from month to month. But again, that's usually at the option of the landlord at that point in time. this would actually take away from that and circumvent that contract also. Senator Hammer, you're recognized
for a question. Thank you, Mr. Chair, or Mr. President. Senator, what I was wondering as I read this, here's the thing I'm wondering in the illustration, maybe the sponsor can
address it. So they serve you with the paper showing, according to the code,
that they have a legal document that shows domestic abuse. That's day
one. I guess the clock starts at that time that they give it to you. I'm not sure when the clock starts, is what I'm wondering. And then second, when, say it's five days into that, and the person that they have the order of protection from comes and you find out that they're living there, does that null and void that 60 day or any part of this? Because I know sometimes that happens. So I'm wondering what happens to you as a landlord if it's five days into the 60 or 10,
and you find out that they violated the order of protection. But where does that put you? Or can you interpret that into
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the bill? my opinion just another flaw in the way the bill is written is that's not in not addressed it's just things things to that nature you know would need to be addressed and it's not to be honest with you senator hammer you could not be more than correct there's times that i've seen seen these things happen and i'm thinking don't don't allow them to come back and they do i hate it and things to that nature and then 30 days later it'll happen again so
And just for the record, so you got the chance to say it publicly, you're compassionate to those that are in the position that this bill is intending to address, but you
have problems with the way in which the bill is crafted in order to genuinely help them and not disadvantage the landlord. Is that a
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fair statement? Yes, sir. And I appreciate you allowing me to say that publicly, but I'm going to be honest with you. It's one of those things being in the business as long as I have. And over the years, the people that have stayed at my place, I'll stand on the way that Jimmy Hickey has been on that.
But again, I know there are bad actors out there, but thank you, sir. Senator
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Ballinger, you're recognized. I have a question for you, and I really want your response, but also give a chance for the bill sponsor who carried the legislation to respond to it. So the language that Senator Rayford brought up where it says it's a court order, so by that very definition, a protective
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order would satisfy that standard, which is very common in divorce cases.
It could be a protective order against both sides. I mean, they're easily gotten if there's any confrontation at all or potential. And so that would be all that would be required to trigger that standard of a documented case of domestic abuse, correct? I would think so, sir. Again, the way it
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was written, and I appreciate what Senator Rafer has said, but I would think so. I would think that that would be a documented incident for sure. Right. Thank you. Are there any other questions?
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Senator Clark. Senator Hickey, maybe you can answer
this. I was going to ask this in flooding. In your reading of this, what if a tenant was 60 days past due on rent when this documented incident happened? Are you then stuck, although it says they're going to pay rent, you know, since they haven't paid rent the last 60 days, that they're probably not going to
pay rent the next 60 days either. Are you stuck then for the next 60 days as the landlord?
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I would, to be honest with you, I think that the bill sponsor probably does have that covered.
I think, Senator Clark, because on page 2 under 5 it says, be responsible for paying rent and other amounts owed. So I believe that possibly that may have been covered. So I would assume that when that started that they would have to pay any amount that was to happen to be in arrears at that time, I think. That they'd have to pay it then, you're saying? It's not addressed. You think that's
the way a judge would read it?
I don't know, and I guess that's... Or that you'd be on the hook to
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try to get it later. Good luck with that. To be honest, Senator Clark, I think that is another issue within the bill that
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just goes to show that there's other problems and it needs to be written. There's all type of issues that we would need to address before passing this type of
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legislation. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Senator Bond, you're recognized.
Well, and I was just following up on Senator Raper. If you do look at the whole statute, the first section, he is correct.
The documented incident is defined as within an order of a court of a competent jurisdiction. So that is, he's got that right. Sure. I'm trying to look at the
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other statutory sections. Thank you, Senator Bond. Senator Elliott,
you're recognized. What, is the whole thing just, the whole bill, that's what I mean by thing, just something that you can't live with, or is there something in particular that you could, that would
maybe allow you to let this bill, you know, to let it go through?
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Is it just the whole caboodle, or what?
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Well, I had some other House members texting me on this. I think the
sponsor's heart's in the right place trying to do what they're trying to do. If we were in week one or two or three of the session, I would be more than happy to get in there and try to work on this so it would be equitable for those type of individuals and also the property owners or the landlords.
To be honest, it's kind of like what Senator Clark had just brought up. I would hate to be rushed on a bill like this to not really think this through and to let us all kind
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of have a little bit of time to vet it. So I would hate to attempt
it in the final days, just to be honest,
Senator. Yeah, and I sense that's where we are. And are you, is it persuasive with you at all that the Landlords Association, they work with the sponsor on the bill,
and this bill came through Insurance and Commerce where I am. That's why I've heard some of this before. And they were, ended up supporting the bill. And so with that in mind, not that you have to do what some other group does, If you had
to weigh this at this point, since this really is where we are, it's either
these people who are going to be victims of domestic violence or the issues you're concerned about, and I will give you they're both weighty for you.
Which one of those would sway you the most, do you think, to do this one or to do this one? And I know that's like a Hobson's choice. I get that. I
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know, and I don't think I'm going to answer
that, just to be honest, Senator, not being disrespectful. No, I'm not trying
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to be either. I really am not. I'm not trying to be either. I guess I would, I guess I'd like to say, to be honest, it really amazes me that this may even possibly be an issue. because me as a landlord if if I've had if I've had somebody that's been living in one of our
properties or whatever and you know and to be honest we get to know these people personally I mean you know not only are they may be tenants or residents literally and you're not going to believe this they're friends some of them yes I do not get along with at times just because of things that they may do or you know get into issues with other other tenants but the thing is is it would be so odd to me to even think that a landlord would want that individual to leave
based solely on a domestic abuse happening at that residence because if a restraint if if they've went through the courts and they've and they've received a restraining order and those individuals are no longer to be out there, why would that landlord want for these people to move if they've been paying the rent, they've been good tenants, they're possibly friends with them? I don't even really see where this is as big of an issue.
Because I think the major thing with that, and I guess I'll ask you, are you aware of whatever at the end of this, the major thing with what you just said, I think, in reality is it is important oftentimes as you said most of the times it is a woman and maybe you as a landlord may be okay with wanting me to remain there and sometimes we know that restraint orders don't work the way they should and sometimes a person just needs to get away to a place where the the perpetrator doesn't know where that person is and no matter how good your heart is and
you will want me to stay. I need to be somewhere where this person does not know where I am. And does that make sense to you? It
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does. And I think that was along the lines of what Senator Hendren had asked me. He asked me if I had basically an issue with the lease terminating. I'll be honest. And I believe that I said I did not because yes, most definitely. And I'll be honest, you know, we've went out of our way and I hate to talk about my personal stuff, but we've out of our way before to you know understand that and allow that there may be people that have
problems with that I don't have a I don't have a problem with that from a personal standpoint I can't speak for all the other residents of the state and I don't want to act like I'm speaking for just yes me I'm just putting it in
my perspective because you know of being in this business for years. Okay, my last question is
because I have to decide we all do how we're going to vote here. Well, I know that you and Representative Clowney talked. You discussed the bill. Would you say that both of you hold your positions adamantly, that you feel you're right
and she feels she's right? I don't want you necessarily to speak for her because I know she thinks she's right. And I would assume you feel the exact same way.
And we just have to make a decision. Would you agree with that? I think that the legislation has flaws and
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needs a lot of work, which I would be willing to do, but I'm not willing to do at this late point in time, just to be honest, Senator. Okay, thank you, Senator. Yes, ma'am, and thank you. Any other questions for Senator Hickey? Senator Hickey has spoken against the bill.
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Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Senator Chesterfield, you're recognized to speak for the
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bill you're recognized thank you mr. chair and ladies and gentlemen of the Senate I'm a former landlord and I'm a former landlord because it's a big headache a lot of times when you're trying to manage property and manage those individuals who inhabit that property but I would be remiss if I did
not say that I am very, very much concerned about the domestic abuse that occurs on so many occasions and that women have invariably no place to go. This would give them a place to go for a short period of time. It also provides that if they stay there, they are liable for any damages that they do to the property. And I don't want us to lose sight of that as we talk about this issue. I would not like for a young woman to not be able to have a
place to be should she have been beaten or threatened with death or both, which happens too often in our society. I understand the practicalities of it. My friend Jimmy Hickey is one of the most practical persons and probably one of the most tender-hearted, even though he tries real hard to hide it and does a good job sometimes. But I do believe that the merits outweigh the concerns. And maybe it's because I'm a bleeding heart who has seen far too
many folks hurt, especially women. And I would ask for a good vote. Senator Chesterfield
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has spoken before the bill. I'm going to
recognize Senator Dismang first. And then if there are any others. Senator Dismang, you're recognized. Thanks, Senator. Remember,
that's mainly because some of the other, our colleagues that were actually in the meeting were able to get some clarification on some
of the language that we may not see here and
that sort of thing. My main concern in looking at the bill was if someone makes a notification to the landlord five days prior to the actual, you know, scheduled termination of the lease, so their contract is up, the rental agreement's up, does that get them 55 extra days?
Because that is problematic, especially to have someone scheduled to move in in 10 days, right? So you don't want to leave a property vacant because that's when the property really is subjected to all kinds of things. So that goes to line 24 on page 2, and it says, forcing a residential tenant to vacate the residence before the expiration of the 60 days, authorizing the written notice to terminate the residential tenancy agreement. My question to the members of that meeting, does that residential tenancy agreement supersede
all of this? And if not, there probably does need to be something that would create problems for a landlord and vacancies in kind of the scheme of things. But anyway, I would welcome anyone that was in that committee to enlighten me on how that works. Senator Disman has spoken on
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the bill, and again, if any committee member wants to respond to that, they would be recognized. Senator Bond, did you want to be recognized?
I'm trying to make it through the code section.
I think I've already spoken on it, and
I may hear again in a minute, depending
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on what happens. Does anyone else want to speak for or against the bill? Okay. Senator Garner is recognized to
speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. President. Really
clear. Very short. This is a great title bill with great intention, written so poorly that it could end up hurting people who are not victims in this and hurting more people across the board. This is a great titled bill that's written poorly.
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Senator Garner has spoken against the bill. Senator Clark, does anyone want to
speak for the bill? Senator Clark is recognized to speak
on the bill. I think that it's possible I could vote for this bill this session. I couldn't today. My question that I asked, and I tried to talk to Senator Bond about this because he's an attorney,
is, you know, first let me back up
that I had several people come to me, and one of the things I didn't get done during this session is something about dealing with evictions, that it can take six months to get somebody out of a house
who's not paying. And if you're a property owner and you're having to pay that loan every month, that's a real problem. If somebody is able to produce a report and they're already 60 days past due, and a judge interprets this as, and I think they will, as they can stay another 60 days,
and yes, you can collect it, but collecting what ain't going to be collected does you absolutely no good. And I think that can be fixed. I think that can be fixed rather easily. But I think the way it's written now, unless, again, somebody in a couple hours may be able to convince me that it's already covered, but I can't see that it is right now, and I can't see visiting that on property owners in the state. Senator Clark
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has spoken on the bill. Would anyone else like to speak for or against the bill?
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Senator Letting, you're recognized to close for the bill. Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, just very quickly, as was pointed out by Senator Rayford and Senator Bond, the incident of domestic abuse is defined in the code. It's evident of domestic abuse contained in a court order in a court of competent jurisdiction, so that's taken care of. As to the Arkansas realtors, I stepped outside and spoke to Mr. Ted Mullinex, who represents the realtors. He said they do support this bill. It has the support of the Landlords Association of Arkansas, the Arkansas Coalition Against domestic violence. And we really are talking about people who are in very dangerous situations. They
are trying to escape their abuser. This isn't about trying to force anybody out. This is about allowing somebody to break a lease early, and it simply exempts them from the early termination fee. They would still be liable for any damages. And in this situation, I don't think these are the kind of people that are going to be trying to plan, you know, wild parties. They are focused on getting themselves and possibly their children to safety as quickly as possible. As for possible amendments. We just simply don't have time. Yet in this session, if this bill passes and becomes law and there are problems with it, I will personally work in the next session to address those issues. But I feel that right now, we just don't have the time to do that.
And I want to think about the time that people who are in these dangerous situations have when they are trying to escape their abusers. And
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I would appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Senator
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Letting is closed for the bill. The question before the Senate
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is the passage of House Bill 1538. Call the roll. Mr.
Senator Ronald Caldwell
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Gutt, Madam Chairman. Senator Caldwell, for what purpose? To disclose that
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I own rental property. All right. Senator Caldwell is disclosing that he owns rental property, and we'll take care of any official matters.
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disclosing. All right. we'll call the names and
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then you'll need to take care of any proper written disclosures later. For those of you that want to disclose that you own rental property, please indicate. I've got Senator Wallace Senator Teague
Senator Cheatham Senator Hammer Senator Pitch
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Senator Irvin Senator Breanne Davis Senator Caldwell
Senator Hill Senator Hickey Senator Dismang Senator Stubblefield Senator Sample Senator Clark
and Senator Mallock did we get everybody that wants to disclose that they own rental
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property senator ingram did you have your hand
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up it's commercial okay anybody have rental property that wishes
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they didn't all right all right we and we'll take care of those again members the question before the
senate is the passage of house bill 1538 clerk will
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call the roll ballinger ballinger Aye. Bledsoe.
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Bledsoe. Bond. Aye. Caldwell. Aye. Cheatham. Cheatham.
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Chesterfield. Aye. Clark. Clark, Cooper, Davis, Davis, Dismang, Dismang, Eads, Eads, Elliot, English, English, Flippo,
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Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hammer, Hendron, Hester,
Hickey, Hickey, Hill, Ingram,
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Irvin, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Mark Johnson,
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Letting? Aye. Mallet? Yes. Pitch? No. Rapert? Rapert? Yes. Rice? Rice? Sample? Sample? Stubbafill? Stubbafill? Sturge? Aye. Teague? Teague?
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voted or changed their vote?
Senator Cheatham is aye. Senator Teague is aye. Senator Ballinger is no. Senator Mark Johnson is no. Senator Hester
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is no. Are there any others? Any others? if not cast up the
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ballot by vote of 13 in favor nine opposed house bill 1538 fails
senator letting you recognize for a motion senator letting moves to expunge a vote by which house bill 1538 failed all in favor say aye Opposed no. Motion carried. Senator Dismang, you're
recognized. Yes, sir. Senator, I mean, I think I personally had some questions. Point of order. to be able to go. You just recognized me. State
your point of order. I asked for a roll call on
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that last motion. I did not see five hands. You didn't call for hands to be raised. I mean that's you did. Well that's that's rules. I didn't
see five hands and I didn't have anybody else calling. On that expedited manner which you moved on I think the hand would have been
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hard to raise. I'll be glad to entertain that. If there are five hands for a roll call I'd be glad
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to do that. All right, we will call the roll on the motion to expunge, on the vote on the motion to expunge.
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Senator Teague. I thought once you moved on, it was over.
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Wasn't the Senator Dismanian in the well? I understand that, but I want to accommodate. It's something that normally we have done on the motion to expunge, but I want to make certain that I get everyone's vote clearly. So we
will call the roll on the motion to expunge. Ballinger. This is on the motion to expunge.
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Ballinger. Aye. You ready? Yeah, it's time to do a motion to
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expunge. Bledsoe. Bledsoe. Bond. Bond. Aye. Caldwell. Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Davis, Dismain, Eads, Elliot, English, English,
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Flippo, Flippo, Flowers, Garner,
Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill,
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Ingram, Irvin, Irvin Blake Johnson Blake Johnson Mark Johnson Letting
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Sample Stubbafil Stubbafil Sturge Teague Teague Wallace Wallace Would anyone like to change their vote or
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vote who has not voted?
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This requires 24 votes Senator Rice is aye Senator Stubblefield is aye
Senator Teague is aye Senator Bledsoe is aye Anyone else? Senator Irvin is aye. Cast up the ballot by a vote of 24 in favor, 3 opposed.
The motion to expunge passes. We will now, Senator Dismung,
you're recognized. I kind of figured I'd know where this is fixing to go, but I think we need to give a shot. There were some issues in the bill. The issues that I see may or may not exist. I would like to have spoken to the attorney, just someone else to make sure that I understand what I was
looking at, didn't have the opportunity to do that. Not that my one vote would have made the difference. However, what I would see to even correct my issues are some very simple fixes that
we could do through floor amendments if we would like to. Again, because they would not be complex. And with that, I'd like to make a motion to spin the rules, place House Bill 1538 at the end of
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the House calendar. Motion to suspend rules and place House Bill 1538 at the end of the House calendar. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed no. No. Chair is unable to determine, call the roll. Requires 18
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votes. Well, suspension of the rules to place it requires 24.
motion to suspend a suspension is not debatable expungements debatable Senator Teague, you have a vote of order? I'm not
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clear on where we're at now. All right. Senator Dismang made a motion to place this at the end of the calendar,
I guess possibly for purposes of amendment. Okay. Made a motion to suspend the rules to place at the end of the calendar for purposes of amendment. Since it's a suspension of the rules,
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it requires 24 votes. It's non-debatable. Well, for a point of order, not on the motion, but for a point of order. So am I
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understanding that we're going to sit in here and do some type of voice amendments to this legislation?
Is that what we're contemplating? Right now, the motion
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is to place it at the end of the calendar for purposes of amendment. But I would assume, Senator Hickey, that we would have something in writing before we would consider that. We would deal with that certainly at that time. But I think it would require something in writing that we could look at. Thank you, sir. Of course, any amendments would require concurrence. I think it's still possible if the House wanted to work with us that even if we did an amendment tomorrow with suspensions,
if we could get final passage, it could still get back through the House next week if they would work with getting it to the committee. But we've got to call the roll on the motion to suspend the rules to place it on the bottom of the calendar today for purposes of amendment. For
a point of order. I just want to be sure I and everyone understands, are we placing it for amendment only or for amendment and to vote on it?
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The motion was to place it on the calendar for purposes of amendment. There could be a future motion, or we could deal with the— Right now, it's just for the amendment. Then we would decide at that time whether we voted on the final passage today or tomorrow. Okay, but it's just for purpose of amendment. This is to place it at the bottom of the calendar for purposes of amendment is this motion. Clerk will call the roll. This is to suspend the rules to place it at the end of the calendar for purposes of amendment. Ballinger? Ballinger?
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Bledsoe. Aye. Bond. Aye. Caldwell. Aye. Cheatham. Aye.
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Chesterfield. Aye. Clark. Aye. Cooper. Aye. Davis. Davis, Dismang, Eads, Elliot, English, Flippo,
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Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey,
Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Pitch Raypert Rice Sample Stubberfield Sturge Teague
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Teague Wallace Wallace Would anyone like
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to vote who has not voted or changed their
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vote? Senator Pitch is no Senator Ballinger is aye Senator Davis is no. Any others? Cast up the
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ballot by a vote of 19 in favor, 12 opposed. That motion fails.
All right, members, the bill is still in the possession of the Senate because the vote was expunged. The bill is still in the possession of the Senate because the vote was expunged. It just will not
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be placed on the calendar again today. All right, members,
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we will move to House Bill 1552. House Bill 1552 by Representative Godfrey and Senator Eads to amend the laws concerning nursing licensure.
Senator Lance Eads
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Senator Eads, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues House Bill 1552 is a workforce bill. It's a licensure bill. This is an opportunity for us to take students that have been educated in Arkansas's primary and secondary education, have gone through the nursing requirements in Arkansas to be able to get licensed to work in Arkansas. What it does, a couple different things I want to point out to you.
this is very narrowly written to just only include those members that are students here in Arkansas that are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the requirements that it puts on them. One, they have to approve the individuals the Department of Homeland Security has to approve the individual's request for exemption under this Deferred Action program. Number two, the individual's exemption must be not expired or properly renewed, and number three, they have to have a current and valid
employment authorization document issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. So again, these are students that have gone through the entire process right up to the point where we can license them to work in the state of Arkansas, and at this point in time, they've not been able to get licensed. So what we're requesting through this piece of legislation that Arkansas have the opportunity to be able to license these people, this bill is supported by Arkansas State Board of Nursing, the governor's office, members of the healthcare industry, the business community, institutions of higher education
and workforce development. It passed with 90 votes and zero no votes in the House. We had a number of people speak in committee and we also had some people that were part of this program that are working, one here in the Little Rock area that has completed the entire process right up to the point of licensing and she's ready to go to work if we give her the opportunity and I'd be happy to take any questions are there
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any questions would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill Senator Eads are you closed I am closed are there
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any objections to rolling the vote have
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call the call the Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eads, Elliott,
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English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer,
Hedron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Pitch, Rapert, Rice,
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Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to vote who has not voted?
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Senator Chesterfield is aye. Senator Hill is no. Senator
Hickey is aye. Senator Pitch is aye. Senator Mark Johnson is aye
Senator Flippo is no Senator Ballinger is no
Are we good? Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 23 in favor for opposed House Bill 1552 passes return it to
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the House We will move to House Bill
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1554 House Bill 1554 by Representative Penzo
to amend the law concerning the procedures for annexation into an adjoining
Senator Larry Teague
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municipality Senator Letting, are you going to present House Bill 1554? You're recognized Thank you,
Senator Greg Leding
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Mr. President this came through city county locals while they asked me to present it. It's a bill by Representative Penzo that addresses annexation. Right now, it would shorten the period of
annexation from six months to three months. And if improvements need to be made, currently, City has 12 months to make those improvements, but this shortens it to six months. Any questions? Senator Teague. Senator Leading, you
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make it awful hard on rural communities to take somebody in, if you only give them six months to do it, or three
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months. Well, I would suggest that Representative Penzo would be the one making it hard on the rural communities. If that's the case, I'm presenting it on his behalf.
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Thank you. Any other questions? Would anyone
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speak against the bill or for the bill? Senator Letting, you closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, Senator Teague? Roll the vote.
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Sample, Stubbeville, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like
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to change their vote? Senator Hill is
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no. Any others? Senator Garner is no. Senator Dismang is no. Senator Rapert is no. Any others?
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If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 30 in favor. Five opposed. House Bill 1554 passes, return to the House. We'll be moving to House Bill 1621, Senator Bledsoe.
House Bill 1621 by Representative Dotson and Senator Bledsoe to create the Primary Prevention Programs Act.
You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a bill that I would first like to start by reading the first few lines of the legislative findings. It says that research shows that the earlier an individual engaged in, engages in risk behaviors, the more prone that individual is to addiction, unhealthy relationship development,
and long-term negative life consequences. Primary prevention and risk avoidance strategies help youth to develop personal skills and boundaries and goal-setting skills and healthy relationships. That's what the bill is about. This bill, Representative Dodson has worked on for a long time, and the purpose of HB 1621 is to set up a consistent framework of primary prevention programs in Arkansas.
The first several pages of this bill are about legislative findings and definitions, but the main part of the bill is on page 5, starting with line 8. This sets up a priority that directs state agencies and schools, if they have these programs, that the program must focus first and foremost on a primary prevention strategy of risk avoidance before any other. And again, there are no mandates in this bill. Although this bill is permissive
in that it does not require anyone to offer programs, it does set up a basic standard of consistency across Arkansas on what our expectations are for age-appropriate, evidence-based, and evidence-informed implementation of primary prevention risk avoidance programs. It does this by setting up a framework for health and educational programs when addressing and preventing youth participation in risk behaviors, including smoking, consuming alcohol, abusing drugs, early initiation into sexual activity,
misusing technology and social media, and participation in illegal activities such as blackmailing, bullying, cyberbullying, and sexting. In developing this bill, Representative Dodson has worked with the Department of Health, the Governor's Office, the Department of Education, and amended it to address all their concerns, and they're okay with this bill. And I would be glad to answer any questions.
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Are there any questions? Senator Bonds, you're recognized.
Senator Bledsoe, you may know the Arkansas Healthy Education Act that we passed out
That was not passed in the House Committee. And this bill seems to be an attempt to avoid evidence-based, particularly contraception, teaching. It doesn't mention that at all. What are we doing in this bill to address that we lead the nation in teen pregnancy? And how does this bill help us attack
that we lead the nation in teen pregnancy? Well, I understand your
concern. I have that same concern. But this is also evidence-based. It just says that, you know, they set up parameters. Let me read you some of those things.
public school may partner or contract with a person, firm, corporation, or other organizations to provide a primary prevention and risk avoidance program or training under this subchapter. In order to ensure consistency among primary prevention and strategies across the state, a program partner,
our contract provider should receive training. And it goes into the what kind of training. This is not to diminish. No one has to do anything. No one has to do one thing. But if you do, there's some strategies and also some things that we are asking that you do because there's so many programs out in the in the in the state that you know it's like one does not follow the other so that no one is asking and if you wanted to program or your school wanted to program like you're talking about
then that's that's fine well and I appreciate you I don't mean to jump on it just seems that the bill is it mentions evidence informed which I'm not sure what that means it also mentions spiritual health. And it also seems to encourage contracting with private providers for this. So I just have an issue with that. Thank you
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very much. I appreciate it. Senator Elliott, did you have a question?
Okay, Senator Flowers, you're recognized. Thank you, Senator Bledsoe. What
concerns me about the bill is some of the issues that are noted in there could stem from behavioral disorders that might be attributable to disorders and diagnoses that are recognized by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. And it seems like this bill would allow a school to do an end run around
evaluating the student for those types of disabilities. And that is concerning to me because some of the behavior might be a manifestation of the disability or the disorder that the child is presenting with. I think that's a very good point, Senator, but
no school has to do this. If they look at this, they can say, you know, we don't want it.
We'd rather do something else. But this is just trying to teach children risk avoidance and what might be out there and how they can do something different. So I think it's a good bill, and I would appreciate your vote. Senator Clark, you have a question. Are
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there any other questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill? for the bill.
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Senator Bledsoe has closed call the roll. Bledsoe, Ballinger,
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Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Clark, Aye. Cooper? Aye.
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Davis? Aye. Dismang? Aye. Dismang? Aye. Dismang? Eads? Eads? Aye. Elliott? Aye. English?
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Flowers? Yes. Garner? Yes. Hammer? Yes. Garner, Hammer,
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Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake
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Johnson, Letting, Mallet, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Rice, Sample, Stubbafield, Stubbafield,
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Sturge. Aye. Teague. Aye. Wallace. Wallace.
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Would anyone like to vote who has not voted? Senator Chesterfield is aye. Senator Elliott
is no. Senator Rice is aye. Aye. Senator Wallace is aye. Senator Dismang is aye. Senator Hester is aye. Senator Hill is aye Any others? Has everyone voted?
We're good Ingram is aye Any others? If not cast up the ballot I vote of 28 in favor to oppose House Bill 1621 passes Return to the House We'll move to
House Bill 1697 Senator Ballinger House Bill 1697 by Representative Meeks to amend the law concerning campaign finance
and to allow reimbursable travel expenses to be paid from carryover funds. You're recognized. Thank
Senator Bob Ballinger
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you, Mr. President. So currently in our computer system, there's not a mechanism to
enter a negative contribution. So if you end up with some sort of refund, you can't do that. And in order for the computer system to do that, they required actually a law change. So Senator Representative Meeks worked with the folks over at Ethics in order to do that. And so apparently there are some people who will, out of carryover funds,
pay for something that they're allowed to pay for with carryover funds. But then if they get reimbursed for that, it will allow them to go back and put the money back into that account. And so this would just, that's something that historically has been done for years. on paper it's easy to put a negative entry on the computer you can't do that happy to try to answer any questions are there any questions appreciate a good vote anyone
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want to speak against the bill for the bill any objection to rolling the vote roll the vote
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Ballinger Bledsoe Bond Caldwell Cheatham Chesterfield Clark
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Cooper Davis Dismayne, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield,
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Would anyone like to change their vote? Senator Rice is not voting. Senator Stubblefield is not voting. any others senator flowers is present senator Chesterfield is present any others cast up the ballot by vote of 30 in favor one opposed house bill 1697 passes return to the house we'll move to house bill 1701 senator Sturge house
was 1701 by representative Mayberry to prohibit the requirement that a student participating in an extracurricular activity, interscholastic activity, or organized physical activity pay for individual or group instruction. And is Senator Irvin
going to present? Me. Oh, I'm
sorry, Senator English. Senator English, you're recognized.
Thank you. Basically what this bill does is it prohibits the requirement that a student who is involved in an extracurricular activity
from having to go and sign up for a class that is going to cost that student money without a parent's permission and as a requirement for being a member of that. Let's say it's the drill team, whatever, and they would require that everybody on the drill team go to a specific place and pay $60 a month to take these classes. Well, you just can't do that. So that's what this bill does, keep people from doing that. Are there any
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questions? Would anyone like to speak against
the bill or for the bill? Any
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objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismaine, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallett, Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample,
Stubbeville, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1701 passes. Return to the House. We'll move to House Bill 1708. Senator... I have a motion. Just a moment. Okay, we'll do 1708, then
I'll recognize Senator Teague. House Bill 1708, by Representative Flowers and Senator Letting, to end child marriage
and to amend the law concerning the minimum age requirement for
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marriage. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, the bill does essentially what the title says. It ends child marriage in Arkansas. It's passed unanimously every step along the way until today. We'll see how today goes. I'm happy to answer any questions.
Senator Larry Teague
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Are there any questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill or for the
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bill? Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang,
Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malick, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield, would anyone like to change their vote if not cast up the ballot by a vote of
35 in favor house bill 1708 passes return to the house senator teague you're recognized for a motion
mr president i'd like to move that we i have house bill 1967 that's by my house member representative watson we need to i'd like to waive the day the intervening day and allow this bill to be
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heard in public health tonight what bill was it i'm
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sorry house bill 1967 dark the motion is to suspend the rules where house bill 1906 1967 can be heard in public
health committee today it waives the intervening day any questions or is there not suspension of the rules so uh all in favor say aye aye
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opposed no motion carried mr mr president wasn't that the
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year i was born 1967 be a little closer to 1957 senator t we will move to house
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bill 1747 senator House Bill 1747 by Representative Dodson, to
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expand the types of historical documents
and events that may be discussed, read, or posted in a public school building or classroom. You're recognized. Thank
Senator Bob Ballinger
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you, Mr. President. I think the only reason why this one didn't get batched is because it has my
name. well my name's not even on the bill just so you know because I was running it but it passed 88 to nothing in the House. The reason for that is there's nothing in here that's mandatory all it does is expand on a code section that deals with historic documents that are basically recommended to be taught and so it includes things like Northwest Ordinance, George Washington's
Farewell Address, Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address, just includes more extensive list of documents of our founders and presidents. I appreciate a
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good vote. Any questions? Anyone want to speak
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against the bill or for the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne, Eves, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson,
Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote?
If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35. In favor, House Bill 1747 passes. Return to the House. House Bill 1751. House Bill
1751 by Ripson Blundstrom and Senator Pitch to amend the Minimum Wage Act of the State of Arkansas.
Thank you, Mr. President. HB 71 does not seek to amend the minimum wage amounts. It
was one of three bills. The other two did. What this bill does do is align us with federal law, minimum wage rules, and basically what we have is that the bill addresses wage and payment requirements to match the federal law, including the required employer to pay a discharged employee with seven days of the next regular payday.
It was part of one of the three bills on the House, so it didn't get a large vote there. But both committees, when they realized it was matching what the federal law does, it passed without opposition in both those two chambers. So with
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that, I'm open. Any questions? Anyone want to speak for or against? objection to rolling the vote all right
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all right we'll just call the roll Ballinger Ballinger Bledsoe Bledsoe Bond Caldwell
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Cheatham, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Clark,
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Davis, Dismain, Dismain, Eades,
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Flowers, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hammer,
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Hendron, Hendron, Hester, Hester, Hickey,
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Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Blake Johnson, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Letting,
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Mallet, Mallet, Pitch, Rapert,
Rayford Rice Rice Sample Sample Stubbafil Stubbafil Sturch Teague Wallace Wallace All right,
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would anyone like to change their vote
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or vote? Senator Flippo is not voting. Senator Teague is not voting. Senator Blake Johnson is
aye. Any others? Senator Hickey
is aye. Senator Rice is aye. Any
others? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 17 in favor, one opposed house bill 1751
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fails i'm sorry uh i'd entertain a motion to
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expunge a vote did you get it oh she got it she
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after i call it but it's
it's there so a by a vote of 18 in favor one opposed house bill 1751 passes return to the house We will move to House Bill 1762 House Bill
Senator David Wallace
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1762 by Representative Crawford and Senator Pitch to amend the qualifications of a guardian
You're recognized Thank you, Mr. Chairman
HB 1762, the guardian qualification bill This bill is about expanding who can be a guardian of the person. Under current law, a convicted unpardoned felon cannot be a guardian of the person or the estate except for minors in foster care. This bill expands who can be a guardian of the person by giving the court the ability to decide on a case-by-case basis in a structured and safe way what is best for adults and kids who need guardianship.
We have seen cases where grandmas who had a 25-year-old felony for a bank overdraft charge could not be a guardian for her granddaughter, even though in that 25 years she had gone to college, gotten a job, and was perfectly fit to be a guardian. There was a real case, and there are many others just like it, where children go to foster care rather than to a qualified guardian. There is no known opposition to this bill. It passed 90-0 in the House. I'd appreciate a good vote.
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any questions? Senator Elliott, you're recognized. Senator Pitch, I was
trying to find my section in the bill that I wanted to ask about, but when I was looking at this
last night, there was something in there about, and I don't, I couldn't decide if it were saying you could or could not be a guardian if you
had a pardon or if you had an expungement. Does it allow you to or not to under those two
circumstances? It definitely does allow. It allows the court to decide if it's a common-sense scenario.
Senator Larry Teague
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Okay, thank you very much. Are there any other questions? Would anyone like to
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speak against the bill or for the bill? Senator Elliott, do you want to... Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismain, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram,
Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote?
If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1762 passes, return to the House. Moving to House Bill
Senator David Wallace
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1775. House Bill 1775, Representative Bentley and Senator Flippo.
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Senator Flippo wants to pass.
We're passing over House Bill 1775. That will move us today. Senator
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Flippo, do you want to leave it on the calendar
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today or tomorrow? For tomorrow. We'll move to House Bill 1800 is Senator Dismang. Senator Dismang is not in the chamber. We'll move to House Bill 1827. That's Senator Wallace. All right, we'll go ahead and then we'll come back to 1800 after this.
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1827. Mr. President, I would ask to suspend
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the rules to add my name as a sponsor. It's a motion
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to suspend the rules to place back on second reading for purposes of amendment. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no.
Motion carried. Amendment 1, the House Bill 1827.
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You're recognized to present the amendment. And the amendment is to
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put my name as sponsor of the Senate. Our motion to amend is just adding his name as sponsor. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. The amendment is adopted. Send the engrossing. Well, since it's
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a sponsor only. Just suspend the roll call. All right.
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Ask to suspend the roll call. Since it was sponsor only, Senator Wallace moves that we suspend the rules to consider the bill at this time.
All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carried. House Bill 1827 by Representative
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Ferguson and Senator Wallace to repeal the law regarding the Arkansas Newspapers Recycling Advisory
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Committee. You're recognized. Very simple bill. This just moves to abolish a board that
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has not met in years due to declining paper newspapers. Any questions? Anyone
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like to speak against the bill or for the bill?
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the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismane, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallett,
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Hitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace.
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Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1827 passes. Return to the House. We'll go back up to
House Bill 1800. House Bill 1800 by Representative Davis. to create the Arkansas Major Historic Rehabilitation Income Tax Credit Act. Senator Disman, you're recognized.
Thank you, Senator. This bill establishes a historic restoration tax credit
for large projects for those that are greater than $1.5 million.
Currently, we have a program for projects that are under $1.5 million, and this bill utilizes the same application requirements you have in that program. This bill is unfunded. There is no cost. It's going to work a lot like the movie credits that we currently have in place, that for it to be utilized, ADC, private donations, whatever it may be, would have to be made for the fund to be able to supplement and allow the credit to exist. Just for back, again, it works just like the others.
It would be 25% of the total rehab expenses, and these credits are transferable. Any questions?
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Would anyone like to speak against the bill or for the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote.
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Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Raper, Rice, Sample, Stubbeville, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a
vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1800 passes. Return to the House. We will move to House Bill 1841, Senator Pitch.
House Bill 1841 by Representative Johnson and Center Pitch, to create the Osteopath Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship, to create the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, and to declare an emergency. You're recognized.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Talking points for HB 1841. For many years, UAMS
has operated a successful rural practice loan and scholarship program
to encourage physicians to settle and practice in our low-income, underserved, lower-populated communities. When it was set up, UAMS was the only school we had, medical school, in the state. We now have two more DO systems. This does not do anything to detract from UAMS and was negotiated with their approval. While it appears to create many pages of new statute, it actually just adopts the same language and replaces words in the statute.
There's currently no funding available for this program, it is strictly a vehicle that hopefully private dollars and in the future any kind of other funding sources can fund.
It is the Rural DO Scholarship, it passed 90 to 1 in the
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House. Any questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill
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or for the bill? Any objections to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond,
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Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang,
Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast
up the ballot by vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1841 passes. Emergency clause is adopted. Return to the House. we'll move to House
Bill 1847. House Bill 1847 by Representative Mayberry and Senator Pitch
to revise design and construction standards regarding site selection for a public school district facility to include a traffic impact analysis. You're
recognized. Thank you Mr. Chairman. House Bill 1847 deals with the local school district notifying DOT when performing a site selection in order to allow the DOT to perform a traffic impact analysis if necessary. What happens in the way we build roads is we have a four-year stip.
The sooner they can find out there's going to be a school typically donated in rural communities on farmland that have been donated to the district, that the highway plan can work with getting the traffic flow in and out of there the better and lower lower cost associated with that for instance a suggested project could run three-quarter of a million to a million dollars for a school and if it's 30 days from the end of the step it might be four years till they get the appropriate road project in there if they're not
communicating when they think they're going to start to build a school so as it was stated in committee by one of the members department of education and rdott working together that's a very good thing this passed
83 to 5 out of the house senator hammer
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you're recognized for a question thank thank you mr president uh
senator pitch do you know as far as the cost to do that is that borne by the school or is
that borne by deal by dot it is if a school would choose
to want to do that because they're trying to hurry to get the plan done they are able to do it it's permissive but typically d.o.t would pay for that in their regular planning and d.o.t d.o.t was okay
with absorbing that because i'm thinking about all the school projects and stuff going on so they're okay with absorbing that into their budget well they if there's
going to be a traffic plan they definitely are wanting to do that okay very good thank you any other questions Would anyone like
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to speak against the bill or for the bill?
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Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismane, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, ingram irvin blake johnson mark johnson letting mallet pitch rapert rice sample stubblefield
starch t wallace would anyone like to change their vote senator hester is no senator stubblefield is no any others if not cast up the ballot by vote of 33 in favor to opposed house bill 1847 passes return to the house
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All right, we're going to House Bill 1861 and Senator
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House Bill 1861 by Representative Ferguson to
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require the posting of a warning sign in an establishment that sells or dispenses alcoholic beverages. Thank you, Mr. President. Senator Davis did
ask me to run this. What this bill does, under current law, it's required that a sign be displayed in places
that dispense alcohol, that for pregnancy women, that this could be a warrant at health risk. This extends law to include any place with alcohol permits. It could be as simple as a piece of paper. There should be no cost burden on anybody, or there's no requirements for that. And what they found is from 1989 to 2010, there's an 11% decrease in women who had drank while pregnant, partly because of laws like this. Ask for a good vote. Any
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questions? Senator Hill, you're recognized for a question. Senator
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Garner, whenever I look at that, it says a warning sign.
It does not say a piece of paper on there. So are you going to require the business owners to spend money to buy this sign to put it in place
there? No, sir. I appreciate you bringing that question up because there's nowhere in the code where it specifically mentions the signs
that mentions weight, what it's made out of, what should be wrote on there. Actually, what it's wrote on there is on there. But a sheet of paper will suffice. Some places like restaurants just print out a piece of paper and say what the health risks are. Any
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other questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill or for the bill?
Any objection to
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rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik,
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Pitch, Raypert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace.
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Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1861 passes. Return to the House. We'll
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move to House Bill 1877. House Bill 1877 by Representative Ferguson to amend the definition of home-brewed beer and to authorize a manufacturer of home-brewed beer to remove home-brewed beer from the manufacturer's premises for personal or family use. Senator Letting, you're recognized.
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Thank you, Mr. President. I could use a beer right about now. All this bill does is it amends the definition of home-brewed beer. Increasingly, it's common for people to want to take their beers to competitions. This bill just allows them to do that. They can't take it anywhere that doesn't have a liquor permit. ABC is fine with the bill. Pardon? It matches federal law.
Any questions? Senator Hammer. Just curious, is there a limit as to how much they can brew at home and be going down the road with?
Senator Greg Leding
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I am not sure. I would assume that there are regulations governing how much they can produce. homebrewers, obviously very small scale. Okay. And it, and it complies with federal
law. Matches federal law. We're not trying to do anything that isn't already allowed by
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federal law. Thank you. Any other questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill or for the
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bill? Any objections to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper,
Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Senator Rapert, okay, is not voting, or
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is a no, I'm not voting. Senator Hammer is no.
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Senator Sturge is not voting. Senator Flipo is not voting. And Senator Stubblefield is not voting. Senator Pitch is not voting. Senator Bledsoe is not voting. Everybody good? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 26 in favor. House Bill 1877 passes. Return to the House. We'll move to House Bill 1908.
House Bill 1908 by Representative Gray to clarify the statute of limitations for a taxpayer to file an amended tax return and to clarify the circumstances under which a taxpayer may file an amended tax return. Senator Teague you're recognized members
yesterday in tax they asked me to run this so you're going to mostly get read to you about what this does and this
clarifies the statute of limitations for a taxpayer to file an amended tax return so if the limitation five minute return or seek a refund overpayment is three years from the date the return was filed or two years from the time the tax is paid, whichever is later. Unless the payment's from an audit or the IRS adjusts the taxpayer's return, it doesn't apply. I'd answer any questions. There's no fiscal impact. Any questions? Would anyone
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like to speak against or for the bill?
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Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield,
starch teague wallace would anyone like
to change their vote senator dismay is present any others senator hammer is not voting any others cast up the ballot by a vote of 33 in favor house
bill 1908 passes return to the house we will
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move to house bill 1931 senator teague House Bill 1931, by Representative Gray and Senator T, to amend procurement laws and to prohibit contracts with a business that is subject to a business closure order under the Arkansas Tax Procurement Act.
You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. This bill makes a little more sense. It amends a procurement law to prohibit contracts with a business that's subject to a business closure order from the DF&A. Any questions? Would
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anyone like to speak against the bill or for the bill? Any objections to rolling the vote? Roll the vote.
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Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not,
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cast up the ballot by a vote of
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35 in favor. House Bill 1931 passes. Return to the House. We'll move to House Bill 1953. House
Bill 1953 by Representative Gray to adopt recent changes to the Internal Revenue Code. You're recognized.
Thank you, Mr. President. Members, this bill adopts most of the Internal Revenue Code. new tax code changes, not the big $30 million one, the big $30 million hit, but I'm just
going to read to you what parts are affected so that you'll understand. You remember the Constitution requires us to pass any taxes. We can't just copy the federal level. So this is a $500,000 loss of revenue all total over about three years. All right, so this covers discharge of debt, subchapter 7, ASREC readoption, corporate organization rules, charitable contributions, business deductions, travel and entertainment deductions, depreciation,
depletion, luxury car depreciation, accounting method change, subchapter M readoption, below market loans, contributions to capital, research and development. I'd answer any questions. any questions would anyone like uh senator bond you're recognized and all this went over
agency bill or what's the what's the gfla housekeeping bill that they're adopting
some of the internal revenues changes to their code and you said it cost us
revenue did i hear that 500 000 average over the next three years 500 000 average over the next three years I think this
Senator Larry Teague
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year is 500 I don't see the number it's 521,000
or something or is it yeah no it's a million five million five what minus a million five and why some of them are pretty
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good some of them are pretty good
negatives and some of them are pretty good positives would you like
for me to read them i mean i'm trying to be nice up here i'm just asking are you in favor of it even or i don't think that's a fair question maybe maybe if i read it'd be better if i read the amounts of of each uh impact of each code change yeah that'd be acceptable sure if it could go
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quickly i hate to hold everybody up i just don't
but a moment. Discharge of debt cost us $80,000. Subchapter S re-adoption cost us $1 million. Corporate organization rules makes us $80,000. Charitable contributions cost us a loss of $320,000. Business deductions makes us $2 million, $2.5 million. Travel and entertainment deductions makes us $3.125 million. Depreciation costs us $640,000. And I'm just giving you next
year's numbers. Luxury car depreciation costs us $961,000. Accounting method change costs us $5,289,900. Chapter M re-adoption costs us $320,600. Contributions to capital costs us 641,000, makes us 641,200. So as you can see, there's some ups and downs here. And
I wouldn't be carrying it if I hadn't been the only one in there. I appreciate
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a good vote. Senator Bond, are you through? Yes, thank you.
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I think the unasked question is whether it was all over the sponsor's head as well any other questions would anyone
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like to speak against the bill or for the bill any objection to rolling the vote roll the vote
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members we're going to call the roll in just a minute what we're sort of trying to decide the best
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way to proceed the house has closed their desk a while ago so none of the bills that we pass from here out will be transmitted today anyway yes
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All right, we'll still call the roll
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on House Bill 1953. Roll the vote. Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eves, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice, Sample, Stubbeville,
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Sturge, T. Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote or cast? All right. Senator
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Hill is no. Senator Dismang is no. Senator Irvin is present. Senator Bond is
no. Senator Hammer is not voting Senator Chesterfield is present Senator Stubblefield is no Senator Clippo and Senator Rice are not voting
Clippo and Rice are not voting Senator Flowers is present Any
others? everybody good all right senator senator bond is is i he flipped back any others if not cast up the ballot by a vote of 25 in favor house bill 1953 passes did we get that locked in
House Bill 1953 passes, return to the House. No, it's all right. What's our
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plan? We'll do these that we put. These are all ones that came back from engrossing that we're going to need. All right.
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all right members yes here are the bills these were the ones that had amendments earlier today
that have been engrossing that have made it back i'll read these in this order and we'll plan to take them in this order house bill 1822 house bill 1435 house bill 1041 senate bill 654 House Bill 1385, House Bill 1789, House Bill 1937, Senate Bill 577, Senate Bill 520, and House Bill 1538.
Has 1765 not made it back? Senator Hendren, you're recognized. So, folks,
these are the bills that have made it back from engrossing that we've moved to the end of the calendar. So make sure that you're following along.
You don't make a vote you want back. We are going to consider these, and we're going to see. The reason there's some confusion is the House closed their desk. We're going to try to get them open in the morning so we can get some of this stuff pushed through. But we've already got 60 bills on the calendar for tomorrow, so we need to push through. We're going to run the ones he just called off and then do the batch and then call it a day.
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be run individually. Okay. See where
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And these bills, we do not have engrossed bill reports back. I'm ready. Well,
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let's see. These have engrossed bill reports. The ones that have the bill.
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All right, members, House Bill 1822. Will your committee on engrossed
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bills to whom was referred House Bill
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1822 by Representative Christensen compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed?
House Bill 1822 by Representative Christensen and Senator Dismang concerning the operation of autonomous vehicles at
railroad crossings and declare an emergency. Senator Dismang, you're recognized.
Thank you, Senator. Members, this deals
with the autonomous vehicle pilot program that we had previously passed in
session. There was some discussion amongst the railroads and those that wanted to implement the program about some possible issues as that pilot program may or may not transverse across railroads.
All this does is require some communication between RDOT, who is over the program, and the railroads in
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regards to these and allows for exemptions to
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that they can maneuver and operate in those areas. Any questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill or for the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote.
Stubbefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change
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their vote? Senator Pitch is no. Senator Pitch is no. Any others? If not, cast
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up the ballot by vote of 34 in favor. House Bill 1822 passes. Return to the House. We will go to House Bill 1435. We are committing
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on engrossed bills to move forward to House Bill 1435
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by Senator Pilkington to compare the engrossed copy with the original and find the same correctly engrossed. House Bill 1435 by Representative Pilkington and Senator Dispain to authorize the Arkansas Medicaid program to reimburse for ride-sharing applications. You're recognized. Thank you, Senator. The
purpose of this is essentially what the title says, to
allow the Department of Human Services to develop a pilot program in Central Arkansas to see if they can achieve cost savings with the utilization of a ride share application.
There was a little bit of discussion in committee about, you know, crossing state lines in particular for areas like Senator Hickey. Again, this is for Central Arkansas at this time, and if they can look and see that they can achieve some savings, then it'll be something that'll be deployed on a greater level. This just allows the framework for them to do so. Also, Senator Caldwell had some discussions, questions, and concerns, and he's going to be very aware and involved in the rulemaking process. Any questions? Would
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anyone like to speak against the bill or for the bill?
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Any objection to rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Does this still
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have an emergency clause here on the floor? This is 1822. 1822 had an emergency clause. 1822
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had an emergency clause. 1825. You got
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it? Yeah, I'm ready. I just did that first one. Okay. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismaine,
Mayne, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallett, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a
vote of 35 in favor. House Bill 1435 passes. Return to the House. We'll move to House House Bill 1041.
Will your Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is referred House Bill 1041 by Roots of Lady Mann to prepare the engrossed copy of the original
and find the same correctly engrossed? Senator Garner will be it.
Senator Garner, you're recognized. House Bill 1041 by Roots of Lady Mann to amend the law concerning the award procedure for certain public contracts.
You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Yeah, this is an expansion of transparency. See, currently under law, there's a
distinction between when something has to be shown in, say, like the local newspaper or something.
Numbers vary from 20,000, 25,000, 50,000. This makes across the board 35,000, but more importantly, expands to secondary and other cities. So right now, roughly 141 cities have to report this. This was expanded to all 500 cities across the board. The Arkansas Municipal League and others are
supportive of this bill, and I'll take any questions. Senator Johnson, you're recognized.
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Blake Johnson for a question. Do you know what the
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spending limit is on the second-class city right now?
Spending limit on it? Mm-hmm. I think across the board, they're not included in there right now, so they don't have to report it. But across the board, after this, it'll be $35,000 on each one
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of the sub-issues. No, right now, what is it on the first-class cities, what's your
spending limit? It depends. It's from $20,000 in some parts. I think there's $50,000. depending on what section of code you're dealing with it changes let me double check that lull sir I'm sorry about that kind of was caught off guard because it's
one on the calendar if you don't mind I'll take other questions if you yes sir so it looks like it's twenty
$20,000 for one part $20,000 for another yes sir that's that's the only two
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changes I think they have so this bill would increase it from $20,000 to $35,000
correct yes sir when that when you have to hit that reporting requirement
any Any other questions? Senator Clark, you're recognized. Senator Garner, was this signed
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out of committee? Yes, sir, it was. Any other questions? Would anyone like—OK, Senator
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Rice first and then Senator Clark, but Senator Rice, you're recognized to speak against the bill.
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I think, Mr. President, colleagues, we know it gets crazy at the
end of the session, always does. You know I harped on in our meetings before session started about the rules, and all I ask for is if you sign a bill out, that you notify all the committee members. If you only pick the five you want, you're not going to get a fair balance and give somebody
an opportunity to interject with the knowledge they've known by sitting in that seat in that committee every time that bill is heard. House Bill 1041 has been in the Senate committee for 66 days. The Municipal League tried again and again and again and again to get enough members to vote that out of there and they couldn't do it. When I walked in here today, I found out it had been signed out.
Now, I've signed out some too, but that's one thing I've reminded those that have requested, let all the members know. It failed twice, it was expunged once. What the bill does is goes from $20,000 to $35,000, and one of our colleagues who's serving
federal time, for not a huge amount of money, I was told by an investigated reporter, and let it be known in committee that that's the way that they caught it the dealings with the city and because it was the amount it was over 20 but I don't think it would have been caught at 35 was caught in a transaction now as I've
stated in City County many times this session the deck stacked it is here sometimes I refer to it like a casino you walk in think you're going to run the place but the deck stacked against you it's stacked against you here in city counties city municipalities and counties have ordinances and they have rules that they can use things that the public doesn't know the process and after being here 10 years I still don't know all the process but I'm saying
transparency is the one thing that we say we want and it's ironic to me that this is about public contract about public notice but yet we've had all this through that committee the failures of the bill and whether there was a deal cut to to get another bill through or whatever I don't know But the process has not been as clean as it should be, and I wonder many times, what are we sitting in committee listening to bills for when the result is we're just going to sign them out and go on?
And so I'm saying we're not hurting with the $20,000 rule. They have emergency clauses. They can get things they need in an emergency. So I would just say I'll be voting no, and you do whatever you
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feel is right. Senator Rice, do you have a question? Senator Johnson is recognized for
Senator Mark Johnson
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a question. Senator Rice, I think one of those processes, you can waive competitive bidding in this process.
If you're a $20,000 limit, you can waive that competitive bidding and purchase that if the city chooses to do so. Our limit was a lot lower whenever I was on the city council, and I think that procedure is good, and that would be on the local officials' choosing, not ours. Thank you. Thank you. Any other
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questions? All right. Senator Dismanks is recognized to speak for the bill, and then Senator Clark against. So, I mean, one thing
I want to make sure that we do understand is there are only 114 cities
right now required to submit a bid or put it up for a bid. This would require all cities in the state with purchases in excess of 35,000 to put up for a bid. So right now, 114 after passage would be over 500. To me, that is a good thing for us to do. The 35,000 number was not just plucked out of the air. That is the exact same number that this body has said in the past they wanted to put the limitations on in regards to a county level. It mirrors that. It is $35,000 for
that, and there's been discussion of another bill completely related to the same thing. I understand Senator Rice's concerns about bill being signed out of the committee. I spoke to Senator Stubblefield about it, and I think you would agree. I asked you at about 10 o'clock this morning if everyone on the committee was notified that the bill was going to be signed out. There was no, you know, no, you know, misconception or attempt to do anything, not on the up and up. But I would say that, and one other thing, so there was a discussion about, you know,
how does this, I'm not sure the relationship to the former senator, but one thing this bill does via amendment is not let there be bid splitting, which means you can't take a $60,000 project, break it into pieces, and then achieve and be underneath the $35,000 threshold. I mean, a lot of that things were complicated, and to Senator Rice's point, there was a lot of debate, and the amendment that did those things was the result of that debate.
I'd be happy to take any questions on the, on
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what I understand in regards to the bill. Any questions for Senator Dismay? If not, Senator Dismay has spoken for the bill. Senator Clark is recognized to speak against the bill. Alright, would anyone else like to speak for or against? Senator Hendricks recognized to speak for the bill.
Well, he can pull the bill. I don't I don't have passion about this bill. I've heard it several times in city county, but I just want
to be clear about one thing because it's been mentioned here. We had a meeting back here before the session began and made it clear that there would be bills signed out and that the chairman would notify members of the committee. Now, sometimes we can't find each other and I don't know exactly what happened here, but here's what I do know happened, and this is an example of why sometimes we sign bills out. Again, I don't love the bill. I don't hate the bill. I think it's probably got some good policy issues, so I support the bill. I was in there once, and it got four votes because one of the definite yeses was out running the bill somewhere else. I was in there
the next time it ran, and I was out somewhere else. This is a perfect example the last week of the session. While we make a provision, if you've clearly got a majority of the committee wanting a bill to come out with a due pass recommendation, we make that provision to occur. Now there should we do need to all get better about notifying and maybe we can come up with some better systems to do that. But as Senator Disbank said there was no trickery at
foot here. Senator Rankin, you're recognized. Senator
in the past, help me I've stayed foggy now.
Signing bills out of committee has been traditionally bills that have been non-controversial, bills that haven't set for months and months or had multiple expungements in votes. Traditionally, it was sort of a, we were busy at the end of the session, but things that were controversial typically have not been signed out. They've stayed in the committee to get a final resolution,
or am I going down? I've seen some controversial signed out. Here's what I, and you'll recall the discussion we had, what I was really offensive, we had some bills signed out and the chairman didn't even know it had happened. Right. And so, as you know, we changed the rule to require the chairman to be notified and we had discussions and rules that then the chairman needed to make sure that the rest, all eight of the members of the committee were notified. So that's the way it's supposed to work and should work. But I guess regardless of whether we have or haven't, I didn't really consider this to be a controversial bill because it had five votes both times. They just weren't
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their seats. Well, as far as, like Senator Rice, he knew about it. I knew about
it when it went up on board here. Thank you. All right. Senator Garner, let me
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ask Senator Garner, if you wish to pull the bill down, I'll recognize you. If not, I've got some others that want to speak against the bill. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Members,
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I just want to apologize to this body and to Senator Rice. I was the one that kind of left point on signing this bill
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out in the committee this morning. I think Senator Stubblefield had the impression that I was visiting with all members on the committee and not just the one signing it out. So that was really incumbent upon me and my fault and my, you know, it was my responsibility and my fault. So, Senator Rice, I apologize. Members, I apologize. This all could have been averted. It was a collapse in communication. So, I take the responsibility for that and my
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apologies. Thank you, Senator Flippo. Senator Garner, you're recognized. Thank you.
I appreciate Senator Flippo saying that, but ultimately my name's on the bill. I don't work that way. I don't like doing that. I apologize
that that happened to every member of that committee. I did not try to do it, but ultimately it's my responsibility. I don't skirt that when it happens. And because of that, I think because of the controversy around it, because of what the nature of this is, I'm
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going to make a motion to re-refer back to committee. Motion to re-refer House Bill 1041 back to committee all in favor say aye opposed no motion
carried thank you members we will move to senate bill 654
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symbol 654 by senator dismayne to amend the law regarding service animals and to authorize
a civil penalty for misrepresenting an animal as a service animal It's
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been read across, I think, hasn't it?
You read it across? Yes, sir. You're recognized.
Thanks, Senator. Members, currently we do not have any laws on the books in regards to service animals. And so what I did was take a look at all the other states, really took the most lenient bill I could find, or act that I could find in the state, I believe it was Arizona. And so what this does is just establish a civil penalty for someone that misrepresents the use of a service animal in a public place, and the maximum penalty of the fine would be $250. We do have issues, I mean, in it, you know, for the folks that need and utilize dogs, by the way,
there's an ADA definition these are dogs utilize them correctly I mean I
think it's a detriment because of the abuse that is occurring by individuals that may want to not have to pay the deposit fee at a hotel room or you know may want to bring their dog into a place that it should not be allowed and again I think these service animals and the designations given them by the ADA should be something that we respect and I think that
abuse is really allowing for some discrimination to occur. Senator Garner, you're recognized.
Thank you, Senator. I have a blind brother, as you well know. And the problem is that a lot of people who are visually impaired use these dogs every single day for legitimate reasons. And the issue is when you have people who aren't using it that way, there's usually a punitive measure done to all service animals and actually hurts them in that measure, especially on airplanes and things like that. So that kind of intent to be able to put a little teeth behind those who are not using this good to preserve those who can't. Right, exactly. And
one thing to keep in mind, I mean, this does not touch therapy animals and all these other things that are not defined by the ADA.
The ADA only defines service animals, and that's what gives someone the right to be able to utilize those dogs in public places. Yeah, you're exactly right. The goal is just to have something that we can fall back to that is, in my opinion, very, very lenient, but that at least we
would have something in place. Senator Mark Johnson, then Senator Raper.
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I think, to clarify, I think I heard your response to
Senator Garner's this way. This would have nothing to do with the airlines with, like, emotional support animals.
This doesn't address that fact. In my opinion, those are actually decisions that are made by the airlines because, again, the ADA doesn't recognize, I mean, they don't define therapy animals and whatever else it may be. A service animal is a dog that performs a very specific task, whether it be opening the elevator, you know helping someone walk whatever it may be or leading them I mean it they have a specific trained purpose for that individual they're not just
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clarifying it wouldn't affect the airline situation right yeah thank you Senator
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Rapert you're recognized my question is of course I see what you're because what you're doing is
trying to get people from misrepresenting correct a dog as a service animal but what got my attention when you and you may have misheard this it said that we don't have anything on the books but act 652 we passed 2017 actually absolutely does deal with service
animals i actually passed the bill signing the law so it recognized all the ada okay okay enough that
which means we're we are able to utilize your definitions but we do
not have anything if someone's misrepresenting and using so i'll give you an example uh hotel owner you know someone comes in checks into a hotel they have a dog they say
it's a service animal the hotel owner has really no right to do much of anything they can ask produce papers may or may not happen but then what the hotel owner finds is the you know the person renting the room leaves for eight hours in the middle of the day leaves the dog in the room obviously clearly that is not a service animal because the individual is not
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utilizing them right well i think it's good
because i've heard from many of the advocates actually that's exactly frankly they're very offended
that you have people misusing the animals, so thank you for your explanation. Yeah, and what I meant is we
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didn't have any kind of penalty in place. Are there any other
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questions? Would anyone like to speak against the bill or for the bill? Are there any objections to
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rolling the vote? Roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell,
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Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismain, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Would anyone like to change their vote? If not, cast up the ballot by a
vote of 35 in favor.
Senate Bill 654 passes. Transmit to the House. We'll move to House Bill 1385. We are committee on
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engrossed bills to whom is deferred House Bill 1385
by Representative Mayberry. Compare the engrossed copy with the original and find the same correctly engrossed.
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Senator Clark, are you presenting House Bill 1385?
House Bill 1385 by Representative Mayberry and Senator Hammer to amend the law to create a definition of schoolhouse with regard to businesses regulated by the Alcoholic Beverage Control
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Board. You're recognized. Thank you,
Mr. Chair. It pretty much does just that. it defines what a schoolhouse is, and that
it's not a home school, that it's a building where school is conducted, as far as ABC regulations on how close it can be to a liquor store.
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I'd be happy to take any questions. Any questions? Senator Hammer.
Thank you for presenting the bill. This actually aligns with an attorney general's opinion that was requested. So it was in response to the Attorney General's opinion, correct? That is correct. All right, thank you. Senator Garner, you're recognized. Thank you. I know there was an issue in
my district where they were worried about building a brand-new hotel and have alcohol beverages there because it might be within a certain amount. Do you anticipate that kind of thing happening where you have a hotel bar
because there may be some kind of daycare within a certain radius having an
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issue? I don't. You don't? I don't. Okay. Any other questions? Senator Hammer again. Oh, you're all right. Any
other questions? All right. Senator Ingram is recognized to speak against the bill and then Senator Hammer for the bill. Senator Ingram,
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you're recognized. thank you mr chair this bill has
been in committee for a while uh there's some real
serious concerns about it uh especially in the future the definition is vague on schoolhouse they've tried to tighten it up but where the problem comes in with this it mirrors uh the law uh represent mayberry talked about mirrors the marijuana law on locations and i know firsthand that a city of 25 000 only had three locations uh that a marijuana place could be here is my fear and the in committee they use the liquor store
analogy in low-income areas that was
what was talked about but now that we have authorized uh alcohol sales in grocery stores and walmart and walgreens and these others uh because this is so restrictive in nature i fear that in one of our communities there's going to be a development that's going to come in in the future, that if it does go full-bore liquor and alcohol and grocery stores and wine
or liquor, that it would kill a development that could locate in your town because they couldn't find a place. And the Walmart or the Walgreens was going to be the anchor tenant, but because this law is so restrictive it's going to cost it come into your community. We have had a law for 20 or 25 years that sets this out. We hadn't had any problems and there's really no reason to change this. This is another piece of legislation that has been pulled out of city, county, and
local. This bill has been run I think chairman three times or four times and the vote's been expunged, and so now we've pulled it out. Again, the intent, I understand, but the ancillary or collateral damage it could do to a nice development that would come to your town, I think you need to think about that. Senator Elliott, you're recognized
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for a question. If Senator Ingram will yield for one?
Yes, you're recognized. Thank you, Senator Ingram. What is the
distance that has to be between the schoolhouse and liquor store or whatever? Do you know
what it is? Now I think it's
1,000 feet. I think that's right, and somebody that knows these ABC laws better than I do. But this would take it in any new—now everybody else is grandfathered in. This is not going to put anybody out of business. But the new ones go to the marijuana law, and that's either 1,500 or 3,000.
It might be 3,000 feet. And you start laying that on a grid in a community, and you start really limiting it. And so I'm saying don't get sidetracked with this is about liquor stores. This is about Walmarts and Walgreens that might be coming to towns that could be impacted from this legislation. that I don't think, quite
honestly, the sponsor intended it, but that's the reality of it.
Okay, so if it's a facility owned and operated by a public or private school and they are
licensed by the state, do you happen to know, based on the discussion,
that whether or not it has to be inhabited? Does
anything licensed by the state tells me that could be a daycare that could be located in a strip center.
It could be a daycare located anywhere in town. So licensing is pretty broad. I mean, you're moving it from traditionally, I think it's been a church or a schoolhouse, and that's been pretty easy to understand. but this is expanding it dramatically and i just think people need to be aware of it before they vote on it because on the surface you know i think people say well yeah you don't want it around kids but this this moves it to where uh as i asked the i asked the uh uh uh sponsor this bill
that if we're going if this is just a backdoor attempt to try to kill alcohol just run a wet dry election. Just don't try to put them out of business by nips and cuts. Senator Hendren, I
would have asked the presenter, but I didn't have my question ready,
so I just have to ask you this and hope you can help me. So I'm reading here a
facility owned and operated by a public or private school or an open enrollment charter school. So that's one thing.
And a public or private daycare facility licensed by the state. So what I'm hung up on here is operated, if I own it, I'm a public or private school, and I own it, and I've been licensed by the state, but do I have to have already submitted something
that is going to be viable to have been licensed by the state? Is that the case? Like, I couldn't just have it and say I'm a public or private entity here, and I just
want to hold it, but I'm really not going to have anything in it for a
while. I would have to be operating something there? I think that I can't answer it. I don't know. And I think that's the problem with the legislation in that the thing that we have operated under for the last 25 years is pretty cut and dry. All
of us probably can quote what that is. You can't tell what this is going to
affect. So I don't know. Maybe the sponsor. Yes, I've dealt with this a lot in my district because I live in a district where we have a real abundance of liquor stores.
And we've dealt with it. But we've dealt with it with that 1,000-foot stipulation. Okay, thank you. Thank you. I hate it. Senator Hammer, you're recognized to speak
on the bill. For a disclaimer, I wrote and asked for the Attorney General's opinion on this because of a situation that came up in the area that I represented. And there's a question as to what constitutes a schoolhouse
because you have daycare centers, you have charter schools, you have schools, whatever schools may be. And so part of the issue boiled down to this. Are kids that are in a daycare center any less influenced than kids that are in public schools? And if kids are kids, what are schools? We know that kids are kids, but what are schools? And so I wrote the Attorney General and asked for definition of schoolhouse. this is modeled after the attorney general's opinion and so as far as the
argument of what is the school which is what the bill is intended to do it defines what a school is and then everything else can line up after that so if a school is existing okay as defined by this law if we vote this bill through it gives clear definition moving forward for anybody that makes application and if somebody wants to challenge that and so I really don't want to get distracted away from what may or may not be what is is that this
matches up with the Attorney General's opinion as far as defining what a schoolhouse is and
I appreciate a good vote yes ma'am Senator Elliott
for a question yes what's the process for appealing there's that there is a process for
appealing something like this or is there. Like if I already own some land, I already own some land, and maybe I just plan to put a liquor store on it.
I've actually had these kind of issues in my district because we have so many liquor stores. I plan to put a liquor store on it, but in the meantime, somebody locates a schoolhouse that's within, that's less than a thousand feet or whatever it is, is there a
process for me to appeal and say this is something I plan to use this land for anyway, but in the meantime
somebody located a schoolhouse here? Is there an appeals process? I'm going to speak to
the basis of my knowledge and what I remember when all
debate was going on back when okay and that is that it's almost like squatters right who was there first because if you own that land and you put your application and then somebody wanted to come in put a school in because you had your application in first you you would have you would have precedence or as I said I may be wrong so somebody wants to correct me on that I'm fine what I'm here to do is just say this bill is intended to define the schoolhouse I'm I'm not proficient in debating ABCs, rules, and regs,
so I won't put that disclaimer. Fair enough. Anyone else to speak for or against the bill? Senator Flowers,
you're recognized to speak for the bill. I'm speaking for the bill, and it's out of concern for my community and my district.
I have that low-income district and a lot of minorities in my district. There's a lot of things in my district that I don't like that we need to get rid of. And liquor stores are not something that I really want to see more of in my district. We got enough. And particularly by school. a church or anything like that. We got enough churches, but schools. I got two school districts that are under state control.
Kids not achieving like they should be, like I know they can. And in terms of these businesses and economic development coming in with liquor establishments, I don't relish that thought. And right now, grocery stores can't sell liquor. And that's what was testified in the committee the other day. So that's not even an issue. But, like, this thing grandfathers in whatever establishment is there today,
if the bill was passed and became law today. But going forward, I just don't see the need to have a liquor retail business by a school where children are there to be exposed to it. A lot of times you see people coming out of the liquor store, not only with the package of the liquor, but they got a cup and a cup filled with ice. and that's not something
that I want to see the children of my district exposed to I ask you to vote no and this bill also for Senator Elliott's question about having a piece of property and you say you're going to use it for a school this says on page 2 line 7 school house means a school or structure at which children gather on a regular schedule for educational purposes, including, without limitation, one,
a facility owned and operated by a public or private school or an open enrollment charter school, and two, a public or private daycare facility licensed by the state of Arkansas. It doesn't include a home school. The least we can do for our children, and particularly for the children of my district, I ask you, keep the liquor retail business out. Senator Flowers,
will you accept a question for Senator Hammer?
Senator Hammer, you're recognized for questions. Thank you. Senator, you said something a minute ago. I just want to clarify. You are speaking for
the bill, correct? Yes, I'm speaking for the bill. Because you said vote no a minute ago. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought y'all were talking about some other bill
then or whatever. Thank you. I've been sitting up here prepared for all these gun bills, I guess. But this is a good bill.
You know, if we want to say we care about children,
we want to tell mothers to have babies, and even though they don't think they are ready for them, and we don't want abortions, well, protect our children. and vote yes. Anyone else to speak for against the
bill? Senator Gardner is to speak on the
bill. Senator, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. A couple
things just really confuse me about this. I think Senator Clark is right about the second part that deals with retail liquor business. We are expanding that dramatically to places
that aren't traditionally considered schools. So what made me pop out in my head when I thought about this is I run often in Little Rock and there's the East End thing right in downtown Little Rock. And that's a charter school. And what could be around that? The thing that really concerns me, though, and this is why I'm really on a mix of it, is that we're changing the definition in a second part of the code. And if you read on line one, page 27, it says this applies for all businesses regulated under this title by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Now, I'm not sure if that's expansive beyond just liquor stores, because it's talking
about everybody regulated by the ABC. So if our mission is to just do liquor stores, I can understand that, but that line right there really concerns me. I've tried to look up the code and figure out what all it impacts. I can't figure it out. So could that apply to ABC's control over restaurants, bars? What about other places like that that could have the nature to have drinks or things like that? So I think if we're focusing on liquor stores, I could be very accepting of this, and I think it's a good bill. My worry
is if that definition applies to the rest of the code, is there a scenario where a schoolhouse is now within a bar distance like the E-STEM, which is less than a block away from Samantha's and you may run into a business open up in the future. So if Senator Clark could clarify that, I'm not for or against, but that's my
concern. Anyone else to speak for or against? Seeing none, Senator, you're recognized
to close for your bill. Okay, let me tell you what the
bill does and doesn't do. It does not change the distance that liquor stores have to be from
schools. There's no distance change. It doesn't change. It does not affect beer or wine sales that happen in Walmart or Walgreens or another grocery store. That's not under the definition of a liquor store. It doesn't affect any liquor store that's already in business, and we've passed legislation this time where the liquor stores say that they need to diminish their numbers by about a third. It doesn't do anything like that. It defines what a schoolhouse is, and we don't need
to have alcohol close to kids and a schoolhouse. We haven't changed that. There's no change in this. It just defines a school, and the main thing it does is it defines a daycare as a school. That's really the main thing that it does. It also defines that an empty building is not a school. It may look like a school. It may have been a school, but there have to be, if you read, it has to be kids regularly attending. So it's a very good bill.
Representative Mayberry did a lot of work on it. I signed it out. I did notify everybody, just so you know, that we always had five votes. We just never had them there at the same time. She would sit there, and the five votes would be there, and then somebody would have to get up and go somewhere else. Y'all know how that works. But anyway, I would appreciate a good
vote. Senators, you've heard an explanation of the bill.
Madam Secretary, can you please call the roll?
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Caldwell, Caldwell, Cheatham,
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Aye. Cooper. Cooper. Davis. Davis. Dismang. Dismang. Eads. Eads. Elliot.
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Present. English. English. Flippo. Aye. Flowers. Aye.
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Garner. Present. Hammer. Aye. Hendren. Aye. Hester.
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Hickey. Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson,
Letting? Letting? Mallet? Mallet? Pitch? Pitch? Raper? Rice? Sample? Stubberfield? Stubberfield? Sturge? Teague? Wallace? Any senators who wish to
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vote or change their vote? Senator Cooper is aye. Senator Cheatham
is aye. Senator Pitch is aye. Senator Blake Johnson is aye. Senator Bond is no.
Any other senators who wish to vote or change their vote? Seeing none, the
bill with 21 yeas to cast up the ballot the bill of 21 yeas, 2 nays, the
bill has passed, return to the House Senators will now take up House Bill 1789 House Bill 1789
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we'll pass over this till tomorrow next on our list was House Bill
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1937 House Bill 1937 House Bill 1937 by Representative Dalby and Senator Flowers concerning the transition from local district courts to state district courts.
Senator Flowers, you're recognized to present your bill. Members, this is a bill that simply delays the transition to state district courts for Cleburne and Stone counties and also Arkansas and Monroe counties to 2025. be happy to answer any questions appreciate a good vote yes yes this bill
delays the transition to state district courts to 2025 for Cleburne and Stone they wanted it delayed they have part-time judges now and also Arkansas
Bill, anyone who wishes to speak for or against
the bill? Seeing none, Senator Flowers, closed for
your bill. Is there any objection to rolling the vote?
Seeing no objection,
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Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismane, Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbuffield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace.
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Any senators who wish to change their vote? Present, Senator Bond. Senator Pitch, no. Senator Ballinger no. Senator Gardner no. Senator Dismang no. Any other senators who wish to
change their vote? Seeing none, cast up the ballot. The vote of 30 yeas, four nays. House Bill 1937 has passed. Return to the House.
Senator Garner, you're recognized for a motion. Thank you, Mr. President. I want everybody to be clear on what I'm about to do because
I don't want to be any kind of thought. I wasn't in a state agency today and I had a strong reservation about a bill and I would have spoke out strongly against it. I talked to committee members when it was given a due pass and they didn't quite understand, I think, the concerns of it. So I'd like to re-refer the bill back to committee for the purpose of being heard later. There's no Senate sponsor or I would have discussed them. There's nobody who signed up to actually do this bill. It is House Bill 1698. I know this is a
little bit unusual. I haven't talked to Representative De La Rosa. I got alerted to this not too long ago and I'd like the opportunity to be able to hear it again in
committee since I have such strong reservations to it.
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It'll be, it It came from state agencies. Members, you've heard the motion from Senator Garner to re-refer House Bill 1698
back to state agencies. Senator Bond, you're recognized to discuss the motion.
Well, I think Senator Garner, we heard this bill actually twice. She presented it once and initially then it came back. And I think we've already heard it twice. it was voted out today. So without objection, I think, by the way, maybe Senator Ballinger voted out. I understand it's unusual, and I've talked to committee
members. I have strong reservations about this bill, and
I'd like to have a chance to have it vetted through the committee again.
I understand the will of the body may be a certain way, but I'm officially making the motion to re-refer HB 1698 back to committee. Senator Hendren, you're recognized for. Well,
so you've talked to the chairman of the committee and it says, is he agreeable to the things that needs to be pulled back in? Yes,
sir. I'm not going to talk about if he agrees with the bill or not, but I told four or five
committee members if they had a problem with it.
I would have talked to Moore. I know I just had that problem earlier, but I just kind of came up to me in the last 30 minutes, talk to Mr. Caldwell, Senator Hickey, Senator Ballinger, Texas Senator Hester, things like that about it. I think some of them agree with my ballot concerns. Thank you. Senator Chesterfield,
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you want to be recognized for a point of order?
Senator Linda Chesterfield
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Yeah, just a point of order. I'd like to hear the parliamentarian on referring somebody else's bill back to
committee. Wow. It is a proper motion. All right.
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Just wanted to be sure. Senator Hickey, you recognize for
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a point of order? Yes. Senator Garner, just one thing. it's my understanding are there some people that are in opposition of this bill correct and
that's the people i heard from in the last 30 minutes right if i
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don't know if this matters or not but one thing that we were adamant about in there is that it was said over and
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over and over again that there was no opposition to this bill so that may have some bearing to it and be clear
i don't think uh representative de la rosa was dishonest with people i think that the opposition and understand was being ran which happens thank you sir any other discussion on the motion
If not, you've heard the motion to re-refer House Bill 1698 back to the State Agency's Committee. All in favor of
the motion, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. The
ayes have it. Motion is adopted. Motion is carried. On my list, I have Senate
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Bill 577 next. Senator Hammer. Senate Bill 577 by Senator Hammer and Representative Douglas. to increase the number of persons served under the Assisted Living Program to 1,550 and declare an emergency.
Senator Hamer, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. President. President, back in 2001, Act 1230, Act 1230 of 2001, it was the intent of the legislature to establish an enlisted living waiver through Medicaid in which individuals could live in assisted living with Medicaid assistance from the program. That started off with 1,000 slots, and then as time grew and as need grew, that has raised up to 1,200 now.
And we are at that point in our time where what this bill would do is allow for DHS to submit a waiver to CMS to request that that number be raised to a minimum of 1,550. DHS would have the ability to control the, or have the flexibility as to how many of those are reoccurring or those would be, and that's not the exact word, but they would be reoccurring or they would be able to be used throughout the year.
So this is a totally permissive piece of language that is directing DHS to request CMS a waiver to raise that number to $1,550 as the minimum, and I'll be glad to answer any questions. Any questions for Senator Hammer? Senator
Teague, you're recognized for a question. Thank you, Mr.
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President. Senator Hammer, can you remind me how
much this costs? That's probably a debatable point.
DHS did come to the table, speak against this. I guess you have to ask yourself the question of the average cost of somebody being in an assisted living daily rate versus somebody being in the nursing home daily rate that that they didn't name a price you know senator i do not and and i'm not trying to play cat and mouse with you i'm trying to remember if they actually gave a price to maybe one of the members of the committee that was in there could could state whether it was or not how much was it what
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So I'm getting 9 million, 9.4 million whispered at me over here, so I don't believe that's in
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the revenue stabilization that we may have looked at today or may not have looked at today.
Well, the one thing that I want to have the members focus on is the permissiveness of the language that we're asking DHS to submit to CMS the waiver request so that that could be put in there. This would roll off, and I think that's where the debate is among the industries, is whether
or not it would actually be a net cost or whether it would be a net savings, because you'd be rolling some folks into the assisted living that might otherwise be in the nursing home now, and that is the battle between the industries. I understand that. I
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appreciate it, Senator. Thank you. Thank you. Senator Hendren, you recognize for a question? Yeah, you
keep saying it's permissive, but as I read it, it's not permissive. says
the waiver application shall seek and it changes it from a thousand to fifteen hundred and fifty that's not may seek that's shall see it shall be that
they would put that they would put the waiver on page page two line five the waiver shall not limit the number of persons served on the waiver based on the unduplicated number of persons enrolled in the assisted living program at a given time and period so they are we are asking for DHS to submit the waiver to CMS and if they approve then then we would come back and make the adjustments. So
again though I don't see where it says you're asking we're putting in law that they shall increase
their request from a thousand to fifteen
hundred and fifty and we're hearing it costs of over nine million dollars. Well and
I think Senator that was part of the debate of the Milliman report as far as what they're using to substantiate the numbers and there was some questions to the legitimacy or of the Milliman report as far as whether those numbers were accurate I think that's where DHS is basing their argument as far as what the cost of this would be to implement it but I mean you can say there may
be some savings but you've got to acknowledge that increasing it by a third is going to have a significant immediate cost right I guess I would I
I would come back to the argument of the question of whether if those that are in the nursing home or those that are on the waiting list, which is about 185, the daily rate that we pay out in Medicaid to assisted living versus the daily rate that we pay out to the nursing home is a savings or a cost. I would present that it would be a savings if you have somebody in the nursing home that is at a higher daily rate than somebody that is in an assisted living, even once you consider the federal match that goes with the nursing home or goes with the assisted living, it
comes out to be approximately $80 a day versus $130. Is there a fiscal impact on this? I don't believe there was a fiscal impact
put on it. Okay. Thank you. Other
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questions for Senator Hammer? Senator Hickey. Yes, just to be clear, everybody, and Senator Hendren also, even though it says $1,000 in the legislation it's a minimum of a thousand our waiver right now is actually twelve fifty twelve hundred twelve hundred so it is an increase of
that if they were to do it but it's not not at the thousand so it's not I just want to make
sure everybody understood that they are the points of reference are the twelve hundred that it currently is and they're asking for the minimum to be fifteen hundred
and fifty that's correct thank you sir yes sir because it started off
back in 2001 at $1,000. Senator Johnson, for what purpose? Question? You're
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recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Senator Hammer, if you could repeat those
numbers. I believe you said it's a daily rate of $130 for someone in a nursing home.
Is that correct? Estimated to be $80 a day, and there was a $5 increased daily rate, but estimated to
be around $80 a day for assisted living, $180 a day for a
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nursing home. So it's around $100 more a
day. If someone is of a condition physically where they could be served in assisted living,
this would save $100 a day. Is that what I'm hearing? Approximately.
Approximately, and that's the debatable question
because it was based on DHS's report that they've got from the Milliman Consulting Group. I think what we have before us is the debate of the savings and when you're battling between the industries of assisted living versus the nursing home, the one factor that I don't know how you would put a number on is
how many would move out of the nursing home into assisted living if those Medicaid slots were made available so that they could transition out of the nursing home or if they have unduplicated beds that are in the facilities now that are not able to be filled, this would create that latitude for those numbers to be able to fluctuate back and forth.
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And this would not do anything unless CMS approves the waiver, that's correct? Well,
if CMS came back, my understanding, if CMS came back and said no,
then the answer would be no. So it is that they shall submit the waiver to CMS for $1,550, but as we hear all the time in committee meetings, CMS, you know, would have to get back to them. I do want to say in full disclosure, and members of the committee, if I misstate, you feel free to call me down, but there is a waiver application that will be coming up in the future. We're trying to get ahead and get this ball rolling so we can make that anticipation, you know, as to the results.
That was one thing that was made in an argument in the committee meeting the other day, was that there would be a waiver process coming up later, I think 2020. So this would basically get us the
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legislation to jive with what we're trying to accomplish. That's correct. Thank you, Senator. Thank you, Mr. President. Any other questions
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for Senator Hammer? Seeing none, anybody who wishes to speak for against the Senator Stubblefield question? Yes, thank you. We recognize for a question. Senator Hammer, will you
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take a question? Senator Hammer, who's going to be doing the independent assessment, DHS?
or? You know, that didn't even come up in the discussion. I don't know if that's going to be covered under the current
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contract now that, you know, for all this. Will that be done by a private contractor or will that
be done by DHS's RNs? I don't have the answer to that question. That didn't even come up in the discussion as to, but to your point, if somebody is, if somebody is in an assisted living, if somebody is in assisted living, DHS would come in and make a determination as to whether or not that person is qualified to stay in the assisted living in the condition
of which they are. By the same token, they would have to be assessed as to whether they could move out of, you know, move out of the nursing home into the assisted living. I know DHS is involved. I can't go any deeper than
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that. Okay, thank you. Senator Rafer, you recognize for a question? Senator, I was waiting to see if my question got answered and everybody else if you if you said it I didn't hear it clearly DHS's position on this situation when we just did this in December this was just settled in
December could you explain why right now when we just handled this are we're making a change sure to
give you the backdrop in the history when we went through this through rules and regs back in December and you may remember I made motion asking that when the Milliman report came out because that's what DHS was waiting on it was the big fight in the rules and regs between the industries that DHS said they wanted to get the Milliman report to come out or waited till it came come out that came out like three weeks ago and of course
there's there's questions to the legitimacy of the of how the Milliman company arrived at the at the numbers and and so this is based on the question that the assisted living industry feels that it would be better to move, be able to have that flexibility for people to live in the assisted living than to have to remain in the nursing home or face going into the nursing home because the slots are not available in the assisted living. So this is the continuation of that.
Thank you. Senator Disman, for a question? Yes, sir. And so on this, so we're mandating that DHS do this. Is there anything right now that precludes them from applying for a waiver similar to this? Or are we just going
to mandate that they do it through your legislation? This would be mandated through legislation, and it's a question of which position do you fall out on that you think it's 1,550. It'd be better for 1,550 beds for us to go from the current 1,200.
Where did that number come from? The 1,550. It
was actually a split between 1,200 and what was suggested in another piece
of legislation of 1,750. What did the 1,750 come from then? I don't know. That's not
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in this piece of legislation. Okay, but why did we settle on 1,550? We heard about 1,750 here. We got 1,200. We're going to hit the middle. Sure. Thanks for asking that
question. So we're currently at 1,200. On the waiting list, I think it's around like 185, give or take, that are waiting to get into assisted living, but the Medicaid slots are not there. That's part of what this does, and that's rationale for why 1,550, factoring in a little growth.
So if 1,200 plus 185, you're around the 1,385 figuring that our generations are growing older and this will be reviewed. So they set it as close but left a little cushion in there. But there'd be nothing that would preclude DHS from
pursuing something similar with numbers that they feel more comfortable with or numbers that they want to develop on their own. There'd be nothing that prevented them from doing that, right? I mean, the legislation is not required them to seek a waiver? I don't think the legislation
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is, well, I'm going to say answer the question
this way. I don't know that the legislation is required for DHS to seek the waiver. The question is, is DHS willing to seek the waiver? And that's probably the battleground that we'll have to make our decisions on here today. Do we think it would be better for DHS to ask for this waiver and see see if CMS grants it, because it's going to have to be justified to CMS. And I
would tell you, for me, part of what I would like to see is a financial impact, because I can't make
an educated decision right here to tell you that if we need $1,500,
if we need whatever it may be, I mean, I understand you have some numbers that you've worked through, but are these numbers that DHS agrees with? I mean, I've heard as much as $9, $10 million worth of
cost, and I don't know what's real and what's not real in that discussion. Okay. Anyone who wishes to speak for or
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against the bill? Senator Ballinger, speak for the bill? You're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.
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I just want to say, so real hard numbers, I say real hard numbers because I can't remember
if it's $18 or $19, But $18 or $19 a day is what it costs more to house a person in a nursing home than it does in assisted living. And so that means real more money. And that's just the state. When you talk about the federal money, that's a lot more money. But just the state money, that's additional money. That if what we're talking about is these people transition from assisted living facilities into nursing homes, that costs us a little bit more money.
And that's what's going to happen. These people would not be in assisted living facilities if they could be at home taking care of themselves. These people are going to transition into that. Maybe some of them will go home and get some assistance at home, but that's what will cost the state money. So going from the $1,250 to $1,550 is not, I mean, you can't just use that number. I think that's probably why there's not a financial impact statement. It could very well save the state money by doing this. But one thing I know for sure is it will not cost the state a dime until we get the waiver. And then even when we get the waiver, it won't cost the state a dime
until those beds start filling up, right? Because all we're doing is moving the cap. Those beds will not fill immediately. We know there's 180 people on a waiting list. Maybe those will fill up. But most assisted living facilities, if they're smart, and I'll tell you now, don't fill your place up with Medicaid recipients. Because one thing I'll tell you for sure is the reimbursement rate they're getting today is going to change. So I don't know if I disagree with the minimum study. Maybe it's accurate. I don't know. We've done another study that shows that maybe that number was a little low. I don't know, but we probably are reimbursing them more than we should. But we have for years
and years and years. We have people who've developed their business model, opened their businesses, one of them in one of my small towns, but in small towns all over the state, with the business model, with the promise from the state that we'll do X. That was probably pretty risky, probably wasn't a smart move, but what I would say is we need to give them some opportunity to transition out of that. And so giving them, since we are giving them cuts, Like, part of this deal that we've been working on since December is transitioning in cuts. They're getting cuts. Well, one way we can make it a little easier is, at least for a time, is increasing the bed space for them to be able to absorb the pain.
Now, there will still be places that are predominantly Medicaid that may very well shut down. But at least this will make it easier, a little
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softer, before those cuts come. Questions, Senator Irvin? Senator Ballinger,
will you take the question? Yeah. So I know that there was a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed in this whole arena. Do you know how this legislation affects that Memorandum of Understanding, which was to result in a large amount of savings? So
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one of the things that they really tried to work together, and one of the problems was, and I don't remember exactly,
but the cap itself was not nailed down when we had the, and I don't know if it's a Memorandum of Understanding or really it was an email sent out saying that
this is what we're negotiating. Is that what you're talking about? No, there was actually a governor's proclamation of a memorandum
of understanding with everybody in this arena to achieve a certain amount of savings. And so my question to you is, how does this legislation affect what was already signed and agreed to through that memorandum of
understanding that the governor had a proclamation on?
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Correct. So one of the things that the Health Care Association, I guess is probably the best way to put it, which nursing homes at that time, the assisted living people were really engaged and involved in that process, have agreed to, was it $500 million in cuts in order to avoid being put into the managed care. $250 million. And they have, and they went to work on doing that. In fact, they've made some of the cuts, and this would still provide for that. One of the things that it would do is make it where we wouldn't realize those cuts as quickly.
It would take a little longer for us to realize those cuts, and I think that that's reasonable to allow these people to transition off from the good gig they had before with reimbursement rates to something that may be more balanced, but to do that to them and make them cut 20% out of their revenue will just destroy them. And so the question is, I think that it's in line with the memorandum of understanding only to the extent that eventually
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we get there. It just won't get there as quickly with this type of legislation. And I have one more question.
But my concern is when we start to do
this, there's so many other people in that Medicaid space that have done things starting in 2011 and working all the way through to achieve savings with a different variety of reasons. And so, you know, here this is a rate increase. I mean, you know, it's not a rate increase. It's hiring the bed numbers. But what I'm asking you is, you know, where are they then going to be able to achieve any savings
when other people have been under the thumb since 2011 kind of pulling their share of the savings and these folks are not? I mean, that is the perception, at least to me, when you've had pharmacists, dentists, hospitals, all kinds of providers, physical therapy, everybody has been kind of pulling their way, and now they're not. So how would you? Yeah, what I would say is they are. In fact, I'm
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sure that the assisted living folks would want me to come down here and argue that their rates, that they're being reimbursed today is fine, and we shouldn't make any cuts there at all.
And part of the MOU, and I understand that they feel, at this point, they don't like what that agreement came down to. They don't feel like that they were represented in that, but they were. Their association got engaged in that. I think that even the cuts may be reasonable. The problem is if we make them today, then it's going to be something that's too great of a burden for my constituents. And so that's what I'm asking for is to try to find ways to make it easier for that to happen, to fulfill the obligations of the MOU, but give them a couple of years to get there.
And that's what we tried to do in December, but now they're changing it. Well, they are, but
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part of the agreement was the problem with the caps and how the caps work, and I don't think we ever really got... In fact, let me say this. You know, one of the reasons why we're just running this bill now, this is a Senate bill, is because all session long they've tried to work with DHS to come to that agreement so the DHS would be able to modify their waiver, and finally they said we can't get there, so let's run
the bill. Thank you. Anyone to speak against the bill? Appreciate your vote.
Anyone to speak for the bill? Senator Hendren?
Senator Hendren is recognized to speak on the bill. No, I'm going to speak against it because
this is crazy. We studied health care for two years. We came up with recommendations. We've hired consultants. We've made changes. We've had hearings. We've hired 200-plus people since January in this particular program. And now we're going to come down here, and we don't know how much it costs. DF&A doesn't have a fiscal impact.
DHS says it's going to be over $9 million, and we've just determined our budget. I'll tell you the most important lesson I learned from the Health Care Reform Task Force is some of the biggest mistakes we made were because legislators went in here and did stuff without doing the full research and finding out the impact on both the budget and on the return on investment. Some of the things we saw were just unbelievable, and we've seen some of the ramifications of some of those things. So we need to be careful when we come down here with great ideas that we don't know how much they cost,
and then when we have a consultant that we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars who tells us we don't like their answer, we say we're going to give another consultant to evaluate that. So I think it's time that we go back on the research and the data and trust the professionals. This is just not well thought out. I might appreciate voting
against it. Senator Hendren has spoken against the bill. Senator English? I move for immediate consideration. You've
heard the motion. For immediate consideration, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed?
Motion carried. Madam Secretary, will you please call the
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roll for Senate Bill 577. Ballinger? Ballinger? Ballinger? Aye.
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Bledsoe? Bledsoe? Bond? Aye. Caldwell. Caldwell. Cheatham.
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Cheatham. Chesterfield. Clark. Clark. Cooper. Davis. Davis.
Dismang, Dismang, Eads, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flippo,
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Irvin, Blake Johnson,
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Mallet Pitch Rapert Rapert Rice Sample Sample Aye.
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Sturge? Sturge? Teague? Teague? Wallace? It's aye. Senator Stubblefield is no. Any other senator who wishes to vote or change their vote?
Seeing none, cast up the ballot. vote of 7 yeas,
16 nays, the bill has failed to pass. Question? Question, Senator T?
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Mr. President, do you recall what the lowest vote
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in session has been so far? Frankly, my dear. Oh, that hurt. That hurt. Senator Garner
is recognized for a motion to fix
something. Senator Hickey told me, the truth will set you free. Alright, I re-referred the wrong bill number.
I need to make a motion to expunge the vote by which 1698
was re-referred back to committee. heard the motion to expunge the vote that re-referred the wrong committee. A wrong number. All opposed? Are all
in favor? Say aye. Aye. All opposed?
I'd like to make a motion to re-refer HB 1893. I got the actual sheet. 1893 back committee. You've
You've heard the motion, same details. The motion is correcting
a bill number, the same details as last time. Representative De La Rosa's bill that was in state agencies, he's asked to
re-refer it back to state agencies
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for further discussion. I did. I just explained to the board.
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Senator Bond? Speak on the motion. Senator Bond, you recognize to speak
on the motion. Just briefly, I mean, I appreciate Senator Garner correcting that, but if we start re-referring House members' bills, and I don't know
if he's talked to Representative De La Rosa yet, just willy-nilly without even giving him a heads-up, I think it's a bad precedent. She should at least have the ability to keep the bill in here for one more day. It was discussed. It was on the agenda today. There was, I don't know if there's testimony. She presented the bill. Committee had a chance to ask questions.
And to me, it's just inherently unfair to her. Any further discussion on the
motion? Hearing Senator Gardner, would you take a question for Senator Elliott on the motion? Senator Elliott, if you don't mind to use your microphone. You can use that. I'm sorry about that. Senator Elliott, you're
recognized for a question on the motion. Have you spoken with a sponsor about referring to it? I look for a Senate sponsor.
There is not one, and I try to see who would run it, and nobody's on there to run
it yet. I have not talked to Representative De La Rosa. Don't you
think you should before you refer it back to a committee? If I had time to talk to her about it, I
would. Like I said, this just has developed in the last few minutes, and I apologize for getting the wrong bill number. Oh, no. I just talked to her. You wanted to use
my phone? You just want to use my phone? Well, anyway, I'm just curious because I do think
if somebody were referring one of your bills, I'd feel the same way, Senator
Garner, and I just would you like me to hold up for you if this was happening to you? I had one of
my bills done like this in the
House. without my approval. Oh, no, no. I'm not talking about that. We don't want to emulate the House. That's not our point, I don't think. So,
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anyway, thank you, Senator. Thank you, ma'am. Any further discussion on
the motion? The motion is to re-refer House Bill 1893 back to state agencies.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. All
opposed, say no. No. Chair is unable to determine. Madam Secretary,
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please call the roll. Eighteen votes is what we need. The secretary will
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call the roll. Ballinger? Aye. Bledsoe? Aye. Bledsoe? Bond?
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No. Caldwell? Aye. Cheatham? Cheatham? Chesterfield?
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No. Clark? Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismayne, Eads, Eads, Elliot,
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Hill, Ingram, Ingram, Irvin, Irvin Blake Johnson
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Mark Johnson Letting Letting Mallet Pitch Rapert
Teague? No. Wallace? Aye. Okay. Any senator who wishes to change their vote? Senator Irvin is non-voting. Senator Clark
is aye. Senator Flowers is no. Senator Hammer is aye. Any other senator who wishes to
change their vote? Senator Cheatham is aye Senator English is aye Any other senators who wish to change their vote
With a vote of 19 yays, the motion has cast up the ballot With a vote of 19 yays
and 9 nays, the motion has passed Senators, we have four more bills Four more bills Senator Hamer,
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you're recognized to present Senate Bill 520. Senate Bill 520 by Senator Hamer. To clarify the State Insurance
Department's regulatory and enforcement authority concerning pharmacy benefits managers, and to modify the Arkansas Pharmacy Benefits Manager Licensure Act.
Senator Hamer, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. This bill, as amended, has the support
of all parties that might be impacted by it. I'm going to give you real quickly the six things that this bill does, and then if you want to ask questions, I'll take it down deeper. Number one, it has loophole closure from the previous MAC law. The second thing it does is require rebate reporting by the PBMs of payments received from drug manufacturers.
The third thing it does is spread pricing by the PBMs is prohibited. The fourth thing it does is prohibition of reimbursement to a pharmacy on ingredient cost of a drug below a national average or drug purchase price, which is referred to as NADAC. Loophole closure in the PBM Licensure Act on retroactive payment reductions to pharmacies. And then the last thing it does is define in-state law that these provisions do not apply to managed care Medicaid programs or do apply, excuse me, to managed care Medicaid programs, including the past insurance companies.
This also, we worked rather diligently with the insurance commissioner's office to get some things defined a little tighter in law. and then also the amendment that was placed on it this morning was worked out with the governor's office and I'll be glad to go as deep as you want to go with your questions. We did have pharmacists that sat at the table and did feel like this was going to help them. It did remove the 1050, the controversial 1050. It did remove that. However, what it also did was that point I mentioned, number six,
that it defined in state law, or it helped close the back door so the pharmacies are not taking it so hard from the PBMs. And I'll be glad to answer questions if you have any.
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Any questions for Senator Hammer? Senator Bond? Well,
just because the amendments are bouncing around, I've got a lot of emails on this. The executive branch is approving it now. And so what did that amendment do today? You said it took out the controversial 1050 charge. I'm trying to work.
It took out the thing that's been blowing up your emails is it took out that $10.50, but also it helped the pharmacists on the other side that where they were getting reimbursed below ingredient costs, it helped on that side, plus it extended the appeal process from 7 to 30 days. So it's given the insurance commissioner greater tools to keep pounding on these PBMs that are working with the insurance companies and taking advantage. I appreciate that. Thank you, Senator.
You're welcome. Any further questions for Senator Hamer? Senator Hamer, you recognize
I speak for the bill. I just feel bad about how hard I was on his last bill, so I want to say this
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one is great. This is an awesome bill. Anyone else to speak for or against the bill? Seeing none, Senator,
you're closed for your bill. I'm going to close. I will not go
back to the last bill. that very much. Listen, this is one we can walk out of here feeling like we've taken it's a chess
match. The PBMs make a move. You have handouts on your desk where PBMs have responded in reaction to our
last law. This is a chess move and
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ahead of the game and almost gets them in checkmate. So I appreciate a good vote. Any objection to rolling the vote on Senate Bill 520? Say no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote.
Any senator who wishes to change their vote? Seeing none, cast up the ballot. 35 yeas, the bill has
passed. Transmit to the House. House Bill 1609, Senator
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Cooper. House Bill 1609 by Representative Gassaway to amend the law concerning the offense of possession of drug paraphernalia. Senator Cooper, you're recognized,
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sir. Thank you, Mr. President. 1609 is the one we did the amendment on this morning
to include heroin and fentanyl in the drug list for paraphernalia, and that's basically
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what the bill is. Any questions for Senator Cooper? Seeing none, anyone to
speak for or against the bill? Seeing none, Senator, have you closed for your bill? Senator is closed for his bill. Is there any objection
to rolling the vote? Seeing no objection, Madam
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Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang,
Eades, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Mallock, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, T. Wallace. Any senator who wishes to change their vote?
Seeing none, cast off the ballot. Voted 35 yeas. House Bill 1609 has passed. Return to the House.
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House Bill 1901. Senator Chesterfield.
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Committee on engrossed bills to whom you support House Bill 1901 by Senator Allen. Committee on the gross copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. House Bill 1901 by Representative Allen to create the
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academic support scholarship. Senator, you recognize the presentation. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is an
act to create an academic Support Scholarship. The Department of Higher Ed is in agreement with it, and what it will do is allow a small fee to help children with tutoring, educational materials, technical fees, etc. I'd
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appreciate a good vote and take any questions. Any
questions for Senator Chesterfield on the bill? Seeing none, anybody to speak for or against the bill? Seeing none, Senator is closed for her bill. Any
objection to rolling the vote? Seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. House Bill 1901.
Does any senator wish to change their vote? Saying none, cast up the ballot. Vote 35 yays. The bill has passed. Return to the House. Senator Chesterfield, House Bill 1648. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Hold
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on one second. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is referred House Bill 1648 by Representative Allen. Prepare the gross copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. House Bill 1648 by Representative Allen. to include certain Arkansas' civil rights leaders and heroes
in the teaching materials regarding African American history
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in the public school. Senator Chesterfield, you're recognized. Explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill simply helps us to recognize that there were Arkansans who were civil rights leaders during the civil rights era. The Department of Education is already creating curricula around this, and this will help to guide them. We're talking about people like Sue Cowan-Williams, who was the first African-American woman to ever sue for equal pay. People that we don't know very much about, but should know a little bit more about.
And they're in the process of creating the curricula to go with that study. I'd appreciate a good vote. Any questions? Senator Garner? Senator Chester, will we
take a question from Senator Garner? Senator Garner, you're recognized for a question. Is this the bill that mentioned Representative Walker in
it? That was the amendment that eliminated it. I mean, I agree on
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everything, but I thought it would be great to be included in
it. I just wanted to say that. I didn't hear you, sweetie. What did you say? I said I might not agree with him on a lot, but I thought he'd been good if he was included. I understand why I was amendment out.
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I just wanted to say that. Yeah. Well, I know Mr. Walker's work and admire Mr. Walker's work, but if he is to create the controversy and preclude us from doing what we need to do, then it was important that
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we remove all of the names, not just his. Thank
you. Any other questions? Say none. Anybody to speak for or against
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the bill? Say none. Is there objection to rolling the vote? Say no objection. Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eades, Elliot, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Ludding, Malik, Pitch, Rayford, Rice,
Sample, Stubblefield, Starch, T. Wallace. Any senator who wishes to
change their vote? Seeing none, cast up the ballot. The vote of 35 yays. House Bill 1648 has passed. Return to the House. Senator Henry, you're recognized for an announcement. Okay, members, we're getting ready to
run the batch, and I'll read those off here in just a second. But for tomorrow, the House bills with Senate amendments, we ran two of those just now. The rest of those will be first on the calendar tomorrow.
unless you want to stay another hour or two so you need to look through those just like you look through tomorrow's calendar because we will be doing a batch again tomorrow so again we'll have time to review those 11 o'clock in the morning this one will go into session we do have a fairly long calendar so we may have to bring some lunch in because we we need to get through it so having said that the batch that we have that we're going to be considering is so i'm going to
move these placed in a batch and voted together. It's House Bill 1217, 1404, 1440, 1498, 1567, 1618, 1634,
1641, 1699, that must be Senate Bill 702, 1702, 1724, 1745, 1785, 1801, 1855, 1900, 1910, and 1934. 1934. So my motion is to put those in batch and
vote on them together.
Senators, you've heard the motion. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing no discussion. All
in favor of the motion, say aye. Any
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opposed? Seeing none, the motion is carried. We will batch the referenced House bills. for consent passage any objection to rolling the vote on this one
are we good anybody have any disagreement with what they see on the of the screen
up there, any that you were expecting to
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Senator Bledsoe, do you have a question? All right. Madam Secretary,
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please read the bills. House Bill 1217
by Representative Tosh concerning the submission of and Forensic Testing of Firearms by the State Crime Lab. House Bill 1404 by Senator Representative Speaks to amend provisions regarding the publication in a newspaper of a public school district's budget. House Bill 1440 by Representative Ferguson to establish the Material Monetary Review Committee. House Bill 1498 by Representative Speaks to amend the law concerning the Arkansas
Public School Computer Network. House Bill 1567 by Representative Lundstrom concerning investigations into sexual assault, concerning sexual assault collection kits, and concerning the submission of sexual assault collection kits. House Bill 1618 by Representative Gonzalez to create a sales and use tax exemption for washer extractors used by a fire department. House Bill 1634 by Representative Petty to include acts committed by a victim of human
trafficking under the state's rape shield law, House Bill 1641 by Representative Johnson to amend the law concerning the rules involving scoliosis screening in schools, House Bill 1699 by Representative Eves to amend the laws concerning sales of raw milk to authorize the sale of raw sheep milk. House Bill 1702, by Representative Gray, to amend provisions regarding the publication in newspapers of public school districts' bond sales. House
Bill 1724, by Representative Gray, to amend the Arkansas Tax Procedure Act concerning holding administrative hearings by electronic means. House Bill 1745 by Representative Johnson to amend the laws concerning prescription asthma inhalers in school districts and public charter schools and to authorize the acquiring and stocking for administrative use in certain situations. House Bill 1785 by Senator Johnson to create the Graduate Medical Education Residency
Expansion Board to require the board to distribute planning grants to certain entities in order to expand first-year residency programs and positions. House Bill 1801 by Senator Johnson to require the Arkansas Medicaid program to cover an additional inhaler for certain Medicaid beneficiaries. House Bill 1855, Representative Hillman, to amend the law concerning permits for the hauling of horticultural crops in their natural state.
House Bill 1900 by Representative Johnson to amend the statutes concerning limitations on financial penalties in alternative payment systems. House Bill 1910 by Representative Gray to provide for certificates of indebtedness under the Arkansas Tax Procedure Act to be published on the official website maintained by the Director of the Department of Finance Administration.
House Bill 1934, by Representative Cozart, to amend Arkansas law concerning audits of schools.
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Madam Secretary, please roll the vote.
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Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubbefield,
Sturge, Teague, Wallace. The vote of 35 yeas. The bills have passed. Return to the House. Senator Hendren, you're recognized for an announcement. Okay, I know we've got
a couple committees going to meet briefly after adjournment, but before we all take off, can we all thank the staff? They've worked very hard the last few days.
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Senator English, you're recognized for an announcement.
Thank you very much. Education will meet in the morning at 9 o'clock. Thank you. Any
further announcements? Senator T I think revenue and tax at 9 in the
morning I think Mr. Chairman Senate revenue and tax at 9 o'clock Senator Stubblefield The
Senator Gary Stubblefield
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city county local will meet in the old Supreme Court room
in 5 minutes Senator Irvin Members, public health will meet 10 minutes upon adjournment and hoping to wrap things up tonight. So
please be there so we can finish our bill. Hey,
members. All right, I got one more important announcement. There's another group of people
that I think you all don't have any idea how hard they've been working this session. They've been up here till 9 or 10 o'clock at night trying to engross these bills. As you know,
one of them is over 2,000 pages. And I mean, they are up here all day and until late until the evening. So I've asked them to come down. Please give a round of applause for the engrossing team.
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They've done such a great job. Thank you all. Senator Clark, you're recognized for
an announcement. Judiciary does not meet until 9 o'clock in the morning, which is on the schedule. If
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you've got anything, get it there. members members if i can make an announcement we have a
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to honor because it's his birthday trooper
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dale in the back here on the left if you would Thank you, sir.
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Hey, were you going to let this guy here get by?
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We did his yesterday. All right, Madam Secretary, the
items will be right across the
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desk. House Bill 1688, by Representative Gray, an act to establish cost reporting for assisted living in facilities to the Department of Human Services as a
condition of participation in the Arkansas Medicaid program, House Bill 1688.
Public Health. That's one they've got to have. Okay.
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Now I'm just going to read all these. I'll try to help
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you with it. Okay. We are committee on engrossed bills to
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whom is first House Bill 1441 by Representative Bentley. Prepare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom was referred House Bill 1491 by Representative Miller, compared to the engrossed copy of the regional. Find the same correctly in Gross. Calendar.
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Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom he deferred Senate Bill 36 by joint budget in Rice Cup of the region and
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found the same correctly, Engrossed, Calendar 송 Mouse Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom he deferred Senate Bill 68 by joint budget compare the engrossed copy of the regional, found the same correctly, Engrossed, Calendar Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom he deferred Senate Bill 102 by joint budget Andrew Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is deferred Senate Bill 104 by joint budget. Compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed.
Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is deferred Senate Bill 485 by joint budget. Compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom was deferred House bill 1789 by joint budget compare beside on
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to whom was referred House Bill 1789 by Representative Penzo,
compared to the engrossed copies of the regional
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and find the same correctly engrossed. Judiciary. Judiciary. Committee on Engrossed Bills
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to whom was referred House Bill 1827 by Representative Ferguson, compared to the engrossed copies of the regional
and find the same correctly engrossed. Okay, Joanne, 1827, I've got a committee report, but it doesn't say where it's going.
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In gross bill, does it just go calendar? You have a return? No, I've got to look. It says return to the house as passes. So we've already voted this
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one? Yes. Okay, okay. Just return to the house as passes. James. Here you go. Just return to the House? Return to
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the House. You ready? Committee on gross bills to whom is deferred Senate Bill 179 by Senator
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Mark Johnson, prepare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly in Gross Calendar. Calendar. Committee on engrossed bills to whom is deferred Senate Bill 182 by Senator Clark, committee on engrossed bills to whom was referred to Senate Bill 664 by Senator Elliott, committee on engrossed bills to whom was referred to Senate Bill 664 by Senator
Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is 4th House Bill 1626 by Representative Claude, compare the gross copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is 4th House Bill 1651 by Representative Lady Mann, compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is 4th House Bill 1695 by Representative Scott, compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed.
Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is 4th House Bill 1765 by Representative Maddox, compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is 4th House Bill 1854 by Representative Hillman, compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom is 4th House Bill 1896 by Representative Gates, compare the engrossed copy of the original and find the same
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correctly engrossed. Calendar. And I have one other.
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don't know. Yeah, we're still... Is somebody up there? He didn't
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gavel. No, I thought... Do you want to gavel out? We'll fix it. Okay.
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House Bill 1090 by joint budget. Calendar. An act to make an appropriation for personal services and operating expenses for the Department
of Finance Administration, Division of Racing, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, House Bill 1090.
Calendar. House Bill 1105, by joint budget, an act to make an appropriation for personal services and operating expenses for the Department of Finance Administration, Management Services Division, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, House Bill 1105. Calendar. House Bill 1120 by joint budget to make an appropriation for personal services and operating expenses for the Office of Attorney General for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020.
House Bill 1120. Calendar. House Bill 1140 by joint budget to make an appropriation for the personal services and operating expenses for the Department of Finance and Administration, alcoholic beverage, division for the fiscal year in new june 30 2020 house bill 1140 calendar house bill 1911 by representative gray an act to amend the income tax act of 1929 concerning who shall be treated as the owner of a portion of a trust house bill 1911 hang
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on you're revving tax house bill 1932
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by Representative Gray, an act concerning the electronic filing of certain tax information forms and returns to require electronic filing of income tax returns by certain tax practitioners to require certain employees, employers to file annual statements of withholding and certain tax forms in a machine-readable form, House Bill 1932. Reven tax. House Concurrent Resolution 1008 by Representative Vought an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution to amend the process for the submission, challenge, and approval of proposed initiated acts, constitutional amendments, and referenda, House Joint Resolution 1008.
State agencies. agencies. House Bill 1813 by Representative Gassaway, an act to streamline the law concerning government entities, to reform the law concerning certain agencies, departments, boards, commissions, and committees. House Bill 1813. State agencies. House Bill 1964 by Representative Gonzalez, an act to regulate durable medical equipment agreements, and for other purposes. House Bill 1964. Insurance and Commerce. House Bill 1965 by Representative
Flowers, an act to amend the Arkansas Delta Music Trail Act to promote tourism and provide tax incentives for art projects along designated music highways in the state to require signage along designated music highways in the state, House Bill 1965. Agri. House Bill of 1968 by Representative Ferguson to amend an act to amend the law, amend an exemption to the Arkansas Clean Indoor Air Act of 2016, House Bill of 1968.
Public Health. House Bill of 1969 by Representative Ward Law, an act to amend Arkansas law concerning Arkansas's contribution to the National Statutory Hall
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Collection, House Bill of 1969. State
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agencies. I have three bills that haven't been called.
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Okay. Notice of passage of Senate Bill 544 by the House as amended.
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Calendar. Notice of... I don't have those, but... That's just the
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one. We have passed J-O-R-10-08. Just read it. Just read it across. Okay. Senate Bill 61 by Joint Budget, these are just read and enroll. Read and enroll.
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Senate Bill 61, return from the House as passed. Read and enroll.
Senate Bill 683, return from the House as passed. Enroll. No,
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wait. No, wait. I'm sorry. It's not. I've got that here. To abolish the
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Arkansas Broadband Council, the Arkansas Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force, the Grade A Milk Program Advisory Committee, and the Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park Advisory Commission, Senate Bill 683.
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first and second. Yeah, yeah, that's another bill that made in Sunday.
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Okay. Notice the passage of Senate Bill 576 by the House as amended, numbers 1
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I had two here. Thank you.
Thank you.
It stands in adjournment until 11 a.m. tomorrow morning, Friday, subject to clearing the desk.
Agenda
Call to Order
Roll Call
Prayer
Pledge of Allegiance
Announcements
Items to be read
HCR1014 Sorvillo Bond TO CONGRATULATE THE LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY LADY WARRIORS FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS.
SR34 Elliott TO COMMEND THE MISS HERITAGE SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION.
SB278 #1 G. Stubblefield 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.
SB287 #1 A. Clark TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CHILD MALTREATMENT INVESTIGATIONS AND THE PLACEMENT OF A NAME ON THE CHILD MALTREATMENT CENTRAL REGISTRY; AND TO REPEAL CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT.
SB 344 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FILING OF A MECHANIC'S OR MATERIALMAN'S LIEN.
SB447 #1 J. Hendren TO INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT; TO MAINTAIN FUNDING FOR CURRENT PROPERTY TAX RELIEF; TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF THE EXCESS FUNDS IN THE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF TRUST FUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB538 #1 J. Sturch TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL AND TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL WAIVERS; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS CONCERNING SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION.
SB561 #1 J. Hendren TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAX REFORM ACT OF 2019; AND TO REFORM THE SALES TAX, INCOME TAX, PROPERTY TAX, AND FRANCHISE TAX LAWS OF THE STATE.
SB179 #3 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN TERMS OF OFFICE AND THE REORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
SB461 #3 K. Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AND TIMING OF TAX COLLECTION IN CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB664 #1 Elliott TO REQUIRE THAT NEW INMATES RECEIVE READING ASSESSMENTS AND DYSLEXIA SCREENINGS; TO REQUIRE READING AND DYSLEXIA SERVICES; AND TO REQUIRE CORRECTIONS TEACHERS KNOW BEST PRACTICES OF SCIENTIFIC READING INSTRUCTION.
HB1441 #1 Bentley Irvin TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOMES BY CREATING THE MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOMES QUALITY REVIEW COMMITTEE.
SB 182 TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR MORE OPTIONS IN THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF FIRE DUES.
SB 520 TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY CONCERNING PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS; AND TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT.
HB1491 #1 Miller Hammer TO ELIMINATE THE WAITING LIST FOR THE ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES WAIVER PROGRAM, ALSO KNOWN AS THE "DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES WAIVER".
HB1609 #1 Gazaway Cooper TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.
HB1626 #1 Cloud Ballinger CONCERNING THE OFFERING OF AN ACADEMIC STUDY OF THE BIBLE COURSE IF STUDENTS REQUEST THAT THE COURSE BE OFFERED.
HB1648 #1 F. Allen Chesterfield TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS AND HEROES IN THE TEACHING MATERIALS REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
HB1651 #1 Ladyman Irvin TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE LAWS REGARDING TREATMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; AND TO ENSURE RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE IS USED WITHIN THE ARKANSAS CODE.
HB1695 #1 Scott Bond TO PROTECT CHILDREN WHO ARE BEING TRAFFICKED FROM BEING PROSECUTED FOR PROSTITUTION.
HB1765 #1 Maddox Maloch TO ESTABLISH THE DIRECTED TRUST ACT.
HB1854 #1 Hillman Caldwell TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE PLANT BOARD.
HB1896 #1 Gates Clark TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS.
HB1901 #1 F. Allen Chesterfield TO CREATE THE ACADEMIC SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIP.
HB 1822 CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB 1435 TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO REIMBURSE FOR RIDESHARING APPLICATIONS.
HB 1041 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC CONTRACTS.
HB 1789 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF TRAFFICKING; AND TO CREATE AN OFFENSE FOR THE UNLAWFUL SOLICITATION FOR THE RELINQUISHMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS.
HB 1385 TO AMEND THE LAW TO CREATE A DEFINITION OF "SCHOOLHOUSE" WITH REGARD TO BUSINESSES REGULATED BY THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD.
SB619 L. Eads TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ARKANSAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD.
SB660 T. Garner TO MODERNIZE THE CONCEALED HANDGUN LICENSING FRAMEWORK; AND CONCERNING THE POSSESSION OF A HANDGUN.
SB663 Maloch TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DONORS OF FOOD; AND TO EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR DONORS OF LIVE FOOD.
SB667 K. Ingram TO AMEND AN EXEMPTION TO THE ARKANSAS CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT OF 2006.
SB677 Elliott TO REQUIRE THAT YOUTHS UNDERGO READING ASSESSMENTS AND DYSLEXIA SCREENINGS; TO REQUIRE READING AND DYSLEXIA SERVICES; AND TO REQUIRE THAT DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES' TEACHERS KNOW BEST PRACTICES OF SCIENTIFIC READING INSTRUCTION.
HB1018 Sorvillo Sturch TO AMEND THE POPULATION REQUIREMENTS THAT CONTROL THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS WHO SERVE ON A SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
HB1075 J. Mayberry Maloch TO AMEND THE ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE PROGRAM ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO A DISABILITY SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
HB1217 Tosh Garner CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION OF AND FORENSIC TESTING OF FIREARMS BY THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY.
HB1346 Warren Sample 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.
HB1400 Cozart Sturch TO REQUIRE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION TO CONDUCT A BIENNIAL STUDY AND FILE A BIENNIAL REPORT REGARDING CERTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.
HB1404 Speaks Flippo TO AMEND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT'S BUDGET.
HB1440 D. Ferguson Irvin TO ESTABLISH THE MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW COMMITTEE.
HB1449 Sullivan Garner TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOMESTEAD" AS USED IN AMENDMENT 79 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR PROPERTY TAX PURPOSES TO INCLUDE THE DWELLING OF A BENEFICIARY OF AN IRREVOCABLE TRUST.
HB1498 Speaks Sturch TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL COMPUTER NETWORK.
HB1538 Clowney Leding CONCERNING LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE.
HB1552 Godfrey Eads TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING NURSING LICENSURES.
HB1554 Penzo Leding TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROCEDURES FOR ANNEXATION INTO AN ADJOINING MUNICIPALITY.
HB1567 Lundstrum Bond CONCERNING INVESTIGATIONS INTO SEXUAL ASSAULT; CONCERNING SEXUAL ASSAULT COLLECTION KITS; AND CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT COLLECTION KITS.
HB1618 Gonzales Teague TO CREATE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR WASHER-EXTRACTORS USED BY A FIRE DEPARTMENT.
HB1621 Dotson Bledsoe TO CREATE THE PRIMARY PREVENTION PROGRAMS ACT.
HB1634 Petty Cooper TO INCLUDE ACTS COMMITTED BY A VICTIM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNDER THE STATE'S RAPE SHIELD LAW.
HB1641 L. Johnson Hester TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RULES INVOLVING SCOLIOSIS SCREENING IN SCHOOLS.
HB1697 S. Meeks Ballinger TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE; AND TO ALLOW REIMBURSABLE TRAVEL EXPENSES TO BE PAID FROM CARRYOVER FUNDS.
HB1699 Eaves Cooper TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING SALES OF RAW MILK TO AUTHORIZE THE SALE OF RAW SHEEP MILK.
HB1701 J. Mayberry Sturch TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT THAT A STUDENT PARTICIPATING IN AN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY, INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITY, OR ORGANIZED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PAY FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP INSTRUCTION.
HB1702 Speaks Cheatham TO AMEND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT'S BOND SALE.
HB1708 V. Flowers Leding TO END CHILD MARRIAGE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR MARRIAGE.
HB1724 M. Gray B. Johnson TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TAX PROCEDURE ACT CONCERNING HOLDING ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS BY ELECTRONIC MEANS.
HB1745 L. Johnson Irvin TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING PRESCRIPTION ASTHMA INHALERS IN SCHOOLS DISTRICTS AND PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS; AND TO AUTHORIZE ACQUIRING AND STOCKING ALBUTEROL FOR ADMINISTRATION IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS.
HB1747 Dotson Ballinger TO EXPAND THE TYPES OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND EVENTS THAT MAY BE DISCUSSED, READ, OR POSTED IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING OR CLASSROOM.
HB1751 Lundstrum Pitsch TO AMEND THE MINIMUM WAGE ACT OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
HB1762 Crawford Pitsch TO AMEND THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A GUARDIAN.
HB1775 Bentley Flippo TO CREATE THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ABLE-BODIED ADULTS ACT OF 2019.
HB1785 L. Johnson Pitsch TO CREATE THE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY EXPANSION BOARD; TO REQUIRE THE BOARD TO DISTRIBUTE PLANNING GRANTS TO CERTAIN ENTITIES IN ORDER TO EXPAND FIRST-YEAR RESIDENCY PROGRAMS AND POSITIONS.
HB1800 A. Davis Dismang TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MAJOR HISTORIC REHABILITATION INCOME TAX CREDIT ACT.
HB1801 L. Johnson Irvin TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO COVER AN ADDITIONAL ALBUTEROL INHALER FOR CERTAIN MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES.
HB1827 D. Ferguson Wallace TO REPEAL THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS NEWSPAPER RECYCLING ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
HB1841 L. Johnson Pitsch TO CREATE THE OSTEOPATHIC RURAL MEDICAL PRACTICE STUDENT LOAN AND SCHOLARSHIP; TO CREATE THE OSTEOPATHIC RURAL MEDICAL PRACTICE STUDENT LOAN AND SCHOLARSHIP BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB1847 J. Mayberry Pitsch TO REVISE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS REGARDING SITE SELECTION FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FACILITY TO INCLUDE A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.
HB1855 Hillman Hill TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PERMITS FOR THE HAULING OF AGRONOMIC OR HORTICULTURAL CROPS IN THEIR NATURAL STATE.
HB1861 D. Ferguson B. Davis TO REQUIRE THE POSTING OF A WARNING SIGN IN AN ESTABLISHMENT THAT SELLS OR DISPENSES ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
HB1877 D. Ferguson Leding TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOME-BREWED BEER"; AND TO AUTHORIZE A MANUFACTURER OF HOME-BREWED BEER TO REMOVE HOME-BREWED BEER FROM THE MANUFACTURER'S PREMISES FOR PERSONAL OR FAMILY USE.
HB1900 L. Johnson Irvin TO AMEND THE STATUTES CONCERNING THE LIMITATIONS ON FINANCIAL PENALTIES IN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT SYSTEMS.
HB1908 M. Gray Teague TO CLARIFY THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR A TAXPAYER TO FILE AN AMENDED TAX RETURN; AND TO CLARIFY THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH A TAXPAYER MAY FILE AN AMENDED TAX RETURN.
HB1910 M. Gray B. Johnson TO PROVIDE FOR CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TAX PROCEDURE ACT TO BE PUBLISHED ON THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE MAINTAINED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION.
HB1931 M. Gray Teague TO AMEND PROCUREMENT LAWS TO PROHIBIT CONTRACTS WITH A BUSINESS THAT IS SUBJECT TO A BUSINESS CLOSURE ORDER UNDER THE ARKANSAS TAX PROCEDURE ACT.
HB1934 Cozart English TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING AUDITS OF SCHOOLS.
HB1953 M. Gray Teague TO ADOPT RECENT CHANGES TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
Budget Bills
SB36 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
SB68 AN ACT FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
SB102 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
SB104 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
SB485 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE APPROPRIATION.
SB101 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
SB110 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
HB1122 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
HB 1822 CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB 1435 TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM TO REIMBURSE FOR RIDESHARING APPLICATIONS.
HB 1041 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC CONTRACTS.
SB 654 TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS; AND TO AUTHORIZE A CIVIL PENALTY FOR MISREPRESENTING AN ANIMAL AS A SERVICE ANIMAL.
HB 1385 TO AMEND THE LAW TO CREATE A DEFINITION OF "SCHOOLHOUSE" WITH REGARD TO BUSINESSES REGULATED BY THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD.
HB 1789 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF TRAFFICKING; AND TO CREATE AN OFFENSE FOR THE UNLAWFUL SOLICITATION FOR THE RELINQUISHMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS.
HB 1937 CONCERNING THE TRANSITION FROM LOCAL DISTRICT COURTS TO STATE DISTRICT COURTS.
SB 577 TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PERSONS SERVED UNDER THE ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAM TO ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY (1,550); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB 520 TO CLARIFY THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT'S REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY CONCERNING PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS; AND TO MODIFY THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT.
HB 1609 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.
HB 1901 TO CREATE THE ACADEMIC SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIP.
HB 1648 TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS AND HEROES IN THE TEACHING MATERIALS REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Batched Bills
Announcements
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Senator Jim Hendren Chair
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Chair
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Senator Lance Eads
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Senator Trent Garner Chair
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Senator Linda Chesterfield
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Felicia Hobbs
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Senator Will Bond Chair
Unverified
Speaker 72
Senator Joyce Elliott Chair
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Speaker 104
Speaker 19
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Senator Gary Stubblefield
Unverified
Speaker 133
Senator David Wallace
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Speaker 10
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Senator Mark Johnson
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Senator Jason Rapert
Unverified
Speaker 156
Speaker 67
Senator Alan Clark Chair
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Speaker 171
Senator Bob Ballinger
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Senator Jane English Chair
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Senator Kim Hammer Chair
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair
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Senator John Cooper
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Speaker 166
Senator Ronald Caldwell
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Speaker 270
Senator Jonathan Dismang Chair
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Senator Stephanie Flowers Chair
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Senator Keith Ingram Chair
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Senator Larry Teague
Unverified
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Senator Bill Sample
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Senator James Sturch Chair
Unverified
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Senator Greg Leding
Unverified
Speaker 443
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
Unverified
Speaker 538
Senator Mathew Pitsch Chair
Unverified
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Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Senator Ricky Hill
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Senator Terry Rice
Unverified
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Senator Scott Flippo
Unverified
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