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Bills discussed (68)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1748
Act 917
· 6 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1748 Richmond1 CONCERNING A VETERAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT MENTA…”
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CONCERNING A VETERAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SEEKS TO OBTAIN … | Richmond | Notification that HB1748 is now Act 917 |
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SB632
Act 1085
· 6 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB632 J. EnglishDPA 1 (Meeks) TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC…”
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TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TO SUPPORT A CYBER ALLIANCE IN ORDER TO … | J. English | Notification that SB632 is now Act 1085 |
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HB1716
Act 915
· 5 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1716 Gates1 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MILITARY SERVICE AND VET…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MILITARY SERVICE AND VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES; AND TO ALLOW … | Gates | Notification that HB1716 is now Act 915 |
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HB1432
Act 912
· 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1432 J. Mayberry1 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ACT…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ACT. | J. Mayberry | Notification that HB1432 is now Act 912 |
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HB1619
Act 1015
· 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1619 G. HodgesDPA 1 (Whitaker) TO CREATE THE ELECTRIC MOTORIZED…”
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TO CREATE THE ELECTRIC MOTORIZED SCOOTER ACT. | G. Hodges | Notification that HB1619 is now Act 1015 |
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HB1684
Act 844
· 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1684 D. Douglas1 TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHE…”
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TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO CLASSIFY CERTAIN STUDENTS AS IN-STATE FOR … | D. Douglas | Notification that HB1684 is now Act 844 |
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HB1768
Act 918
· 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1768 Payton1 TO REVISE THE PROCEDURE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF STAT…”
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TO REVISE THE PROCEDURE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF STATE LANDS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF LAND … | Payton | Notification that HB1768 is now Act 918 |
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HB1955
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1955 Ladyman TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE WORKERS' COMPENS…”
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TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT NO. … | Ladyman | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment |
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SB646
Act 1001
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB646 G. LedingDPA 1 (Capp) CONCERNING CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGE…”
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CONCERNING CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED RECORDS OF THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY. | G. Leding | Notification that SB646 is now Act 1001 |
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SB658
Act 1003
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB658 HesterDPA 1 (Dalby) CONCERNING CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, PROSEC…”
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CONCERNING CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS, AND THE JUDICIARY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Hester | Notification that SB658 is now Act 1003 |
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SCR4
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SCR4 Irvin”
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TO DESIGNATE MAY 2019 AS CYSTIC FIBROSIS AWARENESS MONTH. | Irvin | Reviewed by the Governor |
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HB1886
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “we're going to pass over house bill 1886 and we're going to”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. | Lundstrum | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die Adjournment |
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HB1106
Act 1005
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1106 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - R…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - REVENUE SERVICES DIVISION APPROPRIATION FOR … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1106 is now Act 1005 |
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HB1109
Act 1006
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1109 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - D…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - DISBURSING OFFICER APPROPRIATION FOR THE … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1109 is now Act 1006 |
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HB1121
Act 898
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1121 AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 201…”
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AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1121 is now Act 898 |
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HB1130
Act 1007
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1130 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS STATE POLICE APPROPRI…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS STATE POLICE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1130 is now Act 1007 |
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HB1156
Act 901
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1156 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIRECTOR'S OF…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIRECTOR'S OFFICE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1156 is now Act 901 |
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HB1197
Act 1008
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1197 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR T…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1197 is now Act 1008 |
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HB1210
Act 902
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1210 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS HERITAGE APPROPRIATIO…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS HERITAGE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1210 is now Act 902 |
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HB1463
Act 707
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ures from the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. House Bill 1463 is Act 707. House Bill 1663 is Act 708. House Bill 1790 is…”
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TO AMEND THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FILINGS; AND TO ALLOW THE FILING … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1463 is now Act 707 |
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HB1811
Act 1048
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1811 Maddox TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF ALL-TER…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES ON PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. | Maddox | Notification that HB1811 is now Act 1048 |
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HB1905
Act 981
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1905 AN ACT AMENDING THE UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION…”
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AN ACT AMENDING THE UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT AND VARIOUS LAWS CONCERNING THE OFFICE … | Eaves | Notification that HB1905 is now Act 981 |
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HB1970
Act 1069
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1970 S. Meeks TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INFORMATION NETWOR…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1970 is now Act 1069 |
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HB1979
Act 1070
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1979 Richmond TO AMEND THE LAW DESIGNATING THE "GOLD STAR FAMILI…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW DESIGNATING THE "GOLD STAR FAMILIES HIGHWAY". | Richmond | Notification that HB1979 is now Act 1070 |
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HB1982
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1982 G. Hodges TO ESTABLISH THE ELECTRIC MOTORIZED SCOOTER ACT.”
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TO ESTABLISH THE ELECTRIC MOTORIZED SCOOTER ACT. | G. Hodges | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1984
Act 1072
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…re, forestry, and economic development to whom was referred House Bill 1984, House Bill 1985, and Senate Bill 663. I beg of leave to re…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION AND THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING CERTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. | Perry | Notification that HB1984 is now Act 1072 |
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HB1985
Act 1073
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…economic development to whom was referred House Bill 1984, House Bill 1985, and Senate Bill 663. I beg of leave to report that we've h…”
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TO PROMOTE WATER RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT; AND TO AMEND THE WATER RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND … | A. Davis | Notification that HB1985 is now Act 1073 |
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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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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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SB183
Act 987
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB183 A. Clark(Rushing) TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN REGISTERED SEX OFFEND…”
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TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS FROM HOLDING A POSITION OF PUBLIC TRUST. | A. Clark | Notification that SB183 is now Act 987 |
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SB240
Act 988
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB240 D. Wallace(Warren) CONCERNING THE REEMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN R…”
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CONCERNING THE REEMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT … | D. Wallace | Notification that SB240 is now Act 988 |
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SB258
Act 879
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB258 Bond(Maddox) TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR TAKING CAMPAIGN FU…”
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TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR TAKING CAMPAIGN FUNDS AS PERSONAL INCOME; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS … | Bond | Notification that SB258 is now Act 879 |
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SB277
Act 880
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB277 Hill(C. Cooper) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SURPLUS COUNTY…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SURPLUS COUNTY PROPERTY AND INTERNET SALES. | Hill | Notification that SB277 is now Act 880 |
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SB440
Act 989
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB440 Bledsoe(Lundstrum) TO BAN USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN FOOD…”
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TO BAN USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN FOOD AND DRINK EXCEPT IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. | Bledsoe | Notification that SB440 is now Act 989 |
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SB451
Act 990
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB451 J. Cooper(Dalby) TO AMEND THE LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKG…”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS TO OBTAIN CONSISTENCY … | J. Cooper | Notification that SB451 is now Act 990 |
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SB454
Act 882
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB454 Rapert(Lundstrum) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INVESTMEN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INVESTMENT OF FUNDS IN THE STATE TREASURY; AND TO … | Rapert | Notification that SB454 is now Act 882 |
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SB483
Act 929
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB483 J. English(Cozart) TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REPORTING. | J. English | Notification that SB483 is now Act 929 |
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SB503
Act 930
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB503 Bledsoe(Bentley) CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF PHYSICIAN-ASSIST…”
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CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE. | Bledsoe | Notification that SB503 is now Act 930 |
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SB505
Act 887
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB505 Irvin(Bentley) TO AMEND THE PROVISIONAL LICENSE REQUIREMENT…”
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TO AMEND THE PROVISIONAL LICENSE REQUIREMENTS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINERS. | Irvin | Notification that SB505 is now Act 887 |
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SB506
Act 931
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB506 Irvin(Bentley) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE YOUTH JUSTIC…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE YOUTH JUSTICE REFORM BOARD. | Irvin | Notification that SB506 is now Act 931 |
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SB522
Act 1079
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB522 J. English(Cozart) TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE STATEWIDE WORK…”
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TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE STATEWIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM; TO COORDINATE VARIOUS WORKFORCE PROGRAMS; TO AMEND … | J. English | Notification that SB522 is now Act 1079 |
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SB525
Act 889
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB525 Hester(Dotson) TO MODERNIZE PLUMBING PLAN REVIEW SUBMISSION…”
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TO MODERNIZE PLUMBING PLAN REVIEW SUBMISSIONS AND RESPONSES; AND TO CLARIFY THAT LOCAL JURISDICTION REVIEW … | Hester | Notification that SB525 is now Act 889 |
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SB535
Act 1080
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB535 B. Johnson(Murdock) TO REVISE THE METHOD BY WHICH THE ACADE…”
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TO REVISE THE METHOD BY WHICH THE ACADEMIC FACILITIES WEALTH INDEX IS CALCULATED. | B. Johnson | Notification that SB535 is now Act 1080 |
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SB537
Act 1081
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB537 A. Clark(Capp) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CHILD MALTRE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CHILD MALTREATMENT INVESTIGATIONS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. | A. Clark | Notification that SB537 is now Act 1081 |
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SB542
Act 890
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB542 A. Clark(Perry) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEDICAL, NU…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEDICAL, NURSING, HOSPITAL, AND AMBULANCE SERVICE LIEN ACT. | A. Clark | Notification that SB542 is now Act 890 |
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SB549
Act 933
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB549 J. English(Cozart) TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIC FACILITIES. | J. English | Notification that SB549 is now Act 933 |
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SB555
Act 934
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB555 B. Ballinger(Gonzales) TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW REGARDING STAT…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW REGARDING STATE EMISSION PLANS FOR FOSSIL FUEL-FIRED ELECTRIC GENERATING UNITS. | B. Ballinger | Notification that SB555 is now Act 934 |
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SB568
Act 935
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB568 Caldwell(Hollowell) CONCERNING THE TWENTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DI…”
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CONCERNING THE TWENTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT; CONCERNING DISTRICT COURT JUDGES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Caldwell | Notification that SB568 is now Act 935 |
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SB571
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB571 J. Hendren3 (L. Johnson) TO PROVIDE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL INCOM…”
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TO PROVIDE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX REDUCTION; TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE INCOME TAX … | J. Hendren | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB592
Act 996
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB592 Elliott(Cloud) TO AMEND THE PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 1995;…”
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TO AMEND THE PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 1995; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Elliott | Notification that SB592 is now Act 996 |
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SB593
Act 937
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB593 G. Leding(Godfrey) CONCERNING TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATE…”
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CONCERNING TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD TRAFFICKING. | G. Leding | Notification that SB593 is now Act 937 |
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SB599
Act 891
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB599 Flippo(Wardlaw) TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ISSUANCE OF…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ISSUANCE OF A BOND BY A REGIONAL SOLID WASTE … | Flippo | Notification that SB599 is now Act 891 |
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SB602
Act 999
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB602 J. Dismang(A. Davis) TO ESTABLISH THE SMALL WIRELESS FACILI…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY DEPLOYMENT ACT. | J. Dismang | Notification that SB602 is now Act 999 |
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SB603
Act 1082
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB603 A. Clark(Cozart) TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO…”
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TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE CERTAIN LEVELS OF SUPPORT TO CERTAIN PUBLIC … | A. Clark | Notification that SB603 is now Act 1082 |
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SB612
Act 1000
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB612 J. Cooper(Christiansen) CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL…”
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CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; TO AMEND THE DEFINITION … | J. Cooper | Notification that SB612 is now Act 1000 |
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SB617
Act 938
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB617 Irvin(C. Fite) REPEALING THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS CO…”
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REPEALING THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS COALITION FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE. | Irvin | Notification that SB617 is now Act 938 |
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SB623
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB623 A. Clark(Gazaway) TO REMOVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSION O…”
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TO REMOVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION AS AN AVAILABLE PENALTY FOR AN OFFENSE … | A. Clark | Recommended for study in the Interim Committee on … |
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SB625
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…hildren, and youth to whom was referred Senate Bill 662 and Senate Bill 625. I beg to report that we've had the same under consideratio…”
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TO ALLOW A PARENT TO APPOINT A TEMPORARY GUARDIAN FOR HIS OR HER MINOR CHILD … | B. Ballinger | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB637
Act 892
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB637 K. Ingram(D. Ferguson) TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING GREYHOUND…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING GREYHOUND RACING; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF PAYABLE WINNINGS … | K. Ingram | Notification that SB637 is now Act 892 |
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SB638
Act 939
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB638 J. English(Burch) CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUC…”
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CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES; AND TO AMEND … | J. English | Notification that SB638 is now Act 939 |
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SB641
Act 893
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB641 B. Ballinger(Dotson) TO ALLOW A LIMITED EXEMPTION TO THE AR…”
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TO ALLOW A LIMITED EXEMPTION TO THE ARKANSAS ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT; AND TO ALLOW AN … | B. Ballinger | Notification that SB641 is now Act 893 |
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SB647
Act 941
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB647 Irvin(C. Fite) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATE REIMBURSEM…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATE REIMBURSEMENTS ADMINISTERED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS. | Irvin | Notification that SB647 is now Act 941 |
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SB650
Act 894
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB650 Hester(Gonzales) TO PROHIBIT A PERSON CONVICTED OF A PUBLIC…”
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TO PROHIBIT A PERSON CONVICTED OF A PUBLIC TRUST CRIME FROM FILING AS A CANDIDATE … | Hester | Notification that SB650 is now Act 894 |
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SB651
Act 942
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB651 Caldwell(Tosh) TO AMEND THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSENGER MOT…”
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TO AMEND THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSENGER MOTOR VEHICLES FOR CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; … | Caldwell | Notification that SB651 is now Act 942 |
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SB659
Act 944
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB659 J. English(Cozart) TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED TWO-YEAR INST…”
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TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED TWO-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO MARKET AND PROVIDE SERVICES TO … | J. English | Notification that SB659 is now Act 944 |
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SB662
Act 945
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ommuting on aging, children, and youth to whom was referred Senate Bill 662 and Senate Bill 625. I beg to report that we've had the sam…”
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TO CREATE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION WITHIN THE ARKANSAS CHILD ABUSE/RAPE/DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COMMISSION. | A. Clark | Notification that SB662 is now Act 945 |
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SB663
Act 946
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…to whom was referred House Bill 1984, House Bill 1985, and Senate Bill 663. I beg of leave to report that we've had the same under con…”
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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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SB87
Act 927
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB87 A. Clark(Capp) TO DEFINE "IMMINENT HARM" UNDER THE ARKANSAS…”
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TO DEFINE "IMMINENT HARM" UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989 AND THE CHILD MALTREATMENT … | A. Clark | Notification that SB87 is now Act 927 |
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Speaker 1
0:00
represent thee in the best way possible father we pray for those that are that are representing us that are protecting our freedoms and protecting us locally we pray for their safety we pray that that would deliver them from harm and evil and father we above all things thank thee for the glorious gift of thy son Jesus Christ for his atoning sacrifice and for the possibilities that it provides us to improve our lives and to reach out in compassion and love
to those around us. For all of these many blessings, we give
Speaker 3
0:42
thee thanks, and we say this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Members, please indicate your presence by
pushing your yellow present button.
Unknown speaker
1:03
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk.
If 95 members present, the chair sees a quorum. Are there any requests for leave? Representative Barry, for what purpose? You're recognized. Leave for
Speaker 11
2:05
Representative Slate, please. Is leave granted for Representative Slate?
Representative Bragg, for what purpose? Leave. You're recognized. Leave for Representative Holcomb. Is leave granted for Representative Holcomb?
Speaker 14
2:19
Representative Tosh, for what purpose? Leave. You're recognized. Leave for Representative Leidyman. Is leave granted for Representative
Speaker 12
2:29
Leidyman? Representative Petty, for what purpose? Leave. You're recognized. Leave for Representative Meeks.
Is leave granted for Representative Meeks? Representative Frederick Love moves we dispense with the reading of the previous day's journal. Without objection, so ordered. Are there reports from select committees? Are there reports from standing committees? Read
Chair
Unverified
3:01
the reports, Mr. Clerk. Mr. Speaker, we are commuting on agriculture, forestry, and economic development to whom was referred House Bill 1984, House Bill 1985, and Senate Bill 663. I beg of leave to report that we've had the same under consideration. And here with the term, the same with the recommendation due passed, respectfully submitted. Dan Douglas, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are commuting on aging, children, and youth to whom was referred Senate Bill 662 and Senate Bill 625. I beg to report that we've had the same under consideration here with turn the same with the recommendation do pass respectfully submitted Charlene fight chair
is there any unfinished business are there any executive communications
Chair
Unverified
3:46
read the letter from the governor mr. clerk April 4 2019 to the speaker of the house dear mr. speaker this is to inform you that on April 4th, 2019, I approve the following measures from the regular session of the 92nd General Assembly. House Bill 1463 is Act 707. House Bill 1663 is Act 708. House Bill 1790 is Act 709. House Bill 1825 is Act 710. Sincerely, Asa Hutchinson.
Representative Whitaker moves that we place House Bill 1619 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection, read Amendment No. 1,
Chair
Unverified
4:23
Mr. Clerk. Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1619. Representative Whitaker, you're recognized to explain the amendment.
Representative David Whitaker
Unverified
4:34
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this amendment simply adds some changes to the good representative's bill that makes it work for the cities and the Municipal League, and we'd ask for a good vote on the amendment. Representative Whitaker has explained the amendment.
Would anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Whitaker is closed for the amendment. question before the house is the adoption of amendment number one to house bill 1619 all in
favor say aye any opposed the amendments adopted representative dalby moves in place senate bill 658 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read amendment number one mr clerk amendment number one to senate bill 658 representative dalby you're recognized to explain the amendment thank you
Representative Carol Dalby
Unverified
5:26
mr speaker all this amendment does is uh take out a section in regard to the date for implementation and I would appreciate a good vote.
Representative Dalby has explained the amendment would anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Dalby is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of amendment number one to Senate Bill 658. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? The amendment's adopted. Representative Kapp moves to replace Senate Bill 646 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection read amendment number one Mr. Clerk. Amendment number one to Senate bill 646. Representative Kapp you're recognized to explain the amendment. Thank you Mr.
Representative Sarah Capp
Unverified
6:08
Speaker. The purpose of the amendment is to add me as the House sponsor and then there was some typographical language that the prosecutors requested
that we take out and the amendment takes care of that. I appreciate a good
vote. Representative Kapp has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the
amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Kapp is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of amendment number one to Senate Bill 646. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment is adopted. Representative Meeks moves we place Senate Bill 632 back on second
reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection read amendment
Chair
Unverified
6:46
number one Mr. Clerk. Amendment number one
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to Senate Bill 632. We'll pass over Senate
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Bill 632. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Concurrent Resolution 4. Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 by Representative Gray to designate May 2019 Acystic Fibrosis Awareness Month.
Representative Gray, you're recognized to explain the resolution. Thank
you, Mr. Speaker, and you already gave me a point of personal privilege two days ago where we were able to recognize and do this same thing and recognize May as cystic fibrosis aware of this month. So, again, this just solidifies what we did, and I'd appreciate a good
vote. Thank you. Representative Gray has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution? Would anyone like to speak for the resolution? Representative Gray is closed for the resolution. The question for the House is the adoption of Senate Concurrent Resolution 4.
All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The resolution is adopted. Morning hour is ended. Members, our Doctor of the Day is Dr. C. Lowry Barnes of Little Rock, and the Nurse of
the Day is Brenda Hewitt. We also have with
us the Young Democrats of Benton County, President Alyssa Allen, Mason
Puryear, Seth Luhman, and Brittany May. And I should
have also mentioned we have the U.A. Young Democrats President, Micah Wallace, and they are all the guests of Representative Lundstrom, and they are all in the North Gallery. In the East Gallery, we have Jennifer Linton, the daughter of former Representative and
former Senator Claude Cash and former Representative Joan Cash, and she is here with her fifth grade class from CAC and they're the guests of Representative Lynch and in
the north gallery we have Clark Emery a former student and friend of Representative Stu Smith
All right, members, we're going to go back to Senate Bill 632. Representative Meeks moves that we place Senate Bill 632 back on second
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reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection,
read Amendment No. 1, Mr. Clerk. Amendment
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No. 1 to Senate Bill 632. Representative Whitaker, you're recognized to explain the amendment. Real quick amendment that adds Representative Meeks as a house sponsor and just a little bit of clean up inclusiveness language at the end for a cyber security alliance with AEDC and all participating state agencies. Appreciate a good vote on the amendment.
Representative Whitaker has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Whitaker is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill 632. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment's adopted. Representative Payton recommends that we concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1768. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Amendment No. 1.
Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1768. Representative House, you're recognized to explain Amendment 1. Sorry that
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Representative Payton can't be with us today. What the
Senate Amendment does, it deleted four lines for the Land Commissioner's Bill. The Land Commissioner said those four lines didn't belong in this act. They go in another act. That's the only changes there were except for renumbering. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative House has explained
the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment?
Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative House is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is concurrence with Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill
1768. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 82
yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, you have concurred in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1768. Representative Richmond recommends we concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1748.
Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Amendment
House Bill 1748. Representative Richmond, you're recognized to explain
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Amendment No. 1. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. House Bill 1748, if you recall, that was the restoration of rights for veterans who voluntarily go through mental treatment. And at that time, when I presented it on the House floor, I said that we would amend it down on the Senate end, and they did.
Because what we did, we added a two-year waiting period after treatment before they can apply for this restoration of rights. If you want to look it up, you can see it on line 20 through 23 on page 2 of the bill. Appreciate a good vote. Representative Richmond has explained the amendment. Would
anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative
Richmond is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is concurrence with Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1748.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 90 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, you have concurred in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1748. Representative Gates recommends that we concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1716. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Amendment
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No. 1. Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1716.
Representative Gates, you're recognized to explain Amendment No. 1.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. When I introduced this bill, it had to do with license plate
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of honor for military. I said we would amend it on the Senate end to include a decal for surviving spouses. So this does what we said we'd do when we introduced it. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Gates has explained the amendment. Would anyone
like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for
the amendment? Representative Gates is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is concurrence with Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1716.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 91 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, you have concurred in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1716. Representative Mayberry recommends that we concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1432. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Amendment No. 1. Senate Amendment No. 1 to House
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Bill 1432. Representative Mayberry, you are recognized to explain the amendment.
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Thank you. Members, we just added a little line that says that the following types of student journalists are not authorized, and we added in student media that harass, threaten, or
intimidate a student. I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Mayberry has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to
speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Mayberry is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is concurrence with Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1432. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 88 yeas, 0 nay and 0 present, you have concurred in Senate Amendment 1 to House Bill 1432. Representative Douglas recommends that we concur in Senate Amendment 1 to House Bill 1684. Mr. Clerk, please read
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Senate Amendment 1. Senate Amendment 1 to House
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Bill 1684. Representative Douglas, you are recognized to explain the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this just adds some clarifying language on who is eligible to receive in-state tuition.
and to clear up some questions I asked in the House Committee when we ran the bill. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Douglas has explained
the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment? Would anyone like to speak for the amendment? Representative Douglas is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is concurrent with Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1684. Prepare the machines, Mr. Clerk.
has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr clerk a vote of 62 yeas 19 nays and when present you have concurred in senate amendment number one to house bill 1684.
we're going to pass over house bill 1886 and we're going to
Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1955. House
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Bill 1955 by Representative Lady Men to amend certain provisions of the Workers' Compensation Law that resulted from
Initiated Act No. 4 of 1948 and to revise third-party liability in the Workers' Compensation Law. Representative Bentley, you are recognized to explain
the bill. Thank you, Chairman. Colleagues, I'm not
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sure if all of you know, but Representative Leiterman's mother-in-law had a stroke, and so he's there with his wife, taking care of her.
So I agreed to Jack that I would run this bill today for him. So y'all please keep their family in your prayers. HB 1955 is an important bill to keep Arkansas competitive for jobs and fair to employees and employers both. Current case law has nullified the current statute that allowed employers to have a claim. This bill will not change the employer's obligation to provide coverage regardless of who's at fault. It only applies when a third party is found at fault. This bill will ensure workers' comp provides an opportunity to have a claim for losses incurred for the workers' comp provider,
such as lost wages and hospital bills. So to bring it down to terms where you and I can understand it, those of us who aren't lawyers or involved in that on a daily basis, if I had an employee that's delivering products to a store, and while he's there, the guy on the forklift runs over his foot, And that's my employee whose foot got run over, but it was not my employee who ran over his foot. It's someone else's employee that ran over his foot. So there's a third party involved. So with workers' comp, as an employer under workers' comp, I'm obligated to pay that employee all of his hospital costs,
whatever comes, his lost wages while he's off from work. And then when they go through the lawsuit, there's a third party involved, the person, the other employer that ran over his foot. So there's a third party involved. So when the settlement comes, automatically the lawyer and the court cost comes off the top of the settlement. We all know that's what happens here in the state. And what's remaining, now what we're trying to do is that the person who's the employer that had the workers' comp case can make a claim to get the money back that they put out in the hospital bills, the doctor's visits, and the lost wages while they were gone. It's really simply where it's at there.
So let's see what else Jack wanted me to say here. So when we get done with this, you know, workers' comp is important in Arkansas. One of the things that we can attract businesses here is that we have a great workers' comp rate, and we don't want that to be lost. There's not everything we can offer to big businesses coming here, but workers' comp low rates is one thing that we can offer. So some other folks have asked why we're doing this, because we have good workers' comp rates. It's simply that we want to be sure that we can continue that in the future.
In 2016, we passed legislation to close the death and permanent total disability fund, and because that's ending, it's going to incur more liability onto those folks that have workers' comp and those folks that are self-insured. So with that,
I'm sure there's some questions. Anyone has questions they want to ask me? I
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will attempt to answer your questions. Representative Gates, for what
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purpose? Question. You're recognized. It's been said that if this bill is passed, it would actually put people in front of the victims themselves. Can you address that issue, please?
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No, this bill ensures that the victim gets at least half. And we do always know that the lawyer and the court costs come out first in the settlement. But with the remaining amount, the injured person is guaranteed at least get half. And the money, the remaining part, we're just asking for a claim for the incurred costs, not getting more than the hospital bills, the
doctor's bills, and the wages lost while they were taking care of that employee
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that was hurt. Representative Rye, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized. Representative Mary, in the case that you're speaking about,
like the third party, if someone is hurt, and let's just say you were hurt by a situation and we were waiting. In other words, you got bills that are piling up on you for something that maybe I had done to you in a car wreck or what have you, okay? Will Workman's Comp take care of all those bills until the settlement's made? Yes, sir. That's
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why I keep workers comping on my employees at all times.
Representative Bentley has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative House, you're
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recognized to speak against the bill. Colleagues, I'm against this bill as I've ever been against anything in my life. It's immoral. Representative Bentley, as she said, she's not a lawyer, and so there's some things that
escaped her. She keeps workers' compensation on her employees because it's the law. You don't have any choice. It's not something you can do. You can be a self-insurer if you like, like Walmart or Tyson, somebody like that can do that, but it's a required law. Little history. 1993, there was something called the Grand Bargain, and there was fighting between the working population and the employers, and they passed some laws in 1993 that amended our Workers' Compensation Act, and it said
absolutely a worker could not sue that worker's employee, and I'm going to just use the him instead of the female, the gender, he could not sue his employer no matter what if workers' compensation covered that employee. Absolutely barred from suit. Now, if you don't keep your people covered under workers' compensation, you can sue, and I've seen that happen a couple of times, and some of us have. Well, here's the way it works. When you get hurt on the
job, the worker's compensation carrier pays for your injuries. And if it's the cause of the injury is a third party, other than the employer or the employer's other employees, like getting hurt by a fellow worker. Somebody brings a suit. Let's just use an easy example. You're driving a delivery truck, and another truck from another business pulls out in front of you, causes the accident, and you get hurt severely. You will be paid workers' comp, about two-thirds of your weekly
wages. It's not 100 percent, but about two-thirds of your weekly wages, up to a maximum, I think, of 450 weeks worth, and that's with a severe catastrophic type injury. You may then sue that company or that driver that pulled out in front of you for your damages because you haven't been fully and wholly compensated by your carrier. You've only gotten two-thirds of your money. They will pay for your medical bills, your workers' compensation carrier, and you can recover those.
Now, here's what this bill doesn't let you understand. The way the current law works, when you go to court and you get a verdict in your favor for your medical bills and your lost wages and your lost future wages and your future medical bills and your pain and suffering and in a few instances, such as a drunk driver or something, maybe even punitive damages, then you don't get to take that money home. You go back in front of the Workers' Compensation Commission and the Workers' Compensation judge hands out the money to the parties as they are entitled.
First of all, the lawyers do get paid. They've worked, they've invested the money, they've recovered the judgment. Number two, under current law, the employee is made whole. Whole. Remember, only got two-thirds of their wages, so that other third is paid to them first. Future wages have not been paid by anybody. They get paid their future wages. Future medical care that's going to have to come out of that employee's pocket, they get paid for that.
What am I forgetting? Those are the out-of-pocket actual damages that that employee is reimbursed from that settlement. Then the judge says, okay, we've got this much money left, Mr. Workers' Compensation Insurance Company, let's pay you. How much are you out? Well, we're out two-thirds of their wages, we're out these medical bills. And then they take that money and they pay the workers' compensation carrier. and they get their money back to the extent of the money that's available.
Now, why would money not be available to pay all of that? Well, maybe the person that committed the tort against you run over you, so to speak. Maybe they didn't have enough insurance. Maybe they weren't insured at all. Maybe the truck you were driving had some bad brakes on it. And the judge or the jury says, well, yeah, he pulled out in front of you, but if you'd had good brakes on your truck, you could have got stopped, so we're going to apportion 60% of the fault to that guy and 40% to your employer, so all you get is 60% of your
actual damages. That's apportionment of fault. That exists in the law today. So there might not be enough money to pay everybody everything they're out as the result of this. This turns the law on its head. This says that the employer, by the words of the act, says that the employer and the employer's insurance company has an absolute first lien. That's the quote. They get their money
first, and the poor employee, who's out at least one-third of their wages they've lost, Out future medical expense, walks away with less or nothing if there's not enough money to take care of that. This is to benefit the insurance companies. It doesn't do anything else. We have the third lowest insurance rates on workers' comp in the country. It has nothing to do with making us more competitive. We are, the two states that have lower rates than we do are Indiana and North Dakota.
So, this doesn't have anything to do with the lawyers. Lawyers get paid first. This has to do everything with the person that gets hurt. Now, remember, years ago, 1993, and really before that, we all agreed as a state that we would pay reduced benefits absolutely for sure to the injured worker, but the injured worker had to give up their right to sue the employer for the negligence or the negligence of a co-worker.
And we say, we're not going to give you everything, but we're going to give you enough to survive and we're going to pay your medical bills. Now we're taking back that grand bargain that we as a state all agreed to and has been working fine and say, oh no, we're going to take care of the insurance companies first. Guess what? If you get killed, there's a $6,000 funeral benefit. According to this, it would take even the widow's funeral money away from the widow
and give it back to the insurance company where she has to pay and I'm using she and he with knowledge it could be the other way around. You know, that's what this bill does. Take the funeral money away from the widow and give it back to the insurance company if that's what it takes in a death case. Folks, vote against this. It's a bad bill. It doesn't need to be here and I'm glad that I got to say something about it. I'll be glad to answer any questions if you think I can.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative House has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative
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Boyd, you're recognized to speak for the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the way I understand this is let's say my friend got hurt and I paid the bills up front. Then there was a third party involved. There was a recovery. At some point, I, who paid out those bills in the first place, have some right to get my money back.
And so to me, that's what this bill is about. The benefits don't stop because of a third-party settlement. Just because that third-party settlement happens, that doesn't mean the benefits stop. There's no cap on the length of time, so this misinformation about however many weeks is not the case. Workers' compensation, the Workers' Compensation Commission is for this bill. If the workers' compensation is for this bill, that tells me that there's a lot of misunderstanding about what it really does. Current law says the employee is guaranteed one-third.
This increases that to one-half. With that said, I sure
would appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Boyd has spoken for the bill.
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Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Walker, you're recognized
to speak against the bill. Mr. Speaker, colleagues, I wish to say amen to the remarks of Representative House.
I am not a workman's comp lawyer, and I would not practice workman's comp law in part because It is not, as it is situated, that beneficial to employees or to those who practice before it, before the commission. As Representative House pointed out, this is compromise legislation. Now in a case of an on-the-job injury, Workman's Comp doesn't pay everything, but what Workman's
comp does is it requires that you use a company doctor in the event that you're hurt on the job and then you go back to work as quickly as possible notwithstanding any pain and discomfort that you may have. What one does when there's a third party case is one sues in the event that person has injury. We've had real gross injuries before to come to our knowledge as people in this state.
Some of them involve tractor collisions where people have permanent loss and do not die. For them, it may be better to die than to live for a long time, but the cost of care is long term for a person who's a quadriplegic, for instance, or the concern of that person who is a long-term injured person who has children,
their needs are going to be long-term, but the workman's comp situation does not address their needs. All of you have family members who are likely or could be affected by those circumstances. Now, workman's comp pays some of the bills and it pays some of the money. It says two-thirds, well, we regulate that and we have limitations on what the competents are required to do.
But nothing actually compensates people for their losses in lawsuit situations, in settlements. I mean, a settlement is by definition a situation where the wrongdoer and the injured party reach some agreement which neither of them is pleased with, but it does not necessarily provide the windfall that some of us think occurs.
People who are seriously hurt are the ones who are affected by this. The Workman's Comp Commission rarely gets involved in these kinds of cases. Now, what is it we're trying to do? We're trying to protect the insurance company. And the insurance company has not, to my knowledge, demonstrated that it needs it. the rates that have been cited by Representative House are absolutely de minimis but the needs of people in our state
who get hurt are greater. Now I came here not to just echo what he said but I want to tell you how the federal government deals with this in terms of collection of debts. If you are injured in an automobile accident, and you are not necessarily made whole in a third-party situation or in any situation where you recover, the government, through Medicaid and Medicare,
which pays out medical bills, is entitled to recover its money. So we cannot settle a case without also getting the consent of the government. By law, we must get the consent of the government before we enter into a negotiated settlement. And in those circumstances, the government takes into account in recovering its bills, sometimes which may be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,
the circumstances of the injured party. And the circumstances may result in the government seeking all of its money, some of its money, or none of its money, but it's a humane consideration taking into account the circumstances of the injured party. In this situation, we, in effect, say we don't take into account those things. Off the top, the insured insurance company, it's not the company, it's the insurance company, will get its money back in full.
That's not right. And at least as we wind down, bearing in mind, we came here to do justice for our people and to act in their best interest. We do not act in their best interest when we continually say that their needs are subordinate to those who are powerful and who have greater disproportionate resources.
I've seen changes in the legislature during this session. I hope that your sensitivity will allow you to address this matter in a way which will cause you to give deference to the remarks, the well-considered and well-presented remarks of Representative House, because they're on point and they speak to justice. That's what is required by our vote on this bill.
Representative Walker has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Rushing, you're recognized to speak against the
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I'm not an attorney and I don't know all the legal ins and outs, but I have kind of studied this bill a little bit. But the one thing that I just wanted to clear up, that I thought we needed to clear up was
I know that Representative Boyd may have been given some information that said that the Workman's Comp Commission was for this bill, but I just now, about two minutes ago, texted Barbara Webb with the Workman's Comp Commission, and they said they are neutral on this bill, and it is not their bill. And so I just thought we needed to clarify that, so that's why I came down. Representative Rushing has spoken against the
bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Would anyone
like to speak against the bill? Representative Gassaway, you recognize I speak against the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. Let me just say, and I don't want to belabor the point because we've already heard speakers speak against this bill who I think have made excellent points, but this is a great bill if you're an insurance company. It's a terrible bill if you are an injured worker. just to briefly kind of explain
and echo some of the points that Representative House made, if you are an injured worker currently, because we have the workers' compensation system in Arkansas, you cannot sue your employer. Your exclusive remedy, if you are injured on the job, is through the workers' compensation system, okay? So you can't sue your employer. If a third party, though, is responsible for that injury, you can bring a suit against the third party. And then what money you recover from the third party goes into the workers' compensation system, and they decide how it's
divided. But the key point to keep in mind when that division is made is whether or not that injured worker, the way we look at it now, whether or not that injured worker has been made whole. If that injured worker has not been made whole, then they keep all the money that's left. If they have been made whole. Then at that point, the insurance company, which insures the employer, okay? So we have the employers, but they have workers' compensation carriers, and those are
basically their insurance companies, unless they're self-insured. But if you're self-insured, you're talking about an employer that's so big that they can afford to self-insure themselves. But basically, what this bill would do would say it puts the workers' compensation carrier, the insurance company, ahead of the injured worker in line to get paid. And like Representative House said, that is just immoral. And I want to make a point that's not been made yet, which is these workers' compensation carriers, like every insurance company, take premiums, okay?
You pay a monthly premium or yearly premium or however you pay it, but you pay them premiums. And like every insurance company, they insure against the risk based on what they're paid in a premium. But what they want is they want to have their cake and they want to eat it too. They want to get their premiums every month and you better pay them on time because if you don't then they're going to cancel you. And they will take every opportunity that they have to deny, delay, and defend against every claim and use every effort that they have to avoid having to
pay out any money. But if you recover any money, now what they want is they want their premiums but they also want to be first in line to get all their money back, and that ought to be offensive to us, and that's why this is a terrible bill if you're an injured worker. It's a great bill if you're an insurance company, and I think most of us, the people that go in that voting booth and punch that button for you, they are real people who get injured on the job, and they need our support, and they're who we're supposed to be here for, and that's why I would urge you to vote
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against this bill. Thank you. Representative Gasway has
spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Richmond, you recognize speak for
the bill. Representative Wardlaw, for what purpose? Motion. Let's hear your
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motion. Motion for immediate consideration. Proper motion, it's not debatable. All in favor say aye.
Aye. Any opposed? No. Will the no's have it? Representative Richmond, you're recognized to speak for
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the bill. Anyway, thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you colleagues. Not so much to speak for the
bill or against the bill or anything like that. I've just been listening to debate and I was hoping I could get some clarification here because you know who's on first who's on second who's on third with if there is a lawsuit who gets paid first of all the people is it is it the employee is it the lawyers what is the sequence of who gets paid during the lawsuit who gets the very first shot at
at it, who gets the second shot, who gets the third or the fourth. So if somebody's going to come down and speak against it, if you could address that, I'd appreciate it. Or in closing, whatever it might be. Thank you. President Richmond has spoken for the bill.
Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Gray, you're recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
This is completely out of character for me on this bill because I have said I was going to be a yes vote on this bill. And I was a yes vote in committee when we let it out. I believe it had 11 votes to let it out of committee. And not to say anything to Mr. Speaker about it, but I actually feel that this bill should have gone through judiciary instead of public health as I felt that I can say that I was ill-equipped to understand this bill. And so one of the things, some of the members in the chamber have been getting text messages that this does not affect that $6,000 that goes to the widow upon death.
This bill on page 3, line 2, says, well, I'll just start with line 1. The purpose and intent of this subsection is, and this is the underlying new language, provide an employer, carrier, or self-insured entity an absolute lien in any settlement with or judgment against a third-party tortfeasor. This absolutely gives the insurance company the ability to recover all their damages before our constituents get theirs.
What happens if there's not enough money to even pay the insurance company back? Then our constituents get absolutely nothing. So more than anything, I wanted to come down here. I'm actually a little bit nervous right now because I wanted to come down here and say, I voted for this in committee. I've listened to testimony. I'm actually sitting back there reading through the law books trying to figure all this out. I'm all for some reform if it's needed. I'm all for tort reform if you want to call this tort reform. but I will never ever be for tort reform that jeopardizes my constituents so with that I just wanted to say I'm gonna vote no totally out of character I'm
gonna vote no and I'd appreciate as many of you that wanted to follow along as possible thank
you said Richmond of gray has left the well percent gray has spoken against the bill would anyone like speak for the bill would anyone like speak against the bill represent pinzo you recognize to speak against
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the bill. I just want to take note that Representative Walker and I are on the
same side of this one. Okay, thank you. Okay, this has been a really tough one for me and there's mixed, mixed stories going around. This bill failed twice in committee um i think we just heard why it got out of committee the third time as a new bill but i won't vote for anything that's gonna it this bill won't change the position of the attorneys being the first place on this but it will in my understanding and in closing if i'm wrong
please correct me but it will put the insurance company above the the injured party um i i can't I mean, like I said, insurance premiums have been paid to cover the risk of insuring that person. And if we're going to put the insurance companies to get reimbursed before the injured party, that makes absolutely no sense. And I'll be a no vote on this. Thank you.
Representative Penzo has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Would anyone like to speak against
the bill? Bentley, you're recognized to close for the bill. Well, colleagues, pardon me. This bill kind
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of epitomizes to me what this session has been like. We've got lawyers on one side saying one thing. We've got lawyers on the other side saying anything. You guys are getting texts from some lobbyists.
We're getting texts from other lobbyists. and so I'm just going to give you my heart where it's at and vote where you will. But I will tell you one thing. Right now, workers in this state are only guaranteed one-third. With this bill, they're guaranteed one-half. When this bill passes, we're still the most generous state in the South when it comes to helping our employees. If you look around at Texas, I'm going to read you in Texas. Recovery rights, they get their attorney fees, and their court costs are paid first, then the employee carrier is paid next, and the remaining balance goes to the employee. And you would say, why would that be?
When you look about what Representative Gasway brought the exact thing, right now an employee gets double recovery. When they go to the Workers' Comp Commission, they can get a settlement from them for their cost, and then when the settlement comes for the third party, then they can get some more money. So they can get double recovery. That more than covers for the third of their wages they lost when they were there. That's the whole purpose of it. Okay, so we've talked about Texas. In Oklahoma, recovery rights, their form of theirs is attorney fees, and the court cards are paid first. than the employee and the carrier, either receives two-thirds of the remaining recovery,
this is all third party, okay, of the entire amount, which is less, or whichever is less, and the remaining balance goes to the employee. Again, this is only with third party settlements. It's not between the employee and the employer, it's when there's a third party involved. The Workers' Comp Commission, they've been brought up twice. Let's bring up again the Workers' Comp Commission. They sat down with the chairman of the self-insured, and they worked on the language of the bill, and at the end of the meeting, they said they had no oppositions to the bill. Okay, so they are neutral. I want to make sure to clarify with that.
The premiums that we're talking about are paid by the employer each month. The employer pays out their premiums. Again, with tort reform, current case law has nullified the statutes that we have in the books, and that's why we're bringing this forward. That's why we've fought for tort reform, because current statute that we have in place has been nullified by case law in the state. That's what I want to bring up for sure. This bill does nothing to change funeral benefits at all. So when we throw up widows, and some folks here have even got fake emails from there.
So when you start getting fake emails about a bill, and the opposition of a bill, it sure makes me start looking at it and wondering why they would throw up fake emails on this. So again, with this bill passing, we will still be the most generous state in the region when it comes to helping our employees. No one's trying to hurt their employees. The last thing on earth I want to do is help my employees. We're just trying to keep our workers' comp rates good in this state because of some things that are coming up in the future, and all we're trying to be sure they have a claim to part of it, only half. And the bill again states that the employee will get no less than half
of the settlement with a third party, no less than half. So if you get no less than half, I don't see how you can say that the insurance company that's provided workers' comp is getting ahead of the employee. So with that, I'm going to do
a good conservative vote and vote for this. Thank you. Representative Bentley is closed for the bill. We have three pairs on the desk. Representative Payton votes
yes. Representative Clowney votes no. Witnessed by Kay Donham, notary public, Representative Clowney is the present member.
Are there any procedural objections to this pair? Please do not vote either of these two voting machines. Rep. McCollum votes yes. Rep. Ritchie votes no. Witnessed by Rep. Grant Hodges. Rep. Ritchie is the present member. Are there any procedural objections to this pair? Please do not vote either of these two voting machines. Rep. Vladyman votes yes. Rep. Sullivan votes no. Witnessed by K. Donham, Notary Public. Rep. Sullivan is the present member. Are there any procedural objections to this pair please do not vote either of these two voting machines
prepare the machine mr. clerk question for the house is the passage of house bill 1955 everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk By a vote of 35 yeas, 52 nays, and 3 present, the bill has failed.
Representative Marcus E. Richmond
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Representative Flowers moves the clincher. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No.
The ayes have it. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1811. House
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Bill 1811 by Representative Maddox to amend the law concerning the operation of of all-terrain vehicles on public streets and
highways. Representative Daube, you're recognized to explain
Representative Carol Dalby
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the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Maddox could not be here today, so I'm glad to present this bill on his behalf.
All this bill does is to allow an employee of the Department of Parks and Tourisms to operate an all-terrain vehicle on a public street or highway to access contiguous areas of a state park in order to perform his or her duties.
And with that, I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Dalby has explained the bill. Would anyone like
to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for
the bill? Representative Dalby is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1811. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 87 yeas, zero nay, and zero present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1982. House Bill 1982
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by Representative Grant Hodges to establish the Electric Motorized Scooter Act. Representative Hodges, you're recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Monte Hodges
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, last session I ran a bill that was passed out of the legislature for electric bikes, electric bicycles, and so I was approached this session if I could do something similar for electric scooters, and so I agreed to do that, and we filed a bill early in the session. There's been sort of an ongoing discussion throughout most of this session, really between industry and the municipal league. That was really the two stakeholders we tried to get to work together.
And so I have another bill out on this. Representative Whitaker amended this morning, but this is really an identical bill to what we're doing there as well. But the sticking point with the Municipal League was on a local control piece of the bill, and we stripped that part out of it. So now the industry and the Municipal League cities are on a point where they're in agreement on this bill. And so what this bill does, really there's four parts to it. It defines what electric motorized scooter is and what a scooter share operator is.
Scooter share operator being the companies like Lime that you all have seen here in Little Rock. Bird is another one. So it puts those definitions into law. There's another section on just a couple of safety provisions. One, that they can't be operated by anyone under the age of 16. And when you use the apps, you have to put in your driver's license. also another piece in there about this there's a limit there of 15 miles per hour again those are both just sort of safety precautions that industry
supports and that really it's already done with the current scooters that programs that we have now another section on the insurance requirements and then the last section is on data sharing between the scooter companies and the cities so it kind of just sets up a basic statewide framework that industry and cities I think everyone's on board with I haven't heard any opposition to this current version just provides a little predictability and certainty statewide as these companies look to expand further outside of Little
Rock and Russellville I think are the only places they're at now I want to thank Representative Whitaker he's been helpful on this bill final filing an amendment for me on the other one thanks to the Transportation Committee for helping me I think make a good bill better I think this is just a good start for these you know this new technology that we have coming into the state with these electric scooters again I think everyone's been able to work together to come to an agreed-upon bill so with that I take any questions represent Godfrey
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for what purpose question you recognize for a question speaker representative Hodges I just want to clarify we talked about it in committee yesterday but cities can now set up prohibitions for scooters on public trail systems is that correct yes so we amended that
Representative Monte Hodges
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part out that had anything to do with the cities regulating these so now they have all the you know if this bill were to pass there's nothing that the cities lose in terms of their ability to regulate these going forward so we might try to there's still ongoing discussions between industry and the municipal league if they're able to come to an agreement on that we might amend it in the Senate and bring it back if not we're comfortable
just passing the bill as is but yes cities keep all their control that they have now under
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this legislation representative Davis for what purpose Question. You recognize your question?
Representative Marsh Davis
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Thank you. Representative Hodges, if I read this right, this would prohibit anybody under the age of 16 from operating a
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motorized scooter. Can you elaborate on any discussion around that? I'm just thinking I've got 14 and 15-year-old that can drive a car, but not a scooter. Can you elaborate on that?
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Yeah, the 16, that was really what these companies, like I said, that's already kind of their practice now. if you use a lime scooter or a bird scooter you're required to put in your driver's license as is the reason that was brought up in committee and the answer from the industry was if you have a driver's license you have the road awareness, you know the rules you have some degree of knowledge of safety on the road and things like that so I think the age limit in there, it's already being done you know for the use of these applications and I think it's, the idea is there
it's just to keep people safe and make sure that the people using these understand, you know, how to operate them in a safe way. All right,
appreciate a good vote. Representative Hodges has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill or the bill? Representative Hodges is closed for the bill. Question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1982. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
As everyone voted, cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, 72 yeas, 7 nays, and 3 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read House
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Bill 1979. House Bill 1979 by Representative Richmond to amend the law designating the Gold Star
Families Highway. Representative Richmond, you're recognized
Representative Marcus E. Richmond
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to explain the bill. Thank you Mr. Speaker, colleagues, HB1979 will honor our fallen service members and
their families by designating a portion of highway 163 which is up in northeast Arkansas and interstate 630 here in Little Rock as a gold star family highway. Just to be sure, right now, Interstate 630 is, in fact, the Wilbur Mills Highway. This will have no impact on that designation, but will simply be added to, such as what you see, the John Paul Hammersmith Road is also, Interstate 49, also has a Purple Heart
designation as well. And that's how the signs will be reflected. So there will not be any removal of Wilbur Mills or anything of that such. This is just an addition. and I would appreciate a good vote
thank you very much representative Richmond has explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative Richmond is closed for the bill question before the house is the passage of house bill 1979 prepare the machine mr. clerk
has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk with 90 a zero nays and zero
presents the bill is passed mr. clerk read house
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bill 1970 hospital 1970 by representative meeks to amend the law concerning the information network of Arkansas and to
declare an emergency representative Whitaker you recognize
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explain the bill thank you mr. speaker obviously I'm not Steven Meeks but being
as vice chair has its benefits what we have before you today is is a simple little bill that will allow the information network of Arkansas to conform their current procurement language to the new much improved procurement process that we've adopted. The way the language was written it it's led some to believe there was only one way that they could put projects out to bid. This will clean that up and we have an emergency clause because our
current provider agreement is coming to an end and probably before the 90 days after signing die window so it's important that we get enough votes for the emergency clause on this as well so they can get out with a full robust request and get our web management up to 21st century standards. Thank you. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Whitaker
has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
For the bill? Representative Whitaker is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1970. prepare the machine mr. clerk you're voting on the bill
and the emergency clause cast up the ballot mr. clerk with 89 yays 0 nays and 0 presents the bill and the emergency clause is passed members we're going through the yellow
budget calendar now representative gene moves that we place house bill 1106 on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read amendment number
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one mr. clerk amendment number one
to house bill 1106 representative gene
you recognize explain the amendment thank you mr. speaker house bill 1106 amendment one what this does is adds increases the line for tax refunds for DF&A and also as the appropriation line for the 9-1-1
funding that we just passed earlier this session. Any questions? Appreciate a good
vote on the amendment. Representative Jean has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the
amendment for the amendment? Representative Jean is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of amendment number one the house bill 1106 all in favor say aye opposed nay amendments adopted representative gene moves that we place house bill 1109 on
second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read amendment number seven mr.
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clerk amendment number seven to house
bill 1109 representative jean you recognize explain
the amendment thank you mr. speaker colleagues house bill 1109 amendment seven what this does is add a million-dollar appropriation for the Arkansas wine grant program. Any questions? Appreciate a good vote on the amendment.
Representative Jean has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment or
the amendment? Representative Jean is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of amendment number seven to House Bill 1109. all in favor say aye opposed nay amendments adopted representative jean moves that we place house bill 1130 on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read amendment number two mr. clerk amendment number two to house bill 1130 representative jean you're recognized explained
the amendment thank you mr. speaker colleagues amendment to the
house bill 1130 all this does is cleans off the a win that money is now coming through the Department of Emergency Management so
it just cleaned it out of the state police budget. Any questions? Appreciate a good vote on
the amendment. Representative Jean has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the amendment? For the amendment? Representative Jean is closed for the amendment. The question before the House is the adoption of amendment number two to House Bill 1130. All in favor say aye. Opposed nay. The amendment is adopted.
representative Jane you recognize thank you
mr. Baker colleagues we're going to take house bill 1905 which was by representative Eve's all this does establishes the classification and codes for our salary and our workers we have to do this every other year any questions no fiscal impact remember your The one vote is for the bill and the mercy
clause, Mr. Speaker, has the clerk read the bill for the third time.
Mr. Clerk, read the bill for the third time. House Bill 1905. Representative Jean has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Jean is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1905. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. you're voting on the bill and the emergency clause gas at the ballot mr.
clerk 90 a zero nays and zero presents the bill and the emergency clause
is passed representative gene you recognize thank mr. speaker colleagues we're going to batch the four house bills house bill 1121 secretary of state appropriation, House Bill 1156, Department of Human Services Director's Office, House Bill 1197, Arkansas Tech University Appropriation, and House Bill 1210, Department of Heritage.
Secretary of State only has state central services funding, no general revenue, 1156 has no increase in general revenue, 1197 no increase in general revenue, and the Heritage Department in And the governor's balance budget has a $544,000 decrease due to savings inside the department. Any question on any of these? And I need to take any of these out
of the batch. Okay, your one vote is for
each one of the bills in the emergency clause.
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Mr. Speaker, let the clerk read the bill for the third time. Mr. Clerk, read the bills for the third time. House
Bill 1121, House Bill 1156, House Bill 1197, House Bill 1210. the machine, Mr. Clerk. You're voting on the bills and the emergency clause. Does everyone vote it? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 91 yeas, 0 nays and 0 present,
the bills and the emergency clause have passed. Representative Jean, you recognize. Thank
you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. The last two bills for today is Senate Bill 101, Department of Human Services, Disabilities, and also Senate Bill 110, Arkansas Economic Development. The general revenue is flat on both these. Any questions? Seeing none, your one vote is for
both the bills and the Merchie Clause. Mr. Speaker, have the clerk read the bill a third time.
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Mr. Clerk, read the bills for the third time. Senate Bill 101. Senate
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Bill 112. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Read the bills for the
third time. Senate Bill 101. Senate Bill 110. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Voting on the bills and emergency clauses. Does everyone vote it?
Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 90 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the Bills and the Immersion Clause
is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill
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183. Senate Bill 183 by Representative Rushing, to prohibit certain registered sex offenders from holding a position of public trust.
Representative Rushing, you're recognized. Explain the bill.
Representative Laurie Rushing
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, Senate Bill 183 was brought to Senator Clark by one
of his constituents, a firefighter, and it will prohibit a level two, three, or four sex offender from holding a position of public trust, which includes being a firefighter and a police officer. He did make some amendments on it on this side that it would not apply to those employees that work inside of those agencies, may be in custodial or janitorial positions and so I would appreciate a good vote representative rushing has
explained the bill would anyone like to
speak against the bill for the bill representative rushing is closed for the bill the question before the house is the passage of Senate bill 183 prepare of the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone
voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 76 yays,
4 nays, and 4 present, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 612. Senate Bill 612 by
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Representative Christensen concerning the offense of unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system to amend the
definition of critical infrastructure. Representative Christensen, you
Representative Craig Christiansen
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recognize. Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this is pretty simple. We've heard lots of discussion this morning, so I will make it brief. This is Senate Bill 612, and it merely adds a line to our critical infrastructure. If you will remember, a few weeks ago, we passed House Bill 1561,
Mr. McCollum's bill, and that allowed for the unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system. It went into a lot of things that we needed to do. Act 468 became the law. We then passed a bill that had a railroad operating facility added to critical infrastructure, and now we're going one step further. We are adding a communication tower or facility to our critical infrastructure, and that brings us more in line with the list of 16 that the federal government has.
That currently would put Arkansas at six. We have 10 to go. I would appreciate a favorable vote on this. This is very, very simple, and it merely adds one line. No known objection and absolutely no financial impact to the state. I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative
Christensen has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Before the bill, Representative Christensen is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 612.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 88 yays, 0 nays, and 0 present, the bill is
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passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 522. Senate Bill 522 by Representative Cozart to create the comprehensive
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statewide workforce development system to coordinate various workforce programs to amend the duties of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board into declaring an emergency.
Representative Bruce Cozart
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Representative Cozart, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. This
is a bill that is an act to create a comprehensive statewide workforce development system and to coordinate various workforce development programs and amend and expand the duties of the Office of Skills Development and the Career Education Workforce Development Board. What this actually will do, it's going to bring, it's going to mend all these powers
of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board to include bringing together business leaders and industry leaders, education leaders, state agencies, training providers and other workforce development stakeholders in order to develop a strategic plan and roadmap for meeting current and future workforce demands so this has a list of different ones that would be on that board and let me see if i can find those for you real quick because i know you're interested in who those are it has the director of higher ed director of arkansas community college director
of economic development commission the director of workforce public universities association Department of Human Services, Department of Corrections, Arkansas Economic Developers and Chamber Executives, Education Department of Career Ed, and this also, the amendment I ran the other day added minority and women-owned businesses into this. So I think it's a good bill. It'll help our workforce to get a little better insight on what we're actually trying to do, and I'd appreciate a good vote.
Representative Cozart has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Cozart is closed for the bill. The question before the house is the passage of House Bill 522. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Voting on the bill and the emergency clause, cast up the ballot, Mr. with 88 yeas, 0 nays and 0 present, the bill and the emergency clause is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 603.
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Senate Bill 603 by Representative Cozart to require the Department of Education to provide certain levels of support to certain public school districts based on reading
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scores and to amend the purpose on which national school lunch state categorical funds may be spent.
Representative Cozart, you recognize, explain the bill.
Representative Bruce Cozart
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is the bill you heard a lot about earlier in the session about stealing all the money from the kids from their school lunches, which wasn't what that was about, but there was
another bill. This is a bill that they changed around to, and Senator Clark and Senator Elliott came together to work on a great bill, and so this is a bill in the national school lunch category is actually NSL. It has nothing to do with national. It's all state money and it is money that we use to try to close the gap. And that process has been a little slow and it's not been working correctly. And since 2005, we have spent $2,686,000,000 plus on this program
and it just hasn't reached the success it needs. So what they have come up with and Thanks to Senator Elliott for interjection into this. They have come up with some good language on this. But it will take a lot of the schools that aren't performing and let the Department of Ed show them some ways to help them to do this. And it will pull some of this money away from the things that they're not using, shouldn't be using NSL money for. And it has got way out of hand, and we use it for a little bit of everything.
So it's going to pull some of that back and write it back. But if a school is performing at 40%, they should be all down way low. But if they start getting up where they're 40% to 50% of their kids are not performing, then it's going to actually have some interjection from the State Department, can show them some programs that will help them. If they get a little higher, then the state will actually come. Not going to take it over. Now, this is nothing about takeover, but it will have more. they'll increase that to give them more things to help them with.
It will give you a chance. These are all things that need to be used for these kids from grade 3 through 10 to scoring those levels to help them. They're not getting their ACT. They're not getting up to where they need to be on their ASPIRE test. So this is all to deploy instructional strategies and resources with this money. So those are kind of the things I'd be trying to glad to answer a question if I can. It's not my bill, but I'll see what I can do with it. Representative
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Walker for what purpose question you recognize for a question. Thank you. Mr. Speaker
The bill talks in terms of support being provided by the a de to school districts I've been involved in education a few years But I have yet to see and maybe you can help me. I've yet to see any single place Where the Department of Education has supported what would be regarded as a level 5 district? to cause
it to Be improved can you cite one place where that has happened?
Representative Bruce Cozart
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Well, I don't have level 5 on this I have level 3 and 4 It would
be it would be what we used to regard as D and F schools well
Representative Bruce Cozart
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you know representative Walker I don't know off the top of my head what has helped I know we
try to help these these are actually with level three and level four which level three is a district which 40 percent or more of the district students are in need of support and then the level four is we're 50
percent or more or need support so that's when the levels that we would bring in some collaboration and try to help to get them
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back on track representative Godfrey for what purpose question you recognize for a
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question thank you mr. speaker represent Cozart I just want to clarify that struggling schools would not lose NSL funds they would only have those funds redirected to instructional purposes there's no money going to be
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taken away from them this just we just redistributes it to a different way you know there's some of the things they use it for that are not working and they and they just it's
really really rampant where this is going so we're trying to reign that back in get it to the right things and try to close this gap representative
Mayberry for what purpose question you're recognized for a question one of the original intentions was
Representative Julie Mayberry
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that this was going to be in SLA money would be used for school nurses does this take this out no
Representative Bruce Cozart
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it does not take that out appreciate a
good vote representative Cozart has explained the bill would anyone like to
speak against the bill for the bill. Representative Cozart's closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 603. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the
ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 86 yays, two nays, and one
present. The bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 87. Senate Bill 87 by
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Representative Kapp to define imminent harm under the Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989, the Child
Miltreatment Act. Representative Kapp, you're
Representative Sarah Capp
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recognized to explain the bill. Thank You Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 87 is an act to define imminent harm under the Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989 and also the Child Maltreatment Act. This bill was brought by parent counsel. There's no known opposition to the bill. It creates a definition under the codes for imminent harm. Currently under
Arkansas Code annotated 927303, there are 66 different definitions beginning with abandoned infant and ending with victim of human trafficking. This adds the 67th definition, and under the Child Maltreatment Act, this adds a 27th definition. It's become very difficult in court to be able to articulate that imminent harm did not exist when it's undefined, so that's the basis for adding the definition. I'm willing to answer any questions and would
appreciate a good vote. Representative Kapp has explained the bill.
Would anyone like to speak against the bill, for the bill? Representative Kapp is
closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 87. Prepare the
machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Kapp set the
ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 86 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 451.
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Senate Bill 451 by Representative Dalby to amend the laws regarding criminal background checks for
professionals for professions and occupations to obtain consistent regarding criminal background checks and disqualifying offenses for licensure. I'll be recognized. Explain the bill. Thank
Representative Carol Dalby
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you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 451 is one of the five
recommendations from the red tape reduction task force to the governor. The goal of the task force to reduce barriers to employment in the state. This bill will streamline the process and make uniform the criminal background check procedures for the 17 occupations professions listed in this bill. The uniform list of disqualifying offenses that create a five-year ban to getting a license to ensure public health and safety is protected in this bill. It creates a waiver process
with specific factors. A board, a commission, or agency can consider to waive the five-year ban. It also cannot consider most offenses after five years, and the applicant will have shown once they have shown they have been rehabilitated. This bill also will create a pre-license check so applicants can determine if they will be eligible for a license before they spend the money or time to get the education or training and there is a grandfather clause in this bill which will ensure that existing license holders
will not lose their license representative
gates for what purpose question you recognize for a question
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it's a 66 page bill i can and you can help me out here
Representative Mickey Gates
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i employ a lot of people that that have come through prison or drug or alcohol rehab and getting their life together. Let's say somebody had theft by receiving or stalking. Where in this bill can I see the list of the professions
that we might restrict for somebody who, you know, sometime in their prior past had a stalk, let's say a stalking, and was now wanting to be, whatever, a cosmetologist or
Representative Carol Dalby
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whatever. Can you address that issue? Well, the first seven pages have the various offenses in it. And then throughout the bill, you will find the different agencies. And what the AG's office prepared this from the Red Tape Reduction Commission.
And in that, they're trying to give guidance to all the different employers and licensing boards so things will be consistent across
the board. Representative Dodson, for what purpose? Question? you're recognized for
Representative Jim Dotson
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a question thank you mr speaker uh representative dalby notice throughout this bill there's a lot of places where you're striking the definition of good moral character um dishonest and fullness acts
moral turptitude i don't know there's there's several places where you're striking that throughout this code just curious as to why you're getting rid of good moral character as a
Representative Carol Dalby
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throughout the code that is taken care of in the definitions that are covered in the first seven pages good moral character is not a legally defined term good moral characters defined by those acts that you may have been convicted of
theft etc those kinds of things they're trying to make that language consistent to give some guidance to the Boards. Follow-up? You recognize
Representative Jim Dotson
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for follow-up? Thank you. I get that you said it's not defined, but it's defined in code right here until we take it out with this bill. It says good moral character is used in this section means lack of history and it lists those things there on page nine. so I'm confused it is defined in code the best answer that I can give you to
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that representative Dodson is that that definition is not recognized it may mean something different to whoever is reviewing those license this is an attempt to then put those various criminal statutes that would deal with good moral character codified in those first seven pages and that's what this bill is is attempting to do to make
it consistent across the board with that I
would appreciate a good vote Representative Dobby has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Dotson, you're
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recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I apologize for not getting with you sooner. I just saw this as I was scrolling through there on page nine where we're striking through the definition good moral character. I'm just very nervous about striking through language
that would define that in our code and for that reason I'm going to vote against this bill. Representative
Dodson has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Boyd, you're recognized to speak for the bill
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at great peril for this bill's sake I come to speak a speak for so I'm really not so much speaking for it is I do think there might be some clarification that can be offered the way I understand this bill is even
though it strikes through good moral character it leaves immorality and dishonesty as things that boards can still consider so maybe that can be offered as an explanation in the closing. Thank you. Representative Boyd has spoke for
the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill. Representative Daube
is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of Senate Bill 451. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Does everyone vote it? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. 69 yeas, 11 nays, and zero present. The
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bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 277. Senate Bill
277 by Representative Cooper to amend the law concerning surplus county property and internet sales.
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Representative Cooper, you're recognized. Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I'm here today to present Senate Bill 277, sponsored by Senator Ricky Hill and myself. This bill is supported by the Association of Arkansas Counties and the County Judges Association, this is part of their 2019 legislative package. This is a clean-up bill. This is an easy one. It simply corrects an error in the law that was created in 2011.
Currently, if a county wishes to auction surplus property and they want to auction that property on a traditional on-the-ground auction with an auctioneer, then they publish that auction, that notice of auction in the newspaper two times over the course of two consecutive weeks. However, if a county wishes to auction the property only over the internet, then they publish that auction on the internet auction websites for eight consecutive days before the sale.
This current process is the result of a bill Senator David Wyatt sponsored in 2011. That bill plainly provided the publication of sales over the internet are to be on the internet auction website for eight consecutive days before the sale. The proof of publication is retained for records and legislative audit, and the report of sales is made to the county quorum court. This is the process counties have been using since 2011, and this is the process they wish to continue to use.
Recently AAC discovered that also in 2011, Representative Tim Summers carried a bill for AAC that specifically related to county treasurers. In a mistake, an error was made that included the words Internet sale as being required to be published in the newspaper. This recent discovery has created some confusion among some of our county officials and they would like to get this cleared up. SB 277 simply clarifies this issue by striking the words Internet sale from being required to ran in the newspaper
in the language that was in that previous code and you can reference the bill here to see that it it just strikes those words from there if we can get this cleared up and it will be cleared it'll be clear to a county that wishes to conduct a traditional on the ground auction they'll require they'll be required to publish notice of that auction in the newspaper if they wish to only auction that property over the internet Then they will post the auction for eight consecutive days on the Internet auction websites
before they conduct the sale. This will clarify the process counties have been using since 2011. This will save taxpayer dollars. This will allow for more efficient county government. As I mentioned, this bill is supported by the Association of Arkansas Counties and the County Judges Association. passed out of the Senate with a vote of 35 to 0 no one spoke against the bill and the house city county local committee nor did it receive any dissenting votes in committee members this sums up the bill I will do my very
best to answer any questions there are none then I would appreciate a great vote thank you representative
Cooper has explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill. Representative Cooper is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 277. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted?
Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 85 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present, the bill is passed. Mr.
Clerk reads Senate Bill 258. Senate
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Bill 258 by Representative Maddox to increase the penalty for taking campaign funds as personal income and to amend provisions of Arkansas law resulting from initiated Act 1 of 1990 and initiated Act 1 of 1996. Representative Dalby you're recognized
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explain the bill thank you mr. speaker once again this is representative Maddox bill and he could not be here with us today this bill there's really two significant things it allows campaign funds and carrier funds to fulfill any commitment obligation or expense authorized by law or permitted by the Arkansas Ethics Commission at the time if there is an opinion at the time that would authorize that, and more significantly, what this bill does, it creates some felony
classifications for knowingly taking campaign funds as personal income. It becomes a Class B felony if the value is $25,000 or more, a Class C felony if the value is $5,000 or more but less than $25,000, a Class D felony if it is $2,500 or more but less than $5,000, and a Class A misdemeanor if it's less than $2,500. This is a bill that is being, I think, an important bill to show our constituents and
show the people of the state of Arkansas that we are serious about campaign finance reform, and I think it's a needed bill, and it sends a message to anyone who is running for office that those funds are not your funds. funds are funds that were given to you to run for that office and that you cannot use those funds to personally
benefit yourself and with that I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Dalby has explained the bill. Would
anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Dalby is
closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 258. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Does
everyone vote it? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 88 yeas,
0 nays, and 0 present. The bill has passed. Mr. Clerk read Senate Bill 440. Senate Bill 440 by
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Representative Lundstrom to ban the use of medical marijuana in food and drink except in
certain circumstances. Representative Lundstrom you're recognized. Explain
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the bill. Thank You Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 440 is a pretty straightforward bill. This keeps medical marijuana medical. This will not put any medical, or excuse me, any marijuana into gummy bears, any type of food substances that would be attracted to children, cupcakes, lollipops, soda pop, that type
of thing. First of all, I want to thank Representative House for helping me with this bill, and also I want to let you know that the industry, marijuana industry, is actually neutral on this bill. They recognize that medical marijuana should be medical and not be something that tempts children. This sets standards that are already in place and puts them into law and with that I'll take any
questions seeing none I'd appreciate a good vote representative lunch from has explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative
lunch from is closed for the bill question before the house is the passage of Senate bill 440 prepare
the machine mr. clerk has everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk 74 a seven days and four present the
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bill is passed mr. clerk reads Senate bill
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637 Senate bill 637 by representative Deborah Ferguson to amend the law regarding greyhound racing to
authorize the use of payable winnings agreements
represented Ferguson you're recognized explain the
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bill thank you mr. speaker colleagues this is an agreed on bill between Southland gaming and racing and the Southland dog trainers right they've had a nonprofit that is continued to contribute more and more things and all this bill does it allows in the racing Commission's okay with it It allows Southland out of their purses or their payable winnings if the trainers all agree to take a certain percentage out and contribute to this nonprofit fund.
What's happened over the years, they've had this mission to protect dogs and adopt dogs out, and it's grown greater and greater, and they're always having to call around and get checks. This just says the trainers agree on it, Southland agrees on it, out of their payable winnings, which is their purses, it's their own money, they still pay taxes on it, it doesn't take any state revenue out of what would go to the racing commission or state funds, that they can then put that in their dog trainers non-profit. I just want to read you some of the things that they did last year.
They have an injured dog fund, so every dog that is hurt is put in the program and rehabilitated for adoption. The charities across the state, they give out $100,000 to 17 charities one night every year. They give another $250,000 to schools, Boy Scouts, CASA, and other community groups. and they spend over $100,000 a year in local adoptions of greyhounds and another $150,000 on the adoption of all dogs in programs.
So this just allows them, it's an agreement that they agree to, to take a percentage of their purse money and put in this fund for these uses. Questions?
Representative Ferguson has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the
bill? Representative Ferguson is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 637. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Does everyone vote it? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 88 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 641. Senate Bill 641 by
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Representative Dodson to allow a limited exemption to the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act and to allow an alternative process for filing rules. Representative Dodson, you
recognize, explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. After
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the last time in the well, somebody gave me a cough drop.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Members, Senate Bill 641 says, if you'll recall earlier in the session, we passed a bill striking through the words regulation in the code and replacing it with the word rules. That bill, now Act 315, did not require agencies to update their existing rules referring to regulations until the next time they promulgated rules for some other purpose. However, some of those agencies that have the word regulation currently in their rules would
like to go ahead and get started cleaning that up and have requested a temporary exemption from the regular APA process until the end of this year to do that SB 641 would allow them to do that as long as it is that is all that they are doing there's no and there is no substantive change to their rules there are any questions I'll try to answer them not I'd appreciate a good vote representative Dodson's
has explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill
Representative Dotson is closed for the bill. Question before the House. This is the passage of Senate Bill 641. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up
the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 88 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 454. Senate
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Bill 454 by Representative Lundstrom to amend the law concerning the investment of funds in the State Treasury and to amend the powers
and duties of the State Board of Finance in relation to the Chief Investment Officer of the Treasurer of the State's Office.
Representative Lundstrom, you recognize. Explain the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is brought to you by the Senate, excuse me, by the Treasurer's Office and the State Board of Finance. This bill has two sections. First, it's an update of antiquated language and aligns the state law with the realities of modern investment and operations in the Treasury. The last part of the bill simply gives a chief investment officer who is an employee of the State Board of Finance a new title of chief compliance officer. This is due to the evolution of investment in the Department of Treasury, and the State Board of Finance is realigning the job titles.
That's the guts of the bill. And with
that, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Lundstrom has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Lundstrom is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of Senate Bill 454. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has
everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk.
With 87 yays, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 599. Senate Bill 599 by Representative
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Wardlaw to amend the law regarding the issuance of a bond by Regional Solid Waste Management District and to require
approval by the quorum court prior to the issuance of a
bond. Representative Wardlaw, you recognize. Explain the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. All this bill does is allows, does not allow anymore for any solid waste district to issue bonds without a vote from the local court or city council.
If you guys remember a few years ago in North Arkansas, we had a solid waste district that went bankrupt. Those guys got assessed a fee on all their property taxes. This would make them know when that could happen again because those local governments are going to take a vote on it. Appreciate a good
vote. Representative Wardlaw has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the
bill? Representative Wardlaw is closed for the bill. The question
before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 599. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast
up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 82 yeas, two nays, and two present. The bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 650.
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Senate Bill 650 by Representative Gonzalez to prohibit a person convicted of a public trust crime from filing as a candidate for a constitutional office or from running as
a candidate for a public office. Representative Gonzalez, you're
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recognized. Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues right now, if you are convicted of a public trust crime, you cannot serve for office. This just simply says if you have those records sealed or expunged you still do not qualify to run run for office representative Gonzales
has explained the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill representative representative
Gonzales is closed with the bill the question before the house is the passage of Senate bill 650 prepare the machine
mr. clerk As everyone voted, cast up the ballot,
Mr. Clerk, 71 yeas, 4 nays, and 5 present. The bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 592.
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Senate Bill 592 by Representative Cloud to amend the Patient Protection Act of 1995
and to declare an emergency. Representative
Representative Joe Cloud
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Cloud, you recognize. Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Senate Bill 592 has been brought to us by Senator Elliott through the Senate. This bill is to protect the rights of the patient to see the health care provider of the patient's choice after an adverse professional review action unless that health care provider has violated the appropriate standard of care.
So what this bill does, it gives the health care provider some protection from just automatically being removed from an insurance carrier if there is some, like a suspension or some other type of factor that, like, for instance, if they don't get their medical records done in time, and they're told, get your medical records, get your medical records, and they're not done, so they're suspended until they say, oh, I've got to go in and get my medical records.
Well, some insurance companies will use that as a trigger to allow them to lose their insurance provider status. I'll take any questions. If not, I appreciate a
good vote. Representative Cloud has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Cloud's closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 592. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
You're voting on the bill and the
emergency clause. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 87 yeas, 0 nays,
and 0 presents, the bill and the emergency clause has passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 537.
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Senate Bill 537 by Representative Kapp to amend the law concerning the Child Miltreatment Investigations Oversight
Committee. Representative McCullough, you're recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Tippi McCullough
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday, Representative Kapp amended this bill to add me as co-sponsor, and that's why you see me up here. This is a bill brought to us by Senator Clark. It is an act to amend the law concerning the Child Maltreatment Investigations Oversight Committee and for other purposes. SB 537 modifies the Legislative Child Maltreatment Oversight Committee to provide for additional members in order to make the committee more workable.
This is a legislative committee that reviews files from the child maltreatment system so that we can make needed changes to improve the state child welfare system. This is the only legislative committee that has closed meetings and they are closed to protect the privacy of children and families and it allows discussion in conjunction with review of cases so we can be more informed and better work together to improve our child welfare system. This bill as amended clarifies who serves on that committee. Someone from the governor staff has been added so that someone is
there to report back to the governor. It had originally expanded the scope of the committee to also review dependency neglect cases as well as maltreatment cases but the bill was amended to satisfy the judge's concerns it also allows for reporting of information to state and government officials as may be needed to carry out child protection but ensures that no confidential information the committee receives shall may be public or shall be used in any manner outside the role of the committee to review maltreatment cases
in the system so the bill makes minor changes to membership of this committee to ensure that it works as best it can to improve our child welfare system, and I'd entertain any questions. Representative Birch, for what
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purpose? You're recognized for a question. I
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just want to be clear that with this amendment, this passed out a committee unanimously, and there was no objection to it. Is that correct? That's correct. Thank
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you, Representative Birch. I'd appreciate a good vote.
Representative McCullough has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill, Representative McCullough is closed for the bill. The question before
the House is the passage of Senate Bill 537. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast
up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 89 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the bill is passed.
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Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 240. Senate Bill 240 by Representative Warren, concerning the re-employment of certain retired members of the
Arkansas local police and fire retirement system.
Representative Les Warren
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Representative Warren, you're recognized. Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this is the bill that you saw me work on earlier this week. Worked with Representative Tosh to amend this bill. It's the lot fee retirement system where they can lay out for 180 days.
They can go back to work, but not for the same agency. The Senate has approved it. Now we need to, and I would appreciate a
good vote. Thank you. Representative Warren, it's explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill? Representative Warren is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 240.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. has everyone voted cast up
the ballot mr. clerk with 77 yeas 7 nays and 2 present the bill is
passed mr. clerk reads Senate bill 542
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Senate bill 542 by representative Perry to amend the law concerning the medical nursing hospital
and ambulance service lien act representative
Perry recognize explain the bill thank you mr. speaker members Senate bill 542 amends the medical lien law and adds three professions to the list of nurses, practitioners, hospitals, or ambulance providers. It adds language to add the cost of the device or prosthesis, but not the actual
device. So, appreciate a good vote. Representative
Perry has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill, Representative Perry is closed for the bill. the question before the house is the passage of senate bill 542 prepare the machine mr clerk has everyone voted cast up
the ballot mr clerk with 89 yay zero nays and zero presence the
bill is passed mr clerk read senate bill 505 senate
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bill 505 by representative bentley to amend the provisional license requirements for psychologists and psychological examiners. Representative Bentley, you recognize, explain
the bill. Thank you. Speaker, colleagues, this
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is a very simple bill that will allow the Arkansas Board of Psychology to grant provisional licenses to psychology interns that are in their fifth or sixth year of the doctrinal program. These folks already have their four-year bachelor's degree and they're getting
their doctorate. It's a very much needed bill to help some of our constituents get some mental health they need across the state and with that I'll take any questions you guys have got these folks are under
the direct supervision of the of the doctorates that are already done so any questions thank you and
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I appreciate a good vote representative Bentley has explained the bill would anyone like to speak
against the bill for the bill representative Bentley's closed for the bill question before the house is the passage of Senate bill 505
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast
up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With 88 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 presents, the bill is passed. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill
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525. Senate Bill 525 by Representative Dotson to modernize plumbing plan review submissions and responses
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and to clarify that local jurisdiction review of certain plumbing plans and specifications does not require review by the Department of Health.
Representative Dobson, you recognize explaining the bill.
Representative Jim Dotson
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members, Senate Bill 525 allows the Department and the State Board of Health to accept plumbing plans via email, mail, or in person and allows them to respond to the plumbing plan submittal via email unless the individual or entity indicates they would prefer to receive the response via regular mail. it also allows a plumbing plan prepared by a licensed engineer to be submitted to the department for an advisory opinion be more than happy to answer any
questions not appreciate a good vote representative Dotson has explained the bill would anyone like
to speak against the bill for the bill representative Dotson is closed for the bill question before the house is the passage of Senate bill 525 prepare the machine mr. Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted?
Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By vote of 78 yeas, 3 nays, and 3 present, the bill
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is passed. Representative Petty, you're recognized. Tosh wanted me
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to read something else, but I will read this. After the announcements, reading of the bills, the transferring of the bills, placing the calendars on the desk, amending members' own bills with their own amendments, members withdrawing their own bills,
finalizing resolutions, reading communications, and any remaining committee reports, I move that we adjourn until Monday at 1.30. Good job.
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It's a proper motion, it's not debatable.
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All in favor say aye. Any opposed? No. The ayes have it. Members, before I go to announcements, I have one or two announcements that I want to make sure everybody hears.
We anticipate that RSA will be placed on the desk by 5 o'clock this afternoon in an effort to answer as many questions as possible. Monday morning at 9.30 in Big Mac B, representatives from DF&A will be available to answer questions related to the RSA. So hopefully everybody will have an opportunity to look at it over the weekend. And then 9.30 Monday morning, if you have any questions that you would like to ask,
we'll have them there. Any other announcements? Representative Lundstrom, for what
purpose? Inquiry over the chair. Let's hear your
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inquiry. There was a beautiful, two beautiful watercolor prints last evening that were graciously given by the Speaker of the House. But there was no information about who the artist was last night. That was my mother, so thank you. Thank you. I also mentioned
we do we do have some that are left over so if anybody didn't get one
of those prints let me know and we'll try and make arrangements next week. Representative Gene for what purpose? Announcements. You're recognized. First of
all to let you know for the freshmen you don't have to stick around to five o'clock to get it. Everybody will receive electronic copy of this through your emails, so you can go home. And the other one is there will be, hopefully, our last joint budget meeting at 1030, Monday morning, Big Mac A. Representative Nix, for what purpose?
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Announcement. You're recognized. Public transportation is going to need to meet Monday morning at 9 o'clock in
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Big Mac B. Representative Wing, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. House management immediately upon adjournment today, fourth floor conference room. Representative
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Warren, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Public Retirement Committee members can sleep in Monday. There are no more Retirement Committee meetings. Representative Capp, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized.
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Rules will meet 15 minutes upon adjournment, Big Mac B. Representative
Representative Rick Beck
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Beck, for what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. The Joint Energy Committee will meet at 11.30 on Monday in room 149. Any other
announcements? The desk will remain open as needed
for the reading of the bills and upon completion of the items named in the adjourned resolution, the House will be adjourned until 1.30 p.m. Monday.
Agenda
Morning Hour
MOTION TO AMEND
Number Sponsor Subtitle
SB571 J. Hendren3 (L. Johnson) TO PROVIDE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX REDUCTION; TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE INCOME TAX REDUCTION THROUGH A TAX ONE-CIGARETTES; AND TO CREATE THE CIGARETTE TAX AND INCOME TAX REFORM STUDY.
HB1619 G. HodgesDPA 1 (Whitaker) TO CREATE THE ELECTRIC MOTORIZED SCOOTER ACT.
SB658 HesterDPA 1 (Dalby) CONCERNING CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS, AND THE JUDICIARY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB646 G. LedingDPA 1 (Capp) CONCERNING CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED RECORDS OF THE STATE CRIME LABORATORY.
SB632 J. EnglishDPA 1 (Meeks) TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TO SUPPORT A CYBER ALLIANCE IN ORDER TO REDUCE CYBER RISKS AND ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
RESOLUTIONS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
SCR4 Irvin
(Gray) TO DESIGNATE MAY 2019 AS CYSTIC FIBROSIS AWARENESS MONTH.
End of Morning Hour
CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HB1768 Payton1 TO REVISE THE PROCEDURE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF STATE LANDS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF LAND CERTIFIED TO THE STATE.
HB1748 Richmond1 CONCERNING A VETERAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SEEKS TO OBTAIN A LICENSE TO CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN.
HB1716 Gates1 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MILITARY SERVICE AND VETERANS SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES; AND TO ALLOW THE ISSUANCE OF CERTAIN SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES TO A SURVIVING SPOUSE.
HB1432 J. Mayberry1 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ACT.
HB1684 D. Douglas1 TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO CLASSIFY CERTAIN STUDENTS AS IN-STATE FOR PURPOSES OF TUITION AND FEES AT A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
REGULAR BILLS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HB1886 Lundstrum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS.
HB1955 Ladyman TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT NO. 4 OF 1948; AND TO REVISE THIRD-PARTY LIABILITY IN THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW.
HB1811 Maddox TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES ON PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS.
HB1982 G. Hodges TO ESTABLISH THE ELECTRIC MOTORIZED SCOOTER ACT.
HB1979 Richmond TO AMEND THE LAW DESIGNATING THE "GOLD STAR FAMILIES HIGHWAY".
HB1970 S. Meeks TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
REGULAR SENATE BILLS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
SB183 A. Clark(Rushing) TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS FROM HOLDING A POSITION OF PUBLIC TRUST.
SB612 J. Cooper(Christiansen) CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE".
SB522 J. English(Cozart) TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE STATEWIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM; TO COORDINATE VARIOUS WORKFORCE PROGRAMS; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF THE CAREER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB603 A. Clark(Cozart) TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE CERTAIN LEVELS OF SUPPORT TO CERTAIN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS BASED ON READING SCORES; AND TO AMEND THE PURPOSES ON WHICH NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH STATE CATEGORICAL FUNDS MAY BE SPENT.
SB87 A. Clark(Capp) TO DEFINE "IMMINENT HARM" UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989 AND THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT.
SB623 A. Clark(Gazaway) TO REMOVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION AS AN AVAILABLE PENALTY FOR AN OFFENSE NOT RELATED TO DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
SB451 J. Cooper(Dalby) TO AMEND THE LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS TO OBTAIN CONSISTENCY REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS AND DISQUALIFYING OFFENSES FOR LICENSURE.
SB277 Hill(C. Cooper) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SURPLUS COUNTY PROPERTY AND INTERNET SALES.
SB258 Bond(Maddox) TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR TAKING CAMPAIGN FUNDS AS PERSONAL INCOME; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990 AND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.
SB440 Bledsoe(Lundstrum) TO BAN USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN FOOD AND DRINK EXCEPT IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
SB637 K. Ingram(D. Ferguson) TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING GREYHOUND RACING; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF PAYABLE WINNINGS AGREEMENTS.
SB641 B. Ballinger(Dotson) TO ALLOW A LIMITED EXEMPTION TO THE ARKANSAS ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT; AND TO ALLOW AN ALTERNATIVE PROCESS FOR FILING RULES.
SB454 Rapert(Lundstrum) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INVESTMENT OF FUNDS IN THE STATE TREASURY; AND TO AMEND THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE STATE BOARD OF FINANCE IN RELATION TO THE CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER OF THE TREASURER OF STATE'S OFFICE.
SB599 Flippo(Wardlaw) TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ISSUANCE OF A BOND BY A REGIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT; AND TO REQUIRE APPROVAL BY THE QUORUM COURT PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF A BOND.
SB650 Hester(Gonzales) TO PROHIBIT A PERSON CONVICTED OF A PUBLIC TRUST CRIME FROM FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICE OR FROM RUNNING AS A CANDIDATE FOR A PUBLIC OFFICE.
SB592 Elliott(Cloud) TO AMEND THE PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 1995; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB537 A. Clark(Capp) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CHILD MALTREATMENT INVESTIGATIONS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
SB240 D. Wallace(Warren) CONCERNING THE REEMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
SB542 A. Clark(Perry) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEDICAL, NURSING, HOSPITAL, AND AMBULANCE SERVICE LIEN ACT.
SB505 Irvin(Bentley) TO AMEND THE PROVISIONAL LICENSE REQUIREMENTS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINERS.
SB525 Hester(Dotson) TO MODERNIZE PLUMBING PLAN REVIEW SUBMISSIONS AND RESPONSES; AND TO CLARIFY THAT LOCAL JURISDICTION REVIEW OF CERTAIN PLUMBING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS DOES NOT REQUIRE REVIEW BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
SB555 B. Ballinger(Gonzales) TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW REGARDING STATE EMISSION PLANS FOR FOSSIL FUEL-FIRED ELECTRIC GENERATING UNITS.
SB506 Irvin(Bentley) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE YOUTH JUSTICE REFORM BOARD.
SB483 J. English(Cozart) TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REPORTING.
SB503 Bledsoe(Bentley) CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE.
SB535 B. Johnson(Murdock) TO REVISE THE METHOD BY WHICH THE ACADEMIC FACILITIES WEALTH INDEX IS CALCULATED.
SB568 Caldwell(Hollowell) CONCERNING THE TWENTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT; CONCERNING DISTRICT COURT JUDGES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB638 J. English(Burch) CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES; AND TO AMEND ASPECTS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES WHO ARE ENROLLED IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
SB593 G. Leding(Godfrey) CONCERNING TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILDTRAFFICKING.
SB617 Irvin(C. Fite) REPEALING THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS COALITION FORJUVENILE JUSTICE.
SB647 Irvin(C. Fite) TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATE REIMBURSEMENTSADMINISTERED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS.
SB651 Caldwell(Tosh) TO AMEND THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PASSENGER MOTOR VEHICLES FORCERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB659 J. English(Cozart) TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED TWO-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHEREDUCATION TO MARKET AND PROVIDE SERVICES TO ANY INDIVIDUAL IN ARKANSASREGARDLESS OF THE SERVICE AREA IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL RESIDES.
SB549 J. English(Cozart) TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO PUBLICSCHOOL ACADEMIC FACILITIES.
SB602 J. Dismang(A. Davis) TO ESTABLISH THE SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY DEPLOYMENT ACT.
Bills to Be Amended
HB1106 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - REVENUE SERVICES DIVISION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. 1
HB1109 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - DISBURSING OFFICER APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. 7
HB1130 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS STATE POLICE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR. 2
HB1905 AN ACT AMENDING THE UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT AND VARIOUS LAWS CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT.
HB1121 AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
HB1156 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIRECTOR'S OFFICE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
HB1197 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
HB1210 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS HERITAGE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.
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.
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