Senate Convenes for Sine Dine

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The Senate will

be called to order. Kirk will call the roll. Ballinger, Bledsoe, Bond, Caldwell, Cheatham, Chesterfield, Clark, Cooper, Davis, Dismang, Eads, Elliott, English, Flippo, Flowers, Garner, Hammer, Hendron, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Ingram, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Letting, Malik, Pitch, Rapert, Rice, Sample, Stubblefield, Sturge, Teague, Wallace. Everyone please rise. The Senate will be

led in prayer by Senator Sturge. Pray with me if you would.

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank many

blessings of life that we so often take for granted. Lord, we thank you for the health of ourselves and our families, and we just ask that you be with those who are suffering now, whether it be illness or loss of a loved one. Lord, you know each need and each desire, and we just ask that you grant each one according to your will. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to serve the people of Arkansas, and we just ask that you be with us as we do our job. We ask that you be with our nation, our leaders, and service troops all over the world as they do their work in yours. Lord, we thank you for Jesus and what he did

for us on the cross, and we ask all these things in his name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Do I have any announcements or introductions? All right. I've got a couple before we read the items across the desk. first off I think most of you saw the email but for committee meetings they will resume in a limited fashion the week of ALC. ALC is the 15th of May. Most of the chairs I think have talked to me and to the staff and have rescheduled them. Here's the things though I need you to be cognizant of especially chairs if there's going to be something that requires a vote you need to make sure staff knows in advance so they can have proxies prepared for those to participate remotely. Jill is working on the rules for the standing committee. Marty has the rules for ALC. Those will need to be adopted in the committee to allow proxy voting and participation similar to what we've done in JBC and other things. And the other thing for the benefit of our esteemed press, make sure that you still comply with all public meeting notice laws and requirements and that there is no meetings that are completely done virtually without access to the public. Any questions or comments on that? If you do, see me afterwards. Senator Bledsoe has been working with the ALC folks, and I think, again, everything should be in place to upgrade the remote participation capabilities even more as we move through this, because who knows how long we'll be in this environment. Okay, if there's no other announcements, do we have items to recross the desk? Yes, Mr.

President, the Senate has received four letters from the Office of Governor Asa Hutchinson advising that on April 20th, 2020,

the governor signed all 89 Senate bills passed in the fiscal session. Acts have been assigned, and I will read those across the desk upon signing die adjournment. Thank you, Madam Clerk.

So, members, we will adjourn signing die, and as the clerk said, she will read the 89 bills that we passed across the desk upon adjournment. If there's nothing else to become, I'll entertain a motion to sign and I adjourn. I got a motion by Senator English. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you again for a great session and for getting it done safely and efficiently. We are adjourned. Subject to reading items across the desk.

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