Senate Convenes

The. The. And i'll be common order are there in a request for leave at this time senator hester. So he was representative i'd like to ask leave for the following senators senator chesterfield senator clark senator flowers senator mark johnson senator john pate third jim petty madam secretary please call the role bowed brand carldwell chest for leave clark believe crow on today this these dismay darts and english flipper flowers gilmore flowers is only gilmore hammer hester hickey hill arvin blake johnson mark johnson leave king letting love mckey murdoch patent leave pinso heady leave rice down step after sullivan tucker wallace. Like to recognize senator wallace for the prayer please stand alord thank you for this day thank you for alliance together together to take care of the business of arkansas florida it's been a tough two days and thank you for it here policy it through this into come to the point where we are clored watch over a lot ones are family watch over a military or lord in jesus name I meant applied to the united states of the mirror to the republic for which is one edition hundred dollars at all the delivery interest is for a ladies and gentlemen in the gallery welcome to the arkansas state senate it is our expectation each of you will exercise proper decorated and government yourself accordingly during the day today's proceeding without objection the rules will be suspended and the senate will dispense with the reading of the journal the morning hour has now begun are there any announcements or introductions at this time senators down you are recognized i'd like to actually probably see these things the leave yeah Bet the moment i'll come on up here you drove up here come out colleagues I would like to make a fever marks in the present as in entire assaultation to price robertson prize in his parents rich and vicky robertson and his antenna smiths live in campton process and employed by radio works and came down here to graduate with a victory quist christian school and a graduate of say you take with an associates degree process diagnosed without his own age of three he was non verbal and green a graham prognosis but richard vicki accepted that the the diagnosis from the doctor did not accept their prognosis they found a program there could be a corporate into their home with the help of family and volunteer from the community they did this program for eight hours a day seven days a week for two years talk price family broke through and they could reach their altistic son i'm here today to talk about process accomplishments but also just bring out his until the four front this is important what's going on price is broken is several community service organizations about it journey throughout his heart spoken to community connections that it they're yearly fond raiser a conway price also appeared on good morning in america with this pain powell and do sacred I saw you when he within the fourth grade he also appeared on the local new station channel seven a channel before during altiero awareness month which is in april as a you take nice ball field bears in name a price robertson park the dedication was hailed in april of two thousand and twenty three he has a road named after he on price road which lached the fair view car on a football field of baseball field in two thousand sixteen matthew lals community ambassador ward was given to her about the camera known. Slide club the price robertson maltison awareness endowment bond was founded by reaching victory robertson with price was in the sixth grade the foundation provides grants to local community for assistance in the field about his he loved his home town came in his church is family in this france and he loves the arkansas raiser backs his last story was made it to a documentary the process of produced by former raiser back queen growthy. The price alerts is a documentary I had the opportunity to say the premier release service and disconvertation it is also is the most watch but there are documentary it is about three thanks it's about price roberts and overcoming out when he was told them with his parents were told it would never happen. The documentary is about the low of a mother and father or their son but the biggest thing about the documentary is about a families bait than the healing power of card i'm telling you the documentary is also that's what laid this that patient today brass I won't force you with the assartation exact patient where I ask candidate of price robertson who was diagnosed without it. It aid you three is objected it's a subject of a documentary field the process of which which was produced by queen growth in kiji q g four production say primarily came in arkansas or now was twenty six two thousand and twenty three and. Where he has priced his parents speaking richer opposite cultivated is in eight streets. Do an attempt to program for artistic children it's all prosperity in the seventh grader he won the warshall can be spelling the and represented candidate in the hour solve stakes barely be finished in the port place whereas mr robertson went on to graduate from southern our personal universally take which in two thousand twenty three christ in this no baseball field price robertson power before embarking on a career and broadcast is daily owner podcast tribute tracks. Appears on fox sport k k AMD ninety seven point one epil and price is become recognized as a radio personality southern our and worry as the members of the arkansas senate wished to join senator matched on a commending mister price robertson for a spirit of endurance eh facing last challenges in a wishing him the best and all the future endeavours now therefore pursue it to the motion of center for balance now the arkansas sentence direct's is that to be preceded on the thirteenth day of september two thousand and twenty three press thank you check out thank you thank you very much and her zone first I want to say that a tribute tracks my morning segment uhm recently moved back to one of our sister stations why ninety five it's started on their eleven years ago and it was on fox sports ninety point seven ninety seven point one now for the past eight and a half years by just moved back to ninety five but there are two things I want to say about this about the documentary first I want to think the production team including our producer green clinton groving for for all the time and effort they put into this uh film forgetting off the ground second I want to reach out to all the families in regard to partisan awardness I want to bring hope to the families and especially their kids and give them normal lives and let them be the people they want to be and sherman's life so thank you very much mister president i'd like to assist. For two or three minute recess for photos to be taken please we are recess for five minutes please thank you. The senate to be called the order santa penzo you are recognized. Yeah. Your recognized thank you mister president the senate rules committee met today to discuss ubernatorial appointments you will find the list for today september thirteenth twenty twenty three on your desks the rules committee approved the list and one by there's any senator wish to pull any of the appointments to be a bodole and separate from the batch. Mister president a move the senate confirmed the september thirteenth twenty twenty three list of ubernatorial appointments that were approved by the senate rules committee. Motion a per same sign it is passed thank you members. Senator johnson you recognize. So the state agencies immediately upon recess senator hester you are recognized thank you members so here's a plan as soon as we recess here we're going to go into state agencies we're going to hear a speed ten and as soon as that that committee is over I don't know if there's a lot of people here to speak for against it and yet I don't know but when that committee is over we will come back in to session as soon as that committee is over so if I had a rough guess I would say what is it now now ten thirty you know but anyway ten ten thirty as soon as we're done down there will come a will come back into here in session any questions okay any other announcements at this time the senate will stand in a german subject to clear a recess in a subject to clear to the desk and tell the end of state agencies. The. The. The. The. The. Senate will be called the order are there any items at the desk yes or notice of passage of senate bill six by the house were you committed on said agencies to whom was far single ten message has to recommend do pass calendar house will ten o two barrel percent of baby and act prohibit the government from mainlanding of accident or immunisation for covering that team in sevariance of covered nineteen or both to ensure the department of health maintains information about potential risk and harms at the vaccine house bill ten o two public health has put in our form of representative jean and acted to create entrance for fans the arkansas reserve funds said aside in the restricted reserve fund to allow the additional funds may be might available for the state departments agencies in the institutions house will ten o four reven tax house for ten o five representative evans and that clarify arkansas law concerning the locking of school doors fair and emergency house built ten o five education house but I was six by representative gaza why that clarify the sentencing for felony with a far arm house bill ten oh six judiciary recognize senator hester members I make a motion that we suspend the rules to put senate bill ten on the calendar to vote today there's been a motion made suspend the rules to put senate bill ten and the calendar day all those in favor say I a pose say now i's have it motion carries. 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We are going to consider senate bill ten at this time said about ten by central hester to amend the freedom of information activating sixty seven and they're an emergency senator hester you recognize to explain your bill a members now i'll start with what I just didn't committee you know that this bill is a result of great feedback from the community great feedback from our constituents from people that came into at the last three days here at the capital from each one of us putting a lot of time and hours and effort into this bill and what we ended up with is something that uh the house the senate the governor can agree on in a three day special special session and that is this bill that we've been talking about narrowly defined to just the security details of our executive branch and other constitutional officers it is right retroactive back to june first of twenty twenty two for the because just before that was the primary elections and we had two leading candidates both of them had a unique thing that each had three young children so the state police knew they had to start changing their plans to go from two protectives to to five and so they started making plans we we backed up to that point to make sure that those plans were protected i'm happy to answer any questions is there any questions seen none you are free to close for your bill to speak for against seeing nine year free clothes free about uh members I think you just you just heard this statement again thank you thankful for all the members thankfully or all the community all of our constituents have worked hard to get us a piece of legislation I think we all feel good about going home with that i'm close senator is close are there any objections to rolling the vote. See no objections man secretary roll the vote we have two parents with desk centre patent yes center up letting now send to mark johnson yes central love now bowed bright called well chestfully clark leave crowl davis days this mine dats and english flipo flowers leave gilmore hammer hester hickey hill arvin blake johnson mark johnson paired king letting live making murdoch patent paired pinso petty rice stone stephafield sullivan tucker wallace do any senators desire to vote that have not voted or change their votes at this time see none madam second senator murdoch is present anyone else seen none made secretary cast up the ball. By vote of twenty nine years two nays one present in three and leave senate bill ten passes emergency class accepted transmit to the house. Senate senator has to you recognize members I don't know you heard when we first walked in here we read a lot of bills across the desk to go to committees so if each of those chair people want to come make an announcement that they want to have a committee that that would be up to you right now where we certainly are here and we're going to reconvene tomorrow morning at nine AM but subject to clearing the desk or well that's not what we don't will singer cross it but the plane is for us to reconvene tomorrow morning at nine am center love you are recognized before I just want to turn now still it is senator chesterfield's birthday today even though she's not here she's our sick just wanted to raise her up in say happy birthday that senator chesterfield senator hickey years I assume that revenue tax as the house house bills their own their own on there okay so we're going call a meeting for eleven o'clock for riven tax reason i'm doing eleven o'clock as I want to notify the house sponsors that they need to be down here to present their bill i've been a cloth ram revenue tax senator you are recognized and public health will need to meet uh here the house bill and will do that also at eleven o'clock we're raining the letter give our staff time to get that set up. So eleven o'clock for senate public health committee meeting center in english you are recognized thank you standard education memory meet in room two oh seven at eleven clark. We'll stand in recess for committee meetings