March 11, 2013 Part 2
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Bills discussed (24)
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HB1197
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HB1029
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HB1466
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HR1027
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HR1034
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HB1484
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HB1505
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HB1566
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HB1668
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Speaker 1
0:00
Dad always told me to be really, really good to Mr. Fair, so I'm asking you all to join me in this resolution which recognizes the contributions that folks who plumb for a living make to civilized society and that they make civilization possible. It's always nice to have clean water when you turn the tap, and it's always nice to make sure that sewage goes where sewage ought to be. With that, I'd ask for a good vote. Thank you. And, Mr. Speaker, I would request that you ask the clerk to read the resolution.
Chair
Unverified
0:33
Mr. Clerk, read the resolution. Whereas World Plumbing Day was founded on March 11, 2010, as a way to highlight the important role played by the plumbing industry and today's plumbing professionals, and whereas the World Plumbing Council and the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials All officials are at the forefront of protecting the health and safety of the nation and the world through the use of uniform plumbing code and uniform mechanical code for the installation of plumbing, plumbing fixtures and equipment by licensed trained professionals.
and whereas many people living in industrialized and developed countries take for granted the ability to obtain clean water quickly and easily from a tap or faucet and do not fully appreciate the convenience of having access to flushing toilets and whereas in developing countries plumbing is either nonexistent or rudimentary and results in the development of serious health issues And whereas millions of people die each year due to unsanitary living conditions and lack of access to clean water,
and whereas according to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people around the world do not have access to safe water supplies, 2.6 billion people do not have access to a healthy sanitation system, and about 2 million people, most of them children less than 5 years of age, die annually as a result of unsanitary water-related diseases. whereas on World Plumbing Day the industry representatives from across the globe bring attention to the important role of plumbing professionals and that they play in society, whereas events will be held around the globe on World Plumbing Day in locations such as Australia,
India, New Zealand, China, England, Scotland, and the United States. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 89th General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the House of Representatives recognizes the importance of the plumbing industry and licensed plumbing professionals and acknowledges March 11th as World Plumbing Day. Representative Sayers, explain
Speaker 7
2:34
the resolution. Does anyone wish to speak against the resolution, for the resolution? If not, the question before the House is a passage of House Resolution 1034. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay.
The aye is Sabbath. Motion carries. Resolution is adopted. Mr. Clerk, read House Resolution 1027.
Chair
Unverified
3:00
House of Resolution 1027 by Representative Edwards, commending and honoring Mr. Leon Majors for his service to the House of Representatives and to the United States of America. Representative Edwards,
you're recognized to explain the resolution.
Representative John Charles Edwards
Unverified
3:17
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I told
the committee, several years ago, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks brought to life Steven Ambrose's book called The Band of Brothers. It was the story of our fine soldiers from World War II who were part of the greatest generation. And what made that series so wonderful was that between the reenactment of the events that occurred, there were live interviews with the soldiers at the time.
We in the House of Representatives are so fortunate today that we don't have to just look to a TV series to see a member of the greatest generation, because he is standing right there. Mr. Leon Majors enlisted in the Army in 1943. The Army in 1943 was a segregated Army, but it was an Army filled with all Americans who were fighting tyranny in Europe as well as in South Pacific.
Mr. Majors enlisted, he took training at Fort Benning, Georgia he took training at Fort Bliss, Texas over his time he deployed to Europe where he served as a medic and historians have been doing work on the medics of the 3rd Army led by General George S. Patton and I can tell you right now that Mr. Majors is extremely proud to have served in General Patton's army.
This man served with distinction. He came home. He joined the reserves where he stayed for a number of years, being discharged as a sergeant. I don't know about you, and I'll let him say what his age is, But I just hope that if I'm fortunate enough to live the kind of life that this man has led, and as he told me last week, he can do all things through God who strengthens me.
That's his secret. This is a hero in our midst. He is joined today as his escort, Captain Randall Hobbs, who I had the honor of serving with in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. This is a continuation of a new generation of soldiers, a continuation of the band of brothers that I hope will serve our nation and the American military for the years to come. And, Mr. Speaker, I invite you to have the clerk read the resolution.
Chair
Unverified
6:15
Mr. Clerk, read the resolution. Whereas Mr. Leon Majors is a longtime employee of the House of Representatives and the only remaining World War II veteran working for the House of Representatives, And, whereas Mr. Majors is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, and entered into the United States Army in 1943, and whereas Mr. Majors received his military training at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort Benning, Georgia, and whereas Mr. Majors arrived in France by troop ship in 1944,
where he worked in a medical unit that was part of General George Patton's Third Army, And whereas Mr. Majors was an enlisted soldier who, to this day, can clearly recall his Army service number, the method by which soldiers at the time were identified on paperwork before the use of Social Security numbers became well established. and whereas Mr. Majors has worked in the State Capitol building since 1974 and whereas Mr. Majors' kind countenance and strong faith in God
make a reassuring presence as he attends to his daily rounds and whereas Mr. Majors is the House's very own member of the greatest generation and all members are richer from the experience of knowing him. Now therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 89th General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the House of Representatives proudly commends and honors Mr. Leon Majors for his service to the House of Representatives and to the United States of America.
Be it further resolved that upon adoption a copy of this resolution shall be presented to Mr.
Leon Majors. Representative Edwards has explained the resolution.
Speaker 7
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Does anyone wish to speak against the resolution for the resolution? If not, the question before the House is the passage of House Resolution 1027. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay. The ayes have it. Mr. Clerk, let the record show the resolution passed with a unanimous vote. The morning hour has ended. Representative Davis recommends that we concur in Senate Amendment 1 to House Bill 1197.
and read Amendment No. 1, Mr. Clerk. Senate Amendment
Chair
Unverified
9:04
No. 1 to House Bill 1197. Representative Davis, you're
recognized to explain the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Andy Davis
Unverified
9:18
Members, there remains no known opposition of this bill that's passed unanimously out of the House some weeks ago. BLR caught an incorrect reference in the bill. It was corrected on the Senate end, and we're just asking you now to concur in that amendment.
I appreciate a good vote. Representative Davis has explained
Speaker 7
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the amendment. Does anyone wish to speak against the amendment, for the amendment? If not, the question before the House is a concurrence of Senate Amendment 1 to House Bill 1197. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? As everyone voted, cast the ballots with 93 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present.
You've concurred and sent an amendment. Pass over House Bill 1668. Read
Chair
Unverified
10:19
House Bill 1357. House Bill 1357 by Representatives Kerr et al. to promote voter turnout and to amend the law to limit the dates on which an election can be held.
Representative Kerr, you're recognized to explain your bill.
Good afternoon, members. House Bill 1357 is a good
government, good and fair government bill that I think will increase voter turnout exponentially across the state. What it does, in a nutshell, is that it moves all elections, no more special elections, to two dates a year. And that's even on the off years. So you're going to have two dates per year, May and November, when elections may be held.
That gives you an election date of every six months. How many of us have heard stories of elections that brought out less than 20 or 30 votes? How many of us have had special elections where they've had them on inconvenient days during the summer or right after a holiday or worse, right on a holiday? With this bill, those situations will not continue. All those things that you've heard, opposition to voter ID, actually are addressed by this bill.
In other words, any of those objections would be positives to this bill. People constantly ask me all the time, why do we have so many elections? Because they have to take off of work. They have to find someone to watch their children to go vote. It costs extra gasoline to and from. Those are inconvenient situations that diminish voter turnout. Now, this bill will, again, give anybody opportunity, any of the municipalities, counties, the opportunity to have an election every six months.
Everyone will know, the public will know when Election Day is, just like they know when Labor Day and Memorial Day is. Even though some of them get those mixed up like myself. But they'll know when it's
Speaker 32
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Election Day or election season, if you will. And that way they will be prepared for it. We've had to do an amendment to this bill.
We've taken out the elections for the school districts, school boards, because those are a little complicated.
There's another bill coming from the other end of the building that will address those specifically. Millages will stay where they
are, and they'll vote on those. the reaffirmation of the millages, they'll stay in September with the school board
elections. And with that, I'd like to answer any questions. Representative Walker, for what purpose? Question. You recognize? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative John W. Walker
Unverified
13:43
Representative Kerr, could you explain to me the policy
reason for trying to get more people in the state of Arkansas to actually
go and vote? The positive reason, policy
Speaker 32
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reason. Not exactly sure what you mean to that, sir,
Representative John W. Walker
Unverified
14:04
but... Let me maybe clarify the question. There are some bills here which have the effect of perhaps reducing voter turnout.
And this bill seems to promote it. Yes, sir. I'd like to understand what the policy reasons are
for promoting increase in the franchise at a time when there is
an effort to reduce it. Okay. Well, I think you're speaking of a different bill, and we're going to try to stay on this bill. The basic policy of this bill is to promote voter turnout, to prevent timing elections when it's inconvenient for the public to come out and vote.
Convenience is something that we have to pay attention to nowadays when it comes to voter turnout. any more questions representative alexander for what purpose question recognize thank you mr speaker representative kerr you said
Representative Randy Alexander
Unverified
15:01
that reaffirming current millage rates will continue to happen in september i just want to be clear i believe from the bill to raise a millage rate would occur on one of these four dates is that correct yes sir that's correct the way the bill
as written now, but answering to quite a bit of problems in opposition to those who deal with the bonds and the millages. In order to
get a decent rate, they're going to have to have a little more control over that timing. So we've agreed to move the millages, even the increases, unfortunately. I'm not happy about it. I'd like to see them in November myself. But in order to get those bonds done correctly, we're going to have to move those
and, well, we're going to have to leave them in September. Or, I'm sorry, leave those at the option of when they want to run the
village increases. Representative McCrary, for what purpose? Question, Mr.
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Speaker. You recognize? If a municipality wants to have
Representative Walls McCrary
Unverified
16:16
a special election, raise money through a bond issue for water and sewer or streets, how does your bill affect that?
Those will have to be done in those six-month periods, May or November. May or November. Yes, sir. Representative Cozart, for
what purpose? Representative Kerr, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Kerr, that amendment will be added on the Senate end of
the floor. Yes, sir, it will. Thank you. With that, I appreciate a good
vote. Representative Kerr has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill?
Representative Meeks, you're recognized to speak for the bill. Thank
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
17:09
you, Mr. Speaker. I support this bill simply because of the fact that I think it's a good bill and it helps, as Mr. Walker and others have said, to increase voter turnout. This is just an extreme example, but it's just to show you what can happen. Last year, Conway held a special election on Valentine's Day. okay messed up a lot of people valentine's day but that's when they decided they wanted to have it
so i would hope that y'all would pass this bill so we could do away with having to hold something on valentine's day we could just have it in may and
november thank you representative meeks has spoken for the bill does anyone wish to speak against the bill for the bill represent curry you close for your
Speaker 7
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bill the question before the house is a passage of house bill 1357 prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted?
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Has everyone voted? Cast off the ballots for
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the 45 yeas, 49 yeas, and one present. The bill does not pass.
Chair
Unverified
18:27
Bill 1446 will represent his fight and all concerning required child maltreatment central registry checks for adoption and the placement and adoption of children. Representative Fite,
you're recognized to explain your bill.
Representative Charlene Fite
Unverified
18:47
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1446 is to amend the code regarding adoption requirements in the state of Arkansas. I'm bringing this bill on behalf of the Department of Human Services, and this bill does two things. Individuals 14 years old and older will be required to have a central registry check prior to a child being placed in that home for adoption. The second thing it will do is basically a cleanup bill from last session.
Currently, the adoption code is very narrowly written, and it requires that a child be placed in the adoptive home before the adoptive parents can petition to adopt. The situation that has arisen is not very common, but we have had it happen that a child who is very medically fragile or so medically involved that the child has to be in a 24-7 medical facility such as Arkansas Pediatric Facility, will be available for adoption, and perhaps the family wants to adopt an entire sibling set,
including the child who is very medically involved. At the present time, they can't do that because of the law saying that the child has to be in the adoptive home prior to the petition to adopt. So this would make that correction that that child who is in a medical facility because of fragility would be available for adoption as well. And I'll be glad to answer any questions. seeing none i appreciate a good vote representative fight has explained the
Speaker 7
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bill does anyone wish to speak against the bill for the bill if not the question before the house is the passage of house bill 1446 prepare the machine mr clerk has everyone voted As everyone voted, cast out the ballots for 95 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present. You have passed the
Chair
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bill. Read House Bill 1466. House Bill 1466 for Representative Ballinger to amend the law concerning records maintained during early voting.
Representative Ballinger, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank
Representative Bob Ballinger
Unverified
21:08
you, Mr. Speaker. This is another bill that doesn't do a whole lot, although some of you folks in some of your districts and counties may appreciate this. What this does is essentially requires a county clerk to report within 24 hours of a vote being made during early voting. So some of you all may be in a place where you can't get that information or anybody else who's running for any office or the media or whatever because it's not really being provided.
The county clerks at first had a question about this because they wondered if it had to do with their voting log books, and it doesn't have to do with that, and so we got that question alleviated. So at this
point, it really doesn't do a whole lot, but I'd
Representative Mary L. Slinkard
Unverified
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be happy to answer any questions. Okay, I appreciate a good vote. Representative Slinkert, for what purpose? Question. You recognize. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Ballinger, now this only has to do with the early voting. Is that correct? That is correct. Are you saying that if counties already use the electronic system whereby a voter comes in and the clerk fills out that early voting request form on the computer and has the voter to sign that, that that list then can be printed from the computer?
Representative Bob Ballinger
Unverified
22:23
That is correct. This actually is already in the procedure for the clerks, and they're all doing it already, except for in just a few cases where they're
not. And this is just to give some reason for them to get on board with everybody else. Thank you. Thank
you, Mr. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Ballinger has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against
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the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1466. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast the ballots for 91 yeas, 1 nay, and 0 present. You pass the
Chair
Unverified
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bill. Read House Bill 1029. House Bill 1029 for Representative Altus to promote mental health treatment for alleged sex offenders and the victim. Representative Altus,
you're recognized, to explain your bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This bill has traveled the path of many great bills in the legislature. When I first
Representative Denny Altes
Unverified
23:34
introduced it, it mandated counseling for minor sex offenders. And then Ron Angel with DYS came, and he wanted to amend the bill. He said he had two prisons full of these people, and they needed the counseling, and so he had an amendment for it. So then I got ready to present the bill again in committee, and Cecile Blucher came with DCFS. She said that this bill would have thrown 3,000 people into her pool of people that would need counseling.
And so she said it was not possible. So now all the bill does is it makes the Department of Human Services shall provide the parents or legal guardians of alleged sex offenders with a list of mental health professionals and refer for a mental health evaluation if necessary. It doesn't do what the original bill intended, but it's a step in the right direction.
I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Eltus has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against
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the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is a passage of House Bill 1029. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? As everyone voted, cast out the ballots for 89 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1535.
Chair
Unverified
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House Bill 1535 by Representative Lampkin to amend
the Free Textbook Act of 1975. Representative Lampkin, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And in
Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin
Unverified
25:27
case you're wondering, I'm still as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of
rocking chairs. This is House Bill 1535, and I was asked to run it by the Department of Education. What it does, it says it's an act to amend the Free Textbook Act of 1975 and for other purposes.
And that's basically what it does. It's sort of a language cleanup act. They've taken all the parts that might say. It says the definition of instructional materials is changed to explicitly include textbooks and other instructional materials used throughout the subchapter to encompass all instructional materials. The current law often stakes textbooks and other instructional materials, so they're just combining them all in one term. Technology-based materials and digital resources are also combined in that.
The bill also eliminates the state textbook selection committee and adoption process and gives the individual school districts more direct input in what textbooks or what instructional materials they use. It broads it to include digital resources and other types of technological advances. That's basically all it does. It eliminates the state textbook selection committee and adoption process. Therefore, the fiscal impact is actually a plus to the state since they don't have to pay for having a statewide selection committee.
And I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Lampkin has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill,
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for the bill? Representative, let's speak for or against the bill? You recognize to
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speak against the bill. Come to the well. Thank you. And in respect to Ms. Lampkin, I do favor eliminating big government,
but I wonder who at the district level is now going to be in charge of making sure the curriculum is aligned, making sure the curriculum matches the common core which is brand new this year and if we have new people at the district level that are now going to be in charge of this pretty big job are they going to be paid to do this so where will those funds come from
So I do have some concerns about how the districts will handle this. It just adds technology to the scope of the textbook adoption, and I think they could do that without eliminating the state board. Thank you very much. Representative Douglas has spoken against
to speak for the bill, against the bill? Representative Lampkin, would you like to close for your bill?
Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin
Unverified
28:44
bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Each school district, the state will still have a list of approved textbook sets, companies, companies. That's what I'm trying to think of. But the difference is instead of having what they used to call a caravan that were six publishers are chosen and they go to each district and have teachers come in and see them, this way the school committee as such will be able to select the ones they want to hear and those will come to their school and make their presentations and the local teachers that are actually going to use them will all have input and select them.
that's the way it's set out it cuts out the state saying you must choose from this six and it's sort of like that it gives the individual schools more freedom some schools want to go more to all technology and some and in rural aspects have very rural districts have very little technology so it's to give them more input and I would still appreciate a good vote thank you the question before
Speaker 7
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the house is a passage of a house bill 1535 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk, has everyone voted?
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Has everyone voted with 90 cast of the ballots, Mr. Clerk,
Speaker 7
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with 91 yeas, 2 nays, and 0 present, you have passed the bill. Read House
Chair
Unverified
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Bill 1350. House Bill 1350 by Representative Williams amending statutes concerning criminal defendants, the Department of Correction, and the Department of Community Correction. Representative Williams,
you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. Members in the 88th General Assembly, many
Representative Darrin Williams
Unverified
30:32
of you over here, we passed Act 570, the Prison Reform Bill,
about a 120-page-plus bill, and we told you then that if there were problems with the bill, we'd bring you those problems to this General Assembly. This bill lays out the technical corrections to Act 570, and I'll go through them one by one. Section 1 of this bill, 1350, simply removes or repeals a code section that had been repealed. Section 2 allows for the electronic records that are submitted from the courts to the DCC or DOC or other facilities to be transmitted electronically.
Now in Pulaski County, the courts have gone to electronic records, so they want the ability to transfer those electronically. Section 3 amends the dates requirement for notice to be given to the prosecuting attorney and to the parole board prior to an inmates discharge. Section 4 removes an incorrect reference to the code section. Section 5 basically says that electronic monitoring can be the latest technology, not just in-home monitoring, but can also be GPS or whatever technology may be allowed or may be available at that time.
Sections 6 and 7 actually just remove references to DOCC and make the correct reference to the DCC. Simply a technical corrections bill, nothing here that should be substantive, but I'd be happy to answer any questions. Seeing none, I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you.
Representative Williams has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill,
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for the bill? If not, the question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1350. Prepare to machine, Mr. Clerk.
As everyone voted, cast out the ballots for 95 yeas, 0 nay, and 0 present, you have passed the bill. I'll read House Bill 1484.
Chair
Unverified
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House Bill 1484 by Representative Edwards concerning the mental evaluation of a criminal defendant. Representative Edwards, you're
recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative John Charles Edwards
Unverified
32:51
I first want to thank Sheriff Ronnie
Baldwin, Attorney Lloyd Walford, and Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Shue for all of their work and effort on this legislation. Sometimes we just get to show up toward the end of the game, and this is something that these individuals in some cases have worked on for years. The problem we're trying to resolve with this bill is that on occasion, if there's a criminal defendant that needs a forensic examination,
when they only may need one, it's either called for our fitness to proceed, that is to go forward with the trial, or if they need one to determine if they have an issue with a lack of responsibility because of criminal disease or defect, instead of always getting what's actually needed, They may end up getting both evaluations at one time, and it clogs up the judicial system. It clogs up our jails. It's not fair to the defendants. It's not fair to anyone involved.
As Sheriff Baldwin said, that it's not good for a jailer to have people in there when they don't need to be in there for longer periods of time. So what this bill does, it clarifies that if you need an evaluation to proceed, that's what you get. If you need an evaluation to determine mental disease or defect, that's what you get. If you need both, you still get those. But if you don't, you just get what you need. So this is a bill that the Prosecutor Coordinator's Office has worked hard with,
the Arkansas Association of Public Defenders, the individual defense attorneys. And I'm very appreciative of their work, and I appreciate a good vote. Representative Edwards has explained the bill Does anyone
wish to speak against the bill Before the bill If not, the question before the House As of passage, House
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Bill 1484 Prepare the machine, Mr. Clare Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted?
Cast up the ballots for 93 yeas 0 nays and 0 present You have passed the bill Read House
Chair
Unverified
35:09
Bill 1505 House Bill 1505 by Representatives Bain and Ward Law to update the current list of which full-time law enforcement officers may make an arrest. Representative
Bain, you're recognized to explain your bill.
Representative John Baine
Unverified
35:23
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This bill came out of the Judiciary Committee. We had gotten notice from a U.S. Treasury agent that they and several other agencies have gone through name changes over the last 10 or so years.
When the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies reorganized in the wake of 9-11 and even more subsequent, several agencies that we had on our laundry list of approved federal agencies to carry out and make arrests based on a state charge changed. The background on this is that all federal agents, when they come in to do an investigation, they start with a federal charge. That's always their first and foremost goal. Sometimes if a U.S. attorney says, well, it's not a big enough charge for us, you can kick it down to a state prosecutor.
Go ahead and kick it down. Or if they can't find a federal charge but through the course of their investigation they do find a state charge, they can make a state charge and turn it over to the state prosecutor for their review and for their prosecution. We currently have a laundry list of about a dozen federal agencies that are authorized to do this course of action, but currently at least three of these agencies have changed names or changed departments since this law was last updated. And the intention of this law is to simply grandfather in the current existing federal agency that we already have been given approval
that if their agency name changes, they're allowed to continue on as previously. So this actually doesn't add any new federal agencies or any new federal agents that haven't already gotten prior approval to make a state arrest or make a state charge and tend it over to the state prosecutor. At this time, we have you take any questions? Representative Bain has explained
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the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is passage of House Bill 1505.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted? Is everyone voted? Cast with the ballots for the 82 yeas, 5 nays, and 1 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, pass over House Bill 1571. Please read
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House Bill 1574. House Bill 1574, Representative Harris,
extending the time frame to investigate certain crimes against
children. Representative Harris, you're recognized to
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explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, House members. This is a bill that would extend the time frame to investigate certain crimes against children. and for other purposes. This allows a state investigator to extend the time from 30 days to 45 days. And currently, all investigations start, 91% of all investigations are started on
time, but 61% are done within the 30-day period, and then 38% are done within the 45 time period. So this is just giving them an extended time of the 45 days, and this will not keep a child in the cares of DHS if there's no founded report, and so this will not keep a child in limbo. It's just allowing for a more thorough investigation by the Department of Human Services.
And it's my 13th wedding anniversary today, and I'm having to spend it here with y'all, so I'd really appreciate a good vote. Representative
Harris has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not,
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the question before the House is a passage of House Bill 1574. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted?
Cast the ballots for the 89 yeas, 0 nays, and 1 present. You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1694. House
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Bill 1694, Representative Gillum, concerning the use of an interlock device for persons charged with driving while intoxicated. Representative Gillum, you're
recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I
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know we've got an extended calendar today, so I'm going to be brief, colleagues.
What you have before you is a bill that moves up the time frame in which the interlocked devices are placed on the vehicles upon the conviction for drunk driving. And I would really appreciate a good vote. I'll be happy to take any questions if you have any. Thank you very
much. Representative Gillum has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill for the
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bill? If not, the question before the House is passage of House Bill 1694. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast the ballots in 94 yeas, 0 nays, 95 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, Passover, House Bill 1581. Passover,
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House Bill 1746. Please read House Bill 1351.
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House Bill 1351 by Representative Neal concerning the medical care afforded inmates of the Department of Correction. Representative
Neal, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1351 is a bill that has been brought to us by the Department of Corrections. It gives the Department of Corrections the ability to sign paperwork for Medicaid-eligible inmates who refuse to sign the Medicaid papers after three days. This bill does not expand Medicaid. It only pertains to inmates who qualify for their Medicaid expenses under current rules and refuse to sign the necessary paperwork.
Representative Neal has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? If
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not, the question for the House is the passage of House Bill 1351. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? As everyone voted, cast at the ballot for 93 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1572.
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House Bill 1572 by Representatives Curry et al. to regulate prepaid funeral benefit contracts and investments under the Arkansas prepaid funeral benefits law. Representative Curry, recognized to explain the
bill. All right, members, this is a bill that you've been
dying to hear about. Yeah, well, since
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you killed me last time, I thought I'd try it again.
All right. Members, this is a bill that has been brought to us that the insurance department actually asked me to run for them. The funeral home industry is behind it 100%. What it actually does is that the premiums that go into prepaid funerals are invested, obviously, and those investments have to be currently AA investments. That's the highest rating of investment. When those ratings drop, and they'll fluctuate and drop below AA,
The way the law currently reads, they have to sell those investments because now they're an A rating. And what that does, it creates loss for the company having to sell those investments short and take the penalties. The insurance department has asked that we change this and allow them to have A rating, which is still a very, very high investment rating. So when it drops from AA to A, they don't have to run and sell those investments. The other thing that it does, currently the contracts do not specify the amounts or merchandise,
and for the public interest, the insurance department wants these things included, as well as it gives the insurance departments a little bit more oversight over this particular type of industry. With that, I'll take questions. Seeing
none, I appreciate a good vote. Representative Kerr has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the
bill for the bill? Representative Burris, you're recognized to speak for the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do think this is a good bill. I wanted to come to the well and make sure I spoke for it because I thought the last bill by Representative Kerr was good also. There were no questions, so I assumed everybody agreed, but then a group block voted no. So I just wanted to make sure I came to the law this time and said that this is a good bill, even though there were no questions. Thank you. Representative Burris, has it spoken for the
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bill? Does anyone want to speak against the bill? For the bill. Not the question before the House is passage of House Bill 1572.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? cast up the ballots for the 89 yeas, 1 nay, and 0 present.
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You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1635. House Bill 1635 by Representative Ritchie to amend the Amusement Ride and Amusement Attraction Safety Insurance Act.
Representative Ritchie, you're recognized to explain your
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, House Bill 1635 is an act to amend the Amusement Ride and Amusement Attraction Safety Act. Basically, under the current act, portable rides have to be inspected every time they are set up, except for a few rides which have been deemed safe enough to be inspected every six months.
And they've been added to that act by amendment, things such as inflatables and climbing walls. And basically, the Department of Labor has deemed that a couple more rides meet that criteria. And you'll be excited to know that those are mechanical bulls and mechanical gyros, which I'm sure you all enjoy often. But instead of just adding those two and then coming back later to add more, this act gives the director the leeway to determine which rides in the future should be included.
Then they'll do public notices, public hearings, go through the rules and regs process to get these rides added. And basically the bill would eliminate the need for further amendments. It would save the owner and operators the $100 inspection fee. They currently have to pay every time they set up, and it will save the agency time and money in travel expenses. So with that, if you have any questions, well, seeing none, I'd appreciate a good vote.
Representative Ritchie has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill for the bill? If not, the question
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before the House is passage of House Bill 1635. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast the ballots to the 89 yeas, 1 nay, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1025.
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House Bill 1025 by Representative McElroy concerning an alternative system of assessments by a levy district including more than two
counties. Representative McElroy, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the opportunity.
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I want to thank Representative House when he first pointed out my weaknesses in this bill before. And Representative House, I want to thank you publicly for helping me work on this bill and we work together. Basically, this bill boils down to a bill of fairness.
The way the bill stands presently, our levy districts assess taxes to upkeep the levy and make sure it's in a good, satisfactory condition to protect the people that live in the flatlands. Well, right now, the way it stands, if you live in the city limits, you pay assessed value on your homes and improvements. And if you live out in a rural area like I do, you just pay 30 cents per acre.
So I have a pretty good-sized home, and that home right now I pay 27 cents in levy protection assessment. And the guys in town with the same-sized home are paying about $180. So it's about fairness. My bill before actually was trying to raise, put assessed value on farmland. As amended, it does not. The farmland stands at 30 cents an acre because you can't argue that if my home gets two foot of water in it,
the one in town gets two foot of water in it, it's going to damage my home. But now as far as farmland, if it stands two foot over it for 60 days, it hasn't really done a lot of damage. So it remains as it was before, only 30 cents an acre on farm ground. And in the city lots in town, it's only $0.30 an acre rather than being on assessed value. This actually is a revenue-neutral bill because before the cap was 30 mils.
Now we reduced it to 20 mils. And it's not in the bill, but the Leverie District at home has decided they're going to lower the millage from 8 mils to 6 mils when they spread it out equally over everybody in the county. And as far as an appeal process, it goes before the equalization board, the levy board first, the equalization board, and then the county judge. So it has three avenues to appeal it without having to obtain services from an attorney so it can save the money.
Because if you had a $180 bill, you know, you couldn't afford to go get an attorney to appeal it. And with that, it's just about fairness. All it's going to do now is that I'm going to pay the same rate on my home or improvements like my farm shop as the people in town. We did make a place where you could repeal it if the levy board goes in. And this is not affecting all levy boards. It just this is a option if they want to enforce it.
And they can do it by resolution, but they can always they can come back and repeal it. If they decide they don't want to use it and it's not happy, they can repeal it with the same resolution in the newspapers. And with that, I would answer any questions that you have. Representative Alters, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized for a
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question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the way I understand it, some people are paying this tax now and some people aren't?
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Yes, sir, you're correct. what what happens now i don't know why it was well i think i do back in 1927 after the flood a lot of the ground that were out that was outside the city limits was actually just uh lowlands that uh back then just wasn't wasn't much uh many people living out there and you couldn't do much with it but uh over the years it's kind of changed you know and most of the people lived in towns which was usually the higher ground mr altus and uh for some reason or other
If you lived in the city limits, you were taxed by assessed value, but they just figured anything outside the city limits was just so much an acre, and it's never been changed. But since then, as I was a county judge, people brought to my attention that the county judge was only paying 27 cents on his home. But if you lived in the city limits just two or three miles down the road, that they were paying the assessed value of, say, $180, which just is a matter of fairness. Recognize for a question.
So this is a tax increase for most of the people? No, sir. Actually, it's going to be a tax decrease on the people that live in town because what's happening, they have a certain budget for the levy board protection. They have to keep it up to a certain standard for the Corps of Engineers to certify the levy. So what they want to do is just spread it out equally among everybody. Right now they're charging eight mills to the people that live in town, and when they spread it out over everybody in the county on equal basis, they plan on lowering the millage from eight to six mills, which will bring them the same budget, but it just spreads out.
So it will actually lower more of the people in town, but it will raise a little bit in, outside the city limits. But actually, it's revenue neutral because, like on the other hand, this time it used to be 30 mils were the maximum. We're lowering it to 20 mils as far as they can go up. Did I ask your question, Mr. Holtis? Okay. Any other questions? If not, I would appreciate a good vote.
Thank you. Representative McElroy has explained the bill.
Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is a passage of
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House Bill 1025. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast with the ballots, with 80 yays, one day and one present, you have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1566.
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House Bill 1566 for Representatives Lee and Slinkard to improve training for county clerks, circuit clerks, county treasurers, county collectors, and coroners, and to establish a coroner's training fund.
Representative Lee, you are recognized to explain your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. This is a bill that was brought to me by my county coroner. Currently, we have continuing ed funds set aside from the real estate transfer tax fund, and it goes just to circuit clerks and county clerks, and we're extending it to coroners.
For those of you that read the bill, it lists in there exactly what kind of training a coroner needs. And like I said, it comes out of the real estate transfer fund. A third of that fund goes to fund, pardon me, a third of that fund is pulled off the top. Ten percent of it will go to fund these things as well as county emergency aid. The other 90 percent goes to the AOG fund, which is the fund we want to, of course, keep solid for the court reporters.
I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Lee has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill? For the bill.
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If not, the question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1566. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballots for the 89 yeas, 1 nay, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1704.
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House Bill 1704, Representative Wren, to allow the Governor to request extradition of persons charged with theft by deception relating to the sale of livestock at
an auction. Representative Wren, you're recognized
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to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, House Bill 1704 is an act to protect merchants who sell livestock at an auction. Two years ago, I had a livestock auction owner that lost $1.2 million on some cattle that were bought and taken to a different state and sold.
And this bill right here will affect every cell barn and order buyer in the state. There are currently 22 cell barns. There's many order buyers. It affects every one of you. And the problem was that they were able to extradite this gentleman back to the states of Texas and Oklahoma and charge him. But after he bonded out, we weren't able to get him back to Arkansas. And so we had to go through a lengthy process and ended up getting him in Mexico and getting him back. The reason we have a problem here is, you know, the cattle market continues to decrease.
What this gentleman was doing was buying cattle in Arkansas, and he was taking them out of state and selling them and trying to hit an inflated market in another state. So with that, I'll take any questions. If not, I'd
appreciate a good vote. Representative Wren has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for
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the bill? If not, the question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1704. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted?
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Has everyone voted? Cast with the ballots for 95 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present. You have passed the
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bill. Read House Bill 1705. House Bill 1705, Representative Wren, to grant a livestock owner a lien on livestock sold for any unpaid portion of the sales price for
the livestock and to regulate livestock owners' liens. Representative Wren, you're recognized
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to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this is the second portion of the Livestock Protection Act. Representative Ratliff ran the third. Basically, what this does is this protects not only you, the producer, but it checks the order buyer and the sale barn as well.
So, for instance, if I sell cattle to someone and that check is bad, then I still have the lien on the cattle. In no way does this affect a bank or a financial institution's lien that I may have on those cattle. So if I don't own those cattle and I have borrowed money on those cattle, then the financial institution would come first. Mine would come second. So this is just a consumer protection bill. I would take any questions. i would appreciate
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a good reference to the house for what purpose
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question mr speaker you recognize we have in the state of arkansas the uniform commercial code and it's caught there's a doctrine in there called the buyer in ordinary course of business so if i have a cow and and i sell it to him and he writes me a hot check and he turns around and sells it to him Mr. Neal is a buyer in ordinary course of business And he slaughters the cow and eats it and it's gone I can't go back under that doctrine of ordinary course of business
And take that cow away from Mr. Neal Because he bought it in the ordinary course of business My recourse is only against Mr. Davis This bill says that if I don't get paid for my cattle Now I can go to Mr. Neal who doesn't have anything to do with the
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transaction? No, sir. It just says that Mr. Davis would owe you restitution on that cow that Mr. Neal ate. Then what good is the lien? Well, all this does is protect you as the owner of that cow,
and it says that he has to make good on that check that he wrote you for that cow. thank you
representative payton for what purpose thank
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you mr speaker question you recognize representative wren my question is very much along the same lines as house except for representative davis would be an auction company and uh so if i purchase cattle at an auction and the auction company pays the seller with a bad check
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is there any way that lien would affect the animals i purchased Okay. Mr. Payton, you sell cattle at Jerry Holmes Livestock Auction in Cleveland County, and Mr. Payton pays you, or Mr. Holmes pays you for those cattle. This would then protect Mr. Payton, who has paid you for your cattle. He now has a lien against those cattle because he's paid the consumer. So now it would protect him if that order buyer's check is bad. And what this stems from is there was a $10 million kiting scheme, and it encompassed several states.
And the problem was that the consumer sold cattle. Those cattle would sell barn, paid the consumer. The order buyer that bought those checks was bad. And basically they were kiting money, and so we're keeping that from happening again. But, no, sir, to answer your question, you would be covered. That would then protect the sale barn owner who paid you for your cattle. Just a little follow-up, and I really appreciate
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this bill to stop the kiting scheme you're talking about. I knew about that one. But my question is, as the purchaser of cattle at the auction, if the auction writes a bad check to the seller,
Is there any part of your bill that would jeopardize my ownership and what I purchased at that auction? No. Okay, thank
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you. Thank you. I'd appreciate a good vote.
Representative Wren has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill for the bill?
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If not, the question before the House is a passage of House Bill 1705. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voting? As everyone voted, cast the ballots with 87 yeas, 0 nays, and 0 present, you have passed the bill.
Mr. Clerk, pass over House Bill 1767, read House Bill 1684. House Bill 1684, Representative Lampkin,
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to add fictive kin as a placement option for juveniles, and to define fictive kin. Representative Lamp, can you recognize
to explain the bill?
Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I get to introduce a new word to
you all today, fictive. This bill is a DHS bill, and it's just what it says. It's to add fictive kin as a placement option for juveniles and to define what fictive kin means. This legislation expands the current definition for provisional care to include fictive kin if children were removed from the home. Currently, provisional care is limited to placement with a relative within the fifth degree of kinship by virtue of blood or adoption.
This expansion would allow children to be placed with fictive kin, which is defined as a person not related to the child by blood or marriage but who does have a strong, positive emotional tie to the child and has a positive role already in the child's life such as a godparent, a neighbor, a family member, a teacher, a coach, even a pastor. As with provisional placements, no board is paid to these individuals until they become fully licensed by the child welfare agency.
For a child to be placed in a provisional home, it requires three things. It's viewed as the best interest of the child. There's a walk through the home to inspect it. And there are background checks, state criminal, vehicle safety, and child maltreatment checks. The children can then be placed in the home of a relative or of a fictive kin on a provisional basis, no more than six months pending the home of the relative being opened as a foster home. In other words, it's a temporary placement to determine what's in the best interest of the child.
Relative placements will continue to be the first option the agency explores. However, in the event that there's not an appropriate relative available to look at other individuals who have had a significant relationship with the child or children and is in the best interest of the children, This expansion to include fictive kin would open up placement options for children who have had to be removed from the home due to neglect or abuse. It would allow these children to be placed with people they know, they have a relationship with, who live nearby,
which will allow them to continue to stay in the same school district with their same friends, and it might also aid in the reunification with their parents. This piece of legislation is a best interest for children piece of legislation to give an alternative placement for a child, and I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Hammer, for what purpose? You're making me not take my
advice, okay. You're recognized for a question. Okay.
Representative Hammer, you're recognized. He'll get it.
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question there we go there we go question please you recognize two questions please sure
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this is worth two if you don't mind did you come up with the term
fictive or was that handed to you it
Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin
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was handed to me and actually i meant to tell you that's an adjective for fiction
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thank you the second question is on a serious note if they become if the children are placed in a home such as fictive will that also mean that the money would be able to travel with the children or it will this help create the option that if there's ssi money or any other kind of support money that these individuals would be able to be be able to access this money so they can take care of the needs of the children i would assume so but
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There's no extra money involved, as in normal foster parent situations. This is strictly sort of originally a trial placement to see how it works out and to see if they can go back to the home after a time.
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Okay. I was just asking for the purpose. I
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want to make sure the children would be able to, you know, access their money, maybe by it being given. If this would help achieve that, that would be a great thing. So do you think that it will help achieve that? I think so. I hope so for
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the children's sake. Thank you. I do too. Thank you.
Representative Lampkin has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill,
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for the bill? If not, the question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1684. Prepare to machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast the ballots for 93 a's, 1 a, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1706.
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House Bill 1706, Representative Rice, to amend the definition of child under the Child Welfare Agency Licensing Act, to clarify the meaning of foster home, and to make clarifications to other provisions of the Child Welfare Agency
Licensing Act. Representative Rice, recognized to explain your bill.
Representative Terry Rice
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. Members, HB 1706 is an act to amend and subdate and define the Child Welfare Agency Licensing Act.
And this is the legal authority under which the Child Welfare Licensing Review Board sets out minimum standards for child placement agencies. And for those members that are returning, I carried some legislation before for this. My first term in 09, I had some issues and became involved in some part to express I thought we needed some overview and some insight.
and the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education is the agency that previously under the direction of the Children and Family Services was moved to ensure that one agency wasn't reviewing themselves, basically. And as we've said before and said in committee, the Fox Guard and the Hen House, so there's a different part of the agency that does that.
I'll spend as much time as you want to on this. It's a fairly lengthy bill. I'm going to try to cover the main topics as quick as I can, and we'll go from there. It expands the definition of a child to those clients who are 18 years or older have been determined by the court to be adjudicated, dependent, neglected, or a member of the family in need of services before becoming 18 years of age. It clarifies the definition of a foster home not to include a home that has been suspended
or closed by the Child Placement Agency as this is a safety issue for the children served. It also gives authority to share confidential information to a child fatality review panel as determined by DHS. It also ensures that the confidentiality information is not re-released to individuals and must be under seal. Also, currently the law requires a list of persons in the child welfare agency to have a child maltreatment checked in his or her state of residence or any state of residence in which the person has lived for the past six years.
This is changing from six years to five years to be consistent with the checks required for foster and adoptive parents. It also moves the age from 10 to 14 for when a child maltreatment check is required on the member of the household, and DCSF is requesting the age increase to 14, as this will be consistent with the age in which a juvenile can be placed on the child maltreatment registry. It includes checking with the Arkansas State Police to determine if the person has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or has been found guilty.
And then for children who expends the age to 18 and a half years, children that are 18 years of age, DCFS is required to run a criminal record check on an individual when they turn 18. They can't run it before they turn 18, and the Arkansas State Police, the law prohibits them from running checks on members under 18, so there is no time there.
So this changes it to 18 and a half years. It gives a few months for both entities to be in compliance. and also adds theft of public benefits to the list of offenses that would prohibit an individual from having direct or unsupervised contact with a child in the case of a child welfare agency. And also there's some minor things in there.
Changes from 15 working days to 20 business days. allows the transfer of a license from one owner to another but would require a new owner of a transfer license to provide to the department all documentations required of a new licensee and the change would allow the seller to assure the buyer that business assets such as the allotment of residential beds would stay with the business through the transfer of the ownership.
We'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Rice has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the
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bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is passed into House Bill 1706. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voting? Is everyone voting? Cast the ballots to 92, 93, yeas, 0, nays, and 0. President, you
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have passed the bill. Read House Bill 1749. House Bill 1749 by Representative Broadway to permit direct shipment of Venice
liquor from a winery to Arkansas residence.
Representative Broadway recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Mary Broadaway
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I will say it's an honor to be asked by the Speaker to present this bill. What this bill does, it allows a winery to ship one case per quarter to the home of a purchaser. Purchasers must be at the winery premises at the time of the purchase. This promotes tourism. It allows visitors to get a souvenir home.
It allows shipping in two states from outside of the state. Distributors and wine vendors will benefit from requests to order wines that may be discovered but are not currently sold. This bill is very strict. There are no Internet or phone orders. The label required at this time of shipping will come from the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Commission website relating to tracking the transaction and collecting the tax data.
I would appreciate a good vote on this bill. Thank you. Representative
Meeks, for what purpose? Representative Broadway has explained the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question
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before the House is passage of House Bill 1749. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted?
cast the ballots to 78 yeas, 9 nays, and 3 present.
You pass the bill. Representative Baird, you're recognized. After
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the announcements, reading of the bills, placing the calendars on the desk, amending members on bills with their own amendments, members withdrawing their own bills, finalizing resolutions, reading communications, and any remaining committee reports, I move we adjourn until 1.30 tomorrow. Proper motion
on debate. All in favor say aye. All opposed, nay. House Abbott, motion carries. Any announcements? Representative Burris, you recognize.
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Public Health, 10 a.m. in the morning. Representative Collins,
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you recognize. The Revin Tax Committee will not meet tomorrow, Tuesday. Our next meeting will be 10 a.m.
on Thursday. Member, I'm going to make an announcement. After the announcements, I'm going to read our, we're going to keep the desk open until 4 o'clock today. The bill filing deadline is unrelated to the time on which we keep the desk open for reading of the bills. The bill filing deadline is 5 p.m., and the important thing is the time stamp that you get the window back here.
Is that clear? I'm going to keep it open at 4, but 5 o'clock is your trigger date. Representative McElroy, you're
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recognized for an announcement. Announcement, please. I've got a group from southeast Arkansas that's going to host lunch tomorrow at the Capitol Hill Apartments, and they have a nice piece of pottery with your name on it, and it's really beautiful, and I would really appreciate it if you show up, and they really went through a lot of time and effort. Thank you so much. Representative Bain, you recognize.
Representative John Baine
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Clarification, are all resolutions due by 5 o'clock today as well? That's correct.
Chair
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Representative Gillum, you recognize. Thank you, Mr.
Representative Jeremy Gillam
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Speaker. Colleagues, for those that will be playing on our basketball team, we have practice tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. You can see me or Representative Malone or Coach Deffenbaugh for the location. But it is imperative if you are going to play this time that you show up at this practice. We are not going to play people who have not been practicing at all. Thank you.
Representative Duncan Baird
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Representative Baird, you recognize. Joint budget meeting tomorrow morning, 9 a.m.,
Representative Tommy Wren
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Big Mac 8. Representative Wren, you recognize. Mr. Speaker, the Arkansas Farmers Association will may announce their reception tomorrow evening from 6 to 8 at Trap, North Hall.
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Representative McLean, you recognize. House Education will meet tomorrow at 10, room 138. Representative Barnett, you recognize. House Transportation
Chair
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tomorrow at 10, Big Mac. Representative Wilkins, I apologize, you recognize.
Representative Butch Wilkins
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Special language tomorrow morning, 7.30. Are there any other announcements?
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Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1853. Objection, read it again. House Bill 1853. Public
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Health. House Bill 1854. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1854. Insurance and Commerce.
House Bill 1855. Objection, read the bill again. House Bill 1855. Eight agencies. Without objection, read it again. Judiciary. House Bill 1857. Without objection, read it again. Transportation. House Bill 1858. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1858. Education. House Bill 1859. the bill again houseville 1859 state agencies houseville 1860 without objection read again
houseville 1860 state agencies houseville 1861 without objection read
it again houseville
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1861 agri forest and economic development house bill 1862 without objection read again houseville 1862 Education Hasville 1863 Hasville 1863 Education Hasville 1864 Education
Hasville 1865 Hasville 186 Revenue tax House bill 1867. Without objection, read the bill again. House bill 1867. Judiciary. House bill 1868. Without objection, read the bill again. House bill 1868. Public health. House bill 1869. Without objection, read the bill again. House bill 1869. Public health. House bill 1870. Without objection, read the bill again.
House bill 1870. Agri. House bill 1871. Without objection, read the bill again. House bill 1871. Public health. House Bill 1872 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1872 Rules House Bill 1873 Without objection, read the bill again Bill 1873 Education House Bill 1874 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1874 Public Health House Bill 1875 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1875
Agencies House Bill 1876 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1876 . . . .
Representative Andy Davis
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Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill
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1880. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1880. Transportation. House Bill 1881. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1881. Public Health. House Bill 1882. without objection read it again house bill 1882 education house bill 1883 without objection read
it again house bill 1883 education house bill 1884 without objection read it again house bill 1884 agri house bill 1885 without objection read it again house bill 1885 agri house bill 1886 without objection. Read it again. House bill 1886. State agencies. House bill 1887. Without objection. Read it again. House bill 1887. Agri. House bill 1888. Without objection. Read
it again. House bill 1888. City county local. House bill 1889. Without objection. Read it again. House bill 1889. Agri. House bill 1890. Without objection. Read it again. House House Bill 1890. Agrod. House Bill 1891. Without objection. Read it again. House Bill 1891. Public Health. House Bill 1892. Without objection. Read
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it again. House Bill 1892. State agencies. House Bill 1893. Hold up.
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Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1893. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1893.
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Education. House Bill 1894. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1894. Education. House Bill 1895. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1895. State agencies. House Bill 1896
Without objection read it again House Bill 1896 Education House Bill 1897 Without objection read it again House Bill 1897 Education House Bill 1898 Without objection read it again House Bill 1898 Public Health House Bill 1899 Without objection read it again House Bill 1899 House Bill 1900
Without objection, read it again House Bill 1900 Judiciary House Bill 1901 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1901 Public Health House Bill 1902 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1902 Education House Bill 1903 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1903 Transportation House Bill 1904 Without objection, read it again
House Bill 1904 Transportation House Bill 1905 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1905 Aging House Bill 1906 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1906 Eight agencies House Bill 1907 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1907 Judiciary House Bill 1908 Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1908. Insurance and Commerce. House Bill 1909.
Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1909. Aging and Children. House Bill 1910. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1910. Education. House Bill 1911 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1911 Education House Bill 1912
Without objection, read it again House Bill 1912 Education House Bill 1913 Without objection, read it again House Bill 1913 State agencies House bill 1914 Without objection read it again House bill 1914 Agra House bill 1915 Without objection read it again House bill 1915 Agra House bill 1916 Without objection read it again House bill 1916 Agra House bill 1917
Without objection read it again House bill 1917 Agra House bill 1918 Without objection read it again House bill 1918 1918. City County Local. House Bill 1919. Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1919. Agra. House Bill 1920.
Without objection, read it again. House Bill 1920. Judiciary. House Bill 1921.
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Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1921. Without objection, read the bill again. House Bill 1921. Transportation. House Bill 1922. Without objection, read the bill again.
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Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1922. Without objection, read
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the bill again. House Bill 1922. Rules. House Bill 1923.
Representative Bill Gossage
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without objection read the bill
Chair
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again mr. clerk house bill 1923 rules house bill 1924 without
objection mr. clerk read the bill again house bill 1924 rules house bill 1925 without objection read the bill again mr. 1925 rules house bill 1926 without objection read the bill
Representative Bill Gossage
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again mr House Bill 1926. Revenue
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and tax. House Bill 1927. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1927. Education. House Bill 1928. Without
Representative Bill Gossage
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objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk.
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House Bill 1928. Insurance and commerce. House Bill 1929. Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1929. Public health. House Bill 1930. Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1930 Public Health House Bill 1931 Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1931 Agri, Forestry, Economic Development House Bill 1932 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again.
House Bill 1932 City, County, Local House Bill 1933 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1933 Insurance and Commerce House Bill 1934 Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk House Bill 1934 Public Health House Bill 1935 Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk House Bill 1935 Public Health House Bill 1936 Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk
House Bill 1936 Insurance and Commerce House Bill 1937 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1937 Judiciary House Bill 1938 Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk House Bill 1938 Education House Bill 1939 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1939 Education House Bill 1940 Without objection, read the bill again, Mr. Clerk House Bill 1940
Aging children and youth House Bill 1941 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1941 Education House Bill 1942 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1942 Education House Bill 1943 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1943 Education House Bill 1944 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1944 Educate House Bill 1945
Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again House Bill 1945 Education House Bill 1946 Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1946 Insurance and Commerce House Bill 1947 Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1947 Rules House Bill 1948 Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1948 Education House Bill 1949 Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the
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bill again. House Bill 1949 Rules
House Bill 1950 Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill
Representative Bill Gossage
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1950, State Agents, House Bill
Chair
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1951, Without Objections, Ms. Clerk, read
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the bill again, House Bill 1951, Judiciary, House Bill 1952, Without Objection, Ms. Clerk, read the bill again, House Bill 1952, Rules, House Bill 1953, Without Objection, Ms. Clerk, read the bill again, House Bill 1953, Rules, House Bill 1954, Without Objection, Ms. Clerk, read the bill again, House Bill 1954, State Agents, House Bill 1950,
1955. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1955. Judiciary. House Bill 1956. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1956. Judiciary. House Bill 1957. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1957. Public head. House Bill 1958. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1958. Public head. House Bill 1959. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the
Representative Bill Gossage
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bill again. House Bill 1959.
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Public health. House Bill 1960. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1960. Rules. House Bill 1961. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1961. Insurance and comp. House Bill 1962. Without objection, Mr. Clark, read the bill again. House Bill 1962. Aging children and youth. House Bill 1963. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill 1963
State agency House bill 1964 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill 1964 State agencies House bill 1965 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill 1965 Public health House bill 1966 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill 1966 Revenant tax House bill 1967 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1967 Agri, Forestry, and Economic Development
House Bill 1968 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1968 Public help House Bill 1969 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1969 City, County, Local House Bill 1970 Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1970 Rules House Bill 1971 House Bill 1971 House Bill 1971 Judiciary House Bill 1972 House Bill 1972
Judiciary House Bill 1973 House Bill 1973 Judiciary House Bill 1974 House Bill 1974 Rules House Bill 1975 within the bill again House Bill 1975 Judiciary With objections, Mr. Clark, read the bill again House Bill 1976 Revenue tax
House Bill 1977 Without objections, Mr. Clark, read the bill again House Bill 1977 State agencies Without objections, Mr. Clark, read the bill again 78. City, county, local. House bill, 1979. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill, 1979. Education. House bill, 1980. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill, 1980. Revenue and tax. House bill, 1981. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill, 1981. Revenue and tax. House bill, 1982. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House bill, 1982.
Agroforestry and Economic Development. House Bill 1983. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the bill again. House Bill 1983. State agencies. House Bill 1984. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the
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bill again. House Bill 1984. State agencies. House Bill 1985. Thank you.
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Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1985. Without objection, read the bill again. House Bill 1985. Transportation. House Bill 1986
Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1986 Revenue and tax House Bill 1987 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1987 Rules House Bill 1988
Chair
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Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1988
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Aging children in legislative House Bill 1889 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1889 City County Local Affairs House Bill 1990
Chair
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Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1990 Judiciary House Bill 1991 Without
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objection, read the bill again House Bill 1991 Education House Bill 1992 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1992 Transportation House Bill 1993 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1993 Judiciary House Bill 1994 Without objection, read the bill again
House Bill 1994 Public Health House Bill 1995 Without objection, read the bill again House
Chair
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Bill 1995 Judiciary House Bill 1996 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 1996 Judiciary House Bill 1997 Without objection, read the bill again. House Bill 1997 Transportation House Bill 1998
Without objection, read the bill again. House
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Bill 1998 Rules House Bill 1999 Without objection, read the bill again. House Bill 1999 Transportation House Bill 2000 Without objection, read the bill again. House Bill 2000 Judiciary House Bill 2001 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2001 Agri-Forestry and Economic Development House Bill 2002
Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2002 Revenue and Tax House Bill 2003 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2003 Agri-Forestry and Economic Development House Bill 2004 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2004 Public Health House bill 2005 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2005 Revenue and tax House bill 2006 Without objection, read the bill again
House bill 2006 Transportation House bill 2007 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2007 State agencies House bill 2008 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2008 Transportation House bill 2009 Without objection read the bill again House bill 2009 Insurance and commerce House bill 2010
Without objection read the bill again House bill 2010 Aging children House bill 2011 Without objection read the bill again House bill 2011 Public Health House bill 2012 without objection read the bill again House bill 2012 public health House bill 2013 without objection read the bill again House bill 2013 Transportation House bill 2014 without objection read the bill again House bill 2014 judiciary
House bill 2015 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2015 Date Agencies House bill 2016 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2016 Judiciary House bill 2017 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2017 Date Agencies House Bill 2018
Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2018 Judiciary House Bill 2019 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2019 Energy House Bill 2020 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2020 Education House Bill 2021 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2021 State agencies House Bill 2022 Without objection, read the bill again
House Bill 2022 Judiciary House Bill 2023 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2023 Education House Bill 2024 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2024 Agriculture, Forestry,
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2025 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2025 Rules House bill 2026 Without objection, read the bill again
House bill 2026 Revenue and tax House bill 2027 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2027 Rules House bill 2028 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2028 Insurance and Commerce House bill 2029 Without objection, read the bill again House bill 2029 Judiciary House Bill 2030 Without objection, read the bill again House Bill 2030 Rules House Bill 2030
HR 1036 Without objection, read the bill Read the resolution, please HR 1036 We can't hear
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you, buddy. Okay, 1036, aging children and youth.
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H.R. 1037. Without objection, read the resolution again. H.R. 1037. Rules. H.R. 1038. Without objection, read the resolution again. H.R. 1038. Education. H.R. 1039. Without objection, read the resolution again. H.R. 1039. Aging children and youth.
H.R. 1040. Without objection, read the resolution again. H.R. 1040. Aging children and youth. H.R. 1041. Without objection, read the resolution again. H.R. 1041. Aging children and youth. H.R. 1042. Without objection, read the resolution again. H.R. 1042.
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Aging children and youth. the desk will remain open for
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reading the bills until 4 p.m. today and upon completion of the
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items named in the adjourned resolution the house will be adjourned until 1 30 p.m. tomorrow Thank you.
Agenda
HR1034
HR1027
HB1197
HB1357
HB1446
HB1466
HB1029
HB1535
HB1350
HB1484
HB1505
HB1574
HB1694
HB1351
HB1572
HB1635
HB1025
HB1566
HB1704
HB1705
HB1684
HB1706
HB1749
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Representative Tommy Wren
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