February 27, 2013
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Bills discussed (18)
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HB1306
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
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HB1430
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…general improvement appropriations with the exception of 1, HB 1430. But all these bills were requested by a governor's letter…”
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HB1431
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1431”
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HB10
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ion for the House is the override of the governor's veto of House Bill 10-37, for President Sheehan Square. Senator voted. Senator vo…”
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HB1123
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1123”
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HB1125
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1125”
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HB1420
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…a regular drop-down by the calendar or later consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1…”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1421
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…drop-down by the calendar or later consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1…”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1422
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…n by the calendar or later consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1…”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1423
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…calendar or later consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1424
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…or later consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1425
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1427
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…tion. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,”
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HB1428
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1429
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,”
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HB1436
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1436”
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HB1471
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1471”
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SB74
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Speaker 3
9:30
through this chain. It went to the governor's desk. And it's a good bill. It's a bill that studies babies last. These aren't just babies. These are babies that are capable of feeling pain if the limits used to abort those pregnancies are excruciatingly painful. This is a constitutional bill. I disagree with the governor when he says that it is not constitutional. I agree with the federal court, the U.S. district
Chair
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9:50
court in Arizona that we the rule of that Arizona's law, which is very similar to this, is constitutional.
We're not passing bad law here. We're passing good law. I would ask that you would overturn this veto. I respect the legislative process greatly. I respect the authority of the Governor to veto this bill. I also respect the authority of this General Assembly, as part of that legislative process, to override the bill. Eight of us voted in favor of this.
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10:35
Fifty-five of us have our names on this bill, as co-sponsors of this bill. The eight of us in this chamber voted for it represent more than 2.3 million Arkansans. Your constituents will allow you to come here and reflect their views. This is a criminalized state. This is a criminalized bill. It is a constitutional bill. Folks, if we're talking about overriding veto law, a tax bill, or whether we should pollinate our water,
Speaker 21
11:11
That'd be one thing. This is not just an irregular will. It's one that has an eternal impact on each of us and
Chair
Unverified
11:24
each of those children. I would ask that you help us over time.
override. Does anyone wish to speak against the override? For override. Representative Alexander, who recognizes to speak for the override.
Representative Randy Alexander
Unverified
12:01
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, as you know, I've
Speaker 30
12:06
been gone for a few days and I appreciate the kind words from any of you.
But when I returned today, I heard what we were voting on. I
Speaker 31
12:16
really wasn't worried about that given the fact that he was voting for a couple of weeks ago. But I'm told that many of my colleagues are under quite a bit of pressure from our
Speaker 21
12:35
governor to change the vote. I guess I understand that. But, as Representative Mayberry has already stated, this is not just another vote.
Speaker 30
12:44
This vote is about life and death. I understand that people could come
Speaker 21
12:53
to different conclusions about whether Roe v. Wade is appropriate. I
Speaker 31
13:00
get that. But I have a very difficult time understanding how someone could vote for a bill
Speaker 21
13:07
like this one week and against it the next. I don't care who's leaning on me.
This is not a vote about, I don't want to characterize it. And it is a vote about a very important matter, and it's a vote on principle. If the votes are dissimilar than they were previously, I
Speaker 31
13:40
have to wonder about that. If you were pro-choice, why would you vote for this bill in the first place? If you're pro-life, why would you not vote for it again?
You know, at the end of our time serving in government, whether that's two years or 30 years, however much it is, I don't think we're going to look back on our career and say, I'm sure glad I made it the way the governor wanted me to, or any other group. I think we're going to want to be able to look ourselves in the eye and mirror and say, I did the best thing for my constituents, for the people of this state.
And I was true to the principles that I told people I had when I came into office. I worked in higher education for 35 years in public universities. During that time, I watched a tremendous swing in the attitude of students, for college students toward abortion. It went from a point where almost all of them accepted it to a point where a growing majority of them oppose it.
When you think about that, I don't think that's surprising. I'm old enough to remember a real big way. The question was not a woman's right to choose. The question was, when does life begin? And the resulting decision that came out of
Speaker 30
15:11
that was a reflection that the Supreme Court admitted we don't know when life begins. But that's not as true now as it was then. Most of the
Speaker 31
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college students alive today, when they asked to see the first picture that
was ever taken of them, it's a sign grant. When we made the decision, when the decision was made about Roe v. Wade, we didn't have that kind of technology. I believe this is changing in our country and it's going to continue to change. Because I believe that, I disagree with people
Speaker 21
15:57
who say there are two fundamental positions on this. They're not, there are three fundamental positions on this.
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16:02
You are either pro-life or you fall in the middle of two pro-choice camps. One group says, I can support abortion up to this point in time, and that point in time, of course, will vary from individual to individual. But they support it up to this point in time because they believe, by whatever criteria is important to them, religious, scientific, medical, whatever, if they believe up to this point
Speaker 31
16:32
I just don't believe it's really a baby the other group says it doesn't matter I'm pro-choice it's a baby if it's not a baby it doesn't matter that's a pretty tough position to hold so I ask you this if you became convinced in your own heart and mind that at this point this was a baby will you still be pro-choice? That will tell you what you can't do around.
A few of my colleagues are concerned that this is going to be a close vote. I don't think so. I have a higher opinion of this than that. And if you really think I'm a lot of pressure, if you'd like to join a party where you will not be pressured to vote against your core principles, I think I speak for my help with your colleagues. Thank you. First, Representative Alexander has spoken in favor of override this meeting. We speak against override.
Chair
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17:42
For override. First, may I hear you close. And question for the House is the override of the governor's veto of House Bill 10-37, for President Sheehan Square. Senator voted. Senator voted. Cast the ballot of 53 A's, 28-0 present.
Speaker 58
18:13
I'll go first. When you go to the mayor of your office, Mr. , help with Dr. I'm here to celebrate the sexuality and South color. Our confidence is to enjoy that. Thank you, Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Mr. President, I would like to thank you, Dr. Dr. Dr. I just wanted to use your budget and sort of encourage everybody else to explain the bill.
Speaker 46
18:49
Good afternoon, members. It really was not my plan to have to follow that. But here are a couple of bills for you this afternoon that are just basically clean up bills. This is actually suggested to
Speaker 60
19:18
me by the papers that aren't solved of the retirement system. Um, this is a bill that's already involved. Act 563 of 2011 is, uh, is this bill. And really all we're doing is getting back to me this session and asking me to help them use clean up language in the, in the bill itself.
Basically, the bill itself was where we are allowing
Speaker 59
19:31
two-for-one retirement years for mainly municipal and county elected officials who belong
Speaker 60
19:41
to this system. Previously, before we passed the
Speaker 46
19:47
bill in 2011, the second year did not cost anything. Now that the Act is passed, the second year has to have a contribution by the employee and the employer, okay?
Speaker 53
20:04
Just sounds reasonable. Always for those elected officials that elected Act of 2011. Let's go back and do anything for this.
Speaker 60
20:14
We're adding some, correct to the language, the impact statements that were done in this bill, were done with the assumption that it included non-participating and participating employees. And the report participating was inevitably left out of the Act last time around,
Unknown speaker
20:37
and we're adding that back in at April's request. The contribution for this is 2.5% for the employer and 2.5% for the employee for the second year. The second year, by the 11th official, is optional, okay? But again, all this building does, that's already involved, all this building does is correct the language that was left out before.
Chair
Unverified
21:08
Without any further questions. Seeing none, I appreciate your vote. Representative Carrick has explained the bill that he will always speak against the bill. Board will adopt a question for the House. Passed to House Bill number 23 for the Chiefs, fairer. Take the bill, take the bill, cast the bill to 82 days to 0 days to 0. The President is going to pass the bill to House Bill number 25.
Speaker 14
21:39
Thank you, Mr. Schmeaker. Members, this bill was requested by the Holiday Park Retirement
Speaker 60
21:54
System. What this bill, in essence, does, kind of clears up some situations that were kind of gray earlier,
Speaker 35
22:16
so there's no misunderstanding on the employer of the highway
Speaker 46
22:34
department's situation. Right now, a highway department employee, when they retire, some of them are trying to use their accrued vacation time to spike their amount being paid out to them at retirement and spike their time in the system.
If that makes sense, okay. All this bill does is aware of the fact that they can no longer use that build up of retirement as, I'm sorry, that build up out of vacation time and sick leave, long time,
Speaker 43
23:20
as part of their accreditation toward their retirement. And with that, I'll take questions. There are some labels for a purpose. I have a question. You're okay. Representative Bird, I ask you this in committee, and my concern about the bill is one or two things.
One is the state of the way to benefit through the retirees. The problem is they're not going to gain as much if they retire if
Speaker 43
23:39
pass it. And the second part of the year is emergency calls because it will go into effect by way. And then we saw employees in the other department who have planned on a certain duty of all the retirement. And now that I vote today at this same passage, like the department bill,
Speaker 59
23:57
employees don't have an adverse impact on those other department employees that they were not anticipating. So, that's a concern of mine, and that's why I'll probably be
Speaker 43
24:08
going to know. Do you agree with my analysis of the money taken out from the
Speaker 10
24:13
retirees and lawyers? I agree that it may
Speaker 60
24:17
be an information in their plans. Keep in mind that as the current demand, this is not something that the Honorable Department has given it as part of their retirement package. they probably should go ahead and use their vacation
Speaker 46
24:31
and now they're going to pay to their vacation time they just need to be able to add it in as part of their time on the job and what the highway department is more concerned about is extending their accreditation period than they are slacking the amount of money that they get on a monthly basis all they need is they'll have to spend And whenever they've got a month's
Speaker 72
25:00
worth of retirement time, I'm sorry, a month's worth of vacation time holds up, they will have to stay in as an employer a month longer.
Speaker 43
25:08
I can understand it, just because I think it's pretty strict with the purchase of calls here. But I think, and I'm not sure, but all of the public retirement systems treat Rob South America the same. Do you have any information on that? No, sir, I don't. I believe there's some language in there that you cannot go up to number 2%, but if they cover it that way, instead of
Speaker 59
25:32
just a blind kid for the bill, it's not a question for
Speaker 66
25:48
the House Passage of House Bill at 1125.
Chair
Unverified
25:54
So you will go ahead and cast a balance to 75 days, 3 days and 3 days, and you pass the bill on emergency calls, and you pass the bill on emergency calls,
Speaker 14
26:16
and you pass the bill on emergency calls. Episode 14, City Council, by the Council of the Committee, an act of oversight for remittance and preparation for 2013, because it's working this year.
Speaker 21
26:24
Representative, I would like to ask to explain the bill. Yes, Mr. Speaker, it brings the object to this,
Speaker 20
26:36
that there's no additional money, so I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
I remain with zero present if you pass the bill in the letters of calls.
Speaker 77
27:23
Please, Senator, thank you for all. Senator, Senator, do you have a number of purposes of the National and State Department of Nutrition and Dietetics? Senator, do you have a number of questions from the law? Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Callers, all of those who will change the name
Speaker 78
27:35
of the two organizations who serve the project and organization for purposes of these organizations in the code. It's the National and State Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The national organization changed their name. We swing, so state organization has changed their name to match that. And all of your employees reflect that in the code.
Speaker 58
27:50
The House of the Health Committee has decided to vaccinate. It must have two minutes and no roll call. I wish you let us have
Speaker 20
28:01
your own. Thank you. Mr. President, let us explain the bills in which state it gives to go on for a bill. If not, the question
Speaker 84
28:35
is for the House. Passed December 74th, the issue is started. Thank you.
The first item is an amendment to HB 1306. That amendment is actually
Speaker 77
28:41
stapled to the back of your calendar today. What this does, it adds a total of $12 million in appropriation only to
Speaker 4
28:47
the National Park Community College cash fund appropriation. The specific amounts are $1 million to operating expenses,
Speaker 84
28:53
$10 million to capital outlay, $1 million to debt service. We're going to have a total cash appropriation of $45.9 million. What this is,
Speaker 77
29:02
they have a millage election on April 9th,
but they just want to make sure they have an appropriation of the party. They're going to have a millage election that was just in that money. They should do what they need to do. So it's simply an amendment to the appropriation. We'll be able to still be in the budget committee, and so we'll still be coming back to the House floor at some point. So I'll be happy to answer any questions. Appreciate it. Representative Bayer, who may should put in the House of the 13th and 16th and 16th and 16th?
Speaker 76
29:40
Do you propose an amendment on favor? Say aye. Aye. We close, motion carries. We have a number one, Mr. Fair. No, you're going to ask the favor, Mr. Fair. Representative Bayer, displaying the numbers you wish to speak against the amendment, Over the amendment, if not a question for the House, is the option number number one, has to go 13 episodes on Thursday night. Are you opposed? Motion carries.
Speaker 20
30:13
Senator on to a person. Present there. Recognize. Thank
Speaker 84
30:23
you, Mr. Speaker. Members, in our next session, I'm sorry, next session, It's 21 bills. They are all general improvement appropriations with the exception of 1, HB 1430. But all these bills were requested by a governor's letter to the budget committee.
Speaker 77
30:39
The letter was approved, the bills were drafted, and the budget committee referred those out to the floor.
So we're going to match those together again today. If he wants to pass over one or pull one out to them separately, just let me know. So I'm going to go ahead and get started on that. Members, the issue of the
Speaker 82
31:11
passage of the appropriation bills and emergency clauses on the list before you, I'm going to read down the list of bills one by one by bill number. If there's no objection to the consideration of the bill, it will be removed from the list and placed on a regular drop-down by the calendar or later consideration. HB 1420, HB 1421, HB 1422, HB 1423, HB 1424, HB 1425, HB 1427, HB 1428, HB 1429, HB 1430,
HB 1431, HB 1432, HB 1433, HB 1434, HB 1435, HB 1436. We have 14
Speaker 3
32:18
votes, 6 out of the batch.
All right, we'll pull HB 1436 out of the match. Continuing again with this, HB 1437, HB 1452, HB 1453, HB
Speaker 82
32:39
1454, and HB 1455. We're wondering whether we'll be recorded on each bill and each emergency clause after they've been read it
Speaker 77
32:49
for the third time. So, Mr. Speaker, I invite you to
Speaker 58
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direct the clerk to read the bills for the third time.
Mr. Clerk, read
Speaker 88
33:05
the bills for the third time. House of 1420. House of 1421. House of 1422. House of 1423. House of 1424. House of 1425. how so 1427, how so 1428, how so 1429, how so 1430, how so 1432, how so 1433, how so
1334, Household 1435, Household 1437, Household 1452, Household 1453, Household 1454, and Household 1455. The grab machine is third. Second moment. 2,000. You will
Speaker 66
33:55
pass the bill in the emergency process.
Speaker 77
34:19
Representative Peter, take up the other two. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, we'll go back to H.C. 1431, which is the very first bill that we pulled out of the patch. This is an appropriation for the Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Services. It's appropriation only. All of the general improvement bills will be funded in the letter days, and that would be a bill that we're going to run on.
Speaker 84
34:49
So this is a general improvement appropriation for the Department of Human Services. Do you have any questions? There is no purpose. Yes, sir. Is this for the sub-plus funding sub-plus for the $70 million? There's two amounts in there. There's a line item for $140 million and a line item for $160 million. So I would anticipate $140 million was there for the $70 million in the first year
and the $70 million in the second year.
Speaker 77
35:22
Well, once again, you know, it's appropriation only. This is the option of funding that. and it would be funded specifically for GIF, so it could
Speaker 82
35:30
be funded from the other sources. This bill is funded specifically from the general private fund. Yes.
Speaker 58
35:43
Thank you. What should I do? Purpose investment report. Right. Very close. It's surplus money we transferred to the U.S. Does it have any impact on moving surplus?
Speaker 82
35:52
this specific bill is not transferring funds it just gives the authority to spend up out of the general improvement funds so there's no other transfers there you know
Speaker 77
36:02
like I said we didn't have a general improvement funding bill in which we'll actually accept the funding at a later date in the session so everything will be funded
Speaker 3
36:10
through that should we vote Representative Baird has explained that there is a single mistake against the bill
Chair
Unverified
36:29
for the question for the house, pass it to the hospital, or take it
Speaker 76
36:53
if you want, and the machine is cleared Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Speaker 62
37:06
The next bill is 1436, and this is an appropriation only for the Arkansas building with already $40 million in
Speaker 72
37:16
total appropriation. Once again, it's from the General Freedman Fund, which will set those priorities later in this session. Mr. Freedman has about 1436. That's the 1436. Thank you, Mr. Freedman has
Speaker 58
37:25
about 1436. Thank you, Mr. Freedman has about 1436. Thank you, Mr. Freedman has about 1436. Thank you, Mr. Freedman has about 1436. I'm very excited to see when we speak against the mail or bail.
Chair
Unverified
37:40
I have a question for the House of Passes. The House of Passes is clear. So I'm ready for the mail on the emergency clause. Cast a ballot to 788-08-2010. You're a person who passes the mail on the emergency clause. There's no vote for you, Mr. President.
Speaker 84
38:10
After the announcements reading of the bills, placing the counters 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 to adjourn until 1.30 of the
Speaker 59
38:27
hour. Thank you, Mr. Peter. Our Department of Agriculture Secretary, please call me in.
Chair
Unverified
38:42
And inform me that in our member area, there are bags, sweet potatoes, rice, honey, other gifts. Members feel free to let them check those if they're going out of anything. But those are up in the old, and there's some family raising. Hey, excuse me, education, what do you want me to have? It's a really long time. Representative Kyle, do you recognize? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's no red in 10XVs tomorrow, but all committee members can settle up for next week as we're going to be in control.
Representative Kyle, do you recognize? Public health is going to be tomorrow at the regular base. Representative Kyle, do you recognize? Adopt, energy will have a dinner and a half, and the bar we do at 6 o'clock. Representative Kyle, do you recognize? Joint Budget Committee will meet tomorrow morning at 8
Speaker 84
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o'clock in the runway at Big Mac. It's also a member's day, so if you have any amendments or appropriations, those will be on the calendar morning. Condominate directions. Transportation, 1 o'clock.
Speaker 88
39:54
Any other questions? Staying on. House Bill
Speaker 100
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Agenda
Prayer & Pledge
Committee Reports
HB1123
HB1125
HB1471
SB74
HB1306
Budget Batch
HB1431
HB1431
HB1436
Announcements
Reading of the Bills
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