Boys State June 1, 2012
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Bills discussed (12)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1001
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1001 An Act to Implement a Graduated Tuition Scale”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1002
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB 1002 An Act to Legalize Medical Marijuana”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1003
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB 1003 An Act to Amend Arkansas Lunches”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1004
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1004 An Act to Require Oil and Gas Companies to Post a Bond”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1005
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1005 An Act to Create a Tax Credit for Small Businesses”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1006
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB 1006 An Act to Regulate the Amount of Time to Cross a Two-Lane R…”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1007
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1007 An Act to Regulate the Receipt of Public Assistance”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1008
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1008 An Act to Decriminalize the Possession and Sale of Cannabis”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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SB2
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB2 An Act to Legalize Medical Marijuana”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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SB4
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB4 An Act to Require Oil and Gas Companies to post a bond”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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SB5
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB5 An Act to Create a Tax Credit for Small Businesses”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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SB6
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB6 An Act Concerning Two-Lane Roads”
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Pre-2017 bill |
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equal number of citizens. Speaker of the House, elected by fellow members, presides over the sessions. Besides meeting as a body, representatives serve on two of ten standing committees during and between sessions. These committees address every issue of importance to our Kansans, from our children's education to banking laws and from the courts to agriculture. Certain House members also serve on five joint committees along with members of the state Senate, the other body of our legislature. These committees deal with everything from
the state's budget to energy and information technology. Sessions of the House are interesting and informative to watch. You're welcome to visit the viewing gallery high above the House floor to get a bird's eye view of your state representatives and democracy in action. After all, it's your House. You elect its members and they meet to represent you. If you can't To observe the sessions in person, you can follow news coverage gathered here at the Media Gallery. And every session is broadcast live on television and on the House website for your viewing.
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We invite you to learn more at www.arkansashouse.org. And get involved. It's your house. Welcome. Every Arkansan
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has a house right inside the state capitol, the Arkansas House of Representatives. And what happens in this house affects the lives of everyone in our state, as it has for nearly two centuries.
The Arkansas legislature began meeting back in 1820, nearly two decades before Arkansas became a state. In fact, the territorial legislature was instrumental in helping Arkansas State with in 1836. For 18 years, the House of Representatives met in what we now call the old State House. In 1911, the House relocated to the then-unfinished State Capitol, where it is still at work today.
There are 100 members of the House of Representatives who meet here in the House Chamber every year. Each is elected for up to three two-year terms and represents a district or a state and an equal number of citizens. The Speaker of the House, elected by fellow members, presides over the sessions. Besides meeting as a body, representatives serve on two of ten standing committees during and between sessions. These committees address every issue of importance to Arkansans, from our children's education to banking laws and from the courts to agriculture.
Certain House members also serve on five joint committees along with members of the State Senate, the other body of our legislature. These committees deal with everything from the state's budget to energy and information technology. Sessions of the House are interesting and informative to watch. You're welcome to visit the viewing gallery high above the House floor and get a bird's-eye view of your state representatives and democracy in action. After all, it's your house. You elect its members, and they meet to represent you.
If you can't observe the sessions in person, you can follow news coverage gathered here in the Media Gallery. And every session is broadcast live on television and on the House website for your
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viewing. We invite you to learn more at www.arkansanahouse.org. And get involved. It's your
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house. Welcome. Every Arkansan has a house right inside the state capitol, the Arkansas House of Representatives.
And what happens in this house affects the lives of everyone in our state, as it has for nearly two centuries. The Arkansas legislature began meeting back in 1820, nearly two decades before Arkansas became a state. In fact, the territorial legislature was instrumental in helping Arkansas get a state bill in 1836. For 80 years, the House of Representatives met in what we now call the Old State House.
In 1911, the House relocated to the then-unfinished state capitol, where it is still at work today. There are 100 members of the House of Representatives who meet here in the House chamber every year. Each is elected for up to three two-year terms and represents a district of the state and an equal number of citizens. The Speaker of the House, elected by fellow members, presides over the sessions. Besides meeting as a body, representatives serve on two of ten standing committees during and between sessions.
These committees address every issue of importance to our Kansans, from our children's education to bank applause and from the courts to agriculture. Certain House members also serve on five joint committees along with members of the State Senate, the other body of our legislature. These committees deal with everything from the state's budget to energy and information technology. technology. Sessions of the House are interesting and informative to watch. You're welcome to visit the viewing gallery high above the House floor and get a bird's eye view of your state
representatives and democracy in action. After all, it's your house. You elect its members and they meet to represent you. If you can't observe the sessions in person, you can follow news coverage gathered here at the Media Gallery. And every session is broadcast live on television and on the house website for your viewing. We
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invite you to learn more at www.arkansashouse.org. Get involved. It's your house. Welcome.
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Gentlemen, welcome. Come in and take a seat. If you're an officer, come forward, please. As you enter on your desk there, there's a document lying there, and it's entitled The General Procedures for Arkansas Boys Day. For those of you in here, begin to read that now, and I'll talk with you a little bit about it when we all get settled. If your seatmate comes and sits beside you, you can tell him to read it. Okay, we need the officers
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down here, please. If you're an officer, come forward. Bo Smith, Christopher Allen.
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You are? Christopher Allen, okay, let me see. Okay.
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Jackson Mead, Juan Lopez, Daniel Wigley, Aaron
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Dempsey, I call your name, come forward.
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If you're a member, come in, take a seat, any seat, it's not occupied. Yes,
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sir, you are. Jackson, she? Jackson, me? Okay, Jackson. You go
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up there where he is. Well, no, let's see. Hey, John? Where's John? John's not
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here. Emily and I are sitting here. Well, he's a chaplain. He's a chaplain.
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Yes, sir, what's your name? What's your name? Okay. Sherry. Hey, Sherry. I'm sorry. Get
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with her, please. Another name. What's his name? What's your name, sir? Hey. What was his name?
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Let me check your name real quick. Joshua Ammons. You're who? Joshua Ammons. Okay. So we're going to be the Senate's passenger
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to the House. Your name's who? Trenton. Oh, right here,
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Trenton. Cheek. That's who we are.
Okay, okay, you go up there, up there where they are,
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podium. Okay, we need Juan Lopez. You're Juan Lopez? Juan Lopez. Okay, we've
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he's a reading clerk. Come on in, gentlemen, have a
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seat. Take any seat not occupied.
If you're an officer, come forward. Bo Smith, while we're waiting, I invite you again. There's a document on your desk called General Procedures for Arkansas Boys State House of Representatives. Please read that while you're there. And also, right behind that, there's a yellow sheet that has the motions that we're going to be using here today limited.
That's only 11 there. The House rule book is about a half-inch thick, so you can tell that's a very condensed version. But those are the ones that will be practical to us here. The one you'll probably be using the most there today is media consideration, but you'll get into that a little bit later. We still need these officers. Bo Smith, Juan Lopez, Daniel Wigley.
Okay, I guess we'll start. Hopefully they'll show up. Okay, gentlemen, welcome to the House of Representatives, and congratulations on your election to the House for Boys' State. It's a very, very worthwhile program, and not worth anything to any of you all, but it is to me. This is my 39th year to work with Girls' State and Boys' State, so I probably was here before some of you were born, I reckon. Yeah, I imagine so. Okay. I want to go through these procedures with you briefly that I advised you to read just a minute ago, and one of them is recognition.
Recognition allowed to you is only through the Speaker of the House, and he will be sitting up there, and I'll use you for a demonstration here. Recognition, I want
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to ask a question, do whatever. Should you stand at your feet? The Speaker
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makes a determination on whether he wants to recognize you or not. You don't
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have to worry about turning that microphone on and off. The Clerk over here handles that. If you're recognized, duly recognized, he'll turn it on. And if you're not, well, you won't be turned on and nobody can hear you.
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So recognition, then, is only you can use your microphone only to talk to the speaker, to ask questions of the person who's down here in the house. You can't use your
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microphone to communicate from member to member across the aisles and so forth and so on. And when you come down to explain the bill, then we want you to explain it, please, in your own words. don't come down here and read it. We can all read. Everybody can read. So tell us with emphasis, you know, what you think your bill does and why you want people to
support it and what it does. When you're down here at the well of the house, this is what this is called. This is where you have to come to present a bill. This opens you up to the rest of
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the delegation. So the rest of you out there, if someone's here presenting a bill and you want to ask a question, even while he's presenting it, stand up with your microphone and at an appropriate time the speaker will ask you what purpose and you say, I want to ask him a question, and then the speaker will recognize you, the clerk will activate the microphone, and you can ask the questions that way. We invite you, please, to ask questions about this.
Find out what goes on about these bills. If there's
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an expenditure of money, find out where the money's coming from and find out how much it is and those kind of things that are important because that's what the members have to do when they're here. Okay? When debate, Bill, you can
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only ask questions from out there. In debate, we have for and against. We initially begin with the presentation of the bill. And then after that, that person takes his seat. And then if someone wants to speak against the bill, they're recognized.
And then we go back to for and go back to against and go back and for and alternate until we've exhausted the debate. And then we will vote on the bill. Making motions. If you have a motion you want to make, you stand out there to be recognized the same as you would any place else. We have members here, as you may have gotten involved with some of them yesterday, and they're going to be helping you. And at this time, then, I'm going to introduce the chairman of the Boys State Committee, the Honorable Representative Jonathan Barnett, who will introduce the rest of the committee.
Representative Jonathan Barnett
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Mr. Barnett. Good morning. Good to see you all today. You all get a good night's rest. Everybody slept good and had a good breakfast and good calisthenics, and you're ready to make legislation, right? Okay, good deal. Well, we're glad you're here. This is kind of our home away from home, and this is a place where policy is made and law is made
and great, great debate is made from this podium right here. and hopefully one of these days for real you guys will get a chance to be a process be a part of the process i think you'll enjoy it very much and today is just the beginning of many many many great things in your life and like i say we're very glad to have you all in the chamber today and we want you to have a good time we want you to learn something and we look forward to your participation we have some of the same people here with us today that we had yesterday and they're
We're here to assist you in any way. If you have a question, be sure and get one of them to come over and help you out. They'll all be glad to do that. Randy Stewart's right here. Randy. Randy's from Kirby. And Randy's term limited. We have term limits. He won't be back next session. He serves six years. So we're real proud of Randy. And Randy is a big NRA guy and has a lot of guns. And if you want to talk about guns or any gun rights, he's an instructor. he's the man right here. And Nate Steele. Nate Steele's right here. Nate is an attorney
in the Nashville area. Weren't you a deputy prosecutor as well? Deputy prosecutor. And if you sell that marijuana stuff, he will prosecute you. So make no bones about that. But until you make it legal, and he might fight you on that one too, but he will come after you. Nate is a freshman. He's a very, very highly respected member of this body, even as a freshman coming in.
And he serves his constituents very well, and you'll be well served if you get to know that young man and ask him some questions. Let's see. What's your name? I'll come back to you because you're too powerful. I want to... Stephen Meeks. Stephen's from the Conway area. Stephen will be serving your freshman.
He'll be serving his second time around. And Stephen sits back over here, and again, he is a very, very respected member of this body. and he can be very helpful to you today, and we're glad you're here, Stephen. Okay, Greg Letting. I'll come right back to him. Greg is from Fedville. At one point in time, I think he was competing for the youngest member of the house. I think he was 19 or something. How are you now? Are you older than that, right? 34.
Okay, he's grown up in his first session. He's in his first session. And Greg, again, is very well studied. He knows what's going on, and if you have a question, he can help you today as well. Representative Hammer, back here from the Benton, Saline County area, and again, he's in his freshman year. He is, again, very well studied, knows what's going on, very prepared.
You don't get much past Representative Hammer. He's aware of whatever bills come down the pike, and he's very studious and very informed and has really been a great member of this body, so we appreciate you. I don't introduce the speaker, do I? I don't get to introduce the speaker. Let me just say something good about him before you introduce him. The speaker of the house is here. He's from the Arkansas City area.
He's standing back here. He's usually up there, and when he's up there, we show him a lot of respect. When he's down here, he's just one of us. But he treats us as fellow comrades, and he's good to all the members of the house, and he gives us all an equal opportunity and a fair chance. So he'll be introduced in just a second, but his name is Robert Moore, so I want to be sure and point that out. So welcome. We're here to help you all in any way we can, and thanks for being here.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Is that it? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Barnett. Gentlemen, there are two historic milestones that are going to happen here today. One of them has never been done before, and the other
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one is somewhat unusual. But what has never been done before is today we're going to allow you to use the electronic voting machine in the process of voting. All the Boise states that have preceded you earlier have never used the electronic voting system because of its delicacy and it's so delicate and whatever we were always afraid to mishap or whatever. But today we're going to use them. So naturally if a bill's up for you and you want to vote for it, you're going to vote green. If you want to vote against it, you're going to vote red. And if you want to just vote present, you just push the yellow button, which means that I'm here but I don't want to vote.
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So please, if you will, don't tamper with the keys. They're set up now where they're in a voting mechanism, and so you don't
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need to mess with it. If you can change from one button to the other, you can go from red to green, back and forth. If you get a button down and you want to raise them all up, just push two of them at one time, and it'll clear the whole thing. Well, that's brand new for you, and we ask you, please, don't mess with the keys, if you will. And the second milestone is normally the speakers are not here. They're usually at other places, and the Speaker has it here today.
He had some obligations here at the Capitol, so it's going to be your privilege to be presenting the Speaker of the House, the current Speaker, who is Speaker Robert Moore from Arkansas
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City and Deshaies County. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Parliamentarian, and welcome to each one of you here. We're glad to have you in this chamber. There's an immense amount of history here. We're in our 101st year in this chamber, and almost half of it.
This guy that's been talking to you right here has been a part of it. Just so you'll remember the man that will be kind of running the show today, Mr. Massanelli, here has been a part of the legislative process, making sure that we do our job right here for 39 years. He is truly a legend in his own time, and the House of Representatives would not have the positive history that is carried with it for these many years had it not been in large part for his guide.
And so you're under some good tutelage today, and I know you're going to learn a lot, and you're going to have a good time. We're really happy you're here for a number of reasons. Number one, your presence here indicates you've got a lot of the right stuff in you. It means we look at you as young men who've made good decisions, who've taken advantage of opportunities that you've had, who are likely not afraid of a little hard work and studying to achieve a good education for the future,
and also that you have something in you that indicates you care about being involved and you care about your communities that you come from and your schools. And that's really important for your future, but it's important for us because you all are sitting out there looking at enjoying the last part of your time in high school, and we're looking at you as a generation that won't be too long before you'll be running the show. So we're glad that you're here to take advantage of this opportunity.
I know that you know there, aside from Mr. Barnett, who was talking to you a few minutes ago, who was quite an achiever many, many, many years ago when he went to Boys State and Boys Nation. But he was in the good stead of a couple other very important people that you know well, and that's former President Bill Clinton and former governor and real close to getting in the presidential seat himself, Governor Mike Huckabee,
who went through the same process that you did and used in part the foundation blocks, the experience that you're having here now, for the achievements that they reached. I want to thank all of our colleagues, my colleagues who are here taking their time to help you today. It's very important that you have contact with them. These are some of the best of the best, and I know they're anxious to make sure you have a good day today. On a close, just telling you there are a lot of rules in life,
and a lot of rules in life that apply to rules in politics, and something that we all got, you know, we kind of remember our rules and deal with them in a different way and how we discipline ourselves and move through our daily life, whether it's being a legislator or whether it's dealing with your family or dealing with your friends, your school, your business. But a couple of things that I found important to me, some of you might ponder and do the same thing, and that is I call them my three R's, and that's respect, respect for yourself and your colleagues out here
and how you do your business, responsibility, always taking responsibility for your actions as certainly you're held accountable for them, your responsibility to others, your friends, your family, or in this case here in the legislature, your colleagues. And perhaps sometime most important in reason, and that is that when you act, that you contemplate all of the information, make sure that you have all the information so that you do make good decisions.
There was a guy that some of you have heard of before, a guy named David Crockett, that once said, be sure you're right, then go ahead. And what I take that to mean, when you be sure you're right, that means that you digest and contemplate all the information and the consequences of your decision, and then you make a good decision and go ahead. Public service is a great honor. I hope that your experience here may lead some of you back here to be sitting out there as a legislature, legislator. It's a great experience.
It gives you an opportunity to help others to be meaningful in the process of determining the fate of your communities, your state, and the United States of America. So you can't have a higher goal than enjoying what you're doing today and maybe ponder that thought of coming back here someday. Thank you. I hope you have a great time today. Thank you,
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Mr. Speaker. A couple of cleanup measures. You are expected to abide by the same rules that the House does.
And we have a rule in here of no beverages of any kind, liquids of any kind in here. So I've been advised there are some water bottles around. If you're the owner of one of those, you need to take them out of the chamber, please, because of the disruption of the mechanism. Also, there's a blue sheet on your desk, and I'm going to call on the Director of Information for the House of Representatives, Ms. Cecily Pond-Mayo, to explain that blue document that's on your desk. Thank you.
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You all have this blue sheet on your desk, and if you just fill out all of the information, especially your address is the most important.
We'll mail you a DVD of all of the proceedings that are going on here today. It's of no cost to you. A couple of other things. I'm going to be taking a lot of pictures today. You'll find those on the House Facebook page. I'll try to get those loaded up by the end of the day. And also what we're doing here right now is live at ArkansasHouse.org. And you can also go back after today and you can watch it again then. But this is the most important thing. If you want the DVD, I need your complete address on this. And just leave it on your desk and I'll pick it up when you're done today. Good luck.
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thank you okay one more thing gentlemen the speaker was going to be recognizing you today
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by the member's name that's on your seat there sir you'll be cheatham and you'll be shepherd and why because that's
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the only way we have of knowing who you are and the clerk over here can activate also if you're wanting to speak for it against the bills and you're standing up out there from time to time if you want to speak for it you want to raise your thumb up like that and I do like that if you're against it, help the Speaker understand what you want to do and recognize the rotation of for and against.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Okay, are there any questions concerning any of this?
Remember, Mr. Barnett and the Speaker of Membership, Mr. Representative Barnett, and the rest of the membership that are here with Boyd State are here to
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help you all. So motion to them and ask anybody here if you have any questions or need any help. So if there's no questions, Mr. Speaker, as far as I'm concerned, we're prepared to start. I thank the
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delegation from the Senate here, so take it in whatever order you like. Thank
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you. The 2012 session of Arkansas Boys State will please come to order.
I invite the members, staff, and guests in the gallery to stand with me and be led in prayer by the House Chaplain, Jackson Meade, and remain
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standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, guys, please bow your head and pray with me. Most gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for giving us a chance to be here today and a chance to learn and be part of this great program. I also just thank you for giving us a great week to learn together and advance as people and leaders.
Representative Duncan Baird
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And I just ask that you would just keep us safe through this day and help us all get home safely. We ask these things in your name. Amen. Amen. And I would put your hand in with you. I would put your faces
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to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of the British States, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Mr. Speaker, the Senate delegation is here. Here I notice the Honorable Johnny Key is with them. He's a real senator,
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so I invite you to invite the Senate to enter and take the floor. The
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delegation of the Senate is recognized.
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Okay, I'm here to announce that the Senate is open and we're ready for business.
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Thank you. You may be seated. Okay, that's a procedure there where the Senate tells you,
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the House members, they're ready to do business and momentarily here to speak upon a delegation to do the same thing, which is in
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order right now. As the first order of business, the chair appoints the following members, Richard Barnes, Drake Penzo,
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and Hunter Redd, to notify the Senate that the House is organized and ready for business.
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You'll go with them, Randy. Okay. If you all, please, those names that have been
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called. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1001. Okay, you have the House
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Bill packets in front of you, and we're beginning the procedure. He's starting with House Bill 1001. You can follow through here with him.
Representative Duncan Baird
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House Bill 1001 by Representative Hero. for an act to be entitled, an act to be, an act to implement a graduated tuition scale at all state-supported institutions of higher education and for other purposes. Mr. Haro,
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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you're recognized to explain the bill.
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How are you guys doing? This bill pretty much says that what you're going to
Representative Bruce Westerman
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pay for your tuition when you go to secondary education in a state-run institution, you will pay your tuition based on a graduated tax system. That if you make this much, you're going to pay a percentage of that for your tuition. If you make more, the percentage will be the same, but you might pay more.
So everyone pays the same percentage of what they make for their college tuition, which is a fair way to make sure that everybody pays how they can for their secondary education. Any questions or anything like that? Representative Tyler, for what
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purpose? To ask a question. You're recognized. What is the exact percentage?
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That percentage is not stated in the bill. But,
Representative Bruce Westerman
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you know, I'm not really sure. That's a good question. So it's to be decided? Yes, I believe so. All right, I have no further questions. Anything
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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else, guys? Representative Lindsey, for what purpose do you rise?
Representative Stephanie Malone
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You're recognized. I would like to know, would this not abridge the rights of
Representative Bruce Westerman
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the schools in any way? not necessarily because when college tuition costs are rising higher than inflation rates that's just i believe a ridiculous way to put money in the person's pocket that is the president and on the board that decides that when you have to pay 10 times what it should be on
like when it raises up like 5% for the next year, that's just, I believe, ridiculous. When a college starts asking you to pay $1,000 more in tuition a year, when inflation only says it should rise $500, that's $500 more that a student has to pay that they shouldn't pay because of inflation. Does that answer your question?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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Representative Lampkin, for what purpose do you rise? To ask a
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question. You're recognized. I was wondering what the physical impact of the state is going to be for this bill and also the difference of the money that you will be spending to lower the cost for people, how that will be
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made up. I'm really sorry, but I didn't catch the first half
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of that because you restate that. Like the physical impact of the state, how is that? What is that going to be? Fiscal impact? Fiscal impact.
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You know, I'm really sorry, but I don't understand the question. So if you could reword it, that'd be great. I really don't get it. Oh, okay, okay. No, I don't think that the state will lose money. I think in the long run, more people will go to secondary education because of not having to pay one blanket fee, but each family will have to pay based on their taxes so
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more people could go, if that makes sense to you.
Representative Bruce Westerman
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Thank you. All right, thank you. All right, thanks, guys. I'd really
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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appreciate it if you vote for it. Mr. Haroz, explain the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill?
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Mr. Haro, would you like to close for the bill? the
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question before the house is passage of house bill 1001 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk
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Has everybody voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. by vote of 67 yay 31 nay and zero present the bill passes
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
36:05
okay gentlemen that's kind of the beginning of the way it works right there and we're going to proceed on this way, okay? Mr. Speaker, I call your attention to House Bill 1002, the one that's coming up next. Gentlemen, if you'll flip it one page, you'll see there's an
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amendment on it. Now, an amendment changes something that's already in the bill. My recollection's right. That amendment's going to affect line 21, and it's going to strike one word and add something else.
what you do is you digest that amendment in your mind and see if you think you'd like for it to be a part of the
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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36:44
bill because the amendment has to be presented first so on this bill here now we're going to start with that amendment first and
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you make a decision if you pass that amendment then it becomes a part of the bill and then we consider the bill if you don't pass the amendment then the bill
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is being considered just like it is there without the amendment everybody understand that? okay
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Read Amendment No. 1. Mr. Clerk, read Amendment No. 1.
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Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1002. Okay, that amendment is by, you
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
37:37
can see the bottom there, it seems like it's Kyle Kosar. Are you in here? It's your amendment, sir.
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Representative Kosar, you are recognized to explain the amendment. The
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amendment to House Bill 1002 is for the legalization of medical marijuana to make it
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only legal for the treatment of cancer and glaucoma. Would anybody like
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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to speak against the amendment?
for the amendment. The question for the House is passage of amendment number one on House Bill
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1002. All in favor, say aye. All opposed, nay. the ayes have it
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
38:53
all right all right gentlemen now right there you passed the amendment now it's going to be
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a part of the bill so when the presenters come down here to consider this bill you have to keep in mind that the application of the amendment is a part of the bill normally if this was the way the house function now you couldn't even vote on this bill this early it would go to an area we call engrossing, which would mean they would engross it into the bill, print it in there, type it in there, and then bring that new bill out on your desk, and you'd have to wait
until the next day. Since you're just going to be here one day, we're going to go ahead and consider the bill without this amendment going into engrossing. But I'm trying to explain to you that everything's documented up here, so the documentation of that amendment would actually be put in the bill before you could consider the bill the next day. Right
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now, we're on the bill, listen, as amended, right? or on the bill as amended. Everybody got that? Okay.
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Read House Bill 1002. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1002.
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
39:54
House Bill 1002 by Representative Couser, an act to legalize medical marijuana and
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for other purposes. Representative Couser, you're recognized to explain
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the bill. House Bill 1002 is for the legalization of medical marijuana for only the treatment of cancer and glaucoma patients.
No other patients will receive medical marijuana without these conditions. Are there any questions? Representative
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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40:35
Daffenbaugh, for what purpose do you rise? To ask a question, you're recognized. How much will
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currently not decided. It is open for debate. Representative Tyler,
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To ask a question. You're recognized. Is the regulation going to be decided by a created agency or an agency that already exists, for instance, the agency that
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handles tobacco and alcohol? Um, we will probably create
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a separate agency to deal with this, um, but that has currently not been talked about or decided
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either. Representative English, for what purpose do you rise?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
41:19
Uh, do I ask a question? You're recognized.
Representative Jane English
Unverified
41:26
Alright. My question is, um, like, what are the taxes going to be on the medical marijuana? Where, like, what kind of taxes would
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you put on? The taxes for the medical marijuana will most likely be similar to the current drugs given for prescription. Okay. But that has also not been exactly decided yet. Okay.
Chair
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Representative Gillum, for what purpose do you rise? Do I ask
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a question? You're recognized. Has this been endorsed by the American Medical Association? Yes, it has. Thank you. Representative Lovell,
Chair
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for what purpose do you rise? Do I
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ask a question? You're recognized. Have you ever smoked marijuana?
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I feel this does not have anything to do with the bill, sir. I
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think it has something to do with it. I mean, you can't really have a position on it if you've never done it, right? Well, I've also never been a
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patient of cancer or glaucoma. Okay. Why not? Representative Burris, for what purpose do you rise? Oh, that's Bibiana. Oh, I'm sorry, Bibiana.
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I'm sorry. You ask a question. You're recognized. What will
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it do for glaucoma patients? For marijuana, it does, you know, certain things, different things for the body. But for patients with glaucoma, it would actually relieve pressure in the eyes and in the head where
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it will reduce the seizures that they have and just overall make them
Chair
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feel better. Representative Rice, for what purpose do you rise?
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Question. You're recognized. Will insurance cover this or will there be any, like, what will be the regulations on, like, insurance and health care and all that stuff? The department
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does not have a problem with insurance covering it, but this would probably have to be decided by the insurance company themselves. Thank you, everyone. I would appreciate a good vote on the bill. He's open
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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for the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
Chair
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44:22
representative link you're recognized hello
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first i'd like to clarify i'm not i'm not against the legalization of medical marijuana but But I would like to, I'm against this bill because medical marijuana, as research has shown,
has more uses than just for helping cancer and glaucoma patients. I suffer from constant migraines. And migraines are just debilitating. I mean, knock you on your back and light hurts, sound hurts, everything. And it's been proven, or research has shown, that marijuana can also help ease the pain of such debilitating migraines. Another thing, marijuana, it also helps with nausea, increases appetite.
So I think that it has more uses and can be more expanded for more uses than just cancer and glaucoma. He has
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spoken against the bill. Who would like to speak for the
Chair
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bill? Representative Branscombe, you are recognized.
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I would like to speak on behalf of this bill because I do believe that we talked it out and we thought it through and on a topic as controversial as medical marijuana there's much disagreement on it. You have to take it a step at a time and I'm not disagreeing and saying that using it for migraines and other things such as nausea, nausea, wouldn't be a bad idea.
But with something that's this controversial, I mean, it's illegal right now. You have to take it a step at a time, and perhaps another bill or maybe an amendment to this bill could possibly be brought up later for migraines and nausea. So that's my input on that. He has
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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47:01
spoken for the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
Representative Wilkins, you're recognized to speak against the bill.
Representative Butch Wilkins
Unverified
47:19
Thank you. All right, so in California, they did this, they legalized it, and now everybody can get it, basically. They're just, people are just on the streets buying it. And so what if in our state it gets out of control like it did in California and everybody can just buy it? And, I mean, I've been told that that guy that was talking about the bill looked like he was on stuff. All right, thank
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you. All right, he has spoken against the bill. Would anybody like to speak for the bill?
Chair
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47:49
representative westerman you're recognized to speak for the bill um i would just like to say
Representative Bruce Westerman
Unverified
48:07
that judging uh the man who spoke about the bill because he might look like he uses marijuana is not something that should be brought up in this chamber. It should have nothing to do with it. That's all I have to say about it, so.
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All right. He has spoken for the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
48:56
Representative Meeks, you're recognized to speak against the bill. Well, to clarify what my friend was saying, I do believe that
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this bill does not address a consensus on addressing whether a person does have glaucoma or cancer and the ability
to have malpractice and misdiagnosing is way too great to vote for this bill because it It's very easy to just say you have cancer and the ability to buy weed then. And from that point, it's downhill from there, gentlemen. So consider that. All right, he has
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
49:28
spoken against the bill. Would anybody like to speak for the bill?
Representative Roebuck, you're recognized to speak for the bill. I would like to make
a motion. What's your motion? Immediate consideration for the bill. Proper motion, not
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debatable. Question for the House. Immediate consideration of House Bill 1002. All in favor, say aye. All opposed, nay.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
50:13
Nay. The nays have it. Gentlemen, all you were voting on there was a motion to consider the bill. You were not voting on the
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bill. So if you got confused, well, I want to unconfuse you. All you were voting on was a right to go ahead and vote on the bill. Okay, whatever. All
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
50:42
right, would anybody like to speak for the bill?
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Do I see five hands? Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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All over the favor of all of them. Has everybody voted? Cast up the ballot. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. Okay.
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The motion fails. Anybody like to speak for the bill? What happens when
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
52:01
those procedural motions fail, we just go right back where we were. So that's what we're doing, go right back to the bill again until you're exhausted to
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
52:13
be. Mr. Tyler, you're recognized to speak against the bill.
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I agree with Representative Link that the bill is not all-inclusive of conditions that are treatable by medical marijuana including migraines, headaches, and other conditions I recommend that the sponsor pull the bill to address other conditions He has spoken against the bill
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
52:46
Would anybody like to speak for the bill?
Representative Williams, you're recognized to speak for the
Representative Darrin Williams
Unverified
53:04
bill. I would like to say first that it is not, in fact, easy just to walk into a pharmacy and claim that you have cancer and be prescribed marijuana. It would take a prescription from a doctor for cancer or glaucoma to order the marijuana and have it prescribed to you.
And also, in response to what he just said, I agree with Neil that it must be taken one step at a time because diseases such as cancer and glaucoma are easily recognizable and easily prescribed. And such things as migraines or nausea, those are harder to get prescriptions for, less specific. But cancer and glaucoma are very specific, and I feel that that is a good place to start for the legalization of marijuana.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
54:06
the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
Representative Daffinbaugh, you are recognized to speak against the bill.
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The bill isn't specific enough about how it's going to be regulated. the amounts of marijuana each person can get,
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and what happens if there's a crooked doctor. Is there a double doctor check or something, or a second opinion? And just more consideration needs to go into the bill before he's
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passed. He has spoken against the bill. Would anybody like to speak for the bill?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
54:54
Representative Shepard, You are recognized to speak for the bill.
Representative Matthew Shepherd
Unverified
55:03
Although at this very moment we haven't debated on how much marijuana is to be given to the patients or the doctor checks or anything, one thing that we do have to consider is right now our national debt is over $16 trillion. dollars, this could be used as a way to somewhat alleviate said debt and bring our economy out of the hole. Thank you. He
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has spoken for the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
55:35
Representative Lovell, you are recognized to speak against the bill. Okay,
Representative Buddy Lovell
Unverified
55:49
I would just like to point out how dangerous it could be if some doped-out guy off the streets walked in and somehow attained enough of his medical marijuana to overdose him. That's simply, that's what I wanted to point out.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
56:08
He has spoken against the bill. Would anybody like to speak for the
Chair
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56:17
bill? Representative Johnston, you are recognized to speak for the bill.
Representative Josh Johnston
Unverified
56:30
I just wanted to point out that it's likely and possible to overdose on weed.
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56:42
He has spoken for the bill. Mr. Elliott, for what purpose
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do you rise? Make a motion to limit debate to a specified time on each side to one minute.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
57:01
That is a proper motion, and it's not debatable.
Speaker 123
57:07
Motion is to limit debate to one minute. All in favor, say aye.
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57:13
Aye. Opposed, say nay. Nay. The ayes have it. Debate is
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limited. Our gentleman up at the speaker's podium, there are two clocks up there. There's a four o'clock and an against clock. And I apologize, I wasn't paying attention to how long the limited debate was. How much was it? One minute on the side.
So what happens now, they'll set the clocks up there and the proponents will get one minute and the opponents will get one minute.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
57:52
And we start with the opponents. The opponents have to come up now and the proponents
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get to close. So the opponents have one minute now. Whoever
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
58:04
you recognize. Whoever you recognize. All right. Representative Link, you are recognized to speak
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against the bill. One minute. One minute. Hello. There's another bill that we are going to be proposed later on, Bill 1008.
It is for the outright legalization for marijuana. It will be broader. It will be able to be accessible to more people. And I feel that this bill should be turned down so that we can go with a broader approach to, yeah, I should have done that. a broader approach to this marijuana issue. Thank you.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
58:59
Would anybody like to speak for the bill?
Against the bill? Representative Post, you're recognized to speak against the bill. Okay, they
Representative Leslee Milam Post
Unverified
59:27
stated that we're in debt and we could tax it, so we're going to make potheads to get out of debt.
Chair
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59:34
Really? Come on. Hubbard, for what purpose
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
59:50
do you rise that is a proper motion, not debatable? Question
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before the House, immediate consideration of House Bill 1002. All in favor, say aye.
Aye. All opposed? Nay. The ayes have it. Question before the house Is passage Of house bill 1002 Prepare the machine Mr. Clerk
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Has everybody voted? Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 40 yea, 54 nay, 5 present, the bill has failed.
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Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1003. House
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Bill 1003 by Representative Cate. An act to amend Arkansas law concerning
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
1:01:24
public school lunches and school lunch periods and for other purposes. Representative Cate, you
Chair
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1:01:34
are recognized to explain the bill. Is Zachary Bullock in here? Zachary Bullock.
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Zachary Bullock. That's you. Come here.
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:02:03
All right. So for this bill, we are one to consider to take all restrictions on public school food. away because uh when you have the restrictions is when you have more complaints on the food
kids are complaining a lot more and uh if we take the restrictions away then uh maybe the food can get a little better and kids will start eating at school more and not complain as much and then the second part of this is uh in public schools you have to stay at school to eat so if you uh If we're considering letting kids that have over a 3.0 or higher to have off-campus lunch, which means that they can go to anywhere they want, leave school and go eat wherever they'd like,
and then come back to school for class periods, I'm now open for questions. Representative Lindsey,
Chair
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1:02:56
for what purpose do you rise? Question. You're
Representative Stephanie Malone
Unverified
1:03:03
recognized. How exactly are you going to have an accountability program for students
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:03:08
that leave campus? Well, right now, like in my school, for instance, we're allowed to leave during finals, and so the school is not responsible for kids that leave because they're officially going off campus,
and the school is responsible for kids that are on
Chair
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campus. Representative Summers, for what purpose do you rise? To ask the question.
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You're recognized. When you say that you want to take away the restrictions on food, have you taken into consideration allergies,
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religions, or portion control? Yes, but due to the fact that most kids
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:03:46
are aware of their allergies and they can avoid different things,
and something that we came up with was for when food is brought into classrooms, having two sides lined up and having, if you're allergic to something on one side, than going to the other side.
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1:04:03
You still didn't answer my part about religion. Some religions can't eat certain foods. Well,
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:04:08
there's a multiple choice. There's choices. You can either bring your own food, so if your religion lets you not eat that food, then
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you know you can bring your own lunch to food that you can't eat.
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1:04:28
Representative Tyler. For what purpose do you rise?
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1:04:33
You're recognized. Will healthy options still be available, such as the salad bar and healthy meat options as the main course? Yes,
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:04:41
I mean, there's still going to be healthy foods there, but we're just going to bring in other foods maybe that are more appealing to kids than just the regular foods and bring in maybe real meat instead of the fake meat that they have now. Other
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things you'd be thinking of would be like soft drinks and dessert options, right?
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:05:00
Right, and like the vending machines be open more instead of just after and before school and during school so kids can go
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:05:10
there as well. All right, thank you. Representative Hobbs,
Representative Tommy Thompson
Unverified
1:05:19
for what purpose do you rise? My question is, if we set our own nutritional standards for these schools, doesn't the Federal Department of Education have their own standards for nutritional value
and it sends federal funding to these schools for these free lunches for these kids? If we set our own nutritional standards, wouldn't that remove the federal funding for free
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:05:41
lunches? Well, we're asking that if we do have this, then the federal is still funded. But we're just having different things instead of having the set, quote, nasty food that we have now. All right. Representative
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Ward, for what purpose do you rise? To ask a question.
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You're recognized. Have you taken into account the fact that some younger children cannot be held accountable
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:06:09
to understand their allergies? Right, but the parents are signed up and they fill it out and they have the options and they know from experience that they're allergic to something. Because if they've had allergic reaction, then they're not going to want to do it again, so they'll know. I'm referring
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to small children. Kindergarteners, they're third grade, they may not understand. right but they still
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:06:34
I'm sure if they're allergic to something they've had to have allergic reactions so their parents have explained that they cannot eat peanut butter and it's in the household that they can't eat peanut butter so if they can't
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:06:52
eat peanut butter representative Webb for what purpose do you rise to ask a
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question you're recognized concerning off campus lunches Do you not understand that up until the point that the student arrives at his home, the school is still responsible for him?
So when you stated earlier that
Representative Tommy Thompson
Unverified
1:07:11
the school is not responsible for you once you leave the school, that that is
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:07:17
not true. Right, but they're going off campus. So then the means that they're going to, when they leave campus, the school isn't responsible for them if we put it in. because they know that they're leaving if they have above average. Representative
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:07:36
Viviano, for what purpose do you rise?
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To ask a question. You're recognized. What if the little kids that are not aware of
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their little condition are in a poor household where the family is corrupted? They don't know of their things. They tell the kids not to eat. What if they have, like, an allergic reaction to peanuts or something at school and have to be taken to the hospital or something? So you're asking what if
Representative Davy Carter
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1:08:06
at their house that they haven't been told not to eat it and they get to school and it happens to them?
Yeah. Well, that's just something that, I mean, you're going to take that little bit of a chance, but usually the kids are well aware. And if they're not, it's not, we're not, like, we're considering not having, like, the big things that kids are allergic to in the school lunches. It's just, it's just, like, the peanut butter in the classrooms when parents are bringing food to parties. Then we're going to have, you'll have the peanut butter on one side and the food on the other side.
Usually. Say what? Usually they're aware. Usually they're aware? Usually they're not. They're not. I mean, they're just going
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to take that chance, and I guess he'll find out. So would you take a chance on, like, putting a little kid in danger? Like, he could
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:09:06
suffocate or something. Right, and then, but if you're putting the kid in danger at school, and if they haven't had, then they're going to learn somehow. I mean, they'll still have the nurse and stuff there.
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1:09:16
It's not like there's not a medical staff that could get it fixed and learn from there.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:09:22
Okay. Representative Dickinson, for what purpose do you rise? That. You're recognized. Okay. How
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are y'all going to pay for it, for the extra costs if some schools are on
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budget? Pay for the food? Extra costs of, like, real meat and the regular
Representative Davy Carter
Unverified
1:09:44
meat that they give us. Well, then passing this law, we'd have another bill to ask federal to invest in it.
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1:09:51
Thank you. Representative Cade has explained the bill. Would anyone
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:10:06
like to speak against the
bill? Representative Lindsay, You are
recognized to speak against the bill.
Representative Stephanie Malone
Unverified
1:10:29
I would like to say that I have brought this up at my school before about having an open campus. Speaking to my principal and
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vice principal, I have found that even if you leave school and leave campus, the school is responsible for you if you do not come back. You have to think not every student that goes to our schools is like us. they're not going to have integrity and come back. Not all of them, at least. The school gets in more trouble than you do. You're not only putting yourself in danger, you're also limiting the school's funding
Representative Stephanie Malone
Unverified
1:11:00
and offering a lot of punishment for your administrators that are only trying to
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:11:10
help you. He has spoken against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Overby, you are recognized to speak for the bill.
Representative Betty Overbey
Unverified
1:11:30
At my school, we currently have an open campus policy.
It's not an everyday event. We only
do it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And what we've noticed is people with a three-point or higher GPA tend to be the more responsible students. and they tend to be, and that's what we have is set at you. It's like a system and everybody, three open up, all the ones that are allowed to go for a certain time off campus. And I think we've done it four or five years now and nobody's ran off. So I think this situation actually works just fine in most cases.
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He has spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:12:21
against the bill? Representative Dathenbaugh, you are recognized to speak against the bill. Vote
for immediate consideration. That is a proper motion, not debatable. Question for
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the House. Is immediate consideration of House Bill 1003?
All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Nay. The ayes have
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:12:54
it. Question for the House. Is passage of House Bill 1003. Prepare
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1:12:58
the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everybody voted?
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1:13:19
Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 60 yea, 37 nay, 2 present. The bill
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1:13:42
is passed. Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1004.
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
1:13:50
House Bill 1004 by Representative Mattone.
An act to require an oil and gas company to post a bond with the Oil and Gas Commission for the purpose of repairing damage to a public road caused by the exploration for gas and
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oil and for other purposes. Representative Matone, you are recognized
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:14:14
to explain the bill. I would like to
Representative Stephanie Malone
Unverified
1:14:20
say that this is not the bill I sponsored in committee.
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1:14:23
I sponsored Bill 1005. I believe Representative Thomas sponsored this bill, not myself. Would Representative Thomas like to speak for the
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
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bill? Representative Thomas, you are recognized to speak or to explain the bill.
Representative Tommy Thompson
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1:14:55
What this bill explains is any damage
that we think that will be done to state roads, county roads by the owner of the road. Any damage will have an insurance type policy
on the road paid for by the oil and gas company that's operating these big rigs and very heavy trucks, water trucks, oil transportation trucks, stuff like that. And if there's damage, the damage will be paid for, and if there is minimal or no damage, the money may be used for another bond, or the money may return to the company to use as they wish. Now, while I'm up here,
I'd like to make a motion to bring it back to committee. Can't do that.
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That is not a proper motion. Thank you. Anyway, thank
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you. That motion couldn't be made here because the speaker recognized him to explain the bill. He didn't recognize him to
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make a motion, so he can't come down here and speak and make motions too from here. He could do it out there now, but it wasn't proper
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:16:34
here representative english for what purpose do you rise rise to make a motion against bill 1004 what is your motion uh i
Representative Jane English
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1:16:48
mean i want to make a motion to send it back to the committee that
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is a proper motion but it is debatable
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1:17:04
Okay, that motion is debatable, so he gets to come down and explain to you why he wants to
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:17:14
send it to committee. Representative English, you are recognized to explain your
Representative Jane English
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motion. Very good. I want to make this motion because there are other companies out there, like logging companies and any other company using heavy trucks on roads that do the same damage that an oil company would do.
I think that this bill should be moved back to the committee to cover other companies that are doing damage so they are entitled to the same terms that oil companies are so they can help repair the roads as well because they're doing just as much damage. He has explained the motion. Would
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:18:07
anybody like to speak against the motion? Representative Webb, for what purpose do you rise?
Chair
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Speak against the motion You are recognized Thank
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you I would just like to say that for other companies such as large
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companies like, well, I can't really think of any right now, but logging companies, moving companies, places like things like that, they're going through areas that have damaged roads all the time,
and they're not really in one set area. However, oil companies and natural gas companies are moving water trucks and oil trucks through only a set area for a set amount of time while they're there drilling. So it would be better to bond those, or else it would seem more like a tax to use the roads by these bigger companies, these trucking companies. He has
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spoken against the motion. Would anybody like to speak for the motion?
Chair
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Representative Hobbs, for what purpose do you
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rise? you're recognized I'd like to speak for
Representative Tommy Thompson
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1:19:53
the motion because these big trucks that have logging trucks
gravel trucks, poultry trucks, they travel very frequently on these roads, and they can cause more damage to a road than a rig or a pulling machine of an oil company. And the rigs and the pulling machine already have to pay an overweight permit for being overweight and driving on these roads. So we don't need to be discriminatory to the oil and gas industry, which is a very value part of our economy, and these other companies need to also chip in to pay for
the damage to these roads. Thank you. He has spoken for the motion. Would
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anybody like to speak against the motion? For the motion. Representative English, would you like to close for your motion?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:21:09
Yes, I'm closed. The question for the House is the motion to
Speaker 123
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refer House Bill 1004 back to committee. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Chair
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ballot. The motion passes. send the bill back
to committee okay gentlemen I explain to
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you in your process here you've sent it back to committee so you killed it to be practical in the house that wouldn't necessarily kill it it would go back to a committee
that committee could study it they could offer some changes or whatever so the house always has continuous avenues to do something about fixing those questions that you all have. But for your purpose of here today, it sure only will be here one day. And as much as you send it back to the committee,
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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1:22:27
you know there's really not a committee out there, really. So it's out there in
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the hinterland somewhere. Okay, good job. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1005.
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1:22:41
House Bill 1005 by Representative Thomas, for an act to be entitled, an act to create a tax credit for financially distressed small businesses and for other purposes.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:23:00
Representative Thomas, you are recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Tommy Thompson
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1:23:11
I was not the sponsor of this bill. It was Mr. Tanner over here. We got switched up, I guess. So, confide.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:23:38
Representative Matone, you are recognized to explain Bill 1005.
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:23:53
This bill is about helping small businesses that are kind of in distress. The point of this bill is to give a tax credit to small businesses that are in fiscal distress. If their gross income has dropped 15% from the last tax year, then they get a 6% to 8% tax credit depending on the amount of employees they have gained or lost. We have a bracket system set up for the percentage of employees they dropped.
that determines which amount of tax credit they get between six and eight percent. Yes, explain the bill.
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Representative Tyler, for what purpose do you rise? you're recognized so as i understand it
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right if the small business loses employees over that year
then their tax credit is going to be smaller and if they gain employees the tax credit will be greater right yes
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:25:10
the whole goal of this is to help more people make more money they can pump back into the economy and stimulate other businesses well all right excellent Representative Lovell, for what purpose
Chair
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do you rise? He's in the well. You can't make a motion right now.
Representative Daffinbaugh, for what purpose do you rise?
Speaker 234
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Ask a question. You are recognized. So, small businesses are being punished for doing well and benefit for losing business and customers, is this correct? No, the businesses that are
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doing well don't need this tax credit. The businesses that aren't doing so well need
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:26:03
it to continue to function. The whole point of this is just to help those that are in distress. And it's not to give them money.
money it's so they don't have to pay us quite as much so they can continue operating and lower their operations cost in a way the businesses that are doing well uh are still making money so they're still in the in the black they're still good the businesses that are in the reds are the one that we care about that way that not that every business can
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benefit Representative Deffenbaugh, for what purpose do you rise? Ask the question.
Speaker 234
1:26:42
You are recognized. So you said earlier that the tax will continue to raise as the business does better, is this correct? Please repeat the question, I didn't understand. The tax will raise as the business does better, is this correct? So if this business continues to do better, their taxes will
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:27:05
Well, after they get out of their distressed state, their taxes go back to regular. This is only a temporary thing, and it's not a particularly large credit.
It's about a midsize. So it's just a little bit of help, nothing that will be a burden on taxpayers. Representative Lovell, for what purpose do you
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:27:23
rise? You are recognized. wouldn't you say if a business was failing like
Representative Buddy Lovell
Unverified
1:27:33
this it would be better to just let it fail no
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:27:39
people lose jobs and if you lose jobs you don't get as much money back into the economy we're still in a recession we need all these jobs and we need money pumped continually through the
economy to boost it that's the only thing that brings an economy back up as a continuous
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flow money. Representative Perry, for what purpose do you rise? You're recognized. What qualifies as
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a stress state for the business? To have dropped their gross income by 15% since the last tax year. Representative Rogers, for
Chair
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what purpose do you rise? You're recognized.
Will there be any restriction on the length of time that a business can
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:28:27
receive this credit? Yes. It's not mentioned in the bill, but we did discuss it in committee. No
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:28:41
more than three years. Representative Rice, for what purpose do you rise?
Speaker 184
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You are recognized. As you said earlier, this is supposed to help the economy, correct?
Yes. But wouldn't this rise taxes for the working people
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and therefore hurt them income-wise? Not considerably, no. The tax credit,
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:29:04
I mean, they're still paying taxes. The businesses are still paying taxes. is it might decrease the revenue we get in a small portion, and I don't think it'll be an impact of any magnitude whatsoever. Considering
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that Arkansas is an economically depressed area.
Chair
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1:29:28
Every state's economically depressed. Representative Westerman, for what purpose do you rise? To
Representative Bruce Westerman
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1:29:44
ask a question. You're recognized. I don't recall hearing or reading how large the tax credit
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:29:49
will be. Could you specify? Yes, between 6% and 8%. Thank you. Based on employees, whether they gained or dropped.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:30:00
Representative Steele, for what purpose do you rise? To ask a question. You're
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recognized. Do you have any predictions or statistical predictions on how much money this could
Speaker 302
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cost the state? Honestly, no, because there's no real way to tell how
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:30:20
many businesses yet without a survey are in distress. And I believe a survey would be conducted before the bill can really be enacted.
But the intent and the most likely outcome of
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this bill, through educated guess and hypothesis, it appears to look good. It looks like it
Speaker 302
1:30:43
will help a lot of people. And that's all we want
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:30:53
to do. He has explained Bill 1005. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
Speaker 113
1:31:06
What's your motion? For immediate consideration. That is a proper motion
Speaker 123
1:31:22
and not debatable. Question before the House. Is immediate consideration for House Bill 1005? All in
Speaker 113
1:31:37
The yeas have it. Question for the house. Do I see five hands? Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:32:17
Cast up the ballot. The motion passes. Question before the house. Is
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passage of Houseville 1005. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk.
Speaker 128
1:32:50
Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 78 yay, 16 nay, 4 present. The bill is passed. Gentlemen, I
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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1:33:18
invite you all to join me and acknowledge the presence of a man who is the
Speaker Designate of the House of Representatives, Representative Darren Williams, over here on my left. Madam Clerk, please read
Chair
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1:33:41
House Bill 1006. I think 106 has
Speaker 19
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an amendment to it. You can flip it over the page. I think I'm right. If so,
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
1:33:50
you remember our amendment procedure. We had to begin with the amendment first.
So, Mr. Speaker, the order would be to have the clerk read Amendment
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No. 1. Mr. Clerk, please read Amendment No. 1. Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1006. Mr. Smith,
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you are recognized to explain the amendment. Jacob Smith? Jacob Smith? Hmm.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:34:27
Thank you. are recognized. This
Representative Garry L. Smith
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1:35:01
bill is being placed because in several, in many places, crossing
signals for pedestrians do not allow enough time for pedestrians to cross multi-lane highways such as two-lane roads or even four lanes and that the highway of... Mr. Smith, excuse
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me, you should be explaining the amendment now. We're on the amendment, not the
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
1:35:24
bill, just that part that the amendment changed, only that part. Everybody with me? We're on the amendment. So if you would,
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stay on that, and then we'll go to the bill later.
Representative Garry L. Smith
Unverified
1:35:42
And the amendment is about inspection on a semi-annual basis, which should be every six months by the highway of transportation. for these particular pedestrian crossings and the signals to make sure that they are functioning correctly. And we would appreciate a
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1:36:12
Mr. Smith has explained the amendment. Would anybody like to speak against
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:36:21
the amendment? For the amendment Mr. Smith, do you close for the amendment? Question before the House Is passage
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1:36:37
of Amendment 1 For House Bill 1006 All in favor, say aye
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1:36:43
Aye All opposed, nay the ayes have it
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1:36:52
send the bill to engrossing okay gentlemen remember what we talked about earlier we
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
1:36:57
won't send the bill to engrossing the amendment now becomes a part of the bill so Mr. Smith or whoever sponsored this bill will be explaining the bill and the mentality that you have is this amendment is in the bill so he'll be explaining it like it's been amended okay everybody alright with that
Speaker 123
1:37:13
so we're there Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
1:37:26
1006 House Bill 1006 by Representative Smith An act to regulate the amount of time an individual is allowed to cross two-lane roadways and for other purposes
Representative Garry L. Smith
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1:37:37
Representative Smith, you are recognized to explain the bill This bill should be put in place and should be set as law because in many cases, street pedestrian crossings, the signals do not allow enough time or are set too far from the intersection to allow enough time.
So the length of time should be set for at least one minute for two lanes and should be regulated by the Department of Transportation and the Highway Department for multi-lane crossings. Also, it has been noted that many crossing signals do not have the necessary buttons or maintenance to actually function correctly in many cases, which causes danger for pedestrians, which should be solved.
And a good vote for this bill would be
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:38:41
greatly appreciated. Mr. Smith has explained the bill Would anybody like to speak against
the bill? For the bill Mr. Smith, are
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you closed for the bill? Question before the House Is passage of bill 1006
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everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. ballot. By a vote of 95
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yay, 3 nay, 1 present, Bill 1006 passes.
Mr. Clerk, please read House Bill 1007.
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
1:40:12
House Bill 1007 by Representative Soley. An act to regulate the receipt of public assistance and unemployment benefits to require drug testing in order to receive public assistance to require continuing education and training
in order to receive unemployment benefits and for other
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:40:36
purposes. Representative Soley, you are recognized to explain
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the bill. We believe that raising the requirements for public assistance and unemployment benefits is a pressing issue.
I recognize that within my own sea of Texarkana, I have personally visited many of the low-income housing and assistant housing, And I've personally seen many fit-set people living for not only their lifetime, but generations off the taxpayers. And we believe that raising the requirements for acquiring such assistance, such as getting a GED or a high school equivalent, not only raises the educational level,
but also gives them a better chance to move forward and opens a much larger field for getting a job and actually moving on. We also recognize that not all assisted people are completely healthy and that we believe that with proper recognition that both the physically and mentally disabled will be recognized through the proper paperwork and will be considered.
Chair
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Representative Tyler, for what purpose do you rise? To ask a
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question. You're recognized. So, do you believe that despite the current deficit, we would still have funds to be able to sponsor
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the education and training for these people that are receiving
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
1:42:38
benefits right now? I do believe that we could actually bring in much volunteer services. I've personally worked
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with different organizations within my county to actually work with these places.
And I do believe that with the right kind of people, we can bring in and actually bring a profit and help out to raise the educational level within
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those set areas. So education and training is run by volunteers as opposed to colleges and universities? We
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will have to bring those in inevitably to get the proper training, but it is very widely encouraged to push it within actually a set 12-month period. It is not recognized in the bill, but it was discussed.
After 12 months, you will not be kicked out. It's not just because you didn't get a GED. Although within that 12-month period, your pavement and your reduced housing will raise to us an amount that is not discussed. Representative Daffinbaugh,
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:43:44
for what purpose do you rise? A question. You are recognized. Is
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drug testing non-enfranchisement of someone's rights?
Representative Stephen Meeks
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1:43:53
There was a case within Florida which this was actually raised, and it was proven to
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be not constitutional. But my colleagues within my class decided to press the issue, and it did make its way into the bill. But technically, yes, it has been proven by the Florida State Constitution that it is unconstitutional. representative westerman for what purpose
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:44:23
do you rise to ask a question you're recognized
Representative Matthew Shepherd
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1:44:29
i'd just like to ask the question that even
Representative Bruce Westerman
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1:44:33
though you knew was unconstitutional you still put
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1:44:36
it in this bill you knew that i do feel that many aspects of this bill does present a very bright future for those people within those welfare communities and that i do believe This is a very well-set bill other than that, but I'm here to represent the people, and that was their view within my committee.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:45:00
Representative Williams, for what purpose do you rise? That's a good question. You are
Representative Darrin Williams
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1:45:09
recognized. Would it be possible or probable that the funds obtained from those removed from welfare or other supported support could be used for the education and training? So after a little while, we have those funds to use for the training. Yes, this is very well possible.
Representative Stephen Meeks
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1:45:31
This is actually the point of this entire program is to actually benefit the community
Speaker 213
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and put funds back into this organization or this bill. But it is also a doubt that, you know, not everyone is going to be able to succeed and move on, and that's why we placed that
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:45:50
12-month period in there. Representative Hobbs, for what purpose do you rise?
Representative Tommy Thompson
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1:45:56
To ask a question. You're recognized. Yes, I would like to ask a question. What kind of drug test does this bill entail, and what would be the cost of something like this?
Speaker 213
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Well, I'm not an official on drug tests. I would suspect that it would just be a normal urine test in all possible cause, and that if we could bring in other government organizations to test it, and depending on the cost, I don't really know for
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sure. And what kind of drugs are we looking for? Because if
Representative Tommy Thompson
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we legalized marijuana, would marijuana be a drug, or would it be, like, a legal drug, or a legal drug?
Speaker 166
1:46:43
All right, so this bill hasn't passed yet, but in the aspects of the now, yes, marijuana
Speaker 213
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would be considered. But if the bill did pass, we could amend this one and make it
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better. Thank you. Representative Lindsey, for what purpose do you rise,
Representative Stephanie Malone
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1:47:06
you're recognized. This is on the subject of constitutionality. Do you think that Florida might actually just have a different constitution than Arkansas,
and that in Arkansas it would be considered constitutional, since we do have a different Supreme Court and different
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constitution? Yes, sir, I do believe that, and that is actually one of the arguments that was raised within my committee, and I did recognize this and that is why I do defend this bill. I do feel that this could actually be put into act
Chair
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and actually do good for the people. Representative Rogers, for what purpose do you rise?
Ask a question. You are recognized. Even though you're including drug testing as one of the requirements
to receive public assistance, is it possible, Well, have you considered the possibility of the people receiving the assistance might use it improperly in other ways
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besides drugs? Use what improperly? The assistance that they will receive. Well, taken into consideration the
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
1:48:10
vast amount of people, We do not have the specific funds or the ability to
Speaker 213
1:48:18
force people to take drug tests on a regular basis, because I do believe that is an infringement on their rights.
But to apply for the bill and the assistance, that would be the one and only time. But yes, I guess technically, you know, people commit fraud. Is it right? No. But do they do it? Yes. Representative Care, for what purpose do you rise? Question. You are recognized.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:48:46
Alrighty, I was wondering what happens if people
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fail this drug test? Do they go to jail for failing a drug test, or do they just not get the welfare?
Speaker 213
1:49:03
Well, technically, I guess that would be put to the right authorities, and, you know, if you were smart, don't do drugs and take the test, because legally, yes, I'm sure
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we would have to turn that into the authorities, plain and simple.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:49:33
Representative Soley has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against Bill 1007? Representative Lovell, you are recognized to speak against the
bill. I would like to make a motion. Oh, I'm sorry. What is
Representative Buddy Lovell
Unverified
1:49:50
your motion? A motion to, hold on, let's see, immediate consideration. That
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:50:01
is a proper motion and not debatable.
Speaker 220
1:50:04
The question before the House is immediate consideration of House Bill 1007. All in favor, say aye. All opposed, nay. The ayes have it. The question before the House
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1:50:28
is passage of Bill 1007. Madam Clerk, prepare the machine.
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the ballot. By a vote of 67, yea, 23, nay, 9, present, the bill passes. Mr.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
1:51:11
Speaker, the Governor has requested permission to speak to the body under the separation of powers which the Constitution provides for.
There are three branches of the government, the legislative, the executive, and judicial. Each one of those three are independent of each other. You have to approve the governor's permission to be in here on the House floor with the required majority of the membership of the House. So, Mr. Speaker, I suggest that you pose to the body whether or not they want to hear the governor, and you can frame it in a way that they vote yes if they want to do it. The
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question before the House is to admit the governor to the House Chambers.
All in favor, say aye. All
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opposed? The ayes have it. Admit the governor.
Representative Leslee Milam Post
Unverified
1:52:21
Good morning, my House members.
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Governor, you're recognized. Good morning. I know each and every one of you are doing your best, and I want to encourage you to keep doing your best. And I know that you will, because you guys
Speaker 123
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are the best of the best. Thank you for your time. Mr. Clerk, please read Bill 1008.
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
1:52:59
House Bill 1008 by Representative Spandoni. An act to decriminalize the possession and sell of cannabis to establish the Department of Cannabis Management to establish the taxation of cannabis and for other purposes. Representative Spadoni, you
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:53:25
are recognized to explain the bill.
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sure what cannabis means, it means marijuana, pretty much. So it's going to be, this bill is pretty blunt. It is pretty much for the legalization and taxation of
Chair
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marijuana. Any questions? Representative Rogers, you are recognized. Will there be any limit
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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1:53:54
to the amount of cannabis that an individual can possess? As of now, there is no determined limit, but that is also because there is no limit on liquor or tobacco.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:54:08
Representative Tyler, for what purpose do you
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1:54:11
rise? Ask a question. You are recognized. It isn't mentioned in the bill. I think we might have mentioned it, committee, but I just wanted to make
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sure. What is the specific tax per amount on
Speaker 368
1:54:26
cannabis? Good question. Actually, most, such as tobacco and liquor, there's something called a sin tax. To make this a lot simpler, there's no sin tax on this. There is a wholesale tax, and that wholesale tax is $0.30.
cents. So, for example, pair of shoes would be somewhere like six cents. This is
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:54:52
right, thank you. Representative Branscombe, for what purpose do you rise? To
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ask a question. You are recognized. How would
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you distribute said cannabis? It is through Other things, such as also tobacco and liquor, it requires a license to distribute cannabis or marijuana.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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1:55:15
Thank you. Representative English, for what purpose
Representative Jane English
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1:55:23
do you rise? You're recognized. My question is, if it's decriminalized, like the possession and the sale, Is it also going to be a criminal act
Speaker 368
1:55:36
if it is grown and manufactured in Arkansas? I believe the law states you cannot have marijuana, including growing.
But with this, it will, I believe, it will legalize, I believe, the growing of marijuana. I
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believe. Okay. representative daffenbaugh for what purpose do you rise uh question you
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1:56:06
are recognized so the growing of marijuana will be allowed and therefore it's it can be compared to alcohol with distilling it and in alcohol you're only allowed to make i believe a gallon a year is
there a limit to the amount of marijuana you can grow because
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1:56:24
of the tax uh i believe not But it'll be just like, say, cotton, grow as much cotton as you
Speaker 367
1:56:30
want, or corn or anything like that. So pretty much if you want to just have a marijuana form, you can have that. Or if you just want to, you know, pretty much whatever you want
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:56:43
to grow. Representative Lenderman, for what purpose do you rise? You're recognized.
Speaker 376
1:56:50
As we all know, the sale of any jurors can get
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1:56:54
out of hand. What would you do to make sure
Speaker 368
1:57:01
things don't get out of control? We actually discussed this in committee. Any, say, I believe, is your question, like,
Speaker 367
1:57:09
say this, if somebody goes in and buys a lot of marijuana, if they will resell it. So, say, kids younger than 21.
Speaker 377
1:57:19
um like pretty much like the set would you enforce like the sale of it by a like a business
or something or a individual because a sale by individual can easily get out of here more than a sale of a legit business um it's
Speaker 367
1:57:36
like i said earlier it requires a uh a license so you have to have a specific license just that just like tobacco and alcohol and uh also i'd like to say that another way it would be controlled is it is called a bootlegging. If you buy it and resell it, so.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
1:57:57
Representative Wilkins, for what purpose do you rise? You are recognized.
Representative Butch Wilkins
Unverified
1:58:02
I just want to know in what ways
Speaker 368
1:58:06
will this benefit our state? I believe that the tax will help increase the state revenue that we can spend on education, bettering the education. So that will be a great thing. Also, as you probably know, this increases your hunger, so it could help the food market in Arkansas, which we are known for agriculturally. So it could actually help bring in more revenue for farmers and whatnot.
Speaker 81
1:58:32
Thank you. Representative Carnine, for what
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1:58:37
purpose do you rise? To ask a question. You're recognized. All right, so you're saying if it's going to be legal, what are you going to do about the people who have
Representative Tiffany Rogers
Unverified
1:58:49
been in trouble or, like, in jail for the
Speaker 368
1:58:53
possession and selling of marijuana? They would, I believe, under federal law, I believe they would be released because, as an example, if you are sent to death row while the state legalizes execution,
and while you're in death row they make it illegal for execution, you wouldn't be executed anymore, but you would spend the
Speaker 367
1:59:15
maximum about a penalty for that. So they would not be criminalized anymore, in other words. Representative Lampkin, for what purpose do
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1:59:31
you rise? I ask a question. You are recognized. You
Speaker 112
1:59:34
were comparing this to the selling of alcohol earlier.
You should know when you get pulled over under the influence of alcohol that it is a crime. You'll go to jail. And I was wondering if you were driving or such with the influence
Speaker 368
1:59:50
of marijuana, what would be the consequences for that? I believe it would be still under a DUI or DWI, driving while intoxicated or under influence. So that would be legal. And also I'd like to point out that we have our own department created to enforce this, and so they would be doing research on how to better know if you are under said influence at that time
and not just smoked marijuana within the past month or the last two weeks.
Speaker 81
2:00:21
Representative Meeks, for what purpose do you rise? You are recognized. Yes. Based on the rehabilitation
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
2:00:29
costs that we already pay due to drug use and other, well, misuses of drugs, how much would it cost in rehabilitation? And would your department also cover that within their organization?
I'm sorry. I don't understand the question. Can you say it a little bit louder? Okay. Based on the cost that
Speaker 186
2:00:52
our state already pays to rehabilitation of people that abuse drugs, would that be covered the
Speaker 368
2:00:58
cost-wise? Would that be covered in your department? To the best of my knowledge, the worst effect that marijuana has had on people, and this is the best of my knowledge, is it may induce hallucinations, even not having smoked marijuana. and therefore you could, I guess, see a psychologist
because this is what you've undertaken. You take it as your responsibility.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:01:25
Representative Malone, for what purpose do you rise? You
Speaker 123
2:01:30
are recognized. You said that the tax will be used for furthering education. How can we further our education when we're going to be blazed? Well, once
Speaker 368
2:01:45
again, there can be laws passed that say, well, I mean, for once in all, a 21-year-old can have liquor, but he can't be on campus with liquor.
And so a school law would still enforce that you cannot have or possess or be under the influence of any kind of liquor, tobacco, or in this case, if this bill passes, marijuana. So, therefore, it would be dealt with like it is today. Representative Wagner, for what purpose do
Speaker 113
2:02:15
you rise? To ask a question. You are recognized. All
Speaker 384
2:02:20
right, you stated about the departments or whatever. So what would be the cost
Speaker 385
2:02:24
of enforcing this while creating these departments,
such as the Department of Cannabis Management?
Speaker 368
2:02:30
Since law enforcement of going forward and finding the marijuana as of now, We could, if this bill passes, we could bring that revenue of them trying to find the marijuana and use that revenue because it won't be needed anymore. We could use that revenue for research and bring it towards this new department.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:03:00
Representative Spadoni has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak
Chair
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2:03:16
against the bill? Representative Overby, you are recognized to speak
Representative Betty Overbey
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2:03:25
against the bill. The people already in jail for using cannabis now would not be released after using it
because under federal law it is still illegal, so they would still be held to whatever sentence they were already sold. So I'd like you to take that into consideration.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:03:48
he has spoken against the bill would anyone like to speak for the bill representative king
for what purpose do you rise you're recognized
Speaker 138
2:04:05
Yes, I would just like to say decriminalizing marijuana would not just, you know, make it legal to where people would be getting high, quote-unquote, all the time, but it would also benefit Arkansas's economy due to how well we are as a state agriculturally. We would boom as one of the leading marijuana producers that would help us, possibly pull us out of an economic slump.
Also, people who smoke marijuana will be getting it regardless, and by passing this bill, it would cut down on people being arrested, street violence, illegal dealing of this plant. Also, marijuana, it would be more so available to people who, say, have suffered from insomnia, people who had eating disorders who needed to eat. It helps with pain. It decreases tumors of sorts for cancer. It also helps with ADD and ADHD.
And it would benefit in a way that they would not be pumping manufactured drugs into their body because it would be already legal to get and consume without legal action.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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2:05:27
He has spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
Representative Webb, for what purpose do you rise? You're recognized.
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2:05:49
I would just like to say that this would, under this new law, it would be nearly impossible to regulate it from moving across the state lines, which would then qualify it to be a federal regulation. So regardless of what we do here, it would have to be regulated so that only marijuana produced in Arkansas could be used in Arkansas. You couldn't get it from anywhere else or else it would then be illegal since it is still illegal under federal law.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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2:06:20
he has spoken against the bill would anyone like to speak for the
Chair
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bill representative powers for what purpose do you rise propose a motion what is your
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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2:06:41
motion for immediate consideration that is a
Speaker 220
2:06:46
proper motion and not debatable question for the house is immediate consideration of Bill 1008.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Nay. The eyes have it, but can I see five hands for the roll call?
Speaker 324
2:07:22
I see five hands. Prepare the machine. Has everybody voted? Cast up the ballot.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:07:52
Motion passes by two-thirds majority. Question before
Speaker 123
2:08:16
the house is passage of Bill 1008. Prepare the machine.
Speaker 128
2:08:22
Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. By vote of 50 yay, 49 nay, the bill fails.
Speaker 391
2:09:01
That's the perfect example of how one vote counts, doesn't it? Had that one vote there, would have counted
Speaker 19
2:09:15
the difference. Gentlemen, that concludes the House bill. You have a pay in your packet there. The Senate bills are exactly
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:09:21
the same as the House. I've been informed through the clerk's office that the Senate, yeah, takes 51.
Speaker 19
2:09:34
The membership in here is 100, and it takes one more than half to pass anything, so that would have required 51 votes. It just got 50, didn't it? Okay. Anyway, let's get back to this. The Senate has passed. Hear this now, fellas. The Senate has passed Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 4. Senate Bill 2 is the marijuana bill. It's the
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:09:58
same bill that you considered over here. The Senate has passed the amendment. But if you remember, the amendment dealt with, I can't remember now, cancer and glaucoma.
Yeah, okay. That is considered in the Senate bill.
Speaker 19
2:10:11
So what we'll be doing now is considering Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 4. The expectation is that the sponsors of the House bill would also be the sponsors of the Senate bill. The way the system works is when you pass House bills over here and they go to the Senate, Your senator that encompasses your district handles your bills in the Senate, and when your senator passes bills over there, the people who are encompassing his senatorial district takes care of it over here. And as much as these bills are identical and they have a name on them as a senator, then whoever the House member was will be expected to handle this bill over here.
So, Mr. Speaker, if there are no questions, the proper order now would be to read Senate Bill 2. 2, 4, and then we've got 5. Okay, now I'm understanding
Speaker 151
2:10:56
that 5 is over here, too, so we've got 2, 4, and 5. So we're beginning with Senate Bill 2,
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
2:11:06
Mr. Speaker. Mr. Clerk, will you please read Senate Bill 2? Senate Bill 2, Senator Gillespie, an act to legalize medical marijuana and other purposes.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:11:17
Representative Kosar, would you like to
Speaker 138
2:11:36
1002 is to legalize the use of medical marijuana for just glaucoma and cancer patients. This would benefit cancer patients who lose weight, need to eat more, dull down pain, help them sleep.
Glaucoma patients, marijuana can act as a muscle relaxant, relaxing muscles in the brain, relieving pressure in the eyes to basically alleviate symptoms of glaucoma. And this would basically allow for just these patients, just cancer and glaucoma, to be allowed to use marijuana to help their lives be better. Any questions?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:12:24
Representative Kozler has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against Senate Bill 2?
Speaker 141
2:12:49
Representative Lindsey. That is a proper motion and not
Speaker 220
2:12:53
debatable. The question before the House is immediate consideration of Senate Bill 2.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Nay. The ayes have
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:13:07
it. The question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 2. Prepare the machine. Has everyone voted?
Speaker 220
2:13:58
present, the bill is passed. Representative Branscombe moves the clincher. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay.
Gentlemen, let me explain the clincher to you.
Speaker 324
2:14:10
Ayes have it. The clincher is adopted. Gentlemen, let
Speaker 62
2:14:14
me explain the clincher to you. The clincher is a motion that we think is unique
Speaker 19
2:14:20
to the Arkansas legislature. What it is is two motions in one is to lay on the table and reconsider. So what happens, what it does, if the clincher passes, no one can fool with your bill unless they get 67 votes. If you didn't put the clincher on it, someone could make a motion to reconsider it,
which would just take a majority of a quorum, and it would come back up again. This way the bill is frozen. It takes 67 votes to undo it, and
Speaker 100
2:14:58
that's what that motion did. Okay? Mr. Clerk, please read Senate
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
2:15:03
Bill No. 4. Senate Bill No. 4, Senator Jones. An act to require an oil and gas company to post a bond with the Oil and Gas Commission
for the purpose of repairing damage to a public road caused by the exploration for gas and oil and for other purposes. Okay.
Speaker 398
2:15:25
Who was the House sponsor of the House bill? You are
Representative Tommy Thompson
Unverified
2:15:45
recognized to explain the bill. uh i'd like to motion to uh refer back to committee again
Speaker 83
2:15:51
it's a proper motion and it is debatable will you come explain the
Speaker 151
2:16:01
motion Okay, he's moving to refer it
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:16:06
back to committee, and he's got to come down and explain the motion. So all due respect to everybody concerned, to send it to committee would kill it. So if you're against it,
Representative Tommy Thompson
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2:16:22
committee. If you're not against it, you don't want to. And the motion is to extend this to other companies that operate larger trucks on roads.
Law companies are very similar to oil companies to where they go to one spot and they have several pieces of heavy equipment that they use and other things like that, like gravel trucks maybe going down a road or something like that poultry trucks may travel in the same road several times and this is just to make it fair on other companies operating big rigs and larger trucks so that's
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:17:02
he's explained the motion is there anyone who would like to speak against the
Speaker 306
2:17:24
motion Representative Overby, for what purpose do you rise? To make a motion? What is your
Representative Betty Overbey
Unverified
2:17:30
motion? To send it back to the Senate for possible amendment?
Speaker 62
2:17:37
That's not a proper motion. Would anyone have some slight confusion? The motion is to send it back to committee. So the crux
Speaker 19
2:17:57
of the whole thing is, if you want to kill the bill, then you'd vote to send it back to committee because you're removing it from the House floor.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:18:03
If you want to help pass the bill, then you want to vote against it to committee.
But the motion that you're trying to make, sir, is
Speaker 19
2:18:10
already basically what we're doing here now. The motion before this body now is to send it back to the committee, and you've heard an explanation of the motion, and he's asking for somebody to speak against the motion. Is there anyone who would like to speak against the motion?
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:18:24
Representative Lindsey, for what purpose do you rise? I make a motion. What is your motion? I motion to amend it. That is not a proper motion, I'm sorry.
That is out of order. Would anyone like to speak against the motion?
Representative Branscombe, for what purpose do you rise? To make a motion. Let's
Speaker 139
2:19:03
hear your motion. immediate consideration that is a proper motion not debatable
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:19:14
the question before the house is immediate immediate consideration of
Speaker 341
2:19:19
the motion to refer hey gentlemen are you on track here now
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:19:24
this motion is to immediately consider the motion to send it to committee so you're not voting on anything but the opportunity to vote
Speaker 141
2:19:35
on the motion right? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:19:46
The ayes have it. Question before the House. Is the motion to refer Senate Bill 4
Speaker 220
2:19:57
to committee? All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Nay. The ayes have it. Send the bill to committee.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:20:14
Under your conditions here, that killed it because, you know, you're going home and there's no other way to resurrect it.
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
2:20:24
Mr. Clerk, please read Senate Bill No. 5. Senate Bill No. 5, Senator Hauser, an act to create a tax credit for financially distressed small businesses and for other purposes. Representative Matone, would you
Speaker 83
2:20:46
like to come up and explain the bill?
Representative Stephanie Malone
Unverified
2:20:59
Just to reiterate what this is, it's just to help businesses that are in trouble and pump money back into our economy. He has explained the
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:21:25
bill. All right. Mr. Hubbard, for what purpose do you rise?
Motion. What is your motion? A motion
for immediate consideration. That is a proper motion and not debatable. The question before
Speaker 220
2:21:43
the House is immediate consideration of Senate Bill 5. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. The ayes have it. The question before the House is passage of Senate Bill 5.
Speaker 128
2:22:28
voted? Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 75 yay, 17 nay.
For present, the bill passes. Gentlemen, it appears
Speaker 19
2:22:44
that that concludes our business here today. And let me explain something to you. Arkansas has a bicameral legislature. That means it has two houses, and bills that become law have to pass both houses in an identical form. So what has happened here that we can be made aware of right at this moment is that the Senate and the House both have passed Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 5,
which will be sent to the governor's office by the Senate. I'm not sure what the disposition of the House bills are that are in the Senate that you sent over there. But whatever they may be, if they pass them, they'll come back over here and the clerk will transmit those to the governor's office. Then he has five days to either sign those or veto them. And so that's where you are right now. So it appears that you're okay with two and five for the Senate, and I'm not sure about the rest of them. And are there any questions about anything? Does anybody have any burning desire to ask a question of something that we haven't explained to you
or something that's bothering you that we may have done that you don't understand. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Use your
Speaker 102
2:23:54
microphone. I just wanted to know, based on what you've seen today, how what we did differs from what usually goes on in the House of Representatives. Not a
Speaker 19
2:24:02
whole lot, except that when you refer things back to the committee like you did a minute ago, the committees are still functioning when we're here, so they have an opportunity to bring that bill back out again today. You sent it there, and you killed it. And basically, that's just about it.
I can't hardly think of anything any different, so you all have done well. Amendments, I guess there's another thing there. We're not allowing you all to prepare any additional amendments. We had bills with two amendments that were drafted by you all up there at the school. In the House here, amendments can be offered as long as the bill is available. And so they have to be drawn up on typewritten, I mean on lined paper, and no voice amendments. They all have to be written on paper where everybody knows what's going on.
Written here during the whole conversation. That's right. So if we had a bill here introduced today and you wanted to amend it, you would go to what we call the Bureau of Legislative Research. They would draw you up an amendment. You would take it to this file clerk, and that file clerk would number the amendment. And then when that bill came up, the speaker would say, read House Bill 1001, and you'd say, Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment to that. If you pass that amendment then, then that bill gets sent back to the committee again so they can look at it with the amendment on it. By and large, you all are doing basically the same thing that we've been doing.
Speaker 70
2:25:19
That's a good question. Yes, sir. Why didn't the Mr. Speaker ever vote? Well,
Speaker 19
2:25:27
you don't have to vote in here. You know, the public election to come up and represent him and the decision about whether you can vote or not is up to you. Back in the days past, the Speaker may or may not have voted there. He could have. before he announced the results even though you could see it up there he could see it too and he because he has a board up there where he said he could have said speaker votes i and if
he would have said that that would have been the 51 that it would have taken you know you're not into that so uh he didn't know to do it i don't know what his wishes are anyway but the bottom line to your question is you don't have to vote and a lot of times i mentioned the yellow button to you, and I mentioned to you that's the present button, a lot of times members will push that button as an indication that they're aware of everything's going on, they know what's going on, I'm sitting here in my chair, I'm listening, but I don't want to vote one way or the other. Maybe he has a conflict of interest, or there may be some
valid reason why he or she doesn't want to
Representative Jane English
Unverified
2:26:27
vote. Can I ask him why he didn't vote? Well, that
Speaker 43
2:26:31
wouldn't be too proper a question to ask the person why they don't vote. I wouldn't do that. That's every individual's
Speaker 19
2:26:37
privilege to vote or not vote. That's yours. So if you don't vote, it's your business, not anybody else's. You have to answer to those 25,000, 30,000 people that you represent. Okay. All right. I think in terms of the speaker, why does the speaker do that?
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:26:56
Why does the speaker usually vote on the issue? Well, the speaker usually don't vote on many of all the
Speaker 19
2:27:05
issues unless they affect the district that he's in, except because he doesn't want to get cast in a light where sometimes if he missed a vote, you'd say, oh, well, he voted for old Joe's bill, but he didn't vote for mine. And so it starts being a division, so the speaker just becomes neutral, and generally unless it affects his district, he doesn't
Speaker 29
2:27:20
vote on the law. Not an unusual law. You can go back and check a roll call for 50 years, and 75, 80, 90 percent of the time, the speaker didn't vote.
Speaker 275
2:27:29
What the white button stands for on here? It says RTS. That's what the white button stands for.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:27:41
That's what we call the roll call button. We use that button probably only once a day, and it's when we call the roll at the beginning of the day. That button there indicates your presence here, that you're here, but nothing else. nothing
Speaker 19
2:27:55
else the yellow one says i'm here i understand i don't want to vote but the white
Speaker 29
2:28:00
one just says i'm here so it's only used like
Speaker 193
2:28:07
when we convene okay good question yes sir could you uh explain the clincher
Speaker 19
2:28:12
again i didn't really understand that okay the clincher is two motions in one it's a motion to reconsider and to lay on the table and what that means is that we're reconsidering this bill again, and the rules are you can't consider it twice. So when you
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:28:27
move the clincher, that's moving reconsideration, so that's doing it twice. And so what happens
is then you can't do anything else to it unless you do, as
Speaker 19
2:28:37
one word, expunge. The legislature can expunge anything it does. Any actions they take, any time they want to, they can undo them. But it requires 67 votes to do it, to pass the expunge motion. So what happened here, you went from a bill with a position to possibly somebody making a motion to reconsider it and bringing that thing back up again to a motion that caused you to expunge. So you
caused the membership vote to be from majority of a quorum to 67 is what happened. That's complicated, but if you have a very sensitive bill or whatever, particularly if the vote is close, you know, then you'll want to move the clincher on it. And the clincher, 99 times out of 100, passes because the expectation is if 59 people voted for the bill, the same 59 people will vote for the clincher. And it doesn't take but 51 votes to pass the clincher.
Speaker 156
2:29:38
Yes, sir. I was wondering if the speaker knew he could have voted earlier, or I was just wondering that. If he knew what? If he knew he could have voted earlier, or if he didn't know. Well, I don't know. He probably didn't
Speaker 19
2:29:53
know. I don't imagine. They've been busy up there, and he's new. I wouldn't think he—be assured that the speakers who take that chair in the regular session know what their resources are. They know what their avenues are. They know what their positions are. And if a speaker doesn't vote up there during our session, it's because he didn't want to vote.
Chair
Unverified
2:30:10
For the record, I did choose to abstain my vote
Speaker 306
2:30:14
simply because I didn't want to pick a certain side. Since I am presiding over everyone else in the chamber, I felt that it would present a
Speaker 324
2:30:23
bias. That's a valid reason for you not
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:30:28
to vote. Oh, he told you anyway, okay? All right, fellas. Okay, I'm hearing you.
Speaker 29
2:30:43
Y'all want to take a minute? I hear Senate Bill 6 is here if you want to consider
Speaker 19
2:30:48
it. Okay? Yeah? Okay. And remember, that's the same one like the House had. It had an amendment for it. and I'm told that the amendment is in there. So the same amendment you passed over here to the Senate bill is
Speaker 40
2:31:06
in this Senate bill, okay? Senate Bill 6. Mr. Clerk, please read Senate
Representative Duncan Baird
Unverified
2:31:12
Bill 6. Senate Bill 6 by Senator Shaw,
an act to regulate the amount of time an individual is allowed to cross two-lane roadways and for other
Speaker 151
2:31:22
purposes. House sponsor of 1006. House Bill 1006. Representative Smith. Representative Smith. You are recognized to handle this bill. You can
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:31:29
explain it from there, Mr. Smith.
Representative Garry L. Smith
Unverified
2:31:49
Senate Bill 6 has already been stated. Regulates is a law that if it passes into law and is signed and passes here, it will be able to regulate the amount of time that a pedestrian is allowed to cross any street, two lane, four lane, or however many lanes it is. In this situation, the amendment is also in the bill, so that has been passed as well. We would greatly appreciate your
Speaker 353
2:32:13
vote for this bill so that it can actually go on to the governor.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:32:19
Thank you. Representative Smith has explained the bill. Does anybody
have... Thank you. Would anybody like to speak against Senate Bill
6? Representative Dathenbaugh, for what purpose do you rise? Motion. What is your motion? Postpone temporarily.
That is a proper motion and
Speaker 88
2:33:05
is non-debatable. The question before the House is to postpone temporarily Senate Bill 6. All in favor,
Speaker 128
2:33:13
say aye. All opposed, nay. The nays have it. Motion fails.
Speaker 220
2:33:22
Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
Speaker 306
2:33:36
Representative Lindsay, to what purpose do you rise? Motion. What is your
Speaker 190
2:33:46
motion? Immediate consideration. That is a proper motion and non-debatable. The question before
Speaker 220
2:33:50
the House is immediate consideration of Senate Bill 6.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. The ayes have it. The question before
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
2:34:04
the House is passage of Senate Bill 6. Prepare the machine. Has everyone voted?
Speaker 128
2:34:25
Cast up the ballot. Vote by a vote of 92 yay, 6 nay, 1 present. The bill is passed. gentlemen if you'll remember at the beginning of
Speaker 19
2:34:48
our session i told you that you might take a liking to that immediate consideration bill i think you've embraced it i
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
2:34:56
think i think you do okay we have we have
Representative Betty Overbey
Unverified
2:35:12
a counselor here yes sir What is your motion?
Speaker 405
2:35:21
Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. He needs to vote on that.
Speaker 250
2:35:27
He needs to vote on that motion. That is a proper motion. The question before the house is to adjourn. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Okay, gentlemen,
Speaker 29
2:35:45
hang on here. We've got some announcements here. Just a
Speaker 87
2:35:48
second. Coach, whatever you're done. I'm we're done. Yeah, we're done. We're done. We're done. The house is adjourned.
Speaker 428
2:36:03
Okay, guys, we're gonna head outside for lunch. So when you exit out those doors go down to the again to the rotunda and follow everybody out the doors to the right. Thanks, everybody
Agenda
HB1001 An Act to Implement a Graduated Tuition Scale
HB 1002 An Act to Legalize Medical Marijuana
HB 1003 An Act to Amend Arkansas Lunches
HB1004 An Act to Require Oil and Gas Companies to Post a Bond
HB1005 An Act to Create a Tax Credit for Small Businesses
HB 1006 An Act to Regulate the Amount of Time to Cross a Two-Lane Road
HB1007 An Act to Regulate the Receipt of Public Assistance
HB1008 An Act to Decriminalize the Possession and Sale of Cannabis
SB2 An Act to Legalize Medical Marijuana
SB4 An Act to Require Oil and Gas Companies to post a bond
SB5 An Act to Create a Tax Credit for Small Businesses
SB6 An Act Concerning Two-Lane Roads
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Representative Jonathan Barnett
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Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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Representative Duncan Baird
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Representative Bruce Westerman
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Representative Stephanie Malone
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Representative Jane English
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Representative Butch Wilkins
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Representative Stephen Meeks
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Representative Darrin Williams
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Representative Matthew Shepherd
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Representative Buddy Lovell
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Representative Josh Johnston
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Representative Leslee Milam Post
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Representative Davy Carter
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Representative Tommy Thompson
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Representative Betty Overbey
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Representative Garry L. Smith
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Representative Tiffany Rogers
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