March 29, 2011- Part 2
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HB1017
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HB2173
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Chair
Unverified
0:00
House, come back to order. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill, no, I'm sorry, Representative Kerr moves that we place Senate Bill 305 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Amendment No. 1. Amendment No.
Chair
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0:29
Kerr, you're recognized to explain the amendment.
Representative Allen Kerr
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0:34
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon, members. This is a Senate bill by Senator Jeremy Hutchinson. We are explaining the amendment on the bill. So this amendment makes the payment mechanism of this bill reflect the good claims record of the Arkansas employers. is a state chamber amendment and agreed to by all. I appreciate a good vote.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
Unverified
1:05
Members, regarding the explanation of the amendment. Anyone wishing to speak against the amendment for
Chair
Unverified
1:11
the amendment? Not the question for the House. Adoption Senate Amendment No. 1 to, I mean, Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill 305. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Amendment adopted. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 2173. House Bill 2173 by
Speaker 10
1:28
Representative Altus, to amend the laws concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages and to amend a portion of Arkansas law resulting from Initiate Act 1 of 1942.
Chair
Unverified
1:39
Representative Altus, you are recognized to explain the bill. Thank you,
Representative Denny Altes
Unverified
1:47
Mr. Speaker. If you live in a dry city or county and
you want it to stay dry, then the wet people can bring a petition in an election every four years. My bill will change that to eight years. Michael Langley, who's the director of the ABC, spoke for the bill in committee and said
that usually when a city or a county passes and goes wet, then usually it's with an overwhelming majority and it's rarely challenged. The banks need this bill so that the people that want to build stores and restaurants can bill them and have some kind of a consistency so they can finance these loans over a longer period than just four years and be able to pay that loan back.
This bill is about jobs. We need jobs and we'd appreciate your vote.
Speaker 16
2:46
I need 67 votes to pass this bill. Thank you very much. Do you
Chair
Unverified
2:55
want to, Representative Hammer, what purpose? Question, please. Recognize. Would you just clarify
Representative Kim Hammer
Unverified
2:59
something for me, Representative Alpsis, please? I live in a dry county. If I vote for this, is this going to allow any establishments under this law to be able to come into my dry county
and establish new liquor establishments as defined in this law? It would be eight years before they can bring
Representative Denny Altes
Unverified
3:19
a petition to have an election. It would be eight
Representative Kim Hammer
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3:22
years before they could. Is that correct? Thank you. I appreciate
Chair
Unverified
3:29
your vote. Members, you heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill, not to question for the House. Passes House Bill 2173. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Is everyone voting? Is everyone voting?
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
Unverified
4:05
Is everyone voting? Cast that for the ballot, Mr. Clark. By vote of 68, 23, nay, and 0, present. your failed bill.
Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1975. House Bill
Speaker 10
4:19
1975, by Representative Harris, to require a criminal background check by a private business that provides short-term child care
Chair
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4:28
facilities for its patrons. Representative Harris, you
Representative Justin T. Harris
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4:33
are recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1975 is a public safety
bill that requires temporary child care providers like in a gym to do background checks to make sure that they're not
sex offenders or they abuse children and I appreciate a good vote representative
Chair
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4:54
Walker what purpose question and recognize I believe there
Representative John W. Walker
Unverified
5:00
are a number of people who keep four and five children in many communities in this state in order for them to keep one two three four or five children often friends or relatives would you require a background check for them as well this
Representative Justin T. Harris
Unverified
5:19
bill is talking about private businesses such as gymnasiums gyms it's not talking about daycares under the licensing code in the state of Arkansas but it
Representative John W. Walker
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5:31
could be the same thing so does it cover those situations where a person keeps the children in a gym
Representative Justin T. Harris
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5:44
or whatever the bills particularly talking about private businesses such as a gym that if they keep the children within five hours per
day or ten hours per week so it addresses the private businesses that that provide and advertise for childcare. Representative Steele back
Chair
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6:08
here was up first. What purpose? Question. Recognize. Representative Harris, I'm assuming that
Representative Nate Steel
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6:16
of this and submit to the background check. They're not just going to be randomly checked,
as law enforcement might check someone, is
Representative Justin T. Harris
Unverified
6:28
form like they do at a child care facility. They'll fill out the state police background check and the central registry check. So they would be
Representative Nate Steel
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6:35
aware of it and they would be submitting to the background check? That
Representative Justin T. Harris
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6:39
is correct. It's not a surprise check. Thank
Chair
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6:44
you. Representative Walker, what purpose? I'm told Representative
Representative John W. Walker
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6:46
Powers that I missed the meeting. Representative Walker, what purpose, sir? Question. You're a recognition. All right. Mr. Powers told me that I missed the meeting, but I still would have had the question,
what about a boys' club or a girls' club or some place like that that look after children for four to five hours a day? Well, I mean,
Representative Justin T. Harris
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7:07
for one thing, the boys' and girls' club, which I'm not familiar with as far as do they pay for
the service. Yes. Okay, well, I believe anyone that runs a boys' and girls' club, the directors, they would have to do
background checks on their volunteers, period. I mean, I don't think that's a new phenomenon.
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Representative Tyler, what purpose? Question.
Representative Linda S. Tyler
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7:38
You recognize? Representative Harris, what about churches? I know at my church, for example, We have programs where child care is provided frequently because our calendar is so
Representative Justin T. Harris
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7:56
busy. What about churches? That's a good question. It was asked in committee. This does not
Chair
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8:12
include churches because we don't include churches as
Representative Linda S. Tyler
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8:16
private businesses. thank you um but churches are a 501 oftentimes they have a 3c organization um so would that
not count as a private business
Representative Justin T. Harris
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8:30
no we looked in the code lisa mcgee i'm not saying whether she's for the bill or against it i'm just going to use the lawyer in committee churches are exempt in
the code for this bill those were her words in committee thank you sir
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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8:49
thank you members heard an explanation of the bill anyone wish to speak against the bill for the bill not the question for the house passive house bill 1975 prepare the machine mr clerk
Everyone voted? Everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 68, yea, 13, nay, 2, present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 2054. House
Speaker 10
9:24
Bill 2054 by Representative Slinkert to amend Arkansas law concerning deadlines applicable to certain elections. Representative Slinkert,
Chair
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9:31
you are recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Mary L. Slinkard
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9:33
Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. This is a dates bill.
Mr. Tim Humphries and I have been working on dates for several months now, and it takes a lot of time to get a good bill right. House Bill 2054 deals with election deadline dates. Since there will be new emphasis on some of the aspects of the MVRA, the MOVE Act, HAVA
Act, and the Elderly and Handicap Accessibility Acts, as well as the UACHAVA and Voting Rights Acts, elections administrators are likely to be faced with new record keeping or better timing procedures in the conduct of elections. This bill deals with deadline dates for Arkansas to accommodate elections administrators, the county clerks, the county board of election commissioners, and the secretary of state, and candidates for all elections for their filing times.
The purpose is to comply with the MOVE Act, a new federal law requiring counties to provide absentee ballots to overseas voters no later than this bill says 46 days before any election. Current law provides for the transmission of those ballots 35 days before an election, which is not enough time. This bill also changes various election law deadlines so that ballots can be printed, provided to the clerks, and sent to voters by the new deadlines.
also allows more time for other administrative type procedures in the conduct of all elections examples party filing period is one week earlier to allow needed time to print the ballots draw for ballot positions and other preparatory requirements however most of these deadlines in here are being changed by this bill are administrative we've gone through the election code for all elections and move those dates back to provide more time i would appreciate
a good vote thank you
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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11:52
members heard an explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill before the
Chair
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11:57
bill not the question for the house passes house bill 2054 prepare the machine mr Mr. Clerk, everyone voted,
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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12:12
everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote of 92 yea, 0 nays, 0 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk,
Speaker 11
12:18
read House Bill 2078. House Bill 2078 by Representative
Speaker 10
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Slinker to amend Arkansas law concerning funds for
Chair
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12:25
voting systems. Representative Schlenker, do you recognize
Representative Mary L. Slinkard
Unverified
12:34
to explain the bill? Thank you, Mr. Speaker, members. Hopefully this is my
last one. House Bill 2078 amends Arkansas law concerning funds for voting systems. This legislation has been agreed upon by the Secretary of State and the Association of and it came to me from the Association of Marksall Counties, along with the collaboration of the Secretary of State.
After the initial use of the HAVA funds by the Secretary of State to purchase and distribute voting machines and electronic vote tabulating devices to all counties to administer their elections, each county then had to bear their own cost of buying new voting machines or maintenance or anything like that. What this bill does, 2078, sets up a county voting system grant fund on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the state.
And the monies coming into that fund is $12 from the UCC filings that is currently being paid into the Secretary of State's office. Under current law, this $12 is set to sunset in 2015, and this grant fund will keep the revenues flowing to the counties it does not go into effect until 2012 so it will not change any revenues in any counties current fiscal year the secretary of state will establish guidelines and
procedures to distribute the monies to the counties the county voting system grant funds shall be used to provide grants to counties to purchase voting equipment machines which sometimes cost four to five thousand dollars electronic vote tabulating devices programming and maintenance batteries for a voting machine can cost eighty dollars apiece and the maintenance contracts can be in the thousands of dollars even for small counties the money will be paid out to the counties
in the form of grants as I said the grant regulations as well as the amounts will be determined by the Secretary of State with the collaboration of the counties. The appropriation language for this grant fund will be in the 2012 fiscal session. This legislation, I feel, will be a particular benefit to the small counties, and I would appreciate a good vote on this bill. Thank you. Representative Lee, what purpose? Question.
Speaker 70
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Recognized. Representative Slinkard, would you agree that every once in a while this body is graced with someone with tremendous experience in county operations that end up benefiting when they come down here and change the law? Yes, Representative Lee. And I think so too, Representative Slinkard. Thank you. Thank you. Members
Chair
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15:29
heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill? the question for the House, passage of House Bill 2078,
prayer of the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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15:48
voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 92 yea, 1 nay, 0 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1017. House Bill
Speaker 10
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1017 by R. Sam Garner. considering websites to ascertain the expenditure data of state-supported institutions of higher education.
Representative Ed Garner
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16:13
Mr. Garner, you're recognized. Ms. Incheville. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Members, House Bill 1017 takes care of the one sector of our government that is not subject to the open checkbook
law that we already passed. we were um i i began work on open checkbook early on and um there was in in states that i modeled legislation on that had higher ed they were able to put a link onto some of those states websites
however when we began to research arkansas what we did not realize is that each of these higher institutions had different software so to do that the cost was exorbitant however Shane Broadway and that group kept working on that and what and representative Roebuck had
an amendment to put higher ed into that bill but what came out was that they higher ed who amended this bill has a cloud computing
software that will create a format for all the institutions of higher ed to use their existing accounting software and the format will be standardized so that now when the public goes to the open checkbook website they will be able to click on a link and go to the institution of higher ed that they're looking at there will be a similar format available for all of the the public to look at and though that data will
be available so we're able to put higher ed on to the open checkbook website I'll be happy to answer any
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
17:51
questions. For what purpose, Mr. Allen? You're recognized for your question. Mr.
Representative Fred Allen
Unverified
18:00
Garner, what is the financial impact, what it's going to cost, and where is the
Representative Ed Garner
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18:06
money going to come from? Higher ed didn't produce the impact at the initial
cost they were talking in the many millions of dollars. Mr. Broadway came to me and said that he thought that they were going to come in at fractions of that. In other states, they've come in at $300,000 for the entire state. Since this is using their existing software and their
existing personnel, with the new cloud software, he expects that we may even be able to bring this in faster than possible. So what is the cost? He didn't bring us a
cost. So we don't have a cost? They didn't testify to that
in committee, and there were no no votes in the committee, Mr. Allen. But wouldn't you agree it's going to cost something? No, I wouldn't agree. In some states, they have done this at no cost. The data already exists.
It simply has to be put into the framework pulled from these type databases, simply pull data from existing databases and project them onto a website. In some cases, there has been a small cost. It's my understanding that a cost is associated with this. And I
Representative Fred Allen
Unverified
19:15
just need to know, and I think it's a great idea. I'm not trying to kill your bill or anything like that, but I just need to know what it costs and where the money
Representative Ed Garner
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19:27
is going to come from. Mr. Allen, at the pace that this has changed,
higher ed did not come forth with a cost and certainly asked. The only information I got from Mr. Broadway was that this was going to be nominal at what they were doing. They have a new computer program to do it and pull it. You know, they have people that teach this kind of thing in institutions of higher ed. I'm aware of similar databases that have been done at our
local two-year college, and the cost has not been a factor. For what purpose, Mr. Hammer?
Representative Kim Hammer
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20:02
You're recognized for your question. Thank you, Madam Chair. Representative Gardner, two questions, if I may. And I know he's not here, but you have referenced his name, so I want to ask. Mr. Broadway has been around the higher ed for a long time and familiar with the workings of the numbers and the financial process. Would you say that's a fair question? That would be a good
Representative Ed Garner
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20:26
answer, yes or no? Yes. He began working on the bill that I had filed early on, and there were substantial hurdles to that. And higher ed came forth with the amendments to this bill to make it work and changed dramatically.
Representative Kim Hammer
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20:39
Okay. A second question then. And do you believe that by putting this information out there at what the leadership that you've been working is saying a fraction of the cost, do you believe that the potential to save more money is there because those numbers will become apparent to
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the public like we're trying to do with the other part of this process? I
Representative Ed Garner
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21:01
think the same principle for open checkbook applies that you may not get to see the checks that aren't written because they'll be on display. Thank you, sir.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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21:10
Mr. McLean, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized
Representative James McLean
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21:17
for your question. Representative Garner, what were the initial costs two or
Representative Ed Garner
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21:22
three years ago for the open checkbook? That wasn't my bill. It was dramatic. I want to say it was in the $3 million to $4 million range. And what's that cost going
to be now? Not including this bill. It was projected over two years at $600,000, and then there's some maintenance costs for the websites.
Representative James McLean
Unverified
21:40
And we both agree that's a significant change from then to now in terms of decreasing the cost. There were many concerns in this body about higher ed being represented on the website. And to me, this appears like, based upon those concerns, higher ed has come forward and is taking some action on this. Surely they wouldn't have come forward with a bill like this unless they felt it was cost efficient. i i wouldn't
Representative Ed Garner
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22:09
i wouldn't think so and i i think really it was trying the the evolution of this
has been they've been trying to find a way that complies they know that this is uh this is something going forward that one way or another it needed to be done and i just want to
commend them for their work and continuing
Representative James McLean
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22:30
on with this uh um it seems to be a great workaround isn't it also true that other open checkbooks and i think that you've probably already covered this essentially they link to institutions of higher ed, and those facts and figures are available essentially
through those institutions of higher ed. So this essentially to
Speaker 103
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me would be a low-cost way of accessing that data. You're
Representative Ed Garner
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22:55
correct. And that was the bill that I wrote and modeled was modeled
on Kansas. However, when they did just that, they provided links to the individual institutions rather them being mixed in with the rest of the state. However, when we got into that, we realized that those institutions all used the same software as the state. In Arkansas, that would
mean that all the institutions of higher learning used ACES. Well, they don't. So when they began, Mr. Broadway and higher ed began researching my build, the costs were in the millions again. So what they've done is found a common format they're willing to go forward with over the next year and a half
Speaker 103
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be able to cover one-fifth of government at what i would what appears to be a very low cost uh every i
Representative Ed Garner
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hate to quote figures because every time they talk to me that that that
figure is plummeting so it it may end up being simply a nominal cost
because i'm to understand the cloud i've forgotten the name of it but the computer software already exists this appears to me to be
Speaker 103
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a welcome addition to the open checkbook legislation i think it's i think it's excellent not again i
Representative Ed Garner
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want to commend mr broadway for continuing to work on it thank you i appreciate a good vote i would just like to thank you for your work
Representative James McLean
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over the years on this legislation thank you sir thank you too appreciate a good
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vote to anyone that wishes to speak against the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
24:27
Anyone wishing to speak for the bill? If not, the question before the House is House Bill 1017. Prepare the machine, Mr.
Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 86 yea, no nay, no present, you have passed your bill.
Mr. Clark, please read House Bill 1250. House Bill
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1250 by Representative Stewart, an act to amend the retirement laws it relates to members of the General Assembly. Mr. Stewart,
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
Unverified
25:13
you're recognized to present your bill. Thank you,
Representative Randy Stewart
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25:16
Madam Chair. This is going to be the longest presentation of a bill I've ever made because I want to be sure you understand it. You don't listen to the headlines in the paper. This is an idea that came out of the Governor's Yellow Ribbon Task Force, which I was appointed two years ago to help look at all the issues of veterans in Arkansas.
And we came up with several things to do. And you all have seen some of them with license plates. You've seen different things. And one of them was giving military credit in retirement systems. In the last session and this session, we have passed laws that allow every teacher, every state employee, every state policeman, et cetera, the ability to purchase their military service, both active and reserve regard, up to a limit of five years. The only employee of Arkansas that is currently not allowed to buy their military service
are members of the General Assembly, because we're the only state employee that has a 10-year investing and i had to get history on this i didn't understand why it was that way and i got mr hopkins uh who was retired former senator hopkins who's now the uh the atars chief and gail stone to give me a history lesson on how we got to where we're at today you you know you're all members of apris right now you're you're a contributory member you're putting in 66 dollars a month into the
retirement system that's through the states are through your contribution of five percent of your salary the state puts in a little over 12 for you into the retirement system so right now you're all members of the retirement system but by term limits you cannot vest unless you do some other things because you have to have 10 years to vest and by law you cannot get any accredited service until you're vested. So it's kind of a catch-22.
You can't get any, and there's 22 members in the House and Senate that are former members of the military. Okay? Now, this doesn't, some of you may be surprised that a lot of us in here are enjoying the benefits of our service in the House through reciprocal service. I've taught school 12 years, and when I got here, they said, well, you've already been in the system. these years count for you. You just get to continue those on your because I'm getting credit for it.
This bill doesn't help me a bit. I've also bought my military time. As a school teacher, at the end of my fifth year, I bought my military time. And the reason you can do that is I wasn't available to work in the state while I was doing that military time. I was somewhere else. Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Benning and Fort Eustace, Virginia. But I bought that out of my pocket. Okay, you buy it back at a rate established by the retirement system.
Right now, the members in here who are not, doesn't have reciprocal service, or they're not a worker in some other area, and are not going on, planning on going into another office, are going to just forfeit the right to buy that military time. You can't do it until you have 10 years in. So it's kind of a problem for them. and I found out how we got here I talked to George Hopkins back in 1999 he ran a package of bills he and several other people
to get all of the retirement systems on the same footing everybody was going to have five years of vesting he ran two or three of the bills and Vic Snyder ran the one for APERS Vic Snyder decided to change the five years to ten years because he was getting I think getting ready to run for office So he and Mr. Hopkins was a co-sponsor on that bill, and he voted against the bill because the bill was changed from its original intent.
Everybody was going to get five years because what they did at that time was take away the two-for-one credit that legislators had enjoyed up until 1995. they took away the multiplier, the enhanced multiplier that General Assembly members had and put you on the same footing as every state employee. So everything worked until the 10 years got kept in and the five years didn't. So right now, these are the options you have.
You can, if we were to change this to five years, you could invest and you could retire with six-year service. People say, well, I want to work part-time. And you're only going to get a part-time retirement. Your retirement's based on your salary. So if you were to work six years in the legislature, and that's all you ever did, at age 65, you'd draw $163 a month. $66 of that, you contributed. You could vest, and at the end of your time, and Representative Summers asked this question to the committee,
if you say, I don't want to participate in the retirement system, You say, at the end of your six years, you go over there and say, give me my contribution back. They give you your contribution back, and you are no longer in the retirement system. Nothing's owed you. That's it. If we were to pass this five years, you could vest, and then the members that have military credit, whether it's active duty or our National Guard, could elect to go over to find out how much it would cost them to buy that military time.
It's not cheap, okay? They could have the right to go over and do that, just like every other state employee. They can already take advantage of reciprocal service, as much as I'm doing. So I figured out in here there's a lot of people doing it. Bubba Powers is the one of them doing it. Mr. Wright, I forgot his name. A lot of us in here work in the state somewhere where the reciprocal service just continues. So a lot of us aren't going to get the benefit of it,
but I don't want to prohibit the people that could use it to get a benefit to be denied that benefit. And one thing that the April Gail Stone brought up was it would maybe cut down on the number of people that go find state jobs after they leave the House. And we all know a lot of people who have done that. They leave the House, they're going, I've got six years invested, I've got to get four more. So they go find a job to do this. George Hopkins also told me this morning, he said, one thing that I'm concerned about is we've got 30,000 state employees that vest at five years, and we've got 135 that vest at 10.
Who's going to file the lawsuit? When are we going to be challenged on that? So currently, a person who does not vest has to go back and pull their money out and take it with them. now the APERS system also said you know look at it this way from our point of view you've got a guy here that's 30 years old he does 6 year service he puts in $66 a month throughout his career or his 6 year service they get to use that money for the next 30 years
to invest, to make the system stronger, create more equity and then you can't retire until you're 65 they get to use your money for 30, 35 years Some of you 20 years, some of you about two days, but some of you older guys. But the point is we are taking capital out of the system if you walk over there the day you get out of the legislature and pull your contribution out. They no longer have that capital to work with to make money for the system.
I see this as an equal opportunity to have the same right as any other state employee. we're getting a part-time retirement on part-time service the individual can elect not to receive a retired pay and get your contribution back so all you people that are getting these emails these people who don't understand what we're doing you can be a hero you can vote for this and go back home and say I'm not taking that retirement I'm not going to take it that's up to you but I don't know everybody's personal situation in here
somebody may need that retirement money So what I would say is let's give them an opportunity to make their own decision on whether they want to do it. I told you it was a long presentation. This bill was approved by Gail Stone. George Hopkins didn't really have a, it's not his retirement system, but he helped me with it. He tried to run this bill a couple times. It's always that perception of self-dealing that kills it, and that's all it is, a perception.
It's not self-dealing. It is equal opportunity. The governor's office said we would agree with APRA's board. The APRA's board and APRA's executive director said we need to be doing this. So I would say just give everybody opportunity to participate in this. If you choose not to, that's your personal choice. Take your money out and go to the house. I think Mr. Summers said he's going to take his and go on a cruise. So if you want to do that, do it. But don't deny people who have served in the military an opportunity to buy their
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military service back if they so choose.
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And I'll be happy to take questions. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the
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bill? For the bill? Mr. Walker, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized for a question. Are you – let me understand this. This applies primarily to people with military service.
Representative Randy Stewart
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That is one of the intents is to give them the opportunity to buy their military time back.
Representative John W. Walker
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And it doesn't afford the people of this legislature an opportunity to get five years simply by
Representative Randy Stewart
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being here. It does. It does. Your vesting period would be five years. You would have to work for the state for five years just like any other state employee. You would get no enhanced benefit, nothing. You're on the same level playing field as every other state employee, working at the highway department, working at DHS or wherever. And the thing is, your retirement is based on your high salary times the number of years of service.
You don't have very much service, you don't have very much salary. You're not going to get very much retirement. But the persons who do want to go down and buy that, those 22 members that may want to, Ms. Menards served in the Navy. She may want to go down and buy that. I don't know. She'll make that decision, but she'll be allowed at least to explore the opportunity to do that. And I would not want to keep her from doing that. We worked hard over the last four years to make sure that every state employee,
no matter what retirement system, has that right to buy that military time. And then it turns out that this was the only closed door, and that's how I came about. And I'm saying I'm not going to benefit from this. I'm already going to enjoy the benefits of my service in here because it adds on to my teachers. I've already bought my military time. I bought that back in 1999, five years. So I'll just ask you to give us a chance to give everybody the opportunity to do their own choice.
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Thank you very much. Mr. Aldis, what purpose? Speak against the bill. You're recognized to speak against the
Representative Denny Altes
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bill. Thank you, Madam Speaker. I just want, this bill doesn't apply to Randy or me or a lot of other people in this chamber today, but I just want the, especially the freshmen, to understand that what you're doing is you're voting for yourself a retirement.
Once you've been here for five years, you will be fully vested. And so I just want you to remember that and think about that if you plan to come back and be reelected. Thank
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the bill against the bill Mr. Stewart do you wish to close for your bill Mr. Stewart is closed question before the house is house bill 1250
prepare the machine Mr. Clark has everyone voted has
everyone voted cast up the ballots Mr. Clerk by a vote of
28 yay, 45 nay, 5 present you have failed your bill
Mr. Kerr moves that we expunge the vote by which Senate Bill 855 failed this is
a debatable motion Mr. Kerr you're recognized I'd like to leave this
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on the calendar for tomorrow pass over it for today
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without objection so ordered leave on the calendar bottom of the
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list Mr. Clark read House Bill 2111 House
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Bill 2111 by Representative Edwards requiring a two-year public notice period
concerning the Arkansas Lottery Commission's placement of certain
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self-service lottery ticket vending machines
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in the state. Mr. Edwards, you're
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recognized to present your bill. Thank you, Madam Speaker. First, let me say, due to a drafting error that I made, I'm going to have to ask this body to allow me to pass this bill out today with an amendment on the Senate end. And let me tell you what I'm trying to do with this bill. Last fall, the Arkansas Lottery Commission purchased 100 self-service lottery ticket vending machines.
So far, they only have eight of those machines out. Now, there have been studies in other states about how these machines have operated, but we really don't know how they're going to operate in Arkansas. I want the Oversight Committee to make sure that these machines are being operated in a lawful manner and that we're not having minors utilize these machines. Now, the way they're set up in Arkansas, there are several safeguards in place that I feel like are an improvement
from what some other states have. I mean, there's a kill switch on the machine. They have to be in line of sight of the person where they're located. But I would still like to know, and I think us as a body, I think we have the right to understand how these machines are going to actually work. So what this bill will do, and where I need to make the amendment, is that as these machines are placed out into the public, the Lottery Commission must, on their public website, list the location to include the street address of where these machines are located.
I think it will help us as legislators understand where these machines are being placed, how they're being placed. I think if there are parents who want to have a tool to know where these machines are located as they try to do their best to raise their children, I think it will be a good tool for us to learn as things go on over the next two years, and I would appreciate a good vote. You've heard an explanation
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of the bill. Someone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill.
If not, the question before the House is House Bill 21-11. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Mr. Clerk, cast up the ballots. By a vote of 94 yea, 0 nay, 0 present, you have passed your bill.
Mr. Clark, read Senate Bill 594. Senate Bill 594
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by Senator Dismang, to clarify the grounds and procedures for setting aside the sale of tax delinquent lands. Mr.
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Carter, you're recognized. Thank you, Ms. Bigger. colleagues uh... senate bill five ninety four deals with uh... sailor tax-delinquent uh... property this this bill says that
that the uh... failure noticed is not invalidate an auction and so landless owner of it were interested party did not receive notice in substantial compliance uh... this bill strengthens uh... the notice requirements uh... To all interested parties, to my knowledge, I don't know that there's any stated oppositions. I'd appreciate a good vote. You've
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heard an explanation. Mr. Wood, for what purpose?
Question. You're recognized for a question. Representative
Representative Jon Woods
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Carter, are you for this bill? Yes. I just want to make sure.
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Thank you. Yes, for the bill. Please vote for it.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Is there anyone that wishes to speak against the bill, for
the bill? If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 594. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. I vote of 93 yay, 0 nay, 0 present. You've passed your
bill. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 595.
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Senate Bill 595 by Senator Disimane
to clarify the notice requirements and remedies for defective notice and sale of
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tax delinquent land. Mr. Carter, you're recognized
Representative Davy Carter
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to present your bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, this bill requires the notice that we're discussing to contain a partial or abbreviated legal description on the notice. That's something that's not current now, or it's not required now, which strengthens the notification requirements. We're glad to try to answer any questions. And for the bill, Mr. Woods. Thank you.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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You've heard an explanation of the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the
bill? For the bill. If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 595. Prepare the
machine, Mr. Clark. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Mr. Clark, cast up the ballots. By a vote of 92 yea, 1 nay, 0 present, you've passed your bill.
Mr. Clark, read Senate Bill 596. Senate Bill 596 by Senator
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Dismay to clarify payment requirements for the redemption of delinquent, tax delinquent lands. Mr. Carter, you're recognized. Thank you. This
Representative Davy Carter
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is the last one. 596 requires that somebody that's trying to redeem property that's been sold within 60 days to do so by paying it with good funds, the meaning cash or cashier's check, in order to be able
to do that, to make sure the money's good.
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Appreciate a good vote. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 596.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted? Is everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clark. By a vote of 89 yay, 2 nay, 0 present, you've passed your bill.
Mr. Clark, read Senate Bill 66. Senate Bill 66 by
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Senator Jeffries, an act to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of morbid obesity.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Ms. Warlow, you're recognized to present your bill. Thank you,
Representative Jeff Wardlaw
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Madam Speaker. Y'all can tell this bill is not for me, I promise. Senate Bill 66, all it is is it allows a pilot project for long-term savings to surgeries
to treat morbid obesity. This bill, really what it does is it lays the foundation to save insurance companies money in the long run. Let's face it, our country is faced with a growing population of diabetes and sleep apnea patients, and this is all tied back to morbid obesity. And this bill is going to establish a pilot program to kind of prove that this will help cost-save our insurance companies in the long run. It has no budget impact, no known opposition outside this chamber.
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y'all like that one don't you but i'd sure appreciate a good vote thank you you've heard
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an explanation of the bill does anyone wish just mr edwards for what purpose
Representative John Charles Edwards
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i'm sorry question you're recognized for your question thank you now the way this thing was explained to me was that it does have to be revenue neutral, number one.
Is that right? That's right. Okay, it is a pilot program. I
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mean, it's strictly a pilot. That's right. And then any time throughout this, if revenue neutral is not obtained, EBD can cancel this
Representative John Charles Edwards
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program. And that whoever is accepted into this program has to pay $5,000 and then a 20 percent, is that co-pay? That is exactly right. It's $5,000 deductible with
Representative Jeff Wardlaw
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a 20 percent co-pay on the surgery.
But before they can even go and have the surgery, they have to spend 12 months. So they're going to have skin in the game, 12 months of dietary practices to prove that they're going to sustain themselves to this and work for it. And then after the surgery, they've got to spend 12 more months to make sure that they sustain this lifestyle change. So it's not something that's just going to be free, hand out, and you come in, we're going to give it to you. You've got to be invested in the system.
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Mr. Aldis, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized for your question. Thank you, Madam Speaker. So there's, I don't understand how there could not be an impact over the long run on health insurance rates.
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because when you take a patient that's morbid obesity, they're diabetic, sleep apnea, when you take them down to the normal BMI index, you take out all the costs that me and you are paying right now for those patients to be testing every day three and four times a day for diabetic,
all the complications that comes from diabetic neuropathy with losing limbs, different things. You take away the sleep apnea, which we are paying for that machine under their insurance. It cuts all that cost out when you get them down to the right BMI. I think there's a neutral impact, no impact. It should, in the
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long term, prove it would be a negative impact. Okay, should. Thank you. Thank you. I'd appreciate
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a good vote. Ms. Clemmer, you've heard an explanation of the bill.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Does anyone wish to speak against the bill,
for the bill? If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 66. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk.
By a vote of 54 yea, 27 nay, and 0 present, you have passed your bill. Mr. Wardlow moves
clincher. All in favor of the clincher, say aye. Any opposed, no. Ayes have it. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill, Senate
Bill 940. Senate Bill 940 by Senator Lamoureux
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to amend the laws regarding the vesting and hunting or fishing rights in leased farmland.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Mr. Lee, you're recognized to explain your
Representative Kelley Linck
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bill. Thank you, Madam Speaker. This Senate Bill 940 makes it clear to farmland owners and farmland leasers who has the rights to hunt and fish. Back in 1986, an Arkansas Court of Appeals decision has caused uncertainty when a farmland owner leases that land to someone of who, by default, has the rights to hunt and fish.
This bill makes it clear that the farmland owner, when he leases out property, keeps the rights to hunt and fish unless, by contract, he moves those rights over to the farmland leesor. Very simply, if I have a pasture that I rent to someone to cut hay off of, that does not mean that person cutting hay has the right to come and fish in my pond and shoot my deer unless I so tell them. It's unanimous, came from the Senate, and unanimously came out of House Agri Committee,
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and I'd be glad to try to answer questions. Mr. Cowling, for what purpose?
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Question. You're recognized for your question. In the last election
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and all, we just passed a constitutional amendment to give us the right to hunt and fish, so why are we
Representative Kelley Linck
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coming back on this now? I'm not sure that this involves that constitutional right at all, Mr. Cowling. This simply clears it up. If you own land and you lease it out, who has that right where? I don't believe the constitutional right gave the right to hunt and fish on anybody's land.
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Do you have to have written permission to hunt on this leased land,
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or how do you go about doing that? How do you keep them all? I
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believe that would be up to the landowners how
Representative Tim Summers
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he wants to enforce things. Mr.
Representative Kim Hammer
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Hammer, for what purpose? Question, please. You're recognized for your question. If we vote for this bill, will it give the original property owner greater strength and a greater shield from those that are trespassing on their property?
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all. Thank you. Mr. Wilkins, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized for
Representative Butch Wilkins
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your question. Senator, are you aware that anyone who's hunting on anyone else's property now has to have written
Representative Kelley Linck
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permission from the landowner? Well, if this lease agreement, as I understand it, if the lease agreement includes hunting and fishing
Representative Butch Wilkins
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rights, then that would be permission to... Anybody but the landowner hunting on anybody's property has to have written permission.
Representative Kelley Linck
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And a contract would be written permission, I believe. Well, they have
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to carry it with them. If they don't own the property, they have to have it on
Representative John Charles Edwards
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their person. Thank you. Mr. Edwards, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized for your question. I'm going to ask you to follow me here because I think this makes a lot of sense what you're trying to do. And when someone typically leases farmland, many times the property owner historically has felt like they were leasing the farmland.
Is that correct? That is correct. And then there have been some court cases that have determined, based upon current law, that if you lease the land for the purposes of that lease, you lease all the
Representative Kelley Linck
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land. Is that correct? I believe that's what that 1986 decision
Representative John Charles Edwards
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did. yes sir that's right and so what this bill will do unless the contract between the two parties the private agreement between the two parties unless it expressly includes hunting rights
then they're not included is that correct absolutely correct okay
Representative Kelley Linck
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thank you very much thank you mr edwards we appreciate a good vote you've heard
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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an explanation of the bill does anyone wish to speak against the bill? Does anyone wish to speak for the bill? If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 940. Prepare the
machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted cast up the ballots mr. Clark by a vote of 91 yay 0 nay 0
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present you have passed your bill read Senate
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bill 917 mr. Clark Senate bill 917 by Senator Williams to implement measures to deter minors from
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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using tobacco products mr. McQuarrie you're
Representative Walls McCrary
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recognized present your bill thank you mr. speaker members Senate bill 917 is a bill by Eddie Joe Williams it implements measures to deter minors from using tobacco products it's similar to a
bill that I ran a few weeks ago and addresses a lot of the concerns that you had with that bill there are two sections to it one uh is uh the legislative findings and these are things such as what the law does now and what uh and why we need a stronger deterrent in the second section it says if a minor who is found by a court to be in violation of any statute is also found to be in possession of cigarette or tobacco product the court may
order the minor to perform up to three hours of community service and enroll in tobacco education program so what does this bill do if a minor is before a judge for another offense this law gives the judge the opportunity to try to help the minor understand the dangers and consequences of using tobacco products it gives the judge the discretion to get the miners attention that we take seriously the law against minors' use of tobacco.
If the judge does not want to deal with it, he does not have to. Also, it states that it's not a criminal offense, and it shall not be recorded as such. All records shall be permanently expunged. Law enforcement and the court will not be burdened. They are already dealing with the minor on another offense. Currently, 40 of our states have provisions for minor procession, and I'll answer any questions.
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Thank you. I appreciate a good vote. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Does anyone wish to speak
against the bill, for the bill? Mr. Stoverfield, you're recognized to speak for the bill.
Representative Gary Stubblefield
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you're recognized thank you madam chairman uh i didn't intend to come up here and speak for this bill but when i went to college i was in a majored in pre-veterinary medicine and i changed my major
right at the last year to pre-med and i was invited to come down to the med school facilities here in little rock and tour the med school facilities and i had a couple of friends that that were med students here, and they had me to go up on the floor where they worked on the cadavers, and I will never forget because when we walked up to that floor and I looked at one of the cadavers, they had it cut open and the lungs were solid black.
And I asked my friend, I said, why is that? And he said, well, this was a 65 to 70-year-old man that was found here in Little Rock that nobody had claimed his body. and he had smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day. And, you know, I don't think there's any more compelling evidence because I myself have lost three family members as a direct result of smoking. You know, we passed bills here this session that deals with sagging pants
and fluoride in water and turn signals on motorcycles. And I'm sure all those bills can stand on their own merits, but I can assure you that this bill will save lives. So I encourage you to vote for it. Thank you. Mr. Stubberfield has spoken
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for the bill. Is there anyone that wishes to speak against the bill? If not,
the question before the House is Senate Bill 917. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clark. has everyone voted
has everyone voted cast up the ballots
Mr. Clark by a vote of 79 yay, 8 nay, 0 present you have passed your
bill Mr. Cowling moves for clincher Mr. Pacquery moves for clincher all in favor say aye Aye. Any opposed? No. Clinchers adopted. Clinchers
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adopted. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 251.
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Senate Bill 251 by Senator Madison to make various corrections to Title 19 of the Arkansas Code of 1987 concerning public
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finance. Mr. Williams, you are recognized to present the
Representative Darrin Williams
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bill. You're recognized. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, this is another code revision bill, only two today.
This is Senate Bill 251, which avenged Title 19, the public finance statutes. This bill replaces an inadvertent reference to an agency that was left out. It also corrects the name of a fund and it makes some stylistic changes and delete obsolete references in the code. Again a code revision bill. We appreciate a good vote. Thank you. You've heard an explanation of the bill.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Does anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill?
If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 251. Prepare the machine, Mr.
Clark. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clark. By a vote of 87 yea, no nay, 0 present, you have passed your bill. Mr. Clark, read Senate Bill 313. Bill 313 by
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Senator Madison to make various corrections to Title 17 of the Arkansas Code
of 1987 concerning the regulation of
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professions, occupations, and businesses. Mr. Waves, you're recognized
Representative Darrin Williams
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to present the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, this is
another code revision bill amends Title 17, which is the professional occupation and business section of the code. It makes some minor stylists and changes in the beginning, subdividing certain paragraphs to conform to style, a few technical corrections, as well as some grammatical changes, and removes obsolete language. I would appreciate a good vote.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Thank you. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Does anyone wish to speak
against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the House is Senate Bill 313. Prepare the machine,
Mr. Clark. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clark. By a vote of 90 yea, 0 nay, 0 present, you have passed your
bill. Read Senate Bill 135, Mr. Clark.
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Senate Bill 135 by Senator Jeffress to clarify requirements for reciprocal service credits for the public employees.
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Mr. Carnown, you're recognized for sentient
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. Senator, Senate Bill 135, if you will refer to the pink sheet, I'll give you the particulars about it. This was passed out of retirement on the Senate side. Are there any questions?
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Representative Carr, what purpose? Question. Recognize. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Carnine, how many
Representative Davy Carter
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employees does this bill affect? It's my understanding that the way that the
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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bill is written, according to the actuaries, that it really would be one individual. Just one individual, and we're going to pass a law.
And what does this do for this one individual? I think your actuary analysis says that it would be receiving about a $25,000-a-year benefit two years early. $25,000-a-year.
Representative Davy Carter
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Are there any other people out
Representative Allen Kerr
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there that this might affect? I know it affects just one person now,
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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but... Again, if you will refer to the fiscal impact, there probably are they've identified a couple hundred people that potentially this might affect
however the way this bill is written it wouldn't affect them because it says they must be have applied for this by July 1, 2011 so they've narrowed the bill so it only applies to that one individual. Okay
Representative Allen Kerr
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you think it's a good idea that we pass a bill that just affects one individual? Won't that open up the flood gates for
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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others I can't speak obviously for the rest of the committee and this type of thing I
am supposed to present the bill for you to vote on I see and I do however again remind you that there is some actuarly concern about when you do make a bill for one individual but I really have no other comment other than what's made here to you you can all read it all right and make up your own decision. Thank you, sir. Are there additional
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questions? Representative Connine, thank you very much.
Representative Connine has left well. Anyone wish to speak against the
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bill or the bill? Not the question for the House. Passive Senate Bill
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135. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted?
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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Cast up the ballot by a vote of 15 yea, 59 nay, and two present who have failed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read Senate Bill 403.
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Senate Bill 403 by Senator Sample to amend the Arkansas Capitol Grounds Monument and Memorial Preservation
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Fund and to declare emergency. Representative Summers,
Representative Tim Summers
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you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker and distinguished colleagues. We recently passed Senate Bill 404, which allowed firefighters on a voluntary basis
to pay additional fees on licensing so that they could develop a firefighter's memorial fund. 403 is a companion bill, companion bill and what it does is transfer forty two thousand dollars approximately it's already accumulated over to the treasurer so that it can be used for both the memorial and maintenance on it and it'll also transfer additional funds we'd appreciate a good vote on it thank you
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members of our next nation of the room anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill not question for the house passage senate bill 403 prepare the machine
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mr. clerk everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot by voting 92
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yeas 0 nays 0 present you pass the bill mr clarkridge senate bill 849 senate bill 849 by senator teague and
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act concerning the assessment of mineral
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interests representative ratliff you're recognized explain the bill
this bill here is a concern assessment of mineral interests and other purposes it unifies the way the assessors are going to do the assessors on their mineral rights on the property. It passed the Senate unanimously and passed the House of Ag Committee unanimous. Thank you. Good vote, please. Members have heard
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an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill?
For the bill? Not a question for the House. Passes Senate Bill 849. I'm proud of the machine, Mr.
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Clerk. Everyone voting? Everyone voting. Cast up the ballot by
a vote of 89, yay. Zero, nay. Zero, present. You have passed the bill. Members, we're going to go to the budget supplemental calendar.
Representative Lindsey. and you are recognized to come
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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and explain how you'd like to proceed on the budget
Representative Uvalde Lindsey
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calendar. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With consent, I'd like to batch House Bill 1132 beginning on the first page and continuing through House Bill 1383, except for House Bill 1356.
A member's request to pass
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over that today. All right. Members, any questions? Okay, if
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not, Mr. Clerk, read the bills. Thank you.
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House Bill 1231, House Bill 1264, House Bill 1266, House Bill 1267, House Bill 1268, House House Bill 1357, House Bill 1358, House Bill 1359, House Bill 1360, House Bill 1361, House House Bill 1362, House Bill 1363, House Bill 1372, House Bill 1373, House Bill 1374, House Bill 1376, House Bill 1377, House Bill 1381, and House Bill 1383.
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Representative Lindsay, you are recognized for any further explanation on the
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bills. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Most of these are institutions of higher education, as you can see. DF&A Management also has their appropriation for FY12 in here. DHS has three appropriations, one for county operations, one for aging and adult services, and one for administration. The Department of Health has a tobacco cessation appropriation. Members, heard an explanation
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of the bills. Anyone wishing to speak against the bills
or the bills, not to question before the House as passage
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of the bills enumerated by the clerk in the batch. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. You're voting on the
bills and the emergency clause. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the
ballot by voting 92, yea, 0, nay, 1, present. you have passed the bills and the emergency clause representative lindsay you are recognized to
further explain any batches you wish to have considered
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thank you mr speaker uh the next batch are introductions by the senators general improvement funds one special fund begins at sb 464 continues through sb 694 general improvement plus a special fund on the first item Representative Meeks, what purpose?
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Request. What's your request? Can we pull Senate Bill
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464 and just have it voted on separately since it's not a general improvement appropriation, please?
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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All right, we'll have that removed from the BATS for separate
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consideration. Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 526 Senate Bill 528 Senate Bill 570 Senate Bill 571 Senate Bill 572
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Senate Bill 602 Senate Bill 603 and Senate Bill 694
Chair
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Senator Lindsay further explanation on the bills General Improvement
Representative Uvalde Lindsey
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of Primes submitted from the Senate. Members, heard an explanation
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of the bills. Anyone wishing to speak against the bills, for the bills, not the question for
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the House passage of bills enumerated by the Clerk in the batch of a pair of machines. Mr. Clerk. Voting on the bills and the emergency clause. Everyone voted.
Everyone voted cast out the ballot by a vote of 87, yea, 4, nay, 2, present, you pass the bills and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk reads Senate Bill
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464. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Lamoureux, an act for the Department of Finance and Administration
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to disbursing officer appropriation. Representative
Representative Uvalde Lindsey
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Lindsay, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Lamoureux is from the Department of Finance Administration to disbursing officer appropriation. It's for grants and $100,000 from the Vitacultural and E-N-O-L-O-G-Y, Enology Fund, and there's special language and a disclaimer in that.
Chair
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Members are next. Representative Lee, what purpose? Question.
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Recognize. How is this different than
Representative Uvalde Lindsey
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GIF? It is a special fund, a cash fund, as I understand, within the Department of Finance Administration. Now, the source of that funding is obviously cash that has something to do with those particular things. Now, I don't know where that all comes from, but it's obviously not a general improvement.
It does not come, remember, the general improvement's been on the desk, and so this does not
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affect that. So we don't know where the cash funds
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come from. Does it come from? My supposition is usually what these are. Fees that are charged to someone for the performing of certain services goes into a cash fund budget, and there's a certain amount of funds that accumulate in that, and they're using that fund to make appropriation grants from that fund in an amount of $100,000. Thank you, sir.
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You're welcome. Thank you. Members, heard an explanation of the bill? Anyone wishing to speak against the
Chair
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bill, for the bill, not the question for the House, passage to Senate Bill 464, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Members voting on the bill and the emergency clause. Has everyone voted?
Has everyone voted? cast up the ballot by voter 69 yay 18 nays zero present do you
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fail the bill thank you mr speaker thank
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you members of the house representing valens you
Representative Fred Allen
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recognize promotion after the announcement reading of the bills transferring bills placing the counters on the desk many members own bills with their own amendments members for drawing their own bills finalizing resolution reading communication to any remaining
committee reports i move that we adjourn until 1 p.m
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tomorrow uh... proper motion not debatable all in favor say aye opposed no ayes have it uh...
Chair
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motion carried announcements uh... representing williams what purpose announcement recognized
Representative Darrin Williams
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1:17:59
house judiciary meet ten minutes after adjournment to consider three bills
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only. Thank you, Representative Allen. What purpose? Announcement. Recognized.
Representative Fred Allen
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Insurance and Commerce will meet in the morning at 10 a.m. in
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room 149. Thank you, Representative Wagner. What purpose? Announcement. Recognized. City,
Representative Charolette Wagner
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County, and Local Affairs will meet Wednesday, 10 a.m., Big Mac Building, committee room B. Thank
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you, Representative Slinkard. What purpose? You're recognized.
Representative Mary L. Slinkard
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Announcement. state agencies committee will meet in room 151 immediately after adjournment today thank you representative
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carter what purpose announcement recognized revenue tax will meet
Representative Davy Carter
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tomorrow if if we recess it will be uh after recess tomorrow if not we'll meet 10 minutes after adjournment but we will have a meeting
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tomorrow all right thank you representative cheatham what purpose announcement recognized bigger
education will meet at 4 30 or shortly thereafter today at 4 30 a 4
30 or shortly thereafter in room 138 138 okay thank
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you representing webb what purpose announcements recognize joint budget will meet at nine o'clock
Representative Kathy Webb
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in the morning there will be a meeting at eight o'clock in the morning in my office to discuss rsa or gif with anybody who wants to come and joint budget will meet today immediately upon adjournment
Chair
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uh... there are a good meeting job as a major on the ground and at nine o'clock in the morning uh... represent
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had what purpose announcement recognize well make
Representative Barry Hyde
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sure the members know that there's an optometry reception uh... this evening at trample hall is from six thirty eight p.m.
Chair
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uh... there's a brown what purpose there are
Representative Jerry R. Brown
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Yes, Agri will meet in the morning, 10 o'clock, room 138. Thank you, Representative Malone. What
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purpose? Announcement. Recognize. Youth and aging will
Representative Stephanie Malone
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meet at 10 o'clock in the morning in room 130. And my voodoo doll is missing. If anybody's seen it, here's a picture. Thank you. Another announcement.
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Mr. Clark, ready to committee reports, please.
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Mr. Speaker, we are committee on joint budget to whom is referred House Bill 1194, House Bill 1263, House Bill 1311, House Bill 1347, House Bill 1375, and House Bill 1401. We have a report. We've had the same under consideration. Heareth return the same with the recommendation that they do pass.
Respectfully submitted. Kathy Webb, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on education. To whom was referred, House Bill 1743, Senate Bill 303, Senate Bill 321, Senate Bill 352, Senate Bill 353, Senate Bill 737, and Senate Bill 766. We have a report. We've had the same under consideration. Heareth return the same with the recommendation that they do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on education to whom was referred House Bill 2004. Beg we to report we have the same under consideration and heareth return the same with the recommendation that it do pass as amended.
Respectfully submitted, Eddie Cheatham, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on public transportation to whom was referred Senate Bill 338. Beg we to report we have the same under consideration and heareth return the same with the recommendation that it do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on public transportation to whom was referred House Bill 1559. Beg leave a report we've had the same under consideration and heareth return the same with the recommendation that it do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted, Jonathan Barnett, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Judiciary to whom is referred Senate Bill 389, Senate Bill 390, and House Bill 1994.
Beg leave a report we've had the same under consideration and heareth return the same with the recommendation that they do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Judiciary to whom is referred Senate Bill 685. Beg leave a report we've had the same under consideration and heareth return the same with the recommendation that it do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted, Darren Williams, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on public health to whom it was referred to House Bill 2171.
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Begley to report we've had the same under consideration here. We return the same with the recommendation that it do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted, Linda Tyler, Chair.
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Read the bill, Mr. Clark. Senate Bill 327 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clark
Senate Bill 327 Judiciary Senate Bill 516 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clark Senate Bill 516 Energy Senate Bill 527 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr.
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Clark Senate Bill 527 Education Senate
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Bill 638 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clerk Senate Bill 638 Public Health
Senate Bill 718 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clerk Senate Bill 718 Transportation Senate Bill 780 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clerk Senate Bill 780 Education Senate Bill 807 Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clerk Senate Bill 807. Public Health. Senate Bill 838. Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clark. Senate Bill 838.
Judiciary. Senate Bill 867. Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clark. Senate Bill 867. Rules. Senate
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Bill 897. Without objection, read the bill a
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second time, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 897. Education. Senate Bill 938. Without objection, read the bill a second time, Mr. Clerk.
Senate Bill 938. Insurance and Commerce. The desk will remain open
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for reading of the bills and upon the completion of the items named at the adjourn resolution, the House will be adjourned until 1 o'clock tomorrow.
Agenda
Call to Order
SB305
B2173
HB1975
HB2054
HB2078
HB1017
HB1250
HB2111
SB594
SB595
SB596
SB66
SB940
SB917
SB251
SB313
SB135
SB403
SB849
Budget Calendar
Announcements
Reading of Bills
Adjournment
Documents
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Speakers
Chair
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Representative Allen Kerr
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Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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Speaker 10
Representative Denny Altes
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Speaker 16
Representative Kim Hammer
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Representative Justin T. Harris
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Representative John W. Walker
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Representative Nate Steel
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Speaker 35
Speaker 25
Representative Linda S. Tyler
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Representative Mary L. Slinkard
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Speaker 11
Speaker 70
Representative Ed Garner
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck
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Representative Fred Allen
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Speaker 91
Representative James McLean
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Speaker 90
Speaker 107
Speaker 75
Representative Randy Stewart
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Representative Davy Carter
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Speaker 130
Speaker 112
Representative John Charles Edwards
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Representative Jon Woods
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Representative Jeff Wardlaw
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Speaker 76
Speaker 163
Representative Kelley Linck
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Speaker 169
Representative Tim Summers
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Representative Butch Wilkins
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Speaker 183
Speaker 146
Representative Walls McCrary
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Representative Gary Stubblefield
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Representative Darrin Williams
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Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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Representative James Ratliff Chair
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Representative Uvalde Lindsey
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Speaker 218
Speaker 193
Representative Charolette Wagner
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Representative Eddie L. Cheatham Chair
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Representative Kathy Webb
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Representative Barry Hyde
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Representative Jerry R. Brown
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Representative Stephanie Malone
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Representative Bruce Cozart
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