March 25, 2011
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Bills discussed (45)
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SB901
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HB1631
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HB2096
· 3 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…mendment adopted. Representative Rogers moves that we place House Bill 2096 back on second reading for the purpose of Amendment No. 2.…”
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HB2103
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB2103”
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HR1038
· 3 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…ect The resolution was adopted unanimously. Mr. Clark Reed, House Resolution 1038.”
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SB517
· 3 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “Williams. Move to replace Senate Bill 517. Back on the second reading. Purpose of Amendment No. 1. Wi…”
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SB707
· 3 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…t amendment adopted representative rice moves that we place Senate Bill 707 back on second reading for the purpose of Amendment No. 1.…”
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HB1881
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…ker, we are Committee on Public Health to whom was referred House Bill 1881”
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HB1888
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…ard moves that we consider adoption of Senate Bill No. 1 to House Bill 1888. Read the amendment, Mr. Clerk.”
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HR1037
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…aye opposed no ayes have an amendment adopted mr clerk read house resolution 1037 house resolution”
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SB348
· 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “…If not, the question for the House is on a motion to refer Senate Bill 348 back to the Senate. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no.…”
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HB1032
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1592
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HB1606
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HB1701
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HB1760
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HB1775
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HB1810
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HB1855
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HB1896
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HB1901
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1902
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HB1913
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HB1958
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HB1975
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Aging to whom was referred House Bill 1975. Begley to report we have the same under consideration here…”
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HB1985
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HB2007
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2033
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2046
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HB2056
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HB2085
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HB2127
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HB2143
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HB2157
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HB2178
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HB2185
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2196
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB135
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “a committee on public retirement to whom is referred Senate Bill 135. We believe we have the same under”
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SB2096
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SB242
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Matched: “…r, we are a committee on agriculture to whom we referred to Senate Bill 242, Senate Bill 849, and Senate Bill 940. Beg”
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SB544
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SB60
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 60. We believe we have the same under consideration and herewi…”
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SB849
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Matched: “…ttee on agriculture to whom we referred to Senate Bill 242, Senate Bill 849, and Senate Bill 940. Beg”
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SB855
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SB940
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…o whom we referred to Senate Bill 242, Senate Bill 849, and Senate Bill 940. Beg”
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Chair
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Members, if you would, please take your place at your desk and stand along with our staff and press and members in the gallery who are joining us today. I'll be led in prayer by Pastor Darrell Slayton from St. Albans Episcopal Church in Stuttgart who is here today as a guest of Representative Tiffany Rogers.
And then we'll remain standing and be led in the Pledge of Allegiance by Representative Billy Gaskell, Pastor Slayton. Before
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I begin the opening prayer, I would just simply like to say a brief prayer for the repose of the soul of Colonel William Miller, retired state police director who will be buried today and was my first boss in state government
may he rest in peace and rise in glory let us pray O God the fountain of wisdom whose will is ever good and gracious and whose law is truth we beseech thee so to guide and bless these representatives of the legislature that they may enact such laws as shall please thee Give them strength that they may fearlessly defend against evil and make no peace with oppression. May their hearts and minds be ever open to the wonderful diversity of races and cultures within this world.
Enrich their lives by the ever-widening circles of fellowship and show them your presence in those who differ the most until their knowledge of your love is made perfect in all of your children. In these most difficult times, we ask that you endued with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of this earth.
In times of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail. All these things we ask in the name of
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Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns
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with You in the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Amen. Members, please indicate your
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presence by pushing the yellow present button.
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at the balance park in case 97 members present to recognize a quorum any request for leave
Representative Kathy Webb
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Representative Webb. Leave. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Representative McClain. Leave granted for Representative McClain. Leave granted. Representative Gene. Leave. Representative Barnett. Leave granted for Representative Barnett. Leave granted for Representative Barnett.
Leave. Leave granted. Anyone else? Representative Eddie Cheatham moves that we dispense with a reading of the previous day's journal.
No objection, so ordered. Are there reports from select committees? Read the reports, Mr. Clerk. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on joint budget to whom is referred
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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Senate Bill 60. We believe we have the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that it do pass. Respectfully submitted, Kathy Webb, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are
a committee on public retirement to whom is referred Senate Bill 135. We believe we have the same under
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consideration. Heareth return the same with the recommendation that it do pass. Respectfully submitted.
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Les Carnine, Chair. Reports from the standing committees. Ready
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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to report. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on agriculture to whom we referred to Senate Bill 242, Senate Bill 849, and Senate Bill 940. Beg
we report we have the same under consideration. Heareth return the same with the recommendation that they do pass. Respectfully submitted. Jerry Brown, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Public Health to whom was referred House Bill 1881
by Representative Lennon. Begley to report we have the same under consideration here with the return same with the recommendation that it do pass. Respectfully submitted, Linda Tyler, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Aging to whom was referred House Bill 1975. Begley to report we have the same under consideration here with the return same
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with the recommendation that it do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted, Stephanie
Malone, Chair. Executive communication, unfinished business, none. Members, please join me in welcoming a special guest today of Representative Lee in the West
Gallery, Andrew Lee, son of Representative Lee, and Andrew and his wife, Sarah. And Andrew is just finishing his service in the U.S. Army, where he has spent time in both Afghanistan and Iraq. And we'd like to give a special welcome to Mr. Lee. Also joining us as a special guest today of Representative Harris is Rachel Martin,
who is the daughter of Secretary of State Martin Martin. So we welcome Rachel here today. Okay, members,
we're going to go to the red calendar.
Representative Eubanks, what purpose? Motion. What's your motion? I'll return this bill back to
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the Senate. That's a proper motion. It is debatable. If you want to come to the well, Representative Eubanks, and explain your motion. Representative Eubanks, you're recognized.
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senator Lambrose requested that we send this bill back to the Senate for further consideration. I
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appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Members, pardon the explanation of the motion. Anyone wishing to speak against the motion for
the motion? If not, the question for the House is on a motion to refer Senate Bill 348 back to the Senate. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Motion adopted. Send the bill back to the Senate, Mr. Clerk. Representative Harris moves that we place House Bill 2103 back on second reading
for purpose of Amendment No. 2. Without objection, I'll read the amendment, Mr. Clerk.
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2103. Representative Harris, you are recognized. Come and explain the amendment. is recognized thank you
Representative Justin T. Harris
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mr speaker this is a friendly amendment that adds a lot of co-sponsors
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thank you members heard an explanation amendment anyone wishing to speak against the amendment for the amendment not the question for the house adoption of amendment number two to house bill 2103 all in favor say aye opposed no eyes have it amendment adopted representative rice moves that we place Senate Bill 707 back on second reading for the purpose of Amendment No. 1. Without objection, read the amendment, Mr. Clerk. Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill 707.
Representative Rice, you are recognized to come and explain the amendment. You're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members,
Representative Terry Rice
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this just changed. One word, two places, makes a good bill better. Appreciate a good vote. Members, heard an
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explanation of the amendment. Anyone wishing to speak against the amendment for the amendment, if not the question for the House, adoption of amendment number one to Senate Bill 707.
All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have an amendment adopted. Representative Tyler moves that we place Senate Bill 901 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. Without objection, I read the amendment, Mr. Clerk. Amendment number
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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one to Senate Bill 901. Representative
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Tyler, you are recognized to come and explain the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Linda S. Tyler
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Members, this is a friendly amendment. It makes the bill better. I'd appreciate
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a good vote. Members, heard an explanation of the amendment. Anyone wishing to speak against the amendment, for the amendment, if not, the question for the House, adoption of Amendment No. 1, Senate Bill 901. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Amendment adopted. Representative Rogers moves that we place House Bill 2096 back on second reading for the purpose of Amendment No. 2. Without objection, read the
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amendment, Mr. Quirk. Amendment No. 2, the
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House Bill 2096. Representative Rogers, you are recognized come and explain
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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the amendment thank you mr speaker representative williams feel my amendment thank you members heard
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an explanation amendment anyone wishing to speak against the amendment for the amendment not the question for the house adoption amendment number two house bill 2096 all in favor say aye opposed no eyes have an amendment adopted representative
Williams. Move to replace Senate Bill 517. Back on the second reading. Purpose of Amendment No. 1. Without objection, Mr. Clerk, read the amendment. Amendment No. 1 to
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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Senate Bill 517. Representative Williams, you are
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recognized to explain the amendment. Simple amendment to take care of
Representative Darrin Williams
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a code revision correction. Appreciate a good vote. Members, heard
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an explanation of the amendment. Anyone wishing to speak against the amendment for the amendment if not the question for the house adoption of amendment number one senate
bill 517 all in favor say aye opposed no ayes have an amendment adopted mr clerk read house resolution 1037 house resolution
1037 by representative lee in honor of the historic significance of the butterfield stagecoach stop at pots inn in
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potsville arkansas representative lee you are recognized come and explain
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the resolution thank you mr speaker thank you representative catlett for being down here um representative
catlett and i are honored to have in our district a very historic area um called pots in in potsville arkansas today up there we have mary hall from little rock who's the great granddaughter of Kirkbride Potts. She'll be 99 years young soon. Hi, Mary.
I respectfully request that the resolution be read. Mr. Speaker. Mr. Clark, read the
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resolution in its entirety. Be it resolved by
the House of Representatives of the 88th General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, whereas Kirkbride Potts, a young bachelor, came to Arkansas by covered wagon in 1828, married Pamela Logan, a member of a pioneer family south of the Arkansas River, and the couple settled at the foot of Crow Mountain in Pope County, Arkansas, and whereas Mr. Potts' homestead at 160 acres began clearing and farming and was a respected citizen in the
valley. Like many other Americans in the late 1840s, Mr. Potts decided to mine for gold in california but was not successful in that endeavor but he recognized the opportunity to supply meat to the hungry prospectors and organized three successful cattle drives back to california and whereas with a large family of eleven children mr potts in the 1850s began construction of a two and a half story home which was modeled after the great houses back in his home state of pennsylvania almost all the wood used in the construction was cut on the homestead acres and hauled by oxen to kegels mill where it was sawed into lumber the boards were hand planed
mark of the plane bits are still visible in the attic. The bricks used in the nine fireplaces were made on the premises, and the molds and racks used to make the bricks are on display in the house. The doors and windows, many still with their original glass panes, were brought by the keelboat up the Arkansas River. Mantle boards over the fireplace and the simple decorative woodwork in the parlor are the only architectural frills in the house. It was a functional frontier home, stage depot stop, and is well-known social center between Memphis, Tennessee, and Fort Smith, arkansas in those early days and it took eight years to complete the home and whereas the rooms
on both the first and second floor are 20 by 20 with a 12 foot wide central hall the parlor was used for state occasions tea parties and musicals all the potts family daughters were married in front of the fireplace governors military officers cherokee chiefs shared the hospitality and delicious fare assured by mrs potts and the home served as the first post office in the area and the original postal desk used by mr potts is on display in the museum and whereas in 1857 the and the United States government passed legislation to establish an overland mail route to transport mail and passengers to California.
Mr. John Butterfield from upstate New York was awarded the huge contract, and the Potts home was scheduled to stop on the Butterfield overland mail route. The stagecoach traveled almost 3,000 miles one way, and they accomplished the set goal with a first trip in September of 1858, taking less than an allotted time of 24 days. But the stage route was short-lived due to the beginning of the Civil War, and whereas the Potts family provided legendary food and comfortable boarding for travelers and local visitors for three generations. In 1970, the home was obtained by Pope County with the purpose of converting it to a museum.
It is maintained by the Pope County Historical Foundation and Volunteer Board. And in addition to the original well house and smoke house, there are several cabins on the ground that display other facets of local history along with this jewel of Arkansas. And now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 88th General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the House of Representatives wishes to publicly recognize the historic significance of the Butterfield Stagecoach stop at Potts Inn in Pottsville, Arkansas. Be it further resolved that upon adoption of this resolution, an appropriate copy shall be provided to the Butterfield Stagecoach
stop at Potts Inn in Pottsville, Arkansas.
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Members, I appreciate a good vote. Members have heard the explanation of the resolution. All in favor of the resolution say aye. Opposed, no. As
have it, Mr. Clark let the record reflect The resolution was adopted unanimously. Mr. Clark Reed, House Resolution 1038.
House Resolution 1038, I represent the Post to honor Ozark School District Superintendent Scott Stone
for his dedication and years of service to public
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education in the state of Arkansas. Representative Post, you
Representative Leslee Milam Post
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are recognized to explain the resolution. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are fortunate in District 83 to have over 75 years of superintendents with experience, and one of those I bring to you is my superintendent, Mr. Scott Stone. He has dedicated over 31 years of his life to education,
and two of those superintendents in my district, unfortunately, have battled cancer, and Scott Stone has continued with so much admiration I have for him with the past six years to battle that and to continue to serve our schools. And unfortunately, he lost his battle two days ago to cancer. But I bring you this resolution and I want to honor him today
with reading this resolution, and I ask that we acknowledge up in the gallery. We have some of his friends. He had planned on being here today. We joked when I brought the idea of the resolution to him that, of course, he would still be battling, but I might not be here in two years to bring this resolution, so let's go ahead and do it. But, unfortunately, he had several battles.
and got out of the hospital and then, but he lost his battle, but I ask to go ahead and read this resolution today in his honor so that we can take this back to his family, and I know that they will appreciate it. Thank you. Please read the resolution, Mr.
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Speaker. Thank you. Mr. Clark, read the resolution in
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its entirety. Whereas Scott Stone is the superintendent for the Ozark School District in western Arkansas, serving Franklin County
and a small portion of western Johnson County, The population of the school district is approximately 1,600 students, and whereas Superintendent Stone has dedicated 31 years of his life in service to public education in Arkansas,
he spent six years serving as principal and superintendent of the County Line School District in Branch, Franklin County, Arkansas. He has spent the last 25 years as superintendent of Ozark School District, and whereas Superintendent Stone has served as president of the Board of Directors for the Western Arkansas Education Service Cooperative since its formation, and he has served as the president of the Arkansas Activity Association. And whereas, Superintendent Stone is a longtime member of the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators, a three-year member of the Southeastern Association of School Business Officials,
and a member of the Legislative Committee for the Arkansas Association of School Businesses Officials. And whereas, if Superintendent Stone were to be asked what is most important to him in education, he would say, we serve children, children come first, always. And, whereas, despite battling cancer, Superintendent Stone has continued to serve the Ozark School District and his community to improve education in the state of Arkansas. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 88th General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the House of Representatives honor Superintendent Scott Stone for his dedication and service to education in the state of Arkansas.
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Be it further resolved that upon adoption of this resolution, the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives forward
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an official copy of the resolution to Superintendent Scott Stone. Members, you've heard the explanation of the resolution. Everyone
voting in favor of the resolution, say
aye. Aye. Opposed, no. As have it, Mr. Clerk let the record reflect the resolution was adopted unanimously.
The morning hour has expired. Before we go forward with our calendar, please join me in welcoming in the West Gallery a guest of Representative Matthew Shepard. We have the Respect Coalition
from the El Dorado School
System. You all stand and be recognized. Thank you for joining us today.
Okay, Representative Stewart recommends that we concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1631. Mr. Clerk, read the amendment. Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1631.
Representative Stewart, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Small change, two words, made a
good bill better. Appreciate a good vote. Members, here are an explanation of the amendment.
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To anyone wishing to speak against the amendment, for the amendment, if not, the question for the House is
adoption of Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1631, pair of the machine, Mr.
Clerk. Everyone voting? Everyone voting. Cast up the ballot by a vote of 89 yeas,
0 nays, 0 present. you have adopted the amendment. Representative Slinkard moves that we consider adoption of Senate Bill No. 1 to House Bill 1888. Read the amendment, Mr. Clerk.
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1888. Representative Slinkard, you are recognized to explain
the amendment. this is my bill my amendment it requires now rather than recording the deed for a collection of small estate it just requires that the distribute you deliver the notice of the transfer of the ownership to each county assessor in the county in which the property is located I appreciate a
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good vote members heard an explanation of the amendment anyone wishing
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speak against the amendment for the amendment if not question for the house is adoption of senate amendment number one the house bill
1888 prepared machine mr clerk everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote of 94 yay
zero nays zero present you have adopted the amendment representative hutchinson moves that we concur in
Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1810. Read the amendment, Mr. Clerk. Senate Amendment No. 1
to House Bill 1810. Representative Hutchinson, you
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are recognized to explain the amendment. Thank you very
Representative Donna Hutchinson
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much. We got everyone in a table. This is what we agreed upon. The amendment is now the bill. Basically it says all soccer goals must be secured and any other guidelines needed will be established by the Department of Health. Very simple. Everyone's happy. Thank you.
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Members heard an explanation of the amendment. Anyone
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wishing to speak against the amendment, for the amendment, not the question for the House, adoption of Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1810, prepare
the machine, Mr. Clerk. voted so everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote of
84 yay one nay one present you have adopted the amendment if
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any more recommends that we consider concluding the sending amendment number one to house bill
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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1902. It's amendment number one, Mr. Clerk. Senate amendment number one to House Bill
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1902. You're recognized, Mr. Moore. Thank you,
Mr. Speaker, members. This is an amendment, a bipartisan amendment recommended by the Transportation Committee and the Senate. The first item on there is a grammatical correction of a grammatical error in drafting.
The second part, on page 10, deleting lines 7 through 9, deletes a portion of the amendment that was some concern to members when the bill was originally presented, and that is it deletes that part that allows for the possibility of calling more than one election on the question of passage of the diesel tax audit. It's a good amendment, helps the bill, and I'd appreciate a good vote. I heard an explanation of the
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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amendment. Anybody want to speak against it?
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For the amendment. If not, the question for the House is concurred. Senate Amendment No. 1, House Bill 1902. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted?
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Passed up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. A vote of 81 yeas, 5 nays, 2 presences.
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2. Senate Amendment 2 to House Bill 1902. You're recognized, Mr. Moore. Thank you, members. is the same process, bipartisan amendment adopted. All this does basically is further clarify the bill that vehicles used in agricultural purposes as defined under federal regulations
would be exempt from the tax if the tax is adopted by a vote of the people. So it gives extreme clarity to what was in
the bill. Appreciate a good vote. Heard an explanation of the
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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amendment. Anybody want to speak against it? For the amendment? Not
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the question before the House if it passes the amendment number one. Number two, HB 902. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Is everyone voted? accept the ballot a vote of 81 yeas 1 a 2 3 presence you have passed your amendment mr. Moore moves a clincher on morning all in favor of the clincher say aye all opposed no eyes have it mr. Moore move through a clincher on number two all in favor say aye all opposed no The parameters are adopted. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 2185.
House Bill 2185 by Representative Smith to amend the Energy Conservation Endorsement Act of 1977. For the purpose, Mr.
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Smith. Motion. I hear your motion. I'd like to take this bill back to committee for amendment. The proper motion is debatable. You can come down to
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the screen. Explain your motion. You're recognized, Mr. Smith.
Representative Garry L. Smith
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members of this bill, House Bill 2185, needs some additional refinement, and we meet with energy Tuesday morning. I'd like, with permission of this body, to take it back
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for the refinement. I appreciate a good vote. You heard an explanation of the motion? Anybody want to speak against it? For the motion? If not, the question to refer House Bill 2185 back to committee. All in favor say aye. All opposed, no. Ayes have it.
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Send the bill back to committee. House Bill 2085, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 2085 by Representative Hobbs to amend provisions of the Arkansas
Representative Debra M. Hobbs
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Code related to statutory foreclosures. So, Hobbs, you're recognized. Explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2085 increases consumer protection as it relates to non-judicial foreclosure
in Arkansas. It does this by tightening our law so that out-of-state registered trustees cannot handle foreclosures on Arkansas properties. It also states that financial institutions will not collect fees on properties that they foreclose upon. It also clarifies that a person who auctions foreclosed real property must be licensed to sell real estate and licensed as an auctioneer as well, which is according to our real estate
code. And I appreciate a good vote. Thank you.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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You've heard an explanation of the bill? Anybody like to speak against the bill?
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For the bill? If not, the question for the House is the passage of HB 2085. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everybody voted?
Has everyone voted? Cast up the machinery, Mr. Clerk. I'll vote of 83 yeas, 3 nays, and 1 present.
You have passed your bill. Read Bill HB2033, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 2033, by Senator Vines and all, to amend
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the Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Act of 1997. Mr. Vines, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Friends, House Bill 2033 is
a bill to amend the Telecommunications Act, Regulatory Reform Act of 1997.
All this bill does is it expands existing law to prevent certain services from being offered by government entities, specifically to prohibit the use of federal or federal stimulus funds from going out and competing in the private market. It doesn't affect any government entity's ability to do anything. We've had this vetted by numerous agencies. It started out as one of those little old simple nothing bills, and two, three weeks later, it's become much more of a bill. It's
been amended. We've expanded it. We've tried to take care of the municipalities and also higher education. It has no effect on any publicly stated mission of any of those government agencies or bodies. And it does not, one of the fears was it would require certain entities to come back in under DIS. It does none of that. The governor's office is fine with this bill, and I'd be happy to take any questions, and if none, I would appreciate a favorable
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vote. Mr. Hyde, what purpose? Question. You're recognized. Mr.
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Vines, wouldn't you agree that the folks who sponsored this bill and have worked on it for this last half year or so really have done a great job? I know when my mayor and other municipalities that are in the power generation organization voiced late objections. your folks were more than willing to sit down and hammer out some language to make sure that it didn't have any unintended consequences and I and I hope
that you'll join me in thanking the folks that worked on this bill for their their good efforts both the smallest telecommunication companies in the state all the way to the
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largest thank you appreciate a favorable vote you heard an explanation of the bill? Would anybody care to speak
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against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question for the House is passage HB2033. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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Is there one voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. With a vote of 88 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present,
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you have passed your bill. House Bill HB 1913, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1913,
by our representative Moore, concerning the Wildlife Observation Trails Pilot Program and the Wildlife Recreation Facilities Pilot Program.
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You recognize, explain your bill, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Excuse
me for my inattentiveness. House Bill 1913 is a very simple bill. So in the 87th General Assembly, we passed this pilot program, which is a program that
is designed to take some of the Fayetteville shale revenues that goes to Game and Fish Commission by virtue of their ownership of properties where wells or gas is being extracted, use a portion of that revenue to fund two programs, one with Parks and Tourism and one with Rural Services. The lawsuit that was against Game and Fish Commission kept these revenues from being available until very recently,
in the most recent cycle of the grants program administered through Parks and Tourism and through Rural Services. services. It was a very popular grant cycle. Both Parks and Tourism has fund trails. Rural Services fund recreational facilities. All this bill does is extend the pilot program for two more years so that there can be an evaluation of the effects of the program and
and a conclusion amongst the parties, Game and Fish, Parks and Tourism, and Rural Services, whether they want to go forward with it. So it merely extends the pilot program, and I'll certainly appreciate a good vote. You heard an explanation
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of the bill. Anybody think against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question for the House of Passes of HB 1913. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is there one voted?
That's up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. For the vote of 91 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present, you
have passed your bill. 2143, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 2143 by Representative Hyde to authorize the insurance commissioner to enter into agreements with other
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jurisdictions to aid in the administration of taxes on surplus lines and insurers. Mr. Hyde, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this is
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the last of the Insurance Commission bills that I'm carrying in this session,
so hopefully the last that you'll hear from me on these things. This bill is in response to the Dodd-Frank Act, which we are required to act under, to take action under. So I'm going to give you the short version, and I'll try and answer your question if you haven't. There are NCOIL and NAIC model acts that establish the procedure for collecting the tax state by state. Existing tax, nothing new. However, these associations have not yet finalized and adopted these models. Accordingly, given that we must act during the legislative session,
we have modeled this bill after the language in the federal law. During the next regular session, we hope that there will be some national uniformity established, and at that time, we can amend our law as needed. Members, I appreciate a good vote. By the way, the deadline date on this bill is the 21st of July this year. Members, we need a good vote. Thanks. You heard
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an explanation of the bill? Does anybody like to speak
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against the bill? For the bill? If not, the question before the House of Passage, HB 2143. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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Voting on the bill in the emergency clause.
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everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk i vote of 87 days zero nays one present you have
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passed your bill in the emergency clause read 2157 mr clerk house bill 2157 by representative gene to clarify the interpretation of terms relating to sustainable agriculture.
Representative Mark Biviano
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Mr. G, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, House Bill 2157 is a clarification of the interpretive of what sustainable agriculture is. This is passed unanimously on the Agri-Building Committee. The Arkansas Agriculture Department and the State Plant Board will have a great deal of detail on telling you what sustainable is. This has been passed by the Agricultural Council, Arkansas Cattlemen's Farm Bureau, Rice Federation,
Arkansas Department of Agriculture, Poultry Federation, State Plant Board, Southern Crops, Rice and Foods. Nobody had a problem with it. I'd appreciate it. A good vote. Thank
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you. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Does anybody like to speak against the
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bill, for the bill? If not, the question for the House is passed as HB 2157. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted?
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Is everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr.
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Clerk. With a vote of 89 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present, you have passed your bill.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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read Mr. Kerr removes and reconsider the bill
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the failure of Senate Bill 855 it's a proper motion explain your motion Mr. Kerr
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, we voted on this bill the other day, and I feel that there was some terrible misunderstanding on the facts of the bill. This information, some people felt that this applied, or this enablement law, which is what it is, that enables to train on the motion. Okay.
I feel like there was some misinterpretation of the facts. I appreciate a good vote. Mr. Kerr
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has spoken for the motion. Anybody want to speak against the motion? For the motion?
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You're speaking for the motion? You recognize? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I just want to concur with Representative Kerr. There was some things that had been cleared up.
I'm on a motion. I think this is a good thing to be able to reconsider it. There was some miscommunication, and I just ask you for a plea to vote to reconsider. Thank you. He's spoken
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for the motion. Anybody want to speak against the motion? Mr. Currie, you closed. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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And just to remind you, I was one of those that was
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interpreting this information wrong, and I implore you to vote for this bill as it's a good bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. reconsider
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how Senate Bill 855 fire the machine Mr. Clerk has everyone voted pass up the ballot Mr. Clerk
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I voted 53 yays 38 nays 0 presents Yes. We have voted to reconsider. Mr. Clerk, read
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the caption of the bill. Senate Bill 855 by Senator Rappert to
allow an auxiliary law enforcement officer appointed as a reserve law enforcement officer to administer blood alcohol tests and to operate a device to detect excessive speeding. The question for the
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Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everybody voted? Has everyone voted? Accept the ballot, Mr. Clerk. For the vote, 45 yeas, 43 nays, 3 present.
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You've failed your bill. Mr. Kerr, just for an explanation, when the
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motion to reconsider passes, the bill immediately occurs after the reading of the title by the clerk. There's no more debate on the bill, so I apologize to you, but that's
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the way it is. Read House Bill 1760, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1760 represents Summers to create arts and cultural districts.
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Mrs. Summers, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Pro Temp.
House Bill 1760 is an act
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to create arts and cultural districts. There are a number of tax incentive development type districts throughout the state. This establishes the authority under the Arkansas Arts Council for an arts and cultural district, but it establishes no tax credits for obvious reasons. I'd ask for a good vote. Thank you. You heard an explanation of the bill?
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Anyone want to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not,
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the question before the House is the passage of HB 1760.
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Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voting? That's up to ballot, Mr. Clerk. By vote of 93A, 0 nays,
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0 present, you have passed your bill. Read House Bill 2196, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 2196,
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I represent Garner, concerning school bus safety. Garner, you're recognized.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this bill will say that we are going to put a sticker on the back of all public school buses that says to report unsafe driving and then it will list a toll-free number that number will ring at the Department of Education where they keep a register currently keep a registry of all school buses and they will then promulgate the rules to investigate those complaints and communicate that back to the school districts we we ran this in or began to run this in the last session we've
changed this dramatically we don't have to paint school buses we came back with a cost of just over $4,000 statewide to put these stickers on the back of the school bus and about a thousand dollars to set up the toll-free system and this is a great bill for the safety of kids when if school buses are seen operating in an unsafe manner your citizens are going to be able to call that hotline right then and i would appreciate a great vote thank you you heard an explanation of
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the bill anybody speak against the bill for the bill if not the question for the house Passes HB2196.
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Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is there one voted? Passed up to
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valid, Mr. Clerk. With a vote of 81 yeas, 6 nays, 1 present, you have passed your bill.
Read bill HB1775, Mr. Clerk. House
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Bill 1775, Representative Catlett, to require motorcycles to have turn signals. Mr. Catlett, you're recognized. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I'm back to you with my motorcycle bill, turn signals. We
amended it in the Senate. We changed the date to grandfather all motorcycles manufactured 90 days after we leave here. So any motorcycle that were manufactured in mid-July will be exempt from this law.
But any motorcycle manufactured forward July, they're going to have to put six-turn signals on their motorcycle. I appreciate any vote, good vote, and any questions. Mr. Nichols, what purpose? A question for the parliamentarian. You recognize? Just from his explanation, we
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have already voted on this bill and the Senate put an amendment on it. Is this the proper place for us to be voting on this bill at this time? Mr. Nichols, I
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was wondering the same thing when I heard him say that it was amended in the Senate
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and I was going to check on that. I have no idea, but you're exactly right. If it went to the Senate and an amendment was put on it down and it was adopted, we'd be in concurrence here in that mode. I'm not sure. I don't have the bill jacket up here. But when he mentioned that, it rung a bell with me, and I was going to check it. So do you know the posture of that, Mr. Catlett? Did the bill go to the Senate? Yes, sir, it did. Okay. And the Senate put an amendment on it? Yes, sir. And it came back over here? Did it get referred to the House Committee?
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Hang on. Yes, it got referred to the House Committee, and then we voted it out of transportation, and here we are.
Everybody likes it now. We'll
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see about that, Mr. Catlin. Mr. Catlin, I like them all,
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every one of them, but it appears that you're going to need to go in the concurrence section, and so, Mr. Speaker, if there's no objection to that, we could put him in concurrence, Mr. Nickel, and be the same thing. You're explaining a concurrence of Amendment No. 1,
Senate Amendment No. 1 to this bill, and we'll be okay. That's what you want to do. You want to proceed with it? Yes. Okay. Okay, then you need to be
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explaining the Amendment No. 1 to... I'm sorry? Okay, what the amendment did is it put a new date on motorcycles that were grandfathered in that are excluded from the bill, and that is 90 days after we leave. So I would appreciate a good vote. Okay,
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we have the board up there. You'll notice it says concur in Senate Amendment No. 1, so we'll proceed from there.
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Anybody want to speak against the amendment, for the amendment? If not, the question for the House of Concurrence of Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1775. Fire the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voting? That's up
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to the ballot, Mr. Clerk. A vote of 85 yeas, 0 nays, 3 present yeas.
You have passed your resolution. Your incurred resolution. Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter, move we reconsider House Bill. Reconsider
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House Bill. 2000. 2007. Available motion. Blame your motion, Mr. Carter. Moved we reconsider House Bill 2007. Heard an explanation of the motion? Anybody want to speak against the motion? For the motion? If not, the question for the House, reconsider House Bill 2007.
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This is the motion we're on. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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Is everyone voted? Pass up the vote, Mr. Clerk. 47 yays, 42 noes, 1 present. You have passed the motion. Read the caption of the bill, Mr. Clerk.
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Majority of a quorum. Read the caption of the bill, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 20-07, Barbson M. Hubbard, to require the written examination for a driver's license to be
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administered in English only. question before the house passes the house bill 2007 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk is everyone voted
accept the ballot Mr. Clerk by a vote of 49 yeas 40 nays 0 presents you failed your bill That is a clincher. Second try is a clincher.
Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1958. House Bill 1958, by
Representative King to allow a concealed handgun licensee to carry a concealed handgun in church or other place of worship.
Representative Bryan B. King
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Mr. King, you recognize. Plain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, one of the things
me and my dad and my brother farm together but one of the things we enjoy every day is trying to get back and eat lunch together and watch black and white andy griffins that come on at 12 30 and it's they're still great shows today and a lot of times we wish we could go back to those days but we know in today's times that we have to face difficult issues today that didn't have to be faced in years past i mean many of you
can remember and i can when we carried hunting rifles in our trucks to school and pocket knives and everything like that, but today's world is a different world than that. And as we look at all the church shootings that we've seen over the last few years, in 2009, Representative Powell ran a bill to basically strike churches or other places of worship as a place to carry concealed weapons, and that passed the House and went to the Senate. And some of the debate was at the time that they didn't want to mandate each church decision from the state.
They wanted to let each individual church decide. And through the work, and I have to say the House Judiciary Committee helped me out a great deal, and I want to point out two people, Representative Stewart, that helped me a lot with the language to get it right, to get it out of committee, and Representative Wilkins, who was a great help, too, as well. We allowed this to where each church, it's going to be each church's individual decision whether they want to allow certain people or authorized people to carry concealed weapons in church.
I want to first say that we need to respect each church's wishes, and this bill will allow each church to make their own decisions. Let me remind you that, Bernard, some churches already, I will bet you, are allowing some people to carry concealed weapons in church. We know that issues come up today. Pastors have to deal with difficult situations and people in troubled lives and youth today, and my church is no different. We have situations come up, and a church in my area had threats made against them on a Facebook.
Well, used to, 20 years ago, we never really worried about that. But in today's world, we do have to worry about that. Let me remind you, allowing each individual church to make decisions, it also helps rural areas. In urban areas where you have larger congregations, a lot of times you're having hired security experts that are coming to those churches. You also have, in larger cities, you have police officers that could be nearby that could respond more quickly than in a rural situation, which may have limited deputies in those counties and take a considerable amount of time.
I want to come down to one thing. My wife said to a seminar one time on church security, and they were saying if you couldn't hire armed security guards or the state didn't allow a church to authorize certain people to carry concealed weapons, the best defense, if some situation happened with a shooter, the best defense was throwing hymnals. Folks, I just want to
give the choice to each church to decide what their defense would be in an unfortunate situation. I take any questions.
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Representative, Mr. Steele, what purpose? Question. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative King, how
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did you deal with the separation of church and state issue? Well, in committee,
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you know, one member brought up that it's a church freedom issue and a church choice decision that your church or my church would be able to decide who can carry a concealed weapon and authorize those certain people. So
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that has to be pre-authorized before they can carry a concealed weapon?
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Correct. Much like I'm sure a pastor notifies their congregation through minutes, you know, they will have the choice on how they want to let them know, just the same as they would letting them know that a sign-up sheet to go to a Guatemala mission or when their services are or what sermon, they have the right to decide how they want to let their members know who can authorize to carry a concealed weapon. What kind of concealed weapon? Well, all these things will fall under the concealed weapon handbook.
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What weapons are allowed? I'm not intimately And for me, could you carry a sawed-off shotgun? Could you carry a hunting rifle? Handgun. Rep. Stewart helped me out. I was
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trying to remember from my concealed weapon training, but it's a handgun.
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How would you address the issue? But I know my church, we often have programs where there are several churches that come together. And sometimes we rent a building or sometimes we visit a church or go to another church.
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How do you handle that? Then who decides, what church decides who can
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actually be authorized to carry a hangout? It would come down to which church you visited. I mean, if I know going to your church, and Representative Williams invited me to his church, I invited him to mine. I know if I go to his church or your
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church and I'm not authorized by your church, then I don't need to carry my concealed
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weapon in church. What about those individuals who feel they are going to church to get away from maybe people who may be irresponsible with their handguns?
Is there any notification? I remember the bill from last session and Representative Powell had notification. Is there any notification so I will know that, well, it's my choice maybe not to go or bring my children to this particular church if someone in there or several people are authorized to have
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handguns? You can have your church can make the decision how
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they want to notify people as well that they don't allow any concealed weapons. They can post a sign if they want to.
They could let people know in church minutes. Once again, if I visit your church and I have a concealed weapon permit and I know that I'm not authorized to carry that there, and this language was brought about through Representative Stewart pointing out in a courtroom, a court, you know, concealed weapons are banned in a courtroom unless the judge allows himself to carry one or he authorizes certain people. So I know automatically I can't carry a concealed weapon there unless the judge
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has authorized that. Yeah, that didn't quite answer my question.
My question was, what is the notification process that is listed in the bill? Is there a notification in the bill? I know that's why I referred to the last bill. There was notification that had to be posted to let everyone know when you went in that church that the bill didn't pass, but there was somebody authorized to carry a handgun. Well, if you don't want to be a part and participate in those church services, how would you know? The church,
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if they do not want to let people know, they can post a sign saying no authorize,
much like a business can post a sign today that would be allowable. But if they post a sign that I cannot carry this kid's separate, if they want to handle it that way, they can post
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a sign and say that. Requirement. There's not a requirement to do that. It's not
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a requirement in your legislation. No, but it would be a requirement if that's what your church wanted to decide how to handle that. Your church could decide how they wanted to let people know
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not to carry, that no concealed weapons. Okay, last question. Don't you feel that there should be a requirement for notification to allow people
who don't necessarily believe that the church is a place to authorize someone to have a weapon? And if you have a visitor or some people in the congregation don't agree, don't you agree that there should be some posting somewhere, some public notification? We do that with a whole lot of other things. I think Representative Garner just had a sticker put on a bus that's posting information on the bus so people will know. Well, that's a good point, but I think there were more
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members of the committee and more people out there that had concerns about posting something.
They wanted to allow each individual church to make their own decisions on how they would notify somebody if they could carry. If they authorized people, they also wanted to know, they wanted their own decision to be able to handle it if they don't want to allow anybody to carry concealed
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weapons. It's a church decision. Representative Murdoch, what purpose? Question. Recognized. Thank you, Speaker Moore. Representative King, excuse me for my ignorance of the law, but explain to me now, If I have a permit to carry a concealed handgun, what now stops me from taking that handgun to church, whether posted or not?
I'm just asking a question. What stops me
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now? It's clearly outlined in the concealed weapon book that you cannot carry a concealed weapon in church. Church is currently outlined. Church or other places of
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worship. Thank you. Representative Linderman, what purpose? Recognize? Wasn't paying
attention to my own ruling here, huh?
Okay, Mary's heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill? Representative Stewart, you're recognized to come and speak for the bill. yes thank you mr speaker i've been teaching this class for
15 years and i'll kind of give you a little bit of background and how this is going to work there are currently 19 places that you can't carry a handgun in the in the law 17 of them are either a government government building
or a school the 18th place is a church i've had several preachers come to my class and they have talked about this, and they asked, why is the government telling us what we can do or not do? So what we're doing here is separation church and state. We are no longer dictating to a church what they can do or not do. One of the places in the 19 places is a courtroom. It says you may not take a concealed handgun in a courtroom unless the judge who exercises control over the courtroom
allows you to do it. This would give the church the same thing. The church can decide whether or not they want a member of their church to carry a handgun. The question about who stops a person from carrying a handgun in there, only that person's conscience. If you want to carry a concealed handgun in there, because it's concealed, no one knows you has it to start with. The only time you would know that if I had a handgun in my church is when I save your life.
And you'd be really proud of that right then. So I think that this is a good bill. It does not require a church to do it. It gives the church the option to do it. But we are no longer telling the church they can't do it. Like I said, several preachers have come to my class because they are concerned. I go to a church that's got 60 people in it. The nearest deputy is probably 35 miles away. If something happens there, one of the preacher or one of those four or five guys in there that has our license,
if the church so chooses to allow us to do it, we could do it. If the church says we don't want to do it, no problem. Now, this law only applies to law-abiding citizens who have gone to the class and got your concealed handgun license. It doesn't apply to anybody who just wants to take your gun in there. If you don't have the concealed handgun license, take your gun in there. There's no law. This is for concealed handgun people who have gone out, spent a whole day learning the law, learning how to shoot, getting an FBI background check, getting fingerprinted.
Some of the best law-abiding citizens in the state of Arkansas. There's 100,000 people of us. Do you hear of any problems with concealed handguns? I don't think so. So this only allows the church to make a decision about their church, about their people in their church, whether or not they want to do
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it. And I'll entertain some questions. Representative Wilkins, what purpose? Recognize. Thank you. Representative Stewart, this bill suggests then that the church has the freedom
to make the decision about who would be allowed to carry a handgun. That's right. Right now they don't have
the freedom to do that. All right.
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And are churches then able to select their own method of notification? Right. The only people they would
notify would possibly be the people who have the concealed handgun. That's one of the things that we really stress in the class is you do not show your gun. People who have a concealed handgun want it to be concealed, to be private.
And I've had people come from Little Rock all the way to Kirby to take my class because they don't want anybody else to know they've got it. It's their private decision. And
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it's concealed. Are you aware that there are people who do not have a license who carry guns into churches now? That's right. And this law has nothing to do with them. So are you also aware that I was on Senate Judiciary last session and I blocked a similar bill?
That one was to put the churches in the same category as public places.
And at that time, they would be required to post a sign under the previous bill. This one doesn't do that. It does not notify anybody that you cannot carry a handgun in there. It just leaves it alone, just like the courtroom. The only people that would know that a person has a concealed handgun would be the church and the people in that church. And
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one final question. Are you the person who suggested an amendment to this bill that would require pastors to carry a handgun?
No, I didn't. I don't think that amendment's in there right now. All right. Thank you. But I do know that we had a previous pastor that sat on this front row right here that
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had a gun in his church. Thank you, Mr. President. Representative Linderman, what purpose? Question. You're
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recognized. Representative Stewart, my understanding of the law is correct. if a church did not want anyone to carry a firearm. All they have to do is post a no-firearms sign in the front.
Is that correct? No, they just don't allow. They just don't determine anyone to carry a gun.
This one still, this does not put them in a category as a public place, which would be a looser interpretation. This one is they only can, by choice, pick someone to carry the gun, conceal gun. The general public cannot do it. Okay, thank you, sir. It does not allow a person who is not on the list to carry one. Only the people who have been determined by the church are allowed
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to do it. Representative Carter, what purpose do
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you recognize? Representative Stewart, if the church has a policy
that they don't want to allow,
like concealed weapons, and they put it in the bulletin or whatever method that they choose, because we're saying they do not have to post a sign. No. What remedies do they have if I came in with my concealed weapon? Would this ask me to leave? And if I refused, what remedies would I have? The same thing they have right now. Right now it's against
law for you to have a concealed handgun in the church. If you carry one in, you're in violation of carrying a concealed handgun in a prohibited place.
They could ask you to leave. they would notify the state police, and your license would be pulled. But that doesn't change anything. We're not, the general populace is not involved here. Only the people, if I'm the administrator of your church, that way it's kind of a common term, I say, you can carry a gun, and you can carry a gun. You're the only two people in my church that carry guns. That's all can carry a gun in there. Nobody else can do it. I can't be a visitor and bring my gun in because we're not opening up the entire church to the entire public.
So only designated people from within that church, designated by the people who have control of the church, would be the ones
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to carry a gun. Representative Pernard, it's with purpose.
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Question. Recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Stewart, let me pose a scenario for you, if you could respond to it, please. let's say a church did indicate Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith, you're designated, we choose you to come into our church
and carry a concealed handgun and you have a concealed handgun license. And something erupts in the church, causes a disturbance, and Mr. Smith pulls his gun and shoots the parishioner. Come to find out that parishioner was having a seizure. Who's liable for that action?
Okay, the person with the gun has a responsibility to do nothing that was negligent or careless. Who's liable? The person with the gun. So the church is not liable? No, they're just allowing you to do
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just like any other deal. If the church allowed that possession of that handgun in their church, are you telling me that this bill says that that person who shot that parishioner is only liable for his or her action, not the church?
Probably in a court of law, you can do anything you want to. But the law right now says that anything that's careless or reckless, then you can be beside it. So you're telling me
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you don't really know whether the church is liable? Well? You don't
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know? You're agreeing with me? You don't know? No. If the church
didn't want to be liable, they don't allow any guns in their church. Stuart. Okay. This still comes down to the freedom of that church to make their decision for their church.
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Representative Gilliam, what purpose? Question. Recognized. Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker. Representative Stewart, just to clarify something you said earlier, right now a church, say, of this Sunday, any given church, there could be a dozen, two dozen people walk in with guns and sitting in the auditorium listening to a service. Is that correct? That's true. Okay. People who have a
concealed handgun is not a concealed handgun license. The people who are law-abiding can't do it because they don't want to break the law
and possibly lose their gun or their permit. But someone who doesn't have a license needs to be in
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there with a gun. Okay. Do you feel that maybe that puts the church at a disadvantage for their security or ushers or people that are trying to maintain some security on there? Does that put them at a disadvantage in the fact that visitors could be carrying a gun and not their
own members? True. It is. And the fact is that the larger churches, and we've talked to several pastors, they say we hire security. Well, guess what?
My little church of 60 is not going to hire security. Okay? So we have, that gives that church the option if they want to have someone to be there to possibly use a handgun. And then each person has to make their own decision. is deadly force required or necessary, and most of the time, it would be very, very bad situation before I'd ever pull a gun. I would have to be fearing for my life or the life of someone else before you would pull a gun to
use deadly physical force. It's not a frivolous thing. You know, most people carry a gun for 40 years and they never pull it. But you never need a gun until you really need a gun. Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Representative Stewart has spoken. And for the bill, Representative Elliott, you're recognized to come and speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Colleagues, I mean, what are we doing? We're talking about guns in churches. if somebody's coming into church and they pull a gun and shoot it even if you have a concealed gun you're not going to be able to pull it fast enough to sustain that person and then if you pull it and start shooting what are we going to do, start having shootouts in churches is that acceptable now?
colleagues, this is a terrible bill it's a terrible bill because it's putting power in people's hands even though you may not know a person that has a concealed weapon and they're sitting next to you it's much better than knowing that the people in the church have a gun so what happens if the pastor has a bad sermon? Are we going to pull our gun in? Again I say this is a terrible bill Representative
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Elliot has spoken against the bill Anyone wishing to speak for the bill? Representative Hamler, you're recognized to come and speak for the bill. You're recognized,
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sir. First of all, I'd like to say I do not advocate violence in church in any form or fashion,
whether that's in a business meeting or somebody comes in who has intentional harm. So I want to get that off the plate right at the beginning. I want to bring a little personal perspective to this. I've pastored churches for 27 years. The first church that I pastored was down a gravel road that was very isolated. What happens on the day that somebody walks into that church and holds the congregation hostage so that they can rob the offering plate or do harm to somebody, and there is no way for the congregation to be able to defend themselves.
In my opinion, and let me just point out a couple things, number one, churches are setting up security policies and security forces. And the reason they are doing that is so that they have a means to defend themselves in the event that something occurs. Some churches are hiring off-duty law enforcement agencies because they can afford to do so. Are we going to penalize those that are too small and can't afford to do that? but have individuals that are willing to step up and to accept that responsibility. And I speak for this bill in conclusion for this reason.
Who initiates the reason that the gun has to be drawn in the first place? The people that are coming to the house of worship to worship, or the person who has come in to take advantage of a situation of people who have no means
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of defending themselves? Thank you. I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative
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Wardlaw, what purpose? Motion. What's your motion? I want
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to make a motion for immediate consideration, please, sir. I
have a motion, not debatable. All in favor of motion to immediately consider House Bill 1958.
Say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. No. Ayes have it. Question for the House. Passage of House Bill 1958. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted.
Cast up the ballot by a vote of 65, yea, 23, nay, 0,
present. You have passed the bill.
Representative King moves to clincher. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Clincher adopted. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1606. House Bill 1606 by Representative Lowe
to allow attorney's fees in certain actions. Representative Love, you're recognized to explain the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good morning, colleagues. I
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rise to present a bill that was brought to me by my firefighters,
and this bill allows something, but it's not guns and churches. This bill allows for certain attorney's fees to be presented by the prevailing sides. Now, basically, what this bill does is it allows the judge discretion to award attorney's fees to persons who may have sued to get their jobs back. And basically, what this bill does is it makes a person whole.
Sometimes, someone like our firefighters may get dismissed from their jobs, so they may sue to get their jobs back. At that time, if the judge finds that it's just because their jobs are awarded back, they can also award attorney's fees. Now, I'm going to draw your attention to lines 8 and 9. This is a permissive bill. This is not to say the judge will or he shall, but it gives him the discretion to say he may award attorney's fees.
So I tell you, this is a great bill for our firefighters. Our FOP also endorses this bill. And I also would like to say that there were a few rumblings by the Municipal League. And, you know, there are some legitimate concerns, but at the same time, Now, this bill just gives judges discretion that they already, or not they already have,
but the discretion that we will give them in so many different scenarios. At this time, I will take any questions. Representative Smith, what purpose? Question. Recognized. Thank you,
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Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Representative Love. Did I understand
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you? What position is municipal legal on this bill? Have they given you a position, municipal league, have they given a position on this bill? They did come and speak against
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this bill. They spoke against it? Yes, sir. Okay, thank you.
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Representative Hyde, what purpose? Question, Mr. Speaker, you recognize. Hey, Mr.
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Love, I sure appreciate your work on this, and I know you worked hard and worked the bill all the way here to the end, but are you aware that the Arkansas Police Chiefs Association opposes
this bill? Not until you brought it to me 10 minutes ago. All right, thank
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you. Representative Wilkins, what purpose? Question. You recognize. So this bill simply allows discretion for the judge if the person who has brought the suit prevails?
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Yes, sir. It just basically gives discretion.
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So if the person clearly has been found to have been mistreated, your bill simply says that their attorney's costs should be paid. Yes, sir. And let me follow that
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up, Mr. Wilkins. The judge also, and I
learned this in judiciary where it passed out, and they did grill me. But the judge also has discretion. You know, some people say, well, this will bring frivolous lawsuits.
And there's not any evidence that this will bring about frivolous lawsuits, but in case there is a frivolous lawsuit, the judge also has discretion to basically award attorney's fees or levy attorney's fees for the person that brings the lawsuit. So it's not going to be any frivolous lawsuits by the passage of this bill. All right. Appreciate that. Thank you.
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Representative Williams, what purpose? Question? Recognize. Mr. Love, while the police chiefs are against
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officers and firefighters are for this bill? Yes, sir. They actually spoke for this bill in committee. Isn't it true that it would be the police chiefs probably who are making the decision to fire the officer anyway, so it makes sense they would be for this bill, right? Yes, sir. Thank you. members heard an explanation of the bill
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I would appreciate a good vote anyone want to speak against the bill or the bill not the question for
the house passage of house bill 1606 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote of 36 yay 40 nay one president you have
failed the bill mr representative hopper what purpose what's your motion
recall senate bill 544 as
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proper motion is debatable you're recognized
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come to the well and explain your motion Thank you, Mr. Speaker,
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colleagues. The purpose of this motion is to recall Senate Bill 544 for the purposes of expunging the vote for the purpose of amendment and for further discussion and debate.
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I would ask for a good vote. Members have heard an explanation of the motion. Anyone wishing to speak against
the motion? Representative Hyde, you're recognized to come and speak
Representative Barry Hyde
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against the motion. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members certainly don't have a problem with what Representative Hopper is working on. What I do have a problem with is working on Senate bills today, and I certainly haven't cleared this with management,
but I, for one, have got several bills been down there at the Senate in for literally weeks upon weeks. Yesterday they adjourned, and bills still sit because they're House bills. My only suggestion would be is that we don't do any work on Senate bills until they decide to
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come to work and work on
ours. Thank you. Congratulations, you're welcome. I heard a little opposition to the motion. Anyone want to speak for the motion? Representative Hopper, for against the motion, you're recognized. Come and close for your motion.
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Thank you, Representative Hyde. And trust me, I share your feelings as well. We've all been a part of this. I will say this, and hopefully this will help you make this decision, because trust me, I'm with y'all, okay? I truly appreciate it. This is a time-sensitive situation that dates back to actions from the 2009 session. We're trying to get a situation corrected, and I'd appreciate a good vote.
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Members, you've heard an explanation of the motion.
The question for the House... All right. Question for the House is to recall Senate Bill 544. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. has everyone voted everyone voted
cast up the ballot by a vote of 43 yay 30 nay one present you have failed the
motion FY Parliamentarian relates that it takes the same number of votes to recall the bill as it does to pass the bill, which in this case would have been 51. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1701. House Bill
1701 by Representative Summers regarding the Arkansas District Court's accounting law.
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Representative Summers, you are recognized to explain the
Representative Tim Summers
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is in my role as House Chairman of Audit. The bill amends district court accounting law. It's effective January 1, 2012, and it comes from the joint efforts of district court clerks, the Division of Legislative Audit, and the Administrative Office of the Courts. And if we get this passed, I won't have to bring you any more. I ask for a good vote.
Representative Garry L. Smith
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Thank you. Representative Smith, for a purpose.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is there any pie or Chevrolet in this bill?
Representative Tim Summers
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There's some baseball. Thank you. question
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members heard an explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill not the question for the house passive house bill 1701 prepare
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the machine mr clark everyone voted everyone
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voted cast up the ballot by a vote of 90 a zero nays zero present you have
pass the bill. Mr. Clark Reed, House Bill 1985. House Bill 1985, I
represent Viviano, an act to create a physician assistant committee within the Arkansas State Medical Board. Representative
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Viviano, you're recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Mark Biviano
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, one of the fastest growing fields in health care is that of physician assistants who provide a vital service to helping with our doctors and delivery in rural Arkansas.
We're fortunate here to have one of the best programs in the country at Hardin University. And we will soon have a program at UAMS. This bill simply creates an opportunity for a subcommittee to include two members that are physician assistants. One question that has come, this does not give them the ability to prescribe or dispense any medications. It just simply allows them to be part of the process. This bill has been drafted in conjunction with the Medical Board and has their full support.
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I appreciate a good vote. Members, explanation of
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the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill, not the question for the House, pass it to House Bill 1985. Prepare the
machine. Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted. I cast up the ballot by a vote of 89, 90, yay, 0,
nay, 1, present. You have passed the bill, Mr. Clerk Reed, House Bill 1855.
House Bill 1855 by Representative Wilkins, an act to require that all facilities that perform 10 or more abortions each month shall be licensed
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by the Department of Health. Representative Wilkins,
you are recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this is a regulatory bill. It requires anyone that's given 10 or more abortions a month to report to the Department of Health and be licensed by the Department of Health. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I'm surprised it's not already.
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Appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Wilkins, explain the bill. Anyone wishing to
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speak against the bill for the bill? If not, the question for the House, passage of House Bill 1855, President Sheen. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot by a vote of 88 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present, you have passed the bill.
Mr. Clerk will read House Bill 2127. House Bill
2127, by our consent of Clemmer and all, an act to extend the time for employers to respond to applications for unemployment benefits and to provide for online notice of applications
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for unemployment benefits. Representative Plummer, you are recognized
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to explain the bill. Hello, colleagues. This really is a small bill, but it really makes some significant
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changes to benefit employers, especially our small employers.
Currently, an unemployment insurance claim is mailed to an employer. It is marked with a postmark. The employer has seven days to get a postmark on that bill, regardless of how long the claim took to arrive on his desk, regardless of whether he had gone out of state on a small trip. Big companies have personnel offices that can take care of this. This hurts small employers. I have a good list of bipartisan supporters on this bill.
What this bill does to help that is it gives the employer ten days to reply. The other thing it does is bring us into the 21st century by allowing the employers, as of next January, to reply online and to receive their notifications online. Currently, claimants have that capability, but not employers. I appreciate a good vote, and I'll take
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any questions. Representative Tenard, what purpose? You're recognized. representative thank
Representative Tracy Pennartz
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you representative climber um i really like this field let me just make uh ask
one further question uh won't this help small employers if they have employees who also leave with their equipment uh that get to give them additional time to try to get that equipment back it could help an employer in any
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number of circumstances by just giving them a few extra for days to reply. President Williams, what purpose?
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Question. Recognized. Ms. Clemmer, I like this bill also as a
Representative Darrin Williams
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small business owner. Just one question. We talked a little bit about this.
Did the department take a position? Are they
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okay with this? Originally, they weren't crazy about the idea. They came to a place where they said they
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would be okay with it. I mean, they
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were neutral. Members, heard an explanation of the
bill? Appreciate a good vote. And an addendum. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? For the bill, not the question for the House. This is passage of House Bill 21-27.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot by a vote of 95, yea, 0, nay, 0, present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read
House Bill 1901. House Bill 1901 by Representative Ingram to amend public school funding amounts and provide resources for educational adequacy and declare an emergency.
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Representative Ingram, you are recognized to
Representative Keith M. Ingram
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explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members of the House, this is the Governor's Bill HB 1901 on the foundation formula this passed out of education yesterday receiving 12 of 15 votes there is a 2% increase in foundation funding and a 2% in categorical I would be happy to answer any questions Mr.
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Ingram, I won't debate the vote count, but
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I don't think it was 12 or 15.
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I'm sorry, I thought it was 12 or 3. Oh, no. I misunderstood you yesterday, if I did.
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Well, it was not. Quick question. Governor Bill, did
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the Adequacy Committee that met for a year make recommendations to the Education Committee and to this body? Yes. Were these recommendations followed? Say that again, sir. Recommendations followed? No, there is a
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competing bill, as you're aware, but there is some disagreement about how the recommendation was made
and whether the Department of Education had the input into it necessary.
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Landerman, what purpose?
Representative Homer Lenderman
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Question. Recognized. Representative Ingram, where is the AEA and the School Boards Association and Administrators Association? What is their stance on this bill, and did they testify for or against this
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bill? And the only one that I remember testifying was former Representative Bill Abernathy,
and he testified as former Representative Bill Abernathy representing, did he say, I can't, the rural schools. What was his, I'm sorry, what was his testimony?
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Was he in favor of or opposed to? He was in
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favor of it, just as he was in favor two years ago in trying to get money not through the foundation, not through the formula, but additional funding that he tried
to pass two years ago, and this body turned him down on that.
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Thank you, sir. Representative Stewart, what purpose do you recognize? I'd
like to ask that question again. Did Mr. Abernathy testify for this bill or against this bill? He testified against this bill. Okay, that's what
I want to clarify. He took the position of the Adequacy Committee and their recommendation, which is a competing bill for the
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Senate. I would like to speak for the bill.
Okay. members heard an explanation of the bill anyone wishes to speak against the bill for the bill representative hutchinson you're recognized to come and
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speak for the bill Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm on the Education Committee and I attended the adequacy meetings.
And I am sad to say that they really weren't open. Many people wanted to speak as we were making this decision about transportation, and they were not allowed. I don't think there was a totally healthy discussion on this issue. So I would appreciate a good vote on this bill. I think it handles the situation better. Thank you. Representative
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Hutchinson has spoken for the bill. Anyone wish to speak against the bill?
For the bill? You want to close for
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your bill, Representative Ingram? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think the key thing that has worked since the Lakeview decision is this formula has worked. I can tell you what this bill is not. This bill is not an attempt to undo the formula that got us out of court. This has met adequacy. We'll meet it in the future. And in my opinion, the beauty of the matrix that works is the flexibility that it allows.
If you have a high Spanish-speaking population, you can utilize dollars within that matrix. If you have high special education needs, you can utilize that within the matrix. If you have higher teacher costs because of where you lie, you can utilize that within the matrix. What this bill is is a foundation funding formula. It is not a foundation spending formula.
I would ask this body to give this bill a good vote. Thank
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you. Members, I've heard an explanation of the bill. Question for the House. Passive House Bill 1901. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted?
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot. I voted 49 yea, 35 nay, 0 present. You have failed the
bill. Representative Bell moves to the clincher, all in favor, prepare the machine, Mr.
Clerk. Question for the House is the clincher on failure of House Bill 1901, prepare the machine.
everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote of 19 a 6 7 a 0 present clincher motion fails Ms. Clark Reed, House Bill 2178 House Bill 2178
by Representative Roebuck and all to establish the Teacher Excellence and Support System
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and align current law concerning professional development and teacher fair dismissal
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with the system Representative Roebuck, you are recognized to
explain the bill Thank you, Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the
House I said yesterday in committee that some bills are bills But this bill, House Bill 2178, is a miracle. Last month at a national meeting in Denver, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told thousands of educators from all over the country that our nation's schools are in deep trouble
and that bickering among teachers, politicians, and administrators is sinking efforts to improve education. Well, I sure wish that Secretary Arne Duncan were up here in the gallery today. he's watching, because he would be so very proud of Arkansas as we consider House Bill 1278. Mr. Duncan, we are not bickering about House Bill 2178. For over four months, representatives of classroom teachers through the AEA, administrators through the AAEA, school boards through the
ASBA, rural schools through the AREA, the Department of Education, the Arkansas Educational Accountability Coalition, legislators, and the Bureau of Legislative Research have continually and faithfully worked together to draft this landmark piece of legislation, which will provide guidance for an effective teacher evaluation system. This system clearly outlines expectations for an assessment system centered on teacher
excellence and most importantly support. It is the teacher, ladies and gentlemen, that makes the difference in our schools. It is the teacher that determines student achievement. This is so important because research tells us that over half of our teachers leave in the first five years, not because of low pay, but in a document from our own Arkansas Partnership for Teacher Quality, the key reason that teachers stay or leave the classroom is the level of
principal, building level leader support. Now while pay, professionalism, classroom discipline, and students were significant contributors to a teacher's decision to stay or leave the level of principal support is the key common factor in deciding whether to leave or stay now over these last four months I could bore you with all the details that I board the committee with yesterday I'm not going to do that but I want to tell you that when we began our meetings none of us had the same vision we did not always
We always agree. We argued. We had differing opinions. One day, we even wanted to quit, throw in the towel. We said, this cannot be done. One day, I walked out. But we all came back to the table. And so today, what I present to you is something that all these organizations sat at the end of the table. Their representatives sat at the end of the table with me yesterday as I presented this bill. The National Council on Teachers Quality report, called Blueprint for Change in Arkansas,
reported an overall grade of C with a D for Arkansas in identifying effective teachers. That organization said that our number one priority in Arkansas needs to be to ensure that teacher evaluations assess effectiveness in the classroom. This work and this bill is so important. Our work is vital because it will make a major difference in teacher quality and student achievement for years to come.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is landmark legislation and I am so proud to present it to you today on behalf of all the sponsors in this chamber and also in the Senate, but also with all the partners that worked with me for the last four months. And I know they're happy today as they're watching because we won't have to have
a meeting on Friday afternoon. So thank you. I appreciate a good vote. Representative Collins, with purpose.
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Question. Recognized. Representative Roebuck, thank you for all your work on this. Could you help me understand, does this help school administrators
better identify great teachers and poor teachers and act toward them accordingly? Definitely, and thank
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you so much for that question, because this is
about support. It's not only support for our teachers, but support for our administrators. We have some good evaluation systems around the state, but they're fragmented. They're not consistent.
This bill allows the Department of Education to work over the next few years to develop a consistent system that will do exactly
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what you just said. Representative Devin Ball, what purposes? Question. Recognized.
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Thanks, Mr. Speaker. Representative Roebuck, I'm not trying to bust your bubble, but I just don't see what difference this law is than what I've already been going through for 30-something years. I don't get it. I just can't, I don't see any, you know, I'm just wondering if it's just extra legislation, extra time, extra paperwork, takes away from the students, and that kind of deal. I just don't, I don't see any difference here.
Co-Representer Devenboe, in answer to your question, you probably have been in a school district that is doing this already. And if you are, and if you're a part of a national pilot or a national program, it won't affect your school. You can continue doing what you're doing if the Department of Education says that your system meets this criteria. But so many of our districts, even though they may have an evaluation system on the books, it is not consistent. It is not about support for the teacher, and it doesn't follow the tenets of a national model.
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I'd appreciate a good vote. Members, Representative Hammer, for what purpose? Question, please. You recognize. Representative Roebuck, is this in
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any way, shape, or form tied in with teacher merit pay where they would be on a reward system if they prove to meet a certain standard? Does this incorporate that concept, or is this the groundwork to lead up to that? No, sir. Okay, thank you, ma'am. Members have heard an explanation of the bill.
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Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill? Question for the House, passage of House Bill 2178. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot by a vote of 87 yea,
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1 nay, 0 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1032.
House Bill 1032 by Representative Valtas to allow school districts to adopt curriculum standards for an academic study of the Bible course as directed by
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this act. Representative Valtas, you are recognized to
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explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. this bill is passed out of the identical bill is passed out of education twice now I sent it back to correct the title of the bill so that it would more accurately reflect what the bill does Dr. Tom Kimbrell spoke on the bill
and answered probably two dozen questions in the committee and basically said he would change nothing if this bill passes A Bible curriculum has been implemented in 2,000 high schools, 565 districts in 38 states. In Texas, 61 districts, Alabama 26, Georgia 37, Louisiana 32 districts have been teaching the Bible. In Arkansas, previously we have taught the Bible in Berryville, Conway, Green Forest, Texarkana, Heber Springs, Little Rock Cabot, and then soon, Gravett.
year there will be three schools teach it little rock cabot and grab it basically this bill clarifies and codifies what is both the acceptable and constitutional framework for teaching the bible as an academic pursuit this will give our teachers the protection that they need when they teach i appreciate a good vote representative smith
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you Speaker, thank you, Representative Altsus. In your opinion, do you think this is a right
step in helping our society to have better morals?
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I don't know. Isn't it a step in the right direction? Would you agree? Well, maybe so. The Bible is not being taught as religion. It's being taught as art, politics, literature, or history in the classroom. It's not being taught as religion. But I think so.
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Representative Roebuck, what purpose do you recognize?
Mr. Aldis, you mentioned the Commissioner, Kimbrell. Isn't it true that the Commissioner said that actually if we pass this and it becomes law, that it would increase our liability because you are going to codify what we're
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doing now in our local schools to make us more subject to lawsuits?
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Wasn't that his testimony, sir? I don't think he said that. But I think he said that it would codify what we're doing now, but any liability would be in the public school system, in the local school systems.
And if they stick with the framework, the parameters that this bill sets up, then there'll be no problems. There's never been a lawsuit on the Bible when these curriculums are used. Mr. Speaker, could I
have a follow-up? All right. Mr. Aldis, is it not true that your bill is
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exactly what we're currently doing? Yes, ma'am. Thank you.
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Representative Walker, what purpose? Recognized. Representative Antis, does this bill allow the teaching of the Koran in school?
It's not addressed. Does this bill allow the teaching of any other non-Christians, religious doctrine, or writings in a public school? It's not addressed in the bill. The way I understand it, in the seventh grade, there's a
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social studies class that does a survey of world religions, and all those things are touched on in the seventh grade in the social studies.
but I'm not sure about that.
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I'm not sure. May I have another question? Yes, sir. Does this set up Bible study as a separate course for which course credits will be given? It's an elective. But it can go to figuring one's grade point average out for academic scholarships? Yes, and the situation has been in the
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past that the kids think that it'll be an easy class like Sunday school class or something and so they go sign up for it and they find out it's a real tough course
and it really gets into literature and politics and literature and art and history and so they find out it's a tough course and so they they drop it so appreciate a good vote members heard an
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explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill. If not, the question for the House passes House Bill 1032. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted? Everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 71 yea, 16 nay, 2 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill. Representative Alta, this moves to Clencher. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Ayes, have
it. Clencher adopted. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1896. House
Bill 1896, Representative Branscombe, the Michael Lawden Branscombe Act. Representative
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Branscombe, you are recognized to explain the bill.
Representative David L. Branscum
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Thank you, colleagues. I may be the only one in this chamber that has a distinction of even having an idea of what this bill is about. This bill was vetted at least three times with the
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Department of Ed. And I've worked it out with them, and they went through a committee. and the premise of this bill
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is when a child is lost during his college years that the institution of higher learning was strongly recommended encouraged to graduate that child post-pastionously and if you've never been through it then you don't know what I'm talking about if you have been through it then you know what I'm talking about. Going to the funeral was easy in certain respects. Walking across the stage to get the diploma
was the hardest thing I've ever done. But looking back on it, I really appreciate it. The University of Arkansas did a wonderful job. And I've deliberated ever since I got here in January the 10th, whether to do this or not. But I wouldn't want to deny another parent of the opportunity to walk across the stage or have it mailed to the privilege of receiving that child's diploma.
It's tough, but it's part of life, and we go on. And I appreciate you listening to me and this consideration for passage of this bill. And if anybody's got
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any questions, I'd be happy to answer.
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I just wanted to make sure this is it doesn't require schools to do this that if they had a student who maybe had been there a few weeks and maybe died and questionable that it wouldn't
require them to give and this diploma it's at the school's choice correct
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yes ma'am that's correct. The institution would have an option of doing what they want to. For a couple weeks, it would be an associate's degree, maybe, but it wouldn't be a full-fledged diploma. They would have to be in good standing with the university and on course to graduate to receive the diploma. Thank you. Members, I heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone
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wishing to speak against the bill for the bill, not the question for the House,
passage of House Bill 1896. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast out the ballot by a vote of 94 yea, 0 nay, 0 present. You will pass the bill.
Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1592. House
Bill 1592 by Representative Stewart to clarify how a school counselor's time shall be spent during
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the school year. Representative Stewart, you're recognized.
Explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This bill changes one word in the current law that says the school counselor's time shall be used 75% per week for counseling.
It was brought to my attention by the School Board Association, Education Department, and then later I contacted the school counselors, and they are having to attest to the fact that they do that, even though they don't do it in weeks that we're doing testing. Because of our mandatory testing laws, there are some weeks that a counselor cannot devote 75% of their time to counseling. We changed the law to a month to allow for a smoothing effect so that they can average that time throughout the month,
and everybody's in agreement to it, and it does not involve handguns whatsoever. Members, heard
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an explanation of the bill. Anyone wish to speak against the bill, for the bill? Representative
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Steele, you're recognized. Come and speak for the bill. Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker. Representative Stewart, I'm all for your bill. I just wanted to make sure that we send a message that because now counselors can spend more time on counseling,
that they actually see and spend time with
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every student and not just the high-achieving students, every student. Reverend Steele, spoken for the bill. Anyone who
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should speak against the bill? For the bill. If not, the question for the House, pass it up to House Bill 1592. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted.
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Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot by a vote
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of 93, yea, zero, nay, zero. President, you have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 2056. House Bill 2056 for Representative
Clemmer to require HIV testing for all defendants charged with certain sex offenses. Representative Clemmer, you are recognized.
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Come and explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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I can rescue the pen I left up here earlier, too.
This bill has been requested by the folks in Saline County. It is a bill that my predecessor, Barbara Nix, was drafting had she been able to be here this term. Representative Hammer and I bring that to honor Saline County's request and want to give some respect to Barbara Nix for doing this. This bill would require persons charged with violent sex, well, certain violent sexual assaults,
second-degree sexual assault, first-degree sexual assault, and rape. It would require persons charged with those crimes to
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be tested for HIV. I think it's a good bill. I'll be happy to take any
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questions. Representative Steele, what type of question? You said this would require those charged or just those
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convicted? Charged. The problem, someone suggested you make it for convictions, but given the amount of time that lapses,
it doesn't seem fair to the victim to allow them to have been exposed to HIV for perhaps a year while we pre-kilt. guilt. This body passed recently a bill that will make DNA to be taken from persons charged with
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similar crimes. Are there some sexual assaults
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that would not expose a victim to HIV? I was looking at
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the language, and I would assume that
this would be ordered by a judge,
and I would not assume that the judge would order it if there had been no exposure to HIV. So the judge would have discretion? Yes, the judge has discretion. Thank you. But this would allow it to happen. Wait a minute. I don't want to tell a lie here. I'm sorry, it does require it. And the reason for this was that there is a national violence against women grant that goes to help counties assist women who have been victims of domestic violence.
And currently, the guidelines to receive the full grant is that these tests do happen. And Saline County, if your county applies for these grants and receives them, their grant amount is reduced by 5% because the state does not have this law. So it's kind of costing every county not to have this in place. Thank you very much. Members, according to explanation
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of the bill, anyone who can speak against the bill, for the bill,
not the question for the House, passage of House Bill 2056, prepare the machine,
Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 76 yea, 7 nay, 1 present. You have passed the bill.
Mr. Clark, read House Bill 2046. House Bill
2046 for Representative Garner to exempt a wholesale manufacturer of beer from paying sales and use tax on kegs used to sell beer wholesale.
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representative garner you're recognized to explain the bill
thank you mr speaker members this we have one award-winning wholesale beer manufacturer in this state this bill would exempt their purchase of the aluminum cakes as a delivery system it has a nominal impact i would appreciate a good thank you
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members you've heard an explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill, Representative Cowling. Representative Cowling, you are recognized to come and speak
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against the bill. I certainly hate to speak against it, but I know lots of folks in here that's had tax bills that we were told it wasn't that in the package and i just don't feel right
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this we'd take a tax here when it hadn't been in the the package of everything else i'd appreciate no vote thank you
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representative cowling spoken against the bill anyone wish to speak for the bill
against the bill represent garner you're recognized closely bill thank you mr speaker
members I don't think there's anyone here more than me that doesn't appreciate their tax bill being included in the package. I would
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appreciate a good vote. Members, here's an
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explanation of the bill. Question for the House. Passes of House Bill 2046. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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has everyone voted has everyone voted
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cast up the ballot by a vote of 49 yay 22 nay one present you have failed the bill representative lovell moves the clincher question for the house adoption of the clincher on the failure of house bill 2046 prepare the
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machine Mr. Clerk everyone voted everyone voted cast out the ballot by
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present. You have failed the motion. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1881. House Bill 1881 by Representative
Letting, an act to provide for payment of wages after termination of employment and to prohibit unauthorized deductions from pay.
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Representative Letting, you are recognized to explain the
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is anybody else ready to go home? Anybody? Colleagues, I've been working on House Bill 1881
since December. We have worked with the Department of Labor, the Arkansas State Chamber, the Society for Human Resource Management, Department of Finance Administration, small business owners. Everyone has signed off on this bill. All we're trying to do is to provide for payment of wages owed beyond termination. An employer would have seven days or the next regular payday to provide
or to pay wages owed to an employee. So if you pay once a month, a month, that employer would have potentially about a month to pay those wages, depending on the date of the termination. If a small business owner or employer fails to pay these wages within that appropriate time, they will be liable for a civil penalty to the employee in the amount of only the wages owed or $100, depending on whichever is more. Yeah, I see you over there. Again, we've worked with the state chamber, the Society for Human Resource Management. Everyone signed off on this. I want to thank my colleagues in public health
for voting this out unanimously. I want to particularly thank Representative Hyde for his feedback, but it looks like he might
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have a little bit more here. I'm happy to take your question. Representative Hyde, what purpose? Question, Mr. Speaker? Recognized. Mr. Letting, when this was unanimously voted out of committee, it was under
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the agreement that it would be amended, and somehow it mysteriously slipped out the door and the amendment kind got stepped on or stepped over or left behind, have we now got the amendment in place, it's
on the bill, and what we're voting on now is the State Chamber of Commerce amended bill? That is correct. Last Thursday, when we
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originally presented this and adopted that amendment, we pulled the bill temporarily, and when we voted on it Tuesday, we forgot to vote do pass as amended. We voted do pass. Those amendments were engrossed yesterday, and we are voting on that bill that you mentioned. Thank you, Mr. Lennox. With those amendments. Thank you. what purpose question
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recognized i'm not completely familiar with the bill as amended
based on the original bill and as an employer in the construction field i have employees that have very high value tools many times in locations all around the country if i have an employee who leaves with a large number a large dollar value of my tools is your bill going to prevent from restraining that employee's wages to receive access to my tools. If that's in a contract when you
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hire the employer that you can recover those costs, yes, you can do so.
It does need to be in writing. Several jobs, like when I worked in college and waited tables, we always had to sign contracts that say anything we leave with, the company has the right to deduct that from
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any wages owed. It's not customary in the construction business to require written contracts for day labor type employees, et cetera, employees, et cetera, and yet they have access to high-value tools. What's the effect of your bill in that situation? You would still have the right to go after the employee? Using wages as leverage?
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But you would not be able to deduct it from their wages. Thank you.
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Representative Hutchinson, for what purpose? You're recognized. Thank you, Representative,
Representative Donna Hutchinson
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for presenting this bill. Our state owes almost $14 million in back wages to our
correction employees. Don't you think we ought to get our act together before we require private business? I would recommend we take this
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step today and keep working to address that issue.
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Representative Carter, what purpose is to recognize?
Representative Davy Carter
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To follow up on Representative Bell's line of questioning, if there's not an employment contract but your employee should steal from you or take some things or just inherently owe you money for some other legitimate purpose, the way I'm following you on this bill, it would still require the employer to go ahead and pay the employee but then have to turn
around and sue them for the very money that would otherwise have been, I guess, historically been able to set off what was owed. Is that, I mean, just to make sure I understand, unless there's a written employment contract, is that the case? That would be the case. But again, the State Chamber, the Society for Human Resource Management, Department of Labor, and the small business owners we work
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with have all signed up on this bill. Okay. Now, thank you for answering my question. I'd appreciate a good vote. members heard an explanation of the bill
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anyone wishing to speak against the bill Representative Benedict you are recognized to come and speak against the bill thank
you Mr. Speaker it does say in here an employer shall pay in full all wages owed an employee who is discharged from employment I am one of those employers again who have discharged people or maybe they have just left in the middle of the night with a pickup truck
full of lawnmowers and tools and anything else they can leave the farm with or the place of employment and if they get across the state line because you happen to live near a state line,
it is very hard to bring these people back and get compensation from them. This is a bad bill for employers. It
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takes away our employers' rights. Thank you. Representative Benedict has spoken against the bill and departed from the well.
Anyone want to speak for the bill, against the bill? Representative Leading, you
want to close for your bill? You're recognized. I just want to again say the Arkansas State
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Chamber signed off on this bill, up on this bill and we're also making sure that we're allowing law-abiding small businesses
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to have a level playing field with those who might try to get out of paying their employees wages and unpaid wages are untaxed wages so i believe this is a good bill and i'd appreciate a good
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vote thank you members for an explanation of the bill the question for the house is passive house House Bill 1881, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted. Cast up
the ballot by a vote of 39, yea, 47, nay, one present. You have failed the bill.
Representative Kerr moves for clincher. for the House is Dr. McQuincher on House Bill 1881, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted? Everyone voted, cast
out the ballot by a vote of 47, yea, 35, nay, 0, present. You have failed the motion.
In recognition of your attention to duty and your hard work, and for those of us who stayed up past midnight last night, I'm going to look to Representative Allen for an adjournment motion, but before I do, I want to tell you that as your House Speaker, it is still my
intent to conclude our business next Friday. In
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order to accomplish that, we're going to have a really hard
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week, so I'll get some rest, and come back with a mind to take care of business as efficiently and expeditiously as we can, and meet our objective in getting out of here on the 1st, and it will serve
not only our body, but the people of our great state. It's very good to be able to accomplish that goal. Representative Allen, you're recognized. After the
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announcement, reading of the bills, transferring bills, placing the calendars on to ask the many members on bills with on amendments members withdrawing their own bills finalized resolution reading communication and remaining committee reports i move that we're adjourned until one o'clock
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on monday proper motion not debatable all in favor say aye opposed no ayes have it motion adopted represent representative car nine what purpose
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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Announcement. You're recognized. Announcement. You're recognized. Retirement in Social Security meets at 9 a.m. on Monday
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morning. 9 a.m. Thank you, Representative Patterson.
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What purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Communication Technology
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will meet 15 minutes after adjournment on Monday. Representative Carter, what
Representative Davy Carter
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purpose? Announcement. Recognized. Revenue tax will meet Monday, at a time to be announced sometime Monday, if we're going to recess sometime then.
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Okay. Representative Webb. Announcement. You're recognized. Joint budget will
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meet at noon on Monday in Big Mac. Members, I
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want to make sure you heard that. Joint budget will meet at noon on Monday. Representative Klemmer, what purpose? A point of personal privilege. Let me see if there are any other announcements. Do we have any other announcements? Representative Rogers, what purpose? Question.
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Can we remove our computers? Have they finished the work that's... As far
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as I know, they have, so just go ahead
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and remove them. Thank you. Any other announcements? Representative Clemmer, you're recognized for a point of personal
Representative Ann V. Clemmer
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privilege. I wanted to thank the speaker for hosting such a fun party last night. And in his honor, I
meant to say that I wore my cowboy boots today.
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Thank you very much, especially for the honor of wearing your cowboy boots today. Because some men do like their women in
cowboy boots. any other announcement members Mr. Clark Mr.
Clark, read the letter from the Governor please to the Speaker of the
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House dear Mr. Speaker, this is to inform you that on March 25th
2011, I approve the following measures from the regular session of the Se מ söyleyeceğimי. House Bill 1605 As Act 716 House Bill 1056 As Act 736 House Bill 1206 As Act 737 House Bill 1421 As Act 738 House Bill 1433 As Act 739 House Bill 1474 As Act 740 House Bill 1493 As Act 741 House Bill 1498 As Act 742 House Bill 1620 As Act 743 House Bill 1637 As Act 744
House Bill 1693 is Act 745, House Bill 1765 is Act 746, House Bill 1772 is Act 747, House Bill 1851 is Act 748, House Bill 1903 is Act 749, House Bill 2063 is Act 750. Sincerely, Mike Beebe.
Mr. Clerk, we are a committee on state agencies to whom was referred House Bill 1928 House Bill 2154. Begley to report we've had the same under consideration. Herewith return the same with a recommendation that they do pass.
Mr. Speaker, we are committed on state agencies to whom was referred House Bill 1017, House Bill 2054, and House Bill 2078. Begley to report we've had the same under consideration. Herewith return the same with a recommendation that they do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted. Clark Hall, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are committed on insurance and commerce to whom was referred House Bill 1841. I beg you to report we've had the same under consideration. Here we return the same with the recommendation that it do pass. Respectfully submitted, Alan Kerr, Vice Chair.
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House stands adjourned for 1 p.m. Monday.
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HB2103
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SB2096
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HR1037
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Representative Plummer
Unverified
Representative Ann V. Clemmer
Unverified
Representative Keith M. Ingram
Unverified
Speaker 77
Representative Eddie L. Cheatham
Unverified
Speaker 282
Speaker 280
Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Chair
Unverified
Representative Charlie Collins
Unverified
Speaker 265
Speaker 243
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
Unverified
Representative Denny Altes
Unverified
Speaker 307
Speaker 241
Representative John W. Walker
Unverified
Representative David L. Branscum
Unverified
Speaker 318
Speaker 325
Speaker 276
Speaker 328
Speaker 337
Speaker 90
Representative Greg Leding
Unverified
Speaker 343
Representative Nate Bell
Unverified
Representative Lori Benedict Chair
Unverified
Speaker 340
Speaker 39
Representative Fred Allen
Unverified
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
Unverified
Speaker 355
Speaker 356
Speaker 56