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House State Agencies and Govt'l Affairs Committee Part 2

March 23, 2011
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Speaker 2 0:00
There's going to run one today where we can just get an idea of what each one looks like as they
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 0:07
talk compared to one another. Is anyone here running a bill that would like to provide Mr. Cowling or other members with a map? They are. Representative Cowling, we're not going to pass out the amendments until the sponsor is ready to run it. Is that okay? Is that okay with the sponsors?
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Speaker 8 0:32
Can we just look at the map? Can we get the map from them before we look at the map? That
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 0:41
appears to be what the wishes of the committee is. Is there any objections? Without Without objections, we will allow that. All right. I don't have a clue. This is not ours. I don't know. How many are they? Mr. Chair, I don't know if it's possible.
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 1:45
today but if we don't conclude this today would there be any way the staff could get us a map of the existing district I would think so yes ma'am
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Speaker 26 2:03
that would be helpful that's there seems to be the will of the committee so we can have. Please. Or send someone after it. We'll put it somewhere.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 2:19
We are going to make that current map available now, Reverend Clemmer. They're going to go They'll get the one map. We have one large map we can bring up and hang up for everyone to look at. We do
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Speaker 33 2:35
not have individual smaller ones. Thank you.
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 2:39
Okay. That'll be some help. But if we don't finish today, could we get smaller ones? If we discuss maps in the future, could we get something approaching this size?
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 2:50
If we don't get finished in this hour, we're going to adjourn and come back after we get through
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Representative Larry Cowling Unverified 3:03
in the session. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Speaker and all, I would like to request, I don't know whether we was on the agenda a while ago or not and all, but to accommodate my good friend, Ms. Lee and all, I'd like to bring her bill up to consideration and start off with this more than this. So House Bill 1885.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 3:24
Representative Cowling, that would be up to the sponsor when they want to run their bill. You can certainly ask, Representative Lee, but that is up to her for her decision, not the committee. So be. This is not a constitutional amendment issue. This is a normal process of running a bill. Representative Lee. Representative Cowling made a request. Do you want to run yours first? If you take the end of this table and you will be permitted to present your bill? bill. I remind the members of this gift here in this room, do not approach the committee room table nor talk to committee people while they're in their seat. Representative Bernard.
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 4:32
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to make sure that I have the maps. I have three maps, one of them Representative Lee's map, Representative Hall's map, and Representative Baird's map. Now, am I in possession of three of three, or is there any other map that I don't have? I'm
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 4:50
not aware of any maps other than...
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 4:53
Okay. So we should have three maps, and those are
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 4:56
the three maps we have. I'm understanding there are three maps available for today's meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Lee, you're ready to
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Speaker 51 5:11
present your bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm a, my map is labeled C to
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Speaker 53 5:16
make sure everyone's got their, I think that's a C. L for Lee. Okay, that's an L. I'll go with that. That's an L. As we know, the target number for Congressional Redistricting was 728,980. My map is in a zero deviation All four of the areas The major changes It split two counties And moved four And the map you can look at speaks for itself I'll take any questions Do we need to adopt
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 6:03
your amendment You had this bill already in the House, right? You had an amendment zone? Yes, sir. It ran on a member
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Speaker 52 6:17
zone this morning. It's in gross. Thank you,
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 6:21
sir. Any questions from the committee? Representative Clemmer? Representative Lee, because we don't have the existing map, and my memory fails me, would you tell us the counties that are moved? Yes, ma'am. Franklin Logan and John wait slow down so Franklin moves from the third to the fourth correct okay Logan from the
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Speaker 65 6:44
third to the fourth okay yell from the second
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Speaker 53 6:48
to the fourth half of Johnson from the third to the fourth okay and Boone
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Speaker 65 6:58
from the third to the first and I if anyone can correct me on that I'd
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Speaker 69 7:07
take corrections I want to make sure Arkansas did you mention Arkansas please excuse me but
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Speaker 53 7:23
but representative Hopper can you correct me on that what else have I
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Speaker 72 7:27
missed oh Marion let's see was in the Marion third
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Speaker 70 7:33
and it would be going to the first correct thank you represent robot
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Speaker 74 7:39
did you have a question yes sir mr. chair representative Lee
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Unverified 7:44
you talked about your deviation being zero you're talking about your percent of deviation is zero correct on all four yes ma'am and what's your total deviation I you know
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Speaker 53 7:59
what I did not write that down I'm sorry I wrote down actual numbers and just the deviation for the four districts I do not have my
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Unverified 8:08
total deviation I'm sorry okay and one more question if I may mr. chair what's what's the population now in one two three four on your map do you have your
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Speaker 53 8:19
population numbers I you know what I bet they're in my bill I'm sorry I just brought my map down thank you what I wrote down are the actual numbers for the deviation so the first district has nine more second district is 213 more third district has 201 less and the fourth district is 22 less so one in two
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Unverified 8:47
plus in the three and four matters okay thank you thank you mr.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 8:54
chair represent recently question when you started off what is your target number you said 720
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Speaker 53 9:02
8,980 that was my understanding of the starting number target number okay thank you seven two eight nine eight zero also the of course being a border county as Pope County is was still is I spoke with my city council my quorum court and my chamber and they gave me four guidelines that were important to them and so that was something that I addressed as well and that was that Pope County would stay intact that Pope County would stay in the third and that if possible it would say with Yale County if it did have to be moved and it wouldn't be gerrymandered over to the first rest of Cali well I see
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Representative Larry Cowling Unverified 9:55
it Polk County survived in all three of them in because they stay in this in the third and all three of them so everybody was
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Speaker 57 10:04
working Well, that's who I represent, sir.
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Speaker 53 10:12
I'm sure Representative Burris might have other opinions of this map. Any questions? Representative Hopper. Thank
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Speaker 88 10:20
you, Mr. Chair. My question is with
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Speaker 90 10:26
regard to the counties that were split. Are you simply looking for numbers? Are there natural boundaries involved, or can you give us some insight on that? They're not natural boundaries. It was going for numbers.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 10:42
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Any other questions? We might, when Mr. Wilson comes back, he may have. Would Mr. Wilson have your numbers, your population numbers, or do you have them? He probably
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Speaker 55 10:57
does. No, it's not in this that was handed to me. Is it not in your bill? No, it's not in what was handed to me. Mr. Wilson can have it. I can get that for you. Representative Klammer. I
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 11:09
was going to see, Mr. Chairman, if she would repeat the deviation for the 2nd District. I got all the numbers down, but I missed the 2nd District. Plus 213. And you're talking about on these numbers? We're talking about 213 people. Dude, that is so close. Yes,
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Speaker 94 11:25
that's what I'm saying. No, I meant the
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Speaker 96 11:27
camera, not you. Well, I was about to say, dude, that's so close. These numbers, the numbers you came up with were very
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Speaker 87 11:39
close. Yes, ma'am, that is what I aimed for.
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Speaker 55 11:44
I thought you were feeding me my wine. No. I gotta get up This guy's killing me guys
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Speaker 104 12:00
I was just gonna say And that's
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 12:03
my presentation Thank you very much This deviation was nine more people For the first The fourth The second had 22 less 213 more in the fourth and 201 less in the third.
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Speaker 109 12:21
Zero pursuit. The math was
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Speaker 110 12:24
right. Yeah, I like yours too. You don't split
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Speaker 114 12:38
any counties? We're sharing. Thanks for having me.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 13:14
Mr. Wilson is going to hang up the current maps as they exist today. This is the existing current, the 2,000 census.
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Unknown speaker 13:57
Thank you.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 14:27
We need questions if you want to go back to the end. Have we got the numbers that they asked for? Have you got the numbers? Thank you. Okay, well, Representative Roebuck, she does not have the definitive numbers. Is that over? Is there any other questions, Representative Lee? Would you go back to the end of the table then
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Speaker 88 15:49
and let's finish this up? okay representative lee please excuse me representative roebuck
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Speaker 53 15:54
um if you uh do the math then you will get the actual numbers of the congressional districts so yes i did have it i'm i'm not i'm not up on
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 16:20
math very well thank you Representative Leigh, I don't pretend to be any expert on this stuff, but I was trying remember the slide presentation they made to us on this about natural variables, and I believe your map, do you think that your map addresses natural variables? MS. When you're describing variables. Well, like, is there any particular distinctive geographical feature, like a road, like highway and highway or a river? Because I noticed, I noticed, I believe I have the right map. You split a county and then you split another county. Correct. And so could you address for me that issue, please? I could,
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Speaker 51 17:19
if a variable is what you're calling a river, a road, something like that. You know, I can't remember the, it's been two months ago
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 17:27
now, and I can't remember the exact terms they used. You know what I'm talking about. I remember the description.
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Speaker 51 17:35
No, to be perfectly honest, I
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Speaker 53 17:37
wanted to go for the lowest variable. I wanted to follow what the people in my county asked for, being a border county, and I wanted to go with the lowest deviation, not variable, pardon me. And so in the breakup of that, that's what I looked at. I did
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 18:00
not look at what you're describing, which are rivers, a natural road, things like that. Okay. Okay. So is your map, would you characterize your map as basically trying to split the population terms of four separate geographic areas, then. You're saying that your driving criterion was population only, so that you had four districts equal in population. That was not my driving. That is what I wanted to
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Speaker 53 18:36
achieve. My driving was to do what the people in Polk County asked me to do
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Speaker 55 18:43
that they felt was best for them.
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 18:47
That was my driving motivation. Well, you know, when – and I understand that. I understand you're trying to do what your county wanted you to do, and I – you know. But this is not a county issue. I agree. There are issues that rise above our own self-interest of where we come from. Absolutely. And this is one of them. And what's driving me on this is a concern on any of these maps. I don't care which map it is. Whether that is what's most productive for the state. And I assume, since this is the map that you put forward, please correct me if I'm wrong, that it's beyond just what Pope County wanted. This is the map that you feel that meets the state's best interest.
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Speaker 55 19:52
Absolutely. But you asked me a very specific question, and I gave you a specific answer, what drove me. I didn't have to file
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Speaker 53 20:01
any shell bill. I did. I did because Pope County is a bordering county, and that is what motivated me to be one of the people that brings forth a map. However, it was very important to me to keep like areas together, and I think this map achieves that. And it was important to me to keep the deviation as close to nothing as possible, and I think I achieved that.
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 20:27
i appreciate your responses representative dude lee dude lee that's what i'll go at thank you mr chair rep garner thank you mr chairman
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Representative Ed Garner Unverified 20:45
uh miss lee i i get the over the overall impression and and i don't want it to sound like i don't care about pope county but i didn't realize that was the driving force behind this. My impression, and I'm getting the right, I'm asking you, am I getting the right impression of this, is that you're trying to maintain as much as possible counties without being split, and it looks to me like you change four counties, and correct me if I'm wrong, it's Boone, Marion, Franklin, and Yale. Yes, sir. Are those the counties that, in their entirety, within their entire borders, you're not splitting those counties, and you're splitting only two counties, and that is Arkansas and Johnson? And the boundaries, it would seem to me, to be as contiguous as possible to the district you're moving them next to.
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Speaker 55 21:46
That's exactly right, and that was my attempt. Okay. So, essentially,
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Speaker 134 21:52
the greatest difficulty would be, in terms of
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Representative Ed Garner Unverified 21:58
the voters knowing where they are and who they would be, those two split counties, you've reduced your map to splitting two counties, and the other voters would simply be informed, there's four counties here, you are now part of a different district.
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Speaker 53 22:19
Yes, sir. Splitting counties is never a great idea. I agree with that. But the deviation was what I
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Speaker 136 22:27
was going for. All right. Thank
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Representative Mary L. Slinkard Unverified 22:32
you very much. Representative Lanker. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Lee, it looks like the south part of Pope County, on your map, there's a little piece there. I can't tell if that's a county boundary or a certain boundary. that goes into the 4th district. Would you just clarify that? Is that a voting precinct or? That's
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Speaker 52 23:00
part of Yale County. Oh, thank you very much.
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 23:10
Any other questions from the committee? Representative Klammer. Because I'm sitting next to my esteemed colleague, Representative Rogers, who has concerns about Arkansas County being split. Do you remember when you split that county what it would have done to the numbers if you had left all of Arkansas County in the first? No. I could not tell you that. Just curious. Thank
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Speaker 69 23:41
you. Do you know if it divides Stuttgart? No, I don't think it does. Representative Rogers? I mean, no, it does not.
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Speaker 141 23:52
Okay, thank you. Questions from the committee? Representative Hutchison.
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Representative Donna Hutchinson Unverified 23:59
Attorney Mike County, there you are. Just pointing out that Pope County apparently didn't have much to worry about. All of these maps kept Pope County in the third, and they must have instructed the others and not just
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Speaker 53 24:17
yourself. We're pretty brave people. We have no problem expressing
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Representative Donna Hutchinson Unverified 24:20
our opinions. I'm impressed at how you've worked the deviation, and it will be interesting to see if the others can match splitting two and moving four and having the least change. I think that's what we need to move toward is the least amount of change as we
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 24:46
draw these congressional maps. Thank you. Anyone, any committee member, any more questions? If not, is anyone in the audience like to speak against this proposal or on this proposal? Representative Walker, would you like to speak on it? If you may,
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Representative John W. Walker Unverified 25:07
you can go down to the end of the table, sir. I wanted to ask,
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 25:13
as a visiting member of the legislature to the committee, a question. Sir, Rep. Walker, I appreciate your position, but you are not a member of this committee. And this committee will certainly accommodate you if you go to the end of the table and state whatever you'd like to. That's fine. But this committee is the voting committee, and we're going to handle it like that. Any person is willing to go to the end of this table and speak for or against any proposal. But in this case, you can go down there and ask the questions, and maybe Representative Lee, when she
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Representative John W. Walker Unverified 25:48
closes, will answer them. Well, that's all right. I didn't know that the committee structure
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 25:53
worked that way, but thank you. Anyone in the committee in the room would like to speak for or against? What's the pleasure of the committee? Representative Garner. Move, do pass. We have a motion, do pass. Representative Lee, would you like to close for
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Speaker 88 26:13
your... Could I ask a question? I thought we were going to see them all before we voted. That's not how this works. This is a bill. You're running your bill. I'm sorry, sir. I thought the committee voted for that earlier. This is a bill. You can run your bill or not run your bill.
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Speaker 136 26:38
Do you want to close for your bill? I'm closed, sir. Thank you. Do I have a
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Speaker 84 26:48
question or have our area made by motion? You
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Representative Ed Garner Unverified 26:52
made your motion, but what is it? I recall the committee saying that we would like to see all the maps. The maps are out there on the table. The maps are out there, and so if I'm at the point where I think this, hers is absolutely the best one, then it's time for me to make a motion. That's
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Speaker 154 27:07
what I would do, and you made a motion. I think it's the best one. I move
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 27:17
do pass. You got a motion on the floor to do pass. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All in favor of the
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Sarah Moore Unverified 27:35
motion to adopt Representative Lee's bill, say
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Speaker 157 27:40
aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Nose have it. two hands roll call representative Cheatham
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Speaker 158 27:47
representative Cheatham representative representative Gardner
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Sarah Moore Unverified 27:51
yes representative Robeck representative Hutchinson representative Kaling, Representative Penards, Representative, I'm sorry, Representative Penards, Representative Baird, Representative Hobbs, Representative Lee, Representative Wilkins, Representative Tyler, Representative Hopper, Representative Klemmer, Representative Nichols, Representative Representative McLean? No. Representative Rogers? No. Representative Steele? No. Representative Vines? No. Representative Slinkard? Yes. Representative Hall?
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Speaker 163 28:47
No. By vote of 12 to 8, this
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Speaker 165 29:01
proposal has failed. has failed. Who would like to be up next?
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 29:15
Representative Duncan, do you want to go now? You may go to the end of the table. Barrett, I'm sorry. Duncan Barrett, I'm sorry. Well, they call me Representative Clark all the time. You have an amendment we're going to Pass out as you go down.
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Speaker 52 29:57
Representative Barrett, are you ready to present your proposal? I
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 30:11
am. You have the mic. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is House Bill 1890, and it's a second proposal. It would move six counties and split two counties. would move Cleburne from the first to the second, and Van Buren from the second to the first. It would move Franklin, Johnson, and Marion, or actually Franklin and Johnson from the third to the fourth, Marion from the third to the first, and Yale from the second to the fourth. And it would split Boone between the third and the first, and split Perry between the fourth, and the second, and the deviation.
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 30:54
Representative Barrett, is this on your amendment that you have? Are we adopting your amendment? Are you explaining your amendment, or are you just wanting us to adopt your amendment? Those are the details of the amendment, not food for adoption. I need a motion to adopt the amendment, Representative
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 31:17
Bernard. I reckon. I'm sorry. You have a question, Representative
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 31:20
Bernard? No, I was going to give him the motion. Okay. We have a motion from the sponsor to adopt the amendment. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Now you can speak on the contents of your proposal.
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 31:31
Okay. Well, that is the amendment that we just added. It was a shale bill, and so we actually added the meat of the proposal. The deviation among these districts, the largest deviation would be in the first and the third. The first would be under the target by 359 people, which is, by my calculation, about 0.05 of a percent. And the third would be 318 people above the target. The second would be 43 below, and the fourth would be 84 above. And so it's a very small deviation from the target that we're seeking. And with that, I'd be happy to take any questions. Is there any questions for the
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 32:24
committee? They're all kind of digesting this a minute.
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 32:29
Let's give them a second. Representative Klemmer. I'll start. Perry is split and Boone is split, but very small portions, are those, do you know if those represent population areas? I mean, obviously represent high population areas. Do you know? I don't know. I
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 32:52
don't know. You just pulled out a couple
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 32:59
of precincts? Yeah, basically just took small parts of those counties. So those counties remain 90% intact with about, I'm looking
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 33:12
at just geography. Thank you. Representative Beard, you're taking Yale County and most of Perry out, and you've switched Van Buren with Cleburne.
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 33:23
Is that correct? That's correct, and I believe those were switched so that when we took – when we split the other two counties, it was a smaller split. But, you know, Van Buren and Cleburne have different populations, and so when you change those, I think it helped us where we were splitting on the other two counties. Okay.
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 33:48
Representative Penari. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was trying to look at the map on the column up here, my compariors. was Perry was it in the second and now it's in the fourth or can you help me out on there did you split Perry or what's going on there
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Speaker 169 34:10
Perry was in the second
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 34:12
and now only a portion of Perry would be in the in the second and so originally the the full county was in the second oh okay
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 34:23
so it used to be the whole county. Correct. Does Conway County, these maps are sort of hard to read, but what's that little piece there that looks like Oklahoma to the left? Is that in Perry County? Yes, that's
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 34:38
the part of Perry County that would be in the second. And so, yeah. What's in that? Is there a big city
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 34:44
in that? I don't know. What about the other little piece that to the right, what's in that area? Because you've dipped down to take those, apparently. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what's in there. You don't know what city is in there, in that little bitty area there? Okay. Okay. Well, thank you. Was there any driving criterion that you used in the formation of your map? To me, this is along the lines
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 35:17
of the progression over the years. You know, I think as, you know, the first has taken in Baxter, and this map would have it taken Marion and Boone, which I think is a natural progression, and the fourth has been moving north, and I think that's also maybe the natural progression there. So, you know, to me, you know, Arkansas County wanted to keep that complete, not split that. And so really, I just wanted to make as few changes as possible, split as few counties as possible, and this is what we came up with. Thank you, Representative. I
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Representative Tracy Pennartz Unverified 35:56
appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Roebuck. Thank you,
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Unverified 36:03
Mr. Chair. Mr. Barrett, forgive me if you've already told us, but did you tell us your total deviations?
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 36:11
Yes, the target is 728,980. It's the same, obviously, for all of them. The highest population would be in the third district, 729,297. So it would be 318 over the target. The lowest population would be 728,621 in the first, which would be 359 below the target. And just by my calculation, it's about five one-hundredths of a percent. So, you know, if you just divide it out, it's .0005. So it's a very small deviation, and that's, you know, that's why we're splitting counties is to
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Unverified 37:00
get that deviation extremely small. And
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 37:02
for the fourth and the second, what was your deviation? For the fourth, $729,063, and for the second, $728,937. Okay. Thank you.
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Speaker 91 37:12
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Klammer.
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Representative Ann V. Clemmer Unverified 37:20
Representative Barrett, as I look at the map on the wall and go from memory, If you start at the Mississippi River, DeShea County, the boundary there between the 1st and the 4th remains the same until you get over to Perry County. Is that correct? It sort of looks like it. Saline County is still in the 2nd. So that border, to me, you may be at a disadvantage because you can't see the map on the wall. But it looks like to me, until you reach the western tip of Saline County, that whole dividing line stays the same. So I guess I applaud your ability to make these changes. But if that was correct, I'm asking you, but I guess you may get a disadvantage there. But a good bit of that remains exactly the same. From what I can
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified 38:09
tell, it does remain the same. That's
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Speaker 52 38:18
a big thing. Are you through, Representative Klemmer? Yes, sir. I'm sorry. Thank
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 38:22
you, Mr. Chair. Are there any other questions from the committee? Does anyone in the audience like to speak against this proposal? For this proposal, are you closed for your proposal, Representative? I'm closed. Thank you. What's the will of the committee? Representative Klemmer? Move, do pass. We have a do-passed motion as amended. As amended. As amended on House Bill 1890. All in favor say aye. All opposed? No.
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Speaker 33 38:59
Noes have it. Two hands. Roll call.
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Sarah Moore Unverified 39:12
Representative Cheatham Representative Cheatham Representative Gardner Representative Robeck Representative Hutchinson Representative Cowling Representative Penards Representative Baird Representative Hobbs Representative Lee Representative Wilkins Representative Tyler Representative Hopper Representative Klemmer Representative Nichols Representative McLean Representative Rogers Representative Steele Representative Vines
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Speaker 3 40:02
Representative Slinkard Representative Hall What are we on? No,
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 40:17
I'm sorry I was yes, I was trying to answer
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Speaker 89 40:27
Representative Baird, it failed 8 to 12 So, ladies and gentlemen, members
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Representative Clark Hall Unverified 40:32
of the committee, I'm sorry, we're getting ready to go back into session, and we're not going to have time to listen to the other proposal. We will take it up, we're going to recess and take it up on adjournment when we get through in the assembly. We'll be back here as soon as the speaker lets us go. Fifteen minutes upon adjournment. The doors will be locked and there will be a police officer out there to make sure no one comes in and bothers you or anything you have here.
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Call to Order

0:00

HB1885

4:14

HB1890

30:18

Adjournment

40:59

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Representative Clark Hall Unverified
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Representative Johnnie J. Roebuck Unverified
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Representative Mary L. Slinkard Unverified
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Sarah Moore Unverified
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Representative Duncan Baird Unverified
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