March 17, 2011
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Bills discussed (69)
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HB2029
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HB1484
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
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HR1028
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
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HR1040
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
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HB1936
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1936”
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HB1072
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…sures from the regular session of the 88th general assembly House Bill 1072 is Act 321 House Bill 1084 is Act 232 House Bill 1085 is Ac…”
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HB1152
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1152 is Act 327 House Bill 1187 is Act 328 House Bill 1210 is Ac…”
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HB1198
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Bill 1131, House Bill 1198, House Bill 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House B…”
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HB1291
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…8 House Bill 1210 is Act 329 House Bill 1271 is Act 330 and House Bill 1291 is Act 331. Sincerely, Mike Beebe.”
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HB1410
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1410”
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HB1490
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Bill 1131, House Bill 1198, House Bill 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House B…”
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HB1497
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…e are a committee on public transportation whom is referred House Bill 1497, House Bill 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate…”
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HB1505
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Bill 1131, House Bill 1198, House Bill 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House B…”
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HB1506
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…eaker, we are Committee on Joint Budget to whom is referred House Bill 1506 Senate Bill 133 Beg leave report we have the same under con…”
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HB1541
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1131, House Bill 1198, House Bill 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House Bill 1550, House B…”
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HB1542
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1198, House Bill 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House Bill 1550, House Bill 1630,”
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HB1548
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House Bill 1550, House Bill 1630,”
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HB1550
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House Bill 1550, House Bill 1630,”
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HB1561
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…on public transportation whom is referred House Bill 1497, House Bill 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate…”
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HB1616
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Speaker, we are committee on education, to whom is referred House Bill 1616, Senate Bill 330. We report we have the same under consider…”
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HB1627
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1627”
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HB1630
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House Bill 1550, House Bill 1630,”
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HB1710
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1710, House Bill 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bil…”
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HB1726
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1710, House Bill 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bill 1736 and House…”
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HB1730
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1710, House Bill 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bill 1736 and House Bill 1740”
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HB1732
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “House Bill 1710, House Bill 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bill 1736 and House Bill 1740”
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HB1736
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 1710, House Bill 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bill 1736 and House Bill 1740”
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HB1740
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bill 1736 and House Bill 1740”
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HB1763
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…aker, we are a committee on agriculture to whom is referred House Bill 1763. Vaguely report we have the same under consideration. Here…”
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HB1766
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1795
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1796
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB18
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Speaker, we are committee on education, to whom is referred House Bill 18 93. Vaguely report we have the same under consideration. He…”
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HB1807
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1807”
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HB1845
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ortation whom is referred House Bill 1497, House Bill 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate…”
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HB1849
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1876
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1876”
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HB1883
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…aker, we are a committee on agriculture to whom is referred House Bill 1883 and House Bill 1898. Vaguely report we have the same under…”
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HB1898
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ttee on agriculture to whom is referred House Bill 1883 and House Bill 1898. Vaguely report we have the same under consideration. Here…”
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HB1903
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1929
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1950
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1956
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB1986
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2005
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2024
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2030
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB2030”
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HB2039
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB2039”
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HB2066
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…committee on public transportation, to whom is referred to House Bill 2066. We report we have the same under consideration, here to re…”
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HB2094
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HB2097
· 1 mention in chapter
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HB2137
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB120
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB127
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB133
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…mmittee on Joint Budget to whom is referred House Bill 1506 Senate Bill 133 Beg leave report we have the same under consideration and h…”
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SB290
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB290”
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SB301
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…referred House Bill 1497, House Bill 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate…”
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SB311
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB330
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ommittee on education, to whom is referred House Bill 1616, Senate Bill 330. We report we have the same under consideration, here to re…”
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SB381
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB404
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1497, House Bill 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate…”
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SB513
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate Bill 767, and Sen…”
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SB560
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate Bill 767, and Senate Bill 769. The…”
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SB701
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB720
· 1 mention in chapter
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SB725
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate Bill 767, and Senate Bill 769. They will report we'…”
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SB767
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate Bill 767, and Senate Bill 769. They will report we've had the same u…”
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SB769
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate Bill 767, and Senate Bill 769. They will report we've had the same under consideration he…”
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SB79
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Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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We're led in prayer today by Pastor Rick Bazette with the New Life Church of Greater Little Rock. Pastor Bazette is here today as guest of Representatives Kerr, Garner, and David Meeks. And then remain standing as we're led in the Pledge of Allegiance by our favorite man down here. Doc, you going to do it today? Dr. Reverend Billy Gaskell.
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And assisted today by, okay, we'll leave today's business with Representative Gaskell. Stay tuned for things to come. Thank you, Reverend Rosette. Let's bow our heads and pray. Lord, I thank you for being in
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this room right now. And Lord, I know there may be some private needs among the representatives that are here right now. Maybe some things that are at home that are not going the way they would prefer them to go.
Lord, I ask for your grace to be with them. I thank you for the men and women that serve here in this house. And Lord, many of them, they've given many hours, their lives, to help the great state of Arkansas. So God, we also know that times are changing. And it's not the way that it used to be. Which means we need more wisdom than we used to have. and ask, Lord God, that your grace will be with us in that regard as well. Help us, Lord God, to serve, but not with selfish ambition or vain conceit,
but in humility, help us serve one
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name, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. members please
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pressing the yellow present button prepare the machine mr.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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yellow present button. What we got here? Representative Wilkins and Williams. The yellow present button. Okay. We're all accounted for here.
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I stepped out the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by 96 members present. The chair recognizes the quorum. Any requests for leave? Representative Kerr, leave. Leave for Representative Klemmer. Leave granted for Representative Klemmer. Let the record reflect leave
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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granted for Representative Klemmer. Yes, sir, Representative Baird. Leave for Representative Carter.
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leave granted anyone else Representative Lovell, what purpose?
Chair
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You're recognized. His button didn't punch. Okay, we're going to recognize Dr. Gaskell is with us and present. That's
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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the representative Eddie Cheatham, as we dispense with the reading of the previous day's journal. No objection, so ordered. Are there reports from select committees? Read the report, Mr. Clerk.
Mr. Speaker, we are committee on joint budget to whom is referred House
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Bill 1131, House Bill 1198, House Bill 1490, House Bill 1505, House Bill 1541, House Bill 1542, House Bill 1548, House Bill 1550, House Bill 1630,
House Bill 1710, House Bill 1726, House Bill 1730 House Bill 1732 House Bill 1736 and House Bill 1740
Beg leave report we have the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that they do pass Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Joint Budget to whom is referred House Bill 1506 Senate Bill 133 Beg leave report we have the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that they do pass as amended respectfully submitted, Kathy
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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Webb, Chair Mr. Clerk, standing committee reports.
Mr. Clerk, please read the reports. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on public transportation whom is referred House Bill 1497, House Bill 1561, House Bill 1845, Senate Bill 301, Senate Bill 404, Senate Bill 513, Senate Bill 560, Senate Bill 725, Senate Bill 767, and Senate Bill 769. They will report we've had the same under consideration here. They return the same with the recommendation that they do pass.
Mr. Speaker, we are committee on public transportation, to whom is referred to House Bill 2066. We report we have the same under consideration, here to return the same with the recommendation that it do not pass. Respectfully submitted, Jonathan Burnett, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are committee on education, to whom is referred House Bill 1616, Senate Bill 330. We report we have the same under consideration, here to return the same with the recommendation that they do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are committee on education, to whom is referred House Bill 18 93. Vaguely report we have the same under consideration. Here it is. Return the same with the recommendation that do pass as amended.
Respectfully submitted. Eddie Cheatham. Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on agriculture to whom is referred House Bill 1883 and House Bill 1898. Vaguely report we have the same under consideration. Here it is. Return the same with the recommendation that they do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on agriculture to whom is referred House Bill 1763. Vaguely report we have the same under consideration. Here it is. Return the same with the recommendation that do pass as amended.
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Respectfully submitted. Jerry Brown. Chair. no unfinished business executive communication mr. Clark read the letter from the governor please
to the speaker of the house dear mr. speaker this is to inform you that on march 17th 2011 i approve the following measures from the regular session of the 88th general assembly House Bill 1072 is Act 321 House Bill 1084 is Act 232 House Bill 1085 is Act 323 House Bill 1109 is Act 324 House Bill 1110 is Act 325 House Bill 1121 is Act 326 House Bill 1477 is Act 302
House Bill 1152 is Act 327 House Bill 1187 is Act 328 House Bill 1210 is Act 329 House Bill 1271 is Act 330 and House Bill 1291 is Act 331. Sincerely, Mike Beebe.
Chair
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we go to the red calendar, we have quite a few distinguished ministers with us
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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today that we're going to recognize. First of all, I want to welcome and say thank you to our Doctor of the Day,
Dr. Dayan Wong from Russellville. Dr. Wong, thank you so much for being with
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us. Okay, and let's see. In the East Gallery,
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we have a guest of Representative Darren Williams. We have students from Philander Smith College here with us today. If you all would stand to be recognized, please. As guests from the Brooklyn Intermediate School, we have the 5th and 6th graders, along with
their teacher, Diane Montgomery, who's here as guest of Representative Homer Linderman today. You
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all will stand to be recognized. Wow. Thank you very much. Good-looking group. Thank
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you. We have a special guest of Representatives Baird, Edwards, Sanders, and Webb, the chef from the Capitol Hotel, Mr. Lee Richardson. Certainly want to welcome Chef Richardson.
In the East Gallery, as guests of Representatives Jean and Fielding, we have a leadership class from Magnolia. if you all would stand thank you for being with us today we have, I don't know which gallery but we have as guests of representatives English, Tyler, David Meeks and Stephen Meeks the Faulkner County Leadership Institute if you all would stand to be recognized there we go, thank you
and we also have today to be recognized, the families and friends of the care facility residents. If you were with us, if you could please stand and be recognized. Over in the West Gallery. Thank you so much. Okay, members, go to the red calendar. Mr. Clerk, read House Resolution 1040.
House Resolution 1040 by Representative Lee to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and to honor the Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas for its contributions to educating Arkansans about their rich Irish culture and heritage. Representative Lee, you are
Chair
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recognized to explain the resolution. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Before I begin,
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I would just like to say I'm pleased to see Dr. Wong here. He can prove I have a heart. He tested it. Happy St. Patrick's Day.
One hundred and nine years ago, after immigrating with their families to the United States from Ireland, enduring hardship and prejudice, William Bernard Ring and Ellen Elizabeth O'Dowd chose to make the positive move toward the future by marrying each other. Nineteen years later, they gave birth to their sixth child, my mother. Every three years ago today, Phillip Lee made the positive move of marrying this Irish lass.
I am pleased Arkansas has an active group that informs and celebrates the rich Irish culture I was raised in. Today we have with us the Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas. I'm hoping they're with us. Stand up please. you mr speaker i respectfully request the resolution be read read the resolution uh
in its entirety mr clark whereas the irish cultural society of arkansas is a non-profit public service organization founded in 1996 to educate arkansans in aspects
of the culture and history of ireland and whereas the society provides irish food and objects of irish art for folk festivals and fairs provides concerts of irish music and dance and participates in community service programs and events all in an effort to reconnect arkansans with their irish heritage and whereas the society was originally founded by a group of irish nationals many of whom
immigrated to arkansas during the nursing shortage of the 1980s recruited by area hospitals nurses from ireland and great britain came to arkansas originally intending to work for a few years and and returned to their homeland. Instead, they married and settled in Little Rock and began to raise their families. As their children grew, they realized the importance of passing on their Irish culture and heritage to their American-born children. And, whereas, the goals of the Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas are to develop and further enhance local interest in the culture of Ireland and its people, to publicize the presence of an active Irish community in the Little Rock area, to reacquaint Arkansans
of Irish descent with their culture and ethnic history, and to familiarize the general public with the culture of Irish people and the richness of their contributions to the united states and the state of arkansas and whereas the society has about 80 members who share a love and interest in ireland and whereas the society presents an annual saint patrick's day parade in downtown little rock and north little rock before the parade the society holds an annual festival on or near saint patrick's day as the success of the annual festival has grown so has interest in the community-wide parade and whereas the 12th annual parade will occur on saturday march 12 2011 at 1 p.m
and the Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas wishes all Arkansans a very safe and happy St. Patrick's Day. Now, therefore, it be resolved by the House of Representatives of the 88th General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the House of Representatives recognizes and commends the Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas for its contributions to educating Arkansans about their Irish culture and heritage and encourages Arkansans to celebrate St. Patrick's Day not only for its fun, traditional joviality, but also for its
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rich cultural heritage. after voting affirmatively on this resolution the irish cultural society would like you to
join them over at the capitol hill later today
Chair
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thank you members have heard an explanation of the resolution uh all in
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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favor of the passage of the resolution say aye those no eyes have it mr clark let the record reflect that the resolution was passed unanimously Mr. Clark, read House Resolution 1028. House Resolution 1028
by Representative Powers to recognize and honor Sergeant Daniel Aller for donating a kidney to his fellow officer.
Representative David "Bubba" Powers
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Representative Powers, you are recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And if I could, I'd like to request that Representative
Chair
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Tyler join me here in the well for this presentation. Representative Tyler, you're recognized. Come
Representative David "Bubba" Powers
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join Representative Powers in presenting the resolution. You know, members, I firmly believe in the tenant that good people do good things. But I truly believe that really special people do really special things,
and that's one of the reasons that this lady is standing beside me. We're going to present a young man today to the House of Representatives as a really special person who's done a really special thing, but I think we should note one more time the commitment, sacrifice, and selflessness of our fellow representative, Representative Tyler, for her donation of a kidney over a decade ago to her daughter. And we have a young man with us today, Mr. Daniel Aller.
He's a police officer in Hope. And about two years ago, a fellow officer, a brother in arms, Life was waning because he had to have a kidney. The family didn't match up. They couldn't find one. And Representative Oller made that selfless, heroic sacrifice. Now, we've all had heroes. And when I was younger, it was the great Henry Aaron or the legendary Mickey Mantle. But as I got older and wiser, I understood that heroes came from every walk of life in my community.
And that's why we're here today. So, Mr. Speaker, it's a rather lengthy resolution, and I'm going to let the resolution tell the story. And with that being said, I'd ask that the resolution be read in its entirety. And upon its reading,
I'd like the opportunity to present Sergeant Oller to the House of Representatives. Thank
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you, Representative Powers and Representative Tyler. Mr. Clark, read the resolution in its entirety.
whereas sergeant daniel allar became a member of the hope police department on june 28 2005
he worked as a patrolman canine officer and is currently serving as patrol sergeant and whereas sergeant allar has made numerous drug and firearm arrests tracked and apprehended fleeing criminals and located several missing persons during his career and whereas sergeant allar was named the hope police department's officer of the year in 2009 and whereas sergeant david johnson is a 10 veteran of the hope police department who trained and worked with with sergeant allure sergeant johnson began experiencing kidney problems due to diabetes resulting in renal failure he was placed on dialysis and on a waiting list for a new kidney the average waiting time for a kidney donation is
1 121 days and whereas sergeant johnson and his wife took custody of their four-year-old granddaughter after the child's mother passed away being unable to obtain a new kidney would result in dialysis three times per week for four and one half hours per day for the rest of sergeant johnson's life while trying to care for his family and whereas sergeant oller and his colleagues were tested to determine if any of them were a potential match you could donate a kidney to their fellow officer it was determined that sergeant oller was a proper match and began working with the baptist health kidney transplant program in lorot for further testing evaluations and interviews
and whereas on june 15 2010 sergeant oller successfully donated one of his kidneys to his friend and colleague sergeant johnson and whereas it was discovered that sergeant aller had more blood vessels running through his kidney than was expected creating the necessity to cut sergeant aller from his stomach to near his spine rather than use a significantly less intrusive laser surgery to remove his kidney one of sergeant aller's lungs collapsed during the surgery causing his heart rate and blood pressure to drop to a dangerous level and he was only taking six breaths per minute sergeant aller soon developed bronchitis but still managed to return home within in a week of the surgery, and whereas Sgt. Aller is heroic each day in his service to
protect his community as a police officer, but is also proven to be heroic by risking his own life to save the life of a friend. Now, therefore, it be resolved by the Arkansas House of Representatives of the 80th Journal Assembly of the State of Arkansas that Sgt. Daniel Aller is recognized for his selfless act of donating a kidney to save the life of Sgt. David Johnson. Be it further resolved upon adoption of this resolution,
the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives shall forward an official copy to
Representative David "Bubba" Powers
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Sgt. Daniel Aller. And members, let me finally say, if anyone ever asks you to define friendship,
I think Sergeant Daniels Ahlers should pop right into your mind. And would you join Representative Tyler and myself as we present my friend and hero, Sergeant Daniel Ahler. Thank you, Sergeant Aller.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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20:03
The question before the House, the members pass it to the House Resolution 1028. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those no, I have it. Mr. Clerk, let the record reflect. The resolution was passed unanimously. Morning hour has ended. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 2029. House Bill 2029 by Representative Perry to amend
the laws considering access to information held by the Arkansas Crime Information Center. Representative Perry, what purpose? Motion.
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What's your motion? Motion to re-refer House Bill 2029 back to committee. That's a
Chair
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proper motion, debatable. Representative Perry, you're recognized. Come and explain your motion. thank you mr speaker i just uh ask
Representative Mark Perry
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20:54
for your vote to send house bill 2029 back to committee to answer some of your concerns appreciate a good vote thank you members you heard an explanation
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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21:05
of motion anyone wishing to speak against the motion for the motion if not the question for the house is uh re-refer house bill 2029 back to committee all in favor say aye Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Mr. Clerk, send the bill back to committee. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1484. House Bill 1484 of Representative Altus to revise
and simplify the minimum liability insurance law for motor vehicles and the law related to the removal of unattended and abandoned
vehicles. Representative Altus, you are recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Denny Altes
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21:43
Johnny Roebuck and I have worked on this for at least four years, and we've worked with a lot of different lawyers. She asked me to carry the bill since she's got a lot going on. And so after we filed the bill, the DF&A didn't like the bill, and so they totally rewrote the bill. So this is not a DF&A bill, but they rewrote the whole bill, and they are neutral on the
bill. We have input from Springdale, Little Rock, and several other prosecuting attorneys. Springdale said that drunk drivers who had crashes in Springdale, 27% did not have any motor vehicle insurance. And they had 918 persons charged last year for operating a vehicle without having motor vehicle insurance. Under the old code, if a highway patrolman stopped a person and they didn't have any insurance,
then they were supposed to take their license plate off. But they haven't done that for years. And so that's one reason DF&A wanted this all rewritten. Most of this is cleanup language. Under this new code, it's a 17-page build. On page 6, line 13, it says that the motor vehicle may be impounded at the officer's discretion if one or more of the following occur. The first one there is part of code 275302, which is major traffic violations.
Racing on a public highway, reckless driving, driving with lights off to avoid apprehension, hazardous driving, leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, speed, speeding in excess of 15 miles an hour. These are major offenses. So the only way they're going to have their car impounded is at the discretion of the officer, a major and be guilty of one or more of these offenses, a major traffic violation or a revoked driver's license, driving without a driver's license, or a repeat violator. I'll try to answer any
questions. Most of it's cleanup language. Appreciate a good vote.
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Members, you 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 1484. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clark. everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote of 89
yeas, 0 nays, 0 present you have passed the bill Mr. Clark read House Bill 1936 House
Bill 1936 by Representative Steele to require school districts to prohibit the wearing of clothing that exposes underwear, buttocks or
breasts of a female Representative Steele, you are
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recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. Co-members, I have been fortunate to be a part of some pretty major pieces of legislation.
However, those are oftentimes not my favorite. My favorite is when members hear from their constituents back home. They hear them loud and clear, and they come here where it's just between them and the members of the General Assembly. There's no big lobby. There's no state agencies. But it's just members who come down here after listening to the members who sent them here to do what's right.
And this is one of those bills. So I went to meeting after meeting, and I listened to my constituents, and over and over I heard, why don't somebody do something about the way some of our young people are dressing in the schools? And it took me a while, but I figured that that somebody was me. And I worked, and I talked around, and everywhere I talked about this issue, people would applaud.
People would say, yeah, it is time. It is not a fad, and each and every one of you know what I'm talking about. It's not a fad that's going to go away. It's been here for a long time. And in my opinion, it's inappropriate. It's indecent and it's not conducive to a productive learning environment. This legislation is supported by the Arkansas Education Association, the Association of
School Boards, as well as the Department of Education set in on meetings to help us actually write the bill. All the bill does is require school districts to put this language in their dress codes. You may ask, well, why do we need a bill? Right now, school districts have an obligation to actually implement the dress codes. But this bill will put this certain language in the dress codes. Another reason we need the bill is to have some consistency throughout our school districts.
You know, we've talked a lot over the last few years about adequacy and equity. And it is members of shame when one school district, rightfully so, enforces a proper dress code and other school districts don't. As a matter of fact, we had a gentleman in committee, Steve Nvoracek, who is an expert in juvenile issues that says that
young people who dress in school with their underwear showing and their pants halfway down is not something that just started, it is actually a culture as he testified in the education committee that started actually in the prison system when they're handing out clothing to inmates they didn't care about what size you wore you just get whatever was on top of the stack
and when those individuals get out of prison and went back to their respective communities they took that culture with them and now it has been a part of the culture of some of our schools now also bring you this from personal experiences I go to schools all the time I try to never turn down an opportunity to go and speak or just a volunteer at the schools
in every opportunity when I see a young person who is dressing this way I will respectfully ask them to pull up their pants and I have not had one young person who was disrespectful, they just did it. The problem is, what were the teachers doing? What were the coaches doing? Why did it take someone from outside the school to come in and even ask them this?
That's an issue that we, as a General Assembly, we need to deal with and we need to address this issue. The bill also exempts school uniforms, does not deal with cheerleaders, the volleyball team, the basketball team, it exempts people who are participating in school activities. But this bill is a bill that time has come. I wish, members, I was not the one to run this bill.
I wish the bill was not even needed. It is time for somebody to do something about a problem that's real. And I will
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ask them any questions. Representative Collins, what purpose? Good.
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Recognized. Representative Steele, I agree with you that the way some folks dress is not appropriate. But do you fear if school districts aren't doing a good job enforcing or creating dress codes and we're therefore going to legislate from the state,
that there are other areas where we're
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going to want to do the same thing when school
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districts aren't doing things good enough for us? I think that's a good question. And as I mentioned before, that they already are responsible for the code. And if there are issues that are relevant, then any member can actually author legislation and bring that through the same process that we're dealing with here today. There may be other issues. There may be other issues that invoke violence in the schools.
I've heard members, not members, I've heard people who emailed me and they talked about young people with black trench coats. That is not a part of this, but if that's an issue that needs to be discussed, how many more times are we going to face violent issues like what happened in Joan Burr, Arkansas, before we do something about it? This bill does not deal with that, But if there is a cause and a reason, I think that's why we have a legislature, to make sure that not one school district is doing something that other school districts are not, but to have some consistency across the board.
And I'll probably be honest with you, it's probably a problem in some areas more than it is in others. But in this legislature, when you do something, you do it for the whole state. But I would also submit to you that if it's not a problem now in your district, the possibility is very real that it
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could be a problem in your district. Representative Diffenbaugh, what purpose? A question.
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Recognize. Representative Steele, I sure don't disagree with this, Bill.
I just wonder if you got an idea how many schools are already doing this, because I know the districts I was in, you know, they have dress codes in places. I haven't heard of any that don't. I'm not denying what you're saying. I just wonder, I got two questions. One is, do you have any idea about how many schools do this, have a dress code, and how many don't? I mean, did you go that far? Yes,
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that's a good question. And all schools are obligated to enforce a dress code, but it is up to the individual
school districts to decide what that dress code actually is. This just puts language across the board in the dress code, and if you don't have a problem in your district, in your school district, this bill really won't affect you. But I would venture to say again, it will prevent you from having a problem in the future. Probably
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everybody, even if they got a dress code in place, they're going to have some problem with it in this day and age so any ideas on punishment though if these schools
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don't comply with this I purposely did not put any punishment in the bill I just did not want to go to that extent I want to leave that up to the various school districts to address the punishment issue of that leave
that up to the local control issue representative
I don't know what purpose. Question. First of all, Representative Steele, I want to commend you for bringing this legislation to the body today. I think it's well served.
Do you believe that by enforcing a dress code that will in turn provide a greater degree of discipline
and respect among the younger students that we so sadly need in
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today's society? Absolutely. Well, right now, the way some of our kids dress in school is, as I said, inappropriate or best, but a distraction at a minimum. It's a distraction from the educational process.
And I've gotten email after email, most of the emails, I would say over 80 percent have been supportive of what we're trying to do. But it is a distraction. And what happens oftentimes, I know this happened in my district and I've listened to my constituents You've got a school here that does not enforce a dress code, and you've got kids who will come to school and, more specifically, to school activities, a basketball game, football game, and they're dressing in a certain manner.
And then you've got another school here that's actually enforcing a dress code, and those kids are dressing properly. The threat and the possibility of even violence occurs when they see these kids dressing in a certain way. It sends a message, and we had some discussion on that in the Education Committee by Mr. Nvojcik, who works with the Department of
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Youth Services. Representative Penard. would you like to be recognized for a question
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you're recognized thank you Mr. Speaker did I hear you say that school boards now have the power to enforce a dress code or to have a dress code and enforce that dress code that is correct okay if that is true then why is it necessary for us to have a state law telling schools they have to do what they're already doing?
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No, they can do it. The problem is, the reason this is a problem and the reason we're addressing this bill is not all the schools are doing it. There is no consistency. Some schools enforce a dress code, and then it's up to the schools what that dress code is. Some schools have uniforms, and I support that wholeheartedly. Some schools say, well, we're supposed to address a dress code, but we won't be specific at all about it. So you basically can wear what you want to wear. But if we're talking about all this adequacy and equality,
then I think all the schools need to address some certain basic principles, like not showing certain body parts and
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not exposing your underwear. I don't think that's too much to ask. One
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further question, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Steele, I think that although I may agree with you, where does it stop? Where does it stop? Well, for me, it stops here. Is the next point is that you can't have a girl coming to school wearing red nail polish, but beige is okay?
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Absolutely not. Where does it stop? I represent
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a product, she's no better than that. Absolutely not. This is a real problem, and it's a real issue that we need to deal with. This is about exposing body parts and exposing undergarments. Members, you've heard an explanation
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of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? Representative Walker, you're recognized to come and speak against the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's not easy to speak against a bill
that the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus is sponsoring, but I hasten to add that this is not a caucus bill. And it's not easy to defend things that we all somehow or another may not like when we see them manifest in our community. I don't like sagging pants, but I come from an era when young ladies were not allowed
to wear pants to school. I come from an era when children were sent home, girls mostly, because their dresses or skirts were not below their knees. I come from an era when dress codes were being implemented without there being any writings explaining what was proscribed.
And I have seen that evolve with time. We all seek to regulate other folks' conduct and to try, sometimes we do, to try to bring that conduct within our range of acceptability. And that's a floating standard. It cannot be uniform, and it cannot be permanent, and it cannot be objective. This bill is not a good bill because it appeals to your prejudice.
And I say this without shame. Because most people don't like to see, and I don't either, little black boys wearing sagging pants. But this goes beyond that. This goes beyond that. It goes to a situation where we talk about the behavior of students in schools. Every school district has a dress code. Every school district has a dress code. Why is it necessary to enact another dress code?
And why is it necessary for us to mandate that if a child does not comply with somebody else's expectations other than the local school's expectations that those students are going to be placed in alternative schools or expelled. Now the larger problem is that our children are not being taught and the schools beginning with kindergarten and going up are the place where our children are taught social behavior
and they are taught how to get along with each other and the teachers have a corresponding responsibility to show and to at least help these children learn. And we have to learn what the rules are. This is indiscriminate. It is not good. It's bad public policy. I must apologize for speaking against it, but at the same time, it is not necessary. One thing we have to do is just deal with things that are really important. This is not a high priority matter, and while you may vote for it, we have far more important
important business than this. I ask you not to
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approve this bill. Representative Walker has spoken against the bill. What purpose, Representative
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Allen? Question for Mr. Walker, but he's
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left away. Representative Walker is returning to the well. You are recognized for a question.
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I'll be happy to answer Mr. Allen's question. And I'll
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be happy to ask it. Mr. Walker, isn't it true that it's not Are you asking too much for kids to wear the clothes in a presentable manner?
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Well, I think that the school districts do that now. Okay, that's a good
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response. Isn't it true that the school districts are required to teach and have adequate resources for all kids?
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I think that that's what Lakeview says and that's what we expect the school districts to do. But isn't it true that you filed lawsuits to implement those policies? From time to time I do. So what's the difference with this bill? Well, here's the
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problem. I filed lawsuits to have the law followed,
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and that law generally deals with patterns and practices that are important to the learning concept. And this bill puts kids out, it removes them from circumstances before they know what the rules of the game are. There's no discrimination in this between a person in the 1st grade, 2nd grade, 5th grade, 11th grade, or 12th grade. It is just not a necessary bill, Mr. Allitt. Well, I disagree with
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you on this one, Mr. Walker.
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We do, and we disagree on several things with respect to education. Representative
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Allitt, what purpose? Question. Recognize. Representative Walker, you mentioned that this
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bill plays on our prejudice. Yes. Okay. I'm black, and I still don't want to see little black kids with their pants hanging out. And I don't either. Not only that, I have children in school, and I want to make sure that the young ladies... You recognize the question.
Okay. Well, my question is this. do you think that it's necessary for us to make sure that our kids are well-grown and taken
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care of? Well, I think it's necessary for our children to be taught the rules of the game and to be taught along the way what is good behavior and respectable behavior. And we do that not by passing additional laws. There's not been shown a problem that the school districts have with this.
I think this is more a concern with some of us just wanting to regulate almost everything. And I've said that to you on bills and the like. The point is that if we have things that are working that appear to be working in the schools, then let's try to make them work. But I do not feel that it's important. Look at this bill. The children who violate this policy are put in alternative schools. Not every school district has an alternative school, or they may be expelled.
Now, expulsion, putting children on the street for certain kinds of behavior like this is not appropriate. And I think that it would be better for them to be in the schools where they can be taught what the
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rules are. Thank you. Representative Hammer, what purpose? Question for Mr. Walker, please. You're recognized. Mr. Walker, you do or
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do not have experience in dealing with public schools and lawsuits, etc.? I do. And I do not
believe that we need to remove power from local school boards,
but let me ask you as an attorney with experience then, if we were to vote this into law to bring universal application across the state, would it make it easier for school boards to have a common point to relate to in order to bring unity across the state
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and to avert lawsuits on individual school basis? Well, I have never brought a lawsuit to enforce a dress
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code or an opposition to a dress code, and I don't know that there has been a problem with respect to dress codes.
Dress codes are usually enforced, and dress codes are usually abided by, even though sometimes it takes a little time for them from school district to school district to have all students comply. But there's no school board associations supporting this. There are no school districts supporting this. As far as I know, this is just a bill without general support in the general community,
and it's not necessary, and there's no problem here
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that is necessary to be addressed, Mr. Hammer. May I clarify something, Mr. Speaker, with a question? We have a question, yes. Thank
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you. I know that you said, if I understood what you just said right, you said you've never handled a lawsuit regarding a clothing
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issue. No, I've never brought one or defended one. Now, that's not to say that there have not been a few. But if you look at the dress code litigation in federal and state courts, you'll find that it's de minimis.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Viviano, what purpose?
Question. For me, I'm Mr. Steele. You're right. Representative Walker, do you really believe this bill is about dress code? It's what? Do you really believe this bill is truly about dress code? Well, that's what
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it says, and I take it as it is written. Now, I don't want to assign any other motivation to the author of the bill or the committee that passed it.
I take them to have acted in good faith and on reasonable belief that it's something
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that's important. I will also tell you, to your earlier comment, if you come to my hometown, Do you recognize for
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a question, Representative Daviano? Have you ever been
to my hometown, Therese? Of course I have. We have plenty of little white boys down there that wear their pants around their ankles. I'd like to see that stop. Well, I'd like to see it
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stop, too, but we're talking about what happens in school and the necessity for it to be punished in school by sending people to alternative schools or expulsion.
This is not to address the problem in the general community after school by sending people to jail. This does not address that. Representative
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Branskin, what purpose? Motion, move for
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immediate consideration. I'm going to take that motion. I'm going to take that motion. Proper motion, all in favor of immediate consideration of House Bill 1936, say aye. Aye. Opposed, no.
Aye. Ayes have it. The question before the House is passage of House Bill 1936. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 73, yay, 19, yay, and two present. You've passed the bill.
Representative Steele moves for the clincher. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. The ayes had it. Clincher adopted. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1410.
House Bill 1410 by Representative Summers to allow the Department of Arkansas State Police to promulgate rules to implement, administer, and enforce laws related to
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driver's license examinations. Representative Summers, you
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are recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I found out about six weeks ago from the state police that there's people that actually take advantage of electronic, written, and other things
to cheat on their driver's license test. And that was a surprise to me. I don't know how you do it exactly, but the problem, there's no ability. If someone does perpetuate fraud in their driver's license test, they have the ability to return the next day to the same place and take it again. So we had this wonderful bill to prevent that, and then we made the mistake of going to House Judiciary. And they helped us get our wonderful bill realigned.
What the bill does now, it allows the state police to make the rules to address that. I'll try to answer any questions, and I ask for a good vote. Members, our
next representative, Williams, what purpose? Recognize. Mr. Summers, after you got
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out of house this year, do you think you've got a
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better bill now? I definitely think so. Thank you, Ms. Summers. We have some expert advice.
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Members, you heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill? Not the question for the House. Passes to House Bill 1410. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clark. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 92, yay, 0, nay, 0, present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1627.
House Bill 1627 by Representative Blampkin, an act to amend various provisions of the Solid Waste Management and
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Recycling Fund Act. Representative Blampkin, you are recognized
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to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1627 is a bill dealing with solid waste. Actually, the original Solid Waste Management and Recycling Fund Act was passed with good intent to reduce the burden on landfills in the state. However, the letter of the law in its original form didn't go far enough to ensure this,
and a lot of problems have ensued by the broad interpretation of the law or by a narrow interpretation of the law. So the bill was brought to me by the Southeast Arkansas Waste Management Board to sort of broaden the specifics of the law. This limited interpretation of the law before cut down on actually what was putting too much stuff in the landfill. So the purpose of this amendment is to address the original intent of the law and clarify activities that meet the specifics of the law.
Essentially, this bill readdresses the law so that it reads with the original intent and interpretation which all recycling programs of the state operated under until recently. The intent of the law was to improve and safeguard Arkansas' environment by reducing the burden on landfills in the state. This was to be done through recycling activities at the local level. Recycling was seen as a waste diversion activity that reused materials for various beneficial purposes rather than put them in the landfills. So House Bill 1627 deals with interpretation issues by expanding the definition of recycling
to include waste stream reduction activities. Specific language activities and examples of those activities have been included to clarify the intent of the law. For example, wood chipping has been included in this bill to show the intent of waste stream diversion. Instead of storm debris going into the landfill, it can be chipped and given to citizens for mulch and other purposes. The key point is to clarify the intent of waste stream reduction where these materials are put to a beneficial use regardless of whether the end product is sold, given away, or consumed in a useful manner.
This bill also addresses some reporting requirements in order to streamline those reports and reduce the amount of paper associated with them. In no way does this bill impose additional burdens on solid waste districts or recyclers. It allows the districts and recyclers to expand the recycling activities they wish to. These changes should also help the state realize its recycling goals. And this bill was drawn up with the cooperation of ADEQ and the Solid
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Waste District Managements, and I'd appreciate a good vote.
Thank you. You've heard the explanation of the bill. Anybody want to speak against the bill or the bill? If not, the question before the bill is passage of eight House, Bill 1627, pair of the machine. Mr. Clerk. Has everyone voted?
Pass up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 90 yays and 0 nays and 0 presents, you have passed
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your bill. House Bill 2094, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 2094, Representative Shepard, to amend the definition of child
and certain child exploitation statutes. Mr. Shepard, you're recognized to
present your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Matthew Shepherd
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House Bill 2094 is a bill that was brought to me by the prosecuting attorneys. and provides one change to current Arkansas law, and that is in regard to criminal law concerning sexual performance, sexual conduct. Presently, protection is provided for those under 17 years of age. This law would include in that protected class 17-year-olds.
you've heard an explanation of the bill I'd appreciate a good vote anybody want to speak against the bill for the bill if not question for the house house bill 2094 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk Has everyone voted?
Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. Five voters of 90 yeas, zero nays. You have passed
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your bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1796. House
Bill 1796, Barbson Patterson, considering the membership of a regional Solid Waste Management Board.
Senator Patterson, you are recognized to
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present your bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, House Bill 1796. It's concerning the membership of Regional Solid Waste Management Board.
I had a town in one of my areas that dropped below 2,000 people since the census just came out. And if they drop below 2,000, they're not eligible to be on this board. And they have been on this board for several years, so we had a little change in this. where it says any city that holds a position on any regional solid waste management board on or before January 1, 2010, can stay on the board. So I sure would appreciate a good vote on this. Thank you.
You've heard an explanation of the bill? Would I like to speak against the bill? For the bill? Not?
The question before the House is the passage of Bill 1796. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted? Yes, that's about it, Mr. Clerk.
By a vote of 89 yeas, 0 nays, you have passed your
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bill. What purpose, Mr. Baker? Pass over House Bill 1876 and leave it on the calendar. Without objection,
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pass over and leave it on the calendar. Read House Bill 1929. House Bill 1929 by Representative Kerr,
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considering the membership of the Municipal Port Authority
and to declare an emergency.
Representative Kerr, you are recognized to present your bill. Thank you, Mr.
Speaker. Members, this is a very simple bill that the boards of these port authorities has asked me to run. They voted to change
the code where they were allowed and had the option to move their board members from five members to seven.
and that is that is just the option to do that it is not mandatory or mandated and they asked to have this uh they asked to
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have had this option to for their for their uh boards is what purpose question you're
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recognized thank you mr speaker uh represent kerr the makeup of this board who determines who sits on
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the board did you specify that or is that left up to the individual personnel that wishes to be a part of that board?
I'm sorry, I didn't understand your question. Who sits on
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that board? Who sits on the board? Chairman, who sits on that port
authority to... I'm assured, I'm relatively sure that that is chosen by the board, and... You speak to that in the bill? I'm sorry? You mentioned that in the bill. Do I mention that in the bill? I don't recall at this moment. Representative Smith, I'd be glad to sit down with you.
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. All right. Thank you, members. Appreciate a good vote. You heard an explanation of the bill. Anybody want to speak against the bill? Or the bill? Not the question for the House. It's a passage of Bill 1929. Prepare the machine,
Mr. Clerk. you're voting on the bill and the emergency clause
everyone voted cast up the ballot Mr. Clerk with 88 yeas, 0 nays you have passed your bill and the emergency clause
Mr. Clerk House Bill 2024 House Bill 2024 by Representative Stewart concerning the publication requirements of county ordinances represent stewart you're recognized yes thank
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you mr speaker uh this is a bill brought to me by
my county judge and i took it over to the aac and they agreed that it something we could probably ought to look at is to permit counties the permissive option of posting on their ordinance that they passed on the website instead of having to publish it in a newspaper it just gives them the option if they do publish it or publication on the internet website they also have to post it into three public places which have been designated by ordinance there's two times they
have to do this when they're have already passed the ordinance and in my county it's kind of late because the ordinance has passed on monday night monday afternoon is the deadline for putting stuff in your paper it doesn't go into paper then until next week and comes out on thursday so it's about 10 days lag time from the time the ordinance has passed to the taxing published if we have the internet access it'll be the next day it's also easier to disseminate it from other people if you have ordinance of interest to you you can take off the internet and shoot it someone else in the
email if they're getting ready to do a a hearing they have to publish it 14 days consecutive days on the website and in those three public places which have been designated by ordinance and then on the last page you see that every five years and i didn't know this every five years a county is required to compile into a uniform code and publish their entire code and you can imagine how much how hard that would be to put all of it in a newspaper and then use it at least this way
if you put it on the on the internet it's usable you can access it and you can do it we also have free internet access in our libraries our schools it does one thing it does do and brought up by my cad judge it does not require person to buy a paper the the you know the people who are buying these local papers sometimes are the publication subscription rate has dropped and with the advent of the internet this is a preferred method by many to access your
newspapers to access your news. And Mr. Villains, Mr. Fowler came from the Association of Arkansas Counties and estimated it would save the counties up to a million dollars a year if they chose to do this. And it is still optional. Some county, I've heard that some papers do it for free. There won't be any change there at all. It'll be published in there. Some counties can still elect to publish it if they desire to, spend the money and publish it but it gives everybody the right to put it on the internet to come up to our modern times
i'll take any questions president mclean you're recognized uh purpose question you're recognized if you have limited internet
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access in a particular area is there still the qualifier that the county has to publish this in some sort of public form or format whatever they have to put it on and publish it and put
Representative Randy Stewart
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it up in three uh designated public places okay thank you mr speaker you heard an explanation of
the bill okay anybody want to speak
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he's yielded the floor that's any anybody want to speak against the
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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bill and I won't speak for the bill. Not the question, but you'd
Representative Andy Mayberry
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like to speak against the bill. You're recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My concern with this bill is that currently these ordinances have to be published in the newspaper. And while I don't disagree that at some point in time newspaper circulations have gone down,
there are fewer and fewer people who have the printed word in front of them versus getting their news in other forms and other sources such as on the Internet, I don't disagree that this is a bill that at some point in time has its place and has its home. I just don't know that this is the proper time for that, particularly among some of our older generation, and many of whom are very Internet savvy, more so than I am. But many still rely on their newspaper to receive this type of information.
And by not having an either-or option, we may be unfairly targeting some of those older men and women with that lack of information there. And to my knowledge, there is nothing that would preclude these counties from publishing this information on the Internet already to grow that audience and have a broader base in addition to the newspapers as well. And so that's why I'm voting against this bill. Thank you.
He has spoken against the bill. Will anybody speak for the bill? Mr. Hammer. Representative Hamer, you're recognized
Representative Kim Hammer
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to speak for the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I'd just like to speak in favor of this bill because it allows our counties to save money. They probably wanted to save for a long time, and this will give them another avenue that will put money back into the local coffers
instead of just directing it to one source. And so I would like to ask you to speak for this bill in order that we might give our counties more money to do greater things with other than just direct it to one revenue stream. And
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for that, I appreciate a good vote. He has spoken for the bill.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Anybody want to speak against the bill? For the bill. If not, the question before the House is the passage of HB2024
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk Everyone
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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voted Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk I vote of 65 yeas 18 nays You have passed your bill read
Representative Kim Hammer
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house bill 2039 mr clerk house
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bill 2039 by representative overby to modernize certain
procedures for counties is over your recognized
Representative Betty Overbey
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to present your bill Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. This bill, House Bill 2039, is a county's bill, a simple bill that does nothing except as the heading says, to modernize certain procedures for counties. House Bill 2039 is part of an effort by the Association of Arkansas Counties and Division
of Legislative Audit to modernize certain counting procedures. This particular bill was heavier on procedures rather than accounting, which accounts for the reason it was not included in Legislative Audit's package. However, Legislative Audit has no problem with any of the changes being made in this bill. Thank you, and I would appreciate a good vote. You've heard an explanation of the bill.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Anybody want to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question before the bill is House Bill 2039. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. For the vote of 90 yays, zero nays, zero presents, you have asked your bill.
Mr. Clerk Reed, House Bill 2137. House
Bill 2137 by Representative Hyde to amend the requirements for rescission of life and health insurance policies. Governor Hyde, you're
recognized to present your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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And, Doc, I promise I will not be long.
Representative Barry Hyde
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members we're to the end this is almost the last insurance bill this bill is a consumer protection bill which deals with post claims underwriting
post claims underwriting is when an insurance company does not do its due diligence at the time it issues a policy to determine whether the questions answered on on an insurance application have been answered truthfully by the applicant instead it waits for the policyholder to file a claim and then decides whether they lied in order to keep from having to pay the claim. Thus, they have collected months and years of premiums from someone who they ultimately deny their claim. This bill only attempts to clarify the original intent of the existing law.
In 1989, the legislature passed a law which intended to require that in order for a life or health insurance company to deny a claim for a misrepresentation on the application, it would have to show that there was a causal relationship between the loss and the facts misrepresented on the application. While the emergency clause to that bill made it clear that it was the intent to require a causal connection, due to the way the statute was structured, the statute provided the company a loophole which allowed them to continue to deny claims if the company can, in good faith,
argue that they would not have issued the policy had the applicant told the truth. An example of this is you buy a life insurance policy, and you don't write down that you're a smoker. And two years later, you get killed in a car accident or some other accident that has absolutely nothing to do with me and a smoker, but they deny your claim because you didn't admit you were a smoker. That's what this deals with. So I'll cut to the short version, Doc. This is a consumer protection bill which will not prevent an insurance company from denying a claim
on the basis of a false statement on an application that had nothing to do with the claim that
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was made. I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Heard an expert. Mr.
Collins, what purpose? Question. You're recognized for your question. Representative Hyde, in the example that
Representative Charlie Collins
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you used, would your insurance company still be able to collect for the incremental premiums that you should have been paying if
you hadn't lied originally? I'm not sure what you mean by incremental premiums.
In other words, the reason that people would not say I'm a smoker is so they don't have to pay incremental premiums on their insurance policy. Let's say you've been doing that for 30 years, then you
Representative Barry Hyde
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get in a car accident. I'm not sure about that. But they wouldn't be able to deny your claim for something totally unrelated to
what caused your death, as the example. I'll be glad to get you an answer for that. Thank you. you've heard of an
explanation of the bill anybody won't speak against the bill for the
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bill to incur you're recognized to speak for the bill
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members represent if I was correct this is a good public protection bill a lot there are several
insurance companies out there that try to underwrite on the back end after the claim is due to be paid, and they will go in there and try to find any reason they can to, or any little clause that they can to prevent paying that death claim. And in my world, when we do a life policy, you've got two years on the front end as a contestability period.
Anything that happens after that or any kind of underwriting after that, you know, the insurance companies got that period of time to do any kind of
contestability on it. To answer Representative's question, yes, they can go back, and it is something like if you,
if they can prove in your medical records that you were a smoker, they can go back and collect that additional premium during that time period and subtract it from your death benefit, but they cannot, with this bill, they cannot deny your claim on the back end
because of something that was completely non-related to the claim itself. Thank you. We both appreciate a good vote.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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He has spoken for the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill? For the bill? Not? The question bill for the House is passage of HB 2137. Fire the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted. Passed up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 92 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents, you have passed your bill. House
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Bill 2030. House Bill 2030 by Representative Perry to establish consistency in the laws concerning surveyors. Representative Perry, you are
recognized to present your bill. Thank
Representative Mark Perry
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you, Mr. Speaker. In the essence of time, Doc, this one's quicker than Representative Hyde.
House Bill 2030 is the sister bill of an earlier bill regarding engineers. This one actually deals with surveyors. What it will do is make the laws consistent with both engineers and surveyors. I appreciate a good vote. You've heard of an explanation of the bill? Anybody want
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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to speak against the bill? Bar the bill. If not, the question before
the House is the passage of Bill HB 2030.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Fire the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everybody voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 91 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents, you
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have passed your bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1795. House Bill 1795
by Representative Patterson to regulate exemptions of real estate licensing law.
Representative John T. Vines
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Representative Patterson, you present your bill. Thank you,
Representative Mike Patterson
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Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, excuse me. House Bill 1795 to regulate exemptions of the real estate licensing law. Ladies and gentlemen, basically what this does, this tells who has to have a real estate license and who does not have to have a real estate license. Appreciate a good vote. Mr.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Sanders, what purpose? He's yielded the floor. Anybody want to speak against the bill?
For the bill. If not, the question before the House is the passage of HB 1795. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. everyone voted cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk by a vote of 84 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present you have passed your bill in the back of the chamber we have
former representative Mr. Mike Highthorn I'm glad to have you
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Bill 1986. House Bill 1986 for Representative Viviano
to provide funds to first-time homebuyers. Representative Viviano, you're recognized to present
your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Members, generally the largest asset anybody will ever own is their home. It's truly
the American dream to own a home for your family. However, in today's economic times, that dream is becoming less and less of a reality. What this bill will do, it will provide stimulus funds for down payments. It will very often make the difference between somebody buying a home or not buying a home.
And, of course, it has a great economic impact. What I'd like to do is make sure that we have an opportunity for people to buy a home in the state of Arkansas on an equitable basis. The way I've designed this bill, there will be up to 2,800 credits allowed that's divided across the four congressional districts. The accredited amount will be in $2,500 increment. So working with DNF&A, they will be able to apply for that credit and receive it prior to the closing of the transaction.
Now, I know there's other agencies in the state that offer assistance, and this is additive to that assistance with different requirements, and I hope that they will end up supporting this. It has an income threshold of somebody less than $75,000, So it's really targeted towards the lower-medium type of homebuyer. With that, I'll take questions. Mr. Dolls, what purpose?
Representative Denny Altes
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Question. You recognize? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Viviano, it says something in there about $7 million. Where
is this money going to come from? Right now, it's not funded. This is the enabling legislation. in case that funding becomes available.
Much like the speaker's bill coming up in a couple rounds here, it's not funded at this point.
Representative Denny Altes
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So it's projected to cost $7 million, but you don't know where that money's going to come from?
Well, hopefully we're going to look at GIF funds
recognized. I'm sorry. Mr. Burnock. Burnock. You're recognized. You're recognized. Question. You're recognized. Okay, this
Representative Fred Allen
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bill came from our committee. We had a chance to talk, Representative Viviano, and I want to just reiterate some things. ADFA, the agency
that you referred to has this program that does everything that you've enumerated already. They are totally against your bill, and you're going to talk to them. My first question is, did you talk to them and get concurrence from them? Yes, I have, in fact, and we're meeting
next week, but let me explain one difference. One, the income criteria is perhaps different, some of the requirements are different. Plus,
this bill has got a time limit on it. It's targeted towards the next 12 months.
So it's really looking at economic stimulus here in a pretty short period of time to help us
Representative Fred Allen
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in the state. Okay, and again, that's a good thing, but my question or my concern is the duplicity of your bill and that we have that. It's currently happening every day in my area and in my profession. I've had the opportunity personally to build probably 50 of those same houses. you're talking about so it's already here and then you know the gif money you're saying you
want to take possibly use the gif money for this and you know it's a good
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program it's a great stimulus to the to the state but why will we need to
do it and it's already here well you can tell across the state there's plenty of people that are struggling to buy homes and
they don't qualify for the programs that you mentioned and uh so this program will be another alternative to stimulate the home buying industry in
the state of arkansas which impacts plumbers electricians carpenters retail outlets it's really an economic stimulus program right
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and i really want to stop questioning
but when you say things that i know there is no qualification for this
Representative Fred Allen
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for this program the afra program there is no qualification there's no income qualification there's no credit qualification so there's nothing that's preventing anyone that want to to be a part of the afra program that the state currently has in place to do this so when you say that there's something that's preventing them what qualification do you know of that's preventing anyone from being a part of this program no i can't i can't give you
all the qualifications i know some of those programs
are not all available to all citizens of the
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state last thing i'm sorry that's i i really just want us to be dealing
Representative Fred Allen
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on on factual representative viviana you're saying it's not available after that's available to the poorest people in the state which is what i represent and so and there's no income requirement there's no problem with this so it's a good bill
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i mean it's a good idea but i just said we already have it and as
i said represent murray i'm supportive of that and i
hope act that continues that program into
the future this provides additional stimulus in a a period of time, beginning July 1st of this year, for 12 months, to try to jump start our housing
industry, which is at an all-time low in the state of Arkansas
Representative John W. Walker
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today. Mr. McClendon Walker, purpose? Question. You recognize? Let me understand this, Mr. Viviani. Are you actually proposing stimulus funds that will, in effect, come from the state
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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treasury one way or another? Well, I'm proposing that if we have funds available,
if the funds are available in our GIF program and we so choose, like we're looking at other statewide projects, that I'm
putting this on the table to be
Representative John W. Walker
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considered as one of those projects. All right. Now, this is not being submitted. It's just something to hold out to the public the promise of a benefit, fully knowing that there will be no funds available to implement it, is
it? No, this is just enabling legislation, so we'll have that done if, in fact, those funds become available.
And, again, there's a limitation on the number and the number of people that can qualify for it. Thank you,
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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and I appreciate a good vote. Senator Hutchinson, what purpose? You're
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recognized. Thank you for this bill. Well, I'm
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concerned, however, it sounds like what they were saying in Washington, D.C. about Freddie Mac and Fannie
Representative Donna Hutchinson
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Mae, that the banks would make the money, really,
and we were just going to give out money to people who maybe weren't at the best position to actually get a mortgage. It just sounds a lot like those two organizations. I don't believe that to
be true. I think this gives somebody $2,500 to use as a down payment, and very often because they've tightened up the credit in the banking industry and make it tougher to qualify, this will help those that are just right at the edge that almost can qualify, but they just need a little bit of money in order to make it happen.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Representative McLean, what purpose? Question, Mr. Speaker. You're recognized?
Representative James McLean
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Representative McLean, just for my clarification, now this is going to be totally dependent on GIF funds. That's correct. Okay, so there won't be any sort of federal money or anything like that. I kind of was on track with Representative Walker when you were saying stimulus. I was thinking, is this some sort of federal stimulus program? You're talking about economic stimulus as a result of
this program. Talking about economic stimulus for the state people
Representative James McLean
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here in the state of Arkansas. But ultimately, this will be, if the money is funded, a GIF program.
That's correct. Thank you, sir. Thank you,
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Mr. Speaker. Representative Hammer, purpose. Question, please. You're recognized.
Representative Kim Hammer
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Representative Viviano, I may have missed it, but would you tell me who's going to administrate the funds and
oversee the management of the funds if it does become funded, please? Would you educate us
on that? Thank you. That's DF&A. We'll take the applications and administer the funds. Okay. Thank you. Representative Rogers, what purpose? Question. You're recognized.
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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Representative Viviano, what is your line of profession? I'm a real estate investor. Are
you a general contractor? No, I'm not a general contractor. Are
you a contractor? No, I'm not a contractor. Thank you. Thank you. You heard an explanation of he has left the well. You heard an explanation of the bill? Anybody want to speak against the bill? For the bill?
Representative Harris, you want to speak against the bill? Well, you recognize,
Representative Justin T. Harris
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speak against it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Since I didn't get my question answered and I did stand up just a little bit late, I want to make it clear, it sounds like, you know, we've got economic stimulus and we've talked about, but I think in a conservative house that, Well, I'm conservative, and I think you all know that.
Maybe not all of us are. Two jokes in two days. That's just wonderful. Stay on the deal, Mr. Harris. Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. But to me, this, you know, we talked about it being economic stimulus. Stimulus is stimulus. The federal government, we've gone down this road before, and this just continues to go down that road, so that's why I am against this bill.
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You've spoken against the bill. Anybody want to speak for the bill? Mr. Collins, purpose?
Representative Charlie Collins
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I want to speak for the bill. I just wanted to say that when it comes to statewide projects, We're hard-pressed to find statewide projects that benefit all four corners of the state. And with the bankruptcy problems we've had in northwest Arkansas,
if we're going to do statewide projects, I'd sure like to have one that includes my part of the state.
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Thank you very much. You've spoken for the bill. How
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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do you want to speak against the bill? For the bill. If not, the
question for the House is passage of H.B. 1986. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Has everyone voted? Passed up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. vote of
22 yeas 56 nays and 3 presents your bill that's failed you have a clincher you ask for a clincher all those in favor of a clincher say aye all opposed no no's have it
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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House Bill 1766. House Bill 1766, Garbs M.
Gilliam and All, to create a loan repayment program for out-of-state veterinary medical education at the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine and to provide loan forgiveness for veterinarians in some circumstances. Representative Gilliam, you're recognized to
present your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Jeremy Gillam
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Colleagues, I know the day is getting long, so I'm going to make this hopefully as succinct and brief as possible, but also make sure that I cover the merits of the bill. What I have before you is a piece of legislation that's going to create an opportunity for Arkansas students to attend Mississippi State University and their veterinary education program. they would be able to come home, back to Arkansas, and would address a shortage that we have in large animal vet care.
This program, this repayment program that we're going to initiate if this is passed, would create an opportunity for these students to come back to Arkansas, and they would be able to practice in large animal vet care, and if they do so for 30% of their time, would be eligible for this repayment program that would be able to pay off their loan. And I want to thank my co-sponsors, my colleagues that have helped me with this bill to help shape it into what it is now.
I want to also thank the Agriculture Committee for their reception yesterday and their support. And with that, I'm going to yield for questions. Ms.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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English, what purpose? Question. You're recognized. Do we not already
Representative Jane English
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have some programs like this with Louisiana and Kansas or veterinarian programs? Yes, ma'am. We do
Representative Jeremy Gillam
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have some arrangements with LSU and some other schools. We do not have one with Mississippi State.
And the way that Mississippi State's program is set up right now, they have a general pool of 35 at-large. They have various contracts with other states. What this would do would take five of the slots from the general at-large, move those into a guaranteed spot for Arkansas students so that the Arkansas students would be able to compete against other Arkansas students as opposed to students from
Representative Jane English
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around the country. That's kind of like our dental contract or thing we have in Tennessee for the dental programs. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.
Chair
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Thank you. For an explanation of the bill, anybody want to
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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speak against the bill? For the bill, not the question for the House is passage of H.V. 1766. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk.
By a vote of 91 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents, you have passed your bill. House Bill 1903, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1903,
by Representative Moore, an act to promote the efficient use of water for the benefit of the people and wildlife
of Arkansas. Representative Everger, you're recognized to present his bill.
Representative John Charles Edwards
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And Representative Harris, I want you to know there's nothing in this bill that requires any kind of symbology of anything.
I thought about your question last night, and I didn't sleep very well. I'm going to try to get through this. Oftentimes in this house, I like to give examples and frame things in a way that helps me understand them better. And when I do that, I think of my dear friend, Representative Doc Gaskell, who's already warned me today to get to the point as quickly as possible, and I'm going to.
But I think about Doc Gaskell being our oldest house member, and I think about my friend, Representative Burris, being the youngest House member here and the changes that have occurred over their lifetime. When Doc was coming up, there wasn't a such thing as a jet airplane. We barely had the Wright brothers going. By the time that John Burris came around, you know, not only did we have jets, but we had rockets and we had space programs going full blast.
We've had, you know, CDs in Doc's Day meant something you got from a bank. CDs nowadays mean something you put in a player for music. So there have been a lot of things that have changed in their lifetimes, but there's one thing that has not changed, and it's the need for water. It's the one thing in this room that unites us all. And this bill is a part of the speaker's package dealing with water, and it's dealing with a specific segment of water, and we're principally talking about surface water.
It's a policy statement that hasn't been updated since 1957. It's a policy statement that acknowledges the great value of water to the industry of our state, to agriculture of our state, to tourism in our state, to recreation. All of these things must be acknowledged. It also acknowledges in the statute and being consistent with our state constitution private property rights that must be considered in the development of water policy.
It's been brought up maybe before in this chamber, I brought it up in committee, that Article 2, Section 22 of our state constitution says the right of private property is higher and above all other constitutional sanctions. And like I tell people and people who know me, if you ever want to get me into a struggle about anything, raise a constitutional issue, and I'll amend the bill, and I'll go back and forth, and I'll do a lot of things. But I think it's important because sometimes we don't get into that constitution enough,
and it helps to have something in the statute. But what this bill does, essentially, it puts in our policy that we're going to do our best to preserve surface water in this state for the benefit of the people of the state of Arkansas. all. This bill has been carefully vetted. We've shown it. It's probably one of the first water policy statements that has been spread over the Internet for comments, and I'd appreciate a good vote. You heard
Chair
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an explanation of the bill? Anybody want to speak against the bill? For the bill.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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If not, the question before the House is the passage of HV1903. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted? Is everyone
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voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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By a vote of 94 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present, you have passed your bill. House Bill 1807, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1807
by Representative Hyde to amend Arkansas law concerning the number of voting booths
Representative Barry Hyde
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at a pulling site the president had you recognize thank you mr. speaker members 1807 pertains to the number of voting booths not the voting machines like the touchscreen it's the number of voting booths that are required by law and that law that sets that amount is quite old it's it's about 20 years old and it was set before we started doing early voting so consequently with what started
happening I guess as much as eight years ago we began the real early voting is the Secretary of State's office stopped enforcing it cons and and there's actually was a recent lawsuit in the last couple years about the number of those booths and a county was was attempted to be forced to buy all those booths in Plaski County for example if we bought all those booths that are required we'd have to build a building to put them into forty percent of our voting is early voting now this only affects counties who use or still use paper ballots there is actually a total of 20 I think it's 22 counties that
this will affect 17 of those 22 return the request of whether or not they supported this bill they all supported this bill and this this will give the authority of the voting Commission or the Election Commission to set the number of booths they need to be able to meet the demand that they expect I would appreciate a good vote.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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You've heard of an explanation of the bill? Anybody want to speak against the bill? For the bill? If not, the question before the House, passage of HB 1807.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everyone voted? cast up the ballots Mr. Clerk I vote 92 yeas 0 nays 0 presents you have
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passed your bill read House Bill 1849 House Bill 1849
by Representative Williams to allow the sale of distilled spirits produced at Arkansas based distilleries
Representative Williams you are recognized to present your bill
Representative Darrin Williams
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, House Bill 1849 is a bill on behalf
of the Alcohol Breverage Control Board. Several years ago, this legislature passed for economic purposes a law which allows Arkansas's wineries and breweries to allow for tours and allow for you to purchase that winery or that brewery's product while you're on that tour for off-site consumption.
We have now at least two Spiritist Liquor distilleries in Arkansas, and I think a third one about to come in Springdale. This bill would allow those Spiritist Liquor distilleries to have the same ability to offer those tours and sell their product for off-site consumption as the wineries and breweries have now. We'd appreciate a good vote, and I'd be happy to take any questions. You ever heard an explanation of the bill? Anybody want to
speak against the bill, for the bill?
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If not, the question for the House is the passage of 1849. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everybody voted. Pass up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. Five votes of 68 yeas, five nays, and two presents. you have passed your bill read house bill 1950 mr. clerk house bill 1950
represent of Edwards to amend the statutes regarding the taxation of tobacco products to provide for the disclosure of information relating to tobacco product sales and taxation to create a
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tobacco products reporting act recognize the presidential bill mr.
Representative John Charles Edwards
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Edwards thank you mr. speaker this is a This is a bill that was worked out in an agreement with the Attorney General's office, tobacco manufacturers and tobacco wholesalers in the state of Arkansas. The purpose of the bill is to improve reporting requirements to Arkansas DF&A and the Attorney
General. Representative Rice had an excellent question in committee yesterday, and I want to briefly just expand upon his question. There's certain information that wholesalers, cigarette wholesalers, already provide to their manufacturers and others regarding their sales and products. What this bill does, it says they will take that same information and provide it to DF&A to make sure that all the reporting is done in the best way possible to keep us in compliance
with our tobacco settlement agreements. The question I didn't do a good job with yesterday with Representative Rice was that there are also specific provisions to prevent unauthorized disclosure of this information. Some of this information could be considered trade secrets, so it can only be shared with DFMA, the Attorney General's Office, and anyone else that the wholesalers authorized. So they have to authorize that. Another part of the bill clarifies the exemption that if cigarettes are sold to military bases
for resale at military bases that they may apply exempt stamps on those packages. So it clarifies that. It also has a provision, and there's a lot of technical corrections in here, but one thing it does, it also allows that if someone is a roll-your-own person at your own home, and as long as your roll-your-own machine doesn't make more than 200 cigarettes in 15 minutes, you're okay. So you can roll all your own as long as you're doing that. And with that, I would appreciate a good vote.
Hold on a minute. Yes, sir. Mr. Collins, what purpose? Question. You're recognized? I'm
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sorry, Representative. I'm a little bit slow at the switch. Does this change taxes at all? No,
sir, not at all. Thank you. Thank you. You've heard an explanation of
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the bill. Does anybody like to speak against the bill? For the bill? The question for the House is the passage of House Bill 1950. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
You all voted? You all voted. Pass up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. For the vote of 85 yeas, 1 nay, and 0 presents, you have passed your bill.
Read House Bill 1956, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1956 by Representative Lee to ensure the long-term funding of certain health care programs by encouraging in-state purchases of certain
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tobacco products. Governor Lee, you recognize and present your bill.
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Members, House Bill 1956 is a small business bill that will help the state capture revenue that has been leaving the state of Arkansas to online sales of cigars. House Bill 1956, A Goodyear, is a bill to help a small group of local businesses by encouraging their customers to buy locally instead of buying online.
Several other states have enacted a 50-cent cap, as this does to battle online sales, Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Iowa. And currently, there are several states that are considering a similar cap, California, Michigan, Minnesota, and Georgia. This bill keeps in place the 2% wholesale tax that funds UAMS Fund, Breast Care, the Breast Cancer Research Fund, and Meals on Wheels. currently 50 to 75 percent of cigar sales occur online by encouraging in-state purchases we will
in fact be increasing these funds i would appreciate a good vote and one last thing it came out of the ever efficient rules committee and it is my first time i felt like representative nichols it was my first time to
get a bill out of there What purpose,
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Representative Engel? You're recognized. Representative Lee, of course, your co-sponsor,
was not your co-sponsor a connoisseur that helped that bill get through? I can neither confirm nor
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deny that today. Representative Hammers, what purpose? a question please
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you're recognized would you just clarify for me
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so this is not increasing taxes is that correct in the purchases of cigars is that correct correct sir all right thank you heard an explanation of the bill good vote sorry anybody want to speak against the bill
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or the bill if not question before the house of passage of bill eight hb 1956 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk.
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Y'all voted? Everybody voted? Passed up the machine Mr. Clerk.
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A vote of 85 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents. You have passed your bill. Read HB2005 Mr. Clerk.
HB2005 by Representative Meeks, an act that required notice to property owners who registered of voters who live within three miles of a proposed new motor vehicle racing facility. Representative
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Nix, you're recognized to present your bill. Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker. The background of this bill, and if you're into racing, I've got a bill here for you. What this bill does, or what brought about this bill, is there's a gentleman in my district who's trying to build a racing facility. Current law says that what he has to do is within three miles of the proposed facility,
he has to collect three-quarters of the registered voters' signatures. He has done that twice. Both times he's taken it to the clerk's office. She's verified the signatures. However, the county attorney will not let her say that he got three-quarters because he's concerned that if the county ever got sued for this, that the county could not verify they'd met the three-quarters requirement. His answer to the problem was that we need to change the law, thus I appear before you today. What this bill does is this bill requires the vendor to still go within that three-mile radius, give notice to all the residents in that area that there is a proposed racing facility and to let them know about a hearing that will be conducted by the AEDQ concerning the implementation of this track.
The AEDQ already has that hearing, so there's no new additional burden on them. This just allows for the vendors to maybe bypass a little bit of the problems they're running into to see about getting these tracts done. And with that, I will yield to any questions. You heard an explanation of the bill?
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You want to speak against the bill? Par the bill? With that, members, in
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honor of St. Patrick's Day, I would appreciate a green vote.
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The question, you heard an explanation of the bill. The question before the House is passage of HB2005. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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Everybody voted? Everybody voted. Cast up the
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ballot, Mr. Clerk. With a vote of 77 yeas, 4 nays, 2 presidents, you have passed your bill.
Read House Bill 2097, Mr. Clerk. House
Bill 2097 by Representative Williams to allow the issuance of public liquor by the drink permits without referendum
election. Representative Williams, you're recognized to present
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your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this is another alcohol beverage control board bill.
I've asked Representative Wilkins to pray for me after getting through with these two
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bills. Stay on the subject, Mr. Reverend Williamson.
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House Bill 2097, first of all, has no effect on dry counties. Let me make that clear. has no effect on dry counties. When a county votes to go wet, they can sell beer and wine and in the restaurants they can't sell liquor by the drink. The restaurants can sell only
beer and wine. It takes a subsequent or a second election to allow a restaurant or hotel to sell beer or wine. I'm sorry, to sell hard liquor. This bill would allow the ABC board to determine after a county has gone wet through its permitting process to allow a hotel or a restaurant to serve liquor by the drink. ABC believes this gives them more control over the permit process because now what happens is if you are a wet county and your restaurants,
they will get a private club license. And a private club license actually gives that a club owner, much more authority than a license to sell liquor by the drink by a restaurant. For example, a private club can be open from 7 a.m. until 2 a.m. If you have a liquor permit on Sundays, you can only be open until about midnight. Additionally, ABC thinks this gives it more enforcement authority because a private club can change its nature.
It can say, I'm a club. We generally are going to sell liquor by the drink. We're going to be a restaurant. we're going to serve food. According to Michael Langley, the director of ABC, that private club can decide to change from a restaurant to, in his terms, honky-tonk, and then still keep their license to serve liquor by the drink. A restaurant, on the other hand, cannot do that. If their primary purpose is selling food, they cannot change their primary purpose without losing their liquor license or having to reapply for the license. So this basically It's simply, according to ABC, it's an economic development bill, because also in a private
club, you have to be over 21 years of old to work. In a restaurant like Alba B's or Cheerlews, you can be between 19 and 21, so it provides job opportunities for those between 19 and 21. And so ABC would appreciate a good vote, and I'll be happy to try to
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answer any questions. We've heard of an explanation
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of the bill. Mr. Meeks, what purpose? Question, please. You're recognized. Representative Williams, a question
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I have is I do live in a dry county.
However, there's a loophole in the law that allows for private clubs in these dry counties to serve alcoholic beverages. How would your bill, if at all, affect those private clubs
that are in place in dry counties? It would
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have absolutely no effect on any dry county. You've heard
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it. Representative Hamer, what purpose? Question, please. You're
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recognized. Would you just re-clarify something? And let me give you a scenario.
Dry County, it's a restaurant that has gotten a, and I cannot remember the phrase, it's like a backslash restaurant, backslash something that allows them to operate as a private club also. Did I misunderstand you? Can they or can they not now sell mixed drinks? That
private club can sell mixed drink.
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If you're in a dry county, you can get a private club license to sell liquor by the drink. This only applies to wet counties. Once a county has voted by referendum to go wet, then they have to take a subsequent vote for the restaurants and hotels in that county that's already decided to go wet to be able to sell liquor by the drink.
Those restaurants and hotels can sell beer and wine, but not spiritish liquors. So with this bill, there would be no need for the county to pay for or have a subsequent election to allow liquor by the drink. When a county goes wet, most people believe that means all types, forms of alcohol. However, currently, once a county goes wet, restaurants and hotels still have to operate as private clubs in order to sell liquor by the drink. This prevents them from having to operate as a private club but allow them to be like a restaurant here in Little Rock.
Go to the ABC board, get a liquor permit, and then sell
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liquor by the drink. Okay, so last question, if I may. So if you're in a dry county, you can have a restaurant that can sell mixed drinks without having to have a separate vote for it. But if you're in a wet county, you can sell liquor, but you can't sell mixed drinks in a restaurant without having a special vote. Is that right? Exactly right. Doesn't make
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much sense, does it? Thank you. Appreciate it, Ms. Williams. Representative Rogers, what purpose?
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Question. You're recognized. You referenced restaurants such as Chili's and Applebee's being able to employ someone between the ages like 19, 21, employment opportunities. Would they be able to serve alcohol at working there, or would they still be required to be 21 to
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actually serve? with a note from their parent. They can serve alcohol between 19 and 21. Thank you,
Mrs. Webb. Thank you. Thank you, members.
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I'd appreciate a good vote. You heard an explanation
of the bill. Anybody want to speak against the bill? For the bill? If
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not, question before the House of Passage, HB 2097. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Is everybody voted?
Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. A vote of 43 yeas, 35 nays, and zero presents. You have failed your bill, Mr. Representative
Williams. Read Senate Bill 701. Mr. Clerk.
Senate Bill 701 by Senator Thompson
to clarify the responsibilities of counties with regard to salary, expenses, and other compensation
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of township officers. Representative Patterson,
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you're recognized. Thank you. Senate Bill 701, to clarify the responsibilities of counties with regard to salary, expenses, and other compensation of township officers. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a lawsuit going on at the time, and the County Judge Association and the Constable Association got together and drew this bill up,
and they changed some shells to maize and I think they've got a good bill up where the rest of the counties won't be in lawsuit I sure would appreciate a good vote
on this thank you you've heard of the explanation of the bill would I like to speak against the bill for the bill if not
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question for the house of passage SB 701 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted? Everyone voted? Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. By vote of 84 yeas, 1 nay, 0 presents, you have passed your bill. Senate Bill 311, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 311 by
Senator Teague, an act to authorize a statewide parcel mapping grant program and to declare an emergency. Governor Patterson, you're recognized to present your bill.
Representative Mike Patterson
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Thank you. Senate Bill 311, an act to authorize a statewide parcel mapping grant program and declare an emergency. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a bill that will make the county assessor's office better throughout the whole state. As far as I know, there's no objections on this bill. the governor's office would like to see this throughout the whole state. It will make it a better place for the state of Arkansas to get this bill passed. Appreciate a good vote. Thank you. We've
heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone want to speak against the bill, for the bill?
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Representative Hutt, he's yielded the well. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Anybody I want to speak against the bill, for the bill. If not, the question before the House is passage of Bill SB 311. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
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Building on the bill in the emergency
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clause. Everybody voted? Pass up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. By a vote of 89 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents, you
have passed your bill. And the emergency calls. Senate Bill
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381, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 381 by Senator Dismay, an act to provide for a per diem reimbursement for assisted living facilities. Representative Williams,
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you are recognized to present your bill.
Representative Darrin Williams
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm running this bill for my good friend Representative Woods, who's running for Senator Dismay, and this is Senate Bill 381. It passed out a Senate Public Health with unanimous vote and 34-0 on the floor. This bill simply allows assisted living facilities to reimburse on a per diem basis for Medicaid personal care workers, as opposed to recording starts and stops. This will cause, this will allow them to cut down on paperwork, and it's revenue neutral.
and Arkansas Medicaid is not opposed to this bill and no one has forced opposition. We'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Secretary Nichols,
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what purpose? He's yielded well. Anybody want to speak against the bill? For the bill? If not, the question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 381 or 311. I thought I thought it was 381.
This is the beat team, but we got 381. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has
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everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Pass up the machine, Mr. Clerk. I vote 90 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents. You have passed your
bill. Senate Bill 720, Mr. Clerk.
Senate Bill 720 by Senator Dismay and Aul to regulate the issuance of a broker's price opinion by
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real estate licensee. Representative Williams, you can present your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. Members, let me first start by apologizing for all the emails that you've received on this subject. This is a very simple bill, and it provides greater authority over their use of BPOs by real estate agents, and it also provides a greater consumer protection for Arkansas citizens.
What is a BPO? A BPO is simply a comparative analysis of the market conditions of real estate. It's done for both purchasers as well as sellers. Let me tell you what a BPO is not. BPOs are not done by appraisers. BPOs are much less expensive than a full-blown appraisal, and they're often used in the context of short sales or foreclosures or by relocation firms. BPOs are legal, and in fact, in 2009, over 10 million
BPOs were performed across this country. So what's the purpose of this bill since we're already doing BPOs? First, this bill clarifies that real estate agents may do this, but it also brings the state law into compliance with the Frank Dodd Act, which is a federal law. This law and Arkansas law, if this passed, mandates that a BPO cannot be used for loan origination. It cannot be used for loan origination of the first mortgage for primary restaurant.
or a primary residential mortgage, I'm sorry, cannot be used to refinance or for seconds. That's what the Frank Dodd Act says. That's what we're putting into state law. This bill will provide greater consumer protection because the Real Estate Commission now will have authority over agents who provide BPOs, and to make clear that we don't confuse a BPO on an appraisal, the Real Estate Commission and the folks pushing this bill have decided
that nowhere on a BPO can the words appraisal value, appraised value, or market value ever be used so as not to confuse anyone if anyone ever was confused. So with that, we'd appreciate a good vote and I'd be happy to try
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to take your questions. Lieutenant Hobbs, Purpose,
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who recognized? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Williams, for being willing to answer questions. When it says licensee, that means the realtor, or who is the licensee?
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Licensee is a real estate agent. Real estate agents have to have a license in the state of
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Arkansas, so they're a licensee. Okay. And then it also says collect a fee for doing that? Absolutely. What kind of a fee are we discussing? I am not a
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real estate agent. I have to talk to someone else. What I do know about the fee for a BPO is that it's much less than the fee for a full-blown appraisal. Thank you. You might see a BPO done when someone's going to list their house for sale to get an idea of what it might cost. Banks may use BPOs to determine whether they want to do a short sale or go into foreclosure.
It's a way for them to get a value of their portfolio without paying the full cost of an appraisal. Thank you. Seeing no
questions, I would appreciate a good vote. Thank you, members.
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Prepare an explanation of the bill. Anybody like to speak against the bill?
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For the bill? If not, the question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 720. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everybody voted?
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Has everybody voted? Passed up the ballot. By a vote of 80
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yays, 3 nays, and 0 presents, you have passed your bill. Senate Bill 120, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 120
by Senator Key to clarify the designation designation of option beneficiaries under the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System to authorize
the board to promulgate rules concerning option beneficiaries and to
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declare an emergency Senator Carnine you're recognized to
present your bill thank you mr. speaker the next three bills are all technical corrections you should find the information in front of you on the pink sheets if you've not had a chance to peruse those you might do so at this time I'm just going to say They're technical corrections. They're all good bills, and I appreciate a good vote. Thank you. You heard an
explanation of the bill. Anybody want to speak against the bill, for the bill?
It's not the question before the House of Passage of Senate Bill 120. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Voting on the bill and the emergency clause. Everyone voted? Cast up the ballot.
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By a vote of 87 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents, you have passed your bill. And the Mercy Clause. Read Senate Bill 127, Mr. Clerk.
Senate Bill 127 by Senator Key to provide the employers in Arkansas, public employees' retirement system must make contributions for both active and retired members who have returned to
work. Senator Carnine, recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, a technical correction bill, and this
does level the playing field with the other areas and other retirement programs. Appreciate a good vote. Thank you. You've heard
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an explanation of the bill. Anybody like to speak against the bill? For the bill?
If not, the question for the House of Passage of Senate Bill 127, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has everybody voted? Has everybody voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. The vote of 90 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present. You have passed your bill. Recognize to present your next bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
If you'll notice, Senate Bill 79 is
a... Hold, hold, hold. Read the bill, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 79 by Senator Key to amend statutes concerning the Arkansas Fire
and Police Pension Review Board. Now you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This, again, takes some unused accounts and transfers to local pension funds for fire and police and allows those to be used for their benefit. Again, it's a technical bill. We appreciate your positive vote.
Thank you. You've heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone want to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not, the question for the House
is to pass the Senate Bill 79. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. We're voting on the bill and
the emergency clause. Is everyone voting? Is everyone voting? Accept the ballot, Mr. Clerk.
By a vote of 89 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents, you have passed your bill. and their mercy clause. Senate Bill 290, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 290
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by Senator Baker and all to clarify Arkansas ethics laws. Representative, we need you. This is it? This is it. I promise you this is
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it. Senate Bill 290 is a bill on behalf of the Ethics Commission. I won't bore you with the details,
but I will answer questions you can have them. I'll give
you the highlights. Section 4 of the bill, for example, makes it clear that a candidate who withdraws from a campaign has to dispose of their campaign funds within 30 days after the month of which they withdraw. The problem was that a candidate withdrew from the campaign and kept their funds, surplus funds until the end of that campaign. That's not allowed under this bill. Section 7 and 8 makes it clear that municipal and county candidates, like state candidates
can, they are able to file their final report after they've had the chance to dispose of their surplus funds. Right now the law is written where they actually have to provide a final report before the date of which they have to dispose of their surplus funds. We're making county and municipal candidates much like state candidates. 14 and 15. 14 defines public employee, public appointee, public official, and public servant, and section 15 says all those folks who are public servants cannot use their positions
to secure any pecuniary or gain or for any personal advantage. With that short explanation, I'll be happy to try to answer any questions if you have them about this bill. Again, this is a technical corrections and cleanup bill for the Ethics Commission.
Seeing no questions, I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you.
Heard an explanation of the bill? Anybody want to speak against the bill,
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for the bill? If not, the question before the House is to pass the Senate Bill 290. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everybody voted? Everybody voted. Accept the machine. By a vote of 84 yeas, 0 nays, 0 pleasants, you have passed your bill. Representative Lindsey,
do we want to amend these bills first? Yes,
sir. Representative Lindsey removes. They'll be placed 1260, back on the second reading, for a purpose of amendment.
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Without objection, read Amendment No. 1, Mr. Clerk. House
Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1260.
Mr. Lindsey, you recognize the explained amendment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This amendment to House Bill 1260 is per our governor's letter that's been received by Joint Budget. The amendment increases the salaries and matching for the Natural Heritage Commission Natural Area Management cash appropriation to allow one half of one position to move
from a federal appropriation to cash. The amendment, the second part of the amendment, includes an increase in the gas royalty expenditure to $2,025,000 from $775,000 to $1,250,000 increase for FY11. There's no general revenue in this amendment. regarding the recommendation of the amendment
anybody want to speak against the amendment for the amendment not the question for
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the house amendment number one to the house bill 1260
all in favor say aye all opposed no the ayes have it representative lindsey moves that we put house bills 1268 on for the second reading but
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for the purpose of amendment objection read the amendment Mr. Clerk. Amendment number one to House Bill 1268 you recognize
Mr. Thank you Mr. Speaker this amendment to the Department of Human Services Administration this amendment deletes 20 positions of voluntary surrender by DHS administration section you heard an explanation of the amendment. Anybody want to speak
against the amendment? For the amendment? The question for the House is
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amendment number 1, 1268. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Amendments adopted. Representative Lindsay
moves. We place House Bill 1268 1358. Go on for the second reading. Without objection, read the amendment, Mr. Clerk.
Amendment number two to House Bill 1358. The amendment to House Bill 1358, Mr. Speaker, is
contingent upon a letter from the Department
of Higher Education. Basically, it adds a $75,000 line item contingency fund to state operations for East Arkansas Community College. The funding comes from a forecasted increase in the Educational Excellence Trust Fund disbursements. It does not add positions, it does not add general revenue funding. It's tied to the funding formula for two-year institutions of higher education. You
heard an explanation of the amendment.
Anybody speak against the amendment? For the amendment? If not, the question for the House, amendment number two. House Bill 1358. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it. Representative Lindsey, moves we
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place House Bill 1361 on the bill on the second reading.
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Without objection, Mr. Clerk, number two. House Amendment number two to House Bill 1361. Amendment
2 to House Bill 1361 is identical to the previous. It adds a $100,000 contingent line item to the state operations for Arkansas Northeast College Appropriation. Once again, a forecast increase in the Educational Excellence Trust Fund. It does not add positions, does not affect general revenue funding. Amendment number 2.
You heard of an explanation of the amendment. All in favor
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of the amendment say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Mr. Lindsay moves. House Bill 1363. Back on the second reading. For the purpose of amendment.
Without objection, read second time. Amendment number two to House Bill 1363. Once again. I'm sorry.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once again, add 75,000 contingency line item from the Educational Excellence Trust Fund to Phillips Community College, the University of Arkansas. Amendment number two does not add positions, does not affect general revenue funding.
You heard an explanation of the amendment? All in favor say aye. All opposed, no. Amendments adopted. Is there any Lindsey moves?
We put House Bill 1376 on second reading for a purpose of amendment. Put our rejection reading, Amendment No. 2. Amendment No. 2 to
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House Bill 1376. You're recognized, Mr.
Lindsey. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Adds a $75,000 contingency line item state operations for the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope. Increased forecast for Educational Excellence Trust Fund does not add positions or general revenue. You heard an explanation?
All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Amendment is adopted. Mr. Lindsey moves. House Bill 1379. Back on the second reading. Without objection, we're ready to amend the amendment number
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two. Amendment number one to House Bill 1379.
You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1379, Amendment 1 is to Southern Arkansas University. It removes 13 positions, all classified grade 103 through C-119. Voluntary surrender to the positions.
Further explanation of the amendments? All in favor of amendments, say aye. Opposed, no. Mr. Lindsey moves. We put 1380 back on second reading. Without objection, read amendment number
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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one. Amendment number one to House Bill 1380.
Recognized, Mr. Lindsey. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. 1380 is an amendment for Arkansas Tech University. The net increase
five new positions and increases cash funded by approximately one and a half million dollars basically what's happening in Arkansas Tech they are taking over the school districts career and technical center at the Russell School District and transferred the Arkansas Tech University to actually do some leverage in that program there's also a removal of one non-classified and and some reclassifications between non-classified positions,
their salary and match increase in this, as well as some operation and maintenance to take care of that career center
transfer. You heard an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. All opposed, no. Amendments adopted. Mr. Lindsey moves. House Bill 1381, back on the second reading, without objection, read to Amendment No. 1. Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1381.
You recognize, Mr. Lindsey. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Amendment to 1381 is for Henderson State University removes 27 positions under voluntary surrender. You heard of
an explanation of the amendment. All in favor say aye. All opposed, no. All ayes have it. The amendment's adopted. Mr. Lindsey moves that we put House Bill 1382 back on second reading.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:20:28
Without objection, read the amendment number one. Amendment number one to House Bill 1382.
Recognize, Mr. Lindsey. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. 1382, Amendment 1 is for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Appropriation. it removes 21 positions voluntarily surrendered you heard
an explanation of the amendment all in favor of the amendment say aye all opposed no amendments adopted mr mr. Lindsey moves to put amendment the house bill 18 1383 back
on the second reading without objection treatment
number one amendment number one to House Bill 1383. Recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Amendment 1 to 1383,
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, removes 32 positions and a net standing, some additions, some subtractions, 32 net deletions, a voluntary surrender. Also, there is some title correction and one salary change in this amendment.
Part of an explanation of the amendment. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Opposed, no. The ayes have it. Now, Mr. Lindsey, what
do we want to do now? Mr. Speaker, with your permission, I'd like to batch House Bills 1103 through House Bill 1327. These are bills that have been introduced to the House from Joint Budget Commission, having gone through the entire process. You're recognized.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:22:08
Mr. Love, what purpose? 13-27 from the
bench. Remove 13-27. Yes, sir. Done. Any others? Okay. Any questions,
Mr. Clerk? Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 11-03. house bill 1192 house bill 1199 house bill 1227 house bill 1228
questions mr lindsey have any comments no mr speaker uh these are self-explanatory They've gone through the vetting process, and I appreciate a good vote. That's before the House.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:23:07
It's the passage of the bills presented by Mr. Lindsey. Prepare the machine, Mr.
Clerk. Voting on the bills in the emergency clause.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:23:25
Everybody voted? Everybody voted. Cast up the ballots, Mr. Clerk. I
vote of 85 yea, 0 nays, 3 presents. You have passed your bills and
the emergency calls. What else, Representative Lindsey? To Representative Love, House Bill 1327, removed from the batch, we'd like to consider. You'd like to hold 1337?
I'd like to 1327. House Bill 1327 is now passed over and left on the active calendar with the acquiescence of Representative Love. Without objection. All right. Mr. Speaker, I would also like to proceed to batch the four remaining items, Senate Bill 561 through Senate Bill 903. They are basically general improvement monies and cash fund.
There's one cash fund, Treasury, funded with fees, and the other three are general improvement.
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Mr. Lindsay, one of them appears not to be an appropriation bill, Senate Bill 903, and it also does not have an emergency clause. So, would you consider batching the other three and us taking that separately in as much as it has those two discrepancies in it?
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Certainly, Mr. Parliamentary, and I'd be most happy
to do that. Is there any question concerning the three bills
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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we're going to batch? Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 561, Senate Bill 631, Senate Bill 644.
You recognize the spring of the bills, Mr.
Lindsey. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 561 is for Natural Resources Commission from the Senate.
General Improvement Money is $500,000. Senate Bill 631 is for North Arkansas Community College, $1 million from the General Improvement the Senate SB 644 is for the Department of Finance Administration for the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame general improvement $700,000 from Senate GIF you heard an explanation of the bills question
before the houses passes of the bills as they're written by the clerk prepare the machine mr. clerk voting on
The bill's in the Mercy Clause. Is
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:26:19
everybody voted? That's up to balance, Mr. Clerk. I vote 79 yeas, one nay, four present. You have passed your bills. Mr. Clerk will read Senate Bill 903. Senate Bill 903 by Senator Malone
an act to increase the stipend for members
of the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy You recognize the bill, Mr. Lindsey Thank you, Mr. Speaker Senate Bill 903 increases the stipend for members of the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy In the first section there is a deletion of the State Board of Pharmacy where there is a stipend is authorized for $85 a day
and that is where the Board of Pharmacy is today. Okay, so we're striking the $85 a day per diem for the Board of Pharmacy folks. And in the second section where the stipend is $110 a day The Board of Pharmacy moves into that stipend, so bottom line, it's an increase in stipend for the Board of Pharmacy's daily stipend when they attend business, et cetera, from 85 to 110.
That's the extent of what happens with this bill. President Bernard,
Representative Tracy Pennartz
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purpose? Question, sir. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Lindsey, is this puts the Board of Pharmacy on par with, like, the State Medical Board, and who else, if I remember? State Board of
Dental Examiners, State Medical Board, the State Board of Optometry,
the Sex Offenders Assessment Committee, the Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the State Board of Nursing. So that just
Representative Tracy Pennartz
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2:28:24
merely equalizes them with these other state boards? That's my understanding. These medical-oriented boards? That's my
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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understanding, Representative Knorr. Thank you. You heard an explanation of the bill? If I want to speak to Mr. Lingu, question? You
Representative Lane Jean
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recognize? Mr. Lansing, just from my knowledge, is there two stipends, an $85 a day, and $110?
$85 a day, that's like the auctioneer's licensing board, and there are about 22 of those in the state now being stricken down by a couple.
Representative Lane Jean
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And the pharmacy was in the $85? Yes, it was in the $85. The other 21, they stay $85? Yes, they do. And just the
pharmacy only gets raised up to $110? That's correct. Thank you, sir. And this is, members
of the House, this is cash funds, treasury. funded uh penalties and fees there are eight members of the board uh total appropriations
a million four for the total operation of the board
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:29:34
of pharmacy i've heard an explanation of the bill but i won't speak against the bill for the bill if not the question for the house is the passage of Senate Bill 903. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Has
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everybody voted? Yes, up to value, Mr. Clerk.
A vote of 81 yeas, 0 nays, 0 presents. You
Representative Buddy Lovell
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2:30:14
purpose? What's your request? A request that we give notice of reconsideration of House Bill
2097. Well, it's too late
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to give a notice of reconsideration, Mr. Lowell. On the 57th day of the session was the last day you could give notice.
You have two options. one of them is to make a motion to reconsider and if you do that and the motion passes the issue comes up immediately you don't get to debate it or you can get on the calendar and put a motion on there to expunge and if it passed the bill then would be debatable so you have a choice to make but I'm sorry you can't give a notice after the 57th day. Okay so what do I
Representative Buddy Lovell
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do to get it on the calendar? Visit with Amber
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Okay, I just asked Amber to put a motion to expunge on the calendar.
Okay, I'll do that. Thank you. Representative Allen,
Representative Fred Allen
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you have a sign for us? Waiting for this one. After the announcements, reading of the bills, transferring bills, placing the calendars on the desk, amending members their own bills, with their own amendments, members withdrawing their own bills, finalizing resolutions, reading communication, and any remaining committee reports. I move that we adjourn
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:31:39
until 10 a.m. tomorrow. Proper motion, non-debatable. All in favor say aye.
Opposed, no. Motion carries. Any announcements? Representative Tetham. Speaker, education will meet 10 minutes
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upon adjournment. Thank you. Reverend Stewart. Announcement, please. You're recognized. Next Tuesday,
Representative Randy Stewart
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2:32:00
we will have the Legislative Sportsman's Caucus shotgun shooting fish fry. So if you want to use your favorite gun, bring it this weekend or when you go home and have it ready next Tuesday. You'll get a flyer on your desk on Monday.
Representative Darrin Williams
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2:32:18
Thank you. Reverend Williams. Announcement. You're recognized. House Judiciary meets 10 minutes after adjournment. We're going to be starting at 4.15. Representative
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:32:31
Allen, purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Insurance and Commerce will meet in the morning at 9 a.m., room 149. Representative Wagner, what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized.
Representative Charolette Wagner
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2:32:43
City, county, and local will meet at 9 in the morning, Big Mac Building, committee room B.
Representative Jerry R. Brown
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2:32:50
Representative Brown, purpose? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Agri in the morning at 9 o'clock in room 138. You
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may be heard then, okay? Yes. Thank you, Representative Brown. Any other announcements? Read
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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the bills, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 22. Representative Burris.
You recognize what purpose? I have no purpose. Read the bills, Mr. Clerk. Senate Bill 22. Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 22. Calendar. Senate Bill 81. Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 81. Education. Senate Bill 103. Without objection, read the bill a second time.
Senate Bill 103. Budget. Joint budget. Senate Bill 185. Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 185. Calendar. Senate Bill 186. Senate Bill 186. Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 186 Calendar Senate Bill 214
Without objection, read the bill a second time Senate Bill 214 Judiciary Senate Bill 255 Read the bill a second time Senate Bill 255 Transportation Senate Bill 294 Without objection, read the bill a second time Senate Bill 294 Transportation Senate Bill 305 Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 305 Insurance and Commerce
Senate Bill 352 Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 352 Education Senate Bill 593 Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 593 Public Health Senate Bill 596 Senate Bill 596 Revenue Tax Senate Bill 648 Senate Bill 648 Senate Bill 648 Senate Bill 648
Senate Bill 648 Senate Bill 707 Senate Bill 707 Senate Bill 707 Senate Bill 707 Senate Bill 715 Senate Bill 715 Senate Bill 715 Senate Bill 715 Transportation Senate Bill 728 Without objection read the bill a second time Senate Bill 728 Revenue and Tax Senate Bill 736
Without objection read the bill a second time Senate Bill 736 Judiciary Senate Bill 764 Without objection read the bill a second time Senate Bill 764 Public Health Senate Bill 768 Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 768 Insurance and Commerce Senate Bill 770 Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 770 Public Health
Senate Bill 855 Without objection, read the bill a second time. Senate Bill 855 District Area Senate Bill 858 Without objection, read the bill
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:36:38
18 children and youth Senate Bill 955 Without objection, read the bill a second time Senate Bill 955 Public health Read the committee reports, Mr. Clerk Mr. Speaker, we are a
committee on judiciary to whom was referred House Bill 1759
House Bill 1785 I think we report we have the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that they do pass Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on judiciary to whom is referred House Bill 1723, House Bill 1869, House Bill 1917, House Bill 2198, Senate Bill 636, and Senate Bill 637. They believe we have the same under consideration. Here it is, return the same with the recommendation that they do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted. Darren Williams, Chair.
Mr. Speaker, we are committing on public health to whom is referred House Bill 1485, House Bill 1486, House Bill 1808, House Bill 1882, House Bill 1935, House Bill 2136, House Bill 2160, House Bill 2168, Senate Bill 368, Senate Bill 598, and Senate Bill 902. Begley's report we've had the same under consideration. Herewith return the same with our recommendation that they do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on public health to whom is referred House Bill 2141 by Representative Hyde.
I believe we report we've had the same under consideration. Herewith return the same with the recommendation that you
pass as amended, respectfully submitted. Linda Tyler, Chair. Rep. Slinger, what purpose? Smith. You're
Representative Mary L. Slinkard
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2:38:22
recognized? State agencies committee will meet tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, room 151. Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.
Representative John Burris
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2:38:33
Representative Burris, you're recognized, well, I mean, what purpose?
Announcement. You're recognized. Thank you. For anybody still in the room, revenue and tax will meet tomorrow upon adjournment. Tomorrow upon adjournment for revenue and tax. Thank you. Thank you.
We'll be right back.
Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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2:39:33
The house is adjourned at 10 o'clock.
Agenda
Call to Order
Invocation
Roll Call
HR1040
HR1028
HB2029
HB1484
HB1936
HB1410
HB1627
HB2094
HB1796
HB1876
HB1929
HB2024
HB2039
HB2137
HB2030
HB1795
HB1986
HB1766
HB1903
HB1807
HB1849
HB1950
HB1956
HB2005
HB2097
SB701
SB311
SB381
SB720
SB120
SB127
SB79
SB290
Budget Calendar
Announcements
Reading of Bills
Adjournment
Documents
No documents posted.
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Representative David "Bubba" Powers
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Representative Fred Allen
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Representative Kim Hammer
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Representative Tim Summers
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Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin
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Representative Matthew Shepherd
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Representative Bobby J. Pierce
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Representative Randy Stewart
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Representative Andy Mayberry
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Representative Betty Overbey
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Representative Barry Hyde
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Representative John T. Vines
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Representative Donna Hutchinson
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Representative Lane Jean
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Representative Buddy Lovell
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Speaker 329
Representative Charolette Wagner
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Representative Jerry R. Brown
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Representative Mary L. Slinkard
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