February 3, 2011
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Bills discussed (37)
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HB1243
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HR1008
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HB1014
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HB1062
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SCR4
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HB1065
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HB1069
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HB1070
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HB1071
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HB1072
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HB1074
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HB1098
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HB1101
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HB1104
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HB1120
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HB1156
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HB1185
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HB1196
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HB1197
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HB1200
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HB1201
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HB1269
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HB1270
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HB1272
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HB1273
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HB1275
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HB1278
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HB1282
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HB1283
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Matched: “…ur Committee on Public Transportation, to whom was referred House Bill 1283 by Representative Smith, beg we to report we've had the sam…”
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HB1284
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HR1010
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Matched: “…r, we are a committee on Public Health to whom was referred House Resolution 1010 by Representative Dale and Senate Bill 134 by Senator Teagu…”
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SB112
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Matched: “…ker, we are Committee on Public Health, to whom is referred Senate Bill 112 by Senator Baletso. I believe the report we've had the same…”
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SB134
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Matched: “…s referred House Resolution 1010 by Representative Dale and Senate Bill 134 by Senator Teague. Begley to report we've had the same unde…”
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SB139
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Matched: “committee on public retirement to whom was referred Senate Bill 139 by Senator Key.”
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SB26
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SB56
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Members, staff, press, guests in the gallery, please join me standing while we are led in prayer today
by Reverend Mark McDonald, First United Methodist Church in Jacksonville, who's here on behalf of Representative Mark Perry. Please remain standing. I'll be led in the Pledge of Allegiance by Representative Billy Gaskell.
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Thank you. Let us pray. We assemble in this room, O God, seeking your truth, not asking that you would remove the debate or the controversy or the discussion, but that you would lead us through it to your truth. Open our eyes that we may see glimpses of truth that you have for us and guide us in this day. Amen.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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First, please indicate your presence by pressing the yellow present button. Prepare the machine, Mr.
Clark. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk. Chair recognizes 97 members present.
Quorum requests for leave. Representative Eddie Cheatham moves that
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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we dispense with the reading of the previous day's journal. No objection, so ordered. Are there reports from select committees, Mr. Clark? Ready to report. Mr. Speaker, we are a
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committee on public retirement to whom was referred Senate Bill 139 by Senator Key.
Beg we to report we have the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that it do pass. Respectfully submitted,
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Representative Carnine, Chair. Other reports from standing committees? Ready to report,
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Mr. Clark. Mr. Speaker, your Committee on Public Transportation, to whom was referred House Bill 1283 by Representative Smith, beg we to report we've had the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that do pass. Respectfully submitted, Jonathan Burnett, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on Judiciary to whom was referred House Bill 1278 by Representative Rogers.
Begley to report we've had the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that it do pass. Respectfully submitted, Darren Williams, Chair. Mr. Speaker, we are a committee on Public Health to whom was referred House Resolution 1010 by Representative Dale and Senate Bill 134 by Senator Teague. Begley to report we've had the same under consideration and herewith return the same with the recommendation that they do pass. Mr. Speaker, we are Committee on Public Health, to whom is referred Senate Bill 112 by Senator Baletso. I believe the report we've had the same. Under consideration, herewith return
the same with the recommendation that do pass as amended. Respectfully submitted, Linda Tyler,
Chair. Members, please join me in welcoming with us today the 8th grade from Star City Middle
School. You've got here a guest of Representative Lampkin. I'll stand up. There you go.
Also joining us is a special guest of Representative
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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Randy Stewart, Mr. Russell McClain of Bonadale, who is a nice young age of 89. He's a retired Army captain who fought in several World War II campaigns with General Patton's Army in Germany. Where's Mr. McClain? There he is. Young-looking 89. Welcome.
Also in the back of the room, we have as our doctor of the day, Dr. Catherine Baltz from
Little Rock. Dr. Baltz, we appreciate you being with us today. Mr. Clark, read House Resolution 1008. House Resolution 1008
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by Representative Woods to honor the life and accomplishments of President Ronald Reagan
and to declare February 6, 2011 Ronald Reagan
Day. Representative Woods, you are recognized. Present your resolution. Thank you,
Representative Jon Woods
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5:34
Mr. Speaker, and thank you, colleagues. First of all, I'd just like to thank the Speaker and also Madam Chair Malone and the Military Aging and Youth Committee yesterday with all the wonderful compliments. I'd like to thank Majority Leader Johnny Roebuck and her wonderful comments, and also
with the support of Minority Leader John Burris. The feedback and response has been wonderful. This is a resolution honoring the life of Ronald Reagan and honoring his 100th birthday, which will be February 6, which I believe is Sunday. If we didn't do this today, then, of course, we would have missed our window of opportunity and been one of the few chambers in the country to have not passed this resolution. So I wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you to the speaker and everybody for allowing this resolution
be done today. I have a story. Everybody has a story of who inspired them to get involved in government and politics. Ronald Reagan, my grandfather, were the two that got me into politics. And they both passed away about the same time. And in around 2004, that's when I decided I wanted to make a difference and get involved in politics. And a year and a half later, I announced for state representative. I've been approached by different members from both sides of the aisle that wanted to make a
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comment today on the floor. And I'd I'd like to yield to my fellow colleagues at this time.
Members, you've heard an explanation of the resolution. Anyone wishing to speak for the resolution? Representative Collins, you are recognized. Come to the well. Speak for the resolution. You're recognized. I graduated from high school
Representative Charlie Collins
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in Detroit in 1981. That was the year that Ronald Reagan became president. Times were tough
in Detroit then, a lot like they're around the country now,
with double-digit unemployment. And my father encouraged me to get out of town and go somewhere else where there'd be some jobs. And I wound up at the Naval Academy and was able to see firsthand the differences that he made. Later, Ronald Reagan came to speak at my class's graduation. I brought the newspaper with me this morning from Annapolis, And I thought I would just read a couple of paragraphs if the members would indulge me. Reagan tells MIDS, military might, key to freedom.
America's commander in chief met 1,032 of his newest Naval officers today. And from the rousing reception they gave him, it was obvious where their loyalties lie. President Reagan, who arrived by helicopter to meet the Naval Academy's brigade of midshipmen, offered some advice to the class of 1985, the class that entered the academy the year he took office. Under sunny skies and a soft breeze at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Reagan used the commencement address to call for a strong defense
at a time when Congress is battling over deeper cuts to defense spending. I say that it is too costly not to be prepared, Reagan told the MIDS. The way to prevent war is to be prepared for it. It is about time that those who placed their faith in wishful thinking and good intentions got the word. It is strength, not weakness, resolve, not vacillation, that will keep the peace. Ronald Reagan is a personal hero of mine. He was a lifelong warrior in the fight for freedom and democracy,
and he defeated the evil of his day. The Communist Soviet Union went through three leaders, Rezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko, before Reagan was able to declare to a fourth, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. His greatest legacy is the road map to peace, freedom, and democracy that he left for all of us, and it's quite simply peace through strength. And that's important for us today
because while the enemies have changed, the enemies of freedom, their evil nature still exists. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Representative Collins
has spoken in favor of the resolution. Anyone wishing to speak against the
resolution or the resolution? Representative Edwards, you are recognized. Come to the well and speak for the resolution.
Representative John Charles Edwards
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You're recognized. When John Burris, before he was born, my dear friend, Representative Burris, President Reagan took office. And there's something about Ronald Reagan that I think is of tremendous value that will endure for the history of this nation. It's this. He was a man who had deep principles and followed his beliefs, and he fought for his beliefs.
But he did not make enemies out of those who disagreed with him. It's well established in our history that he and the Democratic House Speaker at the time, Tip O'Neill, had very different opinions on things. But President Reagan and Tip O'Neill, they did not become enemies. They remained friends. And Mr. Speaker and members of this chamber, I'd submit that this is something we also need today.
Let's have our positions, let's have our beliefs, but we must be friends. And this is what President Reagan's enduring legacy means to me. Thank you.
Representative Edwards, spoken in favor of the resolution. Anyone wishing to speak against? Anyone wishing to speak for? Representative
Barnett, you are recognized to come to the well.
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You are recognized to speak for the resolution. I wasn't planning on coming up
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here, but since this thing got started, I wanted to give you a little bit of history. I knew Ronald Reagan. And some of you all, again, it was mentioned that some of you all weren't born when he first became president. But Ronald Reagan was a hero of mine. And when I was 21 years of age, I had the opportunity to serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City on behalf of Ronald Reagan.
and I'm very proud of that. And then again in 1984 in Dallas, Texas, I was a delegate for him as well and had a chance a few times to go out to the ranch and go out to the Reagan Library. And Ronald Reagan's done a lot of wonderful and good things for this country. He's been gone for some time, but he's still a hero of mine, and I'm just very proud to be a part of his legacy and to have known that man. And I think he made the comment one time, if you recall, that he said that he knew Lincoln.
And I knew Ron Reagan. Representative Barnett spoke in favor of the resolution. Anyone wishing to speak against? Anyone
wishing to speak for the resolution? Not Representative Woods, you are recognized to close for your resolution.
Representative Jon Woods
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I just really appreciate the opportunity to be able to present this to the House.
And normally we would read the resolution if the individual was present. And, of course, Ronald Reagan has passed away. And the Speaker has given me a wonderful opportunity or a choice to have it read, which is a change in rules without the presence of him being here. and I feel that it's, I would respectfully ask if the clerk could read the resolution in its entirety and I appreciate your vote. Thank you.
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Mr. Clark, read the resolution in its entirety. To
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honor the life and accomplishments of President Ronald Reagan and declare February 6, 2011 Ronald
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Reagan Day. Whereas throughout the history of the United States, a few great leaders have stood the test of time and continue to shape future generations of Americans, and whereas President Reagan stands as one of the most influential presidents of our great nation leaving a lasting legacy on American politics, diplomacy, culture, and economics and whereas as a boy President Reagan's father nicknamed him Dutch
due to his little Dutchman-like appearance and his Dutch boy haircut and whereas President Ronald Reagan appeared to more than 50 movie roles served as the spokesperson for General Electric and served as the 33rd governor of the state of California And whereas President Reagan was elected president of the United States in 1980 and overwhelmingly re-elected by winning 49 of the 50 states in 1984, carrying Arkansas in both elections. And whereas President Reagan's defense policies brought about the demise of the Soviet Union, opening the gate of freedom to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
And whereas President Reagan was known for his sense of humor and, above all else, his ability to communicate, earning him the title as the great communicator. And, whereas, when President Reagan finally succumbed to illness on June 5, 2004, at the age of 93, the nation mourned the passing of a great leader. And, whereas, in honor of the centennial anniversary of his birth, the General Assembly should join all 99 state legislative chambers to introduce and adopt resolutions declaring February 6, 2011, Ronald Reagan Day.
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 88th General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that February 6, 2011, is declared Ronald Reagan Day in honor of the
life and achievements of President Ronald Reagan. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Representative Woods is closed for
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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his resolution. Question for the House passage of House Resolution 1008. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Let the record reflect
that the passage of House Resolution 1008 was unanimous.
Mr. Clerk, read Senate Concurrent Resolution 4. Senate Concurrent
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Resolution 4 by Senator Whitaker to adopt the joint rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives
of the 88th General Assembly. Representative Ingram, you're recognized to explain current Resolution 4.
Representative Keith M. Ingram
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is the same rules that we've had for the last couple of sessions. The only change that has been made was to be more specific that sponsors of resolutions
that are in the House have only House sponsors and that resolutions that are from the Senate only have Senate sponsors. So I think those are very wise changes, and I'd appreciate a good vote. Members, you've
heard the explanation of the resolution. Anyone wishing to speak against the resolution or the resolution? Not the
question for the House. There's passage of Senate concurrent resolution four.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast
up the ballot. Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 96 yeas, 0 nay, and 1 present, you
have passed the resolution. Morning hour has ended. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1014.
1014. This is a motion to concur in Senate Amendment. Mr. Edwards, Representative Edwards, you are recognized. This amendment adds
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Senator Key as the Senate co-sponsor. I appreciate a good vote.
Members, you've heard an explanation of the amendment. Anyone wishing to speak against the
amendment, for the amendment? If not, question for the House is concurrence in Senate Amendment No. 1. Prepare
cast up the ballot Mr. Clerk by a vote of 96 yeas 0 nay and 0 present you have concurred in the Senate
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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amendment moving to the regular bill calendar Mr. Clerk read House Bill 1243
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House Bill 1243 by Representative Wood and Harris to provide for an administrative sex offender address late verification fee.
Representative Wood, you are recognized to explain your bill.
Representative Jon Woods
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If anybody has to run a bill through judiciary, I wish you the absolute best of luck. It's one of the toughest committees of the 88th General Assembly. I never thought the highlight of my last session in the House would be just getting a bill out of that committee. But they're a tight group. But I wanted to just throw out a little bit of data, a little bit of background information on this.
Of course, just over the last six months, I've been visiting with ACIC and Department of Corrections with the state police, and we've gone back and we've looked at ways to improve individuals once they've been convicted of a sex crime to encourage them to come in and register on time. I'm just going to throw out just a few numbers, and I'll make this very brief. But right now we have 10,564 registered sex offenders in the state. 5,200 are compliant. There are over 1,200 that are delinquent that have not come in and registered to keep us updated on where they are.
There are 340 that U.S. Marshals and the FBI are actively looking for right now. We don't know where they're at. 1,400 are incarcerated. 1,700 have moved out of state. And 83 have been deported. Now, levels 1, 2, and 3 have to verify every six months, level 4 every three months. This is a way once you're late, we're going to make them realize that there's a penalty for that right now. There's not one. So
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I'd appreciate your help. I need your vote. Thank you very much.
Members, you've heard the explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? For the bill?
Representative Woods, are you closed for your bill? Representative Woods, closed for the bill. Question for the House, passage of House Bill 1243. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk.
I vote a 96 yea, 0 nay, 0 present. You have passed the
bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1062. House Bill 1062 by
Representative Duncan Baird
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Representative Lovell to amend Arkansas law to impose surcharges upon commercial mobile radio service providers to support the telecommunications equipment fund. Representative Lovell, you're recognized. Explain your bill.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's been a lot
Representative Buddy Lovell
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of questions. I don't think Representative Woods has been to the Insurance and Commerce Committee yet. So if you get to Insurance and Commerce, you may find at least the first or the second worst to get out of. But anyway, I did learn some stuff that I needed to clarify today. What this bill
does, currently, the equipment for the deaf and hearing impaired and speech impaired people of Arkansas, the fund is being funded by a three cent surcharge
on wireline telephones. We have the technology in place that wireline and wireless telephones can use the technology. What this bill does, it does not increase any fee. It simply redistributes the fee to both wireline and wireless. I've got an example. I've left my phone back there,
but I've got two lines at home. I've got a residential line, I've got a business line, and I've got two cell phones, mine and my wife's. Currently I'm paying $0.06 for my two phones at home. If this bill is passed, you allow the first, and I've got a promise from the TAP director and also from the PSC director, which determines what the charges will be at a certain point in time.
It can never be more than $0.03 on either. but I've got promises from them to go down to a penny on each. Well, actually, because of the number of cell phones, will produce more money, but it is not going up on the feet. But with my example, I'm paying six cents right now. If this bill goes into effect July 1st, I'll be paying a penny each on my lines at home, a penny each on my cell phones, so I'll be paying four cents instead of six.
Now, there are people that got one line at home and six cell phones, certainly going to pay more money because they're going to pay, instead of three, they're going to pay one at home and six for the cell phones. I did check, and it was kind of interesting. DF&A did more work on this bill than any bill I've ever had, so they send me a new impact every day. But if you look at that, all they're doing is taking the $0.03 times the number of cell phones within the state, multiplying it times $0.03, and getting an annual amount that the cell phones will pay.
They're not adding to that the amount that they're going to get from wireline, even though it's going down from $3 to $1. But when you put that in, it's about $335,000 more. The budget for TAP, as the Equipment Fund is called, for 2011, the budget is $507,000. The question was asked of the TAP director, what's the budget currently?
at $0.03 per wireline is $507,000. What is the expected budget after this bill passes and wireless starts paying? The answer is $507,000. No increase in cost, no increase in taxes, a redistribution of the fee
to wireless. And I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Representative Collins, what purpose? Question. You recognize? Representative Lovell, thank you
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very much for that explanation of the bill. And I understand there's some assurances,
and I'm sure they're all of good faith. But since the legislation itself actually lists the maximum fee of three cents, would you consider changing the law itself to list a new maximum fee of one cent, sir? Thank you. Well,
Representative Buddy Lovell
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I guess the simple answer to that is no, I would not consider that.
I'll give you a reason why. The fee is capped at three cents, and there's also an additional cap in the law that says that when the TAP fund reaches three years of expected expenditures, in this case would would be a million half dollars at five hundred and seven per year once the fund reaches that three-year plateau then it goes down to zero on both wireline and wireless and then they cannot charge another penny until it
gets down to one and a half times the budget so if it gets to a million half it goes to zero they cannot implement the charge again at a penny or three cents until it gets down to $750,000. So there's adequate safeguards
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within the bill already. Representative Kerr, what purpose? Question? Do you recognize? Thank you,
Representative Allen Kerr
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Mr. Chairman. Or Mr. Speaker. Representative Lovell, as we discussed in
in committee, did you ever come up with
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a number of users in Arkansas for the hearing of error? I did not
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ask that question, but I did not get an answer since yesterday.
Representative Allen Kerr
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Okay. You also stated that this is going to be going from, is the fee going to be credited or is no longer going to be put on
Representative Buddy Lovell
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the line phones, just the cell phones? No. It will stay on the wireline phones.
It will be added to the wireless phones, and that's the reason we can go down to a penny on both. So each will be
Representative Allen Kerr
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equal. Okay. And as we discussed, this is kind of a declining need. These people are no longer going to need TDY machines, and most are going to have equipment that's readily available on the open market to everyone. So that it's not special equipment. It's just simply regular cell phones that are going to be used for the hearing impaired
because they all text now, do they
Representative Buddy Lovell
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not? That's true. Okay. Well, let me add that they all have the capabilities of texting. Now,
to qualify for the equipment fund, then they have to be certified by a doctor. that they are deaf or hearing impaired and then this fund will even buy wireless equipment for them. At that point in time, yes, they can text, which will do away with the need of the TDY
and the TDD equipment, but it does, in fact, take place of communication for the deaf community. At the same time, under a different fund, we're paying, and I was on that board for about 13 years, we're paying $1.32 a minute for that call to be handled through the relay service. So every deaf person that gets a wireless phone and text instead of calling the relay
service, then the service saves $1.32. The board that runs the relay service has the opportunity to charge you and the wireline and the wireless up to $0.10 per month. So every minute it goes to text and saved on the service side, it keeps your fees low as they go down. So this equipment fund buys wireless equipment as well as TDD and TDY equipment.
But we're actually paying for the texting service as well as the equipment. Exactly. Okay. I came up here four years ago, prior to the most. I came up here four years ago and took the service and put it not only on, it was already on wireline, and I put it also on wireless. I used an analogy yesterday with one of the colleagues in the house. If he and I were driving in the same vehicle to Little Rock to go to school,
he provided the car and the gas. I got the benefit of going to school, but I didn't have to pay for any of the gas. That's what's happening with wireless. Wireless could use the TDY and use the service for the deaf people, but it's not paying its part by the
Representative Allen Kerr
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31:25
cost. I understand, but this is, like we said, kind of a declining situation because this is not any unusual or special equipment needed anymore for the hearing impaired.
We've kind of come up to their level in that we've enjoyed the texting as well as, you know, and
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they no longer need. Representative Kerr, are you asking a question? Yes,
Representative Allen Kerr
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sir, I am. Okay. Okay. They no longer need that mediator in there for the TDY. Would
Representative Buddy Lovell
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you not agree? Yeah, let me. No, I would not agree. Let me give you a short answer, two short answers to
that. Number one, this is part of rehab services.
The appropriation is approved by this body. It goes, this $507,000 is approved by this body. And right now, as of January 25th, the TAP account had $66,140 in it. The projection at three cents on the wire line is going to produce $386,000 this year on an annual basis. To me that adds up to about $440,000 against a budget of $507,000.
So it tells me that there's still a need for TDD and TDY equipment out there because they're right now falling short of
Chair
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the expense. Representative Bibiano, what purpose? Question. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Lovell, you said the
Representative Mark Biviano
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33:02
program was currently capped at an amount. Who sets that budget, and if it's the Public Service Commission, which I believe it is, do they have the ability to increase the budget at their discretion,
Representative Buddy Lovell
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or do they have to come back to this body? The Public Service Commission has the ability to increase the fee. The one, up to three cents. They can say you can charge a penny, you can charge two, you can charge three. The Public Service Commission has nothing to do with the budget. The budget comes from rehab services, and it's approved by
Representative Mark Biviano
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this body. So if they deem the need for additional equipment or new technology,
they could theoretically raise it from one cent to three
cents? That's possible, yes. Thank you. Representative Patterson, what
Representative Mike Patterson
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purpose do you recognize? Representative Lowell, could you tell us one more time which groups benefit from this? Repeat the question. Could you tell us which people benefit from this service?
Representative Buddy Lovell
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34:12
Well, the deaf, hearing impaired, and speech impaired people of Arkansas.
Thank you. Representative Mayberry, Representative Lowell
has left the well. left the well. Members, you've heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak for the bill, against the bill? Representative Westerman, what purpose to speak against the bill? You're recognized.
Representative Bruce Westerman
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was in the committee and I voted against this bill in committee, so I thought it prudent that I come before you today and explain why I did that for a couple of reasons. Number one is there's currently no shortage of equipment or funds, and as has been stated, the advent of technology like texting has decreased the need for this equipment. Another reason is that in theory the bill simply does just move some of
burden of the funding for the telecommunications equipment fund from landlines to mobile lines excluding prepaid lines and is not an additional tax or fee but in reality the way the bill was written it would allow a three cent fee on mobile lines every month. I understand that there are provisions to cap the revenue at three times the budget amount and to reduce the surcharge until the fund balance falls to one and a half times the budget amount. I also understand that the bill has potential to generate significantly more revenue than the current budget and there is no provision
that would prevent the budget from increasing the fiscal impact shows that this law could generate an additional eight hundred and forty thousand dollars per year and with the advent of valentine's day i've been reading an ancient love story that tells us how to have better relationships with the the one we love and if i may share a line from that it says to catch the foxes the little foxes that run the vineyards while the vineyard is in bloom this bill looks like a tax increase
it acts like a tax increase and i believe it's a little fox that's
going to run relationships between us and our constituents back home so that's why i'm not supporting this
bill Representative Westlund has spoken against the bill. Anyone wishing to speak for the bill? Against the bill? Representative Collins, you are recognized to come and speak against the bill.
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My daughter Jordan was born in 1992 with a significant cystic hygroma. When she was seven days old, she had a nine-hour surgery. During that surgery, they put in a G-tube. They put in a tracheostomy tube in her throat. A year and a half later, the tumor expanded into her mouth. Her tongue extended about three inches outside her mouth, and she needed to have her tongue resected at that time. My daughter, Jordan, is one of those people that has an extraordinarily difficult time using a telephone.
and if you were to talk with her on a telephone you'd have a difficult time talking with her she was absolutely ecstatic when i bought her a phone with texting on it and she told me dad for the first time i feel like i can communicate just like everybody else so i understand the intentions of helping folks that need to be helped my heart aches and bleeds for those folks but we do not need another tax increase while the folks in Arkansas are hurting
as bad as they are. Thank you
very much, Mr. Speaker. Representative Collins, spoken against the bill. I'm wishing to speak
against the bill. Representative Wren, you are recognized. Come to the
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well and speak for the bill. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I would like to address the statement that Mr. Kerr made about technology not changing.
I think each and every one of us in here uses cell phones, and we've seen that we've had to upgrade those to stay up with the times. So I would like to say that even though we're not using landline phones as we were,
the increase in wireless phones will cause the folks that are speech impaired that are deaf or hearing impaired, to upgrade their phones. And this will enable them to, these funds will enable them to purchase those.
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Thank you very much. Representative Wren has spoken for the bill. Anyone wishing
to speak against the bill? For the bill, Representative Lovell, Representative Mayberry, were you standing to, Representative Mayberry, you're recognized to come to the well and speak for
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the bill. With all due respect to my Republican colleagues and my fiscally conservative,
and I am as fiscally conservative as they come, I assure you. But the question here is regarding, I think, a lot of it with the transition from landline to cellular service. My father is 77 years old and is completely deaf. He had perfect hearing until he was about 25 and began to lose it, and by the time he was about 35, was completely deaf. For many, many years, for, oh, I'd say 40 plus,
he had virtually no contact with the outside world without face-to-face interaction. My mom and dad kind of liked to do things the old-fashioned way. They didn't have a VCR. They didn't have an electric drying machine. You know, we had clothesline in the back, and that's still there, and that's how everything goes. My wife and I bought them a microwave oven, and they, a week later, showed up at our doorstep and said, this is really in the way. But my mother was on a feeding tube for about two and a half years.
And one evening, she had a very scary episode. My dad had to call 911. Pardon me. He dialed the phone
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that evening. he dialed the phone that evening
and didn't know if anybody was answering he just repeated his
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name over and over and said I need help somebody answered the paramedics
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showed up and my mother's life was saved that night
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my father for Christmas we bought him this year now he's got a computer he's got a fax machine his first fax was to me and it said this is the first time I've communicated with the outside world without seeing him face to face in many years I feel like,
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my Lord, my God, what hath thou wrought?
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For Christmas, we bought him a cell phone that has texting capabilities. He texts. But you know what? He still uses his landline TDD that we got for him and that we arranged for him through this fund, through this service. And he uses that today because even though he texts, he can't always get a hold of somebody on via text when he needs to make appointments in Little Rock he needs to use his telephone to be able to do that because what he did before when my mother had appointments and they needed to be changed he drove from Sheridan to
Little Rock to go make the appointment or to change the appointment and then drive back to Sheridan technology changes but the TDD service provided by landline is still a vital and useful piece and integral piece of my father's life and I believe many others out there I don't see this as I see it as a readjustment of funds again you know all of the fun all of the fees were imposed on landline phones we see the that usage going down and so the readjustment of it
there I don't see it as a tax increase and I see it
as a needed service thank Representative Mayberry has spoken for the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? For the bill? Representative
Wilkins, you're recognized to come to the well. You are recognized to speak for the bill. Thank
Representative Butch Wilkins
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you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I believe in my heart that we are sent here to help people. If we're not here to do that, then we really need to be somewhere else. But I believe that is a main purpose for us having the privilege of serving in this building.
But I think what Representative Lovell has recommended helps people. And if it costs a little more, it costs a little more. But in the end, we're sent here to help people, and we need to keep that in mind. Thank you very much.
Representative Wilkins, spoken for the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? For the bill, Representative Lovell, you're recognized, come to well, and close for your bill.
Representative Buddy Lovell
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank Representative Newberry for his testimonial. Mayberry, I'm sorry. That's close. I got the berry right. I hate for this to be tagged a tax.
It is not a tax. It's been a fee that has been paid by the people of Arkansas on their landline telephone for probably 25 years for this, to help people who cannot hear and therefore need some assistance to do that. it is only spreading what has been paid in the past, spreading it across the broader base
it will produce more money there's a statute that says it cannot exceed a certain amount of money and if they do put three cents on both sides then we'll get to the three years of
budget quicker and therefore start paying zero. But I have had the
promise, and I believe both of those people
will keep that promise to take it to a penny. But I will submit to you, I gave you numbers of having $86,000 left in the bank, and it's going to cost, they're going to collect $360,000 it's going to cost $507,000 and if we don't do this now somebody in two years from now will be up here trying to get the fee not tax, the
thank you Representative Lovell has closed for his bill question for the house passage of house bill 1062 prepare the machine Mr. Clerk
Members, you're voting on the bill and the emergency
clause. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk.
A vote of 71 yeas, 25 nays. You have passed the bill. And emergency
clause. I'm sorry. Representative Lovell moves to clincher. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. Clincher adopted. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1120.
House Bill 1120 by Representative Ingram
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to change the name of the Department of Human Services Division of Volunteerism to the
Department of Human Services Division of Community Service and Nonprofit Support. Representative representative
ingram you're recognized to present your bill thank you
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mr speaker uh this bill does just what the title says it changes the name of the department of human services division of volunteerism to the department of human services division of community service and non-profit support there's no fiscal impact to this i'd appreciate a good vote members have heard an
explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill you close for your
bill representative ingrams closed question for the house pass your house bill 1120 prepare the
machine mr. clerk everyone voted cast up the ballot mr. clerk by a vote of 94 yay one nay and
zero present you have passed the bill mr. clerk read house bill 1185
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House Bill 1185 by Representative English and Hammer, the Improvement District Transparency Act.
Representative English, you are recognized to the Commonwealth in explaining your
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an Improvement District Transparency Bill. And over the last few years, many, many improvement districts have cropped up all over the state of Arkansas. And these are quasi-government entities, and the districts are entitled to use government bodies, county tax collectors, county clerks, and county treasurers to collect their fees.
What we have now, though, is we don't have any financial accountability. It has never been required that these improvement districts, and there are many different kinds of fire protection and levy districts and fire improvements and suburban and water and sewer, all those, but they've never had to submit annual financial statements. So in many cases, the citizens who are paying fees to these organizations have no idea where the money is going or how it's being spent.
If they're part of a sewer system, they may not know whether or not their sewer system is still viable. Bonds have been issued, and in many cases nobody knows whether or not those bonds have been paid out. What are the rest of the monies going for? This financial statement doesn't have to be a UAMS annual report. It only has to be a couple of pages that will let the public know and the citizens know what's happening with the money for these improvement districts.
One of the things I think was passed out of the House City County yesterday and was unanimous. The Association of Arkansas Counties, the Municipal League, the collectors are all supporting this bill. I think had we had this law in place some time back, we probably wouldn't be talking about fraudulent millions of dollars in road improvement bonds.
that has caused many banks here
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in the state of Arkansas with a lot of problems. Any
questions? Members, you've heard an explanation of the bill. Any questions? Not anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for
the bill. You close for your bill, Representative English. Representative English is closed. Question for the House. Passage of House Bill 1185. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
...voted. Is everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clark, by a vote of 94, yay, 1, nay, 0, present.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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You have passed the bill. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1098. House Bill 1098 by Representative
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Wilkins and All, an act to exempt incinerary ash derived from yard waste or other natural vegetative debris from the monofill or separate waste cell requirement.
Representative Wilkins, you're recognized to present your bill.
Representative Butch Wilkins
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This bill does exactly what the
title says, does nothing else or nothing less. It's ash derived from some incinerators. I'm not sure it affects anyone other than Jonesboro, really, but it allows the use of yard debris, the ash from yard debris, to be used by gardeners, farmers, whoever. Appreciate a good vote.
Members, you've heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? For the bill?
You close for your bill. Representative Wilkins is closed. Question for the House. Passage of House Bill 1098. Prepare the machine, Mr.
Clerk. everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot Mr. Clark by a vote of 94
yea, 0 nay, 0 present you have passed the bill
Mr. Clark read House Bill 1284 House Bill
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1284 by representing Moore and all to amend several provisions of the law concerning members of the General Assembly
Representative Burris for what purpose? Motion. What's your motion?
Representative John Burris
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Place 1284 back on second reading for the purposes of
amendment. That's a proper motion, debatable. Come to well and explain your motion.
Representative John Burris
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You're recognized. Explain your motion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this is just a motion that would put this bill back on second reading in order to amend on co-sponsors. sponsors. This is not the Speaker's request. This isn't a vote on the bill. It's just a vote to put it back on second reading so we can have the
people that wish to be co-sponsors. Be happy to answer any questions. I appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Members, you've heard an explanation of the motion. Anyone wishing to speak against the motion
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for the motion? If not, question for the House passage of motion to place House Bill 1284 back on second
reading for the purpose of the
amendment. All in favor say aye. Opposed, no. Motion Passes, Mr. Clerk, read Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1284.
1284. Representative Burris, you are recognized to come and explain the amendment.
Representative John Burris
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If I was paying attention in our brief conversation before I agreed to do this, I believe
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this is an amendment that simply adds the co-sponsors. I'd appreciate
a good vote. Thank you, Representative Burris. Heard an explanation of the amendment. Anyone wishing to speak against the amendment, for the amendment? I have not a question for the House.
Is adoption amendment number one, House Bill 1284, pair of the machine, Mr. Clerk? Everyone voted.
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Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by
a vote of 94, yea, 0, nay, 0, present. You have adopted the amendment. Send the bill to engrossing. Send the bill to engrossing, Mr.
Clerk. All right, members, if you go to your yellow budget calendar.
How about turning over your red calendar to the back face? It's kind of getting close to
lunch hour here. I was prone to look over those things. All right, Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1282.
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House Bill 1282 by Representative Dale to clarify that a
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liquor permit applies to one location and a person, firm, or corporation shall not use a liquor permit for multiple locations. Representative
Dale, you are recognized to explain your bill.
Representative Robert E. Dale
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1282 is a small business bill. The need for it is to ensure that the laws, the rules, and the regulations governing off-premise retail liquor permits are clear enough to be easily interpreted on any level. To that end, the bill clarifies and strengthens our current code. It ensures that in Arkansas, only one person or firm or corporation or entity can have
only interest in one off-premise retail liquor permit at one single location. The bill in no way changes the way that permits are currently issued or viewed by the state. Single permits are one of The best defenses that we have in the hands of those to make sure that those people that shouldn't end up with liquor,
such as mentally unstable, intoxicated, and minors, do not come in possession of such. the permit holder locally, typically lives in the community and feels a responsibility to his or her neighbors. The language in this bill has been reviewed and amended by the ABC director and his legal team
to ensure that there are no unintended consequences. It's been endorsed by the Arkansas Beverage Retailers Association, and there are now currently 419 active off-premise liquor permits in Arkansas and 10 inactive permits. Current retail permit holders have built their business models around this long-existing law, stating that you can only own one liquor store.
This in no way affects current permit holders, including the two or three who do own multiple stores that were grandfathered some 40 years ago. I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Members, you've heard an explanation of
the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? For the bill? Representative
Dale, are you closed for your bill?
did I not anyone wishing to speak for or against the bill are you closed for
your bill Representative Dale is closed for his bill question for the House passage of House Bill 1282 pair of the machine Mr. Clerk has everyone voted Everyone voted.
Cast up the ballot. I vote a 92 yea, 3 nay and 0 present. You have passed
the bill. Mr. Clark reads Senate Bill
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56. Senate Bill 56 by Senator Jeffress regarding bail bonds and continuing
education. Representative Wilkins, you are recognized to come to the well and explain Senate Bill
Representative Butch Wilkins
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56. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good morning, colleagues. It is a joy to come behind the liquor bill because my involvement with Senate Bill 56 just about driven me to drink.
I know some of you have received so many emails that you're wondering if I'm coming down here to do House Bill 1051. That's Representative Altus' bill, and I have nothing to do with that one at this time. So there have been many emails on both sides of this, and first let me tell you what this bill does. It provides for the Arkansas Bail Bond Association to work with the State Board of Private Career
education to vet providers for who will be doing continuing education who must first be approved by the state board and submit that list, the state board again of private career education, and then that list is submitted to the licensing board for their approval. So that's the first thing that it does. The second thing that it does, it ensures final authority for setting any and all fees.
In other words, the cost of continuing education lies solely in the hands of the Arkansas Professional Bail Bond
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Licensing Board. The state board retains that final authority. Let me share just
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a little bit of brief history with you. Some nearly 20 years ago, actually in 1993, the Arkansas Association of Professional Bail
bondsman came to us the legislature and requested
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that we create this requirement for continuing education for bail bondsman. That's one of the good things that among many
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others that the legislature has done. Now you've gotten a number of emails and I have read them all and I have sought to address the concerns were humanly possible.
Some of them have not been humanly possible to address, but I've talked with the Attorney General because I had gotten word before we amended this bill that there was some concern about whether or not the Attorney General's office believed it to be legal, and we worked with them on a couple of amendments. We carried those amendments then to the Judiciary Committee and added them to the bill that you have before you.
My intent in carrying this legislation has always been to be supportive and really to be an advocate for a good continuing education for the bail bond industry. I want them to be well trained. For now my seventh regular session in the General Assembly on both ends of this building,
I have wanted to see good training and strict regulation. Why? Because it is an industry that without good continuing education and strict regulation could easily run afoul of the rights of the citizens of Arkansas. But as a state representative and then as a state senator and now as a state representative
Again, and as a pastor for 34 years, I have witnessed firsthand the value of this industry. I know there are a lot of people that don't like bail bondsmen in general, but I have witnessed firsthand the importance of this industry. I've seen people who have been helped to be released so that they could get back to their families.
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so that they could get back to school in order to become productive citizens, so that they could get back to a job where they could continue
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to support their family. They saved the state of Arkansas, our cities, our counties, and, quite frankly, the taxpayers, literally millions of dollars each year. Now, as I mentioned at the outset, there's been some controversy about this legislation.
I've talked at length with both sides. And you know, I was glad to hear the prayer that Pastor Reverend Mark McDonald led this morning. In his prayer, he said, and I quote, We are not
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asking that you remove from us the debate, controversy, or even the decisions that we must make, but lead us through to the truth.
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I don't know every time I take a piece of legislation on that there is necessarily going to be a firestorm around it. But what I've discovered in working with this legislation is that there is a family fight going on within the bail bond industry. And quite frankly and personally, I don't think that that's my fight.
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That's not why I stand before you today. I stand before you today for good government. And when it comes to good government, I don't think there are any of us in here who mind catching
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hell in order to do that which will promote good government. And I just want to remind you of, speaking
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of catching hell, I want to remind you of the three little eight-year-old boys who were playing
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in the backyard one day.
And as they were playing together, somehow they got around to bragging on their fathers. And so the first little boy started
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bragging on his daddy, and he said, my daddy is the mayor of this town. all of the decisions in this city have to come through my daddy the second little boy said well my daddy is a state representative all of the decisions of the state of Arkansas have to come through my daddy
the third little boy was the pastor's son and he started wondering oh my god what am I going to say to brag on my daddy and then he thought about something he heard his daddy say the night before And he said, my daddy owns hell. And the other little boy said, no, your daddy doesn't own hell. He said, yes, my daddy owns hell. And the other little boy said, your daddy couldn't possibly own hell. And he said, yes, my daddy owns hell. And I can prove it to you.
Because when he got home last night from the church board meeting, they had given
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it to him. I've said to the folks on both
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sides of this to calm down let's work together there's a dispute within that family and in that industry and I'm prayerful that they will get together and work it out
I just want to see good government and this industry to meet the best that it can, the needs of the people of Arkansas. I was proud in Judiciary Committee, speaking of people working together, I was proud in Judiciary Committee as an African-American Democrat to be joined at the end of the table by Senator Jeremy Hutchinson, an Anglo state senator as we work together to try to pass this legislation.
And I've asked the Bill Bonds folks to let that be a symbol of bipartisan bickering being put aside in order to work together. And I'm asking you today for a good vote. Mr. Speaker, I'll be happy to
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answer any questions there might be. Representative Lee, what purpose? Question. You recognize? Thank you,
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Representative Wilkins. And just knowing Senator Hutchinson's on it doesn't help me personally.
He'll appreciate that comment from wherever he is. I infer from what you said that there's a problem that's being chased. and I agree that it sounds like it's an infighting, it's a family fight, and I think this bill will not help that family fight. That's my personal opinion. My question to you is, did the board approve this and get behind it?
Representative Butch Wilkins
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No, the board never saw it in its amended state. When the board saw it initially, it was prior to the amendment, and the board had voted five to one against it. As I heard that information and heard that there was an attorney from the Attorney General's office who was present who had raised some concerns, I called the Attorney General and asked his opinions and his concerns,
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and then with his staff we put two amendments together to try to help address,
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at least address those concerns. Okay, so as it stands, amended, does
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the board approve it? The board has not
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taken official action on it. Who makes up the bail bonds association? The board is made up
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of appointees by the governor of the state of Arkansas. Who makes
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up the association's board? And we have had no opposition from the governor's office, by the way, who appoints that board
and have spoken with the governor about our legislation. Those individuals who make up the association are many of the owners, and this is kind of, it gets a little bit convoluted in the way that this happens, so let me see if I can try to make it make sense. There are companies, and then there are bondsmen, many of whom work for those dozens of companies around the state.
So you've got 50 or so companies, and then you have 500 and some bondsmen who are licensed, and in order to be licensed, they have to be sponsored by someone who is already in the industry. Got it. So who
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makes up the association's board that will be determining continuing ed? Who makes up that board? some of the
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bail bondsmen are the association okay so they
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vote among themselves who the board's
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going to be the board of the association yes sir yes okay
thank you thank you mr speaker representative colin smith what purpose question you
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recognize thank you mr speaker i have a question about how many people are in this association i have a letter from two different board appointed by the governor on the bells bombing board and they do not support this bill there are five to one vote as you said that one gentleman that could not attend that
was on that board it would have been a six to one he
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sent his letter in so can you tell us how many are in the association the testimony that we received before this association from the association indicated that there are 20 of the companies who are represented within the association. So, and again, I'm distinguishing
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between the number of companies and then the number of bail bondsmen, many hundreds of which work for the companies.
Representative Linda Collins-Smith
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There are 20 people who have joined this association. many companies if we're going to use companies are there out there that
Representative Butch Wilkins
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have not joined uh that would leave uh a couple of dozen or so companies that are not a part of the association thank
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you yes representative stubblefield what purpose a question you're recognized thank
Representative Gary Stubblefield
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you mr speaker representative jeffries uh could you be a little more specific wilkins i'm i mean mr wilkins i'm
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I'm much younger and have more hair than Representative Jeffress. Senator Jeffress. Thank you.
Representative Gary Stubblefield
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I apologize. Could you be a little more specific on just how the passage of this bill would save the people of Arkansas
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millions of dollars? I didn't say that the bill would save millions of dollars. I said that the industry saves the people of Arkansas millions of dollars. You see, and I was speaking from a historical perspective that over the years here in the legislature, from time to time, we've had an assault upon the bail bond industry, if you will,
because sometimes there have been rogue bail bondsmen that have kind of run afoul of the rights of
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citizens, and that's why it's important, I think, that they have good continuing education. So this bill is about good continuing education for bail bondsmen. So that is how you would
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explain this bill saving the people of Arkansas millions of dollars? No, sir. I didn't say
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that this bill saves the people of Arkansas millions of dollars.
Representative Butch Wilkins
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In my presentation, I said that the industry saves. In other words, let me put it this way. If you've got a person who is put in jail, they have no way to be bonded out. It costs the citizens of the state of Arkansas, whatever county jail or city jail they're in, it
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costs the citizens of the state of Arkansas money to house them. If they are
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able to be bonded out, that saves the citizens of the state of Arkansas millions of dollars.
That was the point. I didn't go into that much detail, but that's what I meant
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when I said that the industry saves the state of Arkansas many millions of dollars. Fifty, sixty million dollars is what it's
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been estimated at. Okay, thank you very
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much. Yes, certainly. Representative Hobbs, what purpose? Question, please. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Fortunately, I haven't had a lot of dealings with bonding companies and hope I don't in the future. But who currently approves whatever continuing education?
I think, isn't it about nine hours
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of continuing ed they need each year? Yes, the
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approval, there's a process where the private career education board approves those who would qualify to be providers for continuing education. then the board makes the determination as to who would have the right or the option to provide continuing education.
What this bill would do is open that up so that the association hopefully would provide many more, would vet many more providers and submit all of those providers to the board for their approval. Right now, as we learned in testimony before Judiciary Committee, there are only three providers in the state of Arkansas currently who are able to provide continuing education.
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Does the board have the authority to vet more than that if they wish
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to do so? well they they actually have had that authority for many years but for whatever reason have not
Representative Debra M. Hobbs
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done so okay so in essence this bill will dilute the authority of the current board that i believe is as representatively stated is made up of seven appointees from the governor and i believe of
those three of them are Bell's bondsmen. Is that correct? And I believe one sheriff and maybe a police
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officer. A retired sheriff is on the
Representative Debra M. Hobbs
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board. So that's similar to the make-up. So
Representative Butch Wilkins
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1:19:02
they would have a lot of. And they are appointed by the governor, as you said,
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and the governor is not opposed to this
Representative Debra M. Hobbs
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legislation. Okay. And one last question, if I may be real quickly. By voting
Looking for this bill, you referred to a family dispute.
If we get involved in this,
or by participating in this, are we choosing sides in this
Representative Butch Wilkins
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1:19:29
family dispute? I don't think it's a matter of choosing sides, and I certainly don't think that this bill by itself will solve the problem that I see. I think that the problem that I see is going to have to be solved by the two sides sitting down and trying to reconcile their differences so that the industry is best served by that.
Representative Mike Patterson
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1:19:56
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for
your question. Representative Patterson, what purpose? Immediate consideration, Mr. Chairman. Problem. Representative Wilkins,
still in the well. Representative Patterson, Representative Wilkins, Representative Patterson, what purpose? Immediate consideration, Mr. Chairman. Proper motion, non-debatable. All in
favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Question for the House. Passage of Senate Bill 56. Everyone voted? Everyone voted? Cast
up the ballot by a vote of 64, yay, 31, nay, one present. You have passed the bill. Representative Wilkin moves to the clincher. All in favor say aye.
Aye. Opposed, no. Ayes have it. The clincher adopted. Mr. Clark, read Senate Bill 26. Senate Bill 26 by Senator Teague,
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an act to authorize extensions of the deadline for the built burning of storm debris after a county has declared a disaster
area. Representative Smith, you are recognized. Come to the well and explain Senate Bill 26. Thank
Representative Garry L. Smith
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1:21:27
you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this is a bill from Senator Larry Teague that would enable counties to have an extension on their time or deadline for burning county debris.
And this is referencing back to the MENA tornado of last year. The 120 days on page 2 of this bill is not always adequately enough. So with ADQ's oversight, and as this went through committee, we've asked for an extension to make that time go to a total of 240 days to allow for burning of disaster debris. And I appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Members, here are an
explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill? for the bill.
You close for your bill. Representative Smith is closed. Question for the House. Passes Senate Bill 26. Prepare the machine,
Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 96 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk reads Senate Bill 73.
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:22:39
Senate Bill 73 by Senator
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Teague regarding existing staff employed by the Attorney General
whose salary is paid with funds by the Crime Victims Reparation Revolving
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Fund and declaring an emergency. Representative Bynes, you're recognized to come to the well
Representative John T. Vines
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and explain Senate Bill 73. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. After the events of today, I can understand why Representative Williams and Senator Teague I didn't want to come down to the well today, but I will do my best to follow Representative Wilkins. This is a simple bill. Simply a reassignment within the Attorney General's office.
It shifts from his crime victims unit into his newly created cyber crimes program. No new money, no new staff, simply a reassignment. Appreciate a good vote. Members, you've heard an explanation of the
bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill? Representative Vines, you're closed for your bill.
Representative Vines is closed. Question for the House, passage Senate Bill 73. Prepare the machine,
Mr. Clerk. Members, you're voting on the bill and the emergency clause.
Has everyone voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. A vote of 93 yea, 0 nay, and 0 present. You have passed the bill. Members, we'll go to the yellow budget calendar. I do recognize that the time is 12.30.
We do have 18 items on our budget calendar. I know that many of you are anxious to depart. This is one of those tough decisions that we make. We decide to go home on Friday. In order to, my inclination is to continue on. In order to get the will of the body, I'm going to make a motion that we recess. And that motion is not that I'm in favor of that motion, but I want to make the motion. And you all can tell me by your vote whether you want to continue on or take a recess and come back and finish after we have lunch.
All in favor of a motion to recess for lunch, say aye. Opposed, no. Opposed. Mr. Clerk, read House
Bill 1065. Thank you all for sticking with me. House Bill 1065 by
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Joint Budget Committee, an act for the Arkansas State Board of Registration for Professional Soil Classifiers Appropriation for the 2011-2012 Fiscal Year. Representative Aldis,
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what purpose? I have a question.
Who's your question directed to? Baker. What's your question? Is it possible
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to batch these if there's nobody that has any heartburn? Representative Webb,
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you are, you have to give me a nod on that. Are you
prepared to have any of these batched at this time? No. We're going to hear the bills individually. Representative Webb, you
are recognized to explain House Bill 1065. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And if I may, because we
have so many new members, and this is the first time we really had a number of bills from joint budget,
we discussed the option of batching bills, and we really didn't want to do that today. You all may think this looks like a long budget calendar, but I just want to tell you this is a very short budget calendar for what you're getting ready to see. And very soon I will be agreeing with Representative Althus and hope that we will batch bills. But again, we just didn't want to do that today. I also want to remind you that budget meets when nothing else is meeting. And I hope that you will take that opportunity to come to budget and to ask questions about what is happening.
already read the first bill? I apologize. Mr. Clark, I thought you did. You didn't read House Bill
1065. I guess we got caught up in the lunch. Okay. And I apologize. This is cash appropriation for $1,296 for the professional soil classifiers board, and there is no change from the previous appropriation. Members have heard
an explanation of the bill, questions, anyone wishing to speak against
the bill, for the bill, if not the question for the House, passage of House Bill 1065, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. You'll be voting for the bill and the emergency clause on all of the budget bills. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot by a vote of 93, yea, 0, nay. You have passed the
bill. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1069. House Bill 1069 by
Representative Duncan Baird
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Joint Budget Committee and Act for the Arkansas State Board of Athletic Training
Appropriation for the 2011-2012 Fiscal Year. Representative Webb,
you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an appropriation for $20,517 for the State Board of Athletic Training. There is no change from the last appropriation. Heard an explanation
of the bill. One wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill, if not,
the question for the House passes House Bill 1069. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted. Your bill and emergency clause. Everyone voted. Remember, on all of these bills, members, you're voting on the bill and the emergency clause. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:28:29
93, yea, 0, nay, 0, present. You have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1070. House
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:28:37
Bill 1070 by Joint Budget Committee and Act for the Arkansas Board of Podiatry Medicine Appropriation for the 2011-2012 Fiscal
Year You're recognized, Representative Webb. Thank you. This is a cash appropriation for $6,240.
It is a request of an increase for $1,300 for the Board of Podiatry. The reason for
the request is to have one more meeting this year than they did last year.
I've heard an explanation of the bill, members, and one wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill, and I have a question, Representative
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Burris, for what purpose? Quick question. Which question? This is an
Representative John Burris
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agency that's funded by all fees that they collect. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. Would the increase in the appropriation be from simply more collection of the fee, not
necessarily an increase of the fee? There is no request for fee
increase being made from their cash funds. Okay. Thank you. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill?
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Representative Hickerson, what purpose? Question. You're recognized.
Representative Mary P. "Prissy" Hickerson
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1:29:41
What are personal services? Should that be personnel services? On our sheet, it says personal services.
No. In the past, when boards received per diem or stipends for attending a meeting,
meeting it used to be all put into operations and now you'll notice that all of the bills that we're going to vote on today we have no permanent staff but because all of the boards do get paid for attending meetings there are some uh taxes that are taken out of of their per diem or their stipend and so that's why you'll see regular salaries and personal service matching thank you
representative any other questions members on wishing to speak against the bill
for the bill if not the question for the house
passage of house bill 1070 prayer of the machine Mr. Clerk voting on the bill and the emergency
clause everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot Mr. Clerk by a vote of 86 yay 6 nay to present You have
passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1071. House Bill
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:30:52
1071 by Joint Budget Committee, an act for the State Board of Examiners of Alcoholism
and Drug Abuse Counselors Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
You are recognized, Representative Webb. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a cash appropriation for $25,113. It is the same as last year. It's for the State Board of Examiners of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors. Members, heard an explanation of
the bill. Any questions? Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill? Not the question for the House. Passage of House Bill 1071. The machine, Mr. Clerk. Voting on the bill in the emergency clause.
Everyone voted, cast up the ballot. By a vote of 96
yeas, 0 nays, 0 present, you have passed the bill. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1072. House Bill
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1072 by Joint Budget Committee and Act for the Arkansas State
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:31:48
Highway and Transportation Department, Arkansas State Highway Employees Retirement System, Appropriation for the 2011-2012 Fiscal Year. You're recognized,
Representative Webb. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a $200 million appropriation for the State Highway Department for retirement. It is for paying the annuities to retirees.
There is a $50 million increase in the requested appropriation, and that is for anticipated retirees for the coming fiscal year appropriation-only request. Members, heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing
to speak against the bill, for the bill? If not,
question for the House, pass it with House Bill 1072, pair of the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Voting on the bill and the emergency clause, everyone voted,
cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 84, yay, nigh, nay, to present, you have passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1074. House Bill
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:32:54
1074 by Joint Budget Committee and Act for the Arkansas Cemetery Board Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. You recognize
Representative Webb. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. it's a ninety seven thousand dollar cash appropriation for the arkansas cemetery board
it is an increase of six thousand dollar in the appropriation it is in the loan category the loan item and there are a couple of cemeteries that are close to being insolvent and that was the reason for the request for the increase from cash
appropriation members heard an explanation of the
bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill not the question for the house Passive House Bill 1074, pair of the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted? Everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 86, yay, 9, nay, 0, present. You have passed the bill. And the emergency clause, all of these bills we're voting on do have an emergency clause in them, So your bill
fails, the emergency clause fails. Mr. Clark Reed, House Bill 1074. House Bill 1101.
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House Bill 1101 by Joint Budget Committee, an act for the State Board of Finance, Investments Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Representative
Webb, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is for the State Board of Finance. It is a $603 million appropriation. It is the same as last year. The State Board of Finance is responsible for investing the state money. Request a good vote. 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 House Bill 1101. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone
voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. A vote of 95 yea, 1 nay, 0 present.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:35:04
You have passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clark, read House Bill 1104. House Bill 1104 by
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Joint Budget Committee and Act for the State Athletic Commission Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
You're recognized, Representative Webb. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is for the State Athletic Commission Appropriation. There is an increase of $19,000 in extra help. This is $120,000 appropriation, and the money comes from gross receipts from admission to various martial arts and boxing matches and exhibitions. Members, you heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone
wishing to speak against the bill
or the bill, not the question for the House,
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:35:51
passing of House Bill 1104, prepare the machine, Mr.
Clerk. Voting on the bill and the emergency clause. So everyone
voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot Mr. Clerk by a vote of 79 yay, 15 nay, 1 present. You have passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk
read House Bill 1196. 1156. House
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:36:23
Bill 1156 by Joint Budget Committee
and Act for the Arkansas State Board of Registration of Foresters Appropriation the 2011-2012 fiscal year representative webb you're
recognized thank you mr speaker this is a cash appropriation of twenty thousand eighteen dollars for the state board of registration of foresters it is a decrease of eight dollars from last appropriation members have heard
an explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill not the question for the house Passage of House Bill 1156.
Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 94, yea, 0, nay,
0, present. You have passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1196.
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:37:20
House Bill 1196 by Joint Budget Committee, an act for the Arkansas Wheat Promotion Board Appropriation for the 2011-2012 Fiscal Year.
Representative Webb, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a $791,000 appropriation for the Wheat Promotion Board. There is no change from the
last appropriation. For an explanation of the bill, anyone wishing to speak against the bill or the bill, not the question for House, passage of House Bill 1196, prepare the machine. Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted.
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:37:58
Cast up the ballot. Mr. Clerk, vote 95, yay, 0, nay, 0, present.
You have passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1197. House Bill
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:38:09
1197 by Joint Budget Committee and Act for the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Representative Webb,
you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an $8.1 million appropriation for the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board. There is no change from the last appropriation. Heard an explanation
of the bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill?
Not the question for the House. Passing House Bill 1197. Prepare the machine,
Mr. Clerk. Everyone voted? Everyone voted, cast up the ballot
by a vote of 96 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present. You have passed the bill and the
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:38:51
emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1200. House Bill 1200 by Joint
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:38:57
Budget Committee and Act for the Arkansas Rights Research and Promotion Board Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
You recognize Representative Webb. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a $6.98 million appropriation for the Arkansas Rights Research and Promotion Board. there is no change from the last appropriation members heard an explanation of
the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill if not the question for the house passing house
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:39:24
bill 1200 prepare the machine mr clerk everyone voted cast up the ballot
mr clerk by a vote of 96 yay 0 nays 0 present you have passed
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:39:40
the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1201. House Bill 1201 by Joint Budget
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:39:47
Committee and Act for the Arkansas Corn and Grain Sorghum Promotion Board Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. You recognize
Representative Webb. Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is a cash appropriation for 1.2 million dollars from the Arkansas Corn and Grain Sorghum Promotion Board. There is no change from the last appropriation. Members
heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone One
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:40:09
wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill, not the question for the House.
Passing to House Bill 1201, prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk. Everyone
voted? Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of 95, yea, 0, nay,
0, present. You have passed the bill and the emergency clause. Mr. Clerk, read House Bill 1269. House Bill 1269
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:40:36
by Joint Budget Committee and Act for the Office of the Treasurer of State Refund of Local Taxes Appropriation for the 2011-2012 Fiscal Year
You are recognized, Representative Webb Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a pass-through bill, and it is when the state remits the share of the sales tax to counties and cities. If there's $500 million appropriation for cities, a $600 million appropriation for counties, there is no change in the last appropriation from the last appropriation members heard
an explanation of the bill anyone wishing speak against the bill for the bill not the question
for the house passage of house bill 1269 prepare the machine mr clark
everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot mr clark by vote of
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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96 yay zero nay zero present you have passed the bill mr clark reed house bill 1270 house bill 1270 by joint budget committee
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and act for the office of the treasurer state animal rescue shelters appropriation for 2011-2012 fiscal year you're recognized representative webb thank you
mr speaker this is a hundred thousand
dollar appropriation for cities a hundred thousand dollar appropriation for counties for the animal rescue and shelter trust fund uh it is a relatively new appropriation it's funded through revenue from special license plates members heard an explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against
the bill for the bill not the question for the house passage of house bill 1270 prepare the machine mr clerk everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot by a vote
of 90 a 3 may to present you have passed
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:42:29
the bill and emergency clause mr clerk read house bill 1272 house bill 1272 by joint
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budget comedian actor the office of the treasurer state amendment 74 property tax appropriation for 2011-2012 fiscal year you're
recognized representative webb thank you mr speaker this is an appropriation for distribution of amendment 74 funds to counties by the office of the treasurer this is a 1.1 billion dollar appropriation there is no change
and this is the money that is collected by the
state that is then sent back out to the counties members heard an explanation of the bill anyone wishing to speak against the bill for the bill not the question for the house passage of house
bill 1272 prepare the machine mr clerk everyone voted everyone voted cast up the ballot mr clerk by a vote of 96 yay zero nays zero present
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:43:30
you have passed the bill and the emergency clause your mr clerk
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:43:38
read house bill 1273 House Bill 1273 by Joint Budget Committee and Act for
the Office Treasurer of State City County Tourist Meeting and Entertainment Facilities Assistance Appropriation for
the 2011-2012 fiscal year. You're recognized, Representative Webb. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a $5.27 million appropriation for City County Tourist Facilities as required by the City County Tourist Meeting and Entertainment Facilities Assistant Law.
This is a declining appropriation. It went down this year $4,000, it was down $2 million, and it will go down next year again until eventually this is phased out. So, appreciate a good vote. Members, you heard an explanation of the
bill. Anyone wishing to speak against the bill, for the bill, not the question for the House, passage of House Bill 1273. Prepare the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted. Everyone, cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk,
by a vote of 96, yea, 0, nay, 0, present. You have passed the bill in the Emergency Clause, Mr. Clerk, read House Bill
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:44:44
1275. House Bill 1275 by Joint Budget
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Committee, an act for the Office of Treasurer of State Assistance to Local Law Enforcement and Emergency Medical Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Representative Webb, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
is a $600,000 appropriation for the Arkansas Ambulance Association and the Arkansas Association of Chiefs of Police. It is the same appropriation level as last time. It is funded through fines when someone has stopped and they have failure to present proof of insurance. Members, you've heard an explanation of the bill. Anyone wishing
to speak against the bill, for the bill,
Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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1:45:31
not the question for the House, passing House Bill 1275, repair the machine, Mr. Clerk.
Everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot, Mr. Clerk, by a vote of
95 yea, 0 nays, 0 present. You have passed the bill
and the emergency clause. Thank you, Ms. Webb, for your presentation.
Members, thank you very much. I'm going to entertain a motion from Representative Allen.
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One second, Mr. Speaker. We want you to get this
Representative Fred Allen
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1:46:26
one right, Representative Allen. After the announcement is remodeled a bill, placing the countenance on the desk, amending
members' own bills with their own amendments, members withdrawing their own bills, finalizing resolution, re-communication, and any remaining committee reports, I move
that we adjourn until 1.30 on Monday. Proper motion, non-debatable. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carried.
Announcements. Representative Lindsey, what purpose? Announcement. You
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recognize? Now committee of joint budget will meet at 11 o'clock on Monday,
room 171. Representative Patterson, what purpose? You're
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recognized. Communication and technology will meet 10.30 Monday morning.
Thank you. Representative Carnon, what purpose? Announcement. You're recognized. Retirement, 10
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a.m. Monday morning. Representative Rogers, what purpose?
Representative Tiffany Rogers
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1:47:19
Announcement. You're recognized. The Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce is still hosting their lunch at the Arkansas Association of Counties. It was
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too late to cancel it, so if you want to have a free lunch before you go home, I
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encourage you to do so. Thank you. Thank you. Any other announcements? I do not read the
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:47:44
bill, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 1309 by Joint Budget Committee, an act for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Appropriation for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Unknown speaker
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What was the number on your bill, Mr. Clerk? 1309.
Read the bill, Mr. Clark. House Bill 1307 by Representative Patterson regarding
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:48:32
the practice. Out of objection. Read it a second time. House Bill 1307. Aging. Oh, excuse
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me. I have a correction. Agri. House Bill 1308 by Representative Allen to enact to create the medical. Out of objection. Read it a second time. House Bill
Representative Duncan Baird
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1:48:54
1308. Public Health. House Bill 1309 by Joint Budget Committee, an act for the Arkansas Department.
Out of objection, read the second time. House Bill 1309. Joint Budget. House Bill 1310 by Joint Budget Committee, an act for the Arkansas Department. Out of objection, read the second time. House Bill 1310. Joint Budget.
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House Bill 1311 by Joint Budget Committee. Out of objection, read the second time. House Bill 1311. House Joint Resolution 1001 by Representative Barnett
Out of Objection, read it a second time House Joint Resolution 1001 State Agencies House Joint Resolution 1002 by Representative Hall to amend the Constitution Out of Objection, read it a second
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time House Joint Resolution 1002 State Agencies Senate Bill 77 by Senator Taylor, an act to authorize the State Kidney Disease Commission to honor persons who have provided living kidney
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donations. Not a objection. Read a second time. Senate Bill 77. Public Health.
Senate Bill 165 by Senator Johnson. Not a objection. Read a second time. Senate Bill 165. Public Health. Desks will remain open
for reading of the bills until 4.30. Upon completion of the items named in the adjourned resolution, the House will be adjourned until 1.30 Monday.
Agenda
Call to Order
Invocation
Roll Call
HR1008
SCR4
HB1014 -1
HB1243
HB1062
HB1120
HB1185
HB1098
HB1284
HB1282
SB56
SB26
SB73
HB1065
HB1069
HB1070
HB1071
HB1072
HB1074
HB1101
HB1104
HB1156
HB1196
HB1197
HB1200
HB1201
HB1269
HB1270
HB1272
HB1273
HB1275
Reading of Bills
Adjournment
Documents
No documents posted.
Speakers
Representative Tommy Thompson Chair
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Representative Kathy Webb Chair
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Representative Robert S. Moore, Jr.
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Representative Jon Woods
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Representative Charlie Collins
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Representative John Charles Edwards
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Representative Jonathan Barnett
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Representative Duncan Baird
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Representative Keith M. Ingram
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Speaker 7
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Representative Buddy Lovell
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Representative Allen Kerr
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Chair
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Representative Mark Biviano
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Representative Mike Patterson
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Representative Bruce Westerman
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Representative Tommy Wren
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Representative Andy Mayberry
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Representative Butch Wilkins
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Representative Jane English
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Representative John Burris
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Representative Robert E. Dale
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Representative Linda Collins-Smith
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Representative Gary Stubblefield
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Representative Debra M. Hobbs
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Representative Garry L. Smith
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Representative John T. Vines
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Representative Mary P. "Prissy" Hickerson
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Representative Fred Allen
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Representative Tiffany Rogers
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