Joint Budget Committee
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HB1002
Act 1
· 3 mentions in agenda, transcript
Matched: “…nsideration of New Bills Referred to Joint Budget Committee HB1002 by Joint Budget Committee – General Appropriation Act C. Ot…”
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THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2026-2027 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1002 is now Act 1 |
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Senator Jonathan Dismang
Unverified
7:07
Members if you can grab your seats I think we've got about one minute before we're gonna start and we're gonna start in one minute. if you can grab your chairs seats glad everybody's excited to be here good luck don't know how to do this by the way
With that erree deorum members we only have one item to take up today but before we do that I'm
gonna turn it over to my co-chair vice chair all the abovepresentative Johnson I answered any anything the chair calls
Representative Lee Johnson
Unverified
8:17
me. I just want to take a minute to acknowledge the fact that the view from down there looking up here is different than it's been in quite a long time 1el years to be exact because 12 years is how long the state of Arkansas has had the privilege and reaped the benefits of having Representative Lane Jean as the
chair of the joint budget committee that 12 years makes him the longest tenured joint budget chair in the history of the state of Arkansas yeah he's he's in the back right here when when he's when he started
just briefly when he started we had a few $100 million in reserve we're sitting here today with almost3 billion dollars in reserve that's what happens when you give a quality person a leadership position for a quality period of time what you're seeing here today is something really rare in state government it's what I would call an opportunity for leadership transition that doesn't happen often because that requires an elected official, who's in a position of authority, leadership, power to voluntarily step out of the spotlight and try to teach somebody and mentor somebody who's interested in what they're
doing that takes somebody with with humility and with wisdom and those are two traits of representative gene everybody knows has in space so I just want to say thank you personally for giving me the opportunity to sit here in this chair during this session and thank you for your service to the state of Arkansas. I'll give you a more round of applause.
Speaker 17
10:12
thank you sir thank you Mr chairman. those are tears of joy I'm
Senator Jonathan Dismang
Unverified
10:24
certain with that you re right so we're on all right members are only action today is House Bill1002 do we
have any questions on House Bill1002 General appropriation Act No questioning what's the
Speaker 21
10:38
will of the committee we've got a motion
Senator Jonathan Dismang
Unverified
10:43
do pass we've got a second in discussion on the motion seeing none all in favor signify by saying aye all those opposed motion carries members again that's our only piece of business today we do come back tomorrow at 9. what we'll be doing in the morning is only assigning bills that need to go to committees to committees we're not going to be taking up any other actions so again we're going to be assigning bills to committees tomorrow morning at 9 should go fairly quick when that happens I'm not sure I'll just say this again for the senators that may not have been in the room we'll come back into session at 10
in the chamber's house y'all do whatever it is you want to do all right with that we're adjourned thank you.
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Consideration of New Bills Referred to Joint Budget Committee
C. Other Business
D. Adjournment
Documents
| Title | Type | Pages | Source |
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| Agenda — JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE, Apr 8, 2026 | Agenda | 1 | Official source ↗ |
| HB1002 | Exhibit | 4 | Official source ↗ |
Speakers
Senator Jonathan Dismang
Unverified
Representative Lee Johnson
Unverified
Speaker 17
Speaker 21