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Sixteen current this on house amendment. Thank you Mr chair you can introduce yourself you're recognized Clarke Tucker said senate district fourteen this is a bill sponsored by Senator Hill it was amended in the House really at and my suggestion and so Senator Hill asked me to call this the Clarke Tucker amendment I told him that might kill the entire bill but he still insisted that I do it but it's a very minor member all it the only thing that changes is that. If if there's a test that has to be taken this is the bill having to evaluation licensing and people moving in from out of state and the original bill said that if there's a certain tasks that it in state people have to take then when they come in from out of state they may have to take it in it just change that from from may to shall so if there's state specific law the in state folks have to do then when the out of state folks come and they they likewise have to do that that's it. The questions. No questions what's will of committee I'm of do pass on grass second by Senator knots and all in favor say aye. All opposed Like sign thank you senator. Next bill is three ninety three. Senator Davis. Senators yourself you're recognized thank you Mr chair Breanne Davis state Senate district twenty five and this bill so essentially and the house in the Senate take over and conference travel and from bill are and so we are just striking in this bill that last part that says in dollars and cents we have to the Speaker the president have to send a letter approving and the travel for the conference and it's because it says dollars and sense it's best to have specific amount which you cannot have on the front and you don't have the specific amount until you're on the back end of that for reimbursement purposes so and this just strikes that so they can write a letter letter approving and the conference travel and and then reimburse on the back end. Your any questions. The there's nobody signed up to speak for against the bill your closure bill I'm close as forgiven thank you motion by Senator Tucker second by Senator crawl all in favor say aye. Thank you senator. Senate bill two thirty one. No one here. Senate bill three forty nine nobody's here. From all. Senate bill two seventy five. Senator Tucker has graciously. Taking that one up also. There's. Okay. Passover. Senate bill four thirteen. My four thirteen a loss. The. Senate bill fourteen fifty seven a muddy. Can be like an option. You run in fourteen fifty seven all right. Introduce yourself and you're recognized. Tony Furman state rep District eighty two. Thank you Mr chairman of the committee house bill fourteen fifty seven creates the Arkansas poll watcher bill of rights. It outlines who can be a poll watcher it directs the state board of election commissioners to create an online training courses so there's uniformed training for all the poll watchers across the state requires that they wear a name badge with their name so they can be easily identifiable it outlines their rights and their responsibilities. And it states that if anybody violates those rights or the poll watcher violates the rights of voter or election commissioner that whoever violates who's ever rights is guilty of a Class C. misdemeanor. And the last thing it does I believe is. Simplifies the process for challenging a ballot what's the voter signs and you know they can't challenge it currently they have to notify the poll sheriff and to understand the culture of can be all over the place at any time so this bill would allow the the poll watcher to notify the poll worker that they're gonna challenges ballot and just kind of freezes the process until the sheriff come over and start the challenge process from there. And that's what it does I'll take any questions any questions. C. nine your closure bill closed out ask for good vote all right thank you Sir what's will of committee. Motion by Senator Dotson second by Senator crawl all in favor say aye. Little oppose lax and thank you Sir thank you senator thank you Committee anymore you were in. Your. Three eighty. Introduce yourself you're recognized Senator. Thank you Mr chairman members of the committee Alan Clark Senate district seven. The SP three eighty we presented to you back before spring break of and. One of with one group testify against those municipally. And the problem with that was the timing. Was that there are times that not very often but somebody asked for personal record that they may have there's a time line set up in law. Other than. The normal timeline. We're pokes S. the twenty general for opinion they have so long to do that the tourney General has so long to get back with them and working with the members of this committee. Of we took the time line out of the bill he did say three days of the amendment has been engrossed with amended it in a spending grossed. So when you look it up Page one line twenty eight. This is a custodian shall respond as follows in writing within the time period required under this section to a written request for public records. So we don't do anything with the time line whatsoever the time lines already in law for you. And it says I have no records exist the responsive to the request the customer is the respondent no records exist if any responsive records that exist are subject to exemptions under this chapter or other law the custodian shall respondent identify the ethical exemptions and if the customer elects administrative control over any responsive records that may exist the custodian shall respond. Can identify the appropriate custodian to direct the request to if known or readily as a sort of mobile. So. What it does is just common sense. one the biggest problems we've had with for it is people sending for your request others already timeline in law and they get no answer. and then we'll find out later what was one of these things that either. either they didn't have any information or the information was exempt and so this is just common sense it says. You have to either provide the information or answer. And say that we don't have the information for. The information is exempt and if you if you know where it's readily dischargeable who. The request should go to that's if you know of so it's a. Of very simple common sense it is close the loop of both would catch any bad actors plus it just puts common sense and the law and says if somebody asks you one answer you know I know of. We run a company for most of all adult life. That. That you avoid a whole lot of problems by foreign people of no we do claims and sometimes the claims a claim on the floor. Although maybe the somebody to come look at that from the factory may be six eight weeks is not a real you know roughly consumers could do something right away but only flooring. Takes longer but if I have problems it's always because we told the people that up front. And then for five weeks they get angry because I haven't heard from us and my employees a say we'll we told them it would be six weeks yeah but you know there needs to be a little bit a hand holding you need to go back. Appropriate time people expect that people are going to forget about him these days you need to go back and call and say Hey were two or three weeks we're still in the same time line and everything will be fine that's all this does is this is. We don't have the information but we did receive your response and here's what we're not answer happy to take any questions. Go ahead Senator Tucker. Thank you senator and I appreciate you amend it amending the in the manner in which she did Sir Clark works of man I want just thank you for that someone just raised an issue with me about the penalty on page two one nine. Is it your. Is it your intent to. Change the application of current law in any way whether someone is subject to that penalty or not. Of the center of you've looked at this I know since this is been raised on Hendren raid with me by the way of Page two line seven. A custodian response or subdivision of this section may be delivered by electronic mail you can email if a custodian fails to respond as required under subdivision a three he or she shall be subject to the penalties for violation of this chapter we haven't changed anything of your already subject to penalties for not answering this just says the the other thing that you have is you have to answer period we haven't changed any penalties and anyway. I think that's really the way that I read I'm looking at twenty five nineteen one for right now it also has prescriptive language in there it says shall any person who negligently violates any position provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class C. misdemeanor. and really that becomes the discretion of the prosecutor at that point whether they're going to prosecute Yes the only. Corresponding question I have is is whether that one nine should read if a custodian negligently fails. Because that's the mental state in twenty five nineteen one oh for I don't know what do you have a thought on that so I didn't understand questions so in twenty five ninety one of four it says any person who negligently violates any provisions of this chapter. In subsection five year it's as if a custodian fails to respond. I guess my question that I honestly don't know the answer to and I'm just I'm curious for your thought is is whether because this subsection a. Our of subsection five makes a reference to twenty five nineteen one oh fourth that essentially incorporates the mental state of negligently. Or whether that were negligently should also be inserted into one nine there if the custodian negligently fails. What do you what do you think Senator Tucker I have. Again no one has worked with me on this bill other than yourself of those of those who have been in support of the vote I have no problem if this committee would like to add that were negligent way if that makes it more clear because. The on business with the for the task force you know there's one gentleman on the for task force to this what he does every day all day long works for one of the universities. And. What they have found is that when you answer people people reasonable yeah you get back and say it's going to take longer or whatever or whatever may be going on no one has ever been prosecuted. Under this I can imagine you know if I were a prosecutor into most said we didn't see the email of but I think it could be better with the word negligently in there but Somebody brought it up before it would be in there. My and my guess is that we're gonna be in here for a minute and that is a real quick amendment I'm about you get real real quick if you don't mind sure be glad to okay. Okay Just ask staff we can't do a voice amendment but Senator Tucker if you want to spend I make a motion to suspend the rules to to do that the voice Amendment. The if a custodian fails to negligently respond it would be negligently fails well okay. We have lawyers. All policies what go ahead you you make the motion and will. We'll. Yeah sure. Yeah yep yep yep there's other points in yeah. Go ahead. Yeah thank you Mr chair Senator Tucker I means Clark looking at the wrong one and. Before we have the name so um. Yeah I've been reading back and forth on that penalty and in making someone subject to the a misdemeanor especially if a. You are not and they just didn't see an email potentially I mean I I understand prosecutorial discretion but to even put it in to the place where someone would be guilty of that. I'm I'm not sure the difference and Senator Tucker you may be able to answer this better than Senator Clark but the word negligent Work I think this is a piece of legislation that either one those ward is not going to make that big a difference if this long as we close the loop. And the I would point out that the law already. This is because of somebody misses that email and they do have that information already guilty under the law The the in this bill under anything detached. It it doesn't necessarily as far as whether they're guilty accidentally of of but as far as when you said they failed to respond and then you you get into specifically saying in this manner in writing within this time period for the specific specific reasons it is expanding on it. Pretty significantly this is just saying you have to give an answer the law already says you have to answer if you have a. this but I have it on water the Committee thanks I have no problem with the work negligently or knowingly Senator Tucker is the attorney here he's got more of an idea of. What that means in the law. That would be where I don't know for sure exactly I just know that there there is a difference legally from attorneys I think from a legal standpoint it's important have a mental state in their addresses policy questions for us as lawmakers out of me personally actually preferred knowingly I think it's I think it's better it just takes a little further than I think it may be until public both of a problem at all with the word only because we're not. Trying to prosecute anybody we just write what we're just trying to common sense communicate back to thank you. Any other discussion. Senator Tucker I'll take your a motion to suspend the rules and and to do a voice amendment Page two line nine should read if the custodian custodian knowingly fails to respond as required. All right degree questions that motion. Seeing none all in favor say aye. All opposed Like sign thank you. Your bill has been amended amended the second time this amendment. All right. All we have to that patient that was from the Committee rules I'm sorry as we need to to do another Amendment. To accept that amendment so. The motion by Senator Dotson to accept that Amendment second by Senator crawl all in favor say aye. All opposed Like sign all right your bill has been amended. Thank you so line nine under number five says now says if a customer customer custodian knowingly fails. LS that's all we're trying to do is just common sense of make sure that if somebody sent a request to get an answer and of the be happy to take any other questions but that's what the bill does not sure appreciate the committee's bill. Is there any questions from the committee. Say ninety on a closing the bill. I would hold on hold on I have one once for the bill joined the kitchen. Texturing twelve your use yourself and you're recognized thank you senator joy McCutchen Arkansas transparency in government group. This is a people's bill. Early in simply it's based upon my experience of trying many of these cases. and having people come into my office and say that they never got a response from a four year request an. And they don't know why and so it results in either me telephone well just yes go on an I'm sure they don't have any records if they didn't respond or filing a lawsuit. And I don't think either one of those things are good. again the people deserve this. It requires a simple email. that if records do not exist just send an email. And tell us they don't exist. As. Senator Clark said it it's a seems to be common sense it seems to be good government. the hundreds of people I've run this by individual citizens love it. The second is if there's any responsive records enters subject to an exemption under four yeah. Then you tell the citizen the elect or. the constituent who who it is. I mean what the what the exemption is what is the particular exemption that you're claiming a so that the citizens know. And they have the right to know that's the purpose for you you just simply tell on here's the exemption and and they're able to make an informed judgment about whether they agree or don't agree. Third provision is if there's a custodian of records and you send it a citizen may elect to war sends it to the wrong custodian that they just simply say I'm not the right custodian. And you need to send it to Joe Bob down the hallway. Again it's it's about the people. And we've heard discussion about the The provision regarding the penalty. And I mean surely it's going to be knowingly no law said no prosecutor in our right minds going to prosecute someone if they didn't receive the record request with I don't have a problem if it's knowingly negligently which by the way the laws been this far as I can determine that for every record request But. I think the point is it's so that folks get their get their records and get them timely. And I would appreciate a a Good vote. In the affirmative. Yes thank you Mr. The. Of you know what the bill does it's very simple and I just appreciate the committee's work here today in behind the scenes to help us get this correct us when things I've learned in my teen years here's how important processes I appreciate a good vote thank you senator what's will the committee. Motion by Senator Tucker. Do pass as amended. Second by Senator Johnson all in favor say aye. All opposed Like sign. Thank you senator thank you Mr thank you members of the committee. The. Next bill is fifteen eighty six. Senator Tucker field. Please identify yourself for the record since the regular season District twenty one this is part military bill. In general very the. It's it's about the Let me let me let let her in your shall flee for morning senators my name is Bernie of words and chief legal counsel for Arkansas department of the military. Pretty much changes all of its clean up changes all the Code sections were says canteens to military type canteens or exchanges or is it just says exchanges so. Any questions from members. In by the Office speak for against the bill. Senator you're recognized close will thank you senator appreciate a good vote I make a motion to pass as a motion second by Senator Dotson all in favor. Any oppose congratulations passion bill. Go back senator Dismang has. But bill number you have a center for. For thirteen. Senator sure sure you're recognized Senator Jonathan Dismang. Members this is you know I think you're all pretty well aware from the appointment issues that we've had specially in a transition between governors I individuals we pointed the way the law is written right now that confirmation doesn't actually occur for that individual until we go into session or special session and so in theory someone could serve without confirmation for a pretty extended period of time at this bill is kind of what we think to be the solution to that potential issue and that's just going to allow the Pro Temp Collison in and have a management meeting for the purpose of appointments to go through the same process that we have right now and I am. The protein had me out of in another meeting for longer than I should have so I'm trying to recruit My dates on that area. And we'll have one at least every quarter at a minimum we have won a record if there's an emergency in a message to say that one is flagged as a potential issue again the pro ten would have us or have the ability to call since sooner than that to kind of dispose of that issue on a more timely basis but in general it's a fairly lengthy bill but that's just because there's so many code sections tied to appointments that had this language about serving until we went into session. With that we have to take any questions three questions remembers. Seeing none of the no one signed up to speak for against the bill he or oppose the bill I'm closed what's will of committee. Do pass by Senator Kroll second by Senator Hester all in favor say aye. All opposed like sign in thank you senator. Quick question Sir is a realize it didn't habit House sponsor on this yet I will probably motion to suspend the rules that a sponsor on the floor just make you want me to do it here to Minniti on up for got let's see. We. We don't have anything in writing it's up to you but I don't want your rules aren't Committee yes with this with this is amended rules to to do that okay. It'll be just as easy because this is not a substantial change so in leisure world yelp pass it out to pass as amended I can adopt I'll I'll suspend today to be able to have it heard and so. I'm not. I don't know to tell you yes so. No no I would love to if you would if someone be willing to make a motion to all right my I. the unaccepted motion to expunge vote by what which president bill for thirteen pass. The second by Senator Dotson all in favor say aye opposed like sign the all right I would accept a motion to suspend the rules to verbally amend to add a sponsor to Senate bill four thirteen. Representative Wardlaw all right motion by Senator Hester to suspend the rules and that and a co sponsor a second by Senator crawl all in favor say aye. All right now senator Wardlaw. The representative Wardlaw Senate enters. All right now. Take a motion to. To amend senate bill four thirteen senator Wardlaw. The motion by Senator Dotson to spend rules and and that. The second by Senator Hester all in favor say aye aye aye All opposed Like sign thank you the. Now I'll I'll accept a motion to pass Senate bill four thirteen as amended. Motion by Senator crawl second by Senator Tucker all in favor say aye. Thank you senator thank you Mr chairman committee member. If that one right it is now. Or at the center Brandt. Which one which one are you. Which one are you running Senate bill four four seven. Four forty seven Senate bill four forty seven I hope it's only one I've got on your agenda we run some more. Yes you are you are just introduce yourself you're recognized thank you Mister chair Joshua Bryant Senate district thirty two this bill that the cleanup bill in the ninety third General Assembly ACT four four eight two thousand twenty one. A corrected some wording to be able to not tabulate certain races are unopposed they omitted certain city Clerk from that list is just to an error spoke election Alexion Commission the secretary of state's office they're glad for the change they welcome it because that's a race that the only to tabulate if it's unopposed for city Clerk. That's the extent of the bill. Any questions. Say none of your grocery bill I'm close to create a good vote no one is signed up to speak for against the bill what's will of committee Senator crawled. Motions secondments centre Tucker all in favor say aye. All opposed Like sign thank you senator. Senate bill fifteen ninety nine House Bill House Bill fifteen ninety nine. thank you Mr chair members of the committee this one looks to be fairly simple and straightforward it changes the contribution. Limit four packs from five thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars. Per person in any calendar year. Is there any questions. Three lobbyist here speak for against this bill. Your clothes your bill I'm closed motion do pass motion by Senator Dotson. Second second messenger Hester all in favor say aye aye aye All opposed lax and thank you senator going to the house bill sixteen hundred. House Bill sixteen hundred all this does is strike through some language there is currently a prohibition on At. Campaign signage on vehicles larger than a twelve by twelve inches on a car truck tractor or vehicle belonging to a candidate for public office phone State Capitol grounds that is an ethics commission Promulgate rules to enforce that section of the law currently and this bill would strike through all that language so would no longer be prohibited to put signage campaign signage on your vehicles when you're are on the State Capitol grounds and you would not be allowed to have any. No currently you're not allowed to have any the strikes through the language that prohibits it so you would be allowed to have a campaign signage on your vehicle so car magnet or something like that. J. Sri there nobody signed speak for against same any questions from the committee all. Say none you will oppose the bill I'm close motion if passed. The. Our motion do pass by Senator Dotson second second by Senator Hester all in favor say aye aye aye All opposed like sign. The. The. The Senator tech you're recognized for fifty seventh. I move that we send that in our study. Any questions. The motion by Senator Tucker to send for fifty seven interim study I'll second that all in favor say aye aye All opposed like sign. Thank you senator your run to thirty five. You're recognized thank you Mr Clarke Tucker state senator district fourteen I have an amendment coming over at any moment and says it's a small amendment so I'm just gonna go ahead start presenting the bill until it gets here. I'm the staff reports that she sent over right now. So this is this bill Modernizes the manner in which absentee votes are counted I want to spend a ton of time going through every section out rather kind of respond to the questions that you have but I'll just do a little bit of a broad overview and and after I do a broad overview the substance want to talk about a little bit of the process that I used to develop the language in the bill over a multi year period. Essentially you in twenty twenty they're a lot more absentee ballots cast and had ever been cast before because code and we get that and the the issue was that it exposed some of the some issues in the way absentee votes were counted like for example in current law all absentee ballots must be counted by seven thirty PM there was an issue in twenty twenty as to whether or all as the balance could be counted by seven thirty because there may be too many to be counted at that time and so does that mean if you're legitimate voter to cast an absentee ballot your vote is not counted for seven thirty your votes not counted that's not the policy that we want so I that's the sort of the issue that prompted my attention on this and. I did some investigation and and talk to a whole lot of people and came up with the bill in twenty twenty one and now and and this is a similar version of of that but but anyway I'm just going to run through the bill I'll talk more about that after president the substance but. Just on on pages two and three the changes there are to say that no absentee ballots shall be counted before eight thirty on election day because we don't want any results before election day and the way that it's changed is to say. That the County Board of election commissioners shall start counting absentee ballots before the polls close and shall count all absentee and early votes continuously except for the overseas voters that have a different timeline shall count them continuously and complete that before start of starting the county tabulate election day votes so that process will be completed promptly. we're not extending that time one. we also just wanna make sure that were accurate and doing everything the right way so a lot of language over the next several pages is the process by which absentee ballots are canvassed and that's that that's the ward that is used to determine whether they were properly cast or not so there's a two phase process for that one is with essentially a poll worker and we have two people taking a look at that in that process either everything is there that was submitted with the absentee ballot and they put it in a pile for the vote to be counted and that's a voter statement of voter ID the ballot inside a sealed inner envelope. and whatever else may come if ever if it if all the boxes are checked the ballot is is put in a in a pile four to be counted if something is missing then it's put in a pile for to be cured there's going to be basically the only to those it's gonna be put in a powerful provisional ballots And those basically are the only two can categories right now there's three categories one is balance that will be counted ones that are provisional and ones that won't be counted and this eliminates the the pilot says they won't be counted and it may not be cured inmate on opening would be counted but is just put in a provisional pile and people now have an opt out an option to cure their ballot and that's also what's laid out in the bill. The cure process is really a key part of this right now if you're ballot is marked as provisional there's a lot of circuit clerk's do great work in notifying these people but we want everybody who's ballot is marked as provisional be notified that there's a problem with the ballot and and that's what's required it's and it says that if your ballot is marked as provisional then the County Board of election commissioners has to notify you as soon as possible but no later than forty eight hours after your ballot is marked as provisional to let you know the process for curing your ballot so there is a notification process and then the second part of that is there's two ways for a ballot to be cured if one is a more secure process and I worked with Clint Lancaster to identify the causes for the more secure cure process one is if you don't include your voter ID a second is if you don't include your voter statement third is if the address on your absentee ballot application. And your voter statement don't match I'm in that a fourth is if you're signatures don't match if if if the one of those four items is the problem with your ballot in the only way you can cure your ballot is to show up in person and personally verify. That your the voter of that here's the Amendment. so that's kind of the more secure care process and then there's a a less secure due process and these are things where ballots getting FOR what I would term non serious reasons like if you leave one digit off your zip code or some such thing like that and then you can cure your ballot in writing by noon police by noon on the Monday following the election. So that's that's really that process beyond that there was an issue in Pulaski County after the twenty twenty election where some apps a box of absentee ballots was misplaced so there's something in here because we want to avoid that ever happening again and so there's a chain of custody guidelines in the bill to make sure that never happens and then there's also language in the bill that if the County Board of election commissioners suspects fraud on any ballot and they have to notify all the candidates in that race and they also have to notify the local prosecuting attorney another point is that all absentee ballot materials are retained in case there's a question about the election so if there's a recount court or something like that then every all the materials that were submitted can be you know reviewed and investigated as part of the recount or as part of the judicial challenge so that's I'll be happy to take any questions for the substance but I want to talk for just a moment about the process I filed this bill as I mentioned two years ago. And Senator Hester now the only to a hold over from state agencies from last session so he's going to be the only one who remembers this but I made I don't know forty. Changes to the bill two years ago fifty I'm not sure it was it was a time and was based on input that I received from a former Senator Ballenger a largely and I received a whole lot input from senator Hammer and made a lot of changes that at his request and at the end either those all improve the bill I think we had a good bill this is not an ideological bill it's really just a pragmatic bill to improve the process by which absentee votes are counted. and so this session I even paired the bill down to cut out some of the things that were in it and then as I mentioned I worked with Clint Lancaster he had to be in court in Jonesborough this morning otherwise Mr Lancaster would been sitting here at the table with me And he wrote me a text message to relate to you all it's. Rather lengthy so I don't want to go through the whole thing but he just said it's been a pleasure to work on this bill we've met several times. and he wants the want to express his support for the bill The bill at first glance appears to radically overhaul absentee voting that is merely an illusion the bill rearranges multiple parts of the current statute to make it more cool coherent. The parts to do make changes both in favor of election integrity while preserving the right to vote he also noted that here we are quoted an ultra conservative election denier and votes press or working with an elected Democrat so I mean that's kind of one point I just wanted to make to you all this is really not and an ideological piece of legislation it's just a pragmatic way to improve the process by which absentee votes are counted it's been vetted by the circuit clerk's in the counties so anyway with that I'll be happy to take any questions. The. Just take up the matter of the amendment yeah you want to explain the amendment yes this is just a very minor change this was also suggestion from Mr Lancaster it's just this is for the preservation of absentee ballot materials in case anything comes up the way the current bill raises as election commissioners shall preserve all absentee ballots and this is changing I'd say shall preserve all absentee ballots and absentee ballot material so anything else that comes in with an absentee ballot that's that's in the amendment moved to pass on the amendment appreciate a good vote motion by Senator Tucker on the amendment second by Senator crawl all in favor say aye opposed Like sign thank you senator Tucker. Presented the bill any questions Senator crawl. Our colleague had leave and president so I have a couple for him please Page three line seven through thirteen while he likes the specifics of the new process he's concerned about striking the requirement for absentee and early votes there shall be counted prior to the closing the poll on election day is there any way to merge the new language while keeping that requirement. I don't believe so and that's really the issue that I mentioned at the top because what if you have too many absentee ballots to be counted by the close of the polls on election day what happens to the people's ballots who were weren't counted by the time the polls close they just don't get counted I don't think that's right the new language does have shall in there so they have to begin counting the ballots before the polls close on election day and then they have to count them continuously until they're completed so it's still of a very succinct process it just gives the Election Commission the ability to finish counting. Whatever that process is complete I think ninety nine percent of the time it'll be before the polls close on election day but in that one percent it just lets all the ballot to be counted before they finish perfect Page ten line twenty two and Page eleven line two and three. E. mail telephone and text message use in these two areas what if someone only has a lan line and Texan is not available. So then it'll be so on this point if you notice it says email telephone and text message not for. So that if they have a phone number to call and text so the tax that go through they still get a phone call. All I got. Your questions. Seeing none of. And no one signed up for for against the bill the. You will close your bill I appreciate your time members and I appreciate a good vote a move to pass all as amended on the bill. You are at no it discussion Senator Hester so just for I just want to reiterate what senator Tucker has said we amended this thing to death I mean the I appreciate like for people that are election denier sent to you know to to all of the board have worked on this it had legitimate input and I appreciate the youngest member willing to over two sessions a man even to a last minute amendment to a bill that I think corrects the problem that I'm happy with all the Sporting. Thank you senator the other discussion. The remote motion and a second by Senator Hester all in favor say aye opposed Like sign thank you senator. Thank. We did two seventy five. He was just. Okay. All right. I see no more business I guess we'll be back Thursday to do the constitutional amendments thank you all. Return.