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Speaker 6 3:47
right let's do it all right members we will call to order the administrative
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 3:54
rules subcommittee thank you for being here today if you'll make your way to your seats and log in members to your to your unit right there and to the to our guests thank you for being here wannan to remind those that wish to comment on a rule to go ahead and sign in up at the front you'll be able to specify which role in which you wish to comment on. we will be taking that signup sheet here momentarily and so members will kick it off but before we do we've got some special guests in the room we want to say hello to and Representative McClore, would
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Speaker 10 4:29
you like to welcome them today? let's see
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Representative Rick McClure Unverified 4:36
here let's make sure we get you turned on here thank you chairman. today we have the hot spring County leadership group it's a one year program and they are all occupying the back center row and they're led byeraldla who just raised his hand why don't all of you wave at us and they are here and want to thank them as well as all the other leadership groups that come through for all their hard work and and trying to better the process and prepare themselves for leadership thank you chairman.
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 5:08
all right thank you for joining us todayembers if you'll look on the agenda we had staff send out a few emails this week but also just to remind you that C1A and C7B have been pulled from consideration for the request from their agencies and so we can talk about that more if needed but those beens struck out and will not be on the agendas today and so with that we will move forward moving tob on your agenda item B and so we're going to welcome the department of Corrections to the table today for their quarterly ending reports Gentlemen thank you for being here today if you willu if you will introduce yourself
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Speaker 17 6:01
you'll be recognized to to present Wadehodges
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Speaker 18 6:05
chief of staff department of Corrections. Kevin Smith administrator postrison transfersfer
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Speaker 17 6:10
board thank you gentlemen you can proceed yes sir we updated a few of our policies I think we have the explanations contained in our summary there some of it was just due to programs being restructured and a little bit of clarification and to bring things in compliance with evidencebas practices be happy to answer any questions thank you Mrhodges. any comments on
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 6:34
the on the postrison board we had no updates for this quarter. thank you members any questions see none. these will be filed. bothth will be filed all right and you're dismissed thank you heartar members moving to see let's see this week that we this section we have the agencies rules for the month so let's see as we mentioned before C1 has been strict stricken from our agenda so we will go to two C1a excuse me who's been struck so we'll go to two we'll invite the department of commerce to join us at the table? thank you for being here if you will introduce yourself for
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Speaker 28 7:40
the record you'll be recognized if you'll hit the button thank you thank you good morning Esperanza Macenarane a director of
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Speaker 30 7:47
small business and entrepreneurship development division at ADC. good morning Bryan. I'm counsel with the AEdC. thank you you're recognized to present your rules so this morning we have3 rules before the committee A and B both pertain to the minority business enterprise and women owned business enterprise programme one is the certification that's a and b is the loan mobilization program rules we are seeking to repeal these because they've been repealed by implication by Act 116. Thank you we'll take them one
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 8:23
at a time. so this is a at this point members any questions for C2A on the repeal see none. this this without objection this rule is reviewed and approved moving to see toB. and I know you you mentioned that already. any other comments on the miss no other comments? OK members any questions on B seeing none this without objections to be
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Speaker 30 8:52
reviewed and approved. All right, moving to C and then C is seeking the repeal of the rules for the consolidated consolidated incentives Act that goes back to the 2023 session and that was a leftover piece of rulemaking and we have managed to get that through the process and we are seeking to repeal those now. Those rules are duplicative
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Speaker 37 9:10
of the statute and they don't really do much in terms of of pushing forward the the legislative intent of the statute thank you
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 9:17
for that description members any questions for C? all right seeing none without objection these are reviewed and approved. thank you for being here today. thank you thank you our members we're going to go to3C3 on the agenda with the department of commerce as well statesurance department if you'll make your way to the table thank you
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Crystal Phelps Unverified 9:58
for being here today if you'll introduce yourself for the record. Good morning. My name is Crystal Phelps and I'm an attorney with the Arkansassurance Department. Jimmy Harrissurance commissioner state insurance department thank you for being here today you're recognized to present your role. Act426 of2025 provided the insurance department with the authority to promulgate rules for a registration program for online marketplace guarantee providers What is an online marketplace? It is a person or an entity that provides online access to a service. an online marketplace guarantee is an agreement through which an online marketplace provider guarantees that a user of the service will indemnify an owner in the case of someone causing damages to the owner's property. The best way I know to explain all that gobbledygook is to say that aaron Be would be considered an online marketplace provider and aaron Be offers a host damage protection program and through that program people who rent their facilities through airbnb can obtain a guarantee from Airbnb that in the event that someone renting that facility damages it and doesn't pay for the damages Airbnb will step in to make sure that the property owner is made whole.
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Speaker 48 11:18
I can elaborate further if you would like I appreciate that description
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 11:24
members any questions see none without objection this rule is reviewed and approved. thank you for the description. Thank you. all right members we're going to go to4 Department of Education you're invited to the table today the rule related to adult diploma programme. as a reminder members these are all in your packets you can scan ahead if you if you needed all right you are recognized
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Speaker 52 11:59
to introduce yourself good morning ladies and gentlemen of the committee. Daniel Schultz counsel for the department of Education
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Speaker 53 12:04
sub again last minute for our chief of staff who's taken ill unfortunately the rule we have is the update
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Speaker 52 12:13
to the rules governing Arkansas the Arkansasdult diplomagra. This program is stutted in the 21 session where the department was given rulemaking authority on the prices that each milestone would yield to a program participant Act502 of the 20 s of the session rather set those those price points in statute obviouslybviously we've been following the statute but this is updating the rule to reflect the statutory changes be happy to answer any questions
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 12:44
thank you Mr Schultz and so just double clicking down on this a little bit this this relates to the different thresholds of hours needed is that correct sir ok will you describe the three the three areas of threshold I
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Speaker 55 12:58
believe they're the segments well the the so the milestones that that would allow you to
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Speaker 53 13:04
receive payment of your yes sir so the they are kind of there's a couple different ones so the amounts for each student sorry, just be sure I'm looking in the right place. I apologize Mr Chairman. so the earned workforce credentials are kind of the the main ones I think and if it's a fi0 hour credential that would pay $250 250 dollars will also be paid for a complete employment skills cer certification and for one half of a high school credit. so one half of high school credit the employment skills certification or an earned workforce credential of less than50 hours is $250 pursuant to the statute an earned workforce credential between50 hours and 100 hours is500 dollars and an earned workforce credential of more than 100 hours is750 dollars $1000 is for earning a high school diploma. thank you for that description. I'm
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 14:09
seeing it here now in in the packet. Thank you. Members any questions? Department of Education all right seeing none without objection this rules are reviewed and approved. Thank you going to5 a we'll invite DFNA to join us at the table thank you for being here if you'll introduce yourself for the record. thank
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 14:40
you Mr Chair members of the committee. Alicia austin Smith of them chief chief counsel for revenue at DFA. KeithlenderdFA
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 14:49
thank you all right you're recognized to
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 14:51
present your role. Thank you. So Arkansas law levies and excise taxx on the sale of beer and sake Act874 of2025 created a tax credit for the use of Arkansas rice in the production of beer and sake. So credit simple to qualify you have to actually be subject to the tax and then you also have to have use 20% Arkansas rice in your grain bill in the production of that beer and sake. So then to calculate the credit you just multiplied the percentage of the Arkansas rice that you use in your grain bill times the amount of the tax. so that act required DFA to provide a method for reporting and claiming this credit and we just simply took the our existing beer excise taxx reporting form and allowed you to just deduct and claim it right on the form. Provide your grain bill so you can show the math and then submit your return like you normally would on the 15th of the month. So we had our public comment hearing December3. no interested party presented comments during the hearing. we did receive ive public comments we did not make changes in response to
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Speaker 60 15:55
those comments and the public comment period closed on December 16th so we're
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 15:59
happy to answer any questions thank you diddFA consume the product that you were working on the rules we did not right all right see a question here popping up here let's see Senator Johnson you are recognized. I was
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Chair Unverified 16:13
reading some of the written complaints and it says it's narrow to for few producers but it's not written narrowlybody can do that is that
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 16:26
correct? So I, yes, so they the complaints were more we believe directed towards the actual law and not the role. The rule distracts the statute. so but depending on how they're reporting is done. perhaps they they might not have the grain bill themselves and might have to get it from the manufacturer so I I think that's where they were trying to head with that was saying that you know really it was it was maybe written for a couple of producers originally but anyone who would be entitled to take the credit could
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Chair Unverified 16:58
absolutely take the credit. So that that's what I was trying to figure out is is they're they're buying their product from somebody else which they can't verify that's not our problem or our problem with the law in my opinion it's it's their tracking problem it would not be for us to tell them how to structure their
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 17:21
business to be able to qualify for the
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 17:28
credit thank you thank you thank you Senator Johnson. Senator Irving, you're recognized thank you. I I did want to just ask about
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Senator Missy Irvin Unverified 17:34
the verification how how are we going to if they do claim the tax credit how do we then verify that they're actually um,
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 17:41
using Arkansas rice so they will claim the credit on their report. they will provide a copy of the green bill so we'll be actually able to see essentially I call it the recipe right and does does that answer your question that we would actually have that with one of the comments you know reference like validation of the grain bill and sourcing the claims and so I just I just wanted to
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Senator Missy Irvin Unverified 18:04
make sure you know that that was in place or there was a procedure in place. surely if this becomes an issue or a problem I assume thatdF andA would bring it back to us and say we may need to tweak something. I I hope that you will do that just because I
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 18:23
think I I I want this to be encouraged clearly I think anybody can buy I think but there could be some restrictions on how they can buy or those type of s purchasing agreements
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Senator Missy Irvin Unverified 18:33
I don't know. but um, but if there are issues, I hope you'll bring it back to us so we can make sure it's a fair policy. thank you thank you members any other
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 18:46
questions see none thank you for supporting our rice farmers with this rule. this without objection this is this rule is reviewed and approved. thank
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Speaker 79 18:59
you for being here you thank you uhdHS you are called to the table Members were
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 19:10
going to6 a in your right if you'll introduce yourself for the record Good morning I'm Mary Franklin,
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Speaker 81 19:25
director of the division of county operations with Department
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 19:28
of Human Services thank you for
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Speaker 85 19:31
being here you can present your role thank you today I'm here to present a rule for the SnA program. This rule it we are bringing this rule to implement changes in the federal law that were approved in the it's public law 119-21 but the one big beautiful act that was passed in July of 25. and this law makes changes to the snap program work requirement for able bodied adults without dependence and also we are also implementing a change in the way that energy assistance payments are counted and that they are now counted as unearned income unless the household contains an aged or disabled member but more specifically the changes to the able bodied adult without dependence work requirementreviously the individuals that were subject to this work requirement were 18 to54 and now that age limit is raised to age64. this work requirement also now includes as part of the definition of able bodied adult without dependent that now also means if you have dependence age 14 years or above that this work requirement now applies to you as well and there were some exceptions that were removed with this new law and those exception this law removed the exception for homeless individuals for veterans and for individuals aged24 or younger, and in foster care on their 18th birthday. um, those exceptions were removed by the federal law and now we have removed them here in this rule. there were some new exceptions added in the federal law and that includes some specific definitions of Indian urban Indian and California Indian that we have now added to this rule to comply with the federal law there is a fiscal impact it's one time and it $142,910 we previously promulgated this as an emergency so this is the follow up permanent rule to the emergency promulgation that was approved and we did receive one public comment and suggesting some clarified language and proposing a form that could be made available to help individuals who need to verify exemptions medically and so we have taken that under advisement and the creation of the forum optional that people can use would not require this rule to be changed and we we do have some plans to make a make such a form available but not require a specific form because there are often medical information that people can bring that does not require you know a specific standardized form for us to review it and see that the person could meet an exemption you ranklin. I
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 22:45
see a few questions here Representative rose you're recognized thank you Mr Chairman. Thank you Miss
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Representative Ryan A. Rose Unverified 22:51
Franklin for presenting this today and I may have simply misunderstood or you may have misspoke or a combination of the two. If I understood you correctly you said something to the effect of this now having to deal with adults aged64 and that was I was looking at it it looked like the language on the the first page of our document struck through64 and amended it to be59 and so I just kind of wanted some clarification
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Speaker 85 23:21
on that so the able bodied the work requirement for able bodied adults without dependence goes up to age64 now there is also a general work requirement insnap that is different from the able bodydy to work, able bodied adult work requirement and that age goes up to59. and that that that basically means you can't if you're subject to that general work requirement that is not subject to the three month time limit that able bodied adults are subject to then there are alsos there are things that you cannot do such as if you get a bona fide offer of employment you can't you know refuse the job intentionally reduce work hours so that it is a little confusing. I I definitely admit that but there are two different work requirements involved insnap and the main changes were to the able bodied adult without
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Representative Ryan A. Rose Unverified 24:19
dependence work requirement and so Mr Chair if you'd allow the general work requirement for individuals 16 through59 is that the larger segment or the smaller segment of people who will be falling under these rules
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Speaker 85 24:40
those rules were already in existence so I think that the the biggest impact as far as these changes are going to be in the able bodied adults without dependence because that age limit has raised from54 to64, which means more people are subject to the rule where they can only be eligible for three months out of36 unless they are exempt or complying with the snap requirement to work. and I I
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Representative Ryan A. Rose Unverified 25:06
follow I guess I just was trying to clarify because64 is struck through in the language on this document replaced with fi9 so I was trying to figure out in what group that was referring but if you had any clarification I'd be grateful
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 25:22
and that's all I have thank you Mr Chair. thank you representative rose and Miss Franklin, if I were to summarize some of the changes there's a lot of terminology changes that necessarily don't change the content I'm seeing specifically in our packets members on page 18 where changes all references from work require work requirement to general work work requirement so a lot of just word cleanups to match federal law I'm seeing a lot of that but just for my clarification there's nothing in this rule related to the some of the things that have been in the news with the snap waivers on items that that consumers can purchase the the sugary snacks and the sodas there's nothing in this rule today that's addressing that correct thank you all right members any other questions for Miss Franklin? see none this rule is without objection this rule is reviewed and approved. thank you for being here today. you our members we're going to pause for a point of personal privilege Representative U makes. I think you'd like to recognize some folkspresentative Eumanks if you're ready I think you're wanting to recognize a great group in the crowd today. let's see
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Unverified 26:35
thank you Mr chair. Yes, I was we have leadership Logan County in the audience and I was hoping they would stand and the committee would join me in welcom them to our committee.
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 26:51
Thank you Mr Chair thank you for being here. Welcome to our committee and thank you Reverendeubanks for for calling them out today. right members we're going to go back to the agenda we're on77 a and we'll invite Department of Human Services division of medicalervices to the table. thank you for being here if you will introduce yourself for the record please.
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Speaker 106 27:22
good morning Elizabeth pitman division of medical Services. good morning Paula Stone office of Substance abuse and mental healthalth at DHS thank you for being here you can present your role this role is amending the medicaid rehab hospital manual to add the ability for rehab hospitals to have psychiatric units and bill Medicaid for psychiatric services these have been provided in general hospitals in the past but we now have a rehab hospital that wants to provide those services and we want them to be able to do that so
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 28:01
we added this this language into this rule thank you Miss Stone. M members any questions see none it it would it be fair to say that you know when I looked at this it's really helping our hospitals get reimbursed appropriately for medicaid reimbursements
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Speaker 106 28:18
is that correct? yes they there was one hospital that opened in Jefferson County, a rehab hospital and we weren't unable to they opened a psychiatric unit as well and we were unable to reimburse them without
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 28:31
this rule. thank you for the clarity right members see any other questions without objection the rules reviewed and approved. You can present
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Speaker 110 28:39
a C as well thank you at rule C is the recovery audit contractor exemption rule. it is a state plan amendment that we put in with Cms to exempt us from the recovery audit contractor requirement recovery audit contractors are contractors that are used by Medicaid and Medicare programs to review provider claims and billing and fines fraud waste and abuse overpayments and then recoup those they're generally paid on a contingency fee. We have a state law that prohibits us from using contingency fees. we also have in place several other layers of program integrity including an internal payment integrityvie office, the officefice of Medicaid inspector general and the office of the medicaid fraud Control unit at the attorney general's office so we askedcms to provide us with a waiver of that requirement. CmS approved it and we are now here getting that approved by this body and happy to take any
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 29:32
questions thank you members any questions miss Pitman, thank you for the description. Were there any public comments on on this rule? We received no public comments thank you members without any of the questions without objection this rule is reviewed and approved. thank you for being here all right members are going to s item eight on the agenda. Department of laborbor andliccensing, Arkansas State Board of Public Accountancy yes
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Speaker 115 30:11
Gentlemen, thank you for being here if you'll introduce yourself for the record Yes, I'm Tim Montgomery, the director of the Arkansas State Board of Public Accountancy with the Department of
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Dan Parker Unverified 30:28
laborbor and licensing. excuse me, I'm Dan Parker. good morning everybody. I'm the chief legal counsel for the department of laborbor and licensing which includes our state board ofublic Accountancy thank you thank you for being here you are recognized to present your role. these are the rules that are required to implement Act428 of2025 that was spun sponsored by Senator Petty and Representative warren they are designed to allow the state to continue to foster a very robust and professional accounting profession and they're supported by the department by the board and numerous feedback and comments that we received from accounting professionals so we are happy to answer any
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 31:11
questions and would appreciate the committee's support thank you for the description and members I will highlight that this is in a way two rules that are kind of overlapped and so we will be reviewing them together and I think Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Parker if you could describe I know there were some public comments for and against if you will on some of the directions on the the pathway I forget the phrasing but pathway to accreditation maybe changing lowering some of the hours and some of the the processes could you talk a little bit about that that description and and
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Dan Parker Unverified 31:51
some of the comments for and against yes and I'm gonna turn that over to our director Tims more familiar with the nuts and bolts of the profession. He is a CPA himself and for the record there I think an excellent job
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Speaker 115 32:06
as the director of this board thank you counsel. we received so so there are probably3 or4 major there are probably3 or4 major changes that we're making the first one would be adding additional pathway to CPAlicenger that is right now you have to have 150 hours of semester credit hours and so we're adding that that pathway is still there but we're adding a pathway to where you can have a bachelor's degree basically containing all the only 120 hours of college credit with two years of experience. so it adds an extra year of experience but takes away those extra30 hours of college. most of the in fact almost all of the coms we received on on that additional pathway we're very positive in addition to that there are 26 states in in in our country that have already proposed similar if not the exact same legislation and improved this additional pathway there are 17 other
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Speaker 118 33:15
states that are planning on proposing legislation this this year so about40 of the55 boards ofccoancy in America we'll we'll have this as well. The others I
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Speaker 115 33:29
think are we will follow along just haven't done that yet we're also defining the rules that of substantial equivalency that is what allows an out of state CPA to service clients in Arkansas without the need of getting an Arkansas CPA license. So basically we're recognizing a CPA from another state, uh, who is in good standing with their state. they are they are able to service Arkansas clients without getting an Arkansas license. We recognize that state license so that's called substantial equivalency. you mentioned there are two parts of the rules the first part is is our board rules. The second part is the profession our code of professional conduct basically it's just an extension of the rules as far as the comments we received, there were four negative that I would really call negative comments two of them were because we are removing the government not for profit requirement for licensure that's so in order to license you have to have a certain amount of upperle accounting hours and within those hours, you you have to get certain core requirements like tax and audit accounting information systems things like that one of the requirements we used to have was government not for profit we're we're asking to remove that requirement. certainly our universities can still require that for the accounting degree we're not you know we don't have any but as far as licensure we're removing that and that's because we were only one of two or three states that actually had that requirement and so that was a little difficult when we had out of state's coming CPA's coming in and wanting to get a reciprocal license. here we are requiring a course that they didn't have to take the other and lastly the other two negative comments were just based on the timing of these rules and and or or the this commenter had just obtained their CPA license this past year and and I think they felt bad that others are gonna got easier after they completed it and it's not easier that's to me that's one thing that I want to make clear this additional pathway doesn't make the pa it it's not an easier pathway it's just a different pathway you have to get more
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 36:04
experience versus more education. thank you for the
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Senator Terry Rice Unverified 36:09
clarification Senatorice you're recognized for a question thank you appreciate you being here. I'm wondering if if you can clarify for me I heard you say that 17 more states are proposing changing legislation but I wasn't clear with what you said on the contiguous states to Arkansas do we have that crossover now or with some some of them
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Speaker 115 36:32
or all of them well when I was talking about the states that that is adding this additional pathway that we're proposing as well yes that's what this will do 26 states have already passed legislation to to have this additional pathway there are 15 or 16 states that arefiing legislation this year to do that as well we didn't have to file legislation because that 150 hour requirement wasn't in statute. it was actually in board rule. so that's why it's we did have to make some changes which Act428 did but as far as the
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Speaker 118 37:08
150 hour requirement it's mostly a rule change for Arkansas thank you for that
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Speaker 36 37:14
clarification thank you Mr Cha. members any other questions seeing
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 37:20
none without objection this this rule and these rules are both reviewed and approved. Thank you for being here thank you very much all right members that completes that section we're going to d and this is with an agency asks to be excluded from a reporting requirements we're going to invite department of Education to the table. Mr. Schultz, if you'll join us back again Quick reminder members that last month we held over this request from the department of Education from being excluded this was related to kind of two agencies discussing what's best because of the rules and statutes that kind of pointed to each other between the department of Education and department of commerce. Mr. Schultz, welcome back if you could maybe add some some more description and clarity on
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Speaker 53 38:04
on that situation. thank you Mr Chairman appreciate that tee up so I
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Speaker 52 38:08
think perhaps we've been able to to satisfy some concerns and and something that probably should have been included last month that wasn't is that there is an existing rule that that governs the program that was promulgated by the division of career and technical Education and that is that in conjunction with the fact that the laws kids rulemaking authority to an entity in commerce is why we're asking to be excluded we have the rules we need and we we don't have
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 38:34
the ability to promulgate new ones OK thank you members any questions on that OK this will require a motion in a second in a vote to exclude them so I would entertain a motion we've got a first and a second all in favor signaled by saying aye opposed like sign all right thank you thanks for being here thank you that that has passed motionless carries and you can go ahead and stay we'll move to E members and we've got the department of Education as well for the evaluation of the of review of group3 pursuant to actct781 and so if you'd like to present, please
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Speaker 53 39:12
move forward. thank you Mr Chairman. keep this one pretty simple. These are the division of public school academic facilities and
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Speaker 52 39:20
transportationApsaf rules there are 18 of them and we the department needs to retain all eight
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Speaker 34 39:28
emerg any questions for the agency see none we will we will also need a motion to accept the division's request it's got a motion
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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified 39:40
in a second all in favor say aye opposed like sign all right motion carries. thank you for being here today thank you committee all right members we're going to Our members this is all in your packet the agencies do stand ready if there's any questions you can review those this is all concerning the the outstanding rulemaking from the 2023 session we've got representatives here from from all the agencies if anybody I'm looking to see if anybody has any questions for those otherwise we'll move forward all right and I don't believe that takes a motion or vote correct staff all right so see no questions we thank the agencies for being here and ready standing ready for appearance but we will move forward to to the last segment on our agenda let's see here which isg this is our monthly updates those are also in your packet as well. members any questions on those seeing none no actions required these will be filed. members any others outstanding business thank you for being here today. go have a great week. we adjourned
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Agenda

A. Call to Order

3:50

B. Reports on Administrative Directives Pursuant to Act 1258 of 2015, for Quarter Ending December 31, 2025

5:28

C. Rules Filed Pursuant to Arkansas Code § 10-3-309

6:55

D. Agency Request to Be Excluded from Reporting Requirements of Act 595 of 2021

37:25

E. Evaluation of Rule Review Group 3 Agencies Pursuant to Act 781 of 2017 and Act 65 of 2021

38:54

F. Agency Updates on the Status of Outstanding Rulemaking from the 2023 Regular Session Pursuant to Act 595 of 20211

39:47

G. Agency Monthly Written Updates Pursuant to Act 595 of 2021 Concerning Rulemaking from the 2025 Regular Session

40:26

H. Adjournment

40:53

Documents

TitleTypePagesSource
Agenda — ALC - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES, Feb 19, 2026 Agenda 4 Official source ↗
A. Summary Agenda_February 19 2026 Exhibit 45 Official source ↗
B.1 DOC Admin Dirs Qtr. Ending 12.31.25 Exhibit 58 Official source ↗
B.2 PPTB Admin Dirs. Qtr. Ending 12.31.25 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
C.2.a. REPEAL Minority Business Enterprise and Women-Owned Business Enterprise and Acts 2025 No 116 Exhibit 21 Official source ↗
C.2.b. REPEAL Minority Business Enterprise and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Loan and Acts 2025 No 116 Exhibit 23 Official source ↗
C.2.c. REPEAL Rules for the Consolidated Incentive Act of 2003 Exhibit 83 Official source ↗
C.3.a. Online Marketplace Guarantee Provider Registration Rule and Acts 2025 No 426 Exhibit 13 Official source ↗
C.4.a DOE DCTE Rule Governing the Arkansas Adult Diploma Program and Act 502 of 2025 Exhibit 13 Official source ↗
C.5.a DFA Beer Excise Tax and Acts 2025 No 874 Exhibit 4 Official source ↗
C.6.a DHS DCO SNAP Updates from HR1 Exhibit 160 Official source ↗
C.7.a DHS DMS Rehabilitative Hospital Provider Manual Exhibit 2 Official source ↗
C.7.c DHS DMS Recovery Audit Contractor Exemption SPA Exhibit 3 Official source ↗
C.8.a DLL Code of Professional Conduct and Board of Public Accountancy Rules and Acts 2025 No 428 Exhibit 139 Official source ↗
D.1 DOE DCTE Revised Request for Exclusion_6 CAR 300_307_Act 867 of 2023 Exhibit 11 Official source ↗
E.1 DOE DPSAFT Act 781 Report Exhibit 5 Official source ↗
G.1 Arkansas Ethics Commission_02.01.26 Exhibit 24 Official source ↗
G.10 Department of Finance and Administration_02.01.26 Exhibit 3 Official source ↗
G.11 Department of Health_02.01.26 Exhibit 5 Official source ↗
G.12 Department of Human Services_02.01.26 Exhibit 7 Official source ↗
G.13 Department of Inspector General_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.14 Department of Labor and Licensing_02.01.26 Exhibit 8 Official source ↗
G.15 Department of Public Safety_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.16 Department of Shared Administrative Services_02.01.26 Exhibit 2 Official source ↗
G.17 Department of the Military_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.18 Department of Transportation_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.19 State Board of Finance and Treasurer of State_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.2 Arkansas Public Service Commission_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.3 Benton County Regional Solid Waste Management District_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.4 Department of Agriculture_02.01.26 Exhibit 3 Official source ↗
G.5 Department of Commerce_Arkansas Economic Development Commission_02.01.26 Exhibit 2 Official source ↗
G.6 Department of Commerce_State Insurance Department_02.01.26 Exhibit 5 Official source ↗
G.7 Department of Corrections_02.01.26 Exhibit 1 Official source ↗
G.8 Department of Education_02.01.26 Exhibit 6 Official source ↗
G.9 Department of Energy and Environment_02.01.26 Exhibit 2 Official source ↗

Speakers

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Senator Tyler Dees Chair Unverified
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Representative Rick McClure Unverified
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Speaker 37
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Crystal Phelps Unverified
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Speaker 53
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified
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Chair Unverified
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Senator Missy Irvin Unverified
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Speaker 79
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Speaker 81
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Speaker 85
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Representative Ryan A. Rose Unverified
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks Unverified
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Speaker 106
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Speaker 110
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Speaker 115
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Dan Parker Unverified
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Speaker 118
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Senator Terry Rice Unverified
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