Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development - Senate

this is nothing but organization meeting there no bills to be heard today but I want us to introduce yourself to staff. And have definitions of us when we come back for a meeting picture on the table will be reversed I'll be sitting at that in in witnesses will be sitting here and that way we can all look at the audience don't have a back to the audience so. Big deal the Ronald Caldwell chair of egg of sorry my live in the year it in the Senate and serving district ten which should comprise of ten counties ironically if anybody wants part of mileage you have on the. But I go from the Jackson County which is Newport to the north through the wind and a gust of recording for shooting Marianna stood guard with Brinkley Hazen this or not of all fluff so I have there's a lot of agro through there I got to have people have more rice acreage and everybody else combined so you'll hear things coming up about rice's during the session and we'll talk about that later but anyway I'm glad you all chose agro the committee comprises of lot of other subject matters other than Agra the oil and gas parks and tourism the economic development of so I've I ask I understand it be review may have bills coming back for you familiar with that general offer they have the rebar plans coming up I've asked bill bill come back to Agra so that we can discuss the economic development values of it the the first year they came to agro the last two times a day for the Senate to revenue tax which I'm also alone but they don't they they discuss the actual revenue they don't discuss economic development have effects of different counties and things of that nature so there there will will have some the unix of the matters that you all were not familiar with with the with that saying else to start here with senator so that introduce himself or will go around the table and then one last staffed in addition to okay Masto last year that I've Committee I have Senate district to go from job to city if the Louisiana line all the way north of here in just a few miles I spent the last forty three years interest free I know that for free fall under the purview the agriculture I thought I could use a natural fit for me to be to be and represent the fourteen. I don't want to set this. Those already on the. Thank you John appreciate your Ben Gilmore Senate district one which looking number one when people start colander list they start with one so I can tell you all what you Sir getting calls up on him first but my district goes from Grant County all the way down to the Louisiana line and over to Mississippi so the whole southeast corner is mine I don't have quite as many counties run but close I have eight counties and so the lottery to cover. Tyler dis I represent district thirty five thirty five the end of the list and we're the book and Senate realized. And honor to be on this committee this was my first choice I've got a background with with poultry industry working for Simmons foods it's so would love to be a a voice for a lot of the poultry farmers in Northwest Arkansas represent western Benton county in western Washington County live and silent springs it so happy to be here today. Fredrick Love Seven month thirteenth year the legislation freshen the Senate hi Sir I served on add my own. My freshman year. When I came into the legislature some happy to being on hit on this committee again I serve only one county which is Pulaski. Thank you. I'm Breanne Davis I've and been in the Senate since two thousand eighteen and some creeping up on five years and this is my first time to be on that committee and I have a small flower farm and which is a different type of agates little niece thing but and I really enjoyed it and so I am glad to be here. Dave Wallace District nineteen this is my third time on a committee I represent all and city council Poinsett County almost all Poinsett County in most of cricket council with the exception of the town of Jonesborough. Glad to be here. Hi my Jon Jones legislative analyst with the bureau this is my second session staffing media agriculture forestry and economic development committee I'm glad to be back serving this committee and look forward to working with you all. We'll have fun we'll have some controversies I'm sure but to be a lot of fun things to come up put Senator Leding is not here I would love for him to come let in plain view of the subject of artificial insemination that he tried to run to build on last time and coming from failed we just really didn't understand it but anyway we we had a good time doing that and of we will get together I've already had several lobbyist to ask about taking us to dinner the in times past with COVID that we were not able to go out own committees of not heard and say that we weren't going to that I think your things back up to full speed so if you have a restaurant of choice of please let me know someone has suggested the new red oak restaurant in the pine bluff it It searching casino which is supposed to be the nicest to a restaurant in the state now so it didn't matter to me we went in and we're not limited to to one time we're limited one time per week so what we have to give notice to the bill are on what we're going to do at least twenty four hours and but it and I don't want to take your time away from other things that you have going on but if if you all have something that you want to do we'll do that the other other things that folks have tried to get is lined up to do and and touring some marijuana growing facilities which falls under our purview that the I don't smoke in an ever have a I don't drink but there's a lot of things that come under our purview the the that we have to legislate so but if you feel have anything that you want to the the tour or look at the during the session. We could to look it to fitting the description of. Okay. Okay. Okay the folder you have copy rules here and and they're they're basically the committee rules that that would normally follow the thing the the of the ordinary. If you want to take a second and look at that. No Sir king who is a the having a lot of the debate about the five votes the Because of of cameras or microphones I'm very the OCD about making sure that we have the members here I don't been rules on that play by the rules I want to go do the same thing And so we've done it before however I run a very open the Committee in in but try to run a very fair committee even if it's something I don't agree with that you want to run that you're privileges senator and I respect the decorum of the Senate in the in the committee and so we will we will try to do that that doesn't mean that you're gonna get your bill passed so. You know for someone we all agree on a far five do we will pass it and if not then we want but one thing I would try to say stay away from until the end of the session is it when everything you should be able to open it is signing a bill out of rather have discussed in committee heard in committee and voted on in committee but if we if we get the to the end of the something then then that's something that we can allow do takes five members to sign a bill out and sign a yes vote so any questions on rules. motion do pass from center you're more the second president Wallace all in favor say aye aye. It. When we go back to you'd mentioned the towers and. And meetings early and often we do this outside of session but if the if there were times your session or two the the we always have of people in the for sure entry once committed to our lumber mills for or a plywood meals or things of that nature of we have a the marijuana growing facilities is brand new that all has taken place since I've been here and so again of this just often enough support voted for but census law the land and I'm elected to uphold the constitution and then we have to legislate on on my question about scheduling of that it's going to twenty four hours notice and we're not not necessarily true but if a fetus okay so we have to give bill our anytime of the year we would arrange our own. Time frame then give bill are the the notice that we want to do this and they get approved and signed off on. The. Yeah so I mean we made schedule three weeks out you right now you know but but bill are has to have a minimum twenty four notice we even three weeks notice. 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