ALC-Executive Subcommittee

And from the agenda so we'll move to us see and Mr you're recognized to go in to see. Thank you Mr chair tell their gear of Legislative Research thank you all have in front of you draft Council rule updates and I'm just gonna go over the couple places here the all the changes are bred in your packet the first changes on page 2. This is adding a study to the review subcommittee. Regarding the office of state procurement and this is at looking at the benefits to state agencies a procuring a statewide contract with a consultant. Then on page 5. Under the personnel subcommittee and ACT 113 as 1 of your EBT package of bills and is creating and new EBT subcommittee said this is just removing those duties from the personnel subcommittee. I'm Page 7. M. at the direction of the leadership this is removing or repealing the a ham subcommittee and there's language at the beginning here that states that the members of that subcommittee will now serve on the new subcommittee that's formed on the next page. So page 8 under Act 113 at this establishes the employee benefits division oversight subcommittee. The language here regarding the duties of that subcommittee or pull directly from an act. And they will hear it similar to the lottery subcommittee all items that would normally go to other subcommittees will. Contracts rules that type of thing will go to the subcommittee it has to do with EBT. And then you have a separate page here in your packets those are all the changes in the in the big at rules this one I wasn't sure where to place it so we set it out as a standalone page for you to look at and this is related to M. the law enforcement officer money that is being provided and we don't have an act number yet on that one although it has been sent to the governor there's an appeal process in that bill that sends it to Legislative Council so in the event that the secretary of the department of finance and administration makes a determination that monies have been paid out in a Lee and attempts to pull those back. At law enforcement agency can appeal that decision in the appeals to slate of council so I just left this blank as to which subcommittee this would be assigned to however there has been some discussion of sending it to the peers subcommittee due to the financial aspect of the appeal and that that is for you all to decide now. State route placements you do those are all the changes. Without objection will send it to appear in any member have any objection to that. When the objection of this rule is adopted. So with that we'll go to miss Garrity for discussion of March and April meeting dates for LC. There's been a request with the timing of the fiscal session and the March dates for council to postpone the March council date and then to have the first meeting of Legislative Council in April the original dates we're going to be April 11 through the fifteenth and the request is to move that back to April 18 through the 20 second so Legislative Council meet on the 20 second and it's subcommittees would meet the 18 through the 20 first. I see no objection please provide notice was sent out notice to all the members of. When I go to the director's reports just 2 quick items under the law I'm required to give an update to the subcommittee on the status of the code of Arkansas rules our staff has been working hard on this and this last month we had our first set of rules approved by the department of agriculture as codified we're making good progress the agencies have been great to work with the working group at the executive branch which includes the AG's office has also been great to work with so we're moving along on those also we are moving along on the special language project that we've been tasked to do to begin to codify special language that has been just re promulgated year after year this last Friday Matthew and Kevin and I met with Robert rack and Jordan Burgess to talk about the process and to talk about the agency's involvement with that and so we're moving forward the idea is that in the October budget hearings you will see the Executive rack the current language and then the proposed codified special language. Thank you for that report seeing no further business we stand adjourned.