House Convenes

I am by the member staff press and guests in the galleries to stand and be led in prayer by the house chaplain Dr rex Horne retired pastor Emmanuel Baptist church in Little Rock and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance to be led by representative Lane Jean. Let's pray. Father in scripture we read that we. Really are at our best when we look not to our own interests but to the interest of others. And so we pray today for those that we're mindful of Even today and in recent hours have suffered great loss and their family. We pray that your presence and spirit will minister comfort and hope to them for others to serve here in the capital who are having health issues and other matters we would lift them to you today as well. But as we look at our own life we recognize that we seem to hear your voice more clearly in the stillness of the mind. Are in the early morning. But even conversations here today reminds us of the change that comes even what we anticipate would be an ordinary day. So make us mindful in the biz the business of the day and the tasks to be performed. That you're here that you're at work. And as we bow our heads and our hearts to you today we also commit. Our days and our ways to you in Jesus name amen. Members please indicate your presence by pushing yellow present button prepare the machine Mr Clerk. Cast about Mr Clark. Ninety eight members present. The chair sees a quorum are there any request for leave represent Matix for what purpose. You're recognized leave a representative Johnson is leave granted for representative Johnson. Though noted. Representive. Any other. Represent Fredrick Love moved to dispense the reading of the previous day's Journal without objections so ordered. Are the reports from select committees read reports Mr Clark. Mr Speaker we are committee on joint budget to whom was referred house bill ten fifty nine house bill ten seventy house bill ten seventy nine beg leave to report we've had the same under consideration here the terms saying the recognition they do pass respectfully submitted Lane Jean chair Mister Speaker you Committee on joint budget to whom was referred house bill ten thirty four beg leave to report we've had the same under consideration here with turn the same the recognition do pass as amended number three Smith was omitted Lane Jean chair. Other fortune standing committees are there any is there any unfinished business any Executive communications. Mr Clark please read House resolution ten thirty one. House resolution ten thirty one by representative Tosh to congratulate and recognize the west side high school Air Force junior reserve officer training corps on its many achievements and acts of service. Representantes you're recognized explain resolution. Thank you Mr Speaker with your permission I'd like to ask representative Cavenaugh and representative Ladyman if okay John here twelve. College thank you again today for allowing me this opportunity to recognize another outstanding school from my area. It's the west side the the west side high school and what we're recognize the recognizing them today for is not about a sporting event or even of anything of that nature but it's more about their commitment to the airforce junior ROTC program and I'll get into that just a little more in detail but what brought this about was about a month ago I had the opportunity to attend a west side basketball game and as I sat there and I watched on as they presented the colors in the ROTC they they came out I mean it was so impressive and being someone that when I was in college I was a member of the Arkansas State University drill team so I really watch for these things and they were perfectly aligned and and even you know when they made their payments their arms came to their side they knew exactly how to come up their hands and it was just so sharp so much precision and it was so impressive. And I thought wow for a high school. You know group to be able to do this so afterwards I knew the superintendent our good friends and I visited with him and he had a lot to me about the complex much of this program that west side high school so some of the things that these group and they're in the balcony are up here and I recognize them in just a minute with their with their commander and also the principal but before I do that he. I just want to say that the this group of twenty plus to students that we have here today they are representing the west side high school they are members of the Air Force junior ROTC program and here's just some other accomplishments colleagues there are twelve Air Force ROTC units in the state of Arkansas in two thousand nineteen the Arkansas chapter of the Air Force association started awarding the most outstanding error Force ROTC unit. Of the year award they review each of the twelve programs and make the award to the most outstanding program in the state for their school year the west side high school Air Force JROTC program has been selected to receive the award all three years that it has been presented one accomplishment the cadets have completed not only that they're involved in their communities they have completed over seven thousand hours of community service in the last five school years the majority of the community service that they have been involved in was with the food bank of northeast Arkansas or cadets have packed almost a half a million meals for those in need in our area thanks they twenty cadets in attendance today have a combined GPA. Of three point eighty five and over all have for the have a perfectly. Four point oh wow that's pretty impressive so good job west side high school Air Force JROTC is the only program in the state to have at least one cadet selected to the airforce academy in each of the last three graduating classes those cadets will commission as airforce officers in the next few years and scholarships that have been awarded to the Air Force Academy are valued from the airforce academy amend valued for over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars so congratulations and let me just recognize at this time the of the commander of this unit is major Scott Norman major would you stand up and just hold you just say and also accompanying the major is sergeant Peter Banja Luka. Also thank you and also is the west side principal Mr Chris George. Thank you all for being here and at this time representative related you have anything you want side representative Cavenaugh JB tell you which I. I want to thank you all for being here this is kind of special for me because we've had a grandson and this ROTC program and I just want to thank you for developing our future leaders of America thank you. Okay I don't wanna be the only one up here don't talk I'll be quick I promise. No I just had an opportunity to meet some of the cadets this morning and talk to him and and there's some great young people up there and I met one young man who's going on to the Air Force and talk to him a little bit so you know it's really nice to know that we have young people that are going into these programs to protect our freedoms here in the United States so let's just make it. Colleagues at this time I would like to present to you our future military leaders thank you for your willingness to. To do what you're willing to do future looks bright because of you god bless you all your journeys travel and good luck in the military is those years are ahead of you thank you for your service and what you're willing to do it this time I would like for of my colleagues here to recognize the west side high school or for junior ROTC. Speaking of you would just have the Clerk read the It in fact thank you. Mr Clark please read read resolution its entirety. Where is the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC has had many recent successes engaged in many acts of service and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC has been named the Arkansas Air Force association's air force junior reserve officer training corps unit of the year for the last three years and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC cadets have completed over seven thousand hours of community service in the last five school years including packing over five hundred thousand meals at a food bank in northeast Arkansas and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC cadets participated in a mentoring program matching them with kindergarten and first grade students at westside elementary who have been identified by their school counselor as needing a Big Brother or big sister and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC hosts an annual Batum death March memorial height which includes a fourteen mile March in honor to honor the World War two veterans to participate American and Filipino victims of the baton death March and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC train court plans to an organized Inc two and conducts a school wide ceremony annually on September eleventh to honor the more the memory of those who lost their lives on the terror attacks in two thousand one and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC recognized veterans they were placing United States flags on the graves of over five hundred military veterans at cemeteries and whereas the westside high school Air Force junior. ROTC hosts manual flag retirement ceremony which they collect hundreds of no longer serviceable United States flags from around the community and provide them with proper respectful retirement and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC cadet drill and color guard teams broke the program record by earning over thirty awards and trophies competing internal competition throughout the state and whereas the westside high school Air Force junior ROTC hosts an annual physical fitness competition for other junior reserve officer training corpus in Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee and Missouri has raised over twelve thousand dollars over the last five years to help support the west side hi west side high school Air Force junior reserve officer training corps community service efforts whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC is the only such program in the state to have at least one cadet selected from to attend the Air Force junior reserve training corps flight academy in three straight years whereas the westside high school Air Force junior ROTC currently has three former cadets enrolled in the United States airforce academy where they will learn the or earn their degree and commissions as officers in the United States airforce and whereas in the nineteen twenty nineteen twenty nineteen twenty twenty school year westside high school Air Force junior ROTC cadet Tippy was recognized as the most outstanding debt and all of that airforce junior reserve officer training course which includes over nine hundred locations and over one hundred twenty thousand cadets around the world and whereas the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC has been supported by these many successes by major Scott Norman technical sergeant Peter Mamula and other staff therefore be resolved by the house of representatives of the ninety third General Assembly of the State of Arkansas at the house of representatives congratulating recognize the west side high school Air Force junior ROTC for its many recent a compliment accomplishments and acts of service. President Tosh explain the resolution would anyone like to speak against the resolution. Would anyone like to speak for the resolution. Representantes is closed for the resolution the question before the House is the adoption of house resolution ten thirty one all in favor say aye. He opposed resolutions adopted. Mr Clark please read House resolution ten thirty nine. House resolution ten thirty nine a representative Charlene Fite resolution recognizing the first week of may twenty twenty two AS tardive di cassa awareness week in Arkansas. Resemble you're recognized explain resolution. Mister Speaker colleagues thank you may is mental health awareness month the goal of this resolution is to bring awareness and attention to tardive dyskinesia given its direct impact on the mental health community in Arkansas forty nine states and the district of Columbia or issuing resolutions and or governor proclamations our governor has again proclaim the first week of may as part of this condition week with that said I appreciate a good vote. President what is explain the resolution would anyone like to speak against the resolution. Would anyone like to speak for the resolution. President Boyd is closed for the resolution the question before the House is the pastor House resolution ten thirty nine all in favor say aye. Any opposed. Resolutions passed. Members were going to in addition to passing over House resolution ten thirty eight we're going to pass over for the time being House resolution ten forty and then additionally we're Passover House resolution ten. Morning hours ended represent Jean moves replace house bill ten fifty five on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read Amendment number one Mr Clark a member number one to House Bill ten fifty five represent gene you're recognized to explain the amendment. I miss Baker. Calling this is what we passed over yesterday for a. Stan Berry representative Stan Berry he's got his answers answered so that all this does is change language where Arkansas tech's board trustees cannot be picked by select committee counties it could be picked statewide any questions create a good vote on the amendment. President Jean is explain the amendment would anyone like to speak against the amendment would anyone like to speak for the amendment. Represent Jean is close for the amendment question before the House the adoption of a member number one to House Bill ten fifty five all in favor say aye. Any opposed. The amendment is adopted. Represent Jean you're recognized. Thank you Mr Speaker. The first two house bill wills a House bill in the Senate bill would just do the house bill four. Of these both have emergency clauses on this is the department of finance. And Administration the record or division our office budget many questions on house bill ten twenty eight. The one voted for the bill number two calls for Speaker the court be they'll third time Mr Clark please read the bill for the third time house bill ten twenty eight. Per machine Mr Clerk. Voting on the bill in the emergency clauses everyone voted. As everyone voted. Cast about Mr Clark. By a vote of eighty ninety eight zero nine a and seven present the bill emergency clause of past represent gene you're recognized. Thank you for calling the Senate bill sixty six is the claims this is what when the claims commission and the claims committee okay is claims against the state is this the part we pay the claims out of any questions. Your one voted for the bill number two calls per Speaker the Clerk read the bill third time Sir Clark please read the bill for the third time Senate bill sixty six. Per machine Mr Clerk. Urgency clauses everyone voted. Is everyone voted. Cast about Mr Clark by a vote of ninety six yeah zero nine zero present the bill emergency clause of past represent gene you're recognized. Thank you Mr Speaker college we're going take a batch. These are all bills house bills that do not have emergency clauses. For the next fiscal year. Department of corrections house bill ten ten energy environment ten eighteen proper public safety. Ten twenty six ten fifty six secretary St off corporation. Ten fifty eight of the FNA appropriation. Ten sixty parks and tourism ten sixty four Human Services the Division of county operations. House bill ten seventy sixty seven to use me Division of career technical education house bill ten seventy four. Lose my voice. Division of provider services and house bill ten eighty which is school bland twenty to pull any of these out the batch to have any questions on any of these bills. Seeing none your one vote is for all the bills Mister Speaker the Clerk read the bill third time. Sir Clark please read bills for the third time house bill ten ten house bill ten eighteen house bill ten twenty six house bill ten fifty six house bill ten fifty eight house bill ten sixty house bill ten sixty four house bill ten sixty seven house bill ten seventy four house bill ten eighty. Per machine Mr Clerk. Is everyone voted. Has everyone voted. Asked about Mr Clark. By a vote of ninety six C. A. zero nine zero present the bills are passed represent gene you're recognized. Thank your Speaker will take up the regular Senate bills for next fiscal year. We're gonna start senate bill seven. And we're going to go down to Senate bill sixty two. A lot of these universities of we passed the house back into the day with the university Senate. Of no major changes on any of these bills. Any questions. President Clowney for what purpose request you're recognized representing well as the fifty nine for conflict please. Four separate both separate vote today. Okay any others. All right members we're gonna start. Senate bill seven go all the way to Senate bill sixty two and we're pulling out. Senate bill fifty nine for a separate vote. Once again these do not have the merger clauses in the Speaker and the Clerk read the bill for the third time Mr Clark please read the bills for the third time Senate bill seven Senate bill thirteen Senate bill fifteen Senate bill sixteen Senate bill seventeen Senate bill eight teams and all twenty seven twenty four Civil twenty six in about thirty three central thirty five central thirty eight single forty three senate forty six Senate bill forty seven central forty eight central forty nine Senate bill sixty central sixty one Senate bill sixty two machine Mr Clerk. Has everyone voted. As everyone voted. Cast about Mr Clark. By a vote of ninety six C. A. zero nine zero present the bill to pass represent gene you're recognized thank you Speaker colleagues will take up Senate bill fifty nine university of Arkansas Fayetteville any questions. One voted for the bill Mercer no not the merger close my one on this is the bill of the Speaker the Clerk read the bill third time Mr Clark please read the bill for the third time Senate bill fifty nine per machine Mr Clerk. As everyone voted. As everyone voted. Cast about Mr Clark. By a vote of eighty eight Yeas four Nays and one present the bill is passed represent gene you're recognized. Thank you Mr Speaker. We have a four bill Senate bills with emergency calls and Senate bill one O. two former finance Senate bill one O. three former finance. Of Senate bill one O. four apartment Veterans Affairs and Senate bill one O. five the military appropriation any questions absent Garner for what purpose request you're recognized what you pull out Senate bill one O. two please four separate. Separate vote today thank you. Any questions any other request. Okay members will take up one oh three one oh four one oh five U. one voted for the bill in the merger clause. Mister Speaker the Clerk read the bill third time Mr Clark please read bills for the third time Senate bill one O. three Senate bill one O. four Senate bill one O. five per machine Mr Clerk. Everyone voted. Is everyone voted cast about Mr Clark. Hello ninety three A. zero nine zero president bills of past. Represent gene you're recognized. Thank your Speaker will take up Senate bill one O. two department of finance administration any questions. Your one vote is for the bill the mercy calls Mr. Okay not a question okay you want build for the bill merger called miss Speaker the court Clerk read the bill third time Sir Clark please read the bill for the third time Senate bill one O. two percent Jean is explain the building would like to speak against the bill represent McKenzie you're recognized speak against the. I'm really going to try to be sweet today. Sometimes it's a challenge I'm I'm speaking against this bill and voting against this bill. And I realize. That might seem awkward and I'm probably not going to change any minds here I'm a hundred percent pro life but I'm going to vote against this bill. When I think back to the rules committee. When. The Texas heartbeat bill was there presented. And I was allowed to ask a question even though I'm not a member of the rules committee never appreciated that. One of the members. Of the pregnancy resource centers. Was there testifying in support. Of the Texas heartbeat bill. And I asked her. You know there's been a lot of discussion a lot of speculation. About this other bill this is the funding is their deal is there not a deal was the. What is your position. I don't know if folks. A chance to watch that meeting. But her position was. We didn't ask for this money. We don't want this money. We're not going to take this money. I remember her saying this is a ministry. We understand with taxpayer dollars. Come streams. We don't want those streams. And they're not as a legislator but as somebody who's Church supports one of those centers I was so thankful to hear them say that. They treated as a ministry. I've got some ministries I care deeply about that I'm involved in. I don't want taxpayer funding form. I understand. That people will say they don't have to take this money I recognize that. But as I reflect. On different appropriation bills different times and people have come up here and ask for funding. And I thought specifically about twenty nineteen when I arrived here Revenue and Tax to learning things I've never heard about A. DD waiver list. I learned real quickly and revenue tax one day when representative Mayberry brought in a bunch of people. The visuals powerful. The testimony was powerful. We were funding them. But we weren't funding them adequately enough we learn how people were waiting on that waiver list for decades. Minutos people that I looked at their and revenue tax. They were they were still looking at a long wait if I recall correctly. We do not give them any additional funding. In twenty nineteen. They came they ask for that funding they ask for in one accord not one of them came up to the microphone and said you know I don't support this funding. But with this funding right here this million dollar funding. The only testimony that I'm aware of it I've tried to follow but all. That's on the record. Came from the very people that we're sticking to fund. And they said we didn't ask for it we don't want it. What we do want they were so respectful we just want your consideration. Because we recognize there's two. Two valuable opinions on both sides of this Texas heartbeat we're just asking for to be heard that's what they came to testify for but when asked about the funding they were unequivocal. I followed up with them again the last couple weeks the ones in my district they're still unequivocal about we don't want. We didn't ask for. There's a cloud. In my opinion. Over this whole process on this. I just don't recall appropriation the sale through so easily. When many of the recipients. Are saying. We don't want it. I realize. A vote against this. May not look good. In the paper tomorrow for my pro life record. I realize a vote against this might not look good on a. Campaign mail out. The have to be fast because I'll be talking about it anyway. Because people deserve to know about the process. And make up their own minds. When I spoke to one of those pregnancy resource center leaders know what she said to me use my name please. I'm not gonna do that today. She said we feel like we've been silenced like we don't have a voice when do we ever give appropriation funding in the recipient's tell us we don't want we don't feel like we have a voice. If this bill were stripped away from all the other things that seem to be associated with that I don't know if I'd still support it maybe I would. I would I would not want to supported at the a ministry anymore that have the taxpayer funds associated with it I know I'd want to part company probably that minister still wish on well. But I support them as a ministry but that's my own personal belief but this bill right here with everything associated with it with the recipients many of them. Telling me they don't want. I cannot in good conscience. Vote for a bill that I believe there may be a possibility that this bill. Labeled as a pro life bill. Perhaps. Might have been a tool. To thwart. The success. Another important pro life bills. Some McKenzie spoken against the building would like to speak for the bill represent Lundstrum you're recognized speak for the bill. Colleagues I think we need to separate out these are two separate issues there is an abortion bill that was the Texas bill and now we are the most pro life. State in the union so we have to answer that call. If we're going to be the most pro life estate in the union we have to be prepared when those mothers come to a facility and they need help let me address that this is this is a list of the facilities in the state that say yes we want help we need help let me list where they are Benton Harrison hope Texarkana Melbourne Mountain Home Hot Springs Blytheville pine bluff state park West Memphis North Little Rock Little Rock Meena Little Rock Jonesborough Paragould all of these pregnancy resource centers have said yes we can use that one time funding. To help. New mothers with diapers resources and these are people all over the state so for going to be pro life we're gonna have to be there on the other side of that life helping them. So they're two sides to this yes there are some little choose not to and that is their choice nobody's forcing anybody but we need to be there on the other side with the help and a hand and I would ask for a good vote president flowers for what purpose question. You're recognized thank you so much just to I'm just wondering as you spoke represent Lundstrum. if this is one time money how with these. Rice's centers. Be supported moving forward. Well we'll try and see what happens I mean if they are successful they may choose to come back many of these have survived on the diamond made a dollar so let's see what they do they're going to have to work with the funds at the that they are given and see how they do it's it's a process follow up. So is this money to establish them or is this mano these are well established programs and they already have funding they already have local funding this is to accentuate that local funding thank you. Represent Lundstrum is spoken for the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill. Represent what you're recognized speak against the bill. Calling. I'm a purchase from a totally different perspective. If we start funding them this session and I'm totally pro life we've killed sixty two million babies in this nation that's a tragedy. We need to ask ourselves what are we doing. If we fund this here's what's going to happen. We're not always going to be here I'm sure a lot. I'm here next year all the provisions of that. they get sued for saying god with a that's true the limit let me share with you we're not always going to be. And money prohibition symbol. Strings will be attached to this money. I will. This is a ministry. This is an outrage. My what the law lost. In two thousand and nine. Spent twenty years supporting our option pregnancy and baby and cabin. Twenty years. I saw her strap on. construction belt she built homes she went down to the bill and help remodel the first bill. For pregnancy options Senate. About ten years ago. And I'm not saying this noon All rights praise for may but about seven or eight years ago they had to leave the facility. And I have a home. That I had moved out. And I have been using for my office. And I let them use that facility in my community. So they could have a ministry an outreach. But we do not need. This request. Because ultimately is going to come back another group of the scent of Legislative doors with the here. And they'll say you're gonna have to do this are you gonna have to do that in order to get this month. Because this is just the beginning this is this is this will be a progression. And representative Lundstrum I hate I hate to stand up against something and the but I have to agree with representative McKenzie we do not need to do this. And that and I met with them several of them about thirty five of them and then I met with them with the you we came in such. And they told me that we do not want that month. We do not want a table one time I was told there was only one there may be more now but. Please do not approve this vote against thank you represent Wooten has spoken against the building would like to speak for the bill. Represent Crawford you're recognized speak for the bill. Hello friends. This is kind of a tough place because I understand all of it. I was a pregnancy center director for seven years I ran a home for pregnant and troubled young women for twenty three years. I also have a nonprofit that road state and federal grants. And we separated on. We separated what we could do under the grant. And we separated what we could do under individual. Personal donations it can be done. And I realize one of my good friends doesn't want the money who's running a pregnancy center. But then there are others who do. What it. Just think of this. What if they got this money for one year. And they were able to buy an ultrasound machine. To show them the life of that baby. Or if they could take care of their facility. That needed some dressing. What is. One year of funding. Help save. Thank you please. I wish I could bring something to the well but I would get called out. But those pregnancy centers a lady the ladies brought to us a bag. And it had ten. Well it had nine babies now it had ten babies and a quarter of that baby if you can imagine that. Of how many babies get killed today in Arkansas. Due to abortion. What it. We say part of the. By an altar seven machine that these people can get. Well they come back for funding doesn't everyone. I mean just saying. If at some point roe V. Wade is overturned. We are going to have to step up and fun places like the singers to be able to reach out. To all those women who are now going I need help are you gonna help me. So I understand both sides of it I understand that all. But I want you to just go inside yourself your conscience. And say I'm. How many babies can be safe in here. I ask you to vote for this thank you. Represent Crawford spoken for the bill would anyone like to speak against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill. Represent Jane is recognized to close for the bill. Thank you much bigger I get a little clarity home some of things have been said I heard some concern about the DDS waiver list inside the Medicaid budget there is additional thirty seven point six million dollars to clear that out to help to help clear that out so that has nothing to do with this and this appropriation Monday will be and are one time appropriation not in our essay so it's not only going for for members and discontent that and if you want any of this money of the centers you have to apply for. And. At the end of the fiscal year if all the money is not use it did stay there start building up the ballot it will come back to the General Revenue and when will be in control of it I want to clear that up thank you. Subject Jean is close for the bill the question before the House is the passage of Senate bill one O. to prepare the machine Mr Clerk. Voting on the bill in the emergency clause. As everyone voted. Has everyone voted cast up the ballot Mr Clark. By a vote of seventy five Yeas nineteen nays and one present the bill emergency clause have passed. Members were gonna move back to the red calendar Mr Clark please read House resolution ten forty. House resolution ten forty by representative Brooks to congratulate the Harding academy Wildcats football team on winning the twenty twenty one class three A. state championship representative Brooks you're recognized to explain the resolution. Thank you Mr Speaker I'd like to invite representatives to join me in the well please. In college I want to thank you for exhibiting demonstrating to a bunch of a good young men what respectful political discourse looks like I think oftentimes in in our society today that's missed and so there's a whole group of young men who who can see what looks like back and forth and people can be respectful but how we approach issues that are very important to us so thank you it's always very excited to to present this resolution until yesterday when represent Tosh reminded us about how good value was and basically they're the king of all things from what I understood but I still think we've got some some value in this resolution today so we have the opportunity to honor the Harding academy Wildcats and I appreciate represent eaves indulging me to do this since he represents service in that area you know I'm a graduate of he was gracious enough to to let me run this resolution so we're honoring the Harding county Wildcats today on their third straight football state championship three straight puts him in a very unique club in the State of Arkansas joining such teams as the Little Rock Central Tigers prime lessee road the operator Wildcats Brown Hornets and even the Martin bears for three straight to state championships in a row so the twenty very unique club so the gentleman set up here in the gallery and would later I will get the chance honor them after we read the resolution but a couple things specific about this team again this or third straight state championship there were several young men a part of this team who. who won all state honors injure Miller you are Wallace Cooper Welch and Kate Smith I'm proud to say that three or four of those I went to school with their parents honor coach eleven Clevenger Smith Wallace coach will Francis Alice Alex Francis and can be faster their athletic trainer so everyone really unique thing about this team besides the fact that there were an outstanding football team and that more than half of them have been playing together since the third grade is that they're good young man they're young man her learning the value of not just athletics but the value of how to live life in service to others and treat people as they want to be treated so represent ease you want to share anything. Don't know that I can add much more to that but just to say I'm very proud and congratulations all the coaches staff and the players very proud of it congratulations. And the Mr Speaker please have the Clerk read the resolution one of the thing I would ask that to any parents it might be with them if you knew me when I was a teenager please leave quickly so the none of these folks have a chance to ask any questions. Mr Clark please read the resolution in its entirety whereas the twenty twenty one Harding academy Wildcats football team claim the class three A. state championship trophy after defeating the Prescott high school Curley wolves with the forty seven twenty five victory at war Memorial Stadium in little rock Arkansas and whereas the twenty twenty one Harding academy Wildcats football team's victory gave the school its third consecutive class three A. state championship and whereas the twenty twenty one Harding academy Wildcats football team's victory was particularly special for the school and community as over half the team has played together since they were in elementary school and whereas the twenty twenty one Harding academy Wildcats football team was well led by head coach Neil eleven and whereas the twenty twenty one Harding academy Wildcats football team were also supported by additional coaches staff and other members of Harding academy in their community now therefore be it resolved by the house of representatives of the ninety third General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the house of representatives congratulate the Harding academy Wildcats football team on winning the twenty twenty one class three A. state championship. President Brooks is explain the resolution would anyone like to speak against the resolution would anyone like to speak for the resolution. And Brooks is close resolution the question before the House is passage of house resolution ten forty all in favor say aye. Any opposed the resolution is passed. Members were moved to the supplemental budget calendar represent Jean moved that we place house bill ten thirty four on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection read a member number three Mr Clark amended number three to house bill ten thirty four. Represent gene you're recognized. Thank you Mr Speaker. Calling. This is some. Make sure. Look at all three pages. What this what this amendment does mainly is to add the five thousand dollar. one time stipend for the the death of the correctional officer that happened in my mail against earlier this week so that's what this amendment does I don't want people to think it's been did something they didn't but anyway I appreciate a good vote on the amendment. President Jean is explain the amendment would anyone like to speak against the amendment would anyone like to speak for the amendment represent Wardlaw you're recognized speak for the amendment. Thank your Speaker and actually goes a little bit further not represent gene that a good job of laying out the footwork of it when that officer was killed a recognized that they could not move that forward to anybody that was in a certified law enforcement officer lot of our correction officers are not certified law enforcement officers this sets up a mechanism for the director and board of corrections to build award that death benefit to anybody going forward that is not a certified law enforcement officer so this is kind of it woke us up open our eyes to a problem of the officer who was killed in my mail actually did qualify for the benefit but we saw the need FOR ever put the language in there an offer the offer that opportunity any of our correction officers across state with that I appreciate a good vote. Represent Wardlaw spoken for the amendment would anyone like to speak against the amendment would anyone like to speak for the amendment representative gene is closed for the amendment question before the House the adoption of amendment number three to house bill ten thirty four all in favor say aye. Any opposed the amendment is adopted. President Jean you're recognized. Thank you Mr Speaker colleagues will take up house bill ten seventy. This is department of finance distribution officer. Of. Fiscal year twenty two twenty three ops budget if any questions this one does have the emergency clause so your one vote for the bill number two calls seeing no questions respect the Clerk read the bill third time Mr Clark please read the bill for the third time house bill ten seventy. Where the machine Mr Clark. Voting on the bill in the emergency clause has everyone voted. As everyone voted. Cast about Mr Clark by a vote of ninety four yeah zero nine zero present the bill emergency clause or pass represent gene you're recognized. Thank you Mr Speaker colleagues these last two bills are House bills is of the Medicaid tobacco settlement program and also house bill ten seventy eight the part of health appropriation for twenty two twenty three. What is a. Ten seventy nine B. ten fifteen nineteen seventy nine any questions. Your one vote for the bill. It's Clerk of the rich big reveal third time. Miss Mr Clark please read the bill for the third time house bill ten fifty nine house bill ten seventy nine. Furnishing. As everyone voted. As everyone voted. Cast about Mr Clark. By a vote of ninety one yeah zero nine to present the bills have passed. Person makes for what purpose. Motion place let's hear your motion after the announcmenet trading with the bills transferring the bill's place in the calendars on the desk members amending their own bills with their own amendments members withdrawing their own bills finalized resolutions reading communications and any remaining committee report I move that we adjourn until noon on Monday. That's a proper motion it's not debatable all in favor say aye. Any opposed. Motion passes before we go to announcements it and represent Jean can can chime in if I've saved this state anything. We anticipate having RSA put on the desk tomorrow or leased by tomorrow when that happens we'll also email out copies of both the RSA and the one time schedule that kind of gives an overview of the one time money which I think both caucuses have access to right now but we'll make sure to email that out then our plan is to come back on Monday I'm not sure about a budget meeting but representing to tell us about that but we will convene at noon and then we will hopefully conclude our work on Tuesday I'm not sure as we sit here today what time will convene on Tuesday assuming we get our work done on Tuesday then we will look to recess until some point probably the following week to come back for a first signee die adjournment and that way we can handle if there's if there were any vetoes or any errors in any of the bills that need to be corrected that would give us time to to work through that. President Jean for what purpose announcmenet recognized. after we adjourn here. Is a one thirty one thirty one. One of the rooms of the Speaker nine whoever wants to come we'll be happy to sit down discuss anything on the one time schedule of the RSA of joint budget will meet Monday. At ten AM not nine AM ten AM and we'll pass out the RSA the one time schedule at that time and get among the House calendar for Monday at twelve. President Wardlaw for purpose ounce recognized ALC executive committee will meet at eleven o'clock on Monday eleven o'clock on Monday represent warrant for what purpose point of perfect personal privilege members you're recognized we've got a member in our midst that will never to his own horn but I'm going to. Last night I went to the state tournament in basketball tournament in Sheridan. And unfortunately my lakeside rams lost one of the main reasons that they lost was because of my fellow representative Milton Nicks grand son. Milton Nicks grand son number one on Marion's basketball team was the high point man with twenty points a very quick talented young man I went and met him after the game I told mills and I said you didn't tell me had the stud on your team but the judge the young man. Is a very fine young man he said well where you can go after this year and he goes well I'm just a junior the whole team is made up of juniors and this guy afterwards Milton said and he has a four point oh GPA. Representative back for what purpose announcmenet you're recognized Joint Energy will convene in big mac a upon the adjournment directly after German here represent Vaught for what purpose announcmenet you're recognized agriculture forestry economic development will meet upon adjournment for a quick resolution. Represent McElroy for purpose you're recognized. Today is my anniversary for forty four years with the same woman and she is one lucky woman give a round of applause for. Any other announcmenet. If not the desk remain open as needed for the reading of the bills upon completion The Addams named in the joint resolution house to be adjourned until noon on Monday.