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HB1131
Act 246
· 3 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…the bottom the last one is at the very bottom where it says house bill 1131 on page two this is also for sales and use tax refunds to i…”
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AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE - REFUND OF LOCAL TAXES … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1131 is now Act 246 |
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HB1125
Act 247
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…uest in here starts in the middle of page one where you see house bill 1125 this is to amend their operations appropriation for the nex…”
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AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1125 is now Act 247 |
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SB213
Act 162
· 2 mentions in agenda, transcript
Matched: “…e Commission 3. Amendment HAR086 by Representative Bragg to SB213 – U of A at Monticello Note: All exhibits for this meeting…”
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AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB213 is now Act 162 |
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HB1080
Act 602
· 1 mention in agenda
Matched: “…– Secretary of State 2. Amendment HGK013 by Senator Rice to HB1080 – Arkansas Public Service Commission 3. Amendment HAR086 by…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1080 is now Act 602 |
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HB1146
Act 1001
· 1 mention in agenda
Matched: “…Amendment DJC020 by Senators Bledsoe, Hendren and Hester to HB1146 – Department of Corrections-Division of Community Correctio…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION APPROPRIATION FOR THE … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1146 is now Act 1001 |
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HB1187
Act 998
· 1 mention in agenda
Matched: “…Amendments 1. Amendment JAR066 by Representative Wardlaw to HB1187 – Secretary of State 2. Amendment HGK013 by Senator Rice to…”
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AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that HB1187 is now Act 998 |
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Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
1:30
all right members we're going to start in one minute you need to get to your seats
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
3:00
Call the meeting to order. Colleagues, the first
item on the agenda is B. This is a letter from the treasurer. At the treasurer's office, y'all come forward.
Mr. Anderson, you'll explain their letter. There's four phases to this letter that we'll have to adopt. Three of them we can look at. Adopting one will be sent to personnel.
Speaker 17
3:43
Mr. Anderson. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We're on item B1, Treasurer of State. There are four different parts to this. The first part is on page one, the very top paragraph. This is a request for a new bill to be drafted for the current year, which is pass through of local sales and use tax those that go back to the entity for which it was
collected to raise city and counties an increase of 120 million and 50 million for counties cities for 120 million and 50 for counties the second request in here starts in the middle of page one where you see house bill 1125 this is to amend their operations appropriation for the next coming fiscal year to move one hundred thousand dollars from data processing to operating expense there is no change level it is a move in their existing appropriation the third request in here is at the
very bottom of page one and the top of page two i believe that's when you said you're sending the personnel mr chair and the bottom the last one is at the very bottom where it says house bill 1131 on page two this is also for sales and use tax refunds to increase the money that go to cities and increase the money that goes to counties from refund collections but this is for the next year
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
5:05
mr chairman that's a summary okay members we'll go ahead and send item three to personnel
that'll be taken up by the personnel subcommittee uh
and uh if you'll identify yourself if you want to talk on the other three items. You're recognized. Hold on. You there now? You're
Speaker 23
5:37
red. You're on. You're on. Okay. Chief Deputy Treasurer Grant Wallace for Treasury Milligan's
office. Really the first thing, honestly, members, this is a good thing. Even despite the pandemic Mr. Wallace with your mask on yeah we can
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
5:50
hear you better okay you're you're socially distanced right there so the first item is a
Speaker 23
5:57
good thing it's actually a positive despite the pandemic we have seen increased sales and use tax all across cities and counties in the state so we just want to make sure that we've got enough money you know appropriated to us to be able to
continue that, return back to them so that there's no issues there. The second item is the $100,000. This is actually due to a couple of different things that are going on. With the increased balances and activity that our office is generating through our banking work, we've seen increased fees that are associated with that. Obviously, everyone is aware that banks are going to increase their fees as business kind of continues in that thing. But the second thing
is actually pretty exciting that we're working on. And when the pandemic hit, we were able to shift all the electronic funds that we work to have those deposits that the agencies make with our office remote. So in developing that, we've also are expanding it to checks. So we're in the process of rolling out to agencies right now remote ability to deposit their checks so that they don't physically have to come to our office to do those activities. With that, there are going
to be some increased fees on the banking end as well that we just need to be prepared for and work through. And then finally, on House Bill 1131, it's the same item. We're just making sure that we've got enough of a cap to work with next year for sales and use tax. So I'd be glad to answer any questions. Do we have any questions for Mr. Wallace? Seeing no, none. Thank you
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
7:46
for coming forward. Thank you, members. We'll just take these up one at a time. The first one is a
supplemental on the sales tax from our counties and cities, local sales tax. We're just a pass through that we send it back to them. This is certainly not an increase. The increase from the sales tax of the state is increasing, so it makes sense that this be increasing. So this is, this will take care of this year. Do I have a motion to approve this? I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Then now we're going to the House Amendment to the House Bill 1125, shifting the $100,000. Any questions on that? Do I have a
motion? I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All
in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the last one is the amendment on House Bill 1131, which is the appropriation for next fiscal year, increasing it. Do we have a motion? I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That letter is adopted. Mr. Anderson, letter number two.
Speaker 17
9:02
Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. item b2 in your packet this is a letter from the department of agriculture regarding the buffalo river conservation committee no action is required as for the committee's review and does
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
9:16
everybody have this report at their desk okay there is
a a report if you if you want one c staff we have an
initial report on the buffalo River. This requires no action. Next, we're going to go to Item C, Amendment to House
Bill 1187. Representative Wardlaw here. You're up. You'll identify yourself and explain your amendment thank you mr chairman
Representative Jeff Wardlaw
Unverified
9:51
uh members there was a uh rumor that through coronavirus they were going to move the gift shop out of the capitol over to the victory building all this amendment does is ensure that the gift shop stays in the capitol all of our visitors come they need to be
able to get to the gift shop when they're in their capitol so there were some concerns that this affects the online sales I've got some folks looking into that and I don't think that's the truth it only says it has to stay in the capital has nothing to restrict online sales okay members this has special language in
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
10:26
it so if we have any questions for representative Wardlaw we'll send this a special language subcommittee any questions all right send it to special language thank you
Representative Wardlaw. We're going to pass over item two, and then we're going to get to item three, which is an amendment to Senate Bill 213, University of Arkansas at Monticello. Representative Bragg, you come down and identify yourself, and you're free to talk about your amendment. This is on
Speaker 34
10:59
page 11, members. Representative Ken Bragg, District 15. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
11:07
I'm going to make a proposal here. It's something we've been working on for almost eight years. And it's a procreation to establish the Center for Forest Business at University of Arkansas at Monticello. I've given you a handout. I know yours is in black and white, so it might be a little more difficult to see. But I want to talk about the scope. Hold on. His handout's got forest land. Everybody got one. If
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
11:30
nobody has one, let me know. We'll get you a copy. It's the picture of the whole state.
Two members over here say they don't have a member. Hold
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
12:03
on. Bruce, did you have a copy? Everybody's got a copy now? All right. Go ahead, Representative Bragg. This is a handout, the picture of the whole state, And it shows forests, the counties that are considered forested, and there's 64 out of our 75 counties in Arkansas are considered forested counties.
And it can run anywhere from 25 to 100% forested. So you can see most, the 11 counties are in the Delta area that are not considered forested. But we'll come to that back in a minute. So on the average, Arkansas is more dependent on its economy in the forest industry than any other state, especially in the south. And the next handout you see, the next page, kind of gives you an indication of that on the bar chart. It's this bar chart here.
As far as a percentage of the economy, Arkansas is the highest in the nation as far as the impact of forest industry on our economy. For example, you can look over and see Georgia. Georgia might have a net increase more as far as value of their forest products, but as far as a percentage of their overall economy, it's much less than Arkansas. So it just points out the importance of our forest industry to Arkansas. Timber harvesting and jobs are located primarily in the southern part of the state,
but they're really all over the state. In this next handout, it has the pictures of the two images. The image on the left shows the employment in each county that contains, you know, concerning our forest industry. And then the image on the right is really revealing. It shows the percentage above the average county wage that the forest industries in those counties pay. So you can see that, I know it may be a little hard to read on your black and white copy,
but you can see where forest industries are located. Those jobs are paying more than the county average. So it's a very important part, and you can see how widespread it is across the state. It's not just in southern Arkansas. Just about every county has some employment. Even the Delta counties that don't have considered forested land have some forestry jobs or related jobs. So another issue we're facing is we're growing about 20 million tons of timber in excess of what we're harvesting every year.
That may seem like a good thing that we're winding up with a lot of timber, but it's creating a forest health issue because if you can't manage your timber, you can't thin them, trees, you know, the trees become stagnant and you start getting disease issues and wildfire issues. This bar chart here, your next handout, shows a relationship. The bar on the left, I know in black and white it doesn't show up, but the bar on the left is the growth and the bar on the right is the removal. So every year we're actually growing much more timber than we're harvesting.
So we're well positioned as a state to take advantage of this resource. You know, the competition in the South is very intensive for forest products because a lot of states are in the same situation with an oversupply of timber. So it's critical. We don't have really critical forest-based economic data to provide these industries. In the last handout I'll show you, it's this bar chart here.
It shows the expenditures of each state on research, teaching, and extension expenditures. And you can see where Arkansas, which again, we have, you know, our forest industry is a largest component of the economy than any other state. And yet we're almost at the bottom as far as expenditures on research and economic development in that area. So we're at a distinct competitive disadvantage, you know, when it comes to recruiting industries from other states, especially with Mississippi.
So that's why we're proposing establishing this UAM Center for Forest Business. The creation of the center can support and deliver services that we're not providing now to different forest-based economies and companies that are looking to locate in Arkansas. It's an enormous potential that we have here with our resources that's not being developed. And so we have an opportunity to grow our industry, especially in the rural areas of Arkansas, that right now don't see a whole lot of economic growth.
So, you know, without an investment in a center like this, this, this resource is just going to remain unrealized, underutilized. So let me go through, and this is just a high level description of it. There's a much more detailed report if you need that. But let me talk about the staffing, first of all, for the center. It will have a director and three PhD level specialists. Right Right now at UAM School of Forestry, we have the equivalent of a half-time forest economist.
He teaches, he does other things. Mississippi State School of Forestry has six full-time Ph.D. economists on their staff. That's why they're so far ahead in their advancement of their research and development. You know, it'll also have three graduate assistants and then possibly some part-time help if needed. So the director will oversee the daily operations, be a contact with public-private partnerships and develop the program.
The other PhD-level staff will do a lot of the research and analysis on forest economics and policy and law, forest operations, timber harvesting, transportation, forest products and marketing, and especially finance and appraisals. So, you know, it's also intended to have the capacity to develop a new undergraduate degree in forest business. You know, forestry isn't just about growing trees. It's about managing the business as well, and this will be an extension of that program.
It'll provide—the main thing about it is providing research and assistance and data. You know, we consistently have companies that are looking at Arkansas to locate, And they ask us about data about our forest resource, and we just don't have it. As recently as last week, AEDC was approached by companies wanting to locate a facility in the south, and they asked about specific data concerning our resource, and we had to tell them we don't have that.
Dr. Pelke at Monticello provides some of that, and, you know, we could get that information in a few weeks. But for example, Mississippi has that kind of data on county levels readily available because they've invested in a center like that to provide that data. So when a company comes to Mississippi, they have immediate access to all the data that they need. The private sector will also benefit from this. As I said, private companies are consistently coming and looking.
Sometimes they go to AEDC, and AEDC then goes to UAM for the information. Sometimes the private companies will come straight to the university for that information. And right now, one of the biggest needs we have is this market data and market analysis for new wood products. And we just don't have that right now, so we're at a tremendous disadvantage. So this whole center can actually be done for the bargain price of about $842,000.
funding. Now, that may sound like a lot, but when we proposed this before, you know, to the governor and ADC, it was a million and a half dollar proposal. So we pared it down to basically what we think is absolutely necessary to get this established. In the past, we have talked with Mike Preston, his group. They're very supportive of it. Of course, they can't fund it. And we have had a meeting with the governor previously in session discussing this. And we really feel like now is the time to pursue this because the forest industry is expanding right now. As
any of you looked at lumber prices, you know what the demand is. And we have companies looking at Arkansas, but we need this data for long-term development. So I'd be happy to answer any questions. Okay. Members, just to let
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
20:39
you know, Mr. Bleed's going to come up and speak on this later, but I think we've got a question or two for Representative
Chair
Unverified
20:46
Bragg. First up is Senator Elliott, you're recognized.
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
20:52
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Bragg, I'm always maintaining
there's so much in Arkansas, we just haven't had the imagination to see it and connect it to our economy, and this feels like one of those instances. I know when we started the Arts Caucus and got the research on it, we are basically leaving almost $3 billion on the table that we've not imagined. and this feels like one of those same kind of things and part of it was our recognizing the overall the the added value in so many ways were not thought about before and some of that of course is related to jobs and people moving to
the state. Do you happen to know offhand of jobs or positions that people may take if we were more advanced and taking advantage of our timber industry? Can you name any kind of jobs that people could get or that people have in other places that are industry-related that we could do the same thing here? Well, if, say, for
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
21:56
example, a sawmill might employ up to 100 people, is that the example you might be? Yeah, and
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
22:02
if you say it's going to employ up to 100
people and then to get the fiscal impact of them. You
start moving out from there. What does all that mean? One
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
22:13
of the things that's unique about the forest industry is if a facility like a
sawmill were to hire directly 100 people, that's 100 people that work in that mill. Then you're adding the whole supply chain of loggers, timber producers that are new jobs to support that mill. So that's one thing that's not really recognized sometimes in the economic development formulas as far as
whether an investment will pay for itself. They don't always take into consideration the supply chain that feeds that mill. So there's a lot more jobs created than just the
Speaker 54
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jobs in a mill. And I would think beyond the traditional kind of paper mill, one of the
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
22:54
things we've also found is so much is connected to technology in a way we've not thought about. I would imagine that would be the case also in the forestry industry
because we're not just using saws and cutting down trees anymore. I mean, I grew up in Nevada County, so I know what it was like, and it has really changed
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
23:13
in a lot of ways. And when you talk about facilities, a paper mill would be much more of an impact. If you look at that chart, you can see the counties that have a paper mill are extremely high paid jobs. Yes. You're talking about, you know, 600,000, 800,000 jobs, you
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
23:30
know, in a good-sized paper mail. Okay, thank
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
23:38
you. Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Senator. Representative Wooten, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Representative Brack, on the $841,000, you've got
$399,000 for salaries. Did you say that you'd have one, how many full-time, how many part-time, and have they looked at, or has it been studied or looked at using positions that are, are these going to
be new positions that you're asking for? Yes, these will be new
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
24:06
positions. There'd be the equivalent of four PhD positions and two
assistant, graduate assistants, and then possibly some temporary, you know, if data needs to be gathered in the field, we might hire some
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
24:20
temporary help to do that. Have they looked at
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
24:25
their current positions? Yes. We've been working on this, like I said, for almost eight years. And there has already been a cash appropriation for this
for several years, but we've just never been able to fill those positions
Speaker 65
24:40
with the available money. Okay. Has the personnel office of the Bureau of Legislative Research been made aware of this?
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
24:50
Not yet. We're waiting on approval here. Okay. What is the, if I may, Mr. Chairman, what is the director's title or what will that position be paid?
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
25:01
I don't know the exact, I don't know if that's been determined as far as an exact salary. I'd
have to check on that. You know, kind of depend on, you know, flexibility and who we hire and competitive nature of that
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
25:20
position. All right. Mr. Chairman, I hope that this will be referred to the personnel subcommittee at the appropriate time. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Bray.
Chair
Unverified
25:31
Representative Springer, you're recognized. Thank
Representative Joy Springer
Unverified
25:37
you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. I would like to commend you
for bringing this forward. I'm from South Arkansas, and I'm well aware of the timber industry there, Ouachita County, Union County, Clark County. In fact, my family was in that business when I was growing up, so I'm happy to see that. So, did I understand you to say that you don't have any real data to show where these lumber mills, saw mills,
and that those kind of industries are taking place? Because I know at one time there was a plant in Camden, in Ouachita County. I think it was called Georgia Pacific, one of those, like that. So, we don't know specifically where these current saw mills, logging mills, and that those kind of industries are located at this time. Is that what you're telling us, and you want to have the opportunity to develop and know where those are located? That's part
Speaker 72
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of it. We have some very generic data that we can pull on.
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
26:41
The Forest Service does 10-year inventories, and we can get, you know, data. But on a county-wide specific that covers a specific timber resource, logging capabilities, wages, things like that, we don't have. It can be gathered, but it takes time. and we just don't have the personnel uh like dr pelkey like i say he's only a half-time economist at uam he teaches and does other things and and tries to support this as best he can but it's it's difficult to work a lot of those requests into his time oh thank you
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
27:20
thank you representative any other questions for representative bragg seeing none mr bleed you want
Speaker 75
27:41
to come forward identify yourself sir jake bleed dfa office of budget and i apologize i've not had a chance to
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
27:46
talk to representative bragg about this request i'm just here to make sure the members are aware
that this request will likely require additional general revenue in the current environment we're in with the FY22 budget and the variety of different measures we have before us that would reduce taxes or revenues for FY22, this would be very difficult to fund if it is
Speaker 75
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indeed approved. I'm speaking only to make you all aware of the budget situation. Any
Chair
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28:18
questions for Mr. Bleed? Senator Elliott, you're
Senator Joyce Elliott
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28:21
recognized. So do we have any plans that we could possibly not do and not hurt the state and come up with this money?
That's something that the Joint Budget Committee, when we put together the RSA, could certainly look at. When
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
28:37
we have all the different changes to the forecast together, when we have all the different requests that are put together at the end of the legislative session, You know, we're always looking for ways to make the most of the available revenue we have and not hurt the state, but this is, given some of the other reductions and the already tight nature of the budget that we've got, I'm just here to say that it will be difficult to fund this.
It could very well be that this is ultimately approved, but when we put the RSA together, this might end up in a category of the RSA which is not ultimately funded, which is very typical for new
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
29:15
expenditures or new additions to the budget. Would funding this significantly affect a tax break in a way that we could no longer have the tax break if we were to just have that money from what we have assumed there?
$843,000, I don't think, would be a major variable or major issue with, say, a $50 or $100 million tax
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
29:38
cut, but it is an increased expense at a time when our budget is tight, so I felt like I had to
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
29:44
say something. All right then, but I appreciate your insight, so there you go. It's not going to hurt anything. That's me
saying that. I'm not putting words in your mouth, but
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
29:55
they sounded pretty good. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
29:59
you, Senator. Representative Wooten, you're recognized. Mr. Bleed, did you say the money is not available?
Well, whether or not it's available is really a question for the Joint Budget Committee when we put the RSA together. I'll say now, though, that it's very tight. We have a lot of very competitive demands for a limited and arguably shrinking pool of money. Okay. One
more. William, do you know how many positions they have down there that are budgeted
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
30:31
that are not filled? I do not have that information in front of me, but we can certainly get that for
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
30:37
you. Okay. Well, I think that would be helpful relative to how we
decide to move forward. That's certainly enlightening that you made the comment about the tightness in the budgeting, which I fully understand and which I agree with. We need to move cautiously here. But also, I find it interesting that we just have, we're going to create three or four new positions when we have the surplus positions that we have in higher ed,
and I'm sure they've got them at Monticello. So I think we just need to move with caution here, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Jake. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Okay. Any other
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
31:25
questions? Members, this is not in the governor's ballot budget, but this is just an appropriation. Also, if the appropriation was, Mr. Bleed, correct me if I'm wrong, U of A got the appropriation.
Speaker 84
31:41
If they wanted to find the money within their budget, they could do that, couldn't they? Yes,
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
31:45
sir. And this appropriation can be funded from other revenue sources besides general revenue, including cash funds. And they've been working very diligently to try and find those cash funds. This has been a project that's been in the work for a long time. So far, we've not succeeded in coming up with that funding. There's educational excellence or Workforce 2000 money, which can also be run through this appropriation. But there will be, or my expectation is, there will be a general revenue request attached to it.
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
32:11
And to answer Representative Wooten's question, no new positions
will be created. They have the ample positions inside the University of Arkansas Monticello, so we will not have to create new positions. If this is adopted, like I said, once again, it's not in the governor's balanced budget, but your University of Arkansas model seller could, if it chose to, fund part of it or some of it or none of it or all of it.
Is that a fair statement? Yes, sir. Okay.
Any other questions? Representative Bragg, do you want to close on your amendment? I'm closed. Thank you. Okay.
What's the pleasure of the committee? Have them do pass in a second. Any discussion? All
in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you, Mr. Bragg. Your members have passed. All right, members, we're going to skip over.
Representative Lane Jean
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33:18
bunch. All right. We're going to skip over item four. and also we're skipping over Governor's Letter 2. Now we're ready for House bills.
Mr. Anderson. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are now in the House packet. That is the
Speaker 17
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attachment with the H of the right-hand corner. The first one is on page 4.
On page 4, House Bill 1091, this is the Development Finance Authority. That's ready, Mr. Chairman. Okay, 1091. Do we
Representative Lane Jean
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33:53
have a motion? Motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Mr. Anderson. On page 7,
Speaker 17
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Mr. Chairman. On page 7, House Bill 1127, County and Municipal Aid. 1127, County Aid. Do we have a motion?
Representative Lane Jean
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34:10
Do we have a motion and a second? Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Mr. Anderson. On the next page, page 8,
Speaker 90
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House Bill 1167, Division of Career Ed and
Representative Lane Jean
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34:26
Technical Education. 1167, I have a motion and a discussion. Any second? Any discussion?
All in favor say aye. Aye. Any
Speaker 17
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opposed? Mr. Anderson. On page 15, House Bill 1286, this is UAMS. This is their Bioscience
Representative Lane Jean
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34:47
Institute Tobacco Settlement Funds. All right. 1286, UAMS. Motion. Second.
Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any
Speaker 17
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opposed? On the very last page, the last one is House Bill 1312. This is UA Fayetteville, Division of Agriculture. This is their Biosciences Institute Tobacco Settlement Fund. 1312. Do we have
Representative Lane Jean
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35:07
a motion? A motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That moves us to
Speaker 18
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the Senate packet, Mr. Chairman. Senate package. Go
Speaker 17
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ahead, Mr. Anderson. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, on page two, Senate Bill 43,
Representative Lane Jean
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35:26
education, public school like to make facilities. Senate Bill 43, I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor, say
Speaker 18
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aye. Aye. Any opposed? On page 16 in the
Speaker 16
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Senate packet. going to page 16 members house bill 214 asu jonesboro is ready 214 asu
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
35:51
jonesboro have a motion and a second any discussion all in favor say aye aye mr anders we need to back up do senate
bill 213 yeah i would okay um
Speaker 17
36:01
on the same page mr chairman page 16 senate bill 220 ua fayetteville Senate Bill 220, U of A, have
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
36:08
a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And thank you, Mr. Chairman. On page 15,
Speaker 17
36:16
Senate Bill 213, this is U of A Monticello. This would be a due pass as amended. Senate
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
36:25
Bill 213, need a due pass as amended, have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. It passes. All right. Appreciate the good work. Members, personnel is moving to 8 a.m. instead of 7.30 a.m. Tuesday morning, the 9th, February 9th. Personnel will be at 8 a.m. and our next budget meeting will be wednesday morning the 10th at 8 30. appreciate the good
work we are adjourned wait a minute representative springer did i miss you i just had a
Representative Joy Springer
Unverified
37:15
quick yes go ahead with respect to senate bill number 43 can we can you tell us what the amount of that appropriation was senate bill what now 43 on the public school academic senate bill 43 mr
Speaker 19
37:26
Anderson, you got that? We're going to get it
Speaker 17
37:36
for you. Hold on. Senate Bill 43, if you look on page two in the Senate packet, you'll see Senate Bill 43 there.
You'll see it has, it gives a breakout of the full-time
Speaker 44
37:48
positions. I just wanted one of the total. I
Speaker 17
37:51
didn't have time to add it up. Okay, the total for is $2,685,484. Thank you. Does that answer your question? Yes, it
Speaker 2
38:03
does. Thank you. All right, members, we are adjourned.
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Reports and Communications
C. Consideration of Member Bills and Amendments
D. Governor’s Letter GL#2 – Capital Projects for the 2021-2023 Biennium
E. Consideration of Bills Referred to Joint Budget Committee – House and Senate Captions
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
Documents
| Title | Type | Pages | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agenda — JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE, Feb 4, 2021 | Agenda | 2 | Official source ↗ |
| B.1 Treasurer FY 2122 and Supplemental | Exhibit | 2 | Official source ↗ |
| B.2 2.3.21 BRCC Update to JBC | Exhibit | 4 | Official source ↗ |
| BRCC Annual Report 2020 (0009) | Exhibit | 32 | Official source ↗ |
| C Feb 4 JBC Member Bills | Exhibit | 19 | Official source ↗ |
| D GL2 2021-2023 Capital Projects | Exhibit | 10 | Official source ↗ |
| HOUSE Captions 2-4-21 | Exhibit | 18 | Official source ↗ |
| SENATECaptions | Exhibit | 17 | Official source ↗ |
Speakers
Representative Lane Jean
Unverified
Speaker 17
Speaker 23
Representative Jeff Wardlaw
Unverified
Speaker 34
Representative Ken Bragg
Unverified
Chair
Unverified
Senator Joyce Elliott
Unverified
Speaker 54
Representative Jim Wooten
Unverified
Speaker 65
Representative Joy Springer
Unverified
Speaker 72
Speaker 75
Speaker 84
Speaker 30
Speaker 90
Speaker 18
Speaker 16
Speaker 19
Speaker 44
Speaker 2