Senate Convenes
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Bills discussed (187)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1679
Act 861
· 10 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1679 - Motion to withdrawal HB 1679 for purpose of amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE REVISED ARKANSAS ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT; TO ALLOW CERTAIN CLASSES OF PERSONS TO … | M. Brown | Notification that HB1679 is now Act 861 |
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SB614
Act 992
· 10 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “Senate Bill 614 amendment number 2. OK,”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … | C. Tucker | Notification that SB614 is now Act 992 |
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SB400
Act 933
· 8 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB400 - Motion to withdrawal SB400 for purpose of amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE FAIR-FUNDING PROGRAM. | Irvin | Notification that SB400 is now Act 933 |
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SB568
Act 1012
· 6 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 568.”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAXES APPLICABLE TO LITHIUM EXTRACTION AND DEVELOPMENT; TO PROVIDE … | Crowell | Notification that SB568 is now Act 1012 |
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HB1642
Act 916
· 5 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1642 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE MEASURES CONSIDERED WHEN CALCULATING A SCHOOL RATING; AND TO ENSURE A STUDENT … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1642 is now Act 916 |
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HB1837
Act 999
· 5 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1837 - Motion to withdrawal HB1837 for purpose of amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR MATTERS REFERRED TO VOTERS; AND TO BAN FOREIGN … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1837 is now Act 999 |
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HB1931
Act 694
· 4 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “…by Gilmore to Suspend to add 4 house bills to supp calendar HB1931, HB1872, HB1891, HB1896”
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TO CREATE THE RECIDIVISM REDUCTION SYSTEM WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN … | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1931 is now Act 694 |
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HB1812
Act 918
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1812 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION TO ATTENDANCE … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1812 is now Act 918 |
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HB1866
Act 908
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HB1866 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.”
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TO CREATE ELI'S LAW; AND TO REQUIRE EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL TO INSTALL AN AUDIO RECORDING … | Brooks | Notification that HB1866 is now Act 908 |
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HB1934
· 3 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1934 McAlindon Gilmore TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE ACT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT … | McAlindon | Died in House at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB441
· 3 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is for Senate Bill 441 by Central Hesch to recommend to pass as amended number one…”
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TO CREATE THE JUNK LAWSUIT PREVENTION ACT OF 2025. | Hester | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB591
Act 973
· 3 mentions in chapter
Matched: “Motion to SB591 for second reading purpose for amendment.”
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TO PROHIBIT RACE-SELECTION ABORTION IN THIS STATE; AND TO CREATE THE RACE DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION … | C. Penzo | Notification that SB591 is now Act 973 |
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SB615
· 3 mentions in chapter
Matched: “Motion to SB615 for second reading purpose for amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ENERGY; AND TO REGULATE NONEXPORT FACILITIES. | C. Penzo | Died on Senate Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1131
Act 959
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1131 Pilkington Penzo TO AUTHORIZE AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTER…”
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TO AUTHORIZE AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE TO DELEGATE CERTAIN TASKS TO MEDICAL ASSISTANTS AND … | Pilkington | Notification that HB1131 is now Act 959 |
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HB1150
Act 624
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1150 J. Moore Hammer TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FRO…”
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TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FROM OBTAINING CERTAIN PHARMACY PERMITS. | J. Moore | Notification that HB1150 is now Act 624 |
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HB1433
Act 828
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “calendar Judiciary to him was far House Bill 1433 by Representative Moore recommended pass calendar judiciary…”
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TO REQUIRE A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO IS EXECUTING OR SERVING AN ORDER OF PROTECTION … | K. Moore | Notification that HB1433 is now Act 828 |
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HB1656
Act 1024
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1656 - Motion HB 1656 to add to calendar”
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TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION. | Beck | Notification that HB1656 is now Act 1024 |
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HB1764
Act 831
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…k's recommended pass calendar judiciary who was referred to House Bill 1764 by. Underwood recommended pass judiciary to who was house f…”
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VIOLATION OF AN ORDER OF PROTECTION. | Underwood | Notification that HB1764 is now Act 831 |
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HB1766
Act 907
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “representative uh Emmett recommended pass House Bill 1766 by Representative in recommended pass on education. He was…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS RESPOND, INNOVATE, SUCCEED, AND EMPOWER (RISE) ACT. | Ennett | Notification that HB1766 is now Act 907 |
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HB1797
Act 944
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “Motion HB 1797 on second reading for amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1797 is now Act 944 |
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HB1872
Act 693
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “…re to Suspend to add 4 house bills to supp calendar HB1931, HB1872, HB1891, HB1896”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FEES THAT MAY BE COLLECTED BY A COUNTY SHERIFF; … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1872 is now Act 693 |
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HB1891
Act 715
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “…spend to add 4 house bills to supp calendar HB1931, HB1872, HB1891, HB1896”
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TO ALLOW A PERSON FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE … | Ray | Notification that HB1891 is now Act 715 |
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HB1896
Act 716
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “…add 4 house bills to supp calendar HB1931, HB1872, HB1891, HB1896”
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TO CREATE THE JUNK FEE ELIMINATING ACT OF 2025; TO ABOLISH THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF … | B. McKenzie | Notification that HB1896 is now Act 716 |
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HB1921
Act 824
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…1895 and we recommended pass on Judiciary and was referred House Bill 1921 by represented Torres recommend new pass. Committee on the…”
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TO AMEND THE CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING ACT; TO AMEND THE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS … | Torres | Notification that HB1921 is now Act 824 |
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HB1922
Act 881
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…n recommended pass calendar on Revenue and Tax to as far as House Bill 1922 by Representative Maddox recommend to pass calendar to to s…”
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TO AMEND THE CONSOLIDATED INCENTIVE ACT OF 2003; TO CREATE AN INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR … | Maddox | Notification that HB1922 is now Act 881 |
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HCR1010
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…umber one calendar. Committee on the Judiciary, to whom his House concurrent resolution 1010 by Representative Shepherd recommended pass calendar judici…”
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REQUESTING A STUDY OF WAYS TO IMPROVE THE STATE'S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR YOUTH. | T. Shephard | Approved by the Governor |
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SB153
Act 588
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…t budget by 127 by joint budget, symbol 148 Senator English Senate Bill 153 by Senator Dots and sent by 160 by Senator Dotson sent by 1…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE; AND … | J. Dotson | Notification that SB153 is now Act 588 |
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SB25
Act 607
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “bills to him was referred Senate Bill 25 a joint budget, and Bill 37 by joint budget, symbol 39 by j…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB25 is now Act 607 |
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SB357
Act 572
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “Bryantville 348 by Central Penzay with 351 by Central Dima, Senate Bill 357 by Senator Bryant, Senate Bill 359 by Senator Petty 361 by…”
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TO AMEND THE UNIFORM ATTENDANCE AND LEAVE POLICY ACT; AND TO APPLY MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT … | J. Bryant | Notification that SB357 is now Act 572 |
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SB359
Act 613
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ith 351 by Central Dima, Senate Bill 357 by Senator Bryant, Senate Bill 359 by Senator Petty 361 by Central Dsy 405 by Central Desmain4…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION OUT-OF-SCHOOL … | J. Petty | Notification that SB359 is now Act 613 |
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SB362
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “calendar team for Senate Bill 362 by Hammer recommend new passesend number 2. calendar. Commi…”
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AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION YOUTH … | K. Hammer | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB433
Act 573
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…or Boyd sent 421 my entry Hester and 422 by Senator Tucker, Senate Bill 433 by Senator Dodson. 4:40 by central Wallacey 4:48”
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REGARDING THE DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL MOTTO AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. | J. Dotson | Notification that SB433 is now Act 573 |
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SB498
Act 581
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…Petty, about 463 by Senator McKee. 479 by Central Hammers. Senate Bill 498 by Senator Petty, Senate Bill 503 by Senator Corin 505 by C…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF DRIVER AND VEHICLE RECORDS AND TO PROTECT DRIVER … | J. Petty | Notification that SB498 is now Act 581 |
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SB503
Act 616
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…. 479 by Central Hammers. Senate Bill 498 by Senator Petty, Senate Bill 503 by Senator Corin 505 by Central Bryant symbol 510 by Senato…”
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TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AN EMPLOYER MUST HAVE TO BE MANDATED TO FILE … | Crowell | Notification that SB503 is now Act 616 |
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SB585
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “SB585 add to today's calendar.”
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TO REQUIRE CERTAIN RECORDS BE PROVIDED TO AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS A MINOR. | G. Leding | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB623
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “SB623 J. Scott CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE INMATES AND DET…”
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CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE INMATES AND DETAINEES IN CORRECTIONAL OR DETENTION FACILITIES; AND TO … | J. Scott | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB629
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “Motion to expunge the vote on SB629”
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TO ALLOW AN OFFICER OF A CLOSELY HELD CORPORATION TO REPRESENT THE CORPORATION IN COURT … | Caldwell | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB634
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “Motion to place SB634 at the end of the calendar”
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TO CREATE THE DIVISION OF INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION. | M. Johnson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB635
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…rages and authorized bottle lockers in certain restaurants, Senate Bill 635 city, county, local. Are there any further business to come”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; AND TO AUTHORIZE BOTTLE LOCKERS IN CERTAIN RESTAURANTS. | C. Penzo | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB67
Act 1016
· 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “Motion by Tucker to refer SB67? back to JBC”
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AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB67 is now Act 1016 |
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SB72
Act 776
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…number one alendar Committee on Joint Magic team was refer Senate Bill 72 by dropped budget recommended pass on joint team was 1st 92…”
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AN ACT FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB72 is now Act 776 |
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SCR7
· 2 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SCR7 J. Scott TO RECOGNIZE THE MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCH…”
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TO RECOGNIZE THE MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL COMETS BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAM AS THE CLASS … | J. Scott | Died in House at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SR65
· 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…2. calendar. Committee on the Judiciary, to whom his first Senate resolution 65 by Senator Tucker recommended pass this amended number one…”
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TO SUPPORT ARKANSAS'S ENGAGING THE JUSTICE COUNTS METRICS AND TO URGE POLICYMAKERS THROUGHOUT STATE AND … | C. Tucker | Sine Die adjournment |
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HB1171
Act 625
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1171 K. Moore Irvin TO MODIFY THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZE…”
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TO MODIFY THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; AND TO AUTHORIZE AN ABBREVIATED INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT … | K. Moore | Notification that HB1171 is now Act 625 |
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HB1243
Act 994
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1243 Underwood Penzo TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY REGARDING CAMPAIGN…”
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TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY REGARDING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES; TO AMEND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTING AND PROTECT … | Underwood | Notification that HB1243 is now Act 994 |
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HB1265
Act 660
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1265 AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROP…”
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AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL … | Joint Budget Committee | Delivered to the Secretary of State |
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HB1277
Act 706
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1277 Gramlich Boyd TO AMEND PAYMENTS FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION REGAR…”
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TO AMEND PAYMENTS FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION REGARDING PETROLEUM STORAGE TANKS. | J. Boyd | Notification that HB1277 is now Act 706 |
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HB1320
Act 626
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1320 Wooldridge Tucker TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRISIS STABIL…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS AND HEALTHCARE INSURERS. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1320 is now Act 626 |
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HB1336
Act 672
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1336 Warren Penzo TO AMEND THE SURVIVORS' BENEFIT OPTIONS UNDER…”
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TO AMEND THE SURVIVORS' BENEFIT OPTIONS UNDER THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO AMEND … | Warren | Notification that HB1336 is now Act 672 |
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HB1416
Act 673
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1416 L. Johnson Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING FIRE DEPARTME…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING FIRE DEPARTMENTS; AND TO ALLOW A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT SERVICING … | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1416 is now Act 673 |
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HB1440
Act 629
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1440 Bentley Wallace TO AMEND THE MASSAGE THERAPY ACT; AND TO ES…”
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TO AMEND THE MASSAGE THERAPY ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH REGISTRATION FOR MASSAGE THERAPY ESTABLISHMENTS. | Bentley | Notification that HB1440 is now Act 629 |
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HB1454
Act 674
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1454 Bentley Irvin TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING CRIMINAL HISTORY…”
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TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS FOR EMPLOYEES OF SERVICE PROVIDERS; TO … | Bentley | Notification that HB1454 is now Act 674 |
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HB1476
Act 675
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1476 B. McKenzie Hester TO AMEND THE DIRECT SHIPMENT OF VINOUS L…”
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TO AMEND THE DIRECT SHIPMENT OF VINOUS LIQUOR ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH A WINE DIRECT … | B. McKenzie | Notification that HB1476 is now Act 675 |
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HB1484
Act 910
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB 1484 - Withdrawal HB1484 for purpose of amendment.”
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TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF CREDITS A STUDENT MAY OBTAIN IN A COURSE CREDIT RECOVERY … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1484 is now Act 910 |
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HB1529
Act 827
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…nd to pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom is for House Bill 1529 by Representative Meeks recommend to pass. Calendar. Commit…”
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TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL CREATION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL; AND … | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1529 is now Act 827 |
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HB1543
Act 631
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1543 Underwood Irvin TO ESTABLISH THE WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE OPPOR…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITIES ACT OF 2025. | Underwood | Notification that HB1543 is now Act 631 |
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HB1555
Act 995
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1555 Hester - Motion Expunge vote by which bill passed to amend.…”
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TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM PROCEDURES FOR FILLING A VACANCY IN A MUNICIPAL OFFICE. | Painter | Notification that HB1555 is now Act 995 |
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HB1559
Act 632
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1559 McGrew Boyd TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO…”
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TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO SEEK A WAIVER TO THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID … | McGrew | Notification that HB1559 is now Act 632 |
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HB1572
Act 707
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1572 Ladyman McKee TO CREATE A TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NE…”
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TO CREATE A TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION; AND TO DECLARE AN … | Ladyman | Notification that HB1572 is now Act 707 |
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HB1580
Act 801
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…r. Will your committee on education to whom was referred to House Bill 1580 by Representative Gramlin.”
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TO REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE CERTAIN INFORMATION ON TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES WHEN … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1580 is now Act 801 |
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HB1582
Act 708
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1582 McAlindon English TO REQUIRE CERTAIN ACTIONS AND ENCOURAGE…”
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TO REQUIRE CERTAIN ACTIONS AND ENCOURAGE CERTAIN ACTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1582 is now Act 708 |
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HB1589
Act 676
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1589 Schulz Crowell TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FINANCIAL OP…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF A COUNTY; AND TO AMEND THE … | Schulz | Notification that HB1589 is now Act 676 |
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HB1615
Act 677
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1615 Lundstrum Stubblefield TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RELIGIOU…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RELIGIOUS NONDISCRIMINATION. | Lundstrum | Notification that HB1615 is now Act 677 |
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HB1619
Act 634
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1619 Gramlich Irvin TO SET ADMINISTRATION FEES UNDER THE ARKANSA…”
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TO SET ADMINISTRATION FEES UNDER THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR IMMUNIZATIONS AND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES FOR … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1619 is now Act 634 |
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HB1622
Act 635
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1622 Gramlich Boyd TO AMEND THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; TO MODIFY…”
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TO AMEND THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; TO MODIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ADVERSE DECISION" UNDER THE … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1622 is now Act 635 |
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HB1627
Act 877
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on Revenue and Tax to whom was referred House Bill 1627 by Representative Barnett, recommend you pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROPERTY TAX RELIEF; AND TO REQUIRE COUNTIES TO PROVIDE NOTICE … | Barnett | Notification that HB1627 is now Act 877 |
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HB1646
Act 917
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…r one. Calendar. Committee on Education who was referred to House Bill 1646 by Representative McGrew. Recommend do pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO REQUIRE CERTAIN MATERIALS TO BE STORED IN LOCKED COMPARTMENTS WITHIN A DESIGNATED AREA. | McGrew | Notification that HB1646 is now Act 917 |
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HB1653
Act 636
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1653 Cavenaugh Irvin TO SET STANDARDS FOR LICENSING AND REGULATI…”
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TO SET STANDARDS FOR LICENSING AND REGULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES; AND TO DECLARE … | Cavenaugh | Notification that HB1653 is now Act 636 |
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HB1657
Act 709
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1657 Beck Davis TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND F…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND FOREST MAINTENANCE INCOME TAX CREDIT. | Beck | Notification that HB1657 is now Act 709 |
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HB1666
Act 656
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1666 S. Meeks Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS SE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS SELF-FUNDED CYBER RESPONSE PROGRAM. | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1666 is now Act 656 |
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HB167
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…n favor signify by saying a opposed say no, motion carries. House Bill 167.”
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Pre-2017 bill | ||
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HB1672
Act 800
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on Education who was referred to House Bill 1672 by Representative McCollum. Recommend do pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO CREATE A MORE EFFICIENT SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC … | McCollum | Notification that HB1672 is now Act 800 |
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HB1677
Act 637
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1677 Bentley Payton TO AUTHORIZE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMEN…”
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TO AUTHORIZE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS TO MAINTAIN EMERGENCY MEDICATION KITS. | Bentley | Notification that HB1677 is now Act 637 |
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HB1685
Act 1008
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1685 Amendment by Hester adopted”
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TO CREATE THE GROCERY TAX RELIEF ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SALES AND … | Underwood | Notification that HB1685 is now Act 1008 |
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HB1692
Act 678
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1692 M. Brown Petty TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLYGRAPH EXAMIN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLYGRAPH EXAMINERS AND VOICE STRESS ANALYSIS EXAMINERS; AND TO AMEND … | M. Brown | Notification that HB1692 is now Act 678 |
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HB1695
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1695 J. Richardson Crowell TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FO…”
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TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO ALLOW A … | J. Richardson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1712
Act 639
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1712 Joey Carr Scott TO ESTABLISH THE SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMP…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT IN THIS STATE. | Joey Carr | Notification that HB1712 is now Act 639 |
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HB1717
Act 952
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1717 Gramlich Boyd TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CHILDREN AND TEENS' ON…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CHILDREN AND TEENS' ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT. | Gramlich | Notification that HB1717 is now Act 952 |
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HB1728
Act 906
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d do pass. Calendar. Committee on Education who was for the House Bill 1728 by Representative Emmett, recommend do pass.”
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TO REQUIRE REPORTING ON THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS RECEIVING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR A DISABILITY AT INSTITUTIONS … | Ennett | Notification that HB1728 is now Act 906 |
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HB1729
Act 679
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1729 R. Burkes Bryant TO AMEND THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION ACT; AND…”
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TO AMEND THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION ACT; AND TO PROVIDE THAT A HOMESTEAD OWNED BY A … | R. Burkes | Notification that HB1729 is now Act 679 |
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HB1734
Act 862
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1734 Childress Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFIC…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFICATES; AND TO CLARIFY THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO MAY … | Childress | Notification that HB1734 is now Act 862 |
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HB1746
Act 997
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “Motion to Withdrawal HB1746 for purpose of amendment.”
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TO AMEND THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. | M. Brown | Notification that HB1746 is now Act 997 |
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HB1749
Act 680
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1749 M. Brown Dees TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM TRUST DECANTING ACT.”
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TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM TRUST DECANTING ACT. | M. Brown | Notification that HB1749 is now Act 680 |
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HB1751
Act 640
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1751 Underwood Bryant TO REQUIRE AN APPLICANT FOR TEMPORARY ASSI…”
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TO REQUIRE AN APPLICANT FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM BENEFITS TO ENGAGE IN … | Underwood | Notification that HB1751 is now Act 640 |
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HB1752
Act 681
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1752 Maddox Boyd TO EXEMPT CERTAIN SAVINGS PLANS FROM THE EXECUT…”
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TO EXEMPT CERTAIN SAVINGS PLANS FROM THE EXECUTION OF A JUDGMENT. | Maddox | Notification that HB1752 is now Act 681 |
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HB1756
Act 803
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “Sen. David - HB1756 adopt amendment - carried”
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TO ALLOW A PARENT, LEGAL GUARDIAN, OR PERSON STANDING IN LOCO PARENTIS TO A STUDENT … | Vaught | Notification that HB1756 is now Act 803 |
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HB1758
Act 641
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1758 Gramlich Hill TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HEARING INSTRUMEN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "PRACTICE … | Gramlich | Notification that HB1758 is now Act 641 |
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HB1763
Act 682
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1763 Underwood Bryant TO AMEND THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT OF 2013…”
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TO AMEND THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT OF 2013; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL … | Underwood | Notification that HB1763 is now Act 682 |
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HB1777
Act 683
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1777 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD; AND TO INCLUDE … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1777 is now Act 683 |
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HB1778
Act 832
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1778 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL OF…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF STALKING TO INCLUDE PLACING A PERSON … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1778 is now Act 832 |
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HB1779
Act 833
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1779 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THEFT OF PROPER…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THEFT OF PROPERTY; AND ENHANCE THE OFFENSE CLASSIFICATION FOR … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1779 is now Act 833 |
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HB1780
Act 684
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1780 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RETENTION O…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RETENTION OF PROPERTY RELATED TO A FELONY INVESTIGATION. | Gazaway | Notification that HB1780 is now Act 684 |
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HB1782
Act 642
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1782 Hudson Scott TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM B…”
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TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON … | Hudson | Notification that HB1782 is now Act 642 |
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HB1786
Act 826
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d do pass. Calendar. Committee on Education who was for the House Bill 1786 by Representative Brooks, recommend do pass. Calendar. Comm…”
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TO PROVIDE ELIGIBILITY FOR A TUITION BENEFIT TO SOLDIERS AND AIRMEN OF THE ARKANSAS NATIONAL … | Brooks | Notification that HB1786 is now Act 826 |
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HB1793
Act 804
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d do pass. Calendar. Committee on Education who was for the House Bill 1793 by Representative Duke, recommend do pass. Calendar. Commit…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE USE OF POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS. | Duke | Notification that HB1793 is now Act 804 |
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HB1796
Act 711
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1796 Beaty Jr. B. Johnson TO REQUIRE THE DISPLAY OF GENDER INFOR…”
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TO REQUIRE THE DISPLAY OF GENDER INFORMATION ON AN ARKANSAS DRIVER’S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD. | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1796 is now Act 711 |
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HB1799
Act 685
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1799 Vaught Tucker TO AMEND THE PERMISSIBLE METHODS OF REPORTING…”
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TO AMEND THE PERMISSIBLE METHODS OF REPORTING UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT. | Vaught | Notification that HB1799 is now Act 685 |
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HB1801
Act 961
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “Senator Breanne Davis: Motion adopt amendment to HB1801 - carried”
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TO AUTHORIZE AN OUTSOURCING FACILITY OF LEGEND DRUGS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES THAT COMPOUNDS A PRODUCT … | K. Moore | Notification that HB1801 is now Act 961 |
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HB1805
Act 805
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d do pass. Calendar. Committee on Education who was for the House Bill 1805 by Representative Childress, recommend do pass. Calendar. C…”
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TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "BULLYING"; AND TO CREATE A PROCESS WHEREBY A PUBLIC SCHOOL … | Childress | Notification that HB1805 is now Act 805 |
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HB1809
Act 880
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on Revenue and Tax to whom was referred House Bill 1809 by Representative Warren, recommend you pass. Calendar. Com…”
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TO ALLOW FOR PROPERTY OWNED BY A TRUST OR A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY TO QUALIFY … | Warren | Notification that HB1809 is now Act 880 |
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HB1810
Act 796
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1810 Joey Carr English TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND … | Joey Carr | Notification that HB1810 is now Act 796 |
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HB1815
Act 687
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1815 Perry Wallace TO AMEND THE STATE'S JURISDICTION OVER FEDERA…”
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TO AMEND THE STATE'S JURISDICTION OVER FEDERAL LANDS; AND TO RETAIN JUVENILE JUSTICE JURISDICTION BY … | Perry | Notification that HB1815 is now Act 687 |
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HB1824
Act 688
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1824 Duffield Clark TO CREATE THE DOG AND CAT RESCUE ACT: DAISY'…”
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TO CREATE THE DOG AND CAT RESCUE ACT: DAISY'S LAW. | Duffield | Notification that HB1824 is now Act 688 |
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HB1830
Act 689
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1830 M. Shepherd Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ATTORNEY…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE … | M. Shepherd | Notification that HB1830 is now Act 689 |
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HB1831
Act 690
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1831 M. Shepherd Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE USE OF S…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE USE OF SETTLEMENT FUNDS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. | M. Shepherd | Notification that HB1831 is now Act 690 |
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HB1833
Act 806
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…er one. Calendar. Committee on Education who is referred to House Bill 1833 by Representative Sheppard recommend do pass. Calendar. Com…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMISSIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. | M. Shepherd | Notification that HB1833 is now Act 806 |
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HB1835
Act 691
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1835 Dalby Dees CONCERNING SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAMS; AND TO UPDA…”
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CONCERNING SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAMS; AND TO UPDATE AND CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING DRUG COURT, MENTAL … | Dalby | Notification that HB1835 is now Act 691 |
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HB1838
Act 713
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1838 Dalby Clark TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROBATE ACTIONS; AN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROBATE ACTIONS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ADOPTION AND … | Dalby | Notification that HB1838 is now Act 713 |
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HB1839
Act 692
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1839 Dalby Clark TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES FOR THE DECLARATION OF…”
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TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES FOR THE DECLARATION OF LEGAL DEATH OF A MISSING PERSON. | Dalby | Notification that HB1839 is now Act 692 |
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HB1841
Act 1021
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB 1841 (AS AMENDED #1) – IRVIN TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS REVENUE INVE…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS REVENUE INVESTMENT IN VITAL EMS SYSTEMS (ARRIVES) ACT; AND TO CREATE … | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1841 is now Act 1021 |
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HB1844
Act 822
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1844 Tosh Wallace TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF FLE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF FLEEING BY MEANS OF A VEHICLE OR … | Tosh | Notification that HB1844 is now Act 822 |
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HB1847
Act 798
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom is furred House Bill 1847, Representative McClendon, compare the engrossed copy of th…”
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TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO MAINTAIN A STATEWIDE SELF-EXCLUSION LIST. | McAlindon | Notification that HB1847 is now Act 798 |
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HB1851
Act 714
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1851 Jean Crowell TO AMEND THE SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR FOOD, FOO…”
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TO AMEND THE SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR FOOD, FOOD INGREDIENTS, AND PREPARED FOOD SOLD IN … | Jean | Notification that HB1851 is now Act 714 |
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HB1854
Act 643
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1854 Bentley Flippo TO EXEMPT A HOME CAREGIVER FROM HOME CAREGIV…”
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TO EXEMPT A HOME CAREGIVER FROM HOME CAREGIVER TRAINING IF HE OR SHE PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED … | Bentley | Notification that HB1854 is now Act 643 |
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HB1875
Act 841
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary, to whom is for the House Bill 1875, by Representative Tosh, recommended”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE USE OF AN IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE; AND TO PROVIDE … | Tosh | Notification that HB1875 is now Act 841 |
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HB1877
Act 977
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary, to whom is for the House Bill 1877, by Representative Meeks, recommended to pass as amended nu…”
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CONCERNING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL THAT DEPICTS A CHILD; AND … | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1877 is now Act 977 |
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HB1886
Act 823
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills, to whom is furred House Bill 1886, by Representative Wallace, compare the engrossed copy of t…”
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TO DESIGNATE THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER AS THE OFFICIAL CANINE OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. | Pearce | Notification that HB1886 is now Act 823 |
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HB1887
Act 658
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1887 Pearce Petty TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATEWIDE CHILD AB…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATEWIDE CHILD ABDUCTION RESPONSE TEAMS. | Pearce | Notification that HB1887 is now Act 658 |
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HB1889
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1889 Pilkington Bryant TO AMEND THE LIMITATIONS ON ACCESS TO A D…”
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TO AMEND THE LIMITATIONS ON ACCESS TO A DISPENSARY OR CULTIVATION FACILITY; AND TO AUTHORIZE … | Pilkington | Delivered to the Secretary of State |
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HB1895
Act 843
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…r one. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary, to whom is for the House Bill 1895, by Representative Dalby, recommended to pass. Calendar. Co…”
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TO ALLOW A CORPORATION OR VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION TO EMPLOY IN-HOUSE ATTORNEYS TO REPRESENT AFFILIATES OF … | Dalby | Notification that HB1895 is now Act 843 |
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HB1937
Act 821
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…you pass. Calendar. Committee on Revenue and Tax to Misford House Bill 1937 by Representative Jean, recommended you pass. Calendar.”
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TO AMEND THE METHOD OF VALUATION FOR MINERAL RIGHTS UNDER ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 16, § … | Jean | Notification that HB1937 is now Act 821 |
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HB1957
Act 847
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1957 #1 S. Meeks English TO AMEND THE UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL AND…”
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TO AMEND THE UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL AND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT ELECTRONIC MAIL PREVENTION ACT TO INCLUDE UNSOLICITED … | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1957 is now Act 847 |
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HB1958
Act 848
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1958 #1 S. Meeks English TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A…”
|
TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1958 is now Act 848 |
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HB1960
Act 1013
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1960 withdraw from committee for Stone amendment to add Stone as…”
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TO PROVIDE THAT THE LESSEE OF A LEASED MOTOR VEHICLE IS THE OWNER FOR PURPOSES … | Stone | Notification that HB1960 is now Act 1013 |
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HB1963
Act 963
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “Senator Justin Boyd: Motion HB1963 adopt amendment - Motion carried”
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TO CLARIFY THAT AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE WHO PRESCRIBES A STIMULANT MAY SUBSTITUTE A … | Gonzales | Notification that HB1963 is now Act 963 |
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HB1964
Act 825
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on Judiciary to whom was referred House Bill 1964 by Representative Brooks, recommend you pass.”
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TO MOVE THE CHILD WELFARE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION AND THE JUVENILE OMBUDSMAN DIVISION TO THE DEPARTMENT … | Brooks | Notification that HB1964 is now Act 825 |
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HCR1008
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HCR1008 McAlindon Dotson TO CELEBRATE AND COMMEND NORTHWEST ARKANSA…”
|
TO CELEBRATE AND COMMEND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S NATIONALLY LEADING AND INDUSTRY-TRANSFORMING BICYCLE ASSEMBLY & … | McAlindon | Approved by the Governor |
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HCR1011
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HCR1011 McAlindon Hester TO RECOGNIZE BENTONVILLE'S INVESTMENT IN C…”
|
TO RECOGNIZE BENTONVILLE'S INVESTMENT IN CYCLING AND ITS TITLE AS THE MOUNTAIN BIKING CAPITAL OF … | McAlindon | Approved by the Governor |
|
SB106
Act 898
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB106 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION FOR…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB106 is now Act 898 |
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SB123
Act 553
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…te Bill 39 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 88 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 123 by Senator Letting, Senate Bill 125 by Joint Budget, Senate…”
|
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAMS AND BREAST ULTRASOUNDS. | G. Leding | Notification that SB123 is now Act 553 |
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SB124
Act 899
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB124 AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - DIVISION OF AGRICUL…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB124 is now Act 899 |
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SB125
Act 611
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 88 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 123 by Senator Letting, Senate Bill 125 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 127 by Joint Budget, Senate Bi…”
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AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB125 is now Act 611 |
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SB127
Act 612
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 123 by Senator Letting, Senate Bill 125 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 127 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 148 by Senator English, Senate…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - FAYETTEVILLE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB127 is now Act 612 |
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SB148
Act 587
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 125 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 127 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 148 by Senator English, Senate Bill 153 by Senator Dodson, Sena…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE CREATING AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD WORKERS ACT OF 2025. | J. English | Notification that SB148 is now Act 587 |
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SB149
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB149 J. English TO AMEND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS UNDER THE…”
|
TO AMEND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING ACT OF 2003. | J. English | Died in House at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB160
Act 589
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…148 by Senator English, Senate Bill 153 by Senator Dodson, Senate Bill 160 by Senator Dodson, Senate Bill 167 by Senator Clark,”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. | J. Dotson | Notification that SB160 is now Act 589 |
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SB167
Act 563
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 153 by Senator Dodson, Senate Bill 160 by Senator Dodson, Senate Bill 167 by Senator Clark,”
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TO AMEND THE DATES BY WHICH CERTAIN REQUESTS TO TRANSFER PUBLIC SCHOOLS OR PUBLIC SCHOOL … | A. Clark | Notification that SB167 is now Act 563 |
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SB237
Act 554
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 237 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 252 by Senator Dispange, Senat…”
|
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE LICENSING AND REGULATION OF CAPTIVE INSURERS. | J. Boyd | Notification that SB237 is now Act 554 |
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SB252
Act 590
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 237 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 252 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 322 by Senator Brant, Sena…”
|
TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF HEALTH RISKS CAUSED BY VAPOR PRODUCTS AND E-LIQUID PRODUCTS; AND … | J. Dismang | Notification that SB252 is now Act 590 |
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SB32
Act 886
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB32 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF Y…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB32 is now Act 886 |
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SB322
Act 591
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 237 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 252 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 322 by Senator Brant, Senate Bill 348 by Senator Penzo, Senate…”
|
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT; AND TO ALLOW THIRD PARTIES TO PERFORM … | J. Bryant | Notification that SB322 is now Act 591 |
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SB33
Act 887
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB33 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF M…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB33 is now Act 887 |
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SB34
Act 888
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB34 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF D…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES APPROPRIATION … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB34 is now Act 888 |
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SB348
Act 567
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…252 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 322 by Senator Brant, Senate Bill 348 by Senator Penzo, Senate Bill 351 by Senator Dispange, Sena…”
|
TO AMEND THE ANNUAL CAP FOR DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY SERVICES WITHIN THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM; AND … | C. Penzo | Notification that SB348 is now Act 567 |
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SB35
Act 889
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB35 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF C…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB35 is now Act 889 |
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SB351
Act 592
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 322 by Senator Brant, Senate Bill 348 by Senator Penzo, Senate Bill 351 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 357 by Senator Brant, Sena…”
|
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT … | J. Dismang | Notification that SB351 is now Act 592 |
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SB36
Act 890
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB36 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF A…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB36 is now Act 890 |
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SB361
Act 576
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 357 by Senator Brant, Senate Bill 359 by Senator Pettis, Senate Bill 361 by Senator Dees, Senate Bill 405 by Senator Dispange, Senat…”
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TO CREATE THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES EXPANSION ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF … | Dees | Notification that SB361 is now Act 576 |
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SB37
Act 608
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…bills to whom was referred, Senate Bill 25 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 37 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 39 by Joint Budget, Senate Bil…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB37 is now Act 608 |
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SB371
Act 653
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB371 #1 J. Scott Scott TO ESTABLISH A STANDARDIZED SYSTEM TO AID…”
|
TO ESTABLISH A STANDARDIZED SYSTEM TO AID IN THE SEARCH OF MISSING CHILDREN WHO DO … | J. Scott | Notification that SB371 is now Act 653 |
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SB39
Act 609
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…te Bill 25 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 37 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 39 by Joint Budget, Senate Bill 88 by Joint Budget, Senate Bil…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB39 is now Act 609 |
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SB391
Act 472
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “from the regular session of the 95th General Assembly. Senate Bill 391, act 472, Senate Bill 100, act 482, Senate Bill 264, act 48…”
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TO CREATE THE ROBOTICS COMPETITION GRANT PROGRAM FOR ELIGIBLE ROBOTICS TEAMS IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE … | J. Dismang | Notification that SB391 is now Act 472 |
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SB40
Act 891
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB40 AN ACT FOR THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND THE LEGIS…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPROPRIATION FOR THE … | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB40 is now Act 891 |
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SB405
Act 555
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 359 by Senator Pettis, Senate Bill 361 by Senator Dees, Senate Bill 405 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 407 by Senator Gilmore, Se…”
|
TO AMEND THE ONLINE MARKETPLACE CONSUMER INFORM ACT. | J. Dismang | Notification that SB405 is now Act 555 |
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SB407
Act 577
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 361 by Senator Dees, Senate Bill 405 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 407 by Senator Gilmore, Senate Bill 412 by Senator Boyd, Senate…”
|
TO REPEAL THE ARKANSAS CATFISH PROCESSOR FAIR PRACTICES ACT OF 1987. | Gilmore | Notification that SB407 is now Act 577 |
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SB41
Act 892
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB41 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE…”
|
AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR. | Joint Budget Committee | Notification that SB41 is now Act 892 |
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SB412
Act 614
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…05 by Senator Dispange, Senate Bill 407 by Senator Gilmore, Senate Bill 412 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 421 by Senator Hester, Senate…”
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TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO SET THE PER-MILE AMOUNT FOR THE … | J. Boyd | Notification that SB412 is now Act 614 |
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SB421
Act 578
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 407 by Senator Gilmore, Senate Bill 412 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 421 by Senator Hester, Senate Bill 422 by Senator Tucker”
|
TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION TO ISSUE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT … | Hester | Notification that SB421 is now Act 578 |
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SB422
Act 615
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 412 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 421 by Senator Hester, Senate Bill 422 by Senator Tucker”
|
TO ALLOW NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO A NEW OR EXISTING ARKANSAS BRIGHTER FUTURE FUND … | C. Tucker | Notification that SB422 is now Act 615 |
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SB440
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 433 by Senator Dodson Senate Bill 440 by Senator Wallace Senate Bill 448 by Senator Petty Senate…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE USE OF ALKALINE … | D. Wallace | Sine Die adjournment |
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SB448
Act 579
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 433 by Senator Dodson Senate Bill 440 by Senator Wallace Senate Bill 448 by Senator Petty Senate Bill 463 by Senator McKee Senate Bi…”
|
TO AUTHORIZE THE FINANCING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS, BUILDING RESILIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, AND … | J. Petty | Notification that SB448 is now Act 579 |
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SB460
Act 697
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB460 #1 Irvin Irvin TO MODIFY THE COMPLIANCE ADVISORY PANEL; TO…”
|
TO MODIFY THE COMPLIANCE ADVISORY PANEL; TO REPEAL THE MARKETING RECYCLABLES PROGRAM OF THE COMPLIANCE … | Irvin | Notification that SB460 is now Act 697 |
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SB463
Act 580
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 440 by Senator Wallace Senate Bill 448 by Senator Petty Senate Bill 463 by Senator McKee Senate Bill 479 by Senator Hamers Senate B…”
|
TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TO APPROVE OR DENY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS CONCERNING CLOSING … | M. McKee | Notification that SB463 is now Act 580 |
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SB479
Act 593
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 448 by Senator Petty Senate Bill 463 by Senator McKee Senate Bill 479 by Senator Hamers Senate Bill 498 by Senator Petty Senate B…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER ASSISTANCE; AND TO REQUIRE A PERSON ASSISTING A VOTER … | K. Hammer | Notification that SB479 is now Act 593 |
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Matched: “…Bill 498 by Senator Petty Senate Bill 503 by Senator Pearl Senate Bill 505 by Senator Bryant Senate Bill 510 by Senator Boyd Senate Bi…”
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Act 594
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Matched: “…Bill 503 by Senator Pearl Senate Bill 505 by Senator Bryant Senate Bill 510 by Senator Boyd Senate Bill 529 by Senator Blake Johnson Se…”
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Act 617
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Matched: “…Bill 505 by Senator Bryant Senate Bill 510 by Senator Boyd Senate Bill 529 by Senator Blake Johnson Senate Bill 545 by Senator Mark Jo…”
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Act 564
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Matched: “…10 by Senator Boyd Senate Bill 529 by Senator Blake Johnson Senate Bill 545 by Senator Mark Johnson Sen. 564 by Senator Flippo, compare…”
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Act 897
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Act 610
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time. Madam Secretary, call the roll. Boy, Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crow, Davis, Ds, Dimain Dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore, hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting, love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton,
Penzo, Petty, rice, Scotch stone, Stuberfield Sullivan, Tucker Wallace.
Everyone in the chamber. And in the galleries, please rise and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance,
the Senate will be led in prayer. Senator Hammer, you're recognized to uh introduce our pastor. Thank you, Mr. President. It gives me
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great pleasure to introduce to you a longtime friend of mine also a longtime friend of many of you because he's been around the state working in various capacities, but the highest capacity is he's a pastor and he has been in the ministry a long time. He currently pastor
Owensville Baptist Church over on Highway 5 by Hot Spring. Village and had the privilege when I was in hospice as a hospice chaplain and stepped away from that Jim stepped in to fill the role as hospice chaplain, so I appreciate very much for a long time friendship we have, and with that, Brother LeGro, would you please come and lead some prayer. Thank you. And thank you. Let's pray together. Oh
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great God. We come for you today with grateful hearts.
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For the opportunity to serve the people of Arkansas. I thank you, Lord, for the beauty of this great state from the delta to the Ozarks from our farms to our families, from our history. To our hopes We ask now for guidance as the Senate gathers to deliberate. And decide matters that affect the lives of so many people. I pray you grant each senator wisdom beyond themselves. A heart of service above self. And then the courage to pursue
justice and compassion and truth. God remind us that leadership is a trust. May every voice be heard with respect. Every debate held with dignity. Every decision shaped by a deep desire to uplift the common good. God protect our state. I do pray you strengthen our unity, bless our efforts. And may we never forget that our work here today is not about policy. It's about people.
And God, it's in your holy name,
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I pray. Amen. to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible with liberty. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen in
the galleries, welcome to the Arkansas Senate. It's our expectation each of you
will exercise proper decorum and govern yourselves accordingly during today's proceedings. Without objection, the rules will be suspended in the Senate will dispense with reading of the journal. The morning hour has now begun. Senator Payton, you're now recognized to introduce the Senate pages for the day. Thank
you, Mr. President. Uh, centers, I definitely take
pleasure in recognizing our Senate pages today, but once again, Senator Tucker, strikes. Uh, this, if
y'all would come forward and I mention your name, Kate Faulkner, Pulaski Heights Middle School and Stella came from Pulaski Heights Middle School, both from Senator Tucker's district. Come on right up here in the middle. We're, but now I welcome
to the Arkansas Senate, if we could give him a hand, please. Thank you ladies.
You stupid. Madam Secretary, are there any other announcements or introductions at this time, Senator, dismaying you're recognized, and this is just
a thank you. This is just an announcement on when we're going to hear uh the budget calendar, and so that will be when we start Senate bills for 3rd reading and final passage on page 2. We'll hear the budget calendar right before that, if you don't mind taking a look at it. We've got a number of bills
on that, and if you want to vote something separately, go ahead and let me know as we're working through, and I'll pull it out. Of course I'll Through it again, there's something you'd like to pull out separately. That's what we'll hear it. Is that correct? So it's right before Senate bills for
the 3rd reading in passage on page 2 bottom of the page. Any other announcements, Senator Flippo, you're recognized. Colleagues, if you'll help me welcome
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our doctor of the day, Dr. Timothy Payton with the Regional Family Medical back in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He's a good friend of mine, community leader, and a lot of great things to Northender, Arkansas,
and of course the exquisite lovely nurse Lee Fazio, please welcome them today. Any other announcements? Bo. Introductions, Madam Secretary, are
there items at the desk? Yes, dear Mr. President, this is
to inform you that on April 8th, 2025, I reviewed and improved the following measures from the regular session of the 95th General Assembly. Senate Bill
391 Act 472, Senate Bill 100, Act 482, Senate Bill 264 Act 483, symbol 293 Act 487, Senate Bill 365 Act 488, symbol 305 at 491, send it before 11 Act 492, Senate Bill 4 16 Act 493, Senate Bill 392 Act 499 sincerely, Sarah Sanders, Governor. Were your committee on a road
bills to him was referred Senate Bill 25 a joint budget, and Bill 37 by joint budget, symbol 39 by joint budget, symbol 88 by joint budget. So about 123 by center letting it 125 by joint budget by 127 by joint budget, symbol 148 Senator English Senate Bill 153 by Senator Dots and sent by 160 by Senator Dotson sent by 167 by Central Clark, Senator 237 by Central Boy symbol 252. We introduce bank 322 by Senator
Bryantville 348 by Central Penzay with 351 by Central Dima, Senate Bill 357 by Senator Bryant, Senate Bill 359 by Senator Petty 361 by Central Dsy 405 by Central Desmain47 by entry Gilmore, symbol 412 by Senator Boyd sent 421 my entry Hester and 422 by Senator Tucker, Senate Bill 433 by Senator Dodson. 4:40 by central Wallacey 4:48
Senator Petty, about 463 by Senator McKee. 479 by Central Hammers. Senate Bill 498 by Senator Petty, Senate Bill 503 by Senator Corin 505 by Central Bryant symbol 510 by Senator Boyd. It's about 5:29 by Senator Blake Johnson, Bill 545 by Center Mark Johnson, Sam 564 by center flippo compared the rolled copies with the original find the same correctly enrolled and delivered to. Governor at 8:53 a.m. this morning for her approval.
it. We your committee on grossed bills to was first sym 376 by Centra Hammer, uh, compared to the gross copy of the original same correctly engrossed. Calendar Committee on Gross, who is 1847, Representative McClendon Gross copied the Rachel and found him correctly engrossed bills to how spelled 1886 by Representative Wallace the ross
copy of the Rachel and Van correctly your committee on Gross spills who was first sent
60, 6 hour. power. For 614 by Senator Tucker compared the gross copy of the Rachel Van saying correctly engrossed calendar. we're gonna calendar. Were your
Committee on Education to whom was referred. House for 1580 by uh
Representative Gram, uh, recommend to pass. Calendar Committee on Education to who was referred uh, house for 1642 by represent Grahamlin recommend do passes amended number one. Calendar on Education who was house was 1646 by Representative McGrew recommended pass calendar Committee on Education who was referred House for 1672 by Representative McCollum to pass on education team was refer house was 1728 but
representative uh Emmett recommended pass House Bill 1766 by Representative in recommended pass on education. He was referred to house for 178. by Representative Brooks's recommended cast calendar Committee on Education was first house for 1793 by Representative Duke recommend do pass calendar on education who was house about 1805 by Representative Children's recommended pass.
Committee on Education for 1812 by grandma recommend do pass this amendment number 1 calendar 3 on education who was for house about 1833 but in Shepherd recommended pass on education who was house about 1866 by Representative Brooks recommended new passesit number one alendar Committee on Joint Magic team was refer Senate Bill 72 by dropped budget recommended pass on joint team was 1st 92 by. Budget recommended passed
calendar team for Senate Bill 362 by Hammer recommend new passesend number 2. calendar. Committee on the Judiciary, to whom his first Senate resolution 65 by Senator Tucker recommended pass this amended number one calendar. Committee on the Judiciary, to whom his House concurrent resolution 1010 by Representative Shepherd recommended pass calendar judiciary to whom was first sent 441 by Central has to recommend DuPass asended number one
calendar Judiciary to him was far House Bill 1433 by Representative Moore recommended pass calendar judiciary who was for house 1529 but Meek's recommended pass calendar judiciary who was referred to House Bill 1764 by. Underwood recommended pass judiciary to who was house for 1875 versus Tosh recommended pass calendar judiciary to him was referred house about 1877 by Representative Meeks recommended
pass asended number one calendar Committee on judiciary who was for house for 1895 and we recommended pass on Judiciary and was referred House Bill 1921 by represented Torres recommend new pass. Committee on the Judiciary who was House Bill 1931 or baby recommend to pass on judiciary who started in 1964 by Rison Brooks' recommended pass calendar on revenue tax to him
was referred for 1627 by representative uh. Barnett recommended pass calendar revenue and tax to house by 1809 by Representative Warren recommended pass calendar on Revenue and Tax to as far as House Bill 1922 by Representative Maddox recommend to pass calendar to to start a house on 1937 by representative Jean recommendo pass. about 6:35 by Central Pennzo.
To amend the law concerning alcoholic beverages and authorized bottle lockers in certain restaurants, Senate Bill 635 city, county, local. Are there any further business to come
for the body in the morning hour. If not, the hour has expired. We will now start the business agenda. Senator Ervin, you are recognized.
Thank you, uh, Mr. Chair, um, I want to make a motion to um suspend the rules to place Senate Bill 400 on
the calendar for purpose of getting my amendment engrossed, it came out of committee last Thursday and didn't make it to the calendar. Members, you've heard an explanation of the motion. All those in favor signify by saying aye, I opposed say no
motion carries. Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 400. Senator Irving, you're recognized for your amendment. My bill, my amendment. Appreciate a good vote members. You've
heard the explanation of the amendment. All those in
favor of the amendment signified by saying aye, I opposed, say no motion amendment adopted and motion to
um after it comes back from engrossing, placed Senate Bill 400 on supplemental agenda for today. Members, you've heard an explanation of the motion. All
those in favor signify by saying ah opposed say no. Motion carries. Thank you. Hey members, this is what we
just briefly discussed, we will end up making a supplemental agenda because there's going to
be anything that we're wanting to add to the calendar today. We'll go to the supplemental agenda when we, when we take a recess at 4 o'clock, we will, we will have that for you. But just for those uh in the gallery or here that's watching, we plan to recess at 4 o'clock to go
back into committees for roughly an hour, then we'll come back to the floor and finish for the day. So is Senator Tucker.
Others are saying. Here, I'll do it. OK.
Senate Bill 614 amendment number 2. OK,
so Senator Tucker needs a motion to do the same. Is
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that correct? Now for Senator Tucker. Yeah, he's not in here.
Uh, motion to, um, Motion to suspend the rules to place Senate bill. 6 614 onto uh to for consideration for purpose of
amendment for Senator Tucker. So Senator, you've heard the, you've heard the motion. All those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed say no. Motion carries. Your amendment. Yes, we just
added it to the it did not need to be amended. All we did was add it to the calendar
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today. No, it does need to be amended. So most. It just adds
a sponsor, OK, we've suspended the rules. Now we're going to hear the amendment. Amendment 2, the
Senate Bill 614 as a sponsor. Appreciate your vote. You've heard a motion on the amendment. All those in favor signify by saying aye, I opposed
say no. Motion carries amendment adopted motion to place Senate Bill 614 on supplemental agenda
for today's calendar. Members, you've heard the explanation of the motion. All those in favor signify by saying aye, I oppose. No motion carries. Senator Hammer, you
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are recognized. Thank you, I'd like to make a motion to pull House Bill 1837
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from committee for purpose of amend and Senate sponsor. Members, you've heard the motion. All those
in favor signify by saying aye, opposed say no motion carries. I No It. Amendment 1 to House Bill 1837. Thank you, Mr.
President. This adds me as a Senate sponsor, I'd
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like to ask for it to be sent to engrossing. Members, you've heard an explanation of the amendment.
All those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed say no.
Motion carries amendment adopted. Send too engrossing. make a motion to Let's do
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it now. What is it? Put it on to the second
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reading for purposes of men. I'd like to make a motion to put Senate Bill
568 on its second reading for purpose of amendment. Members, you've heard the motion. All those in favor
signify by saying ah. A post say no motion carries.
Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 568.
My bill, my amendment. Members, you've heard an explanation of the amendment. All
those in favor signify by saying ah. A post say no. Motion carries amendment adopted to engrossing, Senator Irvin, you are
recognized motion to suspend the rules to amend House Bill 1679. It's That's motions you've heard an explanation of the motion. All
those in favor signify by saying aye, I opposed say no motion carries. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. I need House Bill 1679 had an
amendment that came out of committee this morning, and I
need to be able to engross that onto the bill today. That's an explanation of the amendment. All those in favor signify by saying I,
I opposed say no. Yeah, you do have it. It's from the
committee. And then uh motion to a place motion carries a amendment
adopted sin to engrossing. OK? 1679 is the House bill. House Bill 1679. And then once it comes back from engrossing House Bill 1679 motion to place that also on a supplemental
agenda. OK, members, you've heard an explanation of the motion. All those in favor signify by saying a opposed say no, motion carries. House Bill 167.
1679. The family one. Yeah, right now it is, yeah, I'm gonna go through all the other ones that had them. 60 Let's
get it done. Senator Kroll, you're recognized. Make a
motion, put 560. 8 on the end of the supplemental calendar
when it comes back from a grosi. Remember you've heard an explanation of the moment of the moment or you've heard an
explanation of the motion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. A post say no motion carries. Senator Dodson, you are recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a
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few bills that came out of House or Senate education this morning that had amendments on them. The House bills
House Bill 1642. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules to adopt the House, the amendment that we had in committee this morning. There's an emotion to spin the rules of
all those in favor signify by saying I opposed say no. Motion carries, Senator Dotson, you were recognized for your amendment. OK You just. Oh, you don't have them yet, we'll have those later, later
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on the calendar. I'll withdraw to do this a little later.
OK, are there any other motions, any announcements at this time? Senator Scott, are you
SCR 7. and Senate concurrent resolution 7 by Senator Scott to recognize
the Mills University studies, high school comics, boys, basketball teams as the
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Class 4A state champion, turn around, Senator Jamie Scott, you
are recognized. Turn around. They that way, there
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you go. Back up. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. President.
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Today I stand before you to recognize Mills University Studies High School, comments,
boys basketball team for the class for a championship. So we're at Mills University Studies High School, comics, basketball team, one that we won the 2025 Class 4A championship after defeating Molton Devil Dogs by a score of 56 to 51 on March 14th at the Bank of Ozarks in Hot Springs, whereas the comments finish the 2024, 2025 season with a 35 to 1, that was
35. That was the best record in school's history. Give them round of applause. So whereas Anthony Hester suffered a shock and fall in the 3rd quarter of the championship game, which stopped the game for several minutes, but he recovered to lead a pivotal rally into the 4th quarter, helping, helping power the comets in their win and we as members of the team, rolling, um, Zyland Roland was named
Class for a most valuable Where's hand? raise your hands, Alan. Sorry. OK. I'm sorry, sweetie. Dale Roland um was named the most valuable for a OK. And we're as walls Marshall Walls scored the team's high 19 points in the championship game. Raise your hand, Mr. Walls. And whereas Roland and Hester and Bell all earned all state honors and were as uh members
curry and Walls are in all conference honors and the comments were led by head coach, head coach, the head coach. Mr. Cooper, raise your hand. Assistant coaches Campbell flowers, Butler, and white. head coach, Mr. Cooper. I love his wife. I work with her, said that the win of the season, winning happens when you decide to do whatever it takes, so now there be it resolved by the Senate of the ninety-fifth General Assembly in the House of Representatives concurring there within that the recognized the
Mills University High School Comms basketball team as the Class for a state champions. I asked
for a good A votes on this resolution you've heard the resolution. All those in
favor signify by saying aye. Opposed say no. Motion carries. Congratulations. Oh
Mr. President. Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized. Hold on guys.
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Come back. Come back, Come back. Come back. Come on back. Come on back. Gentlemen, if y'all pause just a moment, I'll tell a quick story, Mr.
President. Some of y'all know I used to work for Congressman Mills. He was my dear friend. He was the
best man at my wedding. He had a bet with with Senator McClellan. Every time Mills beat McClellan in any sport, he would send $100 to the Mills athletic department. And so I wanted to say, I'm so proud of y'all both the boys and the girls. So coach,
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here's a $100 from Congressman Mills. 50 years later. You
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bet. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. Thank you.
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Excuse me, excuse me, can you take a photo of
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our MIB, I'm gonna hold my resolution Thank you so much. I appreciate it so much and over to the house over to the house. Now
But Jamie Scott. So the concurrent resolution 8 by cent
for Scott to recognize the Mills University studies high school lady comments basketball team as the Class 4A conference champions and to remember head coach Joe Gregory's wife Cynthia Gregory.
Senator Scott, you are recognized. Thank you. Thank
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you, Mr. President. Thank you, colleagues. You go. Trying to get everybody in here. OK. The Mills University studies high school, lady comments basketball team won the class for a conference championship, made it to the semifinals of the Class A 4 state championship tourney, pressing through and finishing strong for head coach Joe Gregory after the tragic death of his wife Cynthony Gregory in January of 2025 and
we're asking the 2024, 2025 season, the lady Cots basketball team ended with a loss to the Queen in the semifinals of the. Class for a state championship tournament, but the lady comments endured so much and accomplished so much during this extraordinary season and emerged as the number one, as a number of school records. The lady comments was in was the 1st 21, 21 seasons of 18 years, the first conference championship in 18 years in the first regional
championship in the program's history for the state championship semifinals appearance in the. Gram's history. And whereas members Kirsten Johnson and Miss Streets earn allstate honors and whereas member Miss Johnson, Miss. Streets, uh, Gregory and Tinner all conference honors and whereas the lady comments were led by head coach Joe Gregory, assistant coaches Jasmine, George, and Tony, and we're as coach George Joe Gregory said in his win of the season, winning
is a culture that is fueled by effort, determination, and confidence. Anything worth having will never come easy, which makes winning a high priority in every aspect of our lives and Coach Gregory, would you please step up? Joe, OK. We just want you to know that we love you and we're praying for you. His wife passed away in January, um, but the community is so proud of the young ladies
that you are, are making just role models in our,
in our state and how they showed up for you um and your family and pressed through this season will never be forgotten, and we will never forget you leading in such a way that's just remarkable and commended, should be commended during such one of the the moments in your life that nobody ever wants to experience, so I want you to know that the state of Arkansas sees you. We see you and we appreciate who you are and what you're doing. And so now they're being resolved, the Senate and House of Representatives concur that we're and recognize Mills University High School, lady
comments team at the Class 4A conference championships and your remarkable leadership, George Gregory. Members, you've heard
the resolution, all those in favor signify by saying ah. Oppose say no motion carries. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, girls. We love y'all. it in the journal.
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So we're gonna, we're gonna read a few reports, I think. I have the Madam Secretary, are
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there items at the desk? Oh let's get her out of
the way. she says. When you, when you're
commit on public health to is for house was 1679 by Representative Brown recommend to pass this amendment number 2. Calendar Senator Irvin, you are now recognized.
She's gonna adopted. Yes, go ahead. Amendment 2
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to 1679. My bill, my amendments, you've heard an explanation in the amendment. All those in favor signify
by saying aye, opposed say no, Amendment adopted sent to engrossing. Thank you. Senator Dodson, you are recognized
for for 1642. Amendment 1.
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You want to adopt it. Oh, that's one on your list OK, this is a motion to suspend the rules for House Bill 1642 that came out
of committee this morning and needs to adopt the amendment. We suspended the rules earlier adopt the amendment. All right, so my motion is to adopt the amendment and get it to engrossing so it can be
calendar you've heard an explanation in the amendment. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Po say no motion carries amendment adopted, sent to engrossing. Amendment to House Bill 1812.
Same thing. Remember if you've heard an explanation of the amendment. All those
in favor signify by saying aye. A post say no motion carries amendment adopted, send to engrossing. And then
one the House Bill 1866. Same thing on House Bill 1866.
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Members, you've heard an explanation of the
amendment. All those in favor signify by saying ah, ah, opposed say no motion carries amendment adopted sent to engrossing. I.
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You have 2? Are you doing the 2nd 1 1820? and Amendment 2 to
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House Bill. 1812. Same thing on that amendment members, you've heard
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the explanation of Amendment 2. All those in favor
signify by saying I, I opposed say no motion carries amendment adopted send to engrossing. Madam Secretary, there
are items at the desk. No, we, yeah.
Were a Committee on Public Health who was referred hospital 1142 by Representative Brown recommend new pass. Calendar I'm Papa for House Bill 1185 by Representative Johnson recommended a pass. calendar on public health team for House Bill 1186 by Representative Volt recommended pass. on public health teams for House Bill 1187 by Representative Volt recommended pass calendar
to House Bill 1252 by Representative Johnson recommended pass calendar Committee on Public Health who we sort House 1285 Johnson recommended pass for Haville 1428 representative Steel recommended pass calendar team is for house for 1439 verse to layman recommended passendar. I have a couch to was for house for 1456 by Representative Rose's recommended pass calendar to house about 1458 by
Representative Johnson recommended pass calendar on Public Health to 1471 by Representative Wooldrich recommended pass calendar for house for 8158av and Johnson recommend new past calendar is for house 1682 by Representative Fury recommended pass. Calendar on couch for 1767 by Senator Johnson recommended pass on team
is for house for 1768 by Representative Lundstrom recommended pass calendar on couch for 1767 by Senator Johnson recommended pass on team is for house for 1768 by Representative Lundstrom recommended pass onto as for house for 1784 by War I recommend they pass public house to house 1817 Johnson recommended calendar to 1840 by Johnson recommended. Calendarto is for house 1841 by Representative Johnson recommended passes Amendment number 1 calendar
onto as for house was 1869 by Johnson recommended pass calendar Committee on Public Health for Houseville 1893 by Brown recommended pass calendar to for House Bill 1943 by Representative Johnson recommended a pass calendar on public house. 1954 by Representative Andrews recommending pass calendar onto is for house was
1965 I McCollum recommended do pass calendar. Let me see who the Senate
sponsor is on this one.
Are there any other? items at
this time. Seeing none, Senator Dodson, you're recognized for house concurrent resolution 1008. Ask
and car resolution 1008 by Senator Dodson to celebrate and commend Northwest Arkansas Community Colleges nationally leading an industry transforming
bicycle assembly and repair technician and trail technician programs. Senator Dodson, you
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recognize? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members, this resolution and the next one, there's a little bit of a calendar
mess up. They were here yesterday over in the house, but since this was a concurrent resolution, it didn't come over here till today, so I'm just going to ask for a good vote on this
one, and then I'll present the next one and do the same. Remember you've heard
the resolution, all those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed,
say no. Motion carries. Congratulations, Senator Dodson, you're recognized for House concurrent resolution 1011. How concur resolution 1011 by uh Senator Dotson and Hester
to recognize the Bentonville's investment in cycling and its title as a mountain biking capital
of the world, Senator Dodson, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I explained this on the last
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one. Appreciate a good vote on it as well. Members, you've heard an explanation or the resolution.
All those in favor signified by saying ah, opposed say no, motion carries.
Resolution is concurred. Return to the house. OK, Senator Walsh, you, OK,
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Senator Walsh, you're recognized, sir. Thank you so much. Members in
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the VIP gallery today, we have our alignment of Arkansas from all over Arkansas. These men and women, when the rest of us hunker down with storms coming through. These are the men and women that stand up
and go out in the bad weather, working with Highline Wars, gentlemen, if you all will and um VIP if you linemen will stand up and God bless you for what you do. And I just want to take this moment to recognize them, they're heroes. They protect us. They're really our first responders for our electrical, our phones, and without them, I don't know what we would do. And so if you will, just give them a warm Senate welcome.
And thank you for the heroes that you are. Thank you, Senator Kroll,
you are recognized for Senate Resolution 54. Cinema resolution 54 by Central Crowell, to recognize the Taylor Haskell Lady Tiger softball team as a 2024 class 1A state champions. Colleagues, I'm just going to
take a quick second here to recognize these young ladies and this program. Taylor Ladies High School softball team won the state championship last year.
That is their 7th championship in a row, and that is their 10th
championship overall. Let's give, I would ask for a good vote and let's give them a warm welcome. Members, you've heard
the resolution. All those in favor signify by saying aye. oppose say no motion carries, congratulations. Thank you.
That's why. Come on, coach, head on over there. Yeah Senator Crowe, you are recognized
for Senate resolution 55. Senate Resolution 55 by Senator Crowell. To recognize the Taylor High School Tigers baseball team as a 2024 class 1 a state champions.
Colleagues, I would like to recognize this team still from Taylor. They won the 18 state championship this last year. That is their 3rd in a row, and their 8th such championship as a program. I would ask for a good vote on Senate Resolution
55. Members, you've heard the resolution. All those in favor signify by saying I. pose a no motion carries. Congratulations.
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got You got. Thank you coach. Thank you. you
Senator Crow. You are recognized for Senate resolution 56. Colleagues,
this is a pretty amazing one. These are ladies from Murfreesboro
High School, they went to the girl's power. Design technology for science, technology, engineering, mathematics fields and awareness for women, high wage, high performance jobs, and they took numbers 1 through 5 in the competition. I would
ask for a good vote. Senate resolution 56 by Senator Karl to
congratulate the students in Murfreesboro High School for the victories and
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competitive computer numerical control metal, wood, and laser design. Remember you've heard the
resolution, all those in favor signify by saying ah. Opposed say no motion carries congratulations. is
Senator Blake Johnson around. Senator Blake Johnson Senator, Senator Blake Johnson, you are
recognized for Senate resolution 64 Senate resolution 64 by Senator Blake
Johnson told the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the United
States Interagency Council on Homelessness to take certain actions. You're recognized. Members, I apologize for
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not, not having anybody here with me for this bill, but uh with this resolution, but this resolution is asking the feds to be able to for the states and the local
entities to be able to take care of the homeless. Rather than it being a top-down situation. Members,
you've heard an explanation of the resolution. All those in favor signify by saying I. Oppose say no motion carries. Uh, Senate resolution
66, Senator Davis. Senator Davis, you recognized. Thank you. Can I skip over just for now they're in the
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house being recognized when they get back we will pass over for now.
Members, are there any announcements at this time?
Anything needs to be read across the desk? Seeing none, we will start with
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Senate bills to concur in House amendments. Senate Bill 371, Senator Scott. one We Yes
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her in the house. Oh, OK, I'm sorry, I haven't done one of these yet. I'm just here to
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concur a House amendment. That it are
there any questions? Anyone to speak for or against, Senator is closed, all any objection
to rolling the boat. Wait, this is a, this is a voice vote just on the amendment. All those in favor signify by saying I. Oppose say no motion carries. The amendment is.
The amendment is concurred. Enroll it. The amendments concurred.
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Now you present the bill. Hi colleagues spell 1957.
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Nope. No, I'm sorry. Senate Bill 371. Yeah, we're voting, we got to this 1. 371 Cent Scott to establish standardized
system to aid in the search of missing children who do not meet the criteria for
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aviation of the Arkansas Amber Alert system.
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Thank you, colleagues. Uh, this bill has already been presented and went through committee. Everybody voted it out last time. I appreciate another good
vote. Thank you. Any questions? Seeing no anyone like to speak for the bill, against
the bill, seeing not any objection to rolling the vote, seeing them, Madam Secretary, please roll
the vote. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Carl Davis, Ds, this dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love,
McKee, Murdoch. Pat and Penzo petty rice scotstone, steer Phil Sullivan Tucker Wallace. Would you ever like to vote that
has not or changed their vote? Seeing that, Madam
Secretary, cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 yes and zero nays, the bill passes. Enrolling. Senate Bill 460. I remember one to send it before 60. Motion to
concur with the House amendment. My, my bill, my amendment. Remember you've heard
an explanation of the amendment. All those in favor of the amendment signify by saying aye, I opposed say no motion carries amendment. Concurred, Senate
Bill 460 by Senator Irving to modify the compliance advisory panel to repeal the marketing recyclables program of the compliance advisory panel and declare an emergency. Senator Irving, you're recognized to present
Senate Bill 460. Thank you. Amendment just was simple
some cleanups that we needed to do, so we've heard the bill, we've
passed the bill, appreciate a good vote on the bill.
Are there any questions on the bill? Anyone want to speak against the
bill for the bill, seeing none Senator Irvin is closed on the bill. Any objection to rolling the vote, seeing them,
Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Bryant Caldwell, Clark Krol, Davis, Ds, Dima dots and the English flippo flowers Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey Hill, Irvine, Lake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting Love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Pennzo Petty, Rice Scott Stone, ubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace.
Would any member like to vote that has not or change their vote? Senator Dee's present. Senator Dotson present. Senator Penzo present, Senator King not voting. Senator McKee present. Anyone else seeing them, Madam Secretary, cast up the ballot by a vote of 30 e, zero nays, and 4 present. The bill is concurred and roll
it. We're going to start now with
House bills with Senate amendments I have. Oh, OK, so Senator Irvin,
you're recognized for a motion? Uh, OK, so this is the last bill that came out of public health that has an amendment that we need to go ahead and get engrossed and get back to the house. What bill number 1841 house built 1841. So we're suspending the rules motion to suspend the rules so that we can place it on the calendar for purpose of amendment. Remember members, you've heard the motion. All those in favor
signify by saying aye, I opposed say no motion carries. Senator Irvin,
you're recognized Amendment 1 to House Bill 1841. Uh my, the amendment was I adopted in the committee this morning, so the motion would just be to adopt
the amendment. Remember you've heard an explanation. The amendment. All those in favor signify by saying I opposed say no, motion carries amendment adopted, sent to engrossing, and I think we
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can just put it on the calendar for tomorrow, for tomorrow, I think that. Uh And my
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one So moving on to house. Moving on to House bills with Senate amendments, House Bill 1957, Senator English 1957. I'mendment one. Thank you. The amendment and
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the sponsor. Yes, uh. Members, you've heard an explanation of the amendment.
All those in favor signify by saying I opposed, say no motion carries Amendment adopted. Sent to engrossing. House
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Bill 1958, Senator English. Council 1958 Amendment 1. Thank
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the amendment adds a sponsor. Members, you've heard an explanation of the amendment.
All those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed say no motion carries. Send to engrossing.
OK, members, we're about to take up the budget calendar. But
before that, if, if you have a bill that that should have been on the calendar today. Uh, would you please come up and do
that at this point. We've had several others, but I'm trying to get our supplemental calendar lined up. If you had a bill that you think should have been on the calendar today because it passed committee yesterday or was amended please. Senator Davis, you're recognized. Hm.
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Yeah, you have to suspend the rules. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules to add House Bill
1656 to the calendar. Members, you've heard an explanation of the motion. All those in favor signify by saying ah. Opposed say no motion carries. Anyone else? OK, seeing that
Senator dismaying you are recognized to present the budget calendar.
Thank you, members, we have one amendment we need to take up, and I've got one that we need to refer back. Found it
real quick. We need to re-refer Senate Bill 54 back to joint budget.
Members, you've heard an explanation of the motion. All those in favor signify by saying ah. Oppose say no motion carries. Yeah.
Yup. All right, members, all right, so the first step, we do have an amendment, Public Defender commission, adding 4 new public defenders, adding $2.1 million in regular salaries and 900,000 to match the trial public defender office that is
Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 67. Amendment 1 the Senate Bill 67. Members, you've heard an explanation. The amendment. All
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those in favor signify by saying aye. A post
say no motion carries. All right, members, I'm gonna read through the Senate bills. Remember we just pulled out or
sent back Senate Bill 54. You know, that last bill I was sent
to engrossing. All right, so we're gonna take these up. I'm gonna read them off. There's one you'd like to pull out from the batch. Let me know. We're gonna vote this first page of Senate bills. As a batch. All right, Senate Bill 32, 33, 34.
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35, 36. 40, 41. 51. 52 55. 71 81. 106 and 124. Would anyone like to pull any
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of those out from the batch. I 3 is the big. Medical service appropriation. Yes, sir.
You want to pull it out or you good? OK. Did you
Senator Payton you recognize. Thank you. Did you name SB 81. If I didn't, I meant to SB 81.
OK, I'd like to pull it out, OK. All right, so we're going to pull Senate Bill 81 out of the batch and voted separately. We will do
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that. You want to run Senate Bill 81 1st Is that OK? one All right.
All right, so we're going to run Senate Bill
81. House Bill 1265 separately. We'll do those first and we'll work to the batch. OK. Uh Senate
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Bill 81. You find it in the. Senate Bill 81
by joint budget and act for the Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, state parks and
tourism divisions appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year.
So this mean you're recognized. This Go ahead and recognize them for a question, be fine. I'm pulling it out. for question. Thank you. Does this contain those bicycle lifts? I would probably, I'm, I don't know that I've got that detail
of a level of detail to know if it contains the bioglyphs. If it did, it probably does. It would probably be in, let me make sure. I mean, I guess there's potential that could be in their construction costs. OK, thank you. But I can find, you need to find out? I'm assuming that it probably does also. Any other questions, seeing
that we would like to speak against the bills, for the bills, seeing
none. Senator dismaying his closed about any objection to rolling the vote? Objection, please roll
the vote. Oh, no objection. Roll the vote.
Hm Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowe, Davis, Des, dismaying dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo
Petty, Rice Scott Stone, Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Would anyone like to
vote that has not or changed their vote? Senator Blake Johnson present, Senator Peyton, no. Senator King not voting. Anyone else? Senator Stubblefield, no. Anyone else? No, Madam Secretary, cast up the ballot by a vote of 31 yes, 2 nays, 1 present, the bill passes.
Emergency clause adopted. Transmit to the house. Now I think we're ready,
so you're recognized to present the batch. House Bill 12651265 by joint budget, an act for the University of Arkansas Little Rock Appropriation for the 2025, 2026
fiscal year. Senator dismay, you're recognized. Any questions? Any questions? Seeing none? Would
anyone like to speak against the bill for the bill. Senator dismaying is closed on the bill. Any objection to rolling the boat, seeing them,
Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Carl Davis, Ds, Dima dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey Hill Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton,
Pennzo Petty, Rice Scott Stone, Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace.
Yeah, yeah. Senator dismay, you are recognized. Oh, would any member like to vote that has not or changed their vote. Senator King not voting? Anyone else seeing them, Madam Secretary, cast up the ballot by a vote of 34 yes, zero nays, the bill passes.
Emergency clause adopted. Transmit to the house, return to the house. But OK. December 32, my joint budget
and act for the Department of Human Services Division of Youth Services preparation for 2025,
2026 fiscal year, December 33. I want be act for the Department of Human Services Division of Medical Services preparation for 2025, 2026 fiscal year. 34, my joint budget and act for the Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disability Services appropriation for 2025, 2026 fiscal year. 35, I dropped by act for the Department of Human Services Division of Children and Family Services Appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year. Senate Bill 36 by joint budget and act for the
Department of Human Services Division of Aging, Adult and Behavioral Health Services appropriation for the 2025, 2026. special you've seen Bill 40 by act for the Bureau of Legislative Research and the Legislative council appropriation for the 2025, 2026 this year. 41 but Trump budget and act for the office of the governor appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year. 51 but joint budget and act for the Office of the prosecutor, Attorney coordinator
appropriation for the fiscal for 2025, 2026 fiscal year. December '52 by drop by night for the altar of state. Operations and unclaimed property program appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year. December 55, my joint budget and act for the Arkansas Supreme Court Appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year, about 71 restaurant budget tonight for the administrative office of the courts, court personnel
appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year. Sibo 106 by joint budget tonight for the Department of Agriculture, appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year. So about 124 by joint budget night for the University of Arkansas Division. of agricultural appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year Senate bill 354? Oh, that's not that. Oh, OK.
Members, this is the batch. There are
any questions on the batch, seeing none, any objection to rolling the vote, seeing none, Madam
Secretary, please roll the vote. Boy Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crow, Davis, D, dismay dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo
Petty, Rice Scott Stone Deerfield Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Would you ever like
a boat that has not changed their vote, Senator King, not voting. Anyone else Seeing no, Madam Secretary, cast up the ballot by a vote of 34 yes, 0 nays. The bill passes
emergency clause adopted Transmit to the house. Senator, dismaying you
are recognized for a motion.
Yeah for sure. members yesterday, uh, we kinda Merged away a little bit from our normal practice instead of having Ann have to call out everyone our names when we roll a vote. We turn the board green. That seemed to work out pretty well. Uh, uh, what I'd like to do is make a motion that we take that practice
back up when we get to the House calendar. Without objection OK, was there any objection?
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OK, let's let's vote it, OK, uh, y'all heard the motion, all all in favor of the motion, say aye. Can you opposed? OK, the motion carries. Thank you, Senator Dima. OK. the OK,
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members, we're gonna take 5 minutes here to let our staff kind of get, get caught up.
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I can't still couldn't go. OK, members, we're gonna take a 5 minute, 55 minute reset at at least. So let's just say that we're going to come back in. I'll tell you what, let's just say 2:15. Give them plenty of time.
Oh OK, members, I said 2:15, our staff, because of all the motions we have, they need a little
more time. So if everyone will just kind of stick around close whenever it's time to come back, I'll ring the buzzer. And we'll come back in immediately, you know, within 2 minutes of that. Thank you.
OK, as members are coming back, we're gonna go ahead and start reading some items across the
desk. Are there some items on gross bills to 460 by center Irving compared the gross copy of the original band name correctly engrossed calendar calendarro who was first
Senate Bill 568 by Central Crow compared to the gross copy of the original and ban saying correctly and grossed. I'm sorry, rev and tax. Where your committee on in
Grossville who first simple 614 by Central Tucker, for the gross copy of the ritual and find same correctly grossed calendar calendar. Will your committee on gross bills to his first simple 6144 by Senator Tucker compared the gross copy of the original finds same correctly engrossed calendar calendar
on Gross to for House Bill 1812 by central border compared the grossed copy of the original and I correctly engrossed calendar in gross
bills to as for Houseville 1837 by Senator the gross the original find the
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same correctly engrossed. State agencies. Will your committee on
Education is very simple, 6:34 by Central Mark Johnson recommend new pass calendar calendar state agencies to
whom we've referred House Bill 1800 by McClendon recommend pass calendar calendar. OK Now that one that had the little ha hanging around. Yeah.
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OK, members, we're going to be back in from recess just, just quickly, just kind of tell y'all where we're at with everything. We're gonna have some motions
made. Senator Davis has a resolution that the folks were down at the house, then we're going to hear that, uh, as we're going to do the Senate bills, we're going to do those as normal so that the roads called or roll the vote, however, whenever we get to the House bills, as you know from Senator Dismay's motion, we're gonna start like we did yesterday. As y'all know where we're at in the session, we've got a lot of bills. I was just told that we've already got 80.
5 for tomorrow and then we have committee meetings, so I appreciate the way you did it, Senator Leading and Senator Crow, are going to try to help keep everybody in line the same way, uh, so that we can get through these. We'll move fast or we can move fast and when we need to slow down, we're going to do our due diligence and slow down, but we'll try to, we'll try to roll, roll that way. OK. OK, Madam Secretary, you can hear
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Ms. Corner. Well, the House of Representatives who respectly
request the return of house House Bill 1829 to the house.
OK. Without objection, without objection. Well And Senate Resolution 68 by Centra McKee to recognize the division of Arkansas State Police's interstate criminal trial for winning top honors at the Gulf Gulf Coast high intensity drug trafficking areas
awards Senate resolution 68 calendar calendar Senate resolution 69 with Senator Wallace to proclaim April 9, 2025 is Arkansas line worker Appreciation Day at the state Capitol and men, the men and women who serve Arkansas as utility line workers, Senate Resolution 69 calendar. OK, I think we've
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got everything right. Um Where, let me find that one, I
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think it's 568 568 I believe. You ready? You got 568. Senate bill down there by 68. I do.
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You We have this really quite no. Were your Committee on Revenue and tax to his 1st 568 center Crow recommended new pass calendar calendar. OK, we're ready for.
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Si. No, we haven't read those across. Do you want to read these across right quick? Does
that help? Give us just one second, Senator Hester do
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those? I didn't do them. I didn't do those. What. OK. All right. Were your committee on gross
bills to whom his first House Bill 1957 by Central English recommend Du pass calendar calendar. There's the bill. OK. To. The OK. OK. OK,
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Senator Boyd, you recognized for a motion, sir? Thank you, Mr. President. I make a motion that we withdraw House
Bill 1484 from education for the purpose of amendment, please. OK, everyone's heard the motion all
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in favor say aye. Hi. Can you pose?
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OK, that motion carries. Amendment 1 to House Bill 1484. I'm I've
done that for a good you appreciate a good
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favor say aye. OK, Cindy Grossing. And the amendments adopted send
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in Grossing. Who's next for motion? Senator Leading, you're recognized, sir. Thank you,
Chair
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Mr. President. A motion to place Senate Bill 585 on today's supplemental calendar. OK, y'all heard the motion. All in favor say aye. Can you oppose? OK, that motion carries er ener Ledings will go to the
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bottom of the calendar. Uh, Senator Penzo, you're recognized for you have two motions,
is that correct? OK, Senator Penzo will have two
motions. What's your first one? Well, 2 motions for
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2 bills, but motion to suspend the rules to place Senate Bill 615 on second reading for
purpose of amendment. This is a bill I'd ran yesterday, got some feedback from, from y'all and uh would like to add the amendment and try to run it again today. OK. The motion is suspend the rules. All in favor say aye.
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Can you oppose? OK, that motion carries. Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 615.
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My bill, my amendment. All in favor, say I.
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And you oppose? OK, suspend the rules. Well, we need to send that to engrossing
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Amendment adoptedina and Grossing. Um, uh, motion to, uh, suspend the rules to play Senate bill 591. Um on second reading for the purpose of amendment. OK, motion to spin the
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rules. All in favor say aye. Can you oppose that motion
carries Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 591. My bill, my amendment. Are you all in favor say aye.
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And you oppose That's adopted. send that one to engrossing, and now
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you're recognized for your, uh, suspend the rules to place Senate bill. 6:15. Uh, to place Center 615 to the bottom of the supplemental counter
when it returns from engrossing. OK, the motion is to
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place it at the bottom of the calendar. all in all for Senate Bill 6615, all in favor say aye. Can you oppose? And
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that carries it to be placed at the bottom of the calendar. Uh,
Senator Clint Penzo
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motion to suspend the rules to place Senate Bill 591 on the bottom of the supplemental calendar when it returns from engrossing, same deal, just different bill, um.
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All in favor of the motion, say aye. Can you pose?
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OK, it'll go to the bottom of the calendar. OK,
is there somebody else that had another amendment? Central days, but I don't
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know. All right, we'll do that in a minute, Senator Davis, do you want to, you want
to go back for your resolution, which is SR 66, is that correct? OK, you can bring everyone in. Yes.
OK. Yep. a resolution 66 by Senator Davis to recognize the Arkansas Tech University Robotics Club for
winning the tournament champion and innovative awards at the 2025 Texas
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StateU tournament. You. Thank you, Mr. President, um,
members, I wanna welcome the Arkansas Tech University robotics team to the floor. Thank you.
Senator Breanne Davis
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if you need to. Yeah, that's totally fine. Yes. All right, at the Texas State
BURC tournament held in Houston, Texas on February 21st, Arkansas Tech University's robotics team, known as Adam, won the tournament and the innovate award. Adam beat uh Florida Polytech
University in the quarterfinals, they beat Texas A&M in the semifinals and the University of Texas Austin in the finals. This was the first year for them to win this tournament. With Adam winning the Texas State tournament, uh, they were able to secure one of only 24 automatic invitations awarded to the US-based universities to compete in the VE World Championship in Dallas, Texas. ATU Robotics Club president Hunter Mathis from Hope, Arkansas, said that this year's
team is comprised of both upper and lower class men who have dedicated countless hours to building, programming, and piloting, the most competitive robots, ATU has ever produced. This year alone, the ATU Robotics Club members have invested over 10,000 total hours towards their success. So now, therefore, be it resolved by the Senate of the ninety-fifth General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the Senate recognized the Arkansas Tech University Robotics Club for winning the tournament championship and innovate awards
at the 2025 Texas State Vex University tournament or XU tournament, and be it further resolved, um, that upon adoption a copy of this resolution will be presented to club sponsor Jacob Weidenfeller by the Secretary of the Senate. all, you've had a motion to all
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in favor of adopting the resolution indicate by saying ah, any oppose. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations.
All right. Thank you guys so much. All right You
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We appreciate y'all being with us today. Thank you. Yeah All
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right, members, as soon as they get out of here, we're going to go to the bottom of page 2, we'll be doing SB 149 1st. So sooner English you'll be recognized. now. It
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Jane. 149. I'm the students really. 149. I've got 140.
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staying on. Hm. Yeah Were your committee on gross spills as far as houseville in
1958. Representative Mason Center English compared the engross copy of the original and by the
same correctly engrossed. Calendar. now. Send Bill 149 by Central English to amend public school funding amounts under the Public School Funding Act of 202003. All right, Senator English, you're
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recognized, ma'am. Thank you. This bill basically
is the uh sets up the funding for adequacy for the next 2
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years for um public school funding. OK, any questions for Senator English? Anyone will speak for the bill. Anyone
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want to speak against the bill? Are you closed in English. Is there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Now,
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we're gonna call that, we're, we're gonna do senate the same way and we get the house, we'll go to our new procedure.
Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crowell, Davis, Des, Dima do some English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Bike Johnson, Mark Johnson King, letting Love McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice scot, stone Stubberfield
Sullivan, Tucker, Wallace. OK, do members wish to change their vote. Anyone want to change their vote. OK, please cast up
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the ballot by a vote of 34 ye, zero
nays, 1 present, a Senate Bill 149 is passed. Please transmit to the house. OK,
next is going to be Senate Bill 538 by Senator Gilmore. 538
with Senator Gilmore to amend the Arkansas procurement law. Senator Gilmore, you're
recognized. Thank you, sir, Mr. President, members, this is a bill that actually um comes from ALC study that was
done because of some issues that came up with some ambiguity in the law relating to procurement that
started under Senator Rice when he was the co-chair, uh, Senator Hickey's been involved with this. Appreciate his help. Senator Irvin as well, of course, Represented Wardlaw, but there are some things that need to be clarified, some cleanup and some typographical errors that were also in the law, but One of the things that we found out that I think was really important that this bill does, and I want to, I want to note it, um, was oftentimes within the agencies, they were unsure of how the process works, um, and so this bill will require training, um, of agency
officials handling procurement. Um, it also will prompt the uh Office of procurement to re-promulgate rules so that we get to look at that and make sure that it meets legislative intent from previous bills that were passed. Those are some of the main things it does
with that, happy to take any questions. All right, any questions for Senator Gilmore? Senator Payton, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr.
President. So on page 4, line 11 and 12. We talk about the anticipated award
And it looks like that anticipated language was added. Let in the bill. So with, with that, that's a clarification of
what is allowable under law that the agencies were unsure of, uh, I went and looked at some notes and after we, you and I spoke, I verified that as, as I understand what the process dealing with the consultants too, that this was, it's a, it was allowable, but it was, it was vague and ambiguous. We're just clarifying that that is the case, so that they can continue to have those negotiations and
we're not slowing down the process. OK. For the record
I'd just like to state it's not our attention. It's not our intent that the lowest bid
would be overlooked in negotiations and giving somebody else preference to come down and match that's a great point because on page 2, I think it
clarifies that, and our intent is to make sure
the right person, not, not just whatever factor we deem appropriate is the person chosen. OK, thank you. Thank you, sir. Any other questions? Any other
questions for Senator Gilmore. Anyone will speak for the
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bill. Anyone want to speak against the bill? You close Senator Gilmore. Any objection to rolling the vote, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote.
Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Kroll, Davis, Ds, Dismaying dots and English flippo flowers. Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hickey Hill. Irving, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice scot stones, Deer
Phil Sullivan Tucker, Wallace. OK. Do any members wish to
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change their vote, Senator King is a
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no. Senator Flowers is a present. Anyone else Anyone else OK, please cast up the
ballot. By a vote of 33, yes, one nay, one present, SB 538 is passed. Please transmit to the house. OK, Senate Bill 568 is on another calendar,
so Senate Bill 600, Senator Tucker.
So about 600 by Senator Tucker to regulate contracts to mandate contractual provisions for certain contracts and to clarify proper jurisdiction for certain
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contracts. Senator Tucker, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. this is
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a bill that was brought to me by a former federal judge who was helping a couple that was victimized
by an adhesion contract. That's a fancy lawyer word for a contract where one party has zero bargaining power, and this is really to help uh folks who are trying to buy uh homes at $100,000 or less. What happened
to this particular couple is they signed this adhesion contract to buy a mobile home. The contract said that any dispute with the seller would be adjudicated in under Texas law and any dispute with the lender would be adjudicated in Utah under Utah law, and what happened was a suit got filed against this couple in Arkansas in Utah. They never defended themselves in Utah. They couldn't get to Utah to defend themselves. The lender got a judgment and then sought to enforce the judgment against them in Arkansas. So what this says is if you buy a piece of
real property or or personal property that's as a dwelling unit. If you buy it in Arkansas and it stays in Arkansas and it's valued at $100,000 or less than at subject to the jurisdiction of Arkansas and Arkansas law governs the transaction, so that's, that's what it does. If you buy it here, if you're keeping it here, then Arkansas law is going to govern your transaction. Any
questions for Senator Tucker? Anyone want to speak for the
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bill. Anyone want to speak against the bill. You close Senator Tucker. Yes, sir, I'm closed. I appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Any objection
to rolling the vote, Madam Secretary, please
roll the vote. Boy Bryant Caldwell, Clark Carl Davis D's dismay dots in English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King Luding Love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo,
Petty, Rice Scott Stone, Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Does any member wish to change
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their vote. All right, Senator Flowers is present.
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Anyone else? Anyone will change their vote OK,
please cast up the ballot by a vote of 34 yeah, 0, nay, 1 present, SB 600 is passed. Please transmit to the
house. Uh, Senator Gilmore, you're recognized for a motion. Thank you, Mr. President.
Members, I'd like to, first of all, let me say this, this is regarding this motion regarding House Bill 1797, we reached some agreement with folks that had
objections last evening, um, I think this will prevent a further clincher motion, uh, in the future, uh, looking at Senator Terry Rice. So I would like to uh make a motion to suspend the rules to place House Bill 1797 on second reading for purposes of amendment. OK, all
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in favor, say I. Can you oppose that carries 2 House Bill 1797.
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My build my movement. All in favor. Say aye. Any?
And with that, I should have said my bill, Senator Rice, Senator Hickey, Senator Caldwell's amendment, but, uh, with that, I'd like to make a motion to spin the rules to place House Bill 1797 to the bottom of
the supplemental calendar when it returns from a grossing. Motions to spin the rules. Everyone in favor say
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ah any pose. That'll carry and it'll be put at the bottom of the calendar whenever it comes back. OK, Senator Irvin. You're up next. We're gonna be doing Senate Bill
621. 621 by Senator Irving to clarify enforcement provisions against a healthcare insurer to
retroactively apply to a health care contract for the benefit of a temporary hospital facility and declare an emergency. You recognize
Senator Urban. Thank you, members of the Senate, if you'll recall, under President Trump, he was able
to authorize a program at the federal level to allow for ambulatory surgery centers and other healthcare facilities that could
and would um transitioned into a temporary hospital, um, upon Governor Hutchinson's executive order when he was governor, we were able to, to open that up and in response to COVID, because we had an issue with hospital beds and not having enough. So this was a good program at the federal
level. We passed legislation to allow for those facilities to participate in that federal program and what this bill does is to clarify that if you're
going to participate in this federally approved and acknowledged program that's all licensed through the Department of Health and you've met all the quality measures that you should be able to be paid for the services that you render within that temporary hospital at that time. So that's what the bill does, and it's clarifying this and I appreciate
a good vote. Anybody have any questions to Senator
Irvin? Senator Payton, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. It's on
page 2 lines 13 through 15. We're making this retroactive. Any idea how many dollars are
hanging out there, how many years retroactive, we're going again,
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you know, this goes back to a date certain
when it was all approved by the Arkansas Department of Health, and this legislature passed legislation to direct them to be paid, and they didn't follow the law. I appreciate that. I'm just wondering, has
anybody figured out How much money we're talking about forcing them to pay I don't, I don't have that information and they did not
speak against this bill, so, um, I don't have any opposition to it. I, they wanted to be clarified and we're clarifying it, so. Retroactively. Thanks. Well, yes, because they should have followed the law in the first place. Other questions.
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Any other questions? Anyone wants to speak? Against the bill Anyone want to speak for the bill? You close Senator Ervin, I am. I appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Any
objection to rolling the vote? Madam Secretary, please roll the
vote. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowell, Davis, Ds, Dismay dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, lighting Love, McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo Petty, Rice Scott stone,
Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. OK, does anyone wish to change their vote. I see
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Senator Dees is a no. I see Senator Bryant was a present.
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I see Senator Penzo as a present. Senator King is a present or no vote. What is it, Senator King? No vote, not voting. Senator Dodson is present. Anyone else? Anyone else? OK, please cast up the
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ballot. OK, by a vote of 30 ys, 1 nay, one not voting, 3 present,
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Senate Bill 621 is passed along with the corresponding emergency clauses, please transmit to the house. Senate Bill 623,
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Senator Scott. Senate Bill 623 best Centra Scott
concerning the treatment of female inmates and detainees and correctional or detention facilities and to amend the law regarding the treatment of an inmate or detainee who is pregnant or has recently delivered a child. Senator Scott, you're recognized, ma'am. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Thank you, colleagues of the Senate. Senate Bill 623 addresses the treatment of incarcerated women, particularly those who are pregnant or who have recently given birth. This bill seeks to amend the current law to ensure that every woman under the care and custody of our correctional and detention facilities is treated with dignity, compassion, and medical attention in the medical attention that her condition requires every year, women in Arkansas in our correctional facilities go through pregnancy, labor, and postpartum.
recovery, often without adequate prenatal care without consent, consistent monitoring and without basic safeguards and as many of you know we've all been working hard on us having the highest maternal mortality rate in the nation and this crisis does not stop when these women go behind our prison walls. To me, Senate Bill 623 builds upon the ProTE Act when we're trying to protect women that are in our custody, um, it limits the use of restraints on pregnant inmates during labor delivery and postpartum recovery. Except in extraordinary
circumstances where safety is at risk. It requires access to appropriate prenatal and postpartum care consistent with medical standards. It requires that access that is appropriate for prenatal and pre and postpartum care. Sorry. It provides trauma informed training for correctional officers um to help meet the the physical and sociological needs of our pregnant women and women who are experiencing postpartum depression after they've given
birth in our facilities and it also establishes reporting standards to ensure transparency and oversight when restraints are used during pregnancy, um, this bill does not compromise the safety, um, it allows us to use restraints when they're needed in an immediate and serious threat while these women are in our custody, but it ensures that our correctional policies reflect modern medical practice in a respect for life, colleagues, how we treat those who are less visible in the most
vulnerable among us, is one of the truest tests of our values. I want to thank the committee members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, um, for helping me with this bill. I want to thank the um the amendment that I received via the governor's office for the Department of Corrections to help make This a better bill and one that they were in support of, um, the last thing I wanna say is let us not be remembered as a legislator that turned a blind eye to the women and mothers who are behind bars. Let us be remembered as ones who said
Arkansas can do better and then we prove that, um, colleagues. At this time I want to make a
motion to pull this bill down and put it in interim studies so that I can continue to work on it with the Department of UAMS to make it a better bill. I want to do the right way. I don't want to just push something through, um, and, although I think I have the support, I want to get it right. So at this time I make that motion. OK, the motion is a Senate Bill
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623 an interim study, all in favor say aye.
Any of those But that's that motion carries. Thank you for your support. OK. Sender love, you can. You
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can come on and then we'll have a couple of motions after this. Hold up just a moment, let her read it. 6:32
by central love to amend the flood, drug, food, drug, and cosmetic act and to require
warning labels for hair relaxers that contain certain chemicals. Senate Bill 632, you're 6:32
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by central love to amend the flood, drug, food,
drug, and cosmetic act and to require warning labels for hair relaxers that contain certain chemicals. Senate Bill 632, you recognize send love. Thank you, Mr. Chair and colleagues. I'll bring you Senate Bill 632.
It's a simple bill, um, it is to um require Uh, warning labels, I'll draw your attention to line 2 verse uh two verses. Line two, lines 11 through 13 to show you exactly what the bill will do. It's a hair relaxer. If a hair
relaxer offer is being offered for a sale. And the statement contains a carcinogen or a reproductive toxicant. It shall provide a clear and conspicuous warning label displayed on the packaging or the product itself. The warning labels shall stay if a product contains a carcinogen, this product, uh, if a product contains a reproductive toxicant, and if the product contains both, it will require a
label. And with that, I am open for questions, Mr. Chair. Did anyone have
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any questions of Senator Love on this bill, uh, Senator Crow, I believe you're first. You're recognized, sir. Senator Love, do you have a lot
of problems with your hair relaxer? My hair has already been relaxed. Thanks a lot, Senator Crowe. Senator McKee, y'all,
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y'all are both in the same thing. You can't chuck any rocks. OK, any other questions that might be
legitimate? Uh-huh. Legitimate. We got a lot of bills.
This is all fun, but anyone want to speak for the bill? Anyone's supposed to speak against the bill. Any objection to
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rolling the vote? Oh, are you close? I am closed,
and I appreciate a good vote on this, colleagues.
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Any objection to rolling the vote? Madam Secretary, please roll the
vote. Bryant Caldwell, Clark Kroll, Davis, Ds, dismay dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hickey
Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo Petty, Rice
Scotstone, Stubber Phil Sullivan Tucker Wallace. OK. Do any members want to change their vote,
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Senator Dodson is non-voting. Anyone else. Anyone want to change their vote?
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Senator Bryan is present. Anyone else? Senator McKee is uh he's present.
Anyone else? Hey, please cast up the ballot.
OK, by a vote of 32 yeah, 0, nay, 1 non-voting, 2 present. Senate
Bill 632 is passed, please transmit to the house. Senator Dees, you're recognized for a motion and center uh
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not this man Hester will be right behind him. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, I'd like a
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motion to withdraw House Bill 1746
from Insurance and commerce for purposes of amendment. It's already passed the committee. Uh, no, it's
Insurance commerce, I believe, but from the committee it's it's held to. A motion to withdraw for a minute. It is insurance
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and commerce, it appears like so, OK, yard heard the motions to withdraw all in favor say aye. In your post, OK, that motion carries. No. Amendment 1, the House Bill 1746.
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You're recognized. Thank you. This is my bill, my amendment. I just want it to be engrossed for committee. Appreciate
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a good vote. All. And he pose Sin in engrossing. Senator
Hester, you're recognized for a motion. Members like to make motions to suspend the rules for Senate Bill 441, just to be engrossed and then put back on our calendar for tomorrow. A motion
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to suspend the rules, uh, all in favor say aye. And he oppose I guess you did all that at one
time, so that ought to work. Amendment to Senate
Bill 441. My bill, my amendment All in favor,
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say I. Any We'll send that to engrossing and it'll be on the calendar
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tomorrow. OK, we're going to read a couple of things and
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then after that, we'll be going to the House, House bills. That is the return of Senate Bill 629 as requested.
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That it OK, members, we're gonna, we're gonna move to the House bills, and this is where we're gonna start a new procedure, so you'll have to, I'm gonna be asking you to watch the board. Are you doing House Bill 1243. OK, there was something up here said you want to pass over. I don't know where that came from. OK, that may have been from another day. You're reckon Thank you, Mr. 1243 by Central Penzo and
Representative Underwood to increase the transparency regarding campaign
contributions and expenditures to me campaign finance reporting and protect election integrity and to amend portions of initiative Act 1 of 1996. OK, you're recognized Senator Penzo.
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Thank you, Mr. President. This bill increases the frequency in which municipal
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and county candidates file campaign finance reports. Currently candidates running for local races have a very light
campaign finance reporting requirement. They only have to file a campaign finance report about a week before the election and then a final report after the election. This means you can run for mayor of a first-class city, a full-time job, sometimes making more money annually than constitutional offers officers in Arkansas. And no one knows how much money raised, who you received it from, whether it was outside interest or not, how much you've spent or whether you have spent
that money. This bill strikes a balance by increasing the reporting schedule so that Arkansans have the necessary information throughout the campaign and not requiring candidates and races without a lot of money from excessive reporting. I'd appreciate a good vote. OK, anyone have any questions of uh Senator Penzo. I don't know who was
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first, so Senator Payton, thank you. You made a comment,
uh, sounds like there's a threshold of some sort. Yeah,
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it's uh, so this will uh require local candidates on election years to file campaign finance reports on the same schedule we're required to monthly reports if they have raised or spent $5000 or more. OK. Because a lot of my small towns and stuff,
I mean, they would spend more on the reports than they actually get in campaign contributions, but I appreciate it. So that threshold is 5000. Yeah, yeah, also
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there's a uh a candidate who's received contributions or expenditures in excess of $500 but less than
$5000 is required to file only the pre-election report and final report as they are already required to do. Uh, so there's no change for that threshold. Thank you, Senator McKee. You're recognized for
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a question. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So it looks like we're adding thousands of people to the reporting system that the Secretary of State's office operates. Is that correct? They're already required to file reports with their county clerk, OK, right. So all those, all these folks
that traditionally file with their county clerk are now going to be filing with the Secretary of State. OK. Have you talked to the Secretary of State's office about
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this. I'm not sure if the primary bill sponsored it or not. I'm, I'm assuming he is ran through that with them because I mean it's got this far and it passed pretty well in the in the house, and I've heard no objections other than me, what you're bringing up right now. OK. OK. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Anyone wants to speak against this bill?
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Anyone want to speak for this bill? Are you close, Senator? I'm close. All right, members, I want you to be aware that this, this, uh, this boat will take 24 votes to pass. So
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is there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, please roll the vote. it roll the boat. to file with the Secretary of State.
Oh, this is right. This is where
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we, is there any objection to rolling the vote? There's no objection, so put it all up on the screen. My mistake. I was still on the Senate bills. OK, so it's on the screen now. Does anyone want to change, change their vote. I've seen Senator Crow
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as a no. I see Senator Scott to no. see Senator McKee is a no. I
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see Senator Dodson is a present. Senator Love is a, uh, I'm sorry, I'm still in your hairdo. I'm gonna say love is a present,
Senator Petty is a no, anyone else on this side?
Senator Gilmore is a no. OK, anyone over here wish to change your vote? Send her flowers is present. Anyone
else. Anyone else want to change their vote? OK, please cast
up the ballot. OK, by a vote of 27 e, 5 nays, 3 present. House Bill 1243 passes
with the 24 votes. Please return to the house as amended. OK, Senator
Penzo, you're gonna be doing house bill 1336 next. Casper 1336 by Representative Warren Central
Penzoremen survivors benefit options under the state police retirement system and to amend the provisions concerning the tier 2 deferred retirement option plan under the state police retirement system. Senator Penzo, you recognize, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Years
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ago, the Arkansas State Police retirement system was experiencing financial difficulty. Apers took over the management of their retirement system. At that time, they formed tier one and tier 2, state police retirement plans. Tier one was the older uh state police, uh, tier 2 was the newer, uh, members, tier 2 benefits were not as good as tier one. Almost two decades later, we are raising the cost of the accident report. From 10 to $25 to be able to pay
for the first. Improvement in tier 2 benefits. We will increase the, the drop benefits for tier 2 to match tier 1. But the costs will be paid for in addition, by the additional $15 charge for the accident report. This is a great first step to improve tier 2 benefits with a way to cover the cost. Senator Penzo? Anyone want to speak against the bill? Anyone wants to speak for the bill?
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Are you close, Senator Penzo? I'm closed. He's closed.
Is there any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. Every member looked at the screen. Is there anyone
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who wishes to change their vote. Anyone wish to change their vote. Please
cast up the ballot. Hey with 35 years, zero nays, House Bill 1336 is passed. Please return to the house.
The corresponding emergency clauses adopted with that.
OK, next is going to be Senator Bryant for
House Bill 1889. House Bill 1889 by Representative Pilkington and Senator Bryant to amend the limitations on access to a dispensary
or cultivation facility and authorize a dispensary to deliver orders by a delivery vehicle or via a drive-through window. Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you,
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Mr. President. Members, I don't think House Bill 1889 needs to be controversial. I think that as for 3 simple things, um, things that we can
agree if it was a certain different subject area, it'd be easy to talk about. Three things this thing does is, uh, first is allow you to visit under the guidance of the law to tour a dispensary. If you have not toured a cultivation facility, I encourage you to do so because you'll learn a lot about the industry and how and why we regulate it the way we do. However, you cannot go to a dispensary unless this law passes. So what this law will do is allow regulators and lawmakers like ourselves to be able to tour uh as scheduled, a
dispensary just like we would a cultivator. The second thing it does is allows for drive-through access. For this product. So during COVID, We had a lot of business restrictions. And one way that we asked our business to do is comply with social distancing, keep your, keep, uh, you know, as much as you can keep the general public safe from each other. So this business went through a lot of expense to be able to meet the needs of their
clients, but also comply with government standards. They did that through executive order because there's a lot of things happening during that time. Well, once the COVID pandemic was over, that expense that they put those, those drive-through windows and ceased to be able to be used, so now they have an expense that they, they, they complied with, but the government no longer lets them use it. So what this bill would do is reinstate those tight constraints of pre uh prescription, uh pre-ordered
tinted windows, all the things that were enabled. COVID back into legislation. They had no complaints and no issues during that time. And the last thing it would do is, is modify how they already do delivery service, so it's already in state law that they are allowed to do delivery service. The requirement is 2 employees must deliver this product. What this bill would allow is one employee to to deliver it as long as there are certain security protocols such as GPS and video recording at
all times. And so that's What this bill does, and I'm glad to answer any questions. Any questions
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for Senator Bryant, Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized, sir. Thank you,
Mr. President. Senator Bryant So we, we got, we're gonna have a drive up through drive-through window at the uh Marijuana dispensary. I, I've I had a had a friend once that referred to the drive-up windows liquor at the liquor store is the Baptist entrance. I mean, I,
I think about this, but is this so if someone is writing that they're their weed doesn't get wet. I mean, is this, is this the reason for this? No, sir,
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to your point, there's a lot of things we allow through drive-throughs. We allow opioid synthetic THCs, tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets,
and soon to be maybe kratom, uh, what this does is the, these products are used by elderly, disabled, disabled veterans, and the access to One point, so as a consumer, you're thinking, well, you've got a window, why can't I use it? It's in an opaque, it's in a, you know, a bag, it's sealed, it's, you got to check my ID, it
has to be a caretaker or the, or the individual with the prescription. So it's not about a, a getting wet thing, but it certainly is more of a convenience thing for those that cannot make it into the store so you think this is a humanitarian thing. I
do, Senator. OK. All right. Thank you for answering my question. Thank you, Mr.
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President. easy with that Baptist. Some of you Methodist and Catholics in here aren't partly white either, so let's be careful there. All right. consider Gilmore, you're recognized.
Thank you and thank you, Senator for pointing to the fact that they are delivering now um what was testified to in committee, and I want to see if you can confirm this. So there's gonna be, and I think you said you spoke a little bit to it and then maybe you can elaborate on the precautions and the safety measures and all that that are going to be in place. And then one of the things that was testified into committee was um basically this would be, this bill would be a cost saving measure for them. Can you elaborate on that? You know, it could
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potentially be a cost savings. So if I am a
A dispensary that utilizes this, I may have two very low cost employees, that's all they do. I may use one high-cost employee and then have a low cost employee, but what it doesn't replace is the amount of investment they have to make in the security measures that are required if they choose to utilize one employee, so puts and takes, uh, it could, it could come into cost savings, but they may go beyond security measures of this bill where it doesn't have any necessary savings. OK, because yeah, I think one of
the things they they testified to as cutting into their profit margins and so, uh, maybe, maybe this bill will allow them to uh uh maybe not saving us money necessarily, but invest that money into precautions um for safety measures. You think that you think they'll do that? Well, potentially, but the
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amount of taxes that the state receives from this to to feed our children in schools. I mean, that's, that's more advantage to make sure we get this product in a safe manner. Uh, delivered to their um pres prescribed customers.
I mean, I could have a comment. I'll I'll leave it alone. Thank
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you, Senator. Any other questions to Senator Bryant? Anyone want to speak against this bill. Anyone wants to speak
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for this bill. You closed, you're closed. Is there an objection to
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rolling the vote. There is an objection to this, so please uh call the road. Brant Caldwell, Clark, Crowe. Crow
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Davis. Davis, Ds Davis. Davis, Des, Dima. Dotson. English English Flippo Flowers?
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Gilmore, Hammer. Hester Hester. Hickey, Hickey.
Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson. Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson.
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Kinglading love McKee. Beside the chair Murdoch
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OK. Do any members wish to vote or change their vote, Hickey is no. Anyone
else, Senator English is no. Senator Sullivan is no Senator Blake Johnson is a yes. Senator Boyd is a yes.
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Senator Hester is a yes. Anyone else? Senator Davis, I'm sorry, are
you a no? No, Senator Davis is a no. Anyone else?
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Senator Tucker, I didn't. keep that finger down, uh, anyone else Senator Crow, what are you?
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Senator Crow's present. Anyone else? All right,
please cast up the ballot. OK, by a vote of 19
years, 15 nays, 1 present, House Bill 1889 is passed. Please return to the house.
Next is gonna be House Bill 1131. Senator Penzo. I'd like to make a motion
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to uh place uh House Bill 1131 on second reading for purpose of amendment, uh, we caught one of the amendments yesterday, but there's another one that's just add me as the sponsor. OK, y'all have heard the motion all in favor
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say aye. Any opposed? OK, that motion carries.
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my bill, my amendment. He oppose the motion carries a motion to suspend the rules
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to place House Bill 1131, uh, on the
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bottom of the supplemental calendar. When it returns from engrossing motion to place it on the bottom of the calendar. I'll
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say ah. In your pose. OK, that carries it'll be at the bottom of the calendar.
Of course, we're gonna, that'll be back whenever the the amendment was adopted, we're going to send it to engrossing.
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OK, Senator Hammer let us read some reports and you'll be next. Committee
on the gross bills to his first sent by 67 by joint budget compared the gross copy of the original find them correctly engrossed. another one. Were
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your committee on the gross bills to his first symbol, 6:15 by cent Penzo compared the engrossed copy of the original found sent correctly engrossed.
Calendar Calendar Calendarsfields to is for House
Bill 1642, the Central Bo compared the gross copy with the original fan Saengrossed calendar calendar Committee
on to him for House Bill 1679 by Senator Irving compared the gross copy of the originalany correctly engrossed calendars
to house 1866 by Senator Representative Brooks, copy of the original and same correctly engrossed calendar.
Committee on Gross team for the Senate Bill 591 by Senator Pennzo the rossed copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Gross pills to him as for House Bill 1484 by Senator Boyd, um, Central Bo uh compared the ross the region and found the same correctly engrossed. OK. All right, Senator Hammer, you're going to be presenting House Bill 1150, correct?
1150 by Representative Morrison for Hammer to prohibit a pharmacy benefits manager from
obtaining certain pharmacy benefit uh permits. Senator Hammer. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of the chamber, I'd like
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to go through and address issues that were expressed during testimony both on the House end but also on the Senate committee of which this bill has been heard. Some legislators have raised concerns that House Bill 1150 could limit access for military families and veterans
enrolled in Tricare. The reality is the opposite. House Bill 150 would strengthen Tricare by restoring fairness, increasing flexibility and giving the federal government more leverage to take care of military families. One thing I'd like to insert here is that federal law requires that a PBM be utilized for the distribution or also there is a factor that's incorporated into the bill that is one of the critical components that says providing flexibility to patients in Arkansas Board of Pharmacy for exceptions and allowing limited
use retail pharmacy permits for limited use and rare drugs until September of 2027 to ensure patients do not lose access during the transition period in To the market, so there is a safety net that is in place in order to comply with what federal law requires and what we want our citizens to have that are covered by Tricare. Federal law requires network adequacy in Tricare. That means military families must have access to full network of pharmacies, and they do even today, Tricare enrollees can fill their prescriptions at Walgreens,
Kroger, Harps, and other local non-PM PBM affiliated pharmacy, military-based pharmacies are not impacted by how Bill 1150, it will provide the continuing of service to our military and their families if Express Scripts pulled out a pharmacy ownership, Tricare patients would still have a robust pharmacy access at no loss or care. Tricare is the client, not the victim, as it has been expressed, but Tricare sets the terms of the pharmacy benefits. It tells Express
Scripts, it's PBM, what it wants, how many pharmacy, what copays, whether they cover a 90 day supply and more. If Tricare. much broader access to better copays, expect Scripts is obligated to deliver and that's part of the contract. The real problem is not a lack of control, it's at Express Scripts as both the pharmacy owner and price setter is leveraging his position to prioritize its own profits and not patient care. Express Script holds Tricare and American taxpayers to a higher
standard. It sets up and allows Express Scripts to overcharge Tricare for generic medications, provide no access to independent pharmacies in most Arkansas and undermine the patient choice of veterans and military families. One of the objections was that 1150 give strike here greater flexibility to serve members and without its PBM owned pharmacy locations, Tricare has no more room to negotiate better service pricing and pharmacy access. House Bill 110 restores Tricare's leverage to demand
better outcomes for military families instead of being beholden to a self-interest vendor. Another, another issue that was raised, I'd like to go ahead and address is a specialty drug patients will lose a. access. The reality is that House Bill 1150 increases access and lower prices. PBMs are the ones restricting access by forcing patients into their own networks and inflating costs under House Bill 1150, specialty drugs can
be accessed through non PBM affiliated specialty pharmacies and Senate Bill 58, which is, which this body passed earlier in this session, expand success by allowing hospitals to dispense these drugs as well. A 2024 FTC report found a cancer drug being sold for 19,000 through PBM compared to a 97 at a community pharmacy. House Bill M50 stops this kind of exploitation and gives
patients more reliable options. There's also a claim that House Bill M50 reduces pharmacy access, and the reality is House Bill F50 improves access and patient choice. House Bill 150 does not ban any pharmacy from operating Arkansas. It's simply prohibits PBMs from owning pharmacies. Eliminating the built-in conflict of interest that drives up costs and limits consumer choice. Patients will continue to have access to mail order
specialty and retail pharmacies throughout the state, just without PBM controlling distorted pricing and restricting networks. In fact, there are more than 600, in fact, there are more than 600 licensed PBM mail order pharmacies in Arkansas not affiliated with PBMs that will remain unaffected by this bill. This bill ensures Arkansans can access the care they need from providers who prioritize patient services, not corporate profit margins. Non-PBM affiliated
pharmacies have more incentive to expand, not withdraw, unlike PBMs that pull out when profits drop. Like CVS did in my location. These address some of the major concerns, but I want to drill down on the 4 main points that's found in this bill that is also been identified in legislation that was introduced this past week in Congress. In a letter dated April 8th, 2025 from a from a uh from
A member of Congress who has introduced legislation that is modeled after 1150, it identifies four points prohibiting PBM from owning a pharmacy business. Number one is what the bill does. Number 2, requiring a company in violation of Arkansas House Bill 1150 divest its pharmacy business if it wishes to operate a retail or mail order pharmacy serving Arkansas patients. The third thing that the bill does is enabling the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy to either not renew or revoke or retail or
mail order retail pharmacy permit for pharmacies affiliated with companies that are in violation of House Bill 1150, and then the point that I expressed a while ago is providing flexibility to patients and the Arkansas Board of Pharmacy for exceptions and allowing limited use retail pharmacy permits for limited use of rare drugs until September 2027 to assure patients do not lose access during the transition period in the market. House Bill 1150 is a result of
something that's been recognized by multiple credible organizations that there is a monopolistic system that has been set up similar to what I refer to as a three-tier system, and this will, this will bring about a standard that is going to be best for all our Kansans. I'll be standing ready to answer any questions for Senator Hammer, Senator English, you're first.
Chair
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You're recognized, ma'am. Very good. So I guess Bottom line for me.
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is exactly what happens with Express Scripts, and are they not able to send the um pharmaceuticals out to all of the military people who are here in the state. As I've been told and I think as allowed in
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the bill on the point that I stressed a
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while ago with regards to the power of the Arkansas Board of Pharmacy to make sure there is no interruption in that service, and also federal law requires that there has to be that method. of delivery, so I do not
believe, nor would I want to intentionally harm any of our service people who receive those drugs and that method. I guess that's my biggest concern is we can pass
Senator Jane English
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a law here, but that's at the federal level with the Department of Defense, and so
I'm really concerned about military people getting their prescription drugs as they need them. From Express Script, and that's the only place they can go. I
believe that as required by federal law, and as I stated a
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while ago with what we have in with the Arkansas Barter pharmacy that that issue will be addressed so it would not be a concern. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Hill, you're recognized. The I think you push it and
don't touch it. OK, Senator Hammer, how many uh pharmacies the CD. or CBS and the rest of them are we looking at putting out a business or forcing them to change their business model. I
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don't think we're gonna force anybody out of business if they choose to go out of business, what you're going to find probably make them change their business model, one of the two, right? There's, there's approximately 60, but also I want to point out that in 202025, it's already been documented that CBS plans on closing approximately 275 of their stores already. So I don't think we're gonna be putting anybody out of business. In fact, in reality, if we don't do something historic history shows in Arkans saw that our pharmacies that have already been put out of business under the current structure, so I think what this is going to do is present
additional from being put out of business, but also will put them in a position. Do you want to be a pharmacy or do you want to be
a PBM, OK, I'm going to have to beg a little bit of difference on that because I do remember, and I can't remember the exact number on the uh pharmacies that were going out of business, I think it was 7 net have
Senator Kim Hammer
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changed since what, 20 years? I would, I think. that's just a debatable number. We'll probably have to disagree that was presented during our emergency rule meeting. OK. And
so I, I guess with that, uh, how do we, how do we decide who we want to put in business and who do we want to kick out of business.
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I mean, where does that come from for the legislature?
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From a legislative point of view, I think who's the winner. I'm sorry You answered, you ask
Senator Kim Hammer
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questions you want to answer or where are you at center? I would just say that we're a drip, we are addressing what is a monopolistic situation that's been recognized by several credible sources, and that's what we are addressing just like we just like has been done
historically as was testified with regards to the illustration of Standard Oil when they had to step in and address it. We're dealing with the same thing on the same level. Any other questions of Senator Hammer on this bill? OK, does
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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anyone want to speak against the bill? Senator Irvin, you're recognized to speak
against the bill. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Senate, yesterday in the committee, we had a young
lady who's a pharmacist. Uh her name is Ashley Ellis, and she's from Greenborough, Arkansas. She's my constituent. She's a pharmacist that works for CVS Pharmacy. I asked her point blank, you can go back and look at the video in the committee meeting. I asked her point blank, if I vote for this bill, will you lose your job? She said yes. And she's fighting back the tears. I don't think I've ever been put in a situation where an industry is going after their own.
I find that to be unacceptable. And, and I have friends who are pharmacists in Greenbrier and in my hometown and everything. I've been over backwards to help on these situations to address the PBM issue. We have passed, I don't know how many umpteen bills to do that. I was over in the House of Representatives until 8 o'clock at night, whipping votes for Representative Michelle Gray and Senator Caldwell for their bill to get the PBML, the pharmacy benefit manager's licensing.
Act passed so many years ago, I was that person, but now I'm being called an idiot. I don't know what I'm talking about. I fought for you. And this is the way you treat us? I can't believe that. I have been on the forefront of this battle from the very get-go helping to push back. We have passed law after law after law after law. It is illegal in the state of Arkansas for a pharmacy that is owned by a PBM to reimburse
themselves more than an independent pharmacy. Yes, we passed that bill. Yes, it is Arkansas state law. Yes, the Arkansas Insurance Department complies with that state law, implements that law, regulates that, and has issued fines and held people accountable that are PBMs that are breaking the state, the laws in the state of Arkansas. This will affect Tricare. My dad is a veteran. It will affect all the veterans in my district, in my area in
rural Arkansas that do get their prescriptions by mail order, that is their preferred, if they like it, they appreciate it. This will affect Tricare. That is negotiated at the federal level with the Department of Defense, not here in the state of Arkansas. We have no business interfering in that federally negotiated contract. They, there are, they also send out 24 hour care for 20 patients in Arkansas with constant infusion.
This bill now will stop and prevent those 20 veterans from getting their infusion in their homes, this bill stops that because there's not a pharmacy that's going to pick up that slack. And be able to provide that, like they have, that's why that's negotiated for our veterans and Tricare at the federal level, because they're taking into consideration all these different situations that sometimes our independent pharmacies may or may not be able to provide that level of
treatment and care. This will also affect 70,000 patients that are mental health patients through our community mental health centers, pharmacies that will close. They have told me that firsthand. That is not OK with me. Here's the bottom line for me. If you want to listen, here's the bottom line. This is about patience. The government should not be put in the position of saying, guess what? We don't like our competition and we're gonna use
the government and the laws to put our competition out of business. In fact, yesterday in the committee, there was somebody who testified for the bill that says we need to take their ball away. Well, yeah, that's exactly what this bill does. It takes their ball away. And they testified to that. That was said in the committee. We want to take their ball away. We don't want them to be operating in the state of Arkansas because their competition for us and we want to put them out of business. I, as a principled
conservative, limited government person, do not believe that that is the role of government. This is my principle and there's no way I could support using legislation to put your competition out of business, and that's exactly what this bill does. It is not about the patients. It is about a limiting competition. If this were for the patients, you would not have this bill because this limits patient access when you close pharmacies. This
limits patients' access when you fire pharmacists when they lose their jobs because of this bill. That is the truth, and I appreciate you listening to me. I hope
that you will vote against this very bad bill. A sinner. spoken against the bill.
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Senator Petty, you want to speak for
the bill? You're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.
Members, this is clearly a very difficult uh problem. Like I said last night, I've
received numerous, it's it's ahead of even the prison emails both for and against this. And so with that many interested people, I wanted to, uh, Come down here and speak in support of the bill and let everyone know why I'm voting for the bill. So just as a kind of a recap, I didn't, I didn't realize this, the Federal Trade Commission, as we know, is an independent agency, uh, and it deals with civil antitrust laws, promotes consumer protection by
preventing fraud, deception, and unfair business practices. They work to maintain competitive marketplace by preventing and eliminating anti-competitive business practices. including coercive monopolies. The commission, and this is what I didn't know, has is made up of 5 commissioners and no more than 3 of one party can be on the commission, so you can't be stacked one way or the other. So, uh, 31 party, two the next. What I want to speak on, and
this is where uh I, I want to get to the meat of this is that there's been two recent Federal Trade Commission again independent agent appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate reports and within the last year. And in essence it's around the pharmacy benefits manager middleman, and it says they wield significant power leading to inflated drug costs, squeezing independent pharmacies and potentially impacting patient access and affordability. This is from the
FTC, not, not me. January 24th was the latest
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report from the FTC. It says they published a 2nd interim staff report on the
prescription drug middle man industry PBM's January 24th was the latest report from the FTC. It says they published a 2nd interim staff report on the prescription drug middle man industry PBMs uh specifically influence over specially generic drugs including significant price markups by PBCs for cancer, HIV, and a variety of other critical drugs. Staff's latest report
found that the 3 PBMs, Caremark, Express Scripts. And OptumRX marked up numerous specialty drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by 1000% and many others by 100%. Such significant markups allowed the big 3 PBMs and their affiliated, especially pharmacies to generate more than 7.3 billion in revenue from dispensing drugs in excess of the estimate, the drug's estimated acquisition costs, and that's over a period from 2017
to 2022. The big three PBMs netted such Significant revenues all while patient employer and other healthcare sponsored payment plans for drugs steadily increased over the same period. FTC. The FTC staff, uh, 2nd interim report finds that 3, the 3 major benefit managers, high costs for a wide range of life-saving drugs including medications to treat heart disease and cancer. The FTC found that they have were charging enormous markups on dozens of life saving drugs.
This is a quote from The director of policy planning. We also found that this problem is a growing at an alarming rate, which means there is an urgent need for policymakers to address it. Staff's latest report on, on this was as of uh build on the last one, which was in July of 2024, where it says the big 3 PBMs received 68% of the dispensing revenue generated by specialty drugs in 2023, which is up from 18 or from 54%.
Just in 2016. The latest report analyzes a broader set of specialty generic drugs compared to two specially generic drugs analyzed in 2024. So what this did was it the second report studied more detail in all of it so it says the FTC, uh, second report analyzed all specially generic drugs dispensed from 2017 to 2022 for members of commercial health plans and Medicare. Part D prescription drug plans
managed by the big 3 PBMs for which the FTC has relevant data. This includes an analysis of 51 specialty generic drugs comprising 882 national drug codes, uh, for example, Ampyra, which my brother has multiple sclerosis, uh, that's used to treat that, Gleevec, and I may be butchering the name, which is used to treat, uh, leukemia Sensipar, which used to treat renal disease and myphrotic, which is used for
transplant recipients. The report highlights several key insights gained from the data, and I'm just gonna hit on some of them significant price markups we've talked about that. Basically the big 3 reimbursed their affiliated pharmacies at a higher rate than they paid unaffiliated farmies on nearly every specialty drug examined dispensing the most profitable drugs. They uh had a disproportionate share of the
commercial subscriptions for specialty generic drugs. marked up more than $1000 per prescription dispensed by theirs versus uh unaffiliated pharmacies and so the dispensing pattern suggests that the big 3 may be steering highly profitable prescriptions to their affiliated pharmacies and away from unaffiliated pharmacies, and this is another one. Over 7.3 billion of dispensing revenue again, the top 3 PBMs generated over 7.3 billion of their dispensing
revenue in excess of their estimated acquisition cost 7.3 million in excess of their Cost as measured by NADAC, uh, on all of these specialty generic drugs. PBM affiliated pharmacies dispensed revenue. In excess of at a compound annual growth rate of 42%. In the aggregate, the top 10 specialty drugs generated $6.2 million or 85% of the total.
Separately, uh, in addition to that, they generated additional what they call spread pricing. And so in the aggregate, the the big 3 PBMs also separately generated an estimated $1.4 billion income from spread pricing, which is billing the plan sponsors more. than they reimbursed pharmacies for drugs on the analyzed in the generic drugs. And then the last one says plan sponsors and patient drug spending increased significantly. Obviously we've been talking about that $4.8
billion while patient costs also increased 297, almost $300 million between 2017 and 2021 plan sponsors and patients payments increased at a rate of 21%, a compound. ed annual rate of 21% and Medicare D at a compounded annual rate of 14% to 15%. Now, there's been a lot of discussion and, and I would never want to put anybody out of business intentionally, but there's been a lot of discussion around
closing of these pharmacies. I've had local uh community pharmacies closed, but uh in the fall of 2024, and I don't have the exact date on this one. there was an article about CVS. Facing financial pressures, mounting financial financial difficulties related to their Aetna health benefits acquisition, and it said that they at that point had in the fall had laid off approximately 2900 employees and plan to reduce expenses by $2 billion.
This included closing or selling 29 retail pharmacies, uh, but here's the one, and this is January or February 16th, 2025 Again, I believe is before HB 1150 was introduced and this is, you can, you can look it up it's from US News. Uh, it says CVS announced the closure of 270 as Senator Hammer said, locations in 2025 as part of its plan to reduce store
density and better serve customer needs. He, uh, and here's everything you need to know. Uh, the company has already closed between 2022 and 2024, 900 locations. They've already closed. They opened 100. They closed 900, and the closures are part of a strategic plan launched in November 2021, long before HB 1150 with and that's why I will be voting yes for 1150. OK, is
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there anyone that uh we have some questions. Are you, are you OK to take? I'm OK to answer a question.
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All right, you're going to be Senator Irvin and then Senator Boyd after that. Senator Irvin, you're recognized question, is it illegal
in the state of Arkansas for them to reimburse themselves more than an independent. Sounds like it is. It is. Does any of those FTC reports and everything that you read off, does it take into account the Arkansas state laws and was it specific to the state of Arkansas. It was not specific. It was it was countrywide. So
all the information that you're using has nothing to do with the state of Arkansas, nothing to do with their practices. Is it, is it also illegal for them to steer patients in the state of Arkansas. It should be, yes, it is, yes. And then up the FTC report that you mentioned, none of that is mentioned. None of the Arkansas state laws that we have passed are mentioned in that FTC report or take in consideration. When they are looking at their study and I'll, I'll take your word on that. What I'm, what I'm
Senator Jim Petty
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in answer to your question, what I'm responding to or or relying on is if they are dispensing
85% of the generic drugs. I would think, and, and in every case they've marked them up higher than their commer their community pharmacies, I would assume that that includes uh dis disbursements in Arkansas
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as well. If they have 85% of the market. Well, and, and, but
also if they negotiate with Medicare, Medicare is federal, and we have
nothing to do with that. That's correct. And then the last thing is, is there anything to designate these people as monopolies,
or is that an opinion? Is there anything I'm
reading the report from the FTC, that's just a report. Is there any legal documentation that we can find anywhere in the United States of America that designates these companies as quote monopolies forcing them to divest. I did not look for that. So I can't
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speak to that. OK, Senator Boyd, you recognize, sir?
Senator Justin Boyd
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Thank you, Mr. President. Senator Petty, thank you for your testimony. I, I appreciate it. So, uh, I, I do understand that one of a pharmacy closed in Van Buren at the end of the year, struggled to find somebody to buy its files and because it wasn't worth anything that that that is accurate, yes, sir, would you believe me if I told you that 63 pharmacies in Arkansas have closed since 2016 that we have 63 fewer retail permits in the state of Arkansas since 2016. I had actually heard the number
was 68, but yes, I would believe you. And then would
you also believe me if I told you that there's nothing in this bill that prevents a PBM from having a home infusion company if they would like to. I would agree, yes. Would you also believe that uh just because there's a law that that doesn't mean people violate it every day like speed limits. I would agree with that. And would you also believe me if I told you I have data that shows that there are pharma. today who are violating the laws
where they are reimbursing themselves more than than a competitor pharmacy. Yes, I would. Thank you for your. OK, Senator Petty has
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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spoken for the bill. Do we have any else, anybody to speak against the bill. OK, Senator Mark Johnson, you're gonna speak for
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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the bill? Oh, let me get, keep them in order if that's OK, Senator Johnson, Senator Love, you're recognized to speak against the bill. You know, colleagues, um, thank,
thank you, Mr. President, colleagues, I wasn't, I actually wasn't going to speak against this bill, but I've been listening to testimony and thinking about, you know, all the things that have happened this session, you know. I understand, and I'm
going to say this to my friends in pharmacy. I understand the issues of the PBMs and what we have been working with. I do not deny any of the information that my seatmate came up and presented. I mean,
we could say PBMs have been Have been bad actors, but we can also say that we have passed legislation to try to address and fix this issue. But to make PBMs. To, to, to force PBM to choose between being a PBM and being a pharmacy. That's not addressing this issue that we're trying to fix. What that is doing is putting
people out of work. Because if the PBM chooses not to have a pharmacy, guess what? We still have not addressed the issues that you're saying you're trying to fix. And I will tell you this. I don't have in Southwest Little Rock, there are not local pharmacies. Yes, we do have a Kroger's and then we do have a Walmart on the periphery, but there are not local pharmacies.
My constituents have been calling me like crazy. They've been emailing me like crazy and maybe they are CVS clients, you know, but they've been talking to me saying, guess what? This will hurt us. So we're going to manufacture a A pharmacy desert in southwest Little Rock. That's not, that's not good for my people. We're gonna disenfranchise people. We're going to put
people out of work. Now the thing about it is I'm not gonna go into what the conversation was when we tried to pass Senator Dismay's bill because the pharmacists were all against that bill. Guess what? That bill was to provide access. But the pharmacists Association was all against that bill. Now we're gonna say we're going to put pharmacies out of business? You all, we have to really
consider what we're doing and maybe you all do have local pharmacies and good for your communities, but I don't have any local pharmacies and my people need CVS. They need scripts. So, so please, I'm just going to tell you. Really consider what we're doing and think about if we're truly addressing the issue. Because this
bill is not addressing the issue. It's putting people out of work and it disenfranchising people that really need their medicine. With that, I'll ask you for a no vote. Thank you.
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OK, consideration. OK. We have a motion for immediate consideration that is non-debatable. All in favor of that motion, say ah. And he opposed? No. OK, the motion carries, uh, Madam Secretary, if you would please call the roll
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on this vote. Bo. Bryant Brant Caldwell. Caldwell.
Clark Crowell Crowell. Davis These
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dema Dotson. English flippo flowers. Gilmore,
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Hammer, Hester Hickey, Hill Ivin. Like Johnson,
McKee Murdoch. Yes. Payton. Penzo? Yes. Patty.
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Rice, Scott. Stan Stabberfield. Stabil. Sullivan
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Tucker Wallace. OK, do any members wish to vote or change their vote? Senator Caldwell is
I, Senator Crow is I. Senator Hester is I, Senator Stubblefield is I. Senator Bryant is I. All right, Senator Stubblefield's a no.
OK, members, anyone else? I want to make sure everybody's recorded accurately on this. Anyone else
Madam Secretary, please cast up the ballot. OK, with 26, 9 nays. House Bill 1150
has passed. Please return to the house. All right. We are now on. OK, let's read these reports.
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Senator Hester. Did you say we will stop for how long, an hour or an hour roughly
an hour. When you come on and robust who is for house was 1746 by Representative Brown and Central Desar the gross copy of the original and find same correctly
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engrossed. I'm sorry, which one? Insurance and commerce. Gross who
was for house with 11:31 by Representative Pilkington and Senator Penzo compared the gross
copy of the original and found time correctly engrossed. calendar. Calendar the island gross who was first in 441 by Senator Hester compared the engrossed copy of the original by the same prone
the island gross who was first in 441 by Senator Hester compared the engrossed copy of the original by the same proneroend the island gross who was first in 441 by Senator Hester compared the engrossed copy of the original by the same prone ross Committee on Gross bills to him as far House Bill 1797 by Representative Beatty compared the gross copy of the original and findte correctly engrossed calendar, gross bills to him as far as House Bill 1841 by Senator Johnson compared the Gross copy of the rim correctly engrossed. calendar. 636 by Central Disma
to an act to transfer funds to find the monies to be available in the restricted reserve fund and to allow additional funds to be made available for
state departments, agencies and institutions and declare an emergency Senate Bill 636637 by central dismay to amend the revenue stabilization law
and declare an emergency 637 budget. OK You through
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OK, Senator Johnson, do you have a motion? Yes,
sir. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. I
move that we place Senate Bill 634 at the end of the calendar for this
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afternoon, OK? We have a motion to place a Senate Bill 634 at the end of the calendar, all in favor of the motion, say aye. Can you
opposed. OK, I believe at this time we had said that at 4 o'clock I believe we have some committee meetings and I believe we're going to allow an hour for those committee meetings, so it's going to be 4 o'clock.
So I know it's going to take a few minutes
for them to get down there. So Senator Hester is everybody back here at 4:15 OK with you, Senator Hester? We're gonna say 4:15 since he's not listening. I'm sorry, 5:15. So we're going to go into recess. We're going to go and recess, but we'll be back here here at 5:15 and we're gonna pick these up and we'll do like yesterday and we'll try
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to get through them all, or as many as we can. OK, with that, again, we're in recess.
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OK, we're back from recess. We're gonna read some stuff
across the desk. I just need to make quick. I just need to make your committee on
education and was far to house 1484 My representative, uh, Granted I recommend due pass
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calendar, you got calendar Committee on Education
for 1756 by Representative Volt recommend Du pass this amendment number one.
Calendar on education and was far House in 1938 by Representative Carr recommended to pass. education is for house in 1939 representative Carr
recommend due pass on education for house 1941 by Representative Carr recommended due pass. Commit on judiciary, to whom his far house was 1662 by Representative McKenzie recommend due pass calendar. Committee on Public Health team
for House Bill 1523 by Representative recommend Du pass calendar Committee on Public Health team as far as 1537 by representative layman recommended new pass calendar Committee on Public Health team as for House Bill 1801 by Representative Moore recommend to pass as amended number
1ittee on Public Health to for House Bill 1963 by Representative Gonzalez recommend do pass
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as amended number 1 calendar House Bill 1960 by
Representative Wardlaw to provide that the leasing of a
leased motor vehicle is the owner for purposes of assessment and payment of property taxes and to mend the law concerning local sales and use taxes on certain tangible personal property. House was 6 1960. 1966 by Representative Barnett to authorize an incorporated town or city of the second class to petition the state board of Education. the establishment of a local public elementary school or
satellite school under certain conditions. House Bill 1966. Education. I OK, you just have an announcement, uh, while we're looking
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for one, do you want to you're, you're recognized Senator Johnson. Thank you, Mr. President, colleagues, I have a, a very pleasant task
that I wanted to announce for those, some of you may have already heard, but earlier this
afternoon, the United States Senate confirmed our former governor Mike Huckabee, as the ambassador to Israel and a couple of hours ago Judge Levinsky Smith swore him in in the governor's conference room, so he is now Ambassador Mike Huckabee. ready. OK, Senator Hester,
you're recognized members, I, I recalled House Bill 1555 from the House for an amendment, uh,
so now I need to expunge the vote by which it passed
our floor so I can amend it. OK, y'all the motion to expunge the vote. All
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in favor say aye aye, any opposed? OK, it's expunged. I'memb Toda house for 1555. There's this
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was an amendment that the musement League needed to fix
bill. We're happy, I was happy to do it. Appreciate a good vote. All in favor of the amendment, say aye. Can
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you oppose? All right, the minute it's passed
it, it'll be sent to grossing. Do you
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want it at the bottom of the calendar today or what? Tomorrow's fine. OK, be on tomorrow's calendar, Senator. 1685. We put
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on 2nd reading for amendment. OK. OK, you're recognized Senator Hester. Suspend the rules
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for House Bill 1685 for purposes of amendment. OK. All in favor of suspension, say I.
oppose I remember to this house for 1685. My
bill, my amendment. All in favor of the amendment say ah can
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you oppose? It'll be sent to engrossing. OK. Do you have an
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announcement OK, come on in. OK. Let her find that
Senator Rice, you have a, you wanted a personal privilege, is that
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correct? OK, Senator Reich, you recognized members real quick, just point of personal privilege. I've asked for this, I think
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the last at least 2 sessions. We're at the time that things get clogged up and things happen when we're signing bills out of committee. I just think courtesy and respect is not asking too much. I've asked for chairmans to notify each member. There's only 7 other people besides the chairman on the committee.
When something's going to be signed out. That way, if you know something or I've learned something or something that failed in the committee. The legal process, I could share that maybe with a member or two. But what we're doing is going around getting a signatures talking one on one, and then they come lay down and say, you want to sign be the last one. When it happens to you. Note first, but it's not fair. Let's be upfront.
In time runs out and there will be more of this, but let's, let's try to do the right thing. Let the committee know And then they can make their own mind up. Thank you. Thank you, Senator. Senator Irvin, appreciate the
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indulgence. Senator Stone. I am ready. I think so. might just give her just a second.
Senator Matt Stone
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Senator Stone, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. I would ask to withdraw House Bill 1960 from committee for purposes of the purposes of amendment to add me as a sponsor. All in favor. Say aye. Can you oppose.
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Thank you. Amendment 1, the House Bill 1960. Um, he needs to. one
that. My bill, my amendment. All in favor say aye.
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Can you oppose It will send it to engrossing. Yes, sir. All right. OK, are we ready for send
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to Urban or anybody else have another motion. Senator Davis. What? Senator Davis, do you have a motion? All right, let's just start with you. OK, Senator Urban Senator Tucker, you're
recognized for a motion. Anyone else have a motion? Let's get them out of
Senator Clarke Tucker
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the way. Thank you, Mr. President. There was a misunderstanding on the public defender budget, need to send it back to budget to get it fixed. So I'm moving to re-refer Senate Bill 67 back back to
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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joint budget. All in favor of that motion, say aye. Any oppose? OK, it'll be sent back to joint budget. All
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right, Senator Irvin, you're recognized to present House Bill 1171. Let's
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something OK, all right. Senator Irvin, you're
still recognized. House Bill 1171 by Senator Irving and Representative Moore, to modify the Medicaid provider led organized Care Act and to authorize an abbreviated independent assessment for certain beneficiaries enrolled in a risk-based provider organization, Senator Irvin. Thank you members. This is a great bill because
it makes perfect sense. Once, uh, this allows the Department of Human
Services to implement an abbreviate abbreviated independent assessment process for beneficiaries who have been deemed uh in need of chronic long term conditions and receive those services. Once you are in this program, Many of these people, their conditions are not going to change. And so this allows for the Department of Human Services to go ahead and do that independent assessment, but then let that just be renewed automatically if their condition
is not going to change. So I'm happy to
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answer any questions. Senator Ervin on House Bill 1171. Anyone who speak against the bill. Anyone wants to speak for the bill? Any objection to rolling the vote, or you, are you closed? OK. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the boat. OK, members, again, we're back on the screen, so everybody pay attention. Does anyone wish to change their vote. All right, Senator King is uh non-voting.
Senator Flowers is present. Anyone else? OK,
please cast up the ballot. House bill or excuse me, by a vote of 33 ye, zero nay, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1171 is passed. Please return to the house. OK, the next is gonna be House Bill 1277.
Senator Boyd. Thank you, 177 by Representative Graham and Senator Board to amend payments for corrective uh corrective action regarding petroleum storage tanks. Senator
Senator Justin Boyd
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Boyd, you recognized? Thank you, Mr. President. This is a collaborative bill between ADQ and the Arkansas
oil Marketers Association. It allows the pollution control, and ecology commission to set the deductibles which tank owners must pay in, in, in order to receive payments for corrective action from the petroleum storage tank Trust fund. The deductible is not to exceed. $30,000 per occurrence. It
allows a higher deductible to be set if a report is made outside the 24 hour window from which it supposed to be made. Questions for Senator Boyd.
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Anyone want to speak against the bill? Anyone want to speak for the bill? Are you closed, Senator Boyd? I'm closed. Thank you. Any objection to rolling the
vote? Please roll the vote. Everybody look at the screen. I've got Senator McKee is a no.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone else? Senator Dodson is a no. Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else. Anyone else
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OK, don't excuse me, Senator Penzo is present. Anyone else? Please cast up the ballot.
But we're 31, 2 nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1277 is passed. Please return to the house. We're now going to hear House Bill 1320. Houseville 1320s in Wooldridge and
Central Tucker to mend the
law concerning crisis stabilization units and healthcare insurers.
Senator Clarke Tucker
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Senator Tucker, you recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. This is a bill to help crisis stabilization units become more financially self-sufficient. It adds really the main thing that it does is it adds crisis stabilization units to the any willing provider law so that insurers can't discriminate against the providers that they are providing coverage for or not. That's, that's really what it does in a nutshell. No opposition that I'm aware of. Happy to take any questions. Any questions for Senator Tucker? Anyone will speak against it. Anyone want to speak for it? Senator Tucker, your clothes.
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I'm closed. I appreciate you. Any objection to rolling the vote? Madam Secretary,
please roll the vote. Members look at the board. Anyone
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will change their vote. Anyone want to change their vote. Please
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cast up the ballot. With 35 years, zero nays. House Bill 1320 is passed.
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Please return to the house. We go to House Bill 1416.
1416 Representative Johnson Center hammer to mend the law concerning fire departments and to allow
a volunteer fire department servicing unincorporated areas of counties to levy dues. You're hammer. Thank you. The bill title says exactly
Senator Kim Hammer
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what it does. It allows volunteer fire departments servicing unincorporated areas of the county level, lovely dues, they have to go through all the normal processes in order to be able to do so. There's no, you know, doing anything that's not already structured as far as how dos are to be. Implemented. There are some
areas that are volunteer fire departments that are servicing and corporated areas. This just allows them to collect the dues because they're providing service to those areas. Questions for Senator Hammer. Anyone wants to speak against this
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bill? Anyone want to speak for this bill. You close Senator Hammer close. Appreciate
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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a good vote. Any objection to rolling this vote? OK, Madam Secretary, please roll the
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vote. Members look at the board. OK, we've got Senator Dodson is present. We have Senator McKee is present.
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We have Senator Des as present. We have Cinder King as no. We have Senator Penzo
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as president. We had Senator Peyton as no. Senator Irving as no. Senator Hill as present, Senator Stubblefield is a no. Senator dismaying present. Senator Gilmore is a no.
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All right, members, anyone else? OK,
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cast up the ballot. OK, with 24, 5 nays, 6 present. House Bill 1416 is passed. Please return to the house. We're going to move on now to House Bill 1440. House for 1440 by Representative
Bentley and Central Wallace to amend the massage therapy Act and to establish registration for massage therapy establishments. Senator Wallace,
Senator Dave Wallace
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you recognize, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, this is the agency bill presented by public uh health. It deals with our massage, massage therapists, establishments. There's 550 of those registered in the state, and there's 2200 licensed individuals. The vast vast majority of those are law abiding, but there's a few bad apples. The current law identifies the victim in and
identifies the employee who violated the law. But to fill the corporate veil does not allow the law to see the owners or the operators. This bill will allow the um Public health to provide much more oversight and they'll be able to pierce that corporate veil. And with that,
I'll stand by for your questions. Senator Wallace on this bill. He will not speak
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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against this bill. Anyone want to speak for
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this bill. You're closed, Senator Wallace. Any objection to rolling the vote, Madam Secretary,
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please roll the vote. Members look at the board. Anyone wish to change their vote? I've got Senator Dodson is present. Yeah, I have
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Senator Blake Johnson as present. Senator McKee as president. I have Senator Penzo is present. I have Senator King as a no.
I have sent her flowers as present.
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Anyone else Anyone else cast up
the ballot. OK, with 29, 1 nay, 5 present, House Bill 1440 is passed. Uh, please return to the
house. Next one is gonna be Senator Irvin for House Bill 1454 and 1454 by Representative
Bentley and Senator Irving to amend the laws concerning criminal history records, checks for for
employees of service providers, members, you sure are
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getting loud in here. If y'all could just try to hold it down just a
little. Senator Irvin, you're reckon allow third party employee evaluation services. For criminal history records checks and to include independent contractors. Thank you,
members. This is just to speed up the process so that we can allow a third party vendor to process and do these criminal these criminal criminal background checks and um that goes through all through the
code. And again, this is just to speed up the process so we can get more people into the workforce quicker. Uh representative Bentley has done a lot of work just to try to speed up the process and create some efficiencies for these people who are providing these types of services. particularly if you're in daycare settings. OK, any questions for Senator Ervin? Anyone want
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to speak against this bill. Anyone want to speak for this bill? You close.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Any objection to rolling the vote? OK, please roll the vote, Madam Secretary. Members, if
you would just look at the board. Anyone want to change their vote?
Send her flowers is present. Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else
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Cast up the ballot. House Bill 1454, uh, passes with 33A, 0 nays, 1 non-voting, and one present.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Please return to the house. As amended. Next is going to be house House Bill 1476. 1476 by
Representative McKenzie and Senator Hester to amend the direct shipment of any liquor Act and to establish a one direct shipper
license. OK, you recognize that Senator Hester. Thanks, Senator Hickie, members, this is good consumer choice
bill. Right now we already allowed this in the
state of Arkansas. It's a very complicated long process. You
have to go visit the, visit the producer, go through a process of signing forms, getting notarizations, uh, this just kind of eliminates that it, it allows for them to get an in-state license and direct ship to their home. I'm happy to answer any questions. Senator Hester, Senator Payton, you have a question?
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You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Just looking here on page. 3, I think it is.
It's, it seems to consider wet counties and prohibit dry counties, but we have some dry cities within wet counties. So it looks like it would permit the shipment into a dry territory. If it's within a wet county, that's we've worked with the um we've worked with the
ABC on this and the the intent and what we believe the language says is it does not allow it to be shipped
anywhere, it's not allowed to be sold. Well, but I mean, it's pretty
plain language here on line 24. resides in a wet county where the manufacturer retail sale of alcohol beverages is permitted. So like Jacksonville's a dry city within a wet county. But they live in a wet county. I mean, I don't believe that is, I understand what that that appears. All I
know is what I've been told that if if you can't currently have it shipped there, you can't when this bill passes. OK, thank you.
OK, Senator Hill, you're recognized for a question. Just want to make sure I understand this correctly, and I understand the wet and the dry issue, so we can ship marijuana now anywhere, but we can't win we passed a while ago, uh, that would be correct. Thank
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you. OK, any other questions to Senator Hester? Anyone want to speak against this bill?
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone want to speak for this bill. Is there an objection to rolling the vote? Madam
Secretary, please roll the vote. That's funny.
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It's bad. I'm going to get to you I'm sorry. OK, anyone want to change their vote, obviously Senator
Dodson is a no. Senator Des is no. Senator Hammer no. Senator Love is no. I'm sorry, Ms. Llewellyn. Senator Clark is no Senator
Gilmore is no Senator Ervin is no
Senator Payton is no Senator Rice says no. Senator Stubblefield is no Senator Flowers is present. Senator Hill is no. I think Senator Hickey is no. Anyone else. Anyone else
OK, please cast up the ballot. OK, by
a vote of 22 ya, 12 nays.
One present House Bill 1476 is passed. Please
return to the house. OK, now we're gonna do House Bill 1540. No, now we're gonna recognize
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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uh uh Senator Scott for a motion. Thank you, Mr. President. Motion
Senator Jamie Scott
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to suspend the rules to add Senate Bill 241 to the end of the supplemental supplemental calendar for today. OK. All right, we have a motion to
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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suspend the rules, all in favor to suspend the rules. Uh Any oppose? OK, it's suspended
now, now you want to add that to the which was was it to add it to the end of the calendar. OK. Yes, I have an amendment to concur from the house. And Yeah What do
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you want me to say? Did you give me more language on it? 241
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They told me I didn't have to go to committee. Yes. OK to
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give her the motion to withdraw that. my. When I went to him and they told me I went to the attorney in and bark and they told me what
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to get from him to withdraw and so. What? I don't know. You're OK. Somebody helped me.
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Where's the doctor theendment one. I. Um right now. OK, members, here's
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what we're gonna do. Uh, we're just, we're, we're trying to find some, some paperwork. So we're gonna let Senator Scott work with them. We've got the rules suspended
for her, and we're going to come back to that. Senator Gilmore, you, do you need to make a
motion? OK, let's do that. All right, members, thank you, Mr. President. I need you to suspend the rules to add 4 House bills to the calendar. OK, we have a motion to uh I don't know
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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if we can do all those at one time, we're gonna suspend the rules for which one first, uh, House Bill 1931. All right, suspend the rules
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for House Bill 1931. All in favor say aye. Can you oppose, all right, suspend the rules to add House Bill 1872, the calendar, spin the rules to add House Bill 1872 to the calendar. All in favor say aye.
Can you oppose Spin the rules at House Bill 1891 to the calendar, spin the rules to add House Bill 1891 to the calendar. All in favor say aye. Senator Hammer, you're recognized, sir. I didn't hear specify. I just want to make
Senator Kim Hammer
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sure these are to the supplemental calendar. Yes, OK, I didn't hear this said. All right, thank you. I think I failed to say that. I just, that was
the plan. Yup. And your last one will be House
Bill 1896, which is Senator Dismay's, which he's good with, but I'm adding it to the counter as well. All right, we're gonna suspend the rules to add that one to the calendar. All in favor, say
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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ah. Any opposed? Did y'all get all of those? OK. Case. If y'all need me
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to slow down at any point, just tell me. I've never Yeah. Oh.
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I get what you're saying. I'm just gonna. Thank you. OK. created Yes. We. Hm. Mhm.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Are you, are you presenting this bill or something else? Mm,
OK. Uh, we're gonna first of all, we're gonna recognize Senator Boyd for a motion. I'd like to
Senator Justin Boyd
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make a motion to adopt Amendment 1 to House Bill 1963. OK, y'all have heard the motion all in favor say aye, aye, Any pose.
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I can't hear you. Now send it to us. OK, send it to engrossing. Yeah, men adopted Senator Grosson. And then now you're gonna be prepared to present
House Bill 1559. OK. Hold on just a second, that secretary read it. 1559. Oh
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I got some more Senator Davis, do you mind coming up here so we can do your amendment. We need to get that out of the way. Senator Boyd, just hang with us. Senator Irvin. I think
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that you're ahead of Senator Boyd whenever we get ready.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Oh Senator Irving, yours is 1543. Yeah to No
Not yet. Sorry, I didn't, not yet, Senator Irvin, you'll just wait right there. We got a right
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OK, Senator Davis, you're recognized for motions. Thank you,
Senator Breanne Davis
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Mr. President. I'd like to make a motion to adopt Amendment 1 onto House Bill 1801. So you've heard the motion all in favor
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say aye. Can you oppose? OK, we'll send that to engrossing. Thank you. You need to suspend the rules to do
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any of this. It came out, no, it came out of committee, so OK. Um, I'd also
like to make a motion to adopt Amendment 1 on
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House Bill 1756. OK, all in favor of that motion, say ah. Any opposed? OK, we'll send it to engrossing and are we
putting these on today's calendar or tomorrow? OK, fair enough. Senator Irvin,
you're now going to be recognized to present House Bill 1543. House Bill 1543 members 1543 Representative Underwood and
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Senator Irving to establish the workforce experience
opportunities Act of 2025. Thank you, Mr. Chair. What this bill does is it strives to give people more opportunities and pathways to meet the work requirement for SNAP benefits. It doesn't add any new requirements. It just allows them to do some volunteer work, uh, which would meet the work requirements. Um I already passed a law for mandatory employment and training in its food stamp program, and part of the implementation, Arkansas should require state agencies that receive state funding to accept
those volunteers who request an opportunity to comply with the ENT requirement. So what this would provide is the government entity would uh wide latitude to assign participants to whatever work opportunity they see as appropriate, including simple regular attendance to develop soft skills, such as pro problem solving, time. conflict resolution or communication skills, um, the bill also allows volunteers to observe the government entity operations, um, it's, uh, this
is an agreed to bill and um it's just to allow people to volunteer within our state agencies and provides that framework, um, that's needed for that volunteer service, which we've incorporated into our SNAP Benefit programs, and I would say also for the the Medicaid expansion program. Any questions for Senator Irving? Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone want to speak for this
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bill. I'm close. Thank you. Senator Irvin is closed. Uh, any objection to rolling the vote?
OK, please roll the vote. All right, members, watch the board. OK,
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does anyone want to change their vote? OK, I have Senator Clark Tucker is a no. I've got Senator King is non-voting. I've got Senator Jamie Scott as a no. I've got Senator Fred Love as a no. I've got Senator Flowers as a no. I've got Senator Leading as a
no. I've got Senator Payton as present. Or Senator
Murdoch, I have as a no. Anyone else? How.
Senator King is now yes. Anyone else? We
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still got time. Anyone will get it right.
OK, cast up the ballot. OK, with 28 ya, 6 nays, 1 present, uh,
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House Bill 1543 is passed. Please return
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to the house as amended. OK, the next one is House Bill 1559, Senator Boyd. Thank you, Mr. President.
Just a moment. 1559 by Representative McGro and Senator Boyd to require the Department of Human Services to seek a waiver to the Arkansas Medicaid program for coverage for implant
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treatment services for a substance use disorders. Senator Boyd. Thank you, Mr. President. House
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Bill 1559 requires the Arkansas Department of Human Services to
apply for an 1115 demonstration waiver, uh, to the exclusion of institutions for mental diseases, for substance use disorder, uh DH. S is OK with this. 37 other states have applied for and received this waiver. There is no
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known opposition. Senator Boyd. Anyone wants to speak against this bill. Anyone
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who wants to speak for this bill. You're closed, Senator
Boyd. Senator Boyd is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote?
OK, please roll the vote. OK, members, everybody looking at the screen. OK, anybody want to change their votes? Senator Dodson is a no.
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Anyone else? Senator McKee is uh present. Anyone else Anyone else Senator Hill is a no.
Senator King is non-voting. Senator Penzo is present. Senator Payton is present. OK, if you
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would cast up the ballot. OK, with 29, 2 nays, 19 non-voting, 3 present, House Bill 1559 is passed. Please return to the house. OK, now we're going to House Bill 1572 by Senator McKee.
House for 1572 by Representative Ladyman and Senator McKee to create a technical feasibility study on a new nuclear energy generation and to declare an emergency. You recognize Senator McKee. Thank you,
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Mr. Chair. Members, this is just the first step in a path forward. We all know
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that hopefully we all know by now that really nuclear power generation is the future. It's the cleanest, safest, most reliable source of power that we could have, um, this study.
is just going to look at the locations, the feasibility, all the technical details and give us the information we need to change laws that need to be changed, regulations, get the roadblocks out of the way so that when technology's been demonstrated for things like small modular nuclear reactors Arkansas can be an early adopter in those programs, so I appreciate it. Good vote. Happy to answer any questions. Any questions,
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Senator McKee on this? Anyone want to
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speak against it? Yes, sir. Senator King, you're
recognized for a question. So is this going to cost any money? Uh,
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this does not appropriate or fund anything, it'll be subject to legislative council funding. OK. Any other questions? OK, I'm gonna
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go back. Anyone speak against it? Anyone wants to speak for
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it. Your clothes in McKee, he is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. Members watch the screen.
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Does anyone want to change their vote? Senator Flowers is present. Senator King is non-voting, anyone else. Cast up the
ballot. With 33 A's, zero nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1572 along
with this corresponding emergency clauses passed. Please return to the house. We're going to go to House Bill 1582 now, Senator English.
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Let us just let her read it across, so I
by Representative McRose and Senator English to require a certain actions and encourage certain actions for an individual to be eligible for benefits under the division of Workforce Services Law, Senator English, you'll recognize. Thank
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you very much. This basically sets up additional requirements for reporting, for training, for
education for folks drawing unemployment insurance. OK, does anyone have any questions or send
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or English? Anyone want to speak against this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill,
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Senator English, you're closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. And anyone want to change their
vote. All right, send her flowers is a no. love is a no, Senator Clark
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Tucker is a no. Senator Murdoch is a no. Senator Jamie Scott is
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a no. Senator Leding, I'm sorry, is a no. I've got you, Senator
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Peyton as a yes. I don't know. What you're wanting. Anyone else? All right,
please cast up the ballot. OK, with 29, 6 nays, uh, house
built the 1582 is passed. Please
return to the house. Alright, House Bill 1589 will be by Senator Crow. House
for 1589 by Central Carl to amend the law concerning the
financial operations of a county and to amend the law concerning the annual county financial report.
Senator Crow, you're recognized colleagues, this is a treasurers' Association bill to modernize and consolidate and, and streamline the financial operations of the counties to the state.
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Any questions of Senator Crow on this bill. Anyone want to speak
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against it? Anyone wants to speak for it? Senator Crowe was closed. Any objection to rolling the vote. Please roll
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the vote and then members look at the screen to tell me if you want to change your vote. Anyone want to change
this? OK, seeing none, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 yeah, 0, nay, House Bill 1589 is passed. Please return to the
house. Members, we are now on page 5, top of the page, House Bill 1606, Senator Des. We're gonna pass over that right now. OK, we're
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gonna go to House Bill 1615 by Senator Stubblefield. Let us read it, Senator Stubblefield. House
was 1615 by Representer Lindstrom and Senator Steberfield to amend the law concerning religious non-discrimination.
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Coexist is. All right, Senator Stubblefield, you're recognized members, we could just hold it down just a little
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bit for Cener Stubblefield, please, this is a religious non-discrimination bill, some of you remember that's been here a while. We passed a river bill several years ago and uh a Rer Bill really doesn't tell you what your religious freedoms are. Uh, they're basically, basically, um
Just a a review of the things you have in your constitution, but, uh, the RFer
bill we have has many gaps, as most states have found out in the last few years, there are gaps that uh a lot of states are wishing they'd filled in now. Let me just tell you what this bill does. First of all, it classifies uh Arkansas's current religious freedom restoration Act. Uh, protection religious
organizations such as Places of worship, religion, schools, uh, religious ministries. From government discrimination. It protects uh religious organizations, such as individuals, wedding venues, many of you remember the uh uh the individual in Colorado who was sued because he wouldn't put on a wedding because of his sincere religious conscience. He was a he was a Christian man who would not put on a wedding for
someone, someone else, this, this will solve that because this Uh, if, if you recuse yourself ahead of time, and this was The other way around where the other group came and asked this man who was a Christian to do it. He could say no and he would be covered as long as you recuse yourself ahead of time, you are exempt from this. Uh, this has also been backed by
the AG's office and the Alliance Defending freedom. Let me give you one, but the law, the law is a restriction on the government. It
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prevents the government from taking away religious freedom. Religious freedom is uh At
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the very core of every, every one and it means to be American. It is the First Amendment of the Constitution. It is the Arkansas Constitution, the bill simply clarifies protections for the freedoms that we already have. It is not uh create any new
freedoms. It provides guidance to courts uh regarding religious freedoms and it gives citizens a law to use if the government tries to infringe on your, on your basic God-given. right Yeah, that is
basically what it does. I'm sorry, Senators
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Senator Stub, anyone have any questions for Senator Stubblefield? Anyone want to speak against this
bill. Senator Tucker, you're recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. President. A
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couple things. Number one, I think there's a very clear constitutional concerns with this bill in
the in the in the federal Constitution, there's two pieces that touch religion. One is the free exercise clause where everyone can worship as they see fit, which is absolutely the way that it ought to be. The other side of that coin is that there can be no establishment of religion by a government and in the state constitution, we, we have the same provisions, but we also echo that. It's explicitly written in the state constitution that can't be a specific preference given to any religion in any
law. And this is putting directly into code a specific religious issue. So I think, I think we have a, a very serious constitutional concern with this, but beyond that, you know, the, the, it's ironic to me that it's a nondiscrimination bill because the purpose is to empower people to discriminate against gay, lesbian, and transgender Arkansans. I've been coming down here since 2015. It's kind of shocking that I've been here that long. But I asked last week or a week or two ago when we're going to
stop attacking libraries, and it's the same question here. We have multiple bills every session that deliver a message to gay and lesbian and transgender Arkansans that they are not welcome in their own state. This is another bill on that list. I hope we can stop passing these bills soon. I hope we don't pass this one. I'll be voting against
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it. Senator Clark Tucker is hold on Senator Stubblefield. Senator Clark Tucker has has spoken
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against the bill. Anyone will speak for the bill. You're wanting clothes now, is
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that right? OK, cinder Stubblefield, you're recognized to
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close. Colleagues, according to our, our AG, this bill does not have any constitutional problems. In
fact, he assured me it doesn't have any constitutional problems. Uh, the problem we've had is we have drifted so far away from the God-given rights that we have as individuals that we've allowed things to happen we never dreamed would happen in this country. And and this bill simply uh
clarifies that and it, it makes, puts everybody on a level playing field. If you don't agree with somebody because they are of a different sex, or a different gender, that's fine. It doesn't make any difference. You have a right to believe whatever you want to believe. But we also have a right to uh if you wanna, if you want to sue me because I go to a certain church that you're right. As long as you recuse yourself ahead of time, you have the right to do that.
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So this simply puts everybody on the
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same playing field. OK, Senator Stubblefield is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote. OK, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. OK, members
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look at the board and then uh we'll change your votes, OK. Send her love is a no. Senator Clark
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Tucker is a no. Senator Jamie Scott is a no. Senator Murdoch is a no. Senator Flowers is present.
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Senator Leading is a no. Anyone
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else? Anyone else wish to change your vote. OK, please cast up the ballot. OK, but
with 29 years, uh, 5 nays, 1 present, House
Bill 1615 is passed. Please return to the house. We're now going
to go to House Bill 1619, Senator Ervin. House for 1619 by Cent to Irving
to set administrative fees and the Arkansas Medicaid program for immunization for
one antibodies for respiratory uh virus disease and to provide civil immunity. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. Thank yous of the Senate. One of the most significant
things that you can do in a clinical setting is to give a baby a shot
for RSV, uh, RSV is a pretty serious uh virus and disease that particularly young children can
have this would require that the Medicaid program provide administrative fee and reimbursement, uh, in order to provide that shot clinically, what that will do will help keep these children out of the emergency rooms and out of the hospitals. So the insignificant fiscal impact would actually probably return on investment would be pretty substantial if we can eliminate hospitalization or an ER visit by simply given a shot in the clinic setting and so this bill
requires that the Medicaid program shall reimburse the administration fee that's equal to 100%, uh, for this fee and their vaccines for Children program. Happy to answer any questions. Questions for Senator Irvin. Anyone want to speak against the
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bill? Anyone want to speak for the bill, Senator Irvin is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, Please roll the vote. All right, members look at the screen. Anyone want
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to change their vote? All right, we got Senator McKee
is a no. We got Senator Brian as a no. We got Senator Dodson is present. Anyone else over here? Senator Bryant is a
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no. That's correct. Then we have Senator Penzo is present. We have Senator King, I believe, is a non-vote. I've got Senator Hester as a no. I've seen her Clark Tucker as a
present. I now have Senator Dodson as a no. Alright, I got Senator, uh, Allan Clark is a no. I got Senator Des as a present. Senator Brianne Davis is a president. Senator Penzo is a no. Anyone else? Anyone else? We want to
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get it right. All right, please cast up the
ballot. OK, with 25 years, 6 nays, 1 non-voting, 3 present, House Bill 1619 is passed. Please return to the
house and then we're going to go to House Bill 1622 by Senator
Boyd. 22 by Senator Boyd to amend the Medicaid Fairness Act to modify the definition of the adverse decision under the Medicaid Fairness Act
and to provide that fordministrative reconsideration under the Medicaid Fairness Act. You're recognized Senator Boyd.
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Thank you, Mr. President. This bill simply allows a third-party review of citations made against providers whenever a corrective action is imposed on the provider, even when there's not a direct monetary consequence. So right now today, they can only appeal if there is a direct monetary consequence, but there are times when they would like to uh appeal that decision. Senator Boyd. Anyone who speak against
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this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill. Senator Boyd, are you
closed? Closed, Senator Boyd is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. Members look at the board and tell me if you want to change your vote. Anyone want
to change their vote? Last, last call. Uh, Senator King is a non-voting. Anyone else? OK, please cast up the ballot with 34, 0
nays, 1 non-voting. House Bill 1622 is passed. Please return to the house.
Are we passing over 1624. All right, we're passing over House Bill 1624. is here. Well, Let
me do Senator Irvin, and then we'll do that.
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All right, Senator Irvin, you're recognized for 1653 and then Senator D's, we're gonna go back and pick you up at the topless you OK, fair enough. Senator Irvin, you're recognized to present House Bill 1653. Thank you and Mr. Chair.
House Bill 1653 by Senator Irving to set standards for licensing and regulation of psychiatric residential treatment facilities and declare an emergency. You're recognized. Thank
you. Um, Representative Kavanaugh has done a tremendous amount of work on this bill in conjunction with DHS, um, and they are, um, very supportive of this bill. What it does is it makes licensure and regulation more streamlined and aligned with federal law. It improves government efficiency by
establishing one DHS entity with responsibility for licensure and regulation instead of multiple entities, which is the current situation. It fac it ate s ease of monitoring these facilities. This would establish that monitoring would be completed by the division of Provider Services and Quality Assurance, which is also the Office of Long-term care. So you're moving these um psychiatric residential treatment facilities under the Office of Long Term Care and with that comes a really high
scrutiny of degree of regulation, which is good and what the industry actually wants, wants for themselves. Um, This is uh the, the Office of Long Term Care is already equipped to monitor medical and treatment facilities that are under their current business practices. It clears up confusion around identifying these PRTF beds because the licenses would be issued by two separate governing bodies for separate purposes. This would
establish that PRTFs are medical treatment paid for by Medicaid, whereas our CCFs, our child welfare placements, and so it gives us the advantage and them as far as billing is uh is concerned, requires facilities to seek approval from the state prior to constructing or adding additional treatment beds and allows the state greater monitoring capacity, um, it requires them also to be operated by a licensed administrator, like all other long-term care facilities which
would ensure uniformity and compliance with standards and services across all of the facilities. Um, bottom line, this opens up more. s which is absolutely what we need for kids, and it provides a level of regulation and oversight, which is definitely needed, um, in this area. OK, Senator Hammer, you're recognized for a question of Senator Irvin. Thank you. And I think you just hit on, but I got to
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ask the question by provider as far as the this is going to open up
more beds for what what age population or what group. Children. Yes and that is that up to age 16 or Hey, you know. I think it's up to 8
to 18, but I'm not sure for, I'm not perfectly sure, but I can ask, OK, but it, it does, that's
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OK. Don't slow down. I'll get with you after. I just had it for I want to know. So
up to, but it will open up more beds, but do you know how many more beds it'll open up or how is that determined, or do you know? I don't have that. I mean, I
don't have the exact number. I mean, I can tell you that we need more beds and we've got to make sure that these facilities that are ready and able, I know Senator Stone has been very, very involved with this process. Um, he has, he has a treatment facility in his district that is really supportive of this bill and this allows them to open up these more beds to treat the patients that they need, but I don't have the exact number, but I'll make sure that they reach out to you and get that information to you. Thank you. Yes sir. Senator Love, do you have a question? I
do. You're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Senator Irvin, I was brought this information, but I wanted to
know, you know, in opening more bids, is that more beds for, for children in Arkansas or is it more bids for children outside of the state because it was, it, you know, the information I was provided was
my understanding that we have a lot of out of state children that are using the beds and we're open to more bids. So are these bids are going to be restricted to kids.
In Arkansas or is it still gonna be open to Out of state kids as well. I appreciate the question. This is
for in-state children. There's a lot of misinformation about that going around, but I appreciate the question. Any any other questions? OK, anyone wants to speak against this bill? Anyone
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want to speak for this bill? Are you closed, Senator Ervin? I am. I would appreciate a good vote. Any objection
to rolling the vote? OK, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Members, if you'll look at the
board and tell me if you want to change your vote. Anyone won't change their vote. Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else want to change their vote? OK, cast up the
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ballot. 34, 0 nay, 1 non-voting. House Bill 1653 with its corresponding emergency clause is passed. Please return to the house. We'll go to House Bill 1657 by so. She has a motion first. You have a motion, this is
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it. OK, Senator Davis, uh, you recognized for
To present House Bill 1657 after we read it. House was 1657 by Senator Davis to amend the Arkansas Wood Energy Products and forest maintenance income tax credit. You. Thank you, Mr. President. We've
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already passed this exact bill, Senate Bill 530, off of the floor. This is the Green Bay bill and I'd appreciate a good vote. OK OK, members, you, you heard the explanation, uh. Any questions?
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Anyone want to speak against it. Anyone want to speak for it, any objection to rolling the
vote, please roll the vote. OK, members, it's on the screen, so if everyone would tell me what you want to do, Senator Dodson is a present.
Yes, Senator Dodson, Senator Bryant is present. Senator Des is present. Senator Penzo is present.
Senator Flowers is present. Anyone else?
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Anyone else OK, cast up the ballot with 30s,
0 nays. 5 present House Bill 6 1657 is passed. Please return to the house. OK, we need just a
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few minutes to read some things. Will you come in on gross bills
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to his first House Bill 1756 by Senator Davis compared the gross copy
of the original and found the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Will your committee on gross bills to House Bill 1685. Senator Hester compared the engrossed copy of the original and find same correctly engross calendar. Will your committee on gross spills to as for House Bill 1555 by Senator Hester compared to the ress copy of the ritual and find the same correctly engrossed calendar Committee on gross bills to whom his house in 1963 by Senator
Boyd compared the engrossed copy of the ritual and find the same correctly engrossed. Calendar. Uh, Senator Brant. And I'll probably be going This Since. Senator Bryant We have something for you. probably gonna do that first. Are you wanting to adopt your amendment? OK.
1877 for me. came out of committee to pass this. No, it came
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out of your motion. One. I'd like to
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suspend the rules for house 1877 for adopt Amendment 1. OK, we have a motion to suspend the rules. All in favor say aye. Any oppose?
Amendment 1 House Bill 1877. You're, you're recognized amendment was
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just to ask from a local company to basically exclude them for purposes I'll explain during the bill. All in favor of the amendment say aye. Any
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oppose? OK, send it, send it to engrossing. Will you come down and ropes to
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as for House Bill 1801 by Senator Davis compared to
gross copy of the original and find
the same correctly engrossed. OK, members, we're gonna go to House bill, well, Where is,
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where is this? Give us just a minute. Some of our staff needs to get back in the chair. No, no hurry at all.
OK, we're going to read one more. Send 638
by Senator Boyd. To in the law concerning the collection of sales and use tax on the sale of a new or used motorboat and to provide for the direct payment of sales and use tax on a motorboat sold by a motorboat dealer. Does that be rev and tax. Reverend Tash. OK.
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1666. All right, we're ready for House Bill 1666 by Senator Hammer. Senator Hammer, you're
666 by Senator Hammer and Representative Meeks to amend the law concerning the Arkansas self-funded cyber response program. Senator Hammer, you're recognized. Thank you, members. This bill
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is a cleanup bill from the cyber response board that was created in 2023. It fixes a drafting error that gave a vote to the wrong person on the board. It also eliminates some unnecessary language. It is supported by the Arkansas Insurance Department,
also by the Association of Arkansas Counties. OK, any questions of cider hammer? Anyone
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want to speak against this bill? Anyone want to speak for this bill. You close cinder hammer. Thank you. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote and then members look
at the board, tell me if you want to change your vote. Anyone want to change your vote, Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else want to change their vote? Please cast up the ballot
with 34, 0 nays, 1 non-voting. House Bill 1666, uh, is passed. Please return to the house
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as amended. House Bill 1677 represented Peyton, um, excuse me, Senator Payton
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1677. I alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs
to maintain emergency medication kits. Senator Payton, you recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr.
President, uh, colleagues, the name says it all. These uh drug treatment facilities need
to have this emergency kit on hand. It outlines uh how to
be supplied, how to be maintained. It's a great bill by Representative Bentley. Any anybody have any questions, I'll be happy to try to answer. Any
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questions of Senator Payton? Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone want
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to speak for this bill, Senator Payton's closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, please roll the vote. Members
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look at the screen, Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else want to change their vote?
Anyone won't change your vote. Please cast
up the ballot. 34, with 34 years, zero nays, 1 non-voting. House Bill 1677 is passed. Please return to the house. Now we're
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going to go to House Bill 1679 by
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Senator Irvin. House for 1692 by Representative Brown's Center 1679, I think
Brown. Do you have brown hung up on something. That's OK. Slow down here, I can read it. House 1679 by uh Representative Brown's Center Irving to amend the revised Arkansas Automatical Gift Act to allow certain classes of persons
to revoke or amend a gift upon the death of a donor and to require certain reporting of procurement organizations. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. Thank you, members.
Representative Brown has worked on this bill all such a long as,
as well as Representative Galway. It's an important bill. We want to encourage organ donation, but we also want to make sure that it's done as compassionately and as friendly as possible. So what this bill strives to do is to allow for a person's um, power of attorney to uh to step in at a time where it's important when a loved one is dying. Um, again, the Preserves the ability for those
organs to be harvested, um, for transplant transplant and donation, but it also gives a stop point where those, those family members can then pass that a loved one on to the funeral for home for remittance and uh that that body can then be treated with dignity, uh, when it is remitted to the funeral home, um, I would say, Representative Brown did a lot of work. There are amendments that have been put on this bill at the request
of the procurement organization, uh, And so now it is an agreed to bill. Um, I am happy he's done a lot of work on this, and I'm happy to answer any questions, but bottom line, I think it's a really good bill. Um, it's important to note that not only are your organs harvested, um, if you're an organ donor, which is a great, great thing, but they also take other parts of your body and sell them for um research and uh other issues. So
just full disclosure. So I think it was an important bill and one that um Representative Brown has a very personal story about as it relates to his father, which led him to this bill, and I have a lot of respect, uh, for the, um, experience, the poor experience that he went through, which is why he brought the bill forward and wrote the bill and spent all the time working on the issue. Any questions to Senator Irvin? Anyone wants to speak against this bill?
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Anyone you want to speak against it? OK, send her love is gonna speak against it. So
love you recognize, sir. Thank you and you know, I hate to speak against something that
is, I mean, colleagues, I really do. I hate to speak against this bill because I know it's something that Representative Brown has worked on, but here's the thing, you all, we're talking about somebody's last
wishes and if you choose to be an organ donor. Then I think your last wishes should be respected. There's nothing worse than not having your last wishes respected. And I, I truly believe that we really need to Kind of think about what we're doing here. I had a, I remember I had a conversation is and I, I didn't even know this bill was coming, but I had a conversation with my wife. She's an organ donor. I'm not an organ donor,
and I was actually on the opposite side of her. I was like, hey, I should be able to tell the hospital or tell whoever not to harvest your organs, I should, you know, be able to do that. And she looked me in my eyes. She said, Frederick. I'm the one. It's my body. I'm the one choosing to be the organ donor. I'm the one choosing to dedicate my body to sciences and I think that
if that's the case, I think that my wishes should be
respected. I never thought about it like that. I
thought, hey, I'm still there. This is my wife's, this is her remains and this is what I want to do. But my wife being a sound mind. She chose to be an organ donor, and I think when we enact a bill like this and we're able to step in and revoke that last wish of theirs. I think that's not what we need to do and so I'm gonna be voting no, and I encourage you to vote no as well. Thank
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you. Anyone want to speak for the bill, Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized to speak for the bill. Thank
you, Mr. President. Um, colleagues, I know the story of that Representative Brown and his family had to go through, and I was very shocked about it. Um. basically, and I, I, I know that I appreciate how sensitive Senator Irvin is that she didn't give any details and I'm not only going to give a
few, but I just think it's just safe to say
that that the uh uh his family had a literally a traumatic experience dealing with the recovery agency, and I was shocking to me. I have a friend who in past years had worked with this agency as someone who would as as a pilot would deliver Donated organs to where they were needed and and was just very much interested in the, in the, the mission and, and, and donated his airplane in his time, but he told me that there had been some abuses under
more recent administration and again, I I
it's, it's not appropriate on this floor to talk about that, but uh when I learned that, I understood exactly why Representative Brown made the effort to Come up with this
bill and I appreciate what Senator Irvin said that He worked with all parties to come up with something that's been pretty much agreed to. It protects the dignity of the donor and his wishes and also protects
the needs of the families. So with that, I'll do
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you have a, will you, are you open to question,
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Senator Johnson? I'll take a question from Senator Hammer Senator Hammer, uh, you recognized? I'm gonna ask you a question, but Senator Irving can answer it wouldn't you agree, and that is I heard the statement this is an agreed upon bill which the recovery agency, because I know there's been a lot of chatter on this one. I just, I just wanted that statement reaffirmed it was agreed upon bill, if you don't mind. I believe I heard that,
but I wanted people to understand that since, you know, my friend Senator Love had
opposition. I just want to clarify. In a vacuum, I'd probably feel the same way he does about everything, but since I know some of the details of it, I wanted to share that with the body to so y'all could know what was going on. So with that, you know, I'm through. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. All right. Anyone that want to speak against the bill? Anyone want to speak for the
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bill. Senator Irvin, are you closed or you want to say something? Yes, ma'am, you're just in response to Senator
Hammer's question, yes. In fact, hold on a second
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I'm sorry. We're in, we're in, do you want, do you want to speak for it? Are you
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OK with with holding up. Senator Clark, I didn't see you, so you're recognized to speak for. Is that correct? OK. Your, you're recognized, Mr.
Senator Alan Clark
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President, thank you. I'll be brief, members. I think I speak for almost everyone when I say I would never change uh the organ donor wishes of a loved one
unless something egregious was going on, uh, which they are no longer in a place to do anything about. Uh, I trust my family, uh, as an organ donor that they would not do anything to go against my wishes unless there was something egregious going on, but it's terrible that a family can do nothing when they find something egregious happening and that some organization has power over them and over their loved one's body. Uh, and it's, if, and if my family did mess up, it's not the worst thing
that's ever going to happen to me because I'm gone. OK.
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Anyone else since we did that, is there anyone wants to speak against the
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bill? For the bill. All right, now you're clothes, Senator Irvin. Thank you for that. Thank you,
and I really do appreciate all the testimony on it. Uh, it is an agreed to bill. In fact, this bill was on the calendar yesterday, and I agreed to amend it last night and this morning, and so I sent it back
to the committee this morning to amend it again uh to satisfy the concerns of Aurora, which is the recoverment organization, recovering organization to amend it for their requests, and so I've kind of jumped. a million hoops just to make sure everybody was good on the bill. So it is an agreed to bill. I think it's a very thoughtful, well-intentioned bill, um, and, uh, and I, I think I look forward to the partnership that we will have in
the reporting of what's happening uh what's happening, um, so that we can be better informed and make sure that we encourage more organ transplant, um, organ donations, and that's really a side effect of the bill, but I think that all parties agree to. So I appreciate that. It is an agreed to bill. I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you for speaking for it. All right, Senator Irvin is closed. There any objection to rolling
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the vote? row the boat. OK, members, does anyone want to change their votes. Senator love
is no. Senator Jamie Scott is present. Anyone else? Anyone else want
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to change their vote. Senator Dotson is present. Anyone else OK,
please cast up the ballot. OK, with 32 years, 1 nay,
um, to present, House Bill 1679 is passed. Please return to the
house as amended. OK, now we're gonna go to House Bill 1692
by Senator Petty. Senator Petty, let us read this. 1692 Brown Center Petty to amend the law concerning polygraph examiners and voice stress analysts, examiners, and to amend the law concerning private
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investigators and private security agencies. Patty. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, this is uh Bill around the
polygraph licensing law. It's a technical correction
on moral turpitude, which in 2019, the General Assembly passed 173102, which provides that licensing and licensing entity may not deny a license based on vague terms such as moral turpitude or good character and that's specific. from D says the last thing he did that he shall not as a basis upon which a license may be granted or denied. Use vague or generic terms, including without limitation, the phrases moral turpitude and
good character, so it's correcting that, it adds clarity that if you qualify for a private investigator license, and the results of your criminal background check, you can't then also become a an installer of a security system. It also removes the 30 day law enforcement waiting period for commission security licenses and lets them be issued electronically and then it requires by code and annual refresher training of commissioned security officers, which is
already required by rule. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. OK OK,
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anybody have any questions of Senator Petty on this? The sooner love, you're recognized.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Senator Petty, do you know what a crime of war interpretude is? I don't know what a crime
of moral turpitude is, this is not part of this bill. It's
eliminating the references to moral turpitude and
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good character, but it was
it says it's striking that then it's a crime involving moral turpitude, so
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I was just wondering if you knew what a crime of moral interpreitude was. I do
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not. This is an ASP approved legislative bill, but the, the
statute that's in place says that if you issue a license, you shall not use any
basis for denial using the terms good moral character or moral turpitude. So this is bringing it into alignment with that 2019 statute that was passed. OK, thank you. Any other questions for Senator Petty? All right. Does anyone want
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to speak against the bill, Senator Dodson, do you want to speak against the bill. You're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I feel like we're on
Senator Jim Dotson
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a merry go round, here we go again. I think this bill is a little bit more than a technical corrections
bill. This does actually something um The since 2019, we have been as a state on a uh a mission if you will, to get rid of good moral character in our code. Um, I find this extremely concerning. Um If you go back to the foundation of our nation, actually, the term good moral character is not something new. It's been around and a standard for centuries, um.
Go to our first president, one of his, his George Washington's quotes, a good moral character is the first essential in a man. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous. Um, in his farewell address of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion, and moral morality are indispensable supports. So Removal of morals is a destructive is destructive to
the country. Good morals are essential to political prosperity. Also, John Adams said our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. So, let's look at this bill and kind of what we're doing here. If you look at the things that are being removed, crime involving moral turpitude for a polygraph examiner license
applicant. Do you want somebody who doesn't have good moral character deciding whether or not you lied. On a polygraph. About removing
it for uh polygraph examiner license, a voice stress analysis examiner's license. Um, Seems like there was another one here. Oh, school security officer commissioned security
officer, do we want some people who don't have good moral character to uh to be our school security officers. Um, Private investigators. And private security agencies. I don't know. I, I think those, we want people with good moral character. To have those positions. So I want you to think about this before we cast this vote. It is current
law. Maybe we missed it or maybe that overall bill missed it a few years ago, but this, this bill takes it out as a standard, and it is something that has been a standard for hundreds of years, and we definitely, I know there's going to be, you know, that argument that says, oh, this is a subjective term. Well, can you tell me what someone who has bad moral character is, we can identify it pretty easily when someone has bad moral character.
Those people oftentimes commit crimes and that is part of the crimes against that we're we're taking away the, the, the, if they're convicted of moral turpitude. We're going to say, oh, that's OK, we're gonna license you anyway to be a school security officer with this bill. Anyway, think about that. OK, are you, are you, are you
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open for questions or what? Sure. All right. I believe
Senator Payton was first and then we'll have
Senator Mark Johnson. Senator Payton, you're recognized. All right, thank you, Senator Dodson, for pointing this out.
I, I tend to agree with you completely because I was on the Arkansas auctioneers licensing board in
the late 90s, early 2000s, and we actually denied a licensee based on this being in the Arkansas auctioneer licensing code. Uh, would you like to ask me later about the details on that? be happy to give them to you.
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Thank you, Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized for question. Thank
you, Mr. President. Senator Dodson, I also want to thank you for finding
this. I would have missed it if you hadn't, um, you know, we have a, a, a provision somewhere in the law that has been brought up before that people can be
r ineligible to to learn to to serve in a governmental office if they were convicted of an infamous crime. And, and a lot of people
thought, well, that means a felony, but it's been extended in some cases to things that would even be misdemeanors, and again, and I'm not passing judgment on that because I think in some cases that term may have been a m abused, but, but clearly, you know, moral turpitude is something that needs to be preserved in our our legal culture. So uh would you agree? Yes, and I would go and I'm sorry I didn't pull up the quote. I just found
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this and pulled up a few different quotes, but I believe in our US Constitution, one of the, one of the things that you can be impeached for is for bad behavior. And so I think in the past I've I've heard stories that we've had judges who have been impeached for for uh public intoxication because obviously if they were publicly intoxicated, they may not make the best judicial decisions when deciding people's futures.
And in cases. So I just want you all to think about this. I don't know how the vote will go, but before you vote on this, um, be aware of
this being stricken from our code, Senator, a quick follow up, Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Do you, do
you believe that our republic was designed to properly function only with a moral compass, our moral people. I believe I read that quote.
Senator Jim Dotson
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I think it was from John Adams that said it was wholly inadequate for any other people.
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Thank you. Thank you, Senator I appreciate a no vote on this
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bill. OK, Senator Brianne Davis is going to be recognized to speak for the bill. Thank you, Mr.
Senator Breanne Davis
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President. OK, you're recognized. Thank you. Uh, this term actually is in fact very subjective. There is no definition in code on good moral character. We had this debate at length in the 2021 session. If you say you cannot be hired because you don't have good moral character based on who, based on who thinks that, based on if you think that, or what my definition of good moral
character is. A crime of moral turpitude based on What you think that should be or what I think that should be. There is no definition in code of what this means. And we talked about it back in 2021. What about people that have committed a crime, that have committed a misdemeanor and they've completely gone through rehabilitation, they've been a good upstanding citizen for years. Well, you may think that does not constitute good moral character and can hold that against somebody because they
did something earlier in life and they've learned lessons and they've made their life right. But maybe if I'm the one deciding, maybe I think it's fine, it's so subjective, absolutely 100% based on the person who's doing the hiring or the choosing. This is crazy we should absolutely pass this bill because this is subjective and we are punishing people who have maybe made choices that I don't agree with or you don't agree with whoever's in charge
earlier in life, and we can choose to hold it against them because of what we think. Not because there's a definition in code, not because there's something to follow, but because it's just what we happen to think that day, and that is wrong. Thank you. OK, we've had
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a, we've had a against and a for. Anybody else for that? OK, Senator Petty, are you wanting to close? You recognize your clothes, sir. Thank you,
Mr. President. So just to one clarification to what Senator Dodson said when I
said technical clarification. It was only dealing with the moral turpitude section of this bill and uh just, just so in case nobody uh has has looked at it recently, uh, what this does leave in there in the licensing is if you're convicted of a felony, a Class A misdemeanor or any crime involving violence. You are excluded. It just doesn't have the, the subjectivity of moral turpitude
or good character, ah, which we all agree is important, but when we're talking about the law, clarity in the law is what we want to have. So with that, I'm closed and I would appreciate a good vote. OK, Petty is closed.
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Any objection to rolling the vote? OK, we have an objection to rolling the vote. A OK, I'm
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sorry. OK. Please call the rod. Boyd. Bryant?
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Bryant Caldwell Caldwell Clark Clark Pro.
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Pennzo Petty. Rice Rice Scott Scott Stone. Stubblefield. Stubblefield. Sullivan. Sullivan Tucker. I Wallace Wallace. OK, Dean. Senator Wallace is a yes. Walla Wallace is a
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any any other members wish to change their
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vote. Senator D's is present. In stubblefield is yes. Senator
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Blake Johnson is yes. Senator Boyd is yes. Senator Love is yes. Senator Jamie Scott is yes. Senator dismaying is yes. Senator Flowers is a yes. Send her Penzo is a no.
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Senator Cawell is a yes. Senator Hester is a yes. Anyone
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else? Anyone else want to change their vote? OK, cast
up the ballot. OK, with 23, 5 nays, 6 non-voting, 1 present,
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House Bill 1692 is passed. Please return to the house. 20 minutes. I'm
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back. All right. OK, Senator Crowe, if you don't
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mind, members, we've uh got some lunch back there. I'm gonna
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say that we're gonna take Maybe up to 20 minutes. So it's eat fast we've got a this calendar plus another calendar and of course we need to get through as much as we can. So if everybody will cause
our staff needs to eat too. Yes. Senator Dodson, do you have a question, sir? Go ahead and then we're gonna go into recess. Do we,
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do we think we might see that supplemental
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calendar at the end of this one. So, so we're not going to get any advance notice of what's
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on it. We're sliding to it. It, it, it's being, that's the reason it's
supplemental is because it's being added to is this thing you're coming through and we're reading across the desk, so. I guess it's that time of the session, so as soon as we can, Senator Dodson. OK. We a
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commerce. You have anything else to worry about? OK Oh,
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Thank Right back to back. it. That's OK. We've got
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everything ready. You ready? Can we go into recess in or OK, members, we're gonna go into recess or probably just gonna try to
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say 7:30. So again, give everybody a time to get a little bit bite to eat and let our staff have a little bit of a break also, so we're in recess.
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All right, we're back in from a recess. Wereit
on an Insurance of commerce who was first Senate Bill 639 by Central Caldwell recommend Du pass. Calendar. All right, members,
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we're at the top of page 6. We are
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on House Bill 1695. That's where we'll start. House
was 1695 by Centra Crowell to clarify the foreclosure process for property subject to a municipal
lien to allow a municipality to petition to set aside the sale of property to certain persons and to provide for the priority of unrecorded municipal lanes. You recognize Senator Crow. Thank you, Senator. Colleagues, this
is to help cities and towns address neglected and abandoned properties. There are existing laws for the cities to place liens and properties and recover costs when they clean up these
properties and um this enhances and clarifies this process by making a handful of impactful changes. Um, what it will do is it'll help cities get abandoned, dilapidated properties ready to help for community economic development, affordable housing, and overall community health. This does not reinvent the wheel. There are substantial changes, however, it just clarifies the legal process to collect funds that were spent
cleaning up and the most fundamental changes in creating the foreclosure procedure, foreclosure is not a new, it is currently allowed. It is not a new process. This just establishes a clear and concise process. We have worked with the city clerks, the land commissioners, the bankers, and the titles and, you know, Senator. Vicky spent a lot of time this weekend. We've had many amendments, and this is a good bill. OK, do, does anybody have any
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questions, Senator Bryant, you're recognized for the
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question. Thank you, Senator. Can you, can you clarify the
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process by which a landowner has the right to appeal prior to demolition. The, so and I,
I don't know the exact, but I know the, the roundabout way. The process is you have
to send send certified letters, get it signed, have a hearing in front of the uh city council, have your day there. But, but I mean, it's, it's a long process from the beginning
of the finding the dilapidated process till the the time they meet the city council, it's 120 days that they have 3. Any other questions to Senator Crow? Senator Payton, you recognize,
sir. Thank you. As you know, we've had a lot of tornado damage recently. Is there any provisions for like a disaster that may have damaged their house and everything. I, I'd hate for them to lose their lot. After already losing everything.
And I don't know if there's any provisions, but the intent of the law is for this law is just to simply help with the ones that are truly dilapidated. The people may live in Arizona. I didn't even know they got it, just a better communication system to do that. I'm pretty sure
cities are not going to do that when, you know, there was a tragedy. OK, thank you. Senator McKee, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President.
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Is there a time frame that the property has to sit vacant or be
in a condition that the city has determined it should be. Um, torn
down. No, there's, there is guidelines on how they, how they are um judged and how they are made. In this bill and how they're recognized. Thank you. OK, does anyone want to speak for the bill, against the bill, Senator
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Crow is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote.
OK, we've got it on the screen. Is anyone, everybody look at it and tell
me if you want to change your vote. I've got Senator Dodson as a no. I got Senator McKee is present. I got Senator Bryant as present. Senator Penzo is present. Senator King's
Senator Jane English
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non-voting. OK, madam Secretary, please cast up the ballot.
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OK, with 30 days, 1 nay, one non-voting, 3 present. House Bill 1695 is passed. Please
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return to the house as amended. OK, now we're on the House Bill 1712. 1712 by
Senator Scott and Representative Carr to establish the social work licenser compact in this state. OK, Senator Scott, you're recognized.
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Thank you, Mr. President. House Bill
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1712 seeks to provide social work licensees with opportunities for multi-state
practice supporting relocating practitioners, military families, foster workforce development by reducing unnecessary licensure burns from a regulatory perspective, the compact provides the authority of each member of the state to protect public health and safety through existing state regulatory structures. The Arkansas Social Work certification and licensure Board would have jurisdiction over anyone practicing in Arkansas under the multi-state license. This bill will help us address the mental health desert
in Arkansas and ALC will also have oversight and improve all promulgated rules. Happy to answer any questions. And Arkansas does have a seat
on the board and if somebody is kicked off the board, Arkansas can replace that person with someone from Arkansas. Any questions of
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Senator Scott. Obviously, she's not taking any, um, anyone, anyone want
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to speak against the bill. Anyone want to
speak for the bill, Senator Scott is
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closed. Any objection to rolling the vote. OK, members, if you'll look
at the board. OK, does anyone want to change their vote?
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Senator McKee is a no. Senator Dodson is present. Senator Sullivan is present. Senator Payton is present. Senator Bryant is a no. Anyone else
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Anyone else? OK, cast up the ballot with 30, 2 nays, 3 present, House Bill 1712 is passed. Please return to the house. We're now going to House Bill 1717 by Senator Boyd. OK. How was
1717 by Senator Boy to create the Arkansas Children and teens online privacy Protection Act. All right, Senator, boy, you recognize, sir. Thank you,
Senator Justin Boyd
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Mr. Chair. This legislation is modeled off a proposed federal legislation. It's an effort
to protect our miners' data. We have so organizations such as Google, Meta X, telecommunications, gaming companies, and other entities in this space have come together and we've arrived at some agreed upon language. That is here today, uh, this bill does a few things. It is unlawful for an operator of a website online service, online application or mobile application directed at children or teens or for any operator to collect, use, disclose or
maintain information for targeted advertising for minors and utilize that information to target a minor for specific advertising. It does offer the operators must obtain consent to collect information, you know, pressing yes, I'm OK with data being collected, uh, not require a child to disclose more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in a game offering or in another activity. OK, any questions for Senator Boyd?
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Anyone want to speak against this bill. Anyone who wants to speak for this bill? Are you closed, Senator Boyd? I'm closed. Any objection to
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rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. Members look at the board. Anyone want to change their vote? I see Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else?
Anyone else? Please cast up the ballot. With 34, 0 nay, 1 non-voting House Bill 1717 is past, he
returned to the house as amended. All right, we're going to go to
House Bill 1729. In just a moment, or 1729 Leslie. House Bill
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1729 by Representative Burks and Senator Bryant to amend the Homestead exemption Act and to provide that a homestead owned by a limited liability company is eligible for the Homestead exemption in certain circumstances. You're Senator Bryant. Thank you, Mr.
Senator Joshua Bryant
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President, members, 2 years ago, we passed a bill where we gave LLCs the benefit of the homestead tax credits. However,
we did not give them the homestead. Exemption is provided by law from 1981. So what this bill does is those same exemptions for homesteads for civil judgment, civil liabilities that are in statute. If you own an LLC meeting those same definitions as what's in the homestead exemption Act, you will also get the homestead exemption. OK, any questions of Senator
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Bryant and Senator Payton, sorry, Senator King, I think you were first. You recognized.
Senator Bryan King
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So give me this, these people have had judgments against them. Right. The only, the only people they've had, they've had judgments against them or something.
Senator Joshua Bryant
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Can you explain that a little bit more? Yeah, so the Homestead exemption Act in 1981 allows for special provisions for homeowners for the that home to be protected inside of their assets during civil prosecution or civil judgments. So whenever we added in an LLC you can get the special tax provisions, and so you put it in there to shield yourself from other things to
LLC provides, it did not necessarily shield you from the exemption. Even if you were the actual owner as man and wife or owner as joint or as a head of household as defined in a homestead exemption Act.
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Or do you know a specific cases where this has happened, and it's been something
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that's a Like a dartboard where it's hit a few people or something or you don't know if it's I don't know. We just passed
Senator Joshua Bryant
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for LLCs can get the tax credits, uh, last session, so this just mirrors that if you own that LLC the same way you'd own your home to
get the homestead uh tax credit, those would mirror. OK, is there any state impact
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that we know or anything? None that we know of. OK, I'm just
Senator Payton, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. So is there any, are you sure that we haven't created a situation here where somebody could claim the homestead tax credit
on two separate properties. On the tax credit, we did that
Senator Joshua Bryant
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2 years ago and to my knowledge there's no,
that's not occurring. I mean, if you, if
you own two properties and you tried to claim it and you got caught, you'd have civil liabilities and penalties, but it'd be the same if you owned it as an LLC as an individual, but that's not this. This is the exemption. I'm
just curious because you wouldn't own to the
LLC would own one. And there's a section of part 2 here that only one member, if they're married, so I mean, the spouse could own a property. But the one member of the LLC could own a separate property, it
seems like they might could work it out to get the exemption
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twice for the tax credit that we passed 2 years ago, that may be, this applies the same rules of the exemption, which means shielding from civil judgments to match that. Any other questions I'm Bryant
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on this. Anyone want to speak against it, and will speak for it, Senator Brian's closed. Any objection to
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rolling the vote? Please roll the vote right members, making sure everybody's watching the board. Do you want to change your vote?
I have Senator Flowers as president. Anyone else? I have Senator King
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is non-voting. Anyone else? All right, please cast up
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the ballot. OK, with 33A, 0 nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1729 is passed. Please return to the house. Alright, House Bill 1734 by Senator Hammer.
was 1734 by Senator Hammer to amend the law concerning death
certificates and to clarify the medical professionals who may sign a medical certificate of death and pronounced death of a patient. You're recognize Hammer. Thank
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you. What this bill does is it's permissive and that allows an advanced practice registered nurse to complete and sign a medical certificate of death pronounced. It does not take the place of the physician, nor does it take place of the emergency department physician. It just creates that. in the event that they are not
available, so that the pronouncement can occur. I'll be glad to answer any questions. Any
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questions of Hammer? Anyone want to speak against it? Anyone want to speak
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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for it. Senator Hammer, you closed.
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Any objection to rolling the vote. Please roll the vote. Members watch the board. Anyone want to change their vote? I see Senator Ervin
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is a no. I see Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else. Anyone else?
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All right, please cast up the ballot. OK, with 33A, 1 nay, one non-voting House Bill 17, excuse me, 7 1734. I'm
sorry, members. House Bill 1734 is passed. Please return to the
House as amended. Next, we're gonna do House Bill 1749. 1749 by Senators to adopt the
uniformed trust to Caning Act. But Senator Des you recognized. Thank you, Mr. President.
Senator Tyler Dees
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1749 is an act to adopt the uniform
Trust to Canting Act. Uh, this, uh, this has to do with Arkansas code title 28 in subchapter 78 has to do with uh the um issues around the caning um trusts Act about power of appointment, authorized fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and had no opposition. Members appreciate a good vote. Anyone, anyone have any questions for Senator Des? Senator Mark Johnson,
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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are you, are you, do you want to take
questions, Senator, Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized for a
question. So, I looked up the word decanting. It says, To draw off a liquid without disturbing the sediment or lower liquid layers, and then it says to liquid such as wine from one vessel to the other, and then it says to put out transfer or unload as if by pouring, and that's the only Merriam Webster definitions I could find. Can
you explain this just a little more clearly. This is
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to adopt the uniform Trust to Canting Act, and it's it's updating chapter 78 of Code Title 28. I'm sorry I asked. Thank you for your question. You're welcome. OK, senators, uh, is anyone want to speak against
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this bill? Anyone want to speak for this bill. Any objection
to rolling the vote, Please roll the vote.
Members watched the board. Do you want to change your vote?
Senator Alan Clark is present. Anyone else
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want to change their vote? Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else want to
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change their vote? OK, Madam Secretary, please cast up the ballot. OK, with a vote of 33 e, zero nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1749 is Pa, Passed. Please return to the
house. OK, we're now gonna go to House Bill 1751. Senator Bryant's bill for 1751.
By Senator Brant and Representative Underwood to require an applicant for temporary assistance for needy
families program benefits to engage in job search activities while the application
is being processed. OK, Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, this
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bill requires job ready applicants for the
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cash welfare program or TANF to begin searching for their job while their application is being processed,
instead of waiting for the process to happen and then starting to work for the job, look for the job over a dozen states currently do this, including Mississippi, Missouri, around us. It ensures that every individual who enters the workforce increases their earning potential and improves the efficiency and saving taxpayer money. With that'd be glad to
take any questions. Any questions for Senator Bryant? Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone
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want to speak for this bill, Senator Brian is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote. Madam Secretary, please roll the
vote. Members watch the board. All right, anyone want change? We've got send her flowers
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as present. OK, I've got Senator Jamie Scott is a no. I've got Siner love as a no. I've got Senator Clark Tucker as a no. I've got Senator Leding as a no. I've got Senator Murdoch as a no. Anyone else Senator Brian King is non-voting. Anyone else. OK, please cast up the ballot.
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OK, with a vote of 28, 28 ya, 5 nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1751 is passed. Please return to the house. Next one is
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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going to be 1752 by Senator Boyd. House
for 1752 by Senator Boyden Representative Mattox to exempt certain savings plan from the execution of a judgment. You're
Senator Boyd. Thank you, Mr. President. House Bill
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1752. This bill makes it clear that certain qualified savings plans are exempt from the execution of a judgment. These plans are an
inherited IRA, a health savings account of 529 plan in a Coverdale education savings account. OK, is there
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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any questions, uh, Senator Payton, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Let's talk
about what a judgment is. I mean, judgment is because somebody has been defrauded, and they went to court and proved their case and received a judgment for restitution for whatever happened. Why shouldn't
they be entitled to take the assets of the person who did the defrauding. So for instance in
Senator Justin Boyd
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the case of the IRA, this expands the list that's already there. This is so this is expanding on what's already in law. These were not created back when this law was. first put into place, uh, but these are accounts in which federal income tax is not been paid and so you're in partnership with the federal government.
I'm not sure I'm for expanding it, but I appreciate the explanation. Thank you. Thank you for
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the question. Any other questions in regards to this bill? Any anyone wants to
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speak against this bill. Anyone want to speak for this bill? Senator Penzo, are you trying to speak, oh, I'm sorry. OK. You close, Senator Boyd. OK, Senator Boyd is closed. Is there any objection to rolling the vote? Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. All right, members, the board's up. If you want to change your
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vote, let me know. I have have sinned or Hill is no. I have Senator as no, I have Senator Caldwell as you know, I have single stubble field as no, I have cinders Sullivan as no, I have Senator Brian King as non-voting. I have Senator Hickey as no, I have Senator Murdoch as no. I have Senator Clark Tucker as no. I got Senator Hammer as
president. I got Senator McKee as a no. I got Senator Alan Clark as a no. I've got Senator Blake Johnson as president. I've got Senator Crow as a no. I got Senator Flippo as a no. I got Senator
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Brian Davis as a no. Uh, members, we went, our staff trying to
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keep up with me doing that, so you check the board to
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make sure we're correct. Anyone else? Senator Ervin is a no.
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Anyone else. Last time anyone else. All right, cast up the
ballot. OK, with the 18 years, 14 days, 1 non-voting, 2 present. House Bill 1752 is passed. Please return to
the house. OK, we're now going to go to House
Bill 1758 by Cinder Hill. 1758 by Central Hill to amend the law concerning hearing instrument dispensers, and to amend the definition of practice of dispensing hearing instruments. Senor Hill, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. All
this bill does, we ran a bill earlier in the session on audio devices. This just allows you to get your magic ear or miracle E or any of those types you want to online. They feel like that when we ran the bill the other day that makes it where that's
not legal. OK, any questions for Senator Hill? Senator Gilmore,
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you're recognized, sir. Sit here, how did you hear about this bill? I can't hear you. Senator Blake Johnson, you got
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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a legitimate question, or you, uh, let's move on. All right, does anyone want
to speak against this bill? You want to speak? OK. Anyone want to speak for this bill or against this bill?
Any objection to rolling the vote? Well, Senate, Senator Hill, you're closed, obviously. Any objection to rolling the vote. OK, please
roll the vote. It's on the screen as any member wants to change their vote. Anyone want to change their vote. Please cast up the ballot
with 35, 0, nay, House Bill 1758 is passed. Please return to the house.
OK, we have a motion by Senator Clark Tucker.
Senator Clarke Tucker
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Thank you Mr. Chair, member as you all may recall last night, there's a bill I just need to be recorded no on. I was out of the chamber when the bill was heard. The vote got rolled. Senator Caldwell's bill, he's been very gracious about it. We're just going to, if, if you agree, expunge the vote and revote the bill, roll the vote again. I just need to be a recorded no on it. So with that, I moved to expunge the vote on Senate Bill
6629, of which it passed. OK, members, you hear what you
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have what we have, we have a motion to expunge the vote on Senate Bill 629, all in favor say aye.
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Any pose? OK, that motion is gonna carry. Now, Senator Caldwell, are you going to come down and Represented. It's not on the calendar, I don't
guess, but I guess it's the Senate and we're just going to make it work unless somebody
objects. 6:29 by Central Caldwell to allow an officer of a closely held corporation to represent the corporation in court for the purpose of eviction proceedings and an unlawful detainer proceedings. OK, Senator Caldwell, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr.
President. Again, this bill allows an individual to represent themselves in, in uh uh mic court to exact an eviction, if you have an LLC or or an escort, uh, or a small C4P would allow you to do that, Senator. Uh did not want his vote recorded and he was not here, so I, I told him we would recall it and voted again. It passed pretty much unanimously last night. I'd asked for a good vote.
voting this. OK. All right, I didn't see it on the screen. OK, members, any,
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any questions again, we've already done this, you've heard
the explanation, but anyone want to speak for the bill? Anyone wants to speak against the bill, Senator Caldwell is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote. OK, let's roll the
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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boat. OK, members, this is the board. You've heard the explanation. We're revoting this. Does anyone want to change their vote? Senator Clark Tucker is a no.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone else. Sender Flowers was present on
that. We're gonna leave her where she is. Is that right, center letting? OK, send her flowers are gonna be present. Senator Brian King is going to be non-voting. Anyone else? OK, let's cast up the ballot.
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OK, by a vote of 32 years, 1 nay, one non-voting. One present Senate Bill 629 is passed. We've already done it to the House. Do we need to transmit it? All right, we're going to transmit this to the house. OK, we got that done. Now I'm not
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sure where we were. Senator Bryant OK, Senator Bryant is, we're going to do House Bill 1763.
As for 1763, I sent a branch
to amend the Human Trafficking Act of 2013 and to create the offense of unlawful use of
a comm communication device during the commission of a human trafficking offense. Senator Bryant, you're you, Mr. President, members,
Senator Joshua Bryant
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this bill criminalizes the use of a communications device to facilitate the sale of a human being. We do the same thing for facilitation of sale of narcotics in Chapter 64 mirrors that language. Ready for any questions.
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Any questions for Senator Bryant on this one. OK. Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone wants to speak for this bill. Senator Bryan is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, please roll the vote. Members is up
on the board. Uh, let me know if you want to change your vote, Senator Flowers is going to be no. Anyone else, anyone else. OK, please cast up the ballot.
OK, with 34 ye, 1 nay, House Bill 1763 is passed.
employees transmit to the house. No, please return to the house. OK, members, we're gonna go to House Bill 1777 by Senator
Gilmore. 1777 by Gilmore to amend
the law concerning offensive sexually grooming a child and to include bribing or attempting to bribe a child in
the offense is sexually grooming a child. Senator Gilmore, you recognize, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.
Members House Bill 1777 is a bill that adds the definition of bribe
to the sexual grooming statute, this is part of the prosecutor package. One of the things that I've seen a lot of in in with the grooming of children, it can be a lot of things and in particular case that was brought out was uh use, use of gifts and things like video games or purchasing video games or purchasing credits for video games, things of that nature, uh, and so we're just adding definition of a bribe to the sexual grooming statute, happy to take questions. Any questions, Senator Gilmore on
this one. Anyone want to speak against this
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bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill, Senator Gilmore, are you closed? Close, Senator Gilmore, closed. Any objection to
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rolling the vote? OK, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Members, it is now on the screen. Let me know if you want to change your
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vote. Anyone want to change their vote. OK the ballot OK, with a vote of 35, yes, zero
nays, House Bill 1777 is passed, Please return to the house as amended. OK, now
we're going to go to House Bill 1778.8 Gilmore to him in the lock
concerning the criminal offense of stalking to include placing a person in fear of sexual acts and to amend the definition of course of conduct with respect to so. Senator Gilmore, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President, members again
part of the prosecutor package. This bill just amends the stalking statute
in the 2nd degree to include Cor of conduct for uh threats made of Um, intimidation or imminent, uh, sexual deviant activity or intercourse, basically the threat of uh doing sexual unwanted sexual activity against a person again, I think it just makes sense. One of the things that happened was the use of text messages, uh, repeatedly to a person. So again, it's just part of the course of conduct. All the other stalking provisions have to apply in this case, and it has to be a pattern
of behavior. Happy to take questions. Any questions of Senator Gilmore on this bill. Anyone want to speak
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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against this bill. Anyone want to speak for this bill. Are you closed, Senator Gilmore. Senator Gilmore is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll
the vote, Madam Secretary. Members watch the screen, it's on the screen. Does anyone wish to have their vote changed. Anyone want their vote changed on this.
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Please cast up the ballot. With a vote of 35, 0 nays. House
Bill 1778 is passed. Please return to the
house as amended. OK, now we're gonna go to House Bill 1779 by Senator Gilmore. 1779,
my Centric Gilmore, to amend the law related to
theft of property and enhanced the offense classification for the theft of a postal package delivered to a person's residence and left within the cartilage of the res. Senator Gilmore, you're Thank you, members, this
just is amending language to make it a
classy felony for um basically porch piracy what we're seeing organized a lot of organized activity related to stealing uh packages off people's porches, um, a lot of this is done sometimes in a violent nature, they're also hijacking, um, notifications for packages being delivered and, and what I would add to this is With that, there's you're violating property, you're violating people's personal property rights and your
encroaching on, uh, basically the sanctity of their home. Um, so it amends to make it a class C felony, which is 3 to 10 years, and then the NCOA defenses with that, which are an attempt, conspiracy or solicitation, a Class D, which is 0 to 6 years, have you to take questions. Any questions that Senator Gilmore on this bill. Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized. Senator
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Gilmore says postal, but that would include courier services as well. OK, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Johnson. Any other questions in regards to this?
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Any other questions? Anyone wants to speak against this bill? Anyone wants to speak for this bill? Are you closed, Senator? I'm closed. Thank you. All
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right, he's closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. OK, members, it's on the board. If you would, uh, please let me know if you want
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to change your vote. I see Senator Clark Tucker is a no. I see Senator Flowers is a no. I see cinder letting is a no. I see Senator Love as a no. I
see Senator Jamie Scott as a no. I see, uh, Senator Murdoch as a no. Anyone else? Anyone else
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wish to change their vote. OK, let's cast up the ballot. OK, we were 29, 6 nays. House Bill 1779
is passed. Please return to the house as amended. OK, now we're
gonna go to House Bill 1780, Senator Gilmore,
you're still up 17 to 80% Gilmore to in the law concerning retention of property related to a felony investigation. You're recognized Senator Gilmore. Thank you,
Mr. President, members, I think this is a really good bill. Again, part of the
prosecutor packages, but the sheriffs support it as well. Basically this just allows for the
return of personal property um that is, that is no longer needed after a case. There was some issues, maybe the law wasn't clear enough as to whether or not That could be returned when the case was finished and the evidence was no longer needed.
This just clarifies that so that that that property can be returned, happy to take questions. Any questions to Senator Gilmore. Anyone want to
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speak against this bill? Anyone want to speak for this bill, Senator Gilmore is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Members look at the board and let
me know if you want to change your vote. Anyone want to change their vote. Anyone want to
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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change their vote. OK, please cast up the
ballot. 35, 0 nays. House Bill 1780 is passed. Please return to the house.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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We're now going to House Bill 1782 by Senator Scott.
Has 1782 by Sandra Scott to prohibit over the counter diet pills from being
sold, transferred, or otherwise furnished to a person who is under 18 years of age.
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Senator Scott, ma'am, you're arrested, you're recognized. Thank
Senator Jamie Scott
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you, Mr. President. President House Bill 1782, um, addresses uh
Public health concern, the increasing misuse of diet pills amongst teenagers and that could possibly cause a serious health risks in the future. Studies show that young people, particularly young girls or teenage girls. are at a high risk of developing unhealthy relationships with food and body image. Diet pills often marketed as quick solutions for weight loss are widely accessible without prescription. How many, however, many of these products lead to
laxatives and they, they are, they include stimulants and laxatives and ingredients that can cause high blood pressure, liver damage within these young girls, increase anxiety and depression and eating disorders. What House Bill 1782 does. The legislation is straightforward and it aligns with existing consumer protections that we already have for minors in the state of Arkansas. It prohibits the sale and distribution and transfer of over the counter diet pills to anyone who is under the age of 18. Uh, it requires retailers to
verify the age of purchasers through identification checks. It imposes penalties on realtors who violate who violate the law, um, and also escalate the consequences for repeat offenders. It also ensure public health awareness for retailers, notification and educating on the dangers of these products for our miners. This bill does not prohibit the use of medically prescribed weight loss management treatment under the supervision of a health care provider, it's specifically targets the
unregulated and often misleading products that pose a risk to our youth. And with that I would be happy to answer any questions, any questions for
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Senator Scott on this bill. Senator Clark, you recognized, sir?
Senator Alan Clark
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So We continually have These type of things with adolescent girls. It's uh this is
a new fad. Similar to we had anorexia,
bulimia. We had cutting etc. So it is your belief that when we have one of these spads like this among adolescent girls where it hurts them, that we should intervene. I do. I do feel
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like we should try to do whatever we can to put measures in place to, to help them be safer until they can make decisions or get something medically prescribed if they really need it. Um, there's a lot of peer pressure, um, a lot of wanting to feel like you're included in our, our young kids are under a lot of pressure these days and so I think anything that we can do might
help them um with their body image and just learning to love themselves and um. Get out there and get active and let's try to work with them to lose weight the right way. I was someone who struggled with weight issues growing up, um, still as an adult, I'm still trying to manage and eat healthy. Sometimes I don't always do that here, but if we can do things to help protect these young girls until they're of age to kind of make some of those decisions. I think it's in the best interests. Thank you Boyd, you have a question, sir?
Senator Justin Boyd
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You're recognized. Thank you. Senator Scott, how, how are the retailers going to know? That this otherwise over the counter medication is, and now it's gonna be in essence a crime to sell it. Um, what she told me is they're supposed to do identification
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checks when this is implemented, how, how are we how are we going
Senator Justin Boyd
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to communicate to retailers so that they know when they don't wind up in a game of gotcha with the Department of Health. You see what I'm asking? Oh, I do. I don't know, but can I commit
Senator Jamie Scott
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that I'll work with Senator, I mean with Representative Hudson to make sure we get whatever in place so that retailers aren't just out there by themselves trying to figure it out. Is that OK, Senator Boyd? OK. OK, any
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other question, Senator Sullivan? You're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Senator Dan Sullivan
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So is there an appeal process for this, so we're going to give a department the opportunity, the authority to make a $2000 fine and you can't appeal it.
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It's not in the bill That I'm not sure about.
Senator Jamie Scott
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I just know that she did tell me there was escalating consequences for repeat offenders, so, um, I, I'm not sure. I'm sorry, Mr. Sullivan. Thank you.
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Any other questions? Any other questions on this bill?
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Anyone want to speak against this bill. Anyone want to speak for this bill?
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Senator OK, what do we, who, who's against? Is somebody against?
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Senator Sullivan, you're against Senator Irvin, are you for? All right, Senator Sullivan, you're gonna be first. You're recognized. Thank you, members. We keep multiple
Senator Dan Sullivan
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times giving state agencies, the authority to find $2000 and you get no chance to appeal. Thank you. Yes, sir. Senator Ervin, you're recognized to speak for the bill.
Just want to say uh this came through our public health committee and the Department of Health didn't have any problems with it, and I'm going to vote for the bill. I think it's a good step and a measure just to ensure like we're just going to check your ID and these products are probably more harmful than tobacco products, in my opinion. So, uh, just wanted to give the information. It came through public health Department of Health. It's fine, fine with it. Nobody testified against the bill. So I would appreciate a good
vote. I think what she's doing is a good measure and a good step, and and and these products can be pretty dangerous for for particularly young women, but also young
men. Thank you. OK, Senator Scott, are you closed or
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do you want to close or I'm sorry, are you wanting to speak? OK.
OK, Senator Scott, you're recognized close thank you, Mr. President. um, with that,
Senator Jamie Scott
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I asked for a good vote, um, and
Senator Sullivan, I do not know, but you know I'm still learning everything. Someone did tell me that there is always an appeal process, but I will make sure that I work with the DHS on that as well. I promise. I
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give you my word. OK, and I'm close. Senator Scott is closed, um. Is there any objection
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to rolling the vote, OK, please roll the vote. OK, members.
It's on the screen, so if you want to change your vote, let me know at this time. Senator Brian is a no. Senator Dodson is a no. Senator Boyd is a no. Senator Sullivan is a no. Senator Stubblefield's a no, Senator Rice is present. Senator Flippo is present. Senator Caldwell is present. Senator Blake Johnson is present. Senator Hammer is present.
Anyone else? Anyone else want
to do anything? Anybody else want to change their vote? OK, please cast up the ballot for a vote of 25 years, 5 nays, 5 present, House Bill 1782 uh passes, please return to the
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house. OK, we're now on 1796, uh, Senator Blake Johnson 1796 by
Senator Blake Johnson to require the display of gender
information on an Arkansas driver's license or identification card. You're recognized Senator Johnson.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Thank you, sir. This bill, there will be To
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Genders on Arkansas driver's license. It'll be male and female in the procedure is here in here in OK, any questions for Senator Johnson? OK, anyone
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone want to speak for the bill.
Are you closed, Senator Johnson? OK, is there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, please
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roll the vote. OK, members, it's on the board. Let me know if you want to change, change your vote. OK, send
her flowers is present, center letting is no. Send her love is no. Senator Clark Tucker is no. Senator Jamie Scott is a no.
Senator Love, we've got him. Senator Murdoch is a no. Anyone else Everybody
checked the board. OK, please cast up the ballot. OK, with a vote of 29 ya,
5 nays, 1 present, House Bill 1796 passes, please return to the house. You want to be recognized for emotion. Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Tucker. OK, House Bill 1799.
As for 1799 by Senator Tucker Tubman, the permissible methods of reporting under the child maltreatment Act. OK, Senator Tucker, you recognized, sir. Thank
Senator Clarke Tucker
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you, Mr. President. I was on the phone recently and someone asked me for my fax number and I said, We don't have that where we are, and they said, Where are you? And I said, 2025. No. Yeah It's in the code that you can report child maltreatment through facsimile. They ain't got no fax machine in that, so this is just removing facsimile from the code. That's all it's
do. Appreciate it. All right, any questions for
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Senator Tucker? Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone wants to speak for this bill. Senator Tucker is closed, obviously, uh, any objection to rolling the vote, please roll the vote. Members check the board. Anyone want to change their vote? Anyone want to change
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their vote, Please cast. the ballot with a vote of 35 e, zero nays, House Bill 1799 is passed. Please return to the house. We're now going to go to
uh House Bill 1810. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you this, members that this, this one will require a vote of 24
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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votes for passage by Senator English. How about 1810 central English to amend provisions of the
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Arkansas Code concerning the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf and declare an emergency. Senator English, ma'am, you're
recognized. Thank you very much. Well, as
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this uh. The beginnings of a beautiful
new um school for the deaf and the blind up here on Markham Street. Beautiful property, and if anybody had ever been to it, which a lot of us went through it, realized it was a really rundown bad place for all of our kids. We are going to have a new facility with the deaf and the blind is going to be fantastic. We've all supported it, and it will provide the kinds of education, but our kids need those children need. And that kind of a situation. So this legislation basically
reorganizes excuse me, the board, and the organizational structure of the school for the deaf and the blind. OK, is there any questions for Senator English? Anyone want to
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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speak against this? Anyone want to speak for this. Your clothes in English. I'm
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closed. OK. Any objection to rolling the vote? OK, please roll the vote. Members look at the board and let me know if you want to
change your vote. Anybody want to change their vote.
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OK, I see Senator Clark Tucker is a no. Anybody else want
to change their vote? OK, please cast up the ballot. OK, by a vote of 34 ye, one
nays, House Bill 1810 and its corresponding emergency clause. is passed, please uh return to the house as amended. OK, we're now we go to House Bill 1815 by Senator Wallace.
115. By Senator Wallace. OK, it looks like Senator Tucker
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Tucker to amend the state's jurisdiction
over federal lands and to retain juvenile justice jurisdiction by the state. All right, Senator. You're, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Anytime
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you have federal property in a state, there can be some gaps in the law
in terms of the criminal jurisdiction, and there's concurrent jurisdiction on adult law. There's, there's really an
ambiguity in the law in juvenile jurisdiction in criminal law with federal lands in state law, you know, Little Rock Air Force Base is a good example of this, but the DOD liaison for Arkansas has worked with the Attorney General in this bill for a couple of years to close that gap, clear up the ambiguity, make sure if there's a crime involving a juvenile with the juvenile victim on federal military property in Arkansas that they can transfer that jurisdiction to Arkansas State court, and the crime can be appropriately prosecuted. There's no known opposition to the bill. Appreciate a good vote. Any
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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anybody have any questions for Senator Tucker?
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone want to speak against this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill? Any objection to rolling the vote. Please roll the vote. Members, anyone want to
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change their vote? Anyone want to change their vote. Please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 35, 0 nays, House Bill 1815 is passed, please return to the house. We're now
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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gonna go to House Bill 1824 by Senator Clark. Hasville,
1824 by Senator Clark to create the dog. Like cats cut off. Create
the dog and can't rescue Act, Daisy's Law. Senator Clark you recognize, sir. Thank you. uh, Mr. President, thank you,
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members of the committee. Uh, what this bill does is right now law enforcement, if they get a complaint on dogs and cats, and this is only dogs and cats.
If they get a complaint on dogs and cats right now they can only take the dog
or cat or multiples if they arrest the person or if they have a warrant. This allows them to not arrest the person, but that the dog or cat is obviously neglected and they, they can take it until
A court hearing. I'd be glad to take any questions. Senator recognize sir? Thank you, Mr. President.
So is there any other situation where they can take a person's personal property without an arrest or conviction, I mean. Dogs and cats are personal property. They are. Would this not set a precedent where they could seize personal property without due process. The I think it
Senator Alan Clark
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possibly sets a precedent. The difference, of course, is it's, it's not a cowboy hat. Uh, it's a living
being that and again it's got to have been being neglected and for this
comes from a prosecutor of whoever's there, it's
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been neglected this bill comes from a prosecutor in Johnson County where they've had problems where dogs and cats should have been
Senator Alan Clark
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removed, uh, but weren't, uh, and would have died in a few days.
Otherwise. So I, I, I'm very aware of several
situations where the dogs and cats were removed successfully without the passage of this bill, but this bill
Senator Alan Clark
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I It's not. I understand your objections, but it is temporary until a court hearing. Thank you. Any, any
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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other questions to Senator Clark on this bill? Anyone want to speak against this
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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bill. Anyone else, OK, Senator Payton's gonna speak against the bill. Senator Payton, when you
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get there, you'll be recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. And,
and thank you, Senator Clark. I know, I
know this is a passionate issue, and it's hard not to have compassion on animals that are being mistreated, but. We're given broad interpretation of that term to whatever enforcement officers are on the scene, and dogs and cats and other animals are personal property and uh I don't think we should set this precedent. I'd appreciate no vote. Anyone want to speak for the bill.
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Senator Clark, do you want to close or
Senator Alan Clark
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are you closed? Hey, Senator Clark's recognized close. Thank you, Mr. President. folks, this bill was originally much broader,
uh, and uh representative Duffield worked with Farm Bureau, uh, and they are fine with this bill.
The, it's again only dogs and cats, and if law enforcement officer
sees serious enough neglect, he can seize the dog, cat. Until there's a court hearing. Uh, without arresting the owner at that
time or and without coming back with a warrant. Uh, the, uh, I think it's, I'm not normally a dog and cat, Bill. Uh, yeah, but I think it's a good bill. I appreciate a good vote. All right, Senator Clark is closed. Is
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, we have an objection to
rolling the vote, so please call
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the row. Boyd Bryant. Caldwell, Caldwell, Clark,
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Kroll, Davis. These These, this man Datsun. English Flippo flowers.
Flowers Gilmore, hammer, Hester, Hickey. Hickey Hill Irvin, Blake Johnson.
Chair
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Well Mark Johnson, Keen Keen letting. Love, McKee Murdoch. Mickey, can you repeat? No. Murdoch, Murdoch. Peyton.
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Penzo. Petty rice. Price Scott Scott Stone Stubblefield. Stubblefield Sullivan Tucker Wallace. OK, members, does anybody would wish to vote
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or to change their vote, Senator Scott is a yes. Senator Flowers is present. Senator King is yes.
Senator Hester is yes. Senator Hammer is present. Hickey is no Senator Gilmore is yes. Sender stubble
field is, yes, Senator Rice says yes. Alright, send her love. What are you sender love? Sinner love is yes. Senator Dees says yes. Senator Burdock is yes.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anything else? Anyone else. All right, last time, anyone else want to change their vote?
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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OK, cast up the ballot. Who. Too late. All right. Uh, we have 18 days,
4, 14 days, 1 non-vote, so House Bill 1824 is passed. We also had
two present with that. Please return to the house. OK, we've got House Bill 1830. Sender hammer 1830 by Senator Hammer
to amend the law concerning the Attorney General and to amend the law concerning
the procurement of contingency fee contracts by the Attorney General. Senator Hammer, you're recognized. Thank you. I'm bringing
Senator Kim Hammer
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this bill on behalf of our attorney General, much of what the Attorney General's office enforces results in civil penalties. The Attorney
General's office hires outside counsel to pay upfront litigation costs at no cost to the taxpayers. This bill allows civil penalties to be used to calculate the fees. outside counsel gets paid. This is important in cases that are solely under the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act because those are the only remedies and fines allowed by law. Appreciate a good vote. Any questions of Senator Hammer? Anyone want to speak against this bill. Anyone who wants to
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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speak for this bill? Is there any objection to rolling the vote, Please roll the vote.
Members look at the board, please. Anyone want to change your vote? Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else want to change their vote? All right, please cast up the ballot by
a vote of 34 yes 0 nays, 1 non-voting.
House Bill 1830 is passed. Please return to the house. House Bill 1831 by Senator Hammer. House Bill 1831
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by Representative Shepard and Senator Hammer, and to mend the law
Chair
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concerning the use of settlement funds by the Attorney
Senator Kim Hammer
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General. Senator Hammer, you're recognized. Thank you. This bill is also on behalf of the Attorney General's office, that what the Attorney General's office collection of funds is in the form of civil penalties. There's some ambiguities in the current law that makes it confusing about how the AG can use and spend civil penalties. This bill we send it out to civil penalties can be treated the same way as settlement funds. It makes the statute very clear to conform with prior best practices and appreciate a good vote. OK.
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Any questions of Senator Hammer? Anyway, and I speak against this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill? Are you closed, Senator Hammer? Closed. Appreciate a good vote on behalf of the Attorney General. All
right, any objection to rolling the vote. Please roll the vote. OK, members, anyone want to change their vote, Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else want to change their vote.
OK, Cast up the ballot, 34 ya, 0
nays, 1 non-voting House Bill 1831 is passed. Please return to the House, Senator Dees, you're
going to be up next. 1835 a centuries concerning specialty court programs and to update the clarity the law concerning
drug court, mental health court, veterans court, and EWI BWI specialty court programs. Senator Deer, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.
Senator Tyler Dees
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HB 1835 is especially court bill. That, um, as part of the AOC bill package that it really is mainly some cleanup language throughout most of it, uh, and cleans up the specialty court statutes. It also clarifies the process of of sealing graduates criminal records and streamlines the process of transferring folks from one specialty court to another. Any questions of Senator D's. Anyone want to speak against this bill.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone want to speak for this bill? Are you close
Senator D's, he's closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, please roll the vote. Members checked the
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board and let me know if you want to change your vote, Senator Flowers is present. Senator
King is non-voting. Anybody else want to change their vote? Anyone else want to change their vote? Seeing none, please cast up the ballot. With a vote of 33
ye, zero nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House
Bill 1835 is passed. Please return to the house. OK, members, we're on the next page.
We also have a supplemental agenda, so don't get excited. Uh We're getting that printed right now. That's what. All right, we're gonna do House Bill 1838. Senator Clark, you're up. Let us read it, Senator Clark.
cars, yeah, but she was like. Has 1838 by Senator Clark to amend the law concerning probate actions and to amend the law
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concerning adoption and Mr. President, colleagues, 18th House
Senator Alan Clark
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Bill 1838, I have two pages of notes if you want me to read them. This is a judicial council bill with some things that need to be
cleared up, uh, on adoptions, especially, uh, where and where folks or wards of the state and guardianships, I'll be happy to try to answer any questions, any questions of Senator Clark on this bill. Anyone
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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want to speak against this bill. Anyone want to
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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speak for this bill, Senator Clark, are you closed? I'm closed. I'd appreciate a good vote. Senator Clark is closed. Any objection to
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. Members, please look at
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the board and let me know if you want to change your vote. Does
anybody want to change their vote? Alright,
seeing no one, please cast up the ballot. 35, 0 nays, House Bill 1838 passes. Please return to the house. Next one is gonna be House Bill
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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1839 by Senator Clark. House Bill 1839 by Representative Dalby and Senator
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Clark to amend the procedures for the Declaration of legal death of a Missing Person. You're recognized Senator Clark. Uh, thank you, Mr. President,
Senator Alan Clark
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colleagues, House Bill 1839 is also a judicial council bill, things that they believe need to be the judges believe need to be changed in the law. Uh, the title and act to amend the procedures for the Declaration of legal death of a missing person is really the subject here. Currently, if a death certificate cannot be issued because there's no, there are no established legal procedures in Arkansas law for determining the death of an individual outside of opening the full probate of an estate. Uh, this will make it easier where they are reasonably
certain that someone is dead, but there's no body, uh, that they can help the family move forward. I'll give you one situation we're having a legal procedure would be valuable for Arkansas citizens, and that includes the distribution of life insurance proceeds, which can't happen until something like this happens in court because they usually say carrying out the pay on death provisions of financial accounts. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for Senator Clark on House Bill 1839.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone wants to speak against this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill. Senator Clark, you're closed, I assume I'm closed. I
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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appreciate a good vote. All right. Any objection to rolling the vote? Hey, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Alright, members, I want to make sure everybody's watching
the board. Anybody wish to change their vote. Senator King, you're a non-vote. Is that correct, Senator King's non-vote. Anyone else? Anyone else? OK, please cast up the ballot.
34 yeah, zero nays, 1 non-voting House Bill 1839 is
passed. We're now gonna go to House Bill 1844 by Senator Wallace. Return 1839 to the house. Haville 1844 by Central
Wallace to amend the law concerning the offense of fleeing by means of a vehicle or conveyance and to increase
the penalty for a person who jumps from a moving vehicle conveyance fleeing. Senator Wallace, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr.
Senator Dave Wallace
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President. Members, this bill, uh is requested by the Arkansas State Police, very simple bill, simply means that if a person is is fleeing a uh and being chased by state police if they jump out of their vehicle and let the vehicle continue to roll, um, and some criminals do that so they can escape the state police, the severity of the felony is increased. And with that, I will stand by for your questions. OK, Senator, does anyone have any questions of Senator Wallace?
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Anyone have any questions? Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone want to speak for this bill. Senator Wallace, are you closed? Senator Wallace is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, please roll the vote. Same
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thing, members, please check the board. I don't want to miss you. Anyone want to change their vote. I have sent her flowers as a present. I have Senator Clark Trucker as a no. I
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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have sent her love as a present.
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Anyone else? I have Senator Jamie Scott as a no. Anyone else. I don't know what you're saying.
What do you wantin love? You wanna be no? OK, sinner love is a no. Senator Murdoch is a no. Members, everybody checking the board. Senator Bryant is a present.
Anybody else, I want to give everybody the full chance to change their vote. OK, cast up the
ballot. OK, with uh a vote of 29 years. Uh, Fornas, 2 present. House Bill 1844
is is passed. Please return to the house as amended. OK, we're gonna pass over House Bill 1845 and we're gonna go to House Bill 1851 by Senator Crow.
House Bill 184,540 51 by Senator Crowell to amend the sales tax exemption for
food, food ingredients and prepared foods sold in a public common, high school or college cafeteria or dining facilities. Senator Crow, you
recognize, sir, uh, colleagues, this is the easiest way to explain the situation. I'm going to say the Arkansas Code 2652413 explicitly exempts food in K through
12 a higher. from being taxed and what
happened at UAPB is the uh advertising and promotion commission tried to give to charge a 2% um sales tax fee on the meal plans. They went to court and they lost, so this is what this bill is to do
is to, to make sure that doesn't happen. Any questions to Senator Crow on this
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bill. All right, Senator Payton, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. So this adds a private for company. for-profit company.
That is contracting with the school. I'm pretty sure last time
I bought a Chick fil A sandwich at the college. I paid sales tax. I don't understand how this is a zero revenue impact.
This is revenue attack because this is earmark cells to the school, and they sell the, the meal plan and the school
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sells the food. So how is it that the Chick fil
A wouldn't come under this. It says. It's the meal plan. They they
try to put a 2% on the meal plan. So on the, on the voucher, the meal
plan voucher, so if you buy $1000 worth of meal plan, they wanted to add another 2% onto it, and I could agree with that, but
I'm not sure it stops there. Thank you. OK, are there any other Are
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you out of the well, or you want to take another question? All right, Senator. Clark, are
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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you OK. Are there any other questions for Senator Crow on this bill? OK, does anyone want to speak against this bill? See anyone wants to speak for
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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this bill. Is there any objection to rolling the vote? Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Members,
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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please look at the board. Does anyone want to change their vote? All right, Senator Payton is present. Anyone else? Senator
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Alan Clark is present. Anyone else? Anyone else OK. please cast up the ballot. With 33 years, zero nay, 2
present. House Bill 1851 is passed. Please return to the house. OK, Senate Bill 1854, I believe Senator Hill, you're going to present that one, is that correct? OK. House Bill 1854. Houseville 1854 by Flipper to exempt a home
caregiver from home caregiving training if he or she previously completed training, OK, Senator Hill, you're going to be recognized to present this bill. Thank you, sir. Colleagues,
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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all this does is add to code 11 line says the home
caregiver who previously completed training under this subchapter if he or she
provides documentation of the completed training course, can go to work. Ex OK, any questions to Senator
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Hill, Senator Dismay, you're recognized, sir. I'm not right, he's not going to take questions. Any, any other questions? Well, he's not taking them, so it's
irrelevant. Anyone don't speak against this. He want to speak for it.
Sender obviously is closed. Anybody have any objection to
rolling the vote? Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Members, please look at the board and let me know if
you want to change your vote. Anybody want to change their boat. Senator King is non-voting. Anybody else want to change their vote? Last time, anyone want to change their vote? OK, cast up the ballot.
OK, but with 34, 0 nays, 1 non-voting. House Bill 1854 is passed. Please return to the house. Alright, we need to read, read some stuff
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across the desk. Well your committee on Education to
whom was first sym 625 by Senator Davis. Recommend that
it do pass as amended number one. Calendar. That's not centroditis. Do you want to amend it? Yeah Yeah.
Chair
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we're doing. That's all we're doing, uh-huh. OK, Senator Davis. All
Senator Breanne Davis
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right, Senator Davis, you're recognized to make a motion on Senate Bill 625. Thank
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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you, Mr. President. Members, I make a
Senator Breanne Davis
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motion that we adopt Amendment 1 on Senate Bill 625. OK,
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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all in favor of the amendment, please say please say aye. Any oppose OK. That amendment will pass. Please send to engrossing. OK, hold on.
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Do you have anything else to read? Hm. OK,
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I believe we are going to pass over House Bill 1865.
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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And we're going to go to House Bill 1887 by Senator Petty.
House Bill 1887 by San Petty to amend the law concerning statewide child abduction response teams. You're recognized Senator
Senator Jim Petty
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Petty. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, these response teams work alongside the Amber Alert, uh, what this
is demanding is we're moving it from the criminal justice Institute over to the
ASP. ASP has a better statewide uh reach. It's around training and, and they can better reach across the state, uh, they're going to collaborate with the Attorney General's office, the ASP, Game and Fish, the criminal justice, they'll continue to be involved. The sheriffs and officer for emergency Management and other police chiefs across the state. ASP, they feel can better help with the the reach across the state as opposed to the criminal justice where the uh the teams
that would or the individuals that would work on these teams would have to come to a central location. This way we can send it out across the state and that's it. happy to answer any questions. Any of Senator Petty on this bill. All right,
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Senator Clark Tucker, you recognize for questions, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would have asked you this, Senator Patty, but I
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didn't know your explanation about moving it over to the Arkansas State Police. I don't see anything about the Arkansas State Police and the bill. It just, I, I do see the striking of the language in the bill about removing it from the
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CJI, but I don't see anything about the ASP in
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there. So that's fair point. This is uh uh a state,
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the division of State Police shall assemble one or more of the teams. I'm not sure which one you're on. But it's on page 2. He didn't do this one, but he's gonna do this
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one. Section 9, so but that's current code, so right now it's the state police and the CJI. OK, so it, yes, I see what you're
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saying now. So they had it at the state police. They tried moving it over there with the ASJ or whatever CG yes but it's more effective back
over at the state police. So, OK, thank you. Any other
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questions? Anyone want to speak against this bill? Anyone want
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to speak for this bill, Senator Petty is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote. Madam Secretary, please roll the
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vote. OK, members, look at the board, let me know if you want to change your vote.
Anybody want to change their vote? Send her flowers is present. Senator King is non-voting. Anybody else? Anybody
else OK, please cast up the ballot with 33A,
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0 nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1887 is passed. Please return to the house. Next one is House Bill
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1934 by Senator Gilmore. After this, members will be going to the pink sheet with the calendar. Actually, we're gonna have something to
read across and then we'll do that. You're recognized Senator Gilmore 1934 Gilmore to
create the Arkansas For Engagement Committee Act and to create the Arkansas For Engagement Committee working group. Senator Gilmore, you recognized. Thank
you, Mr. President. Members, this is a bill by Representative McAlinden to create a temporary working group and committee to look
at ways to be more efficient in state government, um, again,
it's temporary and you can read in there, sorry.
page 2 where it lists out who all should be a part of this, um, with that, I'm happy to take any questions. Any questions for
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Senator Gilmore. I'm closed. Anybody want to speak for this
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bill. Anyone who speak against the bill. Senator King is gonna speak against this bill, said King, you're recognized. Thank
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you, Mr. President. There is a real Do committee, if you want to talk about cut waste fraud and
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abuse. It's called the Arkansas legislature. You know, forming another committee, it's a great thing to get on Fox News, talk about what you're doing, going, but the real boats is you're spending on RSA. We've increased spending. I talked about that. The real Doge Committee is what we do. Creating a committee of the same people we're the most spending state per capita than our surrounding states, waste fraud and abuse, you see what's going on in DC. I've talked about the consultings like Thankfully, they are targeting these these consulting deals
like Deloitte, folks, there is just a real do committee, and if you vote to increase spending, then you're not voting for to cut waste fraud and abuse or anything. state spending has went up and up and up. Medicaid spending, federal and state from when I came in is up 350%. I don't know what else to say. This is not do, but somebody did say I was doge before Doge was cool, so don't do is that you actually reduce spending. That's it.
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OK, um, all right, all right, Senator King spoke against the bill does, all right, hold on just a second. Alright, members, let's, all right,
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let's, let's get this thing back in order so we look, look a little better. All right, is there anyone who wants to
speak for this bill. All right, Senator Sullivan, you're wanting to members, members, y'all, we're going to cotton it down just to, just a little. I understand that what we're doing here, but let's, let's try to, try to have a
little bit more decorum. Sandra Sullivan, you're recognized to speak against this bill, folks, we're going to create a bureaucracy to cut
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bureaucracy. Create a bureaucracy to cut bureaucracy as in two committees today that those state agencies were combining their own agencies as in another one, they cut the board from I think 11 down to 7. That's what we're supposed to be doing. We don't need to create another committee to cut committees. We can do it
with ourselves. Thank you. OK. There's nobody there to answer.
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Uh, what's your point of order, Senator Peyton. I'm not sure if it's important, but on my computer, this
shows that the that this bill is supposed to be on state agencies'
agenda. I don't know how it could be on two agendas at once, but it
shows that on tomorrow's agenda for 4:10. OK, let's give our staff just a minute to check this out.
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Just give us a minute, we'll see. I think everybody knows the way we're
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moving here. It was one that was signed at a community. All right, we're showing it was due pass and it was signed out of
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committee. How many people are on the sign out
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sheet, Ms. Connie, Miss Connie, how many people are on the sign out sheet. There are 12 looks like. 454. Let me see
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here it is. OK. There's only I didn't sign it, did I? Yeah, I remember you telling me about it. Hold on just a minute. I wanna make sure we've got everybody on
the sheet. Just give me a minute. Oh. There What?
But Yeah. You. OK, write that down and let me, let me say who signed the sheet since we're
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All right, we're just gonna do this the right way so that since this has been brought up. All right, we have, we have the sheet
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that it was yesterday it was passed out as a due pass by Senator Dodson Peyton Sullivan Petty, and Flippo.
So that's what we have. So I understand what you're saying. It's still on there, but we do have everything correct, so there's a rule about two calendars. I
didn't know we had a problem there. I think it's a good catch. I
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think again, I think everybody knows the way we're moving. It's just probably a flaw, but everything here appears like that it is, is correct and it is supposed to be on this calendar. OK,
thank you. All right, no, thanks for the catch. OK. Now you've already told me you've closed,
although you did it out of order, but I'm gonna let you close again if you want.
Well, thank you, and again it was properly signed out. So thank you, Senator Payton, for bringing that to a point of order. And on top of that, we'll confirm with the pro tem that maybe we can get Senator King appointed to this, uh, since he was dozed before do for him. Thank you, closed. OK. Is there any objection
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to rolling the vote? All right. I that Yeah members now that, that's enough
of that. Now, I, you know, I, we're trying to run this thing, we can't hear Senator Senator King. Let's get off that, please, sir. All right. Well, I understand, but right now we're trying to do business of the state. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. All right. OK, members, is there any objection to rolling the vote? There is an objection
on this one to roll the vote. So all the rope. Bo Bowen.
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Brant. Caldwell, Caldwell. Clark, Clark Crow. Carl,
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ask them to speak up, please. Members, could you
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please speak up so that our staff can
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hear you. Davis Davis Days. Days. This man. Dotson,
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flowers Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hicky Hill
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Irvin like Johnson, Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson. King. Letting lighting.
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Love. Love McKee Murdoch. Murdoch. Peyton. Payton.
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Pennzo. And so. Patty, rice. Rice. Scott Scott Stan, stone.
Stubberfield. Sullivan. attacker, Tucker. Wallace. Wallace, he
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said. members, is any is any member wish to
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vote or change their vote. I'm going to start over
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here. Senator Boyd is yes, Senator Blake Johnson is yes, Senator Hammer is yes, Senator Tyler Dees is yes.
Anyone else, Senator Payton is yes, Senator Crow is yes. Anyone else. Is that a no sender Brianne Davis says no. Sucier Penzo is present. All right. Anyone else? Send her love is present.
Anyone else, Senator Murdoch was that a no,
sir? All right, that's a no. Anyone else, Senator Jamie Scottson, no.
Senator Clark Tucker's a no. Senator letting, did you, Senator Leding is a no. Anyone else. OK, please
cast up the ballot. OK, with a Let
me call it, with a vote of 18 days, 11 nays, 3 non-voting. 3 present, House Bill 1934 passes.
All right, we got, we got, we got to see 5 hands to sound the ballot. So let me see. 12345. OK, we have 5 hands, uh, Madam Secretary, please call the yeses. Members, if you would please find your seats. Members, please find your seats. No. Yes. C Yes.
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Days? Yes, this man, yes. Dotson, yes. Flippo, yes. Gilmore, yes. Hammer? Yes. Hester, yes. He's, he's not
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in his sleep, strike him. So it fails. OK, that bill fails.
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OK, members, we have a few things to
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read across the desk, I believe.
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OK, we have a motion. We have a motion for the clincher on this bill. Hold on just a moment. That'll be non-debatable. What would
What was your vote on that last one? Was it a no Senator Sullivan? Was
your vote a no You you were a no. OK. That'd be proper. OK, all in favor of the clincher, please indicate by
saying ah. Any opposed? The nos have it. OK, members. But our secretary read some things across
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and then we're going to go to Senator Davis. And then our staff is going to
need a few minutes, so we'll take a few, a few minutes to recess and let everybody kind of look at the calendar, you know, look at the calendar that we have. You should have the pink calendar in front of you, and that's what we're going to start.
OK. 640 by central display to reconstitute the state library board. Senate bill. Where's that going? State agencies. Is there anything
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else to read? I'm sorry. We've got a couple more girls, but they're
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not here OK, Senator Davis, you want to be recognized, ma'am? OK. All right, Senator Davis is
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going to be recognized for what purpose
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for appointments, OK, she's gonna, she's going to go over the rules committee meeting, is that correct? OK, we're gonna hear a report on the rules
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committee. You're recognized Senator Davis. Thank you, Mr. President. The Senate Rules Committee met Monday, April 7th, 2025 to discuss gubernatorial appointments, you'll find the list for today, April 9th, on your desk, the rules committee approved this in one batch. Does any senator wish to pull
any of the appointments to be voted on separate from the batch. What OK, did y'all, did y'all
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hear that? or does anyone want to pull a name from the batch.
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OK, OK. All right, seeing that there are none, I move that the Senate confirm that April 9th, 2025 lists of gubernatorial appointments that were approved by the Senate Rules Committee. OK, are there any other questions of
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Senator Davis? OK. Would anyone like to speak for or against the motion? Is there questions? Senator Flippo, do you have a question? for There's a list on yours.
Everybody should have a, have a list of them.
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No. Hey, is anyone want to speak for or
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against the motion. OK, everyone's heard the motion that we adopt all the names on the list, all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying ah. Can he oppose And I have it, the motion carries, and the gubernatorial appointments are confirmed. Senator, you recognized, sir.
Hey, members, look, we've got a a long night tonight, but I just
want to let you know that my intent tomorrow, pending feedback from members is that we should be done. We'll just call it around 4 o'clock or so tomorrow so we can go back home because our committees are slowing down, which means Monday Monday's calendar won't be so bad. We'll be able to move whatever we don't finish tomorrow to Monday. So just so that staff and everybody can have an idea. I don't plan to be here unless I get different feedback from y'all, maybe quitting somewhere around 4 o'clock tomorrow when it's a natural. stopping spot. Thanks. and
coming in at one tomorrow. OK, members, hold on just a second.
Let me confer with staff to see how long of a recess we think we'll
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need. OK, members, we're gonna take it, uh, around a 10-minute break, so we're gonna be back in here in about 917, 918, somewhere around that
time to get started. So we are in recess. Let me read this.
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Did you say no more out. I think. I I.
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See. I I. one
I. You could say. Good true.
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OK, members, we are, are back in session from a recess. You have things ready to across, Madam Secretary. When
your committee on gross bills to whom we first Senate Bill 625 by Senator Davis compared the engrossed copy of the ritual and
find the same correctly engrossed calendar about 6:41 by Central Wallace to amend the law concerning work release programs and to allow a sheriff to elect a house work release program participants, Senate Bill 641. Judiciary. Yeah
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members of all. OK, members, everybody, everybody has their
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supplemental calendar in front of them. This is what we're going to start and what we're going to do and without objection, I know that we
said that we were going to do the House bills, you know, on the last one by our new process of just putting it on the screen, so without objection, I'm gonna say that we continue it on this supplemental. We're gonna continue the way we were doing with, with Putting all the names on the board and then changing the votes.
So without objection, we'll do that. Thank you. 400. All right. OK, the first one on the agenda is going to be SB 400 by Siner Irving. Send 400 by Senator Irving
to amend the fair funding program. Senator Irvin,
you're recognized. Thank you. What the bill does is creates a very simple and direct and easy, um, process for financial assistance,
accountability and transparency for our county fairs. Uh, we worked on the bill and amended it several times. It also just what counties make up the different district fairs and it includes a definition of, of, of what a fair is. OK, does anybody have any questions of Senator Irvin? Anyone wants to speak against the
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bill. Anyone wants to speak for the bill. Senator Irvin, are
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you closed? I'm closed. I appreciate all the passion of these folks and
all the people that helped me across the state
on this bill. It's a great bill. Thanks. OK, is there any
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objection to rolling the vote? OK, please roll the vote. No. We're
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going to do it the same way. I just, I just did without objection for the whole supplemental calendar. And we include the Senate,
OK. That's fine. OK, so. Please roll the vote. All right,
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members, it's on the board. OK, Center flowers is present. Anyone else, anyone want to change their vote. Senator Flowers
is present. Anyone else? OK, please cast up the ballot. 34, 0 nays, 1 present, Senate Bill 400 passes.
Please transmit to the house. OK, the next one is going to be cinder Hester, Senate Bill 441.
441 by Central Hester to create the junk lawsuit Prevention Act of 2025. Senator Hester recognize, sir. Thank you, members. We
most of us heard quite a bit about this lawsuit to create the uh junk lawsuit Prevention Act 2025. Um,
it's real simple, something that brought this to attention was, you know, an out of state uh law firm came to sue in Arkansas over a good RX card. They had a um a reading on the front that says it's not an insurance car. They didn't think it was emboldened enough. No one's harmed and
that's really the key where this thing hinges on if no one is harmed. Who are you gonna sue? Right? Or when you sue, who gets, who gets helped? If there's a windfall, who does it go? No one was harmed. It goes to the lawyers. We, we've got to prevent these junk lawsuits coming in the state of Arkansas, and I can just run down a whole list of Arkansas companies that this that these people have come in and sued on. Uh, we've got to protect our local businesses and communities. This is, this is saying if no one is harmed, they
can't sue you. Happy to answer any questions. OK, does anybody have any questions
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to Senator Hester. OK, Senator Stubblefield, you'll be first. You have to, did this have a a marching clause with it when
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it was first introduced. produced in the house. I, I don't know if it had an emergency clause when it was uh uh first introduced. Did it,
did it pass out of the house? I don't know. He didn't pass out
of the house. I don't, I don't, I don't know anything about the House bill. I know, I know I filed this bill on the Senate.
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There. you finish I'm sorry. Did you, was the title in this bill changed? No, this is the title of the bill that I follow.
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This is the title of the bill that I filed. OK, all right.
OK, Senator Payton, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. So
this sounds exactly like what our attorney general does whenever they bring a suit against a company. On behalf of Arkansans and then when the money is collected, it goes into the state coffers, so is there anything in this that's going to interfere with the Attorney General doing his job.
Absolutely not. In fact, it's on here on
page 3 lines 1011, 12, it, it makes sure the Attorney General continue to do their job. Well, that, I read that. I, I've
got it pulled up right here. That looks to me like the Attorney General can Have an injunction against any company that tries to sue. I don't, you're saying that they can have an action against The people that were forbidden the action against. So what, what's your question? Can the
Attorney General continue to do their job. The answer is the Attorney general is in support of this bill if that helps it. Thank you. OK.
Senator Love, did you have a question? Yes, sir, you're recognized. Senator Hesterbuses, thank you, uh, Mr. President. I was just wondering, you
know, in the, in the title says Prevention Act of 2025, however, at the end there's a retroactivity clause. I was just wondering
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why do we have a retroactivity clause in there. It's, it's about that example that I gave the
GoodRx card. It does just just helping people. There's a, there's a, you know, the verbiage on it says this is
not an insurance card, but it's not in bold enough, uh, according to the uh people that that are suing over this. The person that sued admits they were not harmed and do not have a good RX card, but
they are the plaintiff. OK, so is this ongoing litigation right now or is it is ongoing litigation. That's correct. This would affect that. OK, thank you. Senator Hill, you're recognized, sir. You mentioned mentioned
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GoodRx. Are they an Arkansas company? They're, they're not.
They operate in Arkansas. OK. The the the law law firm that's suing them. Are they an Arkansas company? They are not. Why are we worried about this
then? Because they're suing in Arkansas. The goal is to prevent uh one of the law
firms is in Arkansas, but the main law firm behind this is doing this lawsuit in several different states, the exact same lawsuit, uh, and we, the point of this is, is to prevent, prevent these type of uh what I call like parasitic lawsuits on our companies in Arkansas that are
here trying to help people and do business. We don't want these, I call them tall building
lawyers from other states coming in suing over when someone's not even been harmed. Who is the Arkansas law firm? I don't know the Arkansas law
firm. How do we know, how do we know they're from Arkansas then? I know some guy from Russellville. That's what I know. Oh, OK, OK. Yeah. Senator Paton you recognized. So I got a little
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follow up. I mean, basically, if we don't do this, then
Somebody who is a competitor could be Dragging a competitor into court. Over frivolous stuff. I mean, you're saying that the, the people doing the suing should have no standing if they weren't harmed. But if that's the case, then it seems that a competitor could drag a competitor into
court. Is, is that the landscape now without this bill? I think it is. That's what
we're learning and we're trying to prevent it, prevent it moving forward. OK, thank you. Thank you. OK
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Senator Hester has left the well. Does anyone want to speak against the bill? Senator Tucker is going to be recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Mr. President. I think there's really
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two reasons to vote against this bill, and I'm going to talk a little bit about what the questions that you were raising, Senator Pavement. I'm going to start with my two reasons. The first one is sometimes we wonder whether a law we passed down here will affect ongoing litigation. We don't have to wonder on this one. We know for
certain that it will, there's a retroactivity clause. There's an ongoing litigation. People have been pursuing that. They incurred costs to pursue that. I think it's wrong for us as a legislature to affect ongoing. li t ig ation and especially to do so knowingly. I got to tip my cap to Senator Hester. I said this in committee. The man doesn't beat around the bush. If you ask him a question, he gives you an answer, and he's acknowledged this will affect ongoing litigation. I don't believe we should pass legislation that affects ongoing litigation. The second thing, and this will get into a bit of what you were raising, Senator Peyton.
I think there's a version of this bill that works, because this what this is is a private because obviously the Attorney general pursues consumer protection lawsuits on behalf of the people of Arkansas. The current code allows private citizens to also do that. What what they're seeking to do with the bill is to say that if, if it can be cured, and then they cure it, then you can't sue. Now, philosophically I'm OK with that, but if you read the bill, it also prevents you from suing if you've been
injured as a plaintiff. Now if you haven't been injured, I think the structure that the bill tries to set up is fair. You haven't been injured. You notify the person who's committed a violation that they've committed a violation, they stopped committing the violation. You can't sue, philosophically, I don't have a problem with that, but if you're a consumer and you have been injured, even if they cure the violation, you should still be able to seek recovery for your injury, and this says even if you've been injured, you are prohibited from seeking recovery for your injury in court. Now, that's the section I was
just looking at on your iPad when it says shall not be initiated. I can't cite you the page and line number, but, but if they cure it, a lawsuit shall not be initiated, even if you've been injured. So the two reasons again to recap, we should not affect ongoing litigation. And number 2, if you've been injured, you should be able to seek redress to compensate you for your injury, so I don't believe we should pass the law for those two
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reasons, Senator Tucker has spoken against the bill. Does anyone want to speak for the bill?
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OK, Senator Clark. You're recognized Senator Clark. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to cover a couple of issues, uh, briefly, one of them is Should we, you know, is Senator Hester premature with this bill because there's ongoing litigation. And so if the answer to that is we should
wait. Because we come back with litigation after a lawsuit has wrong effects often and come
back and fix it. So should we wait until the lawsuit's finished and The wrong thing happens and then the horse is out of the barn and then we come back and fix it. Uh, and this particular case, it involves Good Rx, uh, and in full transparency, I have a good Rx card and That's important because although I have insurance, possibly the same insurance you have, but although I have insurance, I have some medicine
that I get tremendous savings on the GoodRx card, which cost me nothing. The lawsuit is about the As Senator Hester said about This is the little
phrase that said this is not insurance, not being bold enough. I wouldn't even have a problem with that except the people, as he said, that are suing. Have a profit motive. They
aren't harmed. They don't have a good RX card. They aren't harmed, and all the people they're claiming are harmed. Won't get a dime.
If, if that weren't the case, I'd say let it go, but that is the case, and the people are going to be harmed is when these people suffer millions of dollars of damages or tens of millions because of a junk lawsuit, these, the poor people that have this card that can, can actually get prescriptions, lots of prescriptions, the same price as you can on insurance, which is a tremendous savings. It's a big benefit to them. That can go away and they'll no longer have that benefit. And
for that reason, I'm for this bill now. OK, Senator Hester,
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do you want to close or are you closed? Senator Hester, are you closed, sir? All
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right, center history is closed. Is there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, we have an objection, so we're gonna need to have the roll call. Boyd Brian Caldwell.
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you repeat? No, thank you. If you can please speak up. Clark Kroll Davis. Davis, Des. Dismay, Dotson, English, English Flippo flowers. Gilmore, hammer, Hester, Hickey.
Hill Hill Irvin. Irvin, Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson Keen letting love, McKee Murdoch Peyton. Penza. Patty, rice, Scott stone. Stubblefield.
Sullivan. Tucker? Wallace. OK, are there any
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members who wish to vote or to change their vote. Anyone. Senator Irvin
is Iinder Hill is I. Anyone else. Senator Murdoch. Oh
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I can't hear you, sir. Anyone else? OK,
please cast up the ballot. By a vote of But by a vote of 20s, 11 nays, 2 non-voting, 2 present. Senate Bill 441 is passed. Did you have a motion,
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is that OK. I need to see 5 hands.
12, I see two hands. OK, there's 3, there's 4. Still don't see them. That's not enough. All right, hold your hands up high. 1234. Is there any over here? There's 5. OK, we got 5. OK, members, if
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you would please take your seat and uh we'll call the S's. Bowen. Brand.
Clark. Ah Crowe Days This man Dots and Gilmore Hammer Hester. Hell. Irvin was
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We got strike hammer. Yeah, he wasn't
there, OK. Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, McKee, Penzo. Patty, Stan Sullivan Wallace. Was there, I
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OK, members, we had 2 before uh although he wasn't in his seat, Senator Hammer was here, but we're still going to strike him. That gets it down to 19. So Senate Bill 441 is passed.
Did that, did that have an emergency clause? OK. All right, so that is, that is passed and we need to transmit that to the
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house. OK, next is Senate Bill 568, Senator Crow. 568 by
Central Crawl to men the law concerning the taxes applicable to lithium extraction and development.
To provide a sales and use tax exemption for lithium resource development and to amend
the law concerning the severance tax on lithium. Senator Crow, you're out, sir. Thank you,
Senator. Colleagues, um, we know that there's an opportunity in South Arkansas for lithium exploration and a lot of companies and a lot of jobs come in. We made a bill, created a bill to give them some tax incentives, also to give them some major tax incentives to keep the lithium and produce
extra batteries, recycling, uh, storage facilities within the state, um, and that's pretty much what it is. I'm
willing to try and answer any questions. OK, are there any questions of Senator
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Crow. I see Senator Payton, your first, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Does this
bill give any protections to the mineral owners. But this has nothing to do with nothing to do
with the mineral oranges. This is the tax incentives for the lithium companies to come in, so there will be
taxes, excise, I can't remember what they call it, severance tax when they bring that lithium out of the ground, severance tax, so we circled the severance
tax right back to the counties, if you look in there, right now we're getting about $325,000 to GR and we circled that back to the counties because the counties have Take care of their and so will the mineral owners
still be subject to property tax like the that's a local decision that's a decision we didn't touch anything to do
with the minerals. So the mining companies are getting tax breaks, but the mineral owners aren't. Yup. Thank
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you. OK, any other questions of Senator Crow? OK, does anyone want to speak against this bill? Does anyone
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want to speak for this bill? Is there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, please roll the vote. OK, members. Check the board Does anyone want to change their vote? Senator Dodson wants to be
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present. Anyone else? Senator Payton is present. Anyone else? Anyone else want to change their vote? OK, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 33 y, zero nay, 2 present. Senate Bill 568 is passed, please transmit to the house. Next one is going to
be Senate Bill 585 by Sinder letting. 585 I Central letting to require certain records
to be provided to an employee who is a
Senator Greg Leding
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minor. Senator Leading, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, my mom didn't raise a quitter. This is the bill that failed just narrowly
yesterday. Senator Dismay encouraged me to run it again. It failed by just 4 votes. There were a number of nonvotes. I talked to those non-votes today, confirmed I have the votes to pass it, but I want to confirm it real quick. This is the pay stub bill that would apply only to employers with 10 or more, I'm sorry, more than 10 employees. It would only imply to employees who are 17 and younger. This is just about
providing a pay stub. This is information the employers are already required to keep. We're just asking that you share a copy of this information with any minors that might be your employees. There is no requirement as to what kind of format in the legislation as the young man who testified in committee where again it passed unanimously, uh, testified his employer had a system where it could simply text him a copy of his pay stub. There was a woman who also testified. She handles payroll for a large municipality. Every summer they hire more than 2000 kids for a work program.
They provide a pay stub because of that there were 40 payroll errors. Last summer that they only caught because these kids were able to look at their pay stub, and they realized that there was an error and they were able to correct that. So this is protecting those employees who again are minors. It's also protecting the employer because it gives both sides a record as to what actually happened, so again, uh came out of committee unanimously. There was no opposition. It only applies to employers with more than 10 employees and employees who are 17 and younger, there's no requirement about the format.
Um, I, I would also and I did not plan this, but it only applies to kids. My kids up here in the gallery, she convinced my wife to drive down and surprise me today because tomorrow's my birthday, Senator Clark. This is the last bill
I'm ever going to run. This bill protects kids, my kids in the gallery, it's probably going to die in the house anyway. So for the last time, Senator Clark, Senator Dodson,
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yeah, yeah, let's go. Senator Petty, you're recognized for a question. Thank you. I got to make you work in front of your wife
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and child. Of course. So if you're, if your company is issuing pay stubs or or automatic deposits, you're going to be covered by this, correct? Yes, if you're already done, OK, thank you. Any other questions? OK, anyone who speak against the bill?
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Anyone want to speak for the bill. Do you want to close or are you closed? I
am not above theatrics. I am closed. Right, because anybody object to rolling the vote? you you objective we have an objection, so we're going to call the row It's
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a very popular thing, as you can tell. Senator Boy. Yeah. Brant Caldwell. Clark.
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This man, this man. Datsun. English. English. Filippo flowers.
Hester Hickey. Hike
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Johnson, King lighting. Love. McKee. Murdoch Peyton.
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Peyton Penzel. Patty rice Scott. Yeah. Stan. Stab afield. Sullivan. attacker Wallace. OK, members, uh, anyone want to wish to
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vote or change their vote. I've got a point of order,
OK, what's your point of order, the computer shows that the motion to expunge the vote failed. Yesterday. I don't know if it's right
or wrong, but that's what it says. I'm looking at it on the computer. I don't have a memory that good, but that's what it says. OK, let us, let us check it.
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We'll slow down and we're gonna check it. Hold it, sorry, my eyes were crossed. I got it.
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Well, we're glad your eyes don't crossed. So. OK, so we're, we're in the middle of the roll call dismay
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is a members who else needs to change their votes? Senator Gilmores and
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I. Senator Hickey's going to be an eye. Who else? Senator Hill is gonna be an eye. Senator Payton's gonna be an eye. Senator McKee's going to be an eye.
Anyone else Senator Wallace is gonna be an I. Anybody else wish to change
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their vote? Oh. OK. Please cast up the ballot. OK, by a vote of 29, 2 nays, 1 non-voting, 3 present. Senate Bill 585 passes. Please transmit to the house. Yes, sir, Senator. Uh, I'm, I'm not contradicting my friend
Senator Payton, but I went back and read what he read, and I
think it's important to note it says that the motion to the at 6:37:03 p.m. there was motion to expunge the vote by which SB 585 failed, and on the next line, it says motion carried, so it was saying what that was and then the next
line, we did. explains the vote, right? I, I think that Senator Payton clarified that, but
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we've got it twice, and I appreciate you going over it so that anyone's
watching live stream will understand that, so that's helpful. Thank
you. OK, members, uh, Senate Bill 591, Senator Penzo.
Centel 591 by Central Penzo to prohibit race selection, abortion in the state and to create the race
discrimination by abortion prohibition Act. Senator Penzo, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President.
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There's, there's no point in going over there, everything in this bill again
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and reintroducing it, but uh this was the one that had the section that said save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child. We amended it to say save the life or preserve it. Hold up, please. Members
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members just please quieten down just a little bit. I know it's late, but
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we're gonna try to get through this and our staff has to stay for hours after we did it. All right, let's don't, let's don't talk back and forth. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I wanted
you to have everybody's full attention so you can continue. Senator Penzo, thank you. Yes,
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sir. OK. Let me take this point of order,
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Senator Ervin. OK, I'm, I'm sorry, but I think, don't,
don't you have to send it back to the committee if you're going to amend the bill, so
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we suspended the rules earlier today. Uh, to put it on 2nd reading for purposes of amendment and then
second motion was made to add it to the uh supplemental calendar as soon as it came back from engrossing. That was the two motions that were made. Yeah, but Yeah, but here we are. I remember and it
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was, but I'm just, I'm. OK. So, but wouldn't that be a motion to
extract the bill? No, there were multiple people. Here's the, here's the
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best way to do it. I just, we'll just get our parliamentarian down here and we'll go over this. So
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And if you need a Mr. Reed, if you need a few seconds, few minutes to gather everything on it, you take that time. The
one thing we're gonna do is try to get everything correct and right. That's what we want, we want to do here. OK. All
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right, Senator Ervin. If you would restate your question and then if we have to do a little research, we, we will. OK, so just, just a quick
question because I understood, I understood that when you have to amend the bill, and it would have to go back to committee. So, I mean, because I did that with a bill. I sent the bill back to committee for the purpose of
an amendment, but we didn't do it this way with this bill. So I just
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need some clarification. Yeah, so ordinarily if you make a substantive amendment, it would go automatically back to committee. Senator Penzo made the motion after his after the amendment
was adopted and it was ordered, sent to engrossing, he made a subsequent motion to suspend the rules to add it to today's or to the supplemental calendar. And so what he did, uh, was used uh a higher vote threshold than it would be to extract. Uh, he suspended the rules that would be the impediment to him putting this bill on the calendar and having it heard on the floor today. And so by suspending the rules, there was no bar at that point to doing
what he's doing now. I got you, OK, so we, that's, that's how we bypassed the committee. Suspension of the rules, yes.
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OK, thank you. I just need to understand it. Thank you. OK, so that's good. So Senator Penzo, you're, you're recognized to continue, sir. All start over. however you
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want to do it. Yeah, I'll, uh, thank you, Mr. President. So on page 2, lines 3 and 4, previously it said save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child. Now it states save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child
or the pregnant woman. I believe that was one of the arguments that were made, appreciate y'all letting me uh expunge the vote, bring it back for amendment, and hopefully uh we've got a better bill for us here. So I'd appreciate it. Any, any questions for Senator Penzo? OK, Senator Penzo has left the well.
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Does anyone want to speak against this bill?
Does anyone want to speak for this bill? OK, I believe Senator Penzo, you're gonna be closed since you're out of the well. All right, Senator Penzo is closed, there
any objection to rolling the vote? OK. All right, please roll the vote. OK, remember we're doing
this the same way, putting it on the screen. So let me know if you want to change your vote. OK, I got Senator Jamie Scott is a no. I've got Senator Love as a no. I've got Senator Clark Tucker as a no. I've got Senator
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Murdoch as a no. All right, Senator Leadding, he is a no send her flowers is also a no. Are there any other,
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are there any other vote changes? OK, please cast
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up the ballot. OK, with 29 years. 6 days. Senate Bill
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591 is passed. Please transmit to the house. Now we're going to go to Senate Bill 614 by Senator Tucker.
0 614 by Senator Tucker to amend the Freedom
of Information Act of 1967 and to amend the law concerning open public meetings. Senator Tucker, you recognize, sir? Thank you, Mr.
Senator Clarke Tucker
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President. If this is essentially an amendment to Senate Bill 227
for the sake of the bond community in Arkansas. If they had brought this issue to my attention earlier in the session, it would have been an amendment to Senate Bill 227, but that's what this this does.
If you recall, Senate Bill 227 is a bill to bring clarity and understanding to public meetings law in Arkansas, and it's already serving its purpose because the bond community has been made aware of a longtime law in Arkansas, which again, 227 was seeking to codify case law, and it's long-standing case law in Arkansas that a judge may invalidate a decision made by a governing body that violates the FOIA subchapter. The issue with the bond community is that when, when you, if you do a bond issuance and it's for a million dollars or $10 million.
Then there are third parties who affect who are affected by invalidating that decision, and it creates a more risk in the bond market, which causes rates to go up. We do want municipalities and school boards to be able to issue bonds and do the good work that they do. So what this bill does is the bond community is already deals with holding the bond issuance for 30 days because a referendum can be placed on a municipal ordinance within 30 days. So what the bill does is if the violation of the public's The public meeting
is identified and found by a circuit court within 30 days, then the decision by the governing body can be invalidated if the if the decision, excuse me, if the violation of the public meetings law was found more than 30 days after the violation, there is still a remedy for the, for the violation, and it's one of two things. It's an either-or situation. Either the governing body who committed the violation can cure that violation by giving notice of the violation, disclosing it at a meeting and then discussing the matter is They would have, as they should
have done the first time or the members who engaged in the violation can pay a personal penalty of $1000. The, the structure is set up to incentivize the cure. Um, so this helps the bond market achieve certain, excuse me, the bond community in Arkansas achieves certainty with the bond market, with the final version of the bill after it was amended. It was supported by the FOIA task force in full. I'm not aware of any opposition to the bill. It just accommodates this one concern. Very narrowly if there's a public meetings violation
specifically on a bond issuance, so that's what the bill does. I'm happy to take any questions about it. All right, any questions for
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Senator Tucker. OK, does anyone want to speak against this bill? Does anyone want to speak? All right, you want to speak on the bill, Senator Clark, is that right? OK, Senator Clark will be speaking on the bill. You're recognized when you get there,
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sir. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm not gonna tell you that this bill is not needed, uh, the, uh,
what's ironic is on SB 227, I have the number right, uh, one of the things that was hailed about SB 20227, the big FOIA bill that, that went through the legislature earlier was the fact that if a decision was made after a secret meeting, you could go to circuit court, you get to circuit court to vacate the decision that the body made. That's that was the whole, really one of the biggest things in the
bill. This now cuts a gaping hole in that because If not almost every situation that we were told about in committee that we've been told about by constituents otherwise is where a body Came in with no discussion and passed a big bond issue. And so we take the very thing that it was that 227 was about. And gut it. Uh, and again, I
can't tell you that, that these bond issues are not uh an issue, uh, but it does away with much of the purpose of the bill and you do what you want. OK, is anyone else want to speak, uh, for
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or against the bill. Hey, Senator Tucker. You want to close, sir? Thank you, Mr. Chair, I certainly respect Senator Clark's opinion. I just want to
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address what he said. For one thing, to my knowledge, there's
never been a lawsuit filed in Arkansas history. To invalidate the decision of a governing body to issue bonds. If that, and I don't, I don't believe that has happened. If that had happened, then the bond community would have known that the decision of a governing body could be invalidated. And so the fact that it's never happened in 39 years since the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that a governing body's decision could be invalidated through a FOIA violation because that's never happened. I don't believe this is something that happens with regularity. It hasn't happened
in 39 years. We're just really accommodating the bond market to help them achieve security. The other thing is the purpose of 227, I just want to speak to that because Senator Clark raised it. The purpose of the public meeting law in general is for the public to not only know what decisions governing bodies make, but also why they make them. That's the underlying purpose of the public meetings law, and this bill, Senate Bill 614, is entirely consistent with that law, because it really compels
governing bodies to cure the violation by notifying the public of the violation, disclosing it, and having a public discussion about why they made the decision that they made. So it really is entirely consistent with the public meetings law in general and specifically Senate Bill 227. It just does it in a way that allows the bond market to have certainty and not raise our rates, so
I'd appreciate a good vote. OK, Senator Tucker is closing any
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objection to rolling the vote. OK, please roll the vote.
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OK, members, would you check the board? OK, anyone want to change their vote? Senator Clark wants to be
no. Anyone else? Anybody else want to change their
vote? OK, please cast up the ballot. With 34 ye, one nay, Senate Bill 614
is passed. Please transmit to the house. Now we're going to go to Senate Bill 634 by Senator
Mark Johnson. That is not correct. My mistake, we're gonna go to
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Senate Bill 615 by Senator Penzo. 65 by
Senator Pen out to amend the law concerning energy and to regulate non-export facilities. Senator Penza, you recognize. Thank you, Mr.
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President. Um, again, I want to start out by saying thank you for allowing
Senator Clint Penzo
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me the opportunity to expunge the vote on this one yesterday, make some amendments to it and uh hopefully it'll be more palatable. Um, this was, this was The non-export energy bill that
we uh ran last night and um We amended it today, struck out section one, that's the language, um, that had the, uh, shall not discriminate language in it, uh, that affects how uh would have prevented rates from being negotiated. I think some people made comments, came to the well, um, and uh had concerns that the utility companies could negotiate the rates. This removing that
section of the language now allows that to. And I'd be happy to answer any questions. OK, Penzo, is there any questions for him?
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OK, is there anyone that wants to speak against this bill. Is there anyone that wants to speak for this bill. Are you close center Penzo? I'm going to
Senator Clint Penzo
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make a few more yes sir, you're. Thank you. I want, I want to remind you all, this is pro property rights, OK? This, this allows companies to
generate on their property to fulfill their needs. It strengthens the grid. It allows more development to come into Arkansas. Like I said, last time I presented this, there's hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars that could come into the state because The legislation like this, um, I just would ask everybody to consider it. I know you've been lobbied pretty hard, told that this is going to negatively impact rate users, um, the PSC
will protect the rate users, and I'm confident of that. Um, I think there's a lot of misinformation being sent out there to try to cloud the issue and I would just like you to think about strengthening the grid and protecting. property rights in Arkansas. I'd appreciate a good vote on this. OK, Senator is closed. Uh, is there any objection
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to rolling the vote? OK, I see some objections, so we're going to call the rope. OK,
Madam Secretary, if you'd call the row.
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Davis. there Crawl Davis days this mine, Dotson. Dodson, English. English. Flip out. Flowers. Flowers.
Gilmore, hammer, hammer. Hester Hester, Hi, Picky
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Hill. Hi Irvin like Johnson. Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson. King King Flatding Laing, love.
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Peyton, Penzo Patty, rice, Scott. Scott Stan, Stuberfield. Sullivan Tacker? Wallace.
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OK, are there any members that wish to vote or change their vote. OK, we're going to
kind of go slow. Senator Dodson is a yes. Senator McKee is a no. Senator
Scott is a no. Sender Hammer is a no. Send her love is a no. Senator Hester is a no. Senator Murdoch, what were you, sir? Sender Crowe is a no.
Senator letting send her flowers is no Senator Leding is I. Send her Flippo is a no. Senator Murdoch is an eye. Senator Tucker, what were you, sir? Senator Tucker is and I.
All right. Anyone else? Anyone else check the board, make sure it's correct.
We're about to cast up the ballot. OK, we're gonna cast up the ballot. Please cast up the ballot. OK, with 12 years, 20 nays,
3 non-voting, Senate Bill 6155 is failed. We are now going
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to go to Senate Bill 634, Senator Mark
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Johnson. Symbol 6:34 by Senator Mark Johnson to create
the division of inner scholastic activities within the division of elementary and secondary education, Senator Johnson,
you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh,
Senate Bill 634, uh, it, uh, establishes direct operational control by the commissioner of elementary and secondary education of interscholastic activities uh within the Department of Education. Uh, it, uh, allows the state board to promulgate rules to administer that that new division and that's really what it does, OK. Any questions for Senator Mark Johnson?
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Anyone wish to speak against the bill. Anyone want to speak for the bill. Senator Johnson, are you closed? I'm closed. Appreciate. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. Members, this is the way we're checking the boards to check the board and let me know if
you want to change your vote, Senator Petty. I no. Senator Gilmore is no. Anyone else, Senator Dees is
present. Senator Love, that was a no. Senator Love's a no. Senator Scott is a present, Senator Murdoch
is a no Any anybody else? OK, check the board up Senator Hill is present. Senator Rice is present. If I got everybody.
Anybody else? OK. By a vote of what Ma'am. Oh, I'm sorry, cast
up the ballot. OK, with 27 ye, 4 nays, 4 present, Senate Senate Bill 634 passes. OK, we are now on the
2nd page, members, uh, we're gonna go to House Bill 1131.
Did I not do that? OK, on the last one, we need to transmit that to the house on that Senate bill that was Senate bill. 6:34. OK, now we're gonna be on House Bill 1131
by Cener Penzo. Pass Bill 1131 by Cent Penzo to authorize an advanced practice registered nurse to the delegate certain tasks to medical assistance and
other unlicensed staff. Senator Penzo, you're recognized, sir.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Now we're on the House bill, so we're on the non-controversial side of the hill. So, um, earlier in the session, I ran Senate Bill 99, which is now Act 437, uh, that gave delegation authority to physician's assistants. We've done this for physicians. This, this gives delegation authority to APRNs, um, so it's pretty much the same thing we did for the PAs earlier in the session, so I'd be happy to answer any questions and go
more detail if I need to, but if not, I just ask for a good vote. OK, any
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questions for Senator Penzo on this one? Anyone want to speak against it? Anyone want to
speak for it? Is there any objection to roll, are you close Sen Penzo, Senor Penzo's closed and there's any objection to rolling the vote, please roll the vote. OK, members, it's, it's all
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on the board here. Does anybody want to change their vote? All right, I've got Senator McKee as a no.
I have Senator Bryan is present. I have Senator Blake Johnson as president. I have Senator Irvin as no.
Anyone else Anyone else? OK, please cast
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up the ballot. With 31, 2 nays, 2 present. House Bill 1131 is passed. Please please
return to the house as amended. OK, now we're gonna go to House
Bill 1642 by Senator Boyd. House was 1642 by
Centra Boyd to amend the measures considered when calculating a school rating and to ensure a student is not counted
as a dropout for purposes of calculating a school level graduation rate is
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the student passes the GED test. You're recognized Senator Boyd. Thank you, Mr. President. So,
Senator Justin Boyd
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uh, Representative Grahamla worked hard on these bills, so there's a package of bills,
House Bill 1484, 1642 and House Bill 1812, so this one by itself doesn't make a lot of sense. It just adjust to the language for 1812 to to it, there are two places in code where this is laid out. This matches 1812. So at the end of the day, these bills work together to strengthen the Arkansas high school diploma while Sataneously providing a pathway for high-risk kids to, to get a high school equivalency.
Any questions for Senator Boyd? Senator Clark, you're recognized
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for a question. In the title, it says to amend the measures considered
when calculating a school rating is that the part where if the student passes a GED, it doesn't, yes, a
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5-year, the 5-year, uh thank you right. Any other questions for Senator Boyd. Anyone want to
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speak against this bill? Anyone wants to speak for this bill? Are you closed, Senator Boyd? Senator Boyd is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote.
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Members check the board. Does anyone want to change their vote? Anyone want to change their vote on this. OK. Please cast up the
ballot. With 35 years, zero nays, House Bill 1642 is passed. Please return to the house as amended. OK, the next one is going to be
a House Bill 1656 by Senator Davis.
As for 15, 1656 by Senator Davis to amend the law regarding oil and gas production and conservation. OK, Senator Davis,
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you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. um, this bill, I, I'll try to keep this short and take questions, but this bill has, I think we've all had multiple conversations about it, um, so this bill just clarifies in 1985 royalty statute that has been litigated many times over the years, and the courts have determined that our law is vague and ambiguous. So this bill just
seeks to clarify the law based on those court rulings. Happy to answer any questions. Um, all
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questions for Senator Davis? Question. Who, who is that?
Senator Gilmore? You're recognized for a question. Could, could you elaborate on those court rulings? Yeah, there, there have been
Senator Breanne Davis
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sure, they've been, there have been several federal court rulings that's been litigated in federal court, um, and essentially they are kicking it
back to the state, saying the they're essentially saying our law is ambiguous and vague um in this area, and so this law just seeks to clarify it. Yes, sir. So these individuals signed
contracts, did they not? Yes, they all have contracts. So this void contracts? No. It would not. No, it doesn't void their contracts. It'll actually let
Senator Breanne Davis
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them be paid with their contract, the way that it's written. OK, well, clearly there was some testimony in committee where
that was said, so I'm just trying to get the information. No, this doesn't void any contracts at all, but it would, it would change the terms by which they were signed, right? No, it would not. All
right, thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? got me at a disadvantage up here, don't you? All right. OK,
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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does anyone wish to speak against this bill, Senator Stone, you're recognized to speak against this bill.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Members. You know, most things
Senator Matt Stone
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in life are simple, and, and when they get complicated, it's because we've complicated them. And when the motion enters the equation, things get complicated pretty quick. And I think that's what has happened here. Current law that was passed in 1985 before the Fayetteville Shell was ever heard of set the royalty rate.
The 1st 18 was supposed to be paid net after expenses were held out of it. Around 2005 mineral contracts were, were, were negotiated when the Fayettevill Shell came in. They were signed and they were paid for per the contract. That is not in dispute. But why is dispute is how they should have been paid.
In 2019, the current producer. Who is paying the mineral owners started paying per state law that was passed in 1985. From 2005 until 200019, the producers overpaid what state law required. The menral owners have sued 6
times and all 6 times they have lost in court. And then even I have a letter here from the Arkansas Bar Association, and it's just two sentences, says I'm writing to inform you that the Arkansas Bar Association legislation committee carefully reviewed House Bill 1656 during this weekly meeting on March 14, 2025. After a thorough discussion and consideration, the committee
voted to formally oppose the bill on behalf of the Arkansas Bar Association. A no vote will make an erroneous contract subservient to state law. You cannot make a contract that overrides state law. It is always subservient to state law. A yes vote will pass a law to
accommodate a contract. That is what is at stake here. The legislature sets policy and it should be honored in this policy was set in in 1985. Mineral owners are wanting to have the law changed and now we're having producers and mineral owners set policy in the state. They weren't elected to do so, but that is what is going to happen.
So you say, well man, why is this important? Now, I'm assuming Senator Davis is running this bill because it's in her district and her people have asked her to do so. And I believe she's doing the right thing because you should be considered to what your constituents are saying and doing. But I'm standing here today because my constituents have asked me to speak against the bill. A large portion of the oil industry in this state is in my district.
They feel like Pandora's box is fixing to be opened up because the mineral owners. Either didn't get legal representation when they signed the contract or they didn't understand what they were signing or the oil producer. When they made the contract, didn't understand the state law. So here's what's happened. They've been defeated in court 6 times. In 2021, this couldn't get out of committee this very bill. It
couldn't get out of committee last year. There's been such a plea and an outcry from this group to change state law so they can go back to, to getting higher pay. I acknowledge that. But once again, you cannot. Make be in state law to accommodate a contract. It's the other way around. So here's what, here's what the fear is. Once we open it up, other mineral owners around the state
who signed contracts, they'll want to renegotiate on their leases or could, and if they can't get get dressed in the courts, then we'll just go to the legislature and make an emotional plea and when, and when we do, They'll eventually relent and change the law. Now, if the mineral loaders can go to court and get the court to see it their way. That's what the courts is for and by all means they should have that legal right to do that, and I was supporting them to do it.
But if you can't get satisfaction in the court after 6 times. Don't bring it back to the legislature and ask the legislature to override. the courts. Now I know and I've just been listening all afternoon, there are some people that are hard, yeses. On this bill. I'm gonna tell you I've been listening. There are people that are hard-nosed on this bill. But
I believe there will be a lot of people that are undecided. I'm asking that you do not let your emotions be your decision maker. I'm asking that you honor the current state law and vote no on this, but that I'm open to any questions. OK, does anybody have any questions to Senator Stone? OK, Center Stone
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has spoken against the bill. Does anyone want to speak for the bill? Thank you. All right, Senator Dimay's gonna
speak for the bill. Members, I just wanna kind of clarify a few things and I also want to give you just a very quick example that I think fully illustrates what we're talking about here on your desk,
put on your desk earlier today, you've got a piece of paper that has SWN in the top corner. You've got it on the second page it says flywheel. OK, when we talk about the changing of leases, there is no changing of leases. These leases are the leases that were signed by the royalty owners. And when those royalty owners and the and the people that were doing the leasing sign those leases. Everyone understood what they were doing.
And when they had a gross lease, gross mint gross. And from the time that that lease was signed all the way up until uh until flywheel acquired the vast majority of the interest in the Fayetteville Shell, everything was paid the same, a gross lease, paid a gross lease royalty. Flywheel decided that they did not like the or they wanted to explore what the definition of net proceeds meant, so they took it to court. Well, actually, they just started paying people they will with the way they wanted to pay them. So if you
look at this sheet, this is what's happened, OK? If you had a check, this is the exact same royalty owner, mineral owner. They were paid, they had a $295 royalty. There were $77.91 of deductions and it are netted in a $287 check to that royalty owner. In 2019, Phiwe decided they were going to change the way they paid royalty owners, and they wanted to take it to court, obviously.
So a $386 royalty, then got $207 worth of deductions and the net check to that royalty owner was $178. The entire time that that royalty payment was or that lease was in place and that gross lease was in place. They were paid the exact same until flywheel acquired those leases. And they are the ones that changed the game. Now there our first opportunity to deal with that was in 2021. I would also say that I agree. This is not the same bill. There are vast changes in this
building and ones that were originally filed. In fact, there are vast changes in the one that was originally filed this session and what you have in front of you. I, I would say the the way it was originally filed did go too far. It changed paydex and was trying to acquire additional reporting that would have affected everybody that paid royalties in the state of Arkansas. All that was stripped away and even to The testimony from the oil and gas commission when they came, this brings us back to what
everyone understood net proceeds to be when these leases were signed. So no one's changing anything, no one's taking advantage of anything. It was my goal when we reworked the legislation to make sure it just got us back to square one what everyone thought things were supposed to be in the way that it was always been accepted. And so again, I hope you take a look at that, uh, I think this is good. This impacts 40,000 royalty owners is what I believe in the state of Arkansas. You know who's on the other side of this? Flywheel. Do you know
who owns 42% of fire will as of seven days ago, gunvo. Gun versus closest associate is who Putin. So if you guys want to increase the valuations for flywheel. Go ahead and say no. If you want to increase the valuations to these mineral owners. Then I'd ask for a yes vote. Thank you. And I'd be happy to take any questions
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any questions for Senator Dimay? OK, center dismay, OK, Senator
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Murdoch, you have a question, Senator Dima. You're recognized. This has been to court several times or
or the bar association has rendered a a talk to me a little bit about that. I have no idea. Can anyone in this chamber raise their hand if
they've seen the bar association just randomly issue an opinion because I sure have not. Well, let's, let's keep this the way it is. Senator Murdock, you're
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still have the floor, sir. OK, well, I was told that
the bar association has disagrees with the assertion that you're making and I'm just trying to work through the leak to make sure what we do is making sense because we don't want to harm. The original investors in this situation with this, you know, where we are now and what you're saying is if we vote no, then we're going to. harm them. Absolutely the bar association is saying that's not true. So has it been the court has it been litigated to your
knowledge. It's been litigated back and forth and my understanding, I'm not an attorney, someone else can come and try to explain that better than me. It was in state court, remanded to federal court in federal court, the judge there said, hey, Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, we want you to make a decision on this Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas said no, we're not going to make a decision on this, and then the federal court opined. But as far as the bar association, I, I don't know, and 11 of the things I would tell you is the way the bill was originally filed, I would argue
that it did impact existing leases in a way that would not be the same as what they've been in 2018. It, it did. And I don't know if that's the comment from the bar association. I have no idea. I'm just not very familiar with the bar association getting involved in legislative business. We found a lot of things that lots of people say is unconstitutional. Strangely enough, I don't see. them get engaged in that. Thank you. All right. OK, Senator Stone, did you have
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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a question? OK, Senator Penzo, you're not, are you wanting to What are you trying to do?
OK. All right, let's first, are there any more questions, Senator dismaying? I don't see
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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any. Uh, he spoke for the the bill. Senator Penzo is going to speak against the bill. Senator Penzo, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.
Chair
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Um, a lot of y'all know that I have a geology background. That's why
Senator Clint Penzo
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I studied in school, so I know a lot of geologists, I know a lot of people with wills. I know a lot of people, uh, in this world and, and almost everybody I've spoke to is, is highly uh opposed to this House Bill 1656 changes the meaning of net proceeds that's been in law since 1985, even if royalty owners has a directly negotiated lease that states payments will be derived from net proceeds. This bill seeks to dictate that an operator pay the owner gross proceeds minus applicable taxes,
assessments, and charges or deductions, specifically allowed by the terms of the lease. This not only upends decades-long standard law, it seeks to undo terms of existing contracts, um, arguably this, uh, could violate the contracts clause of both the, both constitutions, um, even if this bill passes, It wouldn't apply to leases in place today. Every oil and gas lease in place now and executed after 1985, um,
Inherently contains the provisions of that law, um, existing agreements cannot be altered by a later law change without violating these the contracts clause. Uh, this makes each working interest owner a guarantor. Uh, the operator, owner of the lease, and any other working interest owner in the drilling unit would become liable for reimbursing any unauthorized deductions within 30 days regardless of who made them. The current law in place since 1985 states lessee that submits.
It's 1st 18 royalty payment to the company acting as operator and in charge of dispersing payments in accordance with the statute is free from further liability to the royalty owner with regard to that 1st 1/8 royalty. The operator that makes the 1st 1/8 payment to the royalty owners within a drilling unit is also free from further liability. These protective provisions would be Repealed even though the bill does not state it, creating new liabilities. Um, spill, uh,
states that ownership of minerals is a property right that mineral owner has the right to contract regarding the owned minerals. It also states that the 1/8 is a minimumality and gives owner freedom to negotiate for a hire an oil gas lease, uh. This, this is a bad bill. Like I said, I've talked to a lot of people in this industry and uh I would just appreciate a no vote on it. Thank you. OK, Senator Penzo has spoken against the
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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bill. Senator Hill, you're recognized to speak for the bill.
Thank you, colleagues. I'm here to talk about
the people who this actually affects. It's the mineral rights owners. That's who this affects. We can talk about in 1985 whenever all this came about. I live in 2025 right now. I don't live in 1985. There's been some changes along the way. This does nothing to the contracts. Nothing to the contracts. They're still the same. I don't know where everyone's getting that idea at. These contracts
have not changed. The way they're paying has changed. It affects the constituents in the state of Arkansas. I am not a geologist. I'm not a specialist on that, but I do know my constituents and their checks have been affected. Their contracts have not changed, and this does not affect oil. We've talked about oil up here a little while. This does not affect all. But that I'd appreciate a new path. With the senator take a question, no, sir, he said he will not.
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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OK. Is there anyone who wishes to speak against the bill? Is there anyone want to
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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switch, uh, wishes to speak for the bill. Senator Irvin, you're recognized to speak for the bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Senate. My district. Its represented
by the Fayetteville Shell. I mean, I have a ton of people in my district. It is Van Buren County, Faulkner County.
Fayetteville Shell is majority of my Faulkner County. There has been more people and more constituents that have reached out to me about this bill, wanting me to vote for this bill, probably then most bills up here this session. This is not retroactive, number 12, I want you to think about as a property owner, Getting blindsided when your check changes and you've done nothing to amend the contract that has been written. You
didn't mend it. They didn't amend it. It's just all of a sudden one day, it just was different. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's fair. And you think about these property owners, some might be sophisticated enough to understand that some may not. They just see this and go, what happened? What changed? I don't think that's right. I don't think that's fair. And I think with the legislation is doing is saying, hey, these are the rules of engagement that everybody entered into.
With the property owner on good faith, they entered into these negotiations with these contracts, with that company. And now, a company has come in and changed. Those rules of engagement without changing any of the language of a written signed document, just their interpretation of it. I don't think that's right and I don't think that's fair. There's a ton of people that are affected by this bill, particularly in my district, and
I ask you please, for them to vote for this bill. Thank you. OK, Senator
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Irvin has spoken for the bill. Does anyone wish to speak against the bill? OK, does anyone else wish to speak for the bill, Senator Payton, you're recognized to speak for the bill. Thank
you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I would appreciate your attention. First, I'm going to disclose that I am a royalty owner. Uh, it's not much, and it wouldn't buy dinner most months at a nice restaurant.
But here's the situation. We have a lot of royalty owners. Who were forced into a lease. They had no choice, but in 1985 when the law was passed, It was passed so that if you had a section of ground. Where one or two property owners were
holding out and refusing to sign a lease. They would be forced to sign a lease and the state set a minimum as to what
had to be paid to the mineral owner. Now we change laws down here all the time. We changed some today that are retroactive that affect people greatly. But we have a responsibility as Arkansas state government to protect Arkansas citizens. Let me tell you a little bit about my experience. I knew nothing about royalty law or royalties or anything else when they came and leased my ground.
They told me that state law set the price. And that they could not pay more. It was a bold-faced lie within 6 months they were paying landowners more than what the minimum that the law sets. OK. The law said that they had to pay 18 that the well head. It
uses a national market on the price of natural gas. As a wholesale price of natural gas that the that the royalty
owner had to be paid 1/8 of. That price changes, that price fluctuates, but on the examples that you have before you, it's the same well, it's the same mineral owner and
one month, the value, the wholesale value of the gas was $285 295 dollars. The other example you have the same well, same royalty owner. The wholesale value is $385. That's $100 higher.
OK? The net check on the first one's 287 and 178 on the
second one. That's $100 lower. That they got paid on the same well, same contract. What's the difference? The difference is the
expenses that they were allowed to deduct, OK? Who's in control of the expenses. The property owner has no control
of the expenses at all. But these companies set up closely held subsidiaries that
build the pipeline, that put in the
compressor, compressor station and all the handling fees and stuff. And they can charge theirselves whatever they want. And then call it an expense and deduct it prior to your 18 being calculated. OK, here's the other thing. These leases never end. You don't get to renegotiate the lease. As long as that property's producing, the lease never ends.
I can't speed up. It's important. I'm sorry. So they're forced leases, they're never ending leases. You don't get to renegotiate them. But here's the worst part. The company has changed a dozen times. They keep selling to another company. And when they do, the new company finds new expenses. And the old company is protected from liability. They're no longer in the picture. And
that's how they keep this scheme going. The
company we're talking about is Flywheel, which came into Arkansas recently and bought up these leases. It's owned by Russian oligarch, 42% of it. Which just happened recently, I think within a week or two. We have no defense as royalty owners, none, no chance to renegotiate a lease ever. The only defense we have is what the
legislature did in 1985. Let me give you another juicy piece of information. The production started before 1985. Every company that was producing gas in Arkansas prior to 1985 was affected their contracts were affected by the law that passed in 1985. We as legislature have the authority to fix this. The courts do not. OK? And we do this all the time.
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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And I'd appreciate a yes vote. OK, Senator Payton has spoken for
the bill. Anybody else want to speak for or against this bill. Senator Flippo, are you wanting to speak one way? OK.
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I wasn't for sure. Senator Davis, you
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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recognize the clothes, ma'am. Thank you, Mr. President. I think so many people who spoke for the
Senator Breanne Davis
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bill have um made a lot of really good points and said it well. Um,
but like Senator Ervin said, this is not
retroactive. That's something that can be sorted out in the courts. That's not for us to deal with. We're not talking about retroactivity here. Um, again, that's something that can be sorted out in the courts. We're just clearing up that we want people to be paid according to their lease. It's been a huge issue for, I know my constituents and several of your constituents across the state for years, um, being paid incorrectly. These companies not honoring the lease as it's written. It's wrong, um, and they should be paid according to
the lease. It's as simple as that, and that's exactly what this bill will allow for, and I'd ask for a
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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good vote. OK. So Senator Davis is closed. Is there any objection to rolling the vote? Seeing no objection, please roll the vote. OK, members, the, please look at the board. All right. Is there anyone that wishes to change their vote? OK, Senator Clark Tucker is a no.
Senator Gilmore is a no. Senator Stone is a no. Senator Penzo is a no. Anyone else that I'm missing, Senator Dodson is present, Senator, was that a no, Senator Blake Johnson. Senator Blake Johnson's said no. Anyone else? Anyone else? Senator Murdoch is present. All right, we're fixing
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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to call it. Anything else Where are you at, crow?
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Senator Crow is a no, OK. All right, check the
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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board. cast up the ballot. OK, right, with 27, 6 nay, 2 present, House Bill 1656 has passed. Please return to the house
as amended. OK, members, we have 8 bills left, so
let's see if we can get these done.
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Senator Gilmore, where are you at? We'll see if you
can get here while we're reading the bill. House for 1797 by Centra Gilmore to amend the law concerning the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and declare an emergency.
Senator Gilmore, you'll recognize, sir. Thank you, Mr. President, members. I'm not gonna spend much time on this because we spent way too much time on it last night. Uh, we've made
an amendment that's the rice Hickey Caldwell amendment that should get everybody good with it and with that.
I would appreciate a good vote. I really don't want
to take any questions, but I will if I have to. Anyone want to ask Senator Gilmore any questions
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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on this. Thank you, Senator Gilmore. Anyone wants to speak against this bill? Anyone wants to speak for this bill? Are you closed, Senator Gilmore? Senator Gilmore is closed.
Is there any objection to rolling the vote? Please roll the vote. OK, members check the board. Does anyone want to be changed, Senator King is a no. Anyone else, Senator Bryant is present.
Anyone else wants to change their vote? OK, cast up the ballot. OK,
with 33 years, 1 nay, one present. House
Bill 1797 has passed. Please return to the house as amended. OK, now we're gonna go to House Bill 1812 by Senator Boyd. Senator Boyd. Thank you,
Mr. President. Again, House Bill 14 back up on the last one. On the last one there was emergency clauses and there was enough votes to adopt it also,
so that will, will, the correspond. emergency clause also passed and was returned to the house.
by Senator Bow to amend the Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act to create an exception to attendance
requirements for a student who takes a GED test and to amend the score
requirements for a GED test. Senator Boy, you're recognized, sir.
Senator Justin Boyd
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Thank you, Mr. President. again, House Bill 14841642 and 1812 worked
together, the work to strengthen the Arkansas high school diploma while simultaneously providing a pathway for high-risk kids to high school equivalency, uh, House Bill 1812 works on the pathway to provide uh for high-risk kids to high school equivalency. So one affects the graduation rate, which we already dealt with in another place in code in 1642 and then 2, it provides that pathway for a student who's enrolled in public school to take a GED test, and then 3, it eliminates outdated.
language. OK. Anybody have any questions for Senator Boyd? Anyone want to speak
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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against the bill. Anyone want to speak for the bill, Senator Boyd, are you closed? Senator Boyd is closed. Any objection to rolling the vote, please roll
the vote. And at this point, as any member wish to change their vote if you'd, if you'd check the board. OK, seeing none,
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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uh, cast up the ballot. OK, with 35, 0 nays, House Bill
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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1812 has passed. Please return to the house as amended. OK, we're gonna go to House Bill 19. 41
by Senator Ervin. Senator Ervin, she's got to read it. I got ahead of myself. It's 184841. I didn't have my glasses on. They're on now. Has 1841 by Senator Irving to create the
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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Arkansas Revenue Investment in 41 by Senator Ervin. Senator Ervin, she's got to
read it. I got ahead of myself. It's 184841. I didn't have my glasses on. They're on now. Has 1841 by Senator Irving to create the Arkansas Revenue Investment and battle mean systems act arrives Act and to create the Arkansas revenue Investment in vital
system fund for emergency medical services agency. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This bill creates the Arkansas Revenue Investment and bottle EMS Systems fund grant program. There is no funding attached to the bill that simply sets up the framework for it. If you, uh, if you represent a rural part of the state of Arkansas, you know that the rural ambulance providers sometimes have a difficulty in covering their overhead because there's not enough runs to cover
their costs. And so this just sets up a framework to support. that, uh, to support those rule ambulance providers in the state, but again, no funding is attached to the bill. I appreciate a good vote. Anyone have any questions for Senator Irving.
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Anyone would speak against this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill, Senator Irvin, you are closed. Is that correct? Senator Irvin is closed. Any objection to
rolling the vote? Madam Secretary, please roll the vote.
OK, uh, I've got Senator King is non-voting. I've got Senator Dodson as a
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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no. I have Senator McKee as a no. I have Senator Bryant as a present. I have sent her Penzo as a present. Anyone else? Speak up if I,
cause I can't hardly see y'all because you're kind of standing and stuff. Anyone else? OK, cast up
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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the ballot. With 30s, 2 nays, 1 non-voting,
2 present. House Bill 1841 is passed,
please return to the house as amended. Members, I think we've got 5 more bills, so. Just
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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a little bit longer, so we're gonna go to House Bill 1866 by Senator Dodson. Hasville, 1866 with
Sandra Dotson to create Eli's law and to require each public school to install an audio, audio recording device in each locker room and dressing
room on the public school campus, Senator Dodson, you're recognized, sir.
Senator Jim Dotson
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members, House Bill 1866 ran this morning
in committee and we heard the story of two courageous young men, Eli and Cash, as they bravely sat at the table. Their moms told the story of how their 13 year old sons were sexually assaulted by older and larger students in their school locker room, horrifically, this isn't the first time this has happened here in the state of Arkansas. We know about the abuse in Huntsville and Lamar.
Too often our students, of whom we are tasked as primary who we were tasked as a primary purpose to provide a safe learning environment for have faced literal terror. This must never happen again on our watch. This bill helps address this issue by placing audio recording devices in locker rooms by the 27 28th school year. Each school shall have these devices in place. We heard the powerful testimony from Doctor Ferris Smith, Superintendent at the White County Central School District who took preemptive
action last October, so that these types of incidents would not happen under his leadership. Since then, he's had zero bullying, 0 fights, and 0 calls from parents and students with concerns. It works. And his students know that he has prioritized their safety above all else. The bill stipulates that the audio must be kept for a minimum of 90 days, but no longer than one year. It also has safeguards in place.
The school must make a sign advising the audio recording is taking place. However, the recordings can only be requested if there is an allegation of wrongdoing. Additionally, it can only be accessed by school administration or the parents grandparents, legal guardians of the student. Finally, ADE has allowed the schools can utilize department safety grants to fund this vital student safety enhancement. Our duty in this body is to kids in the state of Arkansas first
and foremost and to keep them safe. Sexual assault should never happen, but too often the students in our state have had to fear HB 1866 shows Eli and Cash as well as students all over our state that we will keep our commitment to them. Happy to answer any questions. OK, does anybody have any questions
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of, OK, Senator McKee, you have a question of Senator Dodson. Dodson, I appreciate you bringing this legislation. I think I understand
Senator Matt McKee
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what you're trying to do. But the concept
That monitoring all behavior. Leads to the absence of crime and bad things I don't think is a good healthy precedent to set in our society. There's a reason I don't think we should have cameras on every corner downtown, and there's a reason I don't think we should be recording kids in the locker room. I recognize that there's some horrible things that have happened, but I don't want kids getting used to the idea of being monitored all the time.
So I appreciate, I just don't understand how this was going to prevent crime. Can you answer that for me? Uh
Senator Jim Dotson
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As with anything, there will still probably be bad actors that uh go around these types of things. However, having evidence available now these types of audio devices as they testify today are voice activated. So for instance, when somebody is not supposed to be in the locker room, uh, they said that the
incidents of kids skipping class and going and sitting in the locker room, have gone to zero since in the school that this is already taking. So this is optional for schools right now, um, some superintendents are taking or this superintendent is taking it upon themselves. There will probably be some others that already do this voluntarily, but um as far as uh the ability of this, they, they have the ability to turn these cameras or these not cameras, sorry, audio recording devices, there aren't
no cameras in the locker rooms, um, off during like games and things when people are supposed to be there. It's, it's more. When kids are not supposed to be in their voice activated. Is someone getting bullied? Is someone getting trapped in there um and then is it he said, she said, uh, type thing when, you know, kids complain to their parents and nothing is being done by coaches or administration. OK. Are there
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Are there any other questions of Senator Dodson? OK. Does
anyone wish to speak against this bill? Does anyone wish to speak for this bill. OK, Senator
Dodson, are you closed or closed. Appreciate a good vote. OK. Is there uh
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members is, is it members, if you don't mind, is there an objection to rolling the vote? All right, we have an objection to rolling the vote, please call the row. Bo
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Yes. Crowell. Davis Davis They This man Dotson. English English
Hester Hecky Hill Irvin
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Irvin. Like Johnson. Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson, King letting. Gladding Love.
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McKee McKee. Murdoch Murdoch Payton and Patty rice
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Scott. Stan. Stuberfield. a fail. Sullivan. Tacker?
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vote or change their vote, Senator Boyd
is no. OK, I've got uh Senator Leding is I Senator Stubblefield
his eye. Senator Caldwell is uh Senator Davis is I, anyone else. Senator Irvin is present.
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Anyone else members? OK, is everybody where they want to be? Check the board. Senator Gilmore is I. Check the board. OK, hold on
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a minute. Senator Boyd is a yes. OK, we'll take your time,
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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members. This is important. Sooner Stubbleville is a no.
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All right, members, everybody comfortable with where you're at. OK, cast
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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up the ballot. OK, with 23 years, 5 nays, 3 non-voting, 4 present. House Bill 1866. Has passed. Please, uh, return to the
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house. As amended. Oh OK, members, the next one is
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going to be House Bill 1872 by
Senator Gilmore. 1872 by Senator Gilmore to amend the law concerning the fees that may be collected by a county sheriff and to allow a county sheriff to collect fees for attempted service in certain circumstances. You recognize Senator Gilmore. Thank
you, Mr. President. Members, uh, bill comes to us from the sheriff's Association. This is just clarifying that they can be paid for every attempt to service, costs have gone up. Inflation's gone up, fuel's gone up. I hold up members, I know, I know it's
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late and I know we're we're about to the end, but let's just, we only got about 3 more here, so let's, let's really try
to pay attention, please. Senator Gilmore, thank you again, this is just to clarify, they can be paid for every attempt of service, not changing the fee structure, not changing that, it's just clarifying what they can be paid for. I appreciate a good vote. Happy Day questions. OK, does anybody have any questions as Senator Gilmore? Of course OK. Anyone wish to speak against the
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bill. Anyone who wish to speak for
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the bill. Senator Gilmore has already told me he's closed, uh, any objection to rolling the vote?
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OK, please roll the vote. OK, now it's on the screen. So if anybody wants to change their vote, let me know. OK, I see Senator Tucker is present. Anyone
else sender King is non-voting. Anybody else?
Anybody else want to change their vote. OK, cast
up the ballot. OK, we have 33 e, zero nays, 1 non-voting, one present. House Bill 1872 has passed. Please return to the house as just return, just
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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please return to the house. It has not been amended. OK, the next one is going
to be House Bill 1891. Senator Gilmore, Houseville 1891 by
Senator Gilmore to amend the arson filing as a candidate for the Office of Justice of the Supreme Court or judge of the Court of Appeals, who is an appointee in that position to use the title of that position as a prefix when filing as
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a candidate. Senator Gilmore, you recognize, sir.
Thank you, Mr. President, members, uh, you've already heard the Senate version of this is the
house companion bill, Senate Bill 5. 16, uh, again, we were just clarifying and we missed a code section in one of the previous
bills related to judicial ballot titles. This is just cleaning that up. You already heard the other bills, Senate Bill 516. Appreciate a good vote. OK. Does anyone have any questions
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for Senator Gilmore? Anyone want to speak against the bill? Anyone wants to speak for the bill. You're closed, correct, Senator Gilmore. Senator Gilmore is closed, and is there any objection to rolling
the vote? Please roll the vote. And then members please check the board and tell me if you want to change your vote. Anybody here want to change your vote on this one.
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Anyone want to change their vote. OK, seeing no cast up the ballot. We have 35, 0, nay, House Bill 1891 is passed. Please return to the house. The next one is going to be House Bill 1896 by
Senator Dismay. 1896 by central dismay to create the junk fee eliminating
Act of 2025 to abolish the information Network of Arkansas and to transfer any remaining duties that the information Network of Arkansas
to the division of Information Systems. Ma, you recognize, sir?
members of the bill does exactly what the title says. It abolishes or eliminates the information network of Arkansas that was established in 1995 when the internet was new and unknown and no one knew what to do with it, uh, as a program we've we've moved past that at this point, charges fees that are out of line with anything else you could find in the private sector. So this is going to move everything over to DIS should create efficiencies and also some more competitions to these products can be bid for
currently that is just sole sourced through INA. Anybody have any questions for
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Senator Dismay? Anyone, uh, OK, no question. OK. Anyone
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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who wants to speak against this bill? Anyone wants to speak for this bill, Senator Dismay is closed. Aren't you send this
bank? You are closed. OK, is there any objection, is there any objection to rolling the vote? OK, please roll the vote. Now members were to to you
checking this board to make sure you don't want to change your vote. Does anyone want to change
your vote? Senator King is non-voting. Anyone else? Anyone else want to do anything you want to change your vote? OK, cast up the ballot. 34, 0 nays,
1 non-voting, House Bill 1896 has passed. Please return to the house. Members, I believe this might be our last one, I'd say we might not have something else here,
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but we have House Bill 1931 by Senator Gilmore. How spell
1931 by Gilmore to to create the recidivism reduction system within the Department of Corrections and
declare an emergency. Senator Gilmore, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, you've already heard this bill,
Senate Bill 590, uh, the House Campanion Bill. I appreciate a good vote. Any questions of Senator Gilmore? Anyone wish to speak? against this bill. Anyone wants to speak for this bill,
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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Senator Gilmore has indicated that he is closed. Is
there any objection to rolling the vote. Please roll the vote. Back to
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the same thing. Does any member wish to change their vote. Anyone want to change their vote. Last time. I'm not seeing anybody cast up the
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ballot. We have 35, 0 nays. House Bill 1931 and it's corresponding emergency calls are both passed. Please return
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to the house. OK, do we have some other business? We're make
sure Notice the passage of Senate Bill 397 from the house as amended. our transportation. You
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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OK, we're gonna have a whole lot of stuff to read across the desk. Is there any other motions or anything that need to
Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
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be made? Senator, I mean Senator, sorry, Senator Hester has indicated that we will be back in at uh one o'clock tomorrow. We're gonna be at one o'clock.
I will say that revenue and tax revenue and tax is meeting at 8:15 in the morning. So let me go ahead and make that announcement also and then send
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her Hester, you're recognized, sir. Well, it's a similar to what I said last night. We've
been here a long time. We get to get up and move around and stuff, uh, certainly, uh, law enforcement to back our staff. who have been an amazing, uh, two days in a row. Thank you
so much. See now we've got 90s. I don't think we're
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gonna get out of here in 3 hours. We got 2 minutes.
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the House is passed return as sent 449. from my house has passed a bill 464 from the house is 467 from the house's 470 from the house has passed. We sent 485 from the house this past roll it, turn a 492 from the house has passed retires 494 from the house this past 495 from the House is passed Senate Bill 496 from the House has passed roll it.
27 from the house has passed enrollment returns 515 from the House is pass return a 522 from the House has passed and roll it return to Senate Bill 5:30 from the House is passed a 540 from the house has passed roll it. We turn a sym 550 from the house this past roll it a 552 from the House has passed roll it tied 553 from the house has passed a 562 from the house this past roll it. 67 from the House has passed and
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Davis to amend the law regarding paid
maternity leave for public school employees require the division
of Elementary and Secondary Education to pay for himcurred cost for a paid maternity leave, house
bill of 1017. 1084 by joint budget and act for the Arkansas Legislative audit of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee appropriation of 2025, 2026 your house 1084. Calendar 1086 a joint budget and Act for the Arkansas Court of Appeals Appropriation for the
2025, 2026, 5th year house for 1086 calendar 1092, but
joint budget and act for the Department of Human Services Division of Provider Services and quality assurance appropriation for the 2025, 2026 this year has 1092. Calendar 1096 for joint budget and act for the Department of Human Services, Medicaid tobacco settlement program appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year
as of 1096 calendar 1101 by joint budget tonight for the Arkansas governor's Mansion commission appropriation for the 2025, 2026 this year has 1101. That's 11:07 a joint measure tonight for the Department of Human Services Division of County Operations Appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year as 1107. Calendar 1112, a joint budget and act for the Office of the Treasurer of State, City County tourism, tourist meeting and entertainment facilities,
assistance, uh, appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year House Bill 1112. Calendar 1174 by Joint Budget and Act for the Department of Corrections Division of Correction Appropriation for 2025, 2026. Thistlege 1174 by Joint Budget and Act for the Department of Corrections Division of Correction Appropriation for 2025, 2026.
Thistlege 11741178, a central Wallace to amend the law concerning the contracting of a municipal attorney to amend the law concerning sums collected by district courts and to amend the
law concerning cost sharing for district court expenses, House Bill 1178. Judiciary. 1200 by
joint budget and act for the Department of Energy and Environment Division of Environmental Quality Appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year, House Bill 1200 calendar 106 by joint budget tonight for the Department of Education Division of elementary and secondary education, public school fund appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year,
House Bill 1206 1200 by joint budget and act for the Department of Energy and Environment Division of Environmental Quality Appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year, House Bill 1200 calendar 106 by joint budget tonight for the Department of Education Division of elementary and secondary education, public school fund appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year, House Bill 12061632. By Representative Wardla. To require reimbursement to the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission for a fee or discounted hunting and fishing license for 1632. That's. We skipped
one. You need to pick it up. Yeah, that one was there, but we didn't do this one. to do it. it together.
Thank Oh, we read that one. is It was Since you've gotten 1242. I don't have that bill. He's got a cat. We may have bred it. OK, just lay that aside. We'll go back. OK, 163232. We've already read it.
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OK, we've already read it. Is it in the machine? Yeah, yeah, we're on the house. That's not it. It's this one. I have a cat, I believe. I haven't done. 42. I. that. OK. OK.
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And was it red if you've got it, OK, OK. Has
1242, uh, I representative Mabury to amend the mechanism by which school nurses are compensated hospital of 1242. Where does it go?
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house was 1632. We read it 1649 now. That was 1649
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represented Bronx and act for the Department of
Agriculture, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission Appropriation for the 2025, 2026 fiscal year house was 1649. 1719 Senator Davis to amend the days included in the total number of maternity leave days approved by school that offers maternity leave house for 1719. 1832 by
Senator Hester to amend the rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. the state of Arkansas to mend the rule of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals under the
authority granted by the Arkansas Constitution House 1832. Judiciary. Houseville 1894 by Central Gilmore to establish a method of evaluation for real property used for affordable housing and to establish a method of evaluation for certain real property under Arkansas Constitution Article 16, Section 5, 1894 and 1903 by Senator English to amend provisions of the Arkansas Code to school districts with
flexibility regarding alternative learning environments. House Bill 1903. Call 1915 dismay to direct the Department of Human Services to request a broad-based categorical eligibility waiver for the supplemental nutrition assistance program and to amend the asset limits under the program House Bill 1915. 1916 by Senator Clark to amend the protecting miners from medical malpractice Act of 2023
and to include gender affirming interventions as a right of action. for medical malpractice, House Bill 1916. Judiciary, 1917, Senator in the Arkansas student athlete, uh, publicity Rights Act and to amend the law related to athletic program funding house 1917. 1926 with Senator Bryant to amend the law concerning the suspension with revocation or a
non-renewal of a person's driver's license or a failure to pay a court-ordered fine and to amend the law concerning a defendant's inability to pay a court. Ordered ban in 1926. Judiciary that's from 1935 Sen Gilmore to to create a modernization and automation tax credit to encourage investment by existing business within the state house in 1935. Reverend 1945 of Senator Davis to him in the Arkansas Opportunity Public School Choice Act to amend the Public School
Choice Act of 2015 and allows to transfer to another public school within his or her res. District Council in 1945. 1961 Main Boyd to allow medical providers temporary exemptions from federal information flocking regulations to safeguard patients during information disclosure and declare an emergency house 1961. Public health 1979 by Senator Blake Johnson to an act to amend Arkansas law to allow
warrantless searches by law enforcement officer of a person placed on suspended. Uh, in position of sentence and for other purposes have from 1979 judiciary, 1982 by Senator Davis to amend the use used tower recycling and accountability Act to create the Tower Management and recycling Act to repeal the used tire recycling fund and to create the waste tower abatement fund, House Bill 1982.
1984 by Senator Davis to create a designation for a registered sex. offender on a driver's license or identification card, house by 1984. Judiciary from 1986 the Central Wallace concerning excused absences for children or or fallen service members and children of fallen first responders house by 1986. 1987 by Senator Wallace him in the law concerning the state board of embalmers, funeral directors, cemeteries, and burial services and increase the
civil penalty for violation of a licensee house from 1987. Thank you. OK, so we can adjourn, huh?
Chair (Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr)
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All right, we're adjourned till. Did he say one tomorrow, we're adjourned to one o'clock tomorrow. Thank you.
Agenda
Call to Order
Roll Call
Prayer
Pledge of Allegiance
Introductions of Senate Pages
Announcements
Doctor of the Day
Announcements
Items to be Read Across the Desk
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD READING AND ADOPTION
SCR7 J. Scott TO RECOGNIZE THE MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL COMETS BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAM AS THE CLASS 4A STATE CHAMPIONS.
SCR8 J. Scott TO RECOGNIZE THE MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL LADY COMETS BASKETBALL TEAM AS THE CLASS 4A CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS AND TO REMEMBER HEAD COACH JOE GREGORY'S WIFE, CYNTHIA GREGORY.
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD READING AND CONCURRENCE
HCR1008 McAlindon Dotson TO CELEBRATE AND COMMEND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S NATIONALLY LEADING AND INDUSTRY-TRANSFORMING BICYCLE ASSEMBLY & REPAIR TECHNICIAN AND TRAIL TECHNICIAN PROGRAMS.
HCR1011 McAlindon Hester TO RECOGNIZE BENTONVILLE'S INVESTMENT IN CYCLING AND ITS TITLE AS THE MOUNTAIN BIKING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.
RESOLUTIONS FOR THIRD READING AND ADOPTION
SR54 Crowell TO RECOGNIZE THE TAYLOR HIGH SCHOOL LADY TIGERS SOFTBALL TEAM AS THE 2024 CLASS 1A STATE CHAMPIONS.
SR55 Crowell TO RECOGNIZE THE TAYLOR HIGH SCHOOL TIGERS BASEBALL TEAM AS THE 2024 CLASS 1A STATE CHAMPIONS.
SB400 - Motion to withdrawal SB400 for purpose of amendment.
SR56 Crowell TO CONGRATULATE THE STUDENTS OF MURFREESBORO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THEIR VICTORIES IN COMPETITIVE COMPUTERIZED NUMERIC CONTROL METAL, WOOD, AND LASER DESIGN.
SR64 B. Johnson TO URGE THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS TO TAKE CERTAIN ACTIONS.
SB614 - Motion to withdrawal SB614 for purpose of amendment.
HB1837 - Motion to withdrawal HB1837 for purpose of amendment.
SR66 B. Davis TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY ROBOTICS CLUB FOR WINNING THE TOURNAMENT CHAMPION AND INNOVATE AWARDS AT THE 2025 TEXAS STATE VEX U TOURNAMENT.
SENATE BILLS TO CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB568 - Motion to withdrawal SB 568 for purpose of amendment.
SB371 #1 J. Scott Scott TO ESTABLISH A STANDARDIZED SYSTEM TO AID IN THE SEARCH OF MISSING CHILDREN WHO DO NOT MEET THE CRITERIA FOR ACTIVATION OF THE ARKANSAS AMBER ALERT SYSTEM.
HB1679 - Motion to withdrawal HB 1679 for purpose of amendment.
SB568 - Motion to withdrawal SB 568 for purpose of amendment.
SB460 #1 Irvin Irvin TO MODIFY THE COMPLIANCE ADVISORY PANEL; TO REPEAL THE MARKETING RECYCLABLES PROGRAM OF THE COMPLIANCE ADVISORY PANEL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HOUSE BILLS WITH SENATE AMENDMENTS
HB1957 #1 S. Meeks English TO AMEND THE UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL AND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT ELECTRONIC MAIL PREVENTION ACT TO INCLUDE UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL AND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT TEXT MESSAGES.
Motion to add amendment SB??
HB1642 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.
HB1812 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.
HB1866 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.
HB1958 #1 S. Meeks English TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
SENATE BILLS FOR THIRD READING AND PASSAGE
SB149 J. English TO AMEND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING ACT OF 2003.
SB538 Gilmore TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.
SB600 C. Tucker TO REGULATE CONTRACTS; TO MANDATE CONTRACTUAL PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN CONTRACTS; AND TO CLARIFY PROPER JURISDICTION FOR CERTAIN CONTACTS.
Motion HB 1797 on second reading for amendment.
SB621 Irvin TO CLARIFY ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS AGAINST A HEALTHCARE INSURER; TO RETROACTIVELY APPLY TO A HEALTHCARE CONTRACT FOR THE BENEFIT OF A TEMPORARY HOSPITAL FACILITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB623 J. Scott CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE INMATES AND DETAINEES IN CORRECTIONAL OR DETENTION FACILITIES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE TREATMENT OF AN INMATE OR DETAINEE WHO IS PREGNANT OR HAS RECENTLY DELIVERED A CHILD.
SB632 F. Love TO AMEND THE FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT; AND TO REQUIRE WARNING LABELS FOR HAIR RELAXERS THAT CONTAIN CERTAIN CHEMICALS.
HB1243 Underwood Penzo TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY REGARDING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES; TO AMEND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTING AND PROTECT ELECTION INTEGRITY; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.
HB1336 Warren Penzo TO AMEND THE SURVIVORS' BENEFIT OPTIONS UNDER THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE TIER TWO DEFERRED RETIREMENT OPTION PLAN UNDER THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
HB1889 Pilkington Bryant TO AMEND THE LIMITATIONS ON ACCESS TO A DISPENSARY OR CULTIVATION FACILITY; AND TO AUTHORIZE A DISPENSARY TO DELIVER ORDERS VIA A DELIVERY VEHICLE OR VIA A DRIVE-THROUGH WINDOW.
HB1131 Pilkington Penzo TO AUTHORIZE AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE TO DELEGATE CERTAIN TASKS TO MEDICAL ASSISTANTS AND OTHER UNLICENSED STAFF.
HB1150 J. Moore Hammer TO PROHIBIT A PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER FROM OBTAINING CERTAIN PHARMACY PERMITS.
Motion to place SB634 at the end of the calendar
Recess
Reconvene
HB1656 - Motion HB 1656 to add to calendar
HB1171 K. Moore Irvin TO MODIFY THE MEDICAID PROVIDER-LED ORGANIZED CARE ACT; AND TO AUTHORIZE AN ABBREVIATED INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT FOR CERTAIN BENEFICIARIES ENROLLED IN A RISK-BASED PROVIDER ORGANIZATION.
HB1277 Gramlich Boyd TO AMEND PAYMENTS FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION REGARDING PETROLEUM STORAGE TANKS.
HB1320 Wooldridge Tucker TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS AND HEALTHCARE INSURERS.
HB1416 L. Johnson Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING FIRE DEPARTMENTS; AND TO ALLOW A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT SERVICING UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF THE COUNTY TO LEVY DUES.
HB1440 Bentley Wallace TO AMEND THE MASSAGE THERAPY ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH REGISTRATION FOR MASSAGE THERAPY ESTABLISHMENTS.
HB1454 Bentley Irvin TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS FOR EMPLOYEES OF SERVICE PROVIDERS; TO ALLOW THIRD-PARTY EMPLOYEE EVALUATION SERVICES TO PERFORM CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS; AND TO INCLUDE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.
HB1476 B. McKenzie Hester TO AMEND THE DIRECT SHIPMENT OF VINOUS LIQUOR ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH A WINE DIRECT SHIPPER LICENSE.
HB 1484 - Withdrawal HB1484 for purpose of amendment.
SB585 add to today's calendar.
Motion by Gilmore to Suspend to add 4 house bills to supp calendar HB1931, HB1872, HB1891, HB1896
Motion to SB615 for second reading purpose for amendment.
Senator Justin Boyd: Motion HB1963 adopt amendment - Motion carried
Senator Breanne Davis: Motion adopt amendment to HB1801 - carried
Motion to SB591 for second reading purpose for amendment.
SB615 bottom of supplemental calendar today after in returned from engrossing.
Sen. David - HB1756 adopt amendment - carried
SB591 bottom of supplemental calendar today after in returned from engrossing.
HB1543 Underwood Irvin TO ESTABLISH THE WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITIES ACT OF 2025.
HB1559 McGrew Boyd TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO SEEK A WAIVER TO THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR COVERAGE FOR INPATIENT TREATMENT SERVICES FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS.
HB1572 Ladyman McKee TO CREATE A TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB1582 McAlindon English TO REQUIRE CERTAIN ACTIONS AND ENCOURAGE CERTAIN ACTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW.
HB1589 Schulz Crowell TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF A COUNTY; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ANNUAL COUNTY FINANCIAL REPORT.
HB1615 Lundstrum Stubblefield TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RELIGIOUS NONDISCRIMINATION.
HB1619 Gramlich Irvin TO SET ADMINISTRATION FEES UNDER THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR IMMUNIZATIONS AND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES FOR RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS DISEASE; AND TO PROVIDE CIVIL IMMUNITY.
HB1622 Gramlich Boyd TO AMEND THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; TO MODIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ADVERSE DECISION" UNDER THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE RECONSIDERATION UNDER THE MEDICAID FAIRNESS ACT.
HB1653 Cavenaugh Irvin TO SET STANDARDS FOR LICENSING AND REGULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB1657 Beck Davis TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND FOREST MAINTENANCE INCOME TAX CREDIT.
HB1666 S. Meeks Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS SELF-FUNDED CYBER RESPONSE PROGRAM.
HB1677 Bentley Payton TO AUTHORIZE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS TO MAINTAIN EMERGENCY MEDICATION KITS.
HB1679 M. Brown Irvin TO AMEND THE REVISED ARKANSAS ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT; TO ALLOW CERTAIN CLASSES OF PERSONS TO REVOKE OR AMEND AN ANATOMICAL GIFT UPON THE DEATH OF THE DONOR; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN REPORTING OF PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS.
Motion to change roll of the vote to auto on screen then change vote accordingly.
Recess
Reconvene
HB1692 M. Brown Petty TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLYGRAPH EXAMINERS AND VOICE STRESS ANALYSIS EXAMINERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AND PRIVATE SECURITY AGENCIES.
RECESS
RECONVENE
HB1695 J. Richardson Crowell TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO ALLOW A MUNICIPALITY TO PETITION TO SET ASIDE THE SALE OF PROPERTY TO CERTAIN PERSONS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRIORITY OF UNRECORDED MUNICIPAL LIENS.
HB1712 Joey Carr Scott TO ESTABLISH THE SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT IN THIS STATE.
HB1717 Gramlich Boyd TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CHILDREN AND TEENS' ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT.
HB1729 R. Burkes Bryant TO AMEND THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION ACT; AND TO PROVIDE THAT A HOMESTEAD OWNED BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
HB1734 Childress Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFICATES; AND TO CLARIFY THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO MAY SIGN A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH AND PRONOUNCE DEATH OF A PATIENT.
HB1749 M. Brown Dees TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM TRUST DECANTING ACT.
HB1751 Underwood Bryant TO REQUIRE AN APPLICANT FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM BENEFITS TO ENGAGE IN JOB SEARCH ACTIVITIES WHILE THE APPLICATION IS BEING PROCESSED.
HB1752 Maddox Boyd TO EXEMPT CERTAIN SAVINGS PLANS FROM THE EXECUTION OF A JUDGMENT.
SB623 - Motion to move the bill to interim committee
HB1758 Gramlich Hill TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "PRACTICE OF DISPENSING HEARING INSTRUMENTS".
Motion to expunge the vote on SB629
SB629 - TO ALLOW AN OFFICER OF A CLOSELY HELD CORPORATION TO REPRESENT THE CORPORATION IN COURT FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVICTION PROCEEDINGS AND UNLAWFUL DETAINER PROCEEDINGS.
HB1763 Underwood Bryant TO AMEND THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT OF 2013; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE DURING THE COMMISSION OF A HUMAN TRAFFICKING OFFENSE.
Motion to Withdrawal HB1746 for purpose of amendment.
Motion to put amendment on SB441 put on calendar Thursday.
HB1777 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD; AND TO INCLUDE BRIBING OR ATTEMPTING TO BRIBE A CHILD IN THE OFFENSE OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD.
HB1778 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF STALKING TO INCLUDE PLACING A PERSON IN FEAR OF SEXUAL ACTS; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF COURSE OF CONDUCT WITH RESPECT TO STALKING.
HB1779 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THEFT OF PROPERTY; AND ENHANCE THE OFFENSE CLASSIFICATION FOR THE THEFT OF A POSTAL PACKAGE DELIVERED TO A PERSON'S RESIDENCE AND LEFT WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE RESIDENCE.
HB1780 Gazaway Gilmore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RETENTION OF PROPERTY RELATED TO A FELONY INVESTIGATION.
HB1782 Hudson Scott TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON WHO IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
HB1150 - Motion for immediate consideration
HB1796 Beaty Jr. B. Johnson TO REQUIRE THE DISPLAY OF GENDER INFORMATION ON AN ARKANSAS DRIVER’S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD.
HB1799 Vaught Tucker TO AMEND THE PERMISSIBLE METHODS OF REPORTING UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT.
HB1810 Joey Carr English TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB1815 Perry Wallace TO AMEND THE STATE'S JURISDICTION OVER FEDERAL LANDS; AND TO RETAIN JUVENILE JUSTICE JURISDICTION BY THE STATE.
HB1555 Hester - Motion Expunge vote by which bill passed to amend. Amendment adopted
HB1685 Amendment by Hester adopted
HB1824 Duffield Clark TO CREATE THE DOG AND CAT RESCUE ACT: DAISY'S LAW.
HB1830 M. Shepherd Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PROCUREMENT OF CONTINGENCY FEE CONTRACTS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
HB1960 withdraw from committee for Stone amendment to add Stone as sponsor
Motion by Tucker to refer SB67? back to JBC
HB1831 M. Shepherd Hammer TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE USE OF SETTLEMENT FUNDS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
HB1835 Dalby Dees CONCERNING SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAMS; AND TO UPDATE AND CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING DRUG COURT, MENTAL HEALTH COURT, VETERANS COURT, AND DWI/BWI SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAMS.
HB1838 Dalby Clark TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROBATE ACTIONS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ADOPTION AND GUARDIANSHIP.
HB1839 Dalby Clark TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES FOR THE DECLARATION OF LEGAL DEATH OF A MISSING PERSON.
HB1844 Tosh Wallace TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFENSE OF FLEEING BY MEANS OF A VEHICLE OR CONVEYANCE; AND TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR A PERSON WHO JUMPS FROM A MOVING VEHICLE OR CONVEYANCE WHILE FLEEING.
HB1851 Jean Crowell TO AMEND THE SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR FOOD, FOOD INGREDIENTS, AND PREPARED FOOD SOLD IN A PUBLIC, COMMON, HIGH SCHOOL, OR COLLEGE CAFETERIA OR DINING FACILITY.
HB1854 Bentley Flippo TO EXEMPT A HOME CAREGIVER FROM HOME CAREGIVER TRAINING IF HE OR SHE PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED TRAINING.
Motion to make am amendment on SB625
Scott Motion to suspend rules approved to add SB to supp calendar for concurrance in amendment
HB1887 Pearce Petty TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATEWIDE CHILD ABDUCTION RESPONSE TEAMS.
HB1934 McAlindon Gilmore TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE ACT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP.
Sound on the Ballot on HB1934
Budget Bills to be Amended
SB67 #1 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
Budget Bills and their Emergency Clauses to be considered which have been introduced by Joint Budget Committee
SB32 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB33 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB34 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB35 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB36 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB40 AN ACT FOR THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB41 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB51 AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTOR COORDINATOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB52 AN ACT FOR THE AUDITOR OF STATE - OPERATIONS AND UNCLAIMED PROPERTY PROGRAM APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB54 AN ACT FOR THE AUDITOR OF STATE - DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 20252026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB55 AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB71 AN ACT FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS - COURT PERSONNEL APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB81 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - STATE PARKS AND TOURISM DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB106 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
SB124 AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 20252026 FISCAL YEAR.
Batch Vote on Senate Budget Bills
Budget Bills and their Emergency Clauses to be considered which have been introduced by Joint Budget Committee
HB1265 AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
Items to be read across the desk
Motion for a clincher for HB1934
Adjourn
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SENATE BILLS
SB 400 – IRVINTO AMEND THE FAIR-FUNDING PROGRAM.
SB 441 – HESTER TO CREATE THE JUNK LAWSUIT PREVENTION ACT OF 2025.
SOUND THE BALLOT
SB 568 – CROWELLTO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAXES APPLICABLE TO LITHIUM EXTRACTION AND DEVELOPMENT; TO PROVIDE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR LITHIUM RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SEVERANCE TAX ON LITHIUM.
SB 585 – LEDINGTO REQUIRE CERTAIN RECORDS BE PROVIDED TO AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS A MINOR.
SB 591 – PENZOTO PROHIBIT RACE-SELECTION ABORTION IN THIS STATE; AND TO CREATE THE RACE DISCRIMINATION BY ABORTION PROHIBITION ACT.
SB 614 – TUCKER TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS.
SB 615 – PENZO TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ENERGY; AND TO REGULATE NONEXPORT FACILITIES.
SB 634 – M. JOHNSONTO CREATE THE DIVISION OF INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION.
HB 1131 (AS AMENDED #1 & #2) – PENZO TO AUTHORIZE AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE TO DELEGATE CERTAIN TASKS TO MEDICAL ASSISTANTS AND OTHER UNLICENSED STAFF.
HB 1642 (AS AMENDED #1) – BOYD TO AMEND THE MEASURES CONSIDERED WHEN CALCULATING A SCHOOL RATING; AND TO ENSURE A STUDENT IS NOT COUNTED AS A DROPOUT FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATING A SCHOOL-LEVEL GRADUATION RATE IF THE STUDENT PASSES A GED TEST.
HB 1656 (AS AMENDED #1 & #2) – DAVISTO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION.
HB 1797 (AS AMENDED #1 & #2) – GILMORETO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
HB 1812 (AS AMENDED #1 & #2) – BOYD TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION TO ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR A STUDENT WHO TAKES A GED TEST; AND TO AMEND THE SCORE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GED TEST.
HB 1841 (AS AMENDED #1) – IRVIN TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS REVENUE INVESTMENT IN VITAL EMS SYSTEMS (ARRIVES) ACT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS REVENUE INVESTMENT IN VITAL EMS SYSTEMS (ARRIVES) FUND FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AGENCIES.
HB 1866 (AS AMENDED #1) – DOTSON TO CREATE ELI'S LAW; AND TO REQUIRE EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL TO INSTALL AN AUDIO RECORDING DEVICE IN EACH LOCKER ROOM AND DRESSING ROOM ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CAMPUS.
HB 1872 – GILMORETO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FEES THAT MAY BE COLLECTED BY A COUNTY SHERIFF; AND TO ALLOW A COUNTY SHERIFF TO COLLECT FEES FOR ATTEMPTED SERVICE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
HB 1891 – GILMORE TO ALLOW A PERSON FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OR JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS WHO IS AN APPOINTEE IN THAT POSITION TO USE THE TITLE OF THAT POSITION AS A PREFIX WHEN FILING AS A CANDIDATE.
HB 1896 – DISMANGTO CREATE THE JUNK FEE ELIMINATING ACT OF 2025; TO ABOLISH THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO TRANSFER ANY REMAINING DUTIES OF THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS TO THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
HB 1931 – GILMORE TO ALLOW A PERSON FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OR JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS WHO IS AN APPOINTEE IN THAT POSITION TO USE THE TITLE OF THAT POSITION AS A PREFIX WHEN FILING AS A CANDIDATE.
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