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Bills discussed (54)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1958
Act 848
· 7 mentions in chapter, agenda, transcript
Matched: “HB1958 S. Meeks TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONC…”
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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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HB1365
Act 938
· 4 mentions in agenda, chapter, transcript
Matched: “…designating areas as 'Members and Staff Only'. COMMISSION. HB1365 K. Brown TO REMOVE RACIAL AND GENDER QUOTAS AND QUALIFICATI…”
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TO REMOVE RACIAL AND GENDER QUOTAS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP FOR CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COUNCILS, … | K. Brown | Notification that HB1365 is now Act 938 |
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HB1896
Act 716
· 3 mentions in transcript, chapter, agenda
Matched: “…carefully. All right, representative, you will recognize 18 House Bill 1896. Thank you very much. I'll be as brief as”
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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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HB1524
Act 939
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1524 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE BIDDING PROCEDUR…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE BIDDING PROCEDURE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1524 is now Act 939 |
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HB1683
Act 924
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1683 McAlindon TO PROHIBIT THE PROCUREMENT BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENT…”
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TO PROHIBIT THE PROCUREMENT BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE OR A COMPONENT … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1683 is now Act 924 |
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HB1706
Act 829
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1706 McCollum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROH…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING. | McCollum | Notification that HB1706 is now Act 829 |
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HB1714
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1714 Rose TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF PAID CANVASSER.”
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TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF PAID CANVASSER. | Rose | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1739
Act 814
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1739 M. Brown TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIALS AC…”
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TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIALS ACT. | M. Brown | Notification that HB1739 is now Act 814 |
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HB1800
Act 998
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1800 McAlindon TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR CAMPAI…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE BY A REPRESENTATIVE … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1800 is now Act 998 |
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HB1837
Act 999
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…AT WAS MANUFACTURED IN WHOLE OR IN PART USING FORCED LABOR. HB1837 McAlindon TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR MATTER…”
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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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HB1846
Act 946
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…E ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996. HB1846 S. Meeks TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS 2036 COMMISSION. HB1870 Win…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS 2036 COMMISSION. | S. Meeks | Notification that HB1846 is now Act 946 |
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HB1870
Act 840
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1870 Wing CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS; AND TO ALLOW THE…”
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CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS; AND TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PROVIDE A VOTER … | Wing | Notification that HB1870 is now Act 840 |
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HB1873
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING. HB1873 B. McKenzie CONCERNING NOTIFICATION TO PERSONS ELECTED TO S…”
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CONCERNING NOTIFICATION TO PERSONS ELECTED TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF … | B. McKenzie | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1879
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1879 Lundstrum TO REQUIRE ALL CITY COUNCILS AND COUNTY QUORUM CO…”
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TO REQUIRE ALL CITY COUNCILS AND COUNTY QUORUM COURTS TO POST VIDEO RECORDINGS OF PUBLIC … | Lundstrum | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1886
Act 823
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…THE LIMITATION ON SERVICE UNDER THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION. HB1886 Pearce TO DESIGNATE THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER AS THE OFFICIAL…”
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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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HB1891
Act 715
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1891 Ray TO ALLOW A PERSON FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE…”
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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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HB1898
Act 837
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…NETWORK OF ARKANSAS TO THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS. HB1898 Painter TO CREATE THE REGULATORY DIVISION AND THE REGULATOR…”
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TO CREATE THE REGULATORY DIVISION AND THE REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT DIVISION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE … | Painter | Notification that HB1898 is now Act 837 |
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HB1925
Act 846
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ILS OR COUNTY QUORUM COURTS TO BE RECORDED IN VIDEO FORMAT. HB1925 Beaty Jr. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLO…”
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTER … | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1925 is now Act 846 |
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HB1929
Act 797
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…A WITNESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF AN ABSENTEE VOTER STATEMENT. HB1929 McAlindon TO CREATE THE RECOGNIZING JUDEA AND SAMARIA ACT;…”
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TO CREATE THE RECOGNIZING JUDEA AND SAMARIA ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM USING … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1929 is now Act 797 |
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HB1934
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT DIVISION TO BE DESIGNATED AS AGENTS. HB1934 McAlindon TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT COMMITT…”
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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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HJR1018
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HJR1018 Ray THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT.”
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THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT. | Ray | Approved by the Governor |
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SB141
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…EN INTERIM COMMITTEES MAY MEET DURING A LEGISLATIVE RECESS. SB141 B. King TO ELIMINATE FUNDING TO THE ARKANSAS CENTER FOR HEA…”
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TO ELIMINATE FUNDING TO THE ARKANSAS CENTER FOR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT. | B. King | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB212
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB212 K. Hammer TO CREATE THE DOCUMENT VALIDITY DIVISION; AND TO…”
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TO CREATE THE DOCUMENT VALIDITY DIVISION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | K. Hammer | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB247
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…TO THE ARKANSAS CENTER FOR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT. Page 3 of 4 SB247 C. Tucker TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS ABSENTEE VOTER INTEGRITY A…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS ABSENTEE VOTER INTEGRITY ACT OF 2025; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … | C. Tucker | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB248
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. SB248 C. Tucker TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967;…”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF … | C. Tucker | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB395
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…E ENFORCEMENT LICENSING BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. SB395 Hickey TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF FINAN…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL INTEREST; AND AMENDING A PORTION OF ARKANSAS … | Hickey | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB398
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB398 C. Tucker TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETIT…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; AND TO ALLOW A CURE … | C. Tucker | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB4
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB4 C. Penzo TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS;…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS; AND TO ALLOW VOTERS TO ELECT "FOR" … | C. Penzo | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB434
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB434 J. Dotson TO CREATE THE "PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION ACT"; TO…”
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TO CREATE THE "PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION ACT"; TO AMEND A PORTION OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION … | J. Dotson | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB44
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB44 Hester TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN INTERIM COMMITTEE…”
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TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN INTERIM COMMITTEES MAY MEET DURING A LEGISLATIVE RECESS. | Hester | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB453
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB453 B. King TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRIC…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. | B. King | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB476
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. SB476 J. Scott TO ALLOW LEAVE FOR ORGAN DONATION FOR CERTAIN STAT…”
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TO ALLOW LEAVE FOR ORGAN DONATION FOR CERTAIN STATE EMPLOYEES; AND TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST … | J. Scott | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB493
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 5, § 1; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. SB493 J. Bryant TO TRANSFER AND CONSOLIDATE THE DUTIES OF TRADE-R…”
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TO TRANSFER AND CONSOLIDATE THE DUTIES OF TRADE-RELATED BOARDS TO THE CODE ENFORCEMENT LICENSING BOARD; … | J. Bryant | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB517
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB517 J. Scott TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS;…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS; AND TO ALLOW A COUNTY BOARD OF … | J. Scott | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB538
Act 782
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…O DESIGNATE A RESTROOM FOR CAMPAIGN WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS. SB538 Gilmore TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW. SB569 M. Joh…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW. | Gilmore | Notification that SB538 is now Act 782 |
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SB569
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…TEERS. SB538 Gilmore TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW. SB569 M. Johnson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCER…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING BALLOT TITLES OF PROPOSED MEASURES; AND AMENDING THE … | M. Johnson | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB579
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…E AUTHORITY OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 5, SECTION 1. SB579 M. McKee TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EM…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; AND TO PROHIBIT A PUBLIC EMPLOYER … | M. McKee | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB608
Act 991
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB608 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS. | M. Johnson | Notification that SB608 is now Act 991 |
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SB617
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB617 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CAPITOL ZONING D…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CAPITOL ZONING DISTRICT; AND TO AMEND THE ZONING AUTHORITY … | M. Johnson | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR11
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OR AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW. SJR11 J. Payton A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONS…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 2, § 5, TO PROTECT THE RIGHT … | J. Payton | Approved by the Governor. |
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SJR12
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SJR12 C. Tucker AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION REQUIRI…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION REQUIRING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ESTABLISH BY LAW A … | C. Tucker | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR13
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…AL ASSEMBLY TO ESTABLISH BY LAW A REVISED ELECTION PROCESS. SJR13 J. Dotson A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW A CANDIDATE F…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW A CANDIDATE FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE, … | J. Dotson | Died on Senate Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR14
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ION OR INDEPENDENT STATUS WHEN RUNNING FOR JUDICIAL OFFICE. SJR14 J. Dotson A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE DETERMI…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE DETERMINATION OF THE TRUE VALUE IN MONEY OF REAL PROPERTY … | J. Dotson | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR15
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…UE VALUE IN MONEY OF REAL PROPERTY FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES. SJR15 J. Dismang A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING ECONOMIC D…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL … | J. Dismang | Approved by the Governor. |
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SJR17
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…OMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SJR17 J. Dotson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO CREA…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS. | J. Dotson | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR18
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SJR18 J. Payton THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT.”
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THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT. | J. Payton | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR2
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…e 2 of 4 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Number Sponsor Subtitle SJR2 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS A…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS APPORTIONMENT COMMISSION TO APPORTION DISTRICTS FOR THE HOUSE … | B. King | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR22
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SJR22 G. Leding A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE QUALIFI…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE QUALIFICATIONS TO VOTE IN AN ELECTION. | G. Leding | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR24
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SJR24 M. Johnson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCER…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING INITIATIVES, REFERENDA, AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS REFERRED TO VOTERS. | M. Johnson | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR3
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SJR3 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHI…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. | B. King | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR6
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. SJR6 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND … | B. King | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SJR9
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…GRAMS AND ASSISTANCE FOR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION SERVICES. SJR9 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PERMITTING THE STATE OF…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PERMITTING THE STATE OF ARKANSAS TO BE SUED AS A DEFENDANT IN … | B. King | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1243
Act 994
· 1 mention in agenda
Matched: “…GENDA (Revised 4/07/2025 @ 8:53 PM) Added Bills and Removed HB1243 Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs…”
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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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SB614
Act 992
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB614 C. Tucker TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967;…”
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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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Senator Jane English
Unverified
0:17
Because Senator Dodson has a lot of questions. Nope. All right, if you'll introduce yourself good morning, Senator Jane English, District 13, and I am here with House Bill 1365, which basically removes racial and gender quotas and qualifications of membership for some
Speaker 9
0:40
boards, OK, that's basically all it does, huh?
Senator Jane English
Unverified
0:43
Yes, it's been through here before and and the sponsor took out a
Speaker 10
0:49
section that was um would have to have had 67 votes.
Speaker 11
0:53
All right, members, you've heard an explanation of the bill. Any questions from the
committee? All right, see no questions, don't have anybody sign up to speak for against the bill. Senator, you're reckon that's
Senator Jane English
Unverified
1:04
close to your bill. I'm close to the bill. s. 1365.
Speaker 14
1:11
It's already come through here before. There's just. We'll give Senator King a few minutes. Oh, OK.
Speaker 16
1:22
Jane could be sneaky at times. Would you please
Speaker 18
1:24
say that in the microphone, sir. We need to get that on the
record. OK, so we got a motion from Senator Dodson. Do I see a second from Senator King? Indeed I do. In the discussion on the motion? See, no, all in favor say aye. Oppose. Congratulations, Senator, your bill passes. Brett McKenzie. You bring up Senator Dismay with you? Probably not going to be much of a help, but bring them up anyway. Yeah, it's not really.
Speaker 26
1:55
Britt McKenzie, Rogers, Arkansas State Representative. All right. Jump the dismay, Sersey, Arkansas, and what's the build number? 8 1896. Senator
King, 1896, look at it carefully. All right, representative, you will recognize 18 House Bill 1896. Thank you very much. I'll be as brief as
Representative Brit McKenzie
Unverified
2:11
I can. I think this is a great, there's a good government bill. It's a streamlining bill. It's called the junk fee Eliminating Act of 2025. What this bill essentially does is takes the internet network administrator or uh it
were internet network Act of 1995, which creates a public-private board and dissolves that board, and moves those responsibilities to to transformation and shared shared services, uh, so that, um, Any and all of our state agencies, commissions, boards, um, that have information technology services uh requests of this INA board now go through a standard procurement. So, um, why it's called in the junk fee Elimination Act. Currently, the way it operates is ostensibly
anytime a agency board commission goes to the INA for services. It's a sole source contract for the most part. Um, it goes through, um, uh, this board to basically approve what the network administrator. Um, believes to be the best service to offer. It obfuscates legislative oversight, and it does not encourage competition for the benefit of taxpayers. It's a very complicated subject matter, but it's a really simple bill, so I'd be happy to take any questions. All right, members, you for an explanation. Senator
Chair
Unverified
3:20
Payton, you're recognized for a question. Thank you.
Representative, can you name three things that
happened in 1896. 1995 9. That's the number of your bill. Uh, 1896. No, sir, I
Speaker 34
3:36
cannot. Utah became a state anyway, thank you. He's
Speaker 35
3:40
got jokes, not good ones, but they're still
Speaker 37
3:43
jokes. All right. Any other questions from the committee? Senator King, So
Speaker 39
3:49
this was just created statutorily and is not doing anything now. They meet quarterly, um, so the
Representative Brit McKenzie
Unverified
3:56
way it works, and this is just a hypothetical, to say the tourism parks heritage tourism, go to the board and say, hey, we'd like to build out a new splash page for a website or we have a widget that needs to collect information. They take that information to the network administrator. The network administrator then will say we can do that service. They put the fees schedule or the contract in front of the board, the board will ostensibly rubber stamp it and then it'll get done. What this bill will do is that same agency will have the same request, it'll only go to shared services. They will then work
with the Office of State Procurement to make sure that they take, they, they impanel an RFP and then go through state procurement to ensure that the best contract in terms of saving money and technical expertise wins. And when was this information? Whatever it's called 1995 when it was established. It's been amended twice, I believe it was in '97 and 2011, um, it's a prescriptive public private board, so it's got seats for, I believe, like the library Association, the bar association, um, back then, the internet was kind of a fad that no one really understood and this was a government's attempt at throwing something at it to
Speaker 42
4:57
try to solve for. OK All members. Well first you must vote. That's got to be old No
Gordon Wilburn
Unverified
5:09
doubt if you were here it stuck past you. All right, more questions to the members of the committee. All right, see no further questions or anybody sign up to speak for against this, Carly. All right, don't have
anybody to sign up to speak for or against this. Representative, you're going to close. I'm closed for the bill. I'm sorry, did you have anything that you wanted to
Speaker 49
5:27
add? I'm sorry. No, he did an incredible job. I'm closed for the bill. I appreciate a good vote.
This is a good government bill. Thank you. There's this in any way affect the prison or is
Speaker 51
5:39
there any appropriation in here for this prison, only if they need
to splash page, I think a good place for it. Alright, members. See a motion from Senator King. A motion to pass Senator King. 2 Senator Dodson in discussions see
none on PavyI at boast. Congratulations, your bill passes.
Representative Meeks. Quick and noncontroversial. Uh, we're gonna find out. Before you
Speaker 56
6:10
get going. All right, I'm gonna introduce our pages. Emma
Jones, Hot Springs Junior Academy. Page with Senator Clark, and then Kayden Rasso is Caden? Sorry Cayden. Y'all
stand up. We're happy to have you all here.
All right, young man right next to Kate, what's your name? A little bit louder. Mr. Gray, we didn't, I didn't
Speaker 61
6:41
have you on here. I'm sorry. Welcome. We're happy to have you all
Speaker 62
6:44
here. Carly, next time you get these names right. I drum it. Golly. I'm
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
6:51
quitting. I'm tired of cutting you all this latitude. Well, in her defense, the house kept
Speaker 18
6:55
her here until almost 10:30 last night. So, you know. She says 11.
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
7:03
She says 11s, introduce yourself representative meets District 42. Mr. Chairman, I've got two bills to present to the committee. Both of them have amendments adding Senate sponsors. I don't know if there's a certain order in which you want to take them or not, um, the one I think that number are you gonna start with? Why don't we start with House Bill 1958, I think that one should be pretty quick and straightforward to create policy. concerning artificial intelligence. All right, so
everybody's favorite topic and there's a limit here. So this is gonna be adding,
yeah, 1958. The other one is 1846. All right, so we're going to be starting with House Bill 1958.
There is an amendment at Central English as a co-sponsor will entertain a motion to adopt. Got to me to adopt by Senator Dodson, seconded by Senator King, all in favor say aye, I
post it's been adopted. You are recognized to present House Bill
Representative Stephen Meeks
Unverified
8:06
1958 as amended. Thank you. Um, so last session we passed a bill that requires
state agencies to develop a technology use policy, so the idea there is, you know, as a state employee authorized to use Facebook on their lunch hour on state equipment, all that, and of course over the last two years, artificial intelligence has become the latest. And so what this bill does is it would require state agencies to um expand upon that to include artificial intelligence, some of
the concerns related to this if a state employee were to take proprietary or citizen data and run it through an AI to try to help them with their jobs. Um, then that information then potentially becomes the property of that AI engine which has consequences, but on the Same token, artificial intelligence holds a lot of promises for government efficiencies, so the first thing it does again is just to make sure state agencies put the appropriate guardrails in place
for the use of AI and then the second thing and probably long term, the most important thing is that it requires that a human is always responsible for making a final decision, so we're not going to go to a place where, you know, the computers say we have to do X, Y, Z. So we have to do X, Y, Z. So it just puts that safeguard in place to make sure our human is always making the final decision on anything an AI comes up with, and that's what the bill does. Happy to do any questions members you've heard an explanation. Senator Dawson?
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You're a question. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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So Obviously AI is something that's relatively new and Is uh is emerging and changing probably faster than most of us can keep up with it, um. This is really the first session that We've been able to run some legislation through an AI tool and get synopsis of bills and things like that. This
would not prohibit that from happening, but this would prohibit. Uh, that AI tool from automatically voting for us. We would still have to be the one either pushing the button in the house or making the decision, uh, because I, I have found that I don't agree with the synopsis of the AI when I run some of the legislation through, many of the bills that misses, many things that I hallucinate sometimes, yeah, it has a different interpretation
than what I, what I, what I would do, um, so. Is this Foot in the door or an opening create in any way where it might make some automated decisions. Or this prohibits it entirely for AI making automated decisions. No, it would allow for
Representative Stephen Meeks
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the automated decisions where it makes sense, um, but it would make sure that a human always makes fun and and kind of where I where I'm kind of envisioning this more, let's say
someone is going to DHS and they're trying to apply for benefits or something through the state. I don't want a situation to be created where a citizen of the state has said no, you can't get this benefit because the computer. said you can't, um it it it may be that, yes, the computer is correct. It did the evaluation and they don't qualify or whatever, but at the same time I want to make sure that that Arkansan is not denied services when a computer or an
AI in this case hallucinates and it doesn't make the right call. I want to make sure there's always a human who can evaluate what the AI has come up with or what the decision tool has come up with to make sure it was the right
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decision. And we're not at the mercy of a computer, so in all instances on the first, on the front end of it, the human would be evaluating the AI's. Automated generated protocol saying approved, declined whatever it is, and they would review it immediately before and be responsible. The human would
be responsible for the decision, whatever the final determination is, and then There would be potential for appeals and things like that of the human's decision, not the AI generated. Yeah, that that's, that's kind of the way
Representative Stephen Meeks
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I'm trying, I'm envisioning this. Thank you. Alright, uh, Senator Peyton. Thank you, Mr.
Chair. So It, are we, are we currently blocking this from being
used, or is this to try to control the use of it. I, I'm just trying to
get my head around whether we need this to permit it. Because we have something else that's blocking it or what.
Representative Stephen Meeks
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So I don't know that we need this to permit AI from being used. Is that is that the concern? We make sure I'm understanding
your I'm trying to figure out where the current landscape is and where this takes
us because You know, I don't know that I would call it
Representative Stephen Meeks
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artificial intelligence. It's artificial thinking, I guess, right. It's an artificial
algorithm, right, um, so the kind of the best just through anecdotal that the answer is all over the place, um, when I was at an AI conference this past summer, the OpenAI had mentioned that there are thousands of requests coming through their system from government email addresses. And who knows if they're all authorized or not, um, and so Part of what we're trying to do here, part of what I'm hoping to
do here with this is to make sure that we are besides just putting these guardrails in place that we're training our employees on when and you know how to use these tools to make sure we're not creating more problems for ourselves in the directors of the agencies. So, so they were
down, don't use it unless you use it unless we have guidelines. Yeah, and that's kind
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of the same thing with the technology
use that that's the current technology use policy. This is just adding AI into that, make sure they they put this into the that. Policy, if that makes sense, hopefully, but yes, it would come from the top down, um, and hopefully, you know, again, our Office of State Technology, they would work with them to help them establish those roles. Thank you, Senator King. Yeah, I mean, it just gets into, I
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don't know if you're here for the last thing, I mean, it's just, I could be in
here a while. We just create these things
statutorily that obviously agency directors and people managing things correctly can make the right decisions without having to do something statutorily. I, I just don't know about this artifice. I mean, like I always say, we don't know what we don't know and you're trying to capture something out here, but your part about like. A, uh, making decisions instead of a human. Is that in danger now
with state agency? As as far as uh
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I would say yes, um, but as far as trying to point to specific circumstances at this point. I can't, um, my concern is to make sure that this is clear going forward. AI is only going to proliferate, it's gonna become more common and there's fear that uh we're gonna get to a place where and and we've already seen it, you know, you can't have this, this service because the computer said you couldn't, right? And I don't think any of us want that future. And so one of the, like I said,
I've attended a lot of AI conferences across the country, and this is one of the reoccurring themes was, is to make sure it's clear that computer programs are not going to be the ones making the final decisions. I hope that's not the case in the state that a human is always making the final decision, but I want to make sure that it's it's in statute, so it's clear that especially as we go forward that that in in Arkansas that that is the, you know, that's the standard that we're going to go by. Yeah, well, I
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mean. Computers making decisions. I've seen a lot of state people make
some Joeer Fury shutting down the calico Rock expansion that it's gonna cost us $50 million more. It would be one if a computer was shut that down, we'd be better off.
Representative Stephen Meeks
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humans don't always make the right decisions. You're, you're correct, but I trust that's right, but I trust them more than, more than a computer. I All right. Any other questions to the committee.
All right, see you no further questions, Carly, do anybody sign to speak for or against this.
All right, don't see anybody. Representative, you close for
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your bill. I'm closed for the bill and would appreciate a good consideration. All
right, members. What's the will of the committee? Motion a motion do pass from Senator Payton, second as amended, second from
Senator Dodson, all in favor say any discussion on the motion, saying none. All in favor say aye. Bo Congratulations Representative Bill Pass. Alright,
Representative Stephen Meeks
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so the second bill, this one I think hopefully be a
little more fun. Ah, it's to create the Arkansas 2036 commission what's the number? It is House Bill. Let me pull it up here, 1846. I do have an amendment to add Senator Irvin as the amendment to Exeter Urban's co-sponsor. We'll take a motion
to adopt. Senator Dodson got a motion. Senator Dodson, 2nd Senator King, all in favor say aye. Po. right, then it's been adopted. You're recognized present. We're going to get a computer in here to
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make decisions that would be better for you if you if you keep saying.
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I would welcome that computer, Senator King, we would all be better off. it's um 1846. 1846. Um,
Representative Stephen Meeks
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so, um, colleagues, um, as the, the, the senior member of the house, of course I'm term
limited. My time's coming to an end, and so before I left, I wanted to leave one last gift, if you will, to the state. And so this is kind of what I came up with. Uh, what this bill is, is to create the
Arkansas 2036 commission. So 2036, that's going to be the 200th anniversary of our state's birth and um as I've um and what this commission will do is the purpose would be to plan for that 200th birthday, you know, it'll have all the normal stuff, but the, the main reason why I want to propose this is, you know, as I travel around the country and look back 100 years ago we were building things like the you know the archs in St. Louis, the Golden Gate Bridge,
the statute, the um Empire State Building, Mount Rushmore and for our 100th birthday, we built this beautiful capital, and the question is, is what are we going to leave in our generation for our 2nd uh 100th birthday that'll still be here for our 30 300 births a day. Um, I've, you know, recently read articles about, hey, come to Arkansas, and all the comments related about coming to our state or negative about, there's nothing to do in Arkansas. Why come to
Arkansas? And so my hope is, is with this commission, um, is to, you know, send this challenge to all the schools across the state, to the East labs, to architecture firms, and have them try to come up and envision some great thing, and I have no clue what that thing is, where it would be located at. This is a blank slate to come up with some great thing that we as a state could build to celebrate our 200th birthday that'll still be here for our 300th birthday, and that would be an economic driver for our state, you know,
you've got to go to Arkansas to see this XYZ, whatever this is. Now this committee may look at it and decide. It's not the time to
do it, you know, that that's what they're going to look at. But this is an example that we came up with in the House. A lot of states have a state museum if you go to Tennessee, uh, Alaska, Illinois, where the people of that state and visitors can learn about the history and the heritage of the state. I don't know if any of you have been down to the state
archives. We've got a lot of beautiful artifacts down there. We never get to see those. Um, if I were to ask you, you know, you could go to the um National Archives
and see the US Constitution and if any of you ever seen the Arkansas Constitution? Uh, I mean the original, uh, most of us said the answer is no, right? Right. So, um, that's what this is, like I said, it's to put together a group. Um, it is non-paid, um,
they're serving, um, at, you know, at their pleasure, um, that's going to be housed in the heritage department, the director I've talked to him, they're excited about getting to go, well, you know, getting started on this, um. And so like I said, this is just a cast vision forward for our state to see if we want to leave a heritage for the next generation, if it's appropriate and with that I'll try to answer any
questions. All right, any questions from members of the committee? All right, see no
questions. Do we have anybody sign us don't
have any sign, yeah, don't have anybody
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sign up to speak for or against. Representative,
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you got clothes. All right, thank you, colleagues again. This
is, like I said, I'm hoping this is a future, this is a vision we can cast for the future to enable something great to come to our
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state if appropriate and with that I just ask for your support.
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Representatives closed. What's the will of the committee? Sorry, representative.
Representative Stephen Meeks
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second. All right, well, couldn't get across the finish line on this one. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. All right,
Representative Lustrom. Been waiting so patiently. Unlike Senator Gilmore back there fidgeting. OK. Right All right, Representative,
what's the bill number you're running? Uh, 187979. All right, you're a
recognized present if you'll introduce yourself and you'll be recognized to present House Bill
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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1879. Thank you, colleagues. First of all, State Representative Robin Lundstrom, District 18, presenting House Bill 1879. What this bill does is it asks that cities and counties put their meetings on Facebook, Instagram, something that does not cost a recording just like we do for the House and the Senate. And it, it breeds transparency and trust in our citizens,
citizenry, if they can see the process and understand the process. Um, they have a year to comply. There is no cost, just use your cell phone, put it up, and guess what? We are now on record. That is all this is saying, um. And if they can't get on Facebook, ask their nine year old grandchild, they'll set it up for them. So this is, this is meant to open up transparency and also we have fewer newspapers now. We have fewer ways for citizens to engage unless they're physically in the room. We get
someone else's interpretation of what happened in a meeting. This
gives them what really happened in a meeting, and with that I'll open it up to any
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questions. All right, members, Senator Payton, you're recognized for
a question. All right, so do we have anything preventing them from doing this? I mean, they are elected officials just like we are. We chose to record and put our stuff
online as a legislature without being forced to do it. So what's the reasoning that we
have to We have to put it in code instead of them making the decision. That's a good point,
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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but here's the deal, it hasn't been done. And there's a tendency to say no, we're afraid of doing this, we don't want to do this. It's, it's something we have to mess with. We don't want to do this. This we work for the citizens. They need to see what's going on, and the
citizens decide whether they're happy with our work or not. That is true, sir. So if the citizens want it recorded, it seems that they
would have influence enough by through elections. To punish them for not recording it by unelected them. That's a
good point. OK, thank you. All right. Any other questions from the committee? Senator Sullivan,
Senator Bryan King
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you have a question. Sir King. So I mean, I'm a big proponent of video, but when you start getting out, I mean, Blue Eye, Arkansas has 30 or less people. I mean, the idea of a cell phone, and recording and going through that. I mean, it sounds good, but yet the practicality of it, I mean, to revamp and get
the system out there for things would take to do it in a way that needed to be done would take up some. I mean, I get the video. I get that we have live stream. I go to events, they're recorded now can be up with individuals, but I mean, to really do this in this regard, it needs to have some standard of doing it right, much like our system costs a lot of money down here. I mean, I just see this as so many small towns, Hinesville, I mean, I have so many in my district that this, this would just be. Uh
Putting another burden on them and and unless you're going to do a bunch of substantial, and hey, listen, I think that we need to take a lot of these small cities and look at. Making them not cities anymore. I think there needs to be a real discussion about that, which would cause some trouble, but I mean the idea of putting a cell phone video out for some city council and that is just. It's just not realistic. Well, um, I would disagree, but I understand some
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of the smaller towns. I'm from a small town, so I, I get that question. How is
your town? Mine's 1500, so it's a little bit bigger than Blue Eye, um. But that's the reason 500.
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OK, go ahead. That's the reason we wanted
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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to give them a year to get under this and to get up, get a chance to, to acclimate. Also think about if they, if they don't have the the cell phone. There's local high schools, there are churches, there are people that can help in the community. This needs to, we need transparency, and I think this will help. But I understand there's, it's going to be difficult for some
Senator Bryan King
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of those smaller towns. 500 is not a small town compared to 30 or less people, Oak Grove. I can nameinesville, several of them, I mean. It is in the economics of it and a lot of these places we're not even getting people to show up. I, I, I mean, I don't know what
else to say. I agree with the transparency in these little small towns, there's not unless there's something happening, I don't know, there's not anything critical going on that's gonna be a statewide impact, but I mean once
again to do things, to do it right, and then you get
into into a web of and like I said, 1500 is not a small town I've been by I
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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guess when you've grown up there, it just
feels small. But I understand. Any other questions from the committee, Senator Dodson, recognize her question.
Senator Jim Dotson
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Representative Lundstrom, the So the two options as I'm reading the bill is A posted on a website and then or to a social media account, so.
If I mean we're kind of tying. The hands of city councils and quorum courts
to if they don't have a website to a social media a third party, something they're
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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not some already have websites, some only have Facebook. It's whatever is the easiest path for that. It's an oar,
Senator Jim Dotson
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right? Well, it may not be an or though if social media companies decide not to,
not to move forward in the future, and
I'm not talking about maybe the next. 6 or 24 or 12 months or but before we can actually get back into session and amend the law, they could be out of compliance unless they invest a bunch of money into a website in order to you know, businesses, social media businesses changed their Parameters and terms and conditions and all that all of the time. So just posting it to a third party site like that maybe not an option is all I'm
suggesting and so in that situation website is the
only other option that they would have, so they would have to invest in a website and the ability
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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to not necessarily there's YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. There's a lot of different options for them to do it at zero cost. If they wanted to invest in a website that's I'm not, I didn't even go there. This is whatever is the path of least resistance for them to post their meetings on public. All I'm saying is that it is a
Senator Jim Dotson
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There's a bunch of options today. I granted I agree YouTube, Facebook, all, all the different ones. But if a company or companies or the tech industry as a whole decides, hey, we're gonna start charging for this or we're going to start doing something. They become very quickly they can quickly, more quickly than what we can respond and change the law, so it could become a not option as far as your, your secondary option there and then there's not anything in here that allows them to have like a
A third option, if you will, if they don't have a website and they can't
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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do the social media. It's one or the other I went with the least expensive. Let's not, let's not have any cost to it, and that was the option. I'm open to whatever.
Senator Jim Dotson
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I mean, I think, I think if those things What, what would potentially make me a little bit more comfortable because I agree cameras are fairly cheap. You can go and buy, you know, uh, one for your house that has continuous video recording or or is motion activated or or whatever right now ring
doorbells and all the, all those sorts of stuff, so. The availability of the technology is probably not the issue. It's, it's more the issue of um having those options, particularly for those smaller communities if If one of these two options become or if both of these options become not available and too expensive. I realized that and that's something that needs
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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to be addressed in rules, but also during ALC if some if something were to happen in Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, all decided they were going to charge. I think that's something we can handle. All right.
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Thank you. Thank you, Senator. All right, Senator King, we can
Senator Bryan King
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ask for a question. OK, gave the example of like where it doesn't do it, but I understand there are situations
I see of some county courts or some cities that could possibly do so, but there's a situation of a saying, there's the doing it and there's doing it right, OK? And you know, in those situations, just like Carroll County, for example, my brother's on the corn court, you know, they're operating a building that's 60 something years old. I mean, if they have
to do it Right, and once you do it, do it right, they have to spend a tremendous amount of money. Well, if they're building a new courthouse, then yeah, I mean you have to. I mean the Facebook video, once you start that process, we do that and then people can't listen to audio or it doesn't come through or you know, there's another minor technique of, like I said, doing it or doing it right and when you step up to the do it right level, I mean, maybe there needs to be some type of classification of cities that you start out moving towards, I mean, I get that and
understand that, but yet on the other hand, like I said, report, Carol, you record on a Facebook video, how many times? Well, I heard this, but I didn't hear everything and then you get into that and if Carroll County had to spend 4050 $60,000 to update your system now and then they build a new courthouse. Well, then they've done that. So the stipulations that we put out there is just getting away from a lot of local control and decisions, but if you want to look at it's too late the process of maybe a certain level or something like that, that's
at least entertaining, but I mean, like I said, I just don't see putting the counties out here in the cities to spend a bunch of money when we don't know every county and every city situations and if those citizens don't like it, they can hire and fire. are those people based on
Senator Clarke Tucker
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that decision. Is that a question or uh by all means. I don't know why you wouldn't want to get on that. My apologies for coming in late. I tend to agree with what Senator King just said. I just want to uh know it says except
as provided under subdivision D6, and then it's D5, so just for what that's worth if it does pass, we would need to, I think, amend that verbally or whatever, yeah, yeah. Thank you.
All right. Thank you, Senator. Any other questions from the committee? All right, say no more questions. Don't have anybody sign up to speak for against this,
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Representative, you close to your bill. Colleagues, I think it's
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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the time has come. I do agree with Senator King, maybe for the smaller cities, we do need to have some type of escape clause if you have 30 people, um.
I chaired Senate state, excuse me, audit, last session, and it was an eye-opening experience as to the amount of fraud and some of the problems that we have in our cities and people just don't know. This comes down to transparency, whether this bill happens now or happens later, that's, that's up to the body and I trust the will of the body, but we need to have our people engaged and they need to see their government at work. They also need to see that they have public servants, they have statesmen in their city councils and in their quorum courts. They have people that are working hard for them. This isn't just a gotcha. It's also a
thank you and support your local government so that you know what's going on, but you can't be there at 5:30 or whenever, but you can see your past meetings, how many times have we been in meetings and we've gone back and watched the video. So that we can learn what happened in that state agencies's committee to be County Local. We go back and we look at that video because it's important to see what's going on in our government, and with that, I would appreciate a good vote. Our members, Representative Blun was closed for her bill was the committee.
Got a motion to pass or discussion on the motion. Senator Dastin. Or
Senator Jim Dotson
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just discussion. Go ahead. No, Mr. Chairman, I was just going to ask Representative London's chairman if she wanted to possibly pull the bill down to try to make those tweaks to it that were discussed. I mean, we still might be
Speaker 185
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a little bit late in the process for a Senate
Speaker 186
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amendment to a bill. We still have a week. Colleagues, I, I,
Representative Robin Lundstrum
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let me do this. I will pull it down. I think there are a couple of considerations that do need to be made that would make the bill better, and I've, the good Lord
and the voters bless me with another term. I'll bring it back.
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Thank you. Thank you for your time. All right, the esteemed Senator Dave Wallace from Lee Leachful. Get on up here, Dave. Senator Wallace, what bill are
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you going to be running, sir? Sir, what will you be District
Senator Dave Wallace
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19? This bill We have a lot of bills that are pretty serious. Um, and we have some fun bills. This is gonna be a fun bill. What's the number again? I'm sorry, 1886 1886. And we do
have a, uh, we do have a uh amendment here to Senator Ervin as a co-sponsor. Yes, sir.
I got a motion to adopt by Senator Tucker. I'll second that. All in favor say aye. Opposed and it's been adopted. All right, Senator, you are recognized
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to Brazie. Thank you, sir, this is a bill to designate the Labrador Retriever as the official canine for the state of Arkansas. Wait a minute. Are
you telling me that the Labrador Retriever is not already the official canine for the state of Arkansas. Not yet, sir.
Continue, please shocked lots of good points for our lab, uh.
Senator Dave Wallace
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been a courthouse dog for years, and a working dog. 14 states have an official dog already. None have the lab. Um In spite of its popularity, Um None have chosen the lab yet. The Arkansas. is home to multiple top breeding kennels for labs. there Friendly, intelligent. Versatile. Uh, and, and they come 3 different colors, so you can't
Speaker 199
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beat that. Are you talking about the sponsor, do we
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adopt the amendment yet? We have it. Sorry, I thought you were talking about the your coach. Senator Sullivan, come
Speaker 202
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off the top rope with a good joke. Continue Senator
Senator Dave Wallace
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Wallace, the most important part of this is uh a couple of sessions ago we adopted. The mallard as our state duck. I see how this fits. If you've got a Duck or the state bird.
You need somebody to go get that bird. We have a growing movement in Arkansas. It's called Leave No Duck Behind. So we've got a lab that will go get the uh Go get the ducks. That's, and, and with that, I'll stand
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by for your questions. Well, I'm not gonna go get the ducks, so yeah, I would
make complete sense. Have you talked to my stepbrother Ross Bell about this bill. I'm sorry. Have you talked to my stepbrother Ross
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Bell about this bill. As you know, he is very, very interested into
the uh Labrador retriever and and he is a good source to talk to, OK. We'll fill in
later. I just can't believe this hasn't already been done already. Senator Wallace, thank you for bringing this. This 4th Got a motion by Senator Sullivan,
a second, wait a minute. Nobody's going to sign up to speak against this, obviously. Nope. Got a motion by Senator Sullivan, seconded by Senator Dodson. Any discussion on the motion.
No no discussion. All right, all in favor, say I, I.
Senator Dave Wallace
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Opposed Members, thank you and old lab, O Ro appreciates it.
Senate Bill 18 or House Bill 1886 passed as amended. How have we not had
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a Labrador, the state dog. Golly. Meanwhile, Gilmore and David Ray are growing government
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over here. We don't even have a state dog.
Representative Ray, do you want to come join Senator Gilmore? I know he
Senator Ben Gilmore
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doesn't like to present by himself. OK. Happy, happy joy joy, right? Yeah, Chairman Senator Gilmore,
uh, District one, I, I would like to really quick, take the um Uh, let's see here, 1891 because I think that'll be very quick and we can clear your agenda. House Bill 1891. I remember the last time you didn't show up to
run a bill was supposed to be very, very quick. We spent 8 hours on it. No, no, no, no,
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never. I would never do that to the steam committee 881 1891 18. This is a companion bill for the field we just passed off
Senator Ben Gilmore
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the floor. I'll just move it out of here to clean up your agenda. All right, 1891. I'm doing
it for y'all. So I'm just helpful like that. So really quick on this, this is the judicial title ballot bill ballot title bill. I said it
backwards. We passed this. This is a cleanup on some language that was missed, but we already passed this bill. This is a companion bill just for sake of time and toward the end of session, you know,
Chair
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oftentimes there are companion bills. That's what this does. Happy to take any questions, Senator. We just asked this question for everybody that comes for this committee. Does this have anything to do with the prison? It
Senator Ben Gilmore
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has nothing to do with. Thank goodness it has nothing to do with you're on the record saying this. On the record, I will testify. Thank you. That your word is
good enough for me. Senator Dodson, you have a
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question? We already, we already passed it. Solving
Senator Bryan King
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All right, I get in here, is this actually for any specific people? I'm sorry, to be, is this for any specific people to be able to
Senator Ben Gilmore
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use as a title in the future, sir,
this is for any judicial candidate as a stated there's nobody in mind or anybody that's pushed to do this. OK. So it's it's very OK. OK.
All right. Any questions? All right, Carly, anybody don't I don't speak for against us, Senator, you're recognized the
cloth. I'm closed. Appreciate a good vote. All right, got a motion to pass by Senator Sullivan. Second by Senator Dodson in
the discussion on the motion scene, not all in favor say aye. I opposed. Congratulations, Senator, your book passes. Thank
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you. If we could move to House Bill 1934. You sure you want to press your luck, you know, I, I will as long as the committee's willing.
House Bill 1934. 1934. I havesentative Mac Lindon here, um, it's, it's a very simple bill, but It's one that I know she's put some time into and soresentative McAnon, come on up. Wait,
we I'll spill 1934. It's in there. She find it sir. Here, take my.
Senator Ben Gilmore
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No, thank you. If y'all introduce yourself Senator Gilmore District one. Representative Mindy McAloon District 10. All right, y'all are present House Bill 1934. Thank you, members. I think this is something
we can all get behind. We've watched what's happening on the federal level with a uh effort to try to clean up what's going on in Washington with the, uh, with Doge, and I think this is a step in that
direction here in Arkansas. Um, I think we all know that there's a lot of things that we spend money and time and effort on, uh, and this will create a committee and a work. group to address a lot of those uh things that we are spending money on, maybe we haven't taken a look at it in a long time, and I hope that this will create a framework for us to do that, and I will defer to my house sponsor that spent a lot of time and I appreciate her efforts and willingness to try to address a lot of the waste fraud in state government. So with that, Ms. McClendon, please. Thank you,
Representative Mindy McAlindon
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Senator. So again, this is a working group. It's designed to sunset, um,
on January 1st of 2027, there is A possible extension to January 1st of 2029 if the governor deems it necessary, um, all members that serve on this will serve without compensation in any legislators that serve will serve without per diem because this is after all a doge bill and we're trying to build on what's already being done with Arkansas Ford. We're extending it to regulations also having the ability for people to call in and give tips of how they think, you know, if they're
seeing duplicate and triplickit things that they're doing as they go about trying to get businesses set up or those things were taking those in and trying to find those efficiencies and cut waste and spending in government. All right,
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members, you've heard an explanation of the bill. Any questions from the committee, Senator Sullivan, you were recognized for a question.
Senator Dan Sullivan
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Aren't we already supposed to be doing this and that what budget is for and aren't we supposed to be trying to eliminate committees and eliminate These things and
and looking and when budget comes up, JPR and other uh I mean I've had several bills out there eliminating boards and commissions and uh what does this do that we shouldn't already be doing? Well, no, I think it's
Senator Ben Gilmore
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a great question. That's why this is temporary, and I think this is, this, you're welcome and and like you, I think we have far too many boards commissions that exist already, and I hope that maybe this will be a mechanism for that to come to. Again, it's temporary, and I think at the end of the day we
want to shine a light and this gives emphasis to what I think we all want to do, and I know members of this committee in particular are very, very keen on trying to eliminate excess spending or things that frankly we just need to be more efficient in, and I think this is a way to give the, give it the emphasis that's due.
Senator Dan Sullivan
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I couldn't agree more and I just think we already have everything in place we need. Uh, it's, it's not a factor of need, in my opinion, of needing
more committees. It's a factor of us doing our job. And
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we can do that right now and, and, and I think we can through committees that we have 11 thing about this that I think is important is it involves private sector into those conversations and you know, I think candidly we can all say that private sector seems to function at a at a leaner and more efficient level, and I think there's a way to incorporate some of those ideas and policies into what we do at the state level, and I, I, I've got a bill later in committee here that I'll present that also
helps. think clarifies some of the things that we need to do better. Senator
Sullivan, you, you've filed bills to eliminate boards and commissions. They must have snuck past me because
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I don't remember any of those please, can I co-sponsor? You would do us all a favor.
Senator Bryan King
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Senator King. So, I mean, I was down here whenever uh our Medicaid spending, federal and state, was under $4 billion. I
mean, I haven't been doing it, but y'all are proven
ones. Levin, it's increased 350%. If there's waste fraud and abuse, it's in Medicaid a lot. OK, it, it comes down to our individual decisions. If you increase spending, RSA is the most important bill that we vote on, and it gets the least amount of attention. Because it sets our spending target. But y'all just keep voting for more spending. You don't cut waste fraud and abuse. If you look at our surrounding
states, this goes back to 2015 study, we spend more per capita than our surrounding states. Which means we're the most wasteful spending. If you look at the decision based on the prison. People hate bringing it up. The Joe Porfiri decision not to expand the 525 beds at Calico Rock to build it in this megaprison is going to cost us at least $50 million more dollars. To build the same 525 beds, 100% staffing there. It was a no brainer. I don't know that those are the decisions. You look at
this consulting scam that's going on where these consultants come in here and get these contracts and leave. I will send you the op eds where they have been not just wrong, grossly wrong in their estimates, and they turn around and leave and take millions and millions of dollars. I mean, that's the way fraud and abuse out here. And then all of a sudden we need to keep another thing to get the shiny object off of that. We are spending far more money than we ever should to take care of our citizens.
I, I just, this comes down to voting for RSA, making decisions like Calico Rock instead of building that cost us money and these consultant scams that come in here, these consultants have promised us if we had saved half of what they promised we were going to say, which you don't save money by spending more. Our state budget probably wouldn't be $500 if we just went off the promises. So why do you keep voting what this whenever we keep voting for these consultant scams and these decisions like perfuri at calico rock.
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Well, Senator King, Thank you for raising the points as it relates to DHS special language meds this morning. I passed special language to do a comprehensive review, not using consultants, by the way, using the committee process that we have in place to do a comprehensive view of DHS. This bill is another option, another avenue to again look at what we can do to streamline government, make it better. So I think there's a lot of stuff that we can do. This is, this is one mechanism. Well, the best way to not spend
Senator Bryan King
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Money is to vote to not spend more money. That's just it. I don't know. This
is like. I mean, our state budget is so much we have so much waste fraud and abuse going out here. I mean, we have thousands of people that were on Arkansas Medicaid still today that are dead and things. It's not a hard decision. It's getting the right people to do the right things, but I'm sure we're going to keep rubber stamping this prison thing when we could build the
525 beds and save taxpayers this have anything to
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do with the prison? OK, so it's just. This
Gordon Wilburn
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I think you may have lost Senator King. Um, any other questions from the committee? Senator Tucker. I'd like to say Senator Clark. Thank you, Mr. Mr.
Senator Clarke Tucker
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Chair. So will this committee will its work be done in a responsible or like in a knee jerk type way. Uh, I hope it'll be done in very
responsible just checking because I've seen some knee jerk stuff come out of DC in the last month or so, so. Uh, this is Arkansas right, just, just double
Senator Ben Gilmore
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checking for DC, but this is Arkansas doesn't mean that uh broken clock can be twice or right twice and that, you know, there's some things that happen in DC that they get right, some they don't. I think we should try this approach in Arkansas.
All right. Thank you, Senator Tucker. In your questions to the committee? All right, say none. Carly, anybody sign up, speak for or against, don't see
Senator Ben Gilmore
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anybody. Senator Representative, you recognize close to your bill, I think everything's been said. Everybody said it. I'm ready to close. All right, Senators closed for
his bill. What's the bill of the committee? Got a motion to pass Senator Dodson. See a second. Second, all in all in favor, any discussion on the motion, see none. All in favor. I'm going to second it. Second, Yeah, you know. All in favor say aye, aye.
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Opposed Oh No Sorry, your bill fails for. No problem. Uh, I'll take my chances with
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uh 53 I told you if you press that locksit Gilbore. Senate Bill 538. Yes, OK.
All right, Senator, if you'll recognize yourself
and uh. Who you're with your district, and you'd be recognized to
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proceed with Senate Bill 538. Thank you, Senator Gilmore, District one, here to present Senate Bill 538. Proceed, Senator Gilmore. Thank you, members, um, this is a Clean up and clarification on
procurement law. I think the biggest thing that this bill does, it makes some technical corrections clarify some existing law, but I think the main thing it does is Makes the request of the department to promulgate rules as it relates to procurement and bring them before the ALC, if you recall back some months ago, Senator Hickey in particular, Senator Ervin, that's one of their co-sponsors on this bill had some questions and issues relating to some contracts and
how they're procured, and this bill seeks to address maybe some things that need to be clarified um in in that process. More importantly, I think what we found out was there was some training that needed to be done and so one of the things that this does is it mandates procurement office of state procurement to do training within departments procurement offices to make sure they understand process, and that was one of the things that we realized that maybe there were some folks that didn't
understand process, um, and so it, it asked them to also report monthly to ALC as to the efforts being made to um, um, educate and train those department level individuals. So with that I'm happy to
take any questions. All right, members, you've heard an explanation of the bill, questions from the
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committee. Senator King, you're recognized her question. Well, we get into back to
Senator Bryan King
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consultants and all these contracts and promising to save money.
I mean, and I can go into your road op-eds about it, about where these consultants and these procurement contracts, all these promises get made to save money and all we do is spend more. Uh There's no clawbacks in this. I mean, they need to be held accountable. I mean these consultants, we've paid them. Washington DC, London, England, San Francisco. Uh You know, I mean, we've done these procurement laws and things are worse now than ever. Well,
Senator Ben Gilmore
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if that's a question, I'll seek to address it. I think what this is trying to do is actually just clarify what needs to be done within the agency and make sure that the agency folks know how to follow the law and so there's going to be training associated with doing that and there's some, you know, topographical clarifications and corrections in this, but that's what this seeks to do,
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Senator. Yeah, so are you a supporter, and I mean, Senator Tucker and I disagree on this DEI and all this. Am I a supporter of DEI?
is that related to this bill? I'll get to it. Quickly, Senator King. Well, he can answer it if he's a supporter. He says he's not. You're not. Well, I haven't answered the question because I'm trying to figure out how it relates to
Senator Ben Gilmore
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this bill. Well, the thing is, I've I've voted for
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SB 3. I voted. I don't answer that. That's not relevant to the
Senator Bryan King
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so the question is, why are we not in this bill addressing these consultants that are big DEI proponents, but then we do all these things. I mean we give Senator, you're welcome to run a
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bill to do it. This is a bill that seeks to do clarification and rule. Promulgation and make sure that our state agencies are doing proper training. We've done these procurement
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laws, and then nothing changes and we get bad decisions. Thank you, Senator.
All right, any questions for the committee? All right, so no further questions, Senator
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Dodson, question. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Senator Gilmore, I understand there's several different. areas of this bill and we've we've gone through and studied
procurement several years ago we made many modifications and changes in 2019, I believe, and then That sort of Jailed for a few years, then we've gone back and looked at some of the some of the things that are this is addressing some of the holes, some of the things that we found from that big revamp of procurement 6 years ago that now We're catching up on some things. This doesn't have
anything to do with with DEI or with with whether or not there's a consultant that makes a few recommendations. I know there's been modifications that the consultant didn't recommend because I've talked to you about the bill. I know you've made some amendments at my request to make some changes to it. The curement is very complex
and I remember having studied this multiple times and every time having to wrap your brain around a lot. technical details and so for our procurement folks,
It's, it's very the law in general related to procurement is very complex, and they make, they're human, they make mistakes quite frequently, but this helps to address not only some of the actual pitfalls in the procurement law, but also helps with some of that human training to make sure that they
are Make, make sure they're they're getting, getting it right more often than what they are right now. No,
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and I think as I've already stated, to your point,
thank you for, um, sort of Clarifying or or adding to that again, this is making sure they understand the process because we've had some agencies basically indicate that they don't know the process and so that's what this bill is seeking to do. Thank you for your work on this.
Thank you, Senator. Any questions from the committee? All right, so no further questions, don't have anybody sign up to speak for or against this. Senator, you are recognized to close for your bill. Thank you, Senators and committee. I'm not going to belabor the point. I appreciate a good vote. I am closed. All right, members, what's the will of the committee? I got a motion
to pass from Senator Dodson. Senator Sullivan and discussion on the motion see none. All in favor say aye. I post. Congratulations, you both
passes. And I do, I mean, I could be wrong here, but I do feel like I see a government class here from Legacy Academy out of Southwest Arkansas. Am I correct here?
Y'all learning anything about your state government today. Anything good about your state government today. Let me be a
little bit more specific. Yeah All right, somebody come up here and tell me what you've learned about your state government
today. Don't make me call somebody randomly out. Somebody's coming up here TikTok or you're not going to get out and get out of school free card for
this one. Oh, thou giveth and thou taketh away those bonus points. Come on up.
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Senator King has a few questions for you, so. Introduce yourself. You push a button right there. All
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right. I'm Jude Gallagher from Legacy Academy in Locksburg, Arkansas. Chad, you send your
own son up here. Oh my gosh. OK, dude. So Legacy Academy Southwest Arkansas, an embarrassing story about your father and then what you've learned about your state government today, but we
can start with an embarrassing story about your father. Yeah
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Tell you all about the time he got arrested. I would love
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to hear about that time he got arrested. Not actually everything at once. We'll just start
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with the government. Chat, I knew it. So
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what have you learned today? Um, we were down in committee room, the judicial committee, and we were learning about
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just how they um go over bills and how they're introduced in the committee, then move up to the
House and to the Senate. OK, very interesting. Senator King, do
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you have any questions for Mr. Gallagher here? Does your dad make you do farm labor? Yes sir, he does. Does he adequately provide you compensation to do
so. Yes sir, he does. You let me know if he doesn't. Yeah, it was like that's because
I said so compensation. Well, there are some child labor laws that your dad would be familiar with and all he applies to you, Senator Dodson, you're recognized for a question. Thank
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you, Mr. Chair. So have you got to go down to the 2nd floor to the Treasury yet and hold any
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money. I have before, but we haven't today. I think that was
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next. OK, that's. Were you tempted to take any of that money with you. Yes. Of
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his answer. I liked you. All right, Jude, get out of here. You're excused. Appreciate you coming up. Welcome guys. We're happy to have you. Jude Classmates, that was the
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highlight of the morning. It is all uphill from here. Senator Gilmore. Hey. I'm, I'm OK, Senator Tucker. Is it noncontroversial. Why would I even ask that? 6 Senate Bill 614. Let's have a moment.
I will let Carly pass that out give members a few seconds to look it over. Uh, Bill 614. Judy you want to come up here and help present this one?
That would be great. All right, I will take a motion to adopt
the amendment. So move. All right, all in favor, say aye. I, I pose. right, member's been adopted. Senator Tucker, you were recognized to
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proceed with Senate Bill 614 as amended. So this is a bill I presented it last
Senator Clarke Tucker
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week, um, again, functionally it's an amendment to Senate Bill 227 because the
bond community is concerned about bond rates going up if A decision by a governing body. is invalid to approve a bond issue is invalidated by a court because of a FOIA violation more than 30 days after they made the decision. The committee had some, some good points. And so I've created an amendment. I think to address those points, um, The way that that the bill is set up and this portion is not
changing, is that if a circuit court finds that, and when it comes to a bond issue that a governing body made a decision in violation of Section 106 of the oth subchapter of the public meeting section, then within 30 days, the circuit court can invalidate that action after 30 days, there are two options. One is that either the governing body can cure the violation, or 2, there has to be some penalty. The amendment comes in on the penalty side and The members unfortunately neither of them are here at the moment, but Senator, the penalty
in the original bill was that the public entity managed by the governing body would pay a fine of $10,000 and Senator Clark acted like he indicated that's not a severe enough penalty because A $10,000 fine on a $1 million bond issue is is not significant, which is a fair point. And then Senator Payton made the point that it's the taxpayers that end up paying the penalty and not the people who actually committed the violation, which is also a fair point. So that's what the amendment addresses. It replaces
the $10,000 penalty to be paid by the public entity and it it deletes that and replaces it with a $1000 penalty to be paid individually, not to be paid by public funds. each member of the governing body who committed the FOIA violation. So I think that is again, there are two options that the governing body can do if a court finds that a that a bond issue was taken in violation of the public meetings section. One is to hear, one is for the individual members to pay this penalty, so it's set up
to incentivize the cure. If they cure, then there's no penalty. If for whatever reason they refuse to cure, uh, then the members of the governing body who don't cure will be subject to a $1000 personal live. penalty. So that's, that's what the amendment does and what the bill does, this bill is very important for the bond community. We do want municipalities and school boards to be able to issue bonds in Arkansas, and this will help them continue to be able to do that good work, so I'm happy to take any questions.
Alright, members, her explanation of the bill, Senator Dodson and Senator Sullivan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, The uh. Basically, if,
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if the court has to make this finding within 30 days. They don't have to make the fighting within 30 days. Let's say for instance someone challenged something and it was
6 months or 2 years later after the fact. Could they still make that that finding on that and or other issues and then whoever they found guilty might be subject to a penalty. And then maybe they were doing it just wrong. And the way they operated and they they didn't know, but they did it 1015, 20 times the wrong way. Now they would have stacked penalties one after another on
them for having done this improperly over the last 234 or 5 years. So let
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me take those one at a time. The first item is a court does not have to make the finding within 30 days. Many times you don't find out about a public meetings violation until more than 30 days from the time until more than 30 days has elapsed since the violation. All this is saying is that if the court finds it within 30 days, then you can invalidate. If the court makes the finding more than 30 days after the violation took
place, then one of two things has to and those two things are either a cure or or the penalty as to the second part of the question, I didn't say this today, but I'm going to repeat one thing I said last week. The ability of a court to invalidate a decision by a governing body based on a public meetings FOIA violation has been the law in Arkansas for 39 years. This has affected the bond community so little that they didn't even know that this
was the law, which is why 227 is doing the work that we hoped it would do by bringing clarity to the public about what the public meeting FOIA law is in Arkansas. Um, so in other words, this has never happened once in Arkansas history. On a bond issue, a public meeting violation. I don't expect it to happen again. The fact that it conceivably could happen. is what affects the bond community because That's what's going to affect their rates. With their lenders and so forth
and and their bond there folks from the bond community who are here and prepared to testify and they can answer your question, but the fact now that they know it might happen is what's relevant to them because it affects their rates through their lenders, and if, if, if this is not accounted for
in the legislation, then rates will go up, and that affects, you know, the public and investors and
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I think I understood that in the original version of the bill, and I liked it. I like your amendment far less than I. did before, so. I mean
I think we need to fix. Fix that on the first page here, but, um, on
the first page? Well, the concept of your bill, I think it needs to pass in order to make that clarity for the bond market. But I don't support the bill with this amendment
Senator Clarke Tucker
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on it, so I'll tell you this. You know, as you know, I've worked with the municipal league and the Association of Counties extensively throughout the course of the session on, on 227, right? And then I've
continued to be in dialogue with them on this fix for the bond community. I took the shot that last week without this penalty in there. It failed, based on the comments I heard from the committee, I prepared this amendment. I visited explicitly with the municipal League and the Association of Counties about the amendment, you know, it's not. I don't want to speak for them. I'm sure I don't know if Lindsay's here. She can, she can come speak to it. I don't know if John Wilkerson is here or someone else in the municipally,
but 614 helps their organization. It helps the the the municipalities in Arkansas, so on balance they are for they recognize that 614 is going to help them conduct business, and they think the likelihood of anyone ever getting a civil penalty is almost zero, if not 0, because because of two things. Number 1, because of the rarity with which this happens because it's never happened and then secondarily because if if someone is caught with their hand in the cookie
jar, we think there's a 99.9% chance that they'll just cure rather than pay the civil penalty, so. Thank you. And, and Lindsay's here, so if you want her to come up and speak to it. Come on up, Ms. Lindsay. John, there's
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John. Great. Y'all introduce yourself, who you're with, and you'd be recognized for seeing the remarks.
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Lindsey French Association of Arkansas Counties. John Wilkerson, general counsel of the municipal League. Um, and just to echo what uh Senator Tucker has already said, I think for someone to actually pay that fine, they have to really intentionally mess up a lot. And not only do they have to intentionally mess up multiple times, but they have to be willing to say no, I'm not going to go into an open meeting and admit that I messed up. I'd rather pay a civil penalty myself. So I think I'm comfortable with saying if
someone ever gets to that point, then it's. It's really their own intentional actions that got them there. If
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I may, I will add these penalties that are in this 614 are in addition to the other criminal penalties that are in the FOI or other civil penalties penalties that are in the FOI. This is just designed to assure that bonds, uh, that, that like Senator Tucker mentioned the bond rate doesn't go up, which of course would affect public tax dollars, so we're trying to navigate that, um.
That narrow niche of government and allow for the FOIA to work the way it works, and to Senator Tucker's point, this has been very educational for the cities and counties passing 227 and now this has to to your point from last week, has done what it was supposed to do, which is to make sure everybody knows that the, the clear parameters of the FOIA, so for that I'm appreciative. And I think at
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the end of the day this bill helps, uh, safeguard taxpayer dollars, protect the rights of the market. No one wants to see those rates go up and
unnecessary tax dollars have to be spent when
Senator Jim Dotson
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it could be avoided. Yep. Ja, so. I guess I must have missed it at the end of page 2, line 2,
there's an or there. So what you're saying and it. Just verifying what I'm reading here. they have the option of one. Providing notice of the violation and compliance with the section disclosing the
violation at the public meeting and authorizing the action in question at the public meeting in
compliance. With the section or choosing to pay the civil penalty. So the court's not going to impose this $1000
after the fact if the body will come in, do those first things, uh, if there, there is a viol they're found in violation
of it. OK. That's right. I missed that or I
Senator Clarke Tucker
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wasn't clear on that, but yeah
it's one of, it's one of two things, and the reason this is set up in a way that that the governor everybody will always choose to do the first
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option. Thank you. I'm good with it now. Thank you. In
Senator Bryan King
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our questions from the committee. Senator King recognized At this $1000 go to Blue Eye to help them get a major advancement in helping them video their meetings. I'll work with
Representative Lundstrom on that. Any other questions for the committee?
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All right, excuse. Thank you. All right. We do have a few people signed up to speak for the bill, um, sure. Michael McBride. I go in here, Gordon. Come on up, let's you all come together.
Gordon Wilburn
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614. All right, if you all introduce yourselves and who you're
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with for the record, you record has proceeded your remarks. Sure, my name is Gordon Wilburn. I'm with
the law firm of QA Rock here in Little Rock, and I serve as bond counsel to Arkansas governmental entities. My name's Michael McBride.
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I'm with Steven's Inc. I'm a senior vice president with
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our public finance department. OK, please proceed. Uh, I, I would say one important aspect of this bill is it kind of aligns with our existing practice on bond issues, on closing bond issues after a city or county authorizes a bond
issue typically by ordinance. We already wait that 30 days in order to close, to clear the referendum period that exists under the Arkansas Constitution for taxpayers to bring a petition to overturn an ordinance, which rarely rarely happens, but we do out of caution, wait that 30 days, so this would uh kind of hit that same time period uh where after that 30 days we would be comfortable issuing our approving opinion that the bonds have been validly issued and
approved, uh, you know, without having to worry about 6 months, 2 years from now. Somebody bringing an action to invalidate the authorizing ordinance. And a sort of piggyback
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off of that, I think Senator Tucker touched on this, really what we're concerned with is, is uncertainty and that turning into a risk, risk is obviously something investors are trying to avoid. So that's really our, our concern. So the
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uncertainty with with uh without some definitive answer with SB 614.
Senator Clarke Tucker
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And if I may, Mr. Chair, I should have explained this, but I didn't. I'm so glad that you did. I didn't pick that 30 day number out of thin air. That's a number that currently exists. That the bond community works with because they understand that there can be a referendum on a municipal decision within 30 days, so that's, that's the basis for the 30 day timeline of the bill already is a part of the existing bond market. Right.
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Any questions? OK, Sarah Payton. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry you
showed up late, uh, we did talk about this bill a little bit the other day, so. I understand the need. To be able to reach a point where you have that security. I'm concerned that the 30 days is not long enough to curate whether or not a citizen has a valid complaint. And You know, that those citizens that may have a valid complaint about the process. It may take more than 30 days for them to seek the legal advice and understand. So is
there any way that we can make this 60 or 90 or? 45, I mean, I understand it's something that you pulled that is currently but I mean, can y'all there's two pieces,
Senator Clarke Tucker
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I think 2 pieces to the answer. I'm going to let him explain the 30 day part because he can do that better than I can, but what what I can say is that the point of curing a or the point of identifying the whole point of the public meeting provision is to know what decisions governing bodies
are making and why they why they're making them. It's not necessarily to even change the outcome. It's to know what you're elected officials are doing and why they're doing it, and even if a violation is discovered more than 30 days after the violation occurred. This bill will still allow for a cure where the governing body has to come. In public and not only say what the decision is and why they made it. They also have to acknowledge the violation that took place, so the cure does satisfy even if it's more than
30 days after the cure does satisfy the purpose of the public meeting provision of the FOIA. So I still think the underlying purpose is satisfied even with a violation by the cure, so that's, that's that piece of the answer and then I, I got
to turn off before you turn on. I'll let him speak to you I think you got it fixed for me. Thanks. It's a good place
to stop, Senator Tucker. All right. Any other questions for the committee? All right, see you none, you gentlemen are excused. Thank you. Yes sir.
But Jason Carter Jason, if you'll introduce yourself and tell us who you're with and so.
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Less is more looking pretty favorable right now. I'm Jason Carter represents Arkansas Municipal Power Association. Just wanted to add that theOA task force endorsed this bill.
It's very narrowly tailored to address a specific issue, and I'd appreciate your support. Thank you. Thank you. Any
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questions? All right, see you then. Thank you. All right, Senator
Senator Clarke Tucker
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Tucker, thank you, members. I'm close. I appreciate a good vote and
I move to pass a motion to pass Senator Tucker, seconded by Sullivan as amended, all in favor say aye, aye, post. Congratulations, your bill passes. Thank you, Mr.
Senator Clarke Tucker
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Chair. Um, Senator Gilmore asked me to run House Bill 1524. I refer to the chairs Sarah Gilmore has a lot of ass,
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doesn't he? A lot of assetsen Gilmore. Yeah, you sure you want to go
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more, Bill. It's 1524. The one that's getting ready to die. So
Senator Clarke Tucker
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what's that number again? 52524. Indeed, but there's some folks from Parks and Tourism
who want want to come up and visit with the committee about it I'd like to invite them up at
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this time, you know, collegial courtesy, syners not on the committee. I'm sure he's got a he's got to get to that's fine. That's fine, yeah, OK, well, I'll, I'll come
waste our time, Senator. Please come on up, ladies. Thank you, Mr. Chair. State Senator Tyler
Senator Tyler Dees
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Dees, District 35. And we will have 2 guests. I'll let them identify themselves as well. This is HB 1739.
HB 1739 Senator King. HB 1739 you give us
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your name and who you're with for the record, Jamie Jones
on behalf of the Arkansas Bar Association. Great. Welcome, Ms. Jamie and.
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Um Ma'am, if you'll introduce yourself and tell us who you're with for the record. Hi there, I'm Jesse Burchfield. I'm a emeritus professor from the Bowen School of Law. I'm here with the Bar Association and
also on behalf of the Mid-America Lares Association, which is a chapter of the American Association of Libraries. That is
a mouthful. Welcome. We are happy to have you. All right, Senator Dees, you're recognized to proceed with House Bill 1739. Thank
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you, Mr. Chair and Ms. Jamie, would you give
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a great presentation today? I will do my best, so HB 1739 is uniform electronic legal Material Act. Increasingly state governments are publishing laws,
statutes, and agency rules online. The online availability of legal materials has greatly facilitated public access and transparency. However, of course, the inherent ability of online information has given a rise to a need to ensure the integrity of online versions. So UEA provides a consistent outcomes-based approach to the authentication and preservation of electronic legal material. The goal of the program as outlined in the bill are to
enable end users to verify the trustworthiness of the legal material they're using and to provide a framework for Arkansas to preserve the legal material for permanent access. The requirements are essentially authentication, preservation, and accessibility. This is needed because that provides widespread access to essential information and encourages citizen participation, but the bill addresses the critical need to effectively provide and manage
electronic government information in a manner that guarantees trustworthiness and continued access. We're here to answer any questions, but we would ask for your support in a favorable due pass. members you for an explanation of the bill. Any
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questions from the committee? Senator Payton, Senator Dawson.
So I think you used an acronym or something. You said something like U Alma or what, what is that? What are you talking about?
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Uniform electronic legal Material Act. So this is a you just use an acronym for this.
Senator Jim Dotson
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OK, thank you. Senator Dawson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 4,
line 33 of the bill. It talks about how this act modifies limits and supersedes the electronic signatures and global and national Commerce Act, which is 15 USC. 7,001, um. How do we supersede a federal law. That's going
to be a question for somebody else. I haven't
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really considered that. But certainly I think it's Will probably narrowly tailored to address a very specific need and be different from the issue in the federal law, and that will be a question of preemption that would go
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to somebody else. All right. If we don't have an answer to that, I, I
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don't know how we, how we move forward with it necessarily because.
I don't know how we can pass a state law that supersedes the federal law. In
this regard and not have it struck down, I guess there's always exceptions. Yeah, I think they
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changed the constitution on that one. And we could pass it and find
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been passed, I will say, by 25
other states and enacted without issue. So tell them the
feds to go jump in a lake. Senator Dawson, kind of, I mean, you know, in the spirit of
Senator Tyler Dees
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federalism, 25 other states have said we're going to do what we want to do. OK If you
Senator Dan Sullivan
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disagree, Senator Sullivan. I don't know that I agree with that last statement 25 other states we've been wrong, they've been wrong a number of times,
but when it says this at supersedes electronic signatures, so are there not a number of electronic signatures that are going out of Arkansas internationally and nationally and locally. And so what is it we're superseding? I don't know the answer to that question.
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I can certainly look at the issue and give it to the senator and get
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your response on that. Well, no offense, but if you're asking us to pass
Senator Dan Sullivan
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legislation and you're going to have to go back and look, uh. I have a hard time supporting the legislation without knowing what to supersedes on federal law. My guess is
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it deals with the signature portion that in this case deals with hashtags, so this is more of an authentication from an electronic perspective because it has you. Has the state if the state designates the official reporter to be the electronic version, then you have to go through a
system to make sure that that electronic system is validated, and so what you're talking about then is an electronic signature that's based on technology rather than a physical electronic signature, so I don't mean any disrespect, but when you said,
Senator Dan Sullivan
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I'm gonna have to go back and check and then you told me what it meant. That doesn't give me a lot
of confidence that that we're we're spot on, so thank you. Mr. Chair, I think it would be wise if
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we pull this down and take a look at that segment
specifically. I think that'd be a great idea. We will be meeting today upon adjournment to hear a constitutional amendments. So if you can get all that hammered out right there I much there any other comments from the
Senator Tyler Dees
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committee on this bill? At this time. OK, all right, we'll thank you. Thank you very much, Senator. All right. So Peyton, want you
to take the chair. I gotta run a bill for Senator Kroll. Uh Somebody from ABC here.
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Mm Mr. Chair, what bill are you running? I want
to hear this Yeah, I built 1898. House Bill 1898, if you would introduce yourself
for the record. And you'll be recognized. Senator Scott Flippo, District 23. Christie
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Bjornsen, I'm the director of ABC Administration in Arkansas Tobacco Control.
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David Potter, I'm the enforcement director for Arkansas Regulatory Division. OK, I
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will give you an explanation of the bill. Good
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morning. Thank you guys for having us here today. This bill is really just kind of helps solve an identity crisis that ABC has kind of dealt with. We have enforcement agents that if you think of it as common sense, sometimes alcohol and tobacco are sold in the same areas. We have historically had separate agents for marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol. This would just
kind of unite our enforcement agent team provides them an identity and allows us to work on anything that has to do with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or
Senator Bryan King
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permission of gambling. That's exactly correct. And just to add to that a little bit, what this does is it combines the alcoholic beverage control enforcement division in the Arkansas tobacco Enforcement agents officially into one. We've been together since about 2020 and we've been sharing duties and it's it's worked really well through government transformation. We've been able
to do more compliance checks, more inspections, prevent youth access better. We've seen our compliance rates drop, and so we've seen some success there, but quite honestly, there's only so much we can do with internal structure we're needing to combine these two law enforcement agencies. These are both existing law enforcement agencies and so we're not adding any authorities to them were just simply combining them so that when our alcohol agents go out, they can also be doing tobacco inspections as well. It makes us more efficient in what we do, um, and so.
Happy to take any questions. OK, Senator King, you recognized for a question. Does this add any more positions or take away any positions? Thank you for the question, sir.
No, sir, it does not add any more positions at all. Uh, it does not affect our general revenue. It does not affect our appropriations, um, because these agencies are working together now just unites them. So if
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you're talking efficiency, does it eliminate any positions
Senator Bryan King
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and why not? No, sir, uh, we've been together for about 5 years, so it does not, and so we've got medical marijuana enforcement as well. So currently I have the
divisions broken down into 5 separate pieces and so we're tackling all that regulatory has with that. So we've got a pretty full plate as it is, and we're able to do more now because we've been combined. And if I could
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just echo a little bit, um, in following session, there's lots to talk about hemp. And so we were a little hesitant to get rid of any positions until we knew what more might fall on the regulatory enforcement's plate as far as that goes, but this really is efficiency to working so that each agent can go in,
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one agent can do an inspection at a facility instead of.
Senator Bryan King
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Well, and I've been around here a while, unfortunately for some people to, you know, at least learn some things, but
so and a lot of times in agencies, you know. They have positions in the field and big jobs, political appointees that really are waste, total waste, and then you have situations where
the flip side of that, the legislature keeps putting more laws and requirements and adding to it but not adding positions, so I've seen that too. I mean, are we adding, you mentioned hemp
and all these bills tetracycline, you know. Cartoons or whatever letting spill was, I don't know. We're adding all these things. Is that adding under the umbrella and restrictions too as a legislature. Adding more to this that's having to be watched. 2, there's a potential as
the session ends that we could have more responsibilities to do, and I appreciate that question and your insight into that, you're correct and, and so we do have a full plate right now with what we regulate. If we are to get
additional responsibilities on, on that, it would be a conversation that we would have to have with our cabinet secretary and governor's office and that's unfair
to agency people too. I mean, we all like to beat up on government people when you know, but a lot of times it's the dang legislators that keep putting more responsibility and it's hard for you to say no or yes and say we've already got a full plate in this, so it all depends on the situation. So it, it at the end of this session, are you going to have more duties and responsibilities
or less duties and responsibility. The Go ahead.
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Um, it's hard to say right now. We do think that our enforcement has been doing
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a really good job. We have very robust enforcement and I don't know that we, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know about the agency as we went through transformation or picked up medical marijuana that we ever did a large expansion of our agents. We are not requesting a large expansion here. If we did have hemp, we would have discussed in our fiscal impact statement additional agents or equipment that we may need, but we are working at right around capacity at this point. We have
very robust enforcement and we're right about the positions that we need at this point, which is why we're not cutting
Senator Bryan King
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or adding. Well, in societies's doing, I mean, I've been here 18 years and it's like these new drugs and new avenues and new things keep coming up. I mean that we're having to deal with that I certainly would have never thought of years ago, but, uh, so in the administrative cost when we come uh and I apologize, trying to catch up. Uh, the administrative costs that you're operating up, does that come from marijuana? Casinos and that in the
amendment and all that, so currently we
have 6 areas of how we receive funding and appropriation. One of those is a GR, which is a general agency's fund. The rest of them are move up just a little bit. Yes, sir, sorry, I apologize. We've got 6 areas that we receive revenue from. One of those is, is a GR. The others are special revenues we've received federal funding to run an FDA tobacco program. We received funding through medical marijuana to operate our medical marijuana sections. We receive funding from the health department under an MOA to
conduct youth compliance checks. We also received funding from our permit revenue, and those are items, those are what we use to fund our agencies, and we have an Alcohol funding through our labeling fund. And so we had the Doge thing which means somebody
said I was dozed for do was cool because I've been voting for these, but I will tell you this, there has to be a real discussion of like, you know, GR, do you get federal funding in this in any any of
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these things that you mentioned, we do on the FDA tobacco side, and that is particular to tobacco inspections, a youth compliance
Senator Bryan King
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checks through our federal tobacco functions, yeah, and we
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have to, you know, at some point in time without doing a bunch of stuff, we have to have
Senator Bryan King
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a real conversation. about, because the increase in casinos, the increase in marijuana, and then sometimes we have decreases in other areas that might. These increased thing of who is the responsibility to pay for it? Well, I'm like, it should be whatever entity is creating the problem or has to be regulated, we have to singularly go after them to try to fund it, to regulate it, instead of draining
JR. So how much GR is used in
Senator Jim Dotson
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this whole. Part that you're mentioning, uh, that's a good question. I don't know the number
Senator Bryan King
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off the top of my head. I, I would have to look and see what our appropriations are. They are appropriations have not increased in that area for years, so I do
know that and that's appropriations have increased a lot that I mentioned that somehow get all the money, but there's other appropriations that need increased
and it's about trying to be smart government of like I said, you know, the tire issues another example of what has to be regulated and has to be done,
and so anyway, I'd be. Curious to know, uh marijuana, gambling, all those things, you know, how much is GR related because the citizens, it's not gambling and not using medical marijuana, which is legal, you know, I do, do they need to be paying for the enforcement mechanism in their GR part, so. It's just trying to sort out the dominoes and try and, I think we should try to link everything up and then that makes sufficient government in the end. So anyway, but I appreciate to
know the GR part, but you're not
adding positions. No, sir, and you, but you're not taking away positions, but it seems to be
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the needle is moving, you're having more responsibility. Yes sir, that is correct, and I can get you those answers and email those over to you, so if you have reasonable explanation center Flip,
it's like. That's why I brought these two to the table. Thank you, Senator
Senator Jim Dotson
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King. Senator Dodson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um. So I'm, I'm looking through here and it seems to me on page 2. You're creating two positions, 2
new positions, regulatory administrator, um. And then, and that's in in uh. On a page, page 2, the first section there, and then if you move down to the bottom section, an enforcement director, so two different positions. would be created and then further on this is overall creating The regulatory enforcement agency or what is it called? Regulatory division.
Um, and so, all the personnel assigned to it, if you look at page 3, shall be considered full-time law enforcement officers. Are they all considered full-time laws and law enforcement officers already right now, I'll take the
Senator Bryan King
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first part of your question is those two positions they already exist in appropriation and have so for many years, so they're not, they're not new. So, uh, this outlines their responsibilities, so to speak. So, uh, who, who are those, are those people, so currently the
administrator's position. is vacant. The enforcement director position, that's the position that I'm in.
Senator Jim Dotson
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OK, so we're just moving you over so when it says the director, you're
the enforcement director. And you serve with the pleasure of the secretary. You already do you assigned personnel to each of these things. You already do, uh, it's the administrator that we would be adding that position is currently vacant. It's, it's not going to be added. Our
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regulatory administrator left in December, and with sessions starting back at that position has not yet been filled, but I'm the administration director. Director Potter is the enforcement director. We both were supervised by the regulatory administrator until he left the office. that we're still appointed directly by the secretary. So it's not an addition of any position hasn't hired a new boss yet. That's
Senator Jim Dotson
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correct position is still there. We're just setting up the framework for you and and creating a division that all would go under that
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administrator instead of all these tiny little divisions we currently have, just kind of naming them regulatory.
Senator Jim Dotson
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It's not adding to it. So you're functionally operating as if this were the law right now. That's correct. You're just codifying it so that it's clearer for the future.
Senator Bryan King
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That's exactly right. It gives us some structure moving forward to Senator King's point if we were to receive more things and to answer the second piece of your question about the law enforcement. Both of these agencies are law enforcement now and so we're not adding any authorities to them at all. We
actually use the same language that appears in statute in this bill so that it was as seamless as possible law
Senator Jim Dotson
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enforcement. I am certified and are you as well? I am not. I am a lawyer. We
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handle the licensing on the front end. And then
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we handle any violations. So once you get a permit from us to sell alcohol, marijuana, or tobacco, you got to follow the rules. That's when enforcement is the boots on the ground looking to make sure they do, and then after that if they receive a violation, it runs back through the administration side where I have attorneys and the administrator is not
Senator Jim Dotson
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necessarily law enforcement. No, sir, it's not a law enforcement so that whenever that
administrator gets hired for this, they're over the agency, but you're over the the law enforcement side that is correct. OK, thank you, sir. Thank you, Senator
Dodson. Any other questions? So is everybody speak for
or against this Senator Flippo, you want to close closed to make a motion to pass. I have a motion from Senator Flippo DuPass and a second from Senator Dodson any discussion. All in favor say aye. And the
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opposed. Congratulations, your bill passes. You Why did you don't call me? It's done for me. Alright. Oh, her.
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Representative McAlinden, did you have a bill that you're going to run? What do
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you all got? I House Bill 1929. All right. 12. Did you pass that one insurance company. Senator Dawson, get on up there.
I didn't see you're the sponsor. Come on. All
right, y'all introduce yourselves and be recognized to proceed with House Bill 1929. State Senator Jim
Representative Mindy McAlindon
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Dodson, District 34. Representative Mindy McAlinden House District
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10. I will let her present. Go for it. Am I
Representative Mindy McAlindon
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good to go? OK, how, um, House Bill 1929 is a recognizing Judea and Samaria Act. The legislation is not only a matter of historical accuracy,
but it's also a reflection of Arkansas's enduring relationship with Israel. It's a partnership that is built on shared values, mutual respect, and economic cooperation. Arkansas has had a long standing connection with Israel that transcends politics since 1948, Arkansas has been a friend to Israel, recognizing its importance as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East. This relationship has been strengthened through trade agreements, cultural exchanges, and partnerships and innovation. The connection between Arkansas and regions of Judea and Samaria is deeply rooted in our shared cultural heritage. Cities across Arkansas
bear the name inspired by the biblical locations in Judea and Samaria, like Bethel, Hebron, and Shiloh. These highlight how the regions resonate with Arkansans on a spiritual and historical level. By recognizing these areas by the historical names rather than by the politically charged term like West Bank, we honor the shared heritage and affirm the importance of these regions to millions of people worldwide. Arkansas has demonstrated a commitment to supporting Israel through legislation like Act 710, which prohibits state agencies from contracting with companies that boycott Israel.
This reflects this act reflects Arkansas's stance against economic discrimination targeting one of our closest allies. House Bill 1929 continues this tradition by ensuring that official state materials use language that respect historical truths rather than perpetuating politically motivated terminology. Um, and with that, I take any questions. All right, members, any questions for the committee?
All right, don't see any questions. Uh, sir Dosa. Senator.
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OK, so no questions from the committee. We do have somebody assigned to speak against this, um, Doctor Stephanie Gray, Dr. Gray, are you in here? Oh, come on up. With your
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Give us your name and here was for the record, then you'll be
Stephanie Gray
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recognized to proceed. Yes, my name is Stephanie Gray. I live here in Little Rock, Senator Clark Tucker
is my um senator. Um, my name is Stephanie Gray, and I'm right and I'm here to strongly urge you to vote no on HB 1929 marries a constituent. As a Jew and also a scholar of Jewish studies and Middle Eastern studies. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of the term the West Bank and replace it with Judea and Sameria. This is not a neutral historical correction. A lot of the language that's been presented with this bill is that
the West Bank is being used as a political term. Instead, I believe that Judea and Samaria inserts Arkansas into a long-standing internationally disputed issue and aligns Arkansas with a religious and nationalist ideology that a racist Palestinians and also undermines decades of US foreign policy. Senator Dotson mentioned earlier, Currently, the United States government, the State Department, does not use the term Judean. area. So why are we as a state implementing changes that are not happening on a federal
level. And also since Camp David in the 1970s, it has been US foreign policy to support Palestinian self-determination through a two-state or one-state solution. The use of this term and the adoption of this term creates a more hostile environment to be able to find lasting peace in the region. The term West Bank refers to the land that is internationally recognized as occupied Palestinian territory. Um, furthermore,
this bill, if we adopting the term Judean Samaria legitimizes the illegal Israeli settlements and violations of international law,
including Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. No international body, including the United Nations, uses the terminology Judea and Samaria. I would also like to point out it's not even designated in the Israeli government to use this term. The State of Israel does not use this term in its official documents. I'm especially concerned behind the theological and political political motivations of this bill, um, especially the Christian Zionist language used in this bill that ignores the live realities of both, I would argue, Palestinians and Jews. As
a Jew, I find it profoundly harmful to see my tradition being used by Christian lawmakers to justify occupation and displacement. Also just as a scholar of religion, um, I must also point out that this actually isn't founded in historical geography. Historically, Judea and Samaria includes part of what are also today Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Is this bill prepared to extend Arkansas's recognition to those territories as well. Over throughout the last 1000, 2000 years, more than 30 groups,
kingdoms, empires have controlled the land that is now what is called the West Bank. Why don't we call it the Ottomans or Assyrian or Babylonian or Roman, and I would also like to point out that Judea and Samaria isn't even Hebrew. It's a Greek translation of the names in Hebrew. To put in context, I think what's helpful is also thinking in terms of what's happening currently in Ukraine if Arkansas was officially adopting Russian terminology for Crimea, calling it reunified Russian territory instead of occupied Ukraine, I
think that that would definitely be a direct contradiction to US foreign policy and just providing more clarity on matters of international justice. Again, I in encourage you both from a moral perspective, but also a historical political perspective to vote no. this bill and I'm happy to answer questions anybody has. All right, members, any questions?
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All right, see you. Thank you for being here. All
right. Representative Senator Dodson, you'll recognize come up close to your bill.
Representative Mindy McAlindon
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Thank you. Well, I would like to respond by saying that the US House Foreign Affairs Committee has started using the term Jude and Samaria, and that our own Senator Cotton along, excuse me, yes, Senator Cotton along with Congresswoman Tinney has actually put forward similar legislation, and that's what this was modeled off of. So there is a stance to that in the same way that President Obama changed Mount McKinley back to Denali to go back to the original language. This is similar to what I'm proposing here, and I think that House B 1929 represents an opportunity for Arkansas to lead
with integrity, honoring the history while building a bright future alongside Israel. And with that, I'm close. I don't know if you have. We're closed
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to make a motion to pass. All right, got a motion to pass by Senator Dodson,
seconded by Senator Payton. Any discussion on the motion saying none. All in favor say aye, opposed. Congratulations, your bill passes. Thank you, committee. Thank you, Chairman. Where did Senator McKee run to? The last bill of the morning hour. Got the motion to delay to the
96th General Assembly. Do I see a second?
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I don't know if the Secretary of State. Surely not. Come on. Ready for me? All right. Introduce yourself. What's
Senator Jim Dotson
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the bill number again? 180 1870. I think Chairman Matt McKee, State Senate District 6. 1870.
Senator Matt McKee
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All right. Go ahead. remember this is a good bill brought to us by the Secretary of State's office. We want to make sure that our voter rolls have only people that are legally allowed to vote on those rolls. This bill merely Hopefully gives the Secretary of State's office access to lists that federal courts use to decide on who can be a juror and
who can't. Obviously they get their journalists from our voter rolls. So if they reject a juror because they don't live where they say they live or they're not no longer alive. Uh, it would be really nice if they would share that information with us so that we could remove those people from the voter rolls. I'd be happy to take any questions. Steve an explanation. Any questions from the committee?
Sarah King, you're recognized? Have we found anybody yet
Senator Bryan King
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that is. Not a citizen that served on a jury in Arkansas? I do not have an answer to that question.
I hope not. I would say the way lawyers are in trying to find things, we would know that, but I mean I don't have a problem with this bill, but Just like I've never heard
of one thing yet. All right, Senator Peyton. So the thing is, the federal courts. are using Our voter database to select jurors. That's my understanding. But sometimes they reject jurors
because the juror is not where or who they say they are. That's my understanding. So this is This is basically saying, That the federal courts have to give us that information that they discovered that somebody was ineligible, so this doesn't require them to share those lists
Senator Jim Dotson
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1:50:53
with us. It just hopefully will create
Senator Matt McKee
Unverified
1:50:55
um some cooperation between the two agencies that those lists can be shared. OK. So it really doesn't have anything to do with whether
they're being selected for the jury. It's when they're rejected for the. OK, thank you. Thank you,
Speaker 100
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Senator. Any other questions for the committee? All right, see none. Senator King, you're recognized for a question. So we Be selection
Senator Bryan King
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commissioner a long time ago and then you get this kind of flip flop of federal things and state and we start, we don't like the federal government whenever somebody else is making decisions. But I mean, if the federal government changes what they do up there, then it may be that we change back to the state system.
I mean, are we just gonna keep flipping back and forth? On this,
Senator Jim Dotson
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1:51:41
I I think that's a, that's a good question, and I think it's good because it's obviously valid in a lot of other areas.
Senator Matt McKee
Unverified
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Really what this is about is just about the sharing of information. Yeah. Thank you, Senator
King. All right. Members in questions to the committee. All right, see you no further questions, Carly. Any anybody sign to speak for or against, don't have anybody you recognizelolothes for my bill. Appreciate a good vote. Got a motion to pass from Senator Payton, second from Senator Sullivan, seeing no discussion
on the motion. All in favor say aye. I opposed. Congratulations, your
Speaker 121
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bill passes. Thank you. Alright, see no further come before this committee. We are adjourned. And we will be meeting in 15 minutes upon adjournment to hear a constitutional
amendments. anything else Hopefully not. Why would we hear anything? If Senator Dees has the bill amended, yes, I will take that.
Agenda
CALL TO ORDER - Senator Scott Flippo House Joint Resolution
REGULAR AGENDA
SB453 B. King TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
SB476 J. Scott TO ALLOW LEAVE FOR ORGAN DONATION FOR CERTAIN STATE EMPLOYEES; AND TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIVIDUALS APPLYING FOR LIFE INSURANCE WHO ARE ORGAN DONORS.
HB1714 Rose TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF PAID CANVASSER.
SB517 J. Scott TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS; AND TO ALLOW A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO DESIGNATE A RESTROOM FOR CAMPAIGN WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS.
SB538 Gilmore TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.
SB569 M. Johnson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING BALLOT TITLES OF PROPOSED MEASURES; AND AMENDING THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 5, SECTION 1.
SB579 M. McKee TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; AND TO PROHIBIT A PUBLIC EMPLOYER FROM DEDUCTING LABOR ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP DUES FROM THE COMPENSATION OF A PUBLIC EMPLOYEE.
HB1706 McCollum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
HB1873 B. McKenzie CONCERNING NOTIFICATION TO PERSONS ELECTED TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE YEARS OF SERVICE REMAINING BEFORE REACHING THE LIMITATION ON SERVICE UNDER THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION.
HB1886 Pearce TO DESIGNATE THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER AS THE OFFICIAL CANINE OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
SB608 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
HB1739 M. Brown TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIALS ACT.
Sen. Payton taking the Chair
SB614 C. Tucker TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS.
SB617 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CAPITOL ZONING DISTRICT; AND TO AMEND THE ZONING AUTHORITY OF THE CAPITOL ZONING DISTRICT COMMISSION.
HB1365 K. Brown TO REMOVE RACIAL AND GENDER QUOTAS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP FOR CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COUNCILS, AND COMMISSIONS.
HB1800 McAlindon TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE BY REPRESENTATIVES OF A NON-UNITED STATES ENTITY; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990.
HB1891 Ray 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.
HB1896 B. McKenzie TO 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.
HB1898 Painter TO CREATE THE REGULATORY DIVISION AND THE REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT DIVISION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION; AND TO ALLOW PERSONNEL OF THE REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT DIVISION TO BE DESIGNATED AS AGENTS.
HB1934 McAlindon TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE ACT; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORWARD ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP.
HB1524 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE BIDDING PROCEDURE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES.
HJR1018 Ray THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT.
HB1683 McAlindon TO PROHIBIT THE PROCUREMENT BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE OR A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE THAT WAS MANUFACTURED IN WHOLE OR IN PART USING FORCED LABOR.
HB1837 McAlindon TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR MATTERS REFERRED TO VOTERS; AND TO BAN FOREIGN FUNDING FOR BALLOT MEASURES; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.
HB1846 S. Meeks TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS 2036 COMMISSION.
HB1870 Wing CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS; AND TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PROVIDE A VOTER REGISTRATION LIST TO FEDERAL COURTS.
HB1879 Lundstrum TO REQUIRE ALL CITY COUNCILS AND COUNTY QUORUM COURTS TO POST VIDEO RECORDINGS OF PUBLIC MEETINGS; AND TO REQUIRE ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS OF CITY COUNCILS OR COUNTY QUORUM COURTS TO BE RECORDED IN VIDEO FORMAT.
HB1925 Beaty Jr. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTER STATEMENT; AND TO REQUIRE A WITNESS FOR THE SIGNATURE OF AN ABSENTEE VOTER STATEMENT.
HB1929 McAlindon TO CREATE THE RECOGNIZING JUDEA AND SAMARIA ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT STATE AGENCIES FROM USING THE TERM "WEST BANK" IN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT MATERIALS.
HB1958 S. Meeks TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ENTITIES TO CREATE A POLICY CONCERNING THE AUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
SJR2 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS APPORTIONMENT COMMISSION TO APPORTION DISTRICTS FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE SENATE, AND THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SJR3 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.
SJR6 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND CASINO GAMING SHALL BE USED FOR CRIME REDUCTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND ASSISTANCE FOR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION SERVICES.
SJR9 B. King A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PERMITTING THE STATE OF ARKANSAS TO BE SUED AS A DEFENDANT IN STATE COURT TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OR AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW.
SJR11 J. Payton A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 2, § 5, TO PROTECT THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.
SJR12 C. Tucker AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION REQUIRING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ESTABLISH BY LAW A REVISED ELECTION PROCESS.
SJR13 J. Dotson A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW A CANDIDATE FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE, CIRCUIT JUDGE, OR DISTRICT JUDGE TO DECLARE HIS OR HER PARTY AFFILIATION OR INDEPENDENT STATUS WHEN RUNNING FOR JUDICIAL OFFICE.
SJR14 J. Dotson A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE DETERMINATION OF THE TRUE VALUE IN MONEY OF REAL PROPERTY FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES.
SJR15 J. Dismang A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
SJR17 J. Dotson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS.
SJR18 J. Payton THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT.
SJR22 G. Leding A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE QUALIFICATIONS TO VOTE IN AN ELECTION.
SJR24 M. Johnson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING INITIATIVES, REFERENDA, AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS REFERRED TO VOTERS.
DEFERRED BILLS
SB4 C. Penzo TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS; AND TO ALLOW VOTERS TO ELECT "FOR" OR "AGAINST" WATER FLUORIDATION.
SB44 Hester TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING WHEN INTERIM COMMITTEES MAY MEET DURING A LEGISLATIVE RECESS.
SB141 B. King TO ELIMINATE FUNDING TO THE ARKANSAS CENTER FOR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT.
SB247 C. Tucker TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS ABSENTEE VOTER INTEGRITY ACT OF 2025; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
SB248 C. Tucker TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 CONCERNING PERSONNEL RECORDS.
SB212 K. Hammer TO CREATE THE DOCUMENT VALIDITY DIVISION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB398 C. Tucker TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; AND TO ALLOW A CURE PERIOD FOR INSUFFICIENT SUBMISSIONS.
SB434 J. Dotson TO CREATE THE "PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION ACT"; TO AMEND A PORTION OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION AS AUTHORIZED BY ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 5, § 1; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB493 J. Bryant TO TRANSFER AND CONSOLIDATE THE DUTIES OF TRADE-RELATED BOARDS TO THE CODE ENFORCEMENT LICENSING BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB395 Hickey TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL INTEREST; AND AMENDING A PORTION OF ARKANSAS LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1988.
ADJOURNMENT
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Senator Jane English
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Senator Scott Flippo Chair
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Representative Brit McKenzie
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Senator John Payton Chair
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Gordon Wilburn
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Representative Stephen Meeks
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Senator Jim Dotson
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Representative Robin Lundstrum
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Senator Clarke Tucker
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Senator Dave Wallace
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Senator Ben Gilmore
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Senator Dan Sullivan
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Lindsay Bailey
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Senator Tyler Dees
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Senator Matt McKee
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