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Senate Convenes

April 1, 2025 ·1:30 PM ·Senate Chamber ·3:57:41
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Bills discussed (134)
Bill Title Sponsor Status
SB392 Act 499 · 3 mentions in chapter
Matched: “SB392 TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION AND COM…”
 TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES; AND TO DECLARE … B. Davis Notification that SB392 is now Act 499
SB598 Act 743 · 3 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…s' compensation law resulting from initiated Act 4 of 1948, Senate Bill 598. Public health Any other announcements”
 TO AMEND VARIOUS LAWS RELATED TO THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES; AND TO AMEND THE … J. English Notification that SB598 is now Act 743
HB1079 Act 860 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…end to pass calendar committee on insurance commerce to for House Bill 1079 by Representative. Allan recommend do pass as amended numbe…”
 TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR GENETIC TESTING FOR AN INHERITED GENE MUTATION FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS; AND … F. Allen Notification that HB1079 is now Act 860
HB1300 Act 510 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…amended number one calendar insurance commerce to infer the House Bill 1300 by Representative Johnson recommended new pass calendar Com…”
 TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT. L. Johnson Notification that HB1300 is now Act 510
HB1301 Act 511 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…mended new pass calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce to House Bill 1301 by Johnson recommend to pass calendar, on insurance commerc…”
 TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT. L. Johnson Notification that HB1301 is now Act 511
HB1363 Act 179 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “I correctly engrossed calendar on grossmis to House Bill 1363 by Senator Stone and Representative Jean compared the gross…”
 TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO TITLE 25 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING STATE GOVERNMENT. Gazaway Notification that HB1363 is now Act 179
HB1455 Act 500 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…d Du pass calendar, bring on City County local home was for House Bill 1455 by Representative Felkington recommended pass calendar of t…”
 TO AUTHORIZE CERTAIN PRIVATE CLUBS TO PURCHASE CERTAIN PRODUCTS DIRECTLY FROM A SMALL BREWERY PERMIT … Pilkington Notification that HB1455 is now Act 500
HB1467 Act 557 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “pass calendarit on insurance commerce, who was referred House Bill 1467 by Representative A recommend to pass. cal end ar Committee…”
 TO AMEND THE UNIFORM MONEY SERVICES ACT. J. Boyd Notification that HB1467 is now Act 557
HB1468 Act 558 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ass. cal end ar Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred House Bill 1468 by Representative Kazar recommend to pass as amended number…”
 TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CLAIMS AGAINST HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORS, RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS, AND SUPPLIERS. Cozart Notification that HB1468 is now Act 558
HB1525 Act 923 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…commend Du Pas calendar Committee on Arita who was referred House Bill 1525 by Representative Senate recommend due passesitted number o…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY; AND TO ADDRESS AGRICULTURAL IMPACT REMEDIATION AGREEMENTS. Steimel Notification that HB1525 is now Act 923
HB1700 Act 638 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…er one calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce who was for House Bill 1700 by Representative Anchor recommended pass this amended numb…”
 TO AMEND THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION TRANSPARENCY ACT; AND TO CLARIFY THE PROCESS OF AN ADVERSE … Achor Notification that HB1700 is now Act 638
HB1724 Act 503 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…rectly engrossed calendar Committee on Gross whom his first House Bill 1724 by McKenzie and Central English compared the gross cop riel…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS; AND … B. McKenzie Notification that HB1724 is now Act 503
HB1725 · 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “HB1725 Schulz Davis TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF SHER…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … Schulz Died in House at Sine Die adjournment.
HB1742 Act 527 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…e recommend Du Pas calendar. Committee on Arata who was for House Bill 1742 by Representative uh World Rege recommend do pass calendar…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO SEED CERTIFICATION. Wooldridge Notification that HB1742 is now Act 527
HB1743 Act 586 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…recommend do pass calendar Committee on Agrata who was for House Bill 1743 by Representative Warri coming to pass calendar Committee o…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FEED LAW OF 1997. Wooldridge Notification that HB1743 is now Act 586
HB1745 Act 604 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…correctly engrossed calendar Committee on bills who started House Bill 1745 Representative Hawkins, Senator Hammer. gross copy of the o…”
 TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS TO POSSESS A UNITED STATES WORK AUTHORIZATION; TO … Hawk Notification that HB1745 is now Act 604
HB1772 Act 529 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…oldridge recommend to pass calendar on Agrata who was the 3 House Bill 1772 by Ris and Dualt recommend Du pass calendar. City County lo…”
 CONCERNING VEGETABLE GARDEN PROTECTION. Vaught Notification that HB1772 is now Act 529
HB1802 Act 606 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ativeor recommended pass calendar, County Local who was for House Bill 1802, but Warren recommended past calendar Committee on Insuranc…”
 TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO RELOCATE … Warren Notification that HB1802 is now Act 606
SB148 Act 587 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…Committee on Joint Retirement Social Security who referred Senate Bill 148 by Senator English recommended pass calendar Committee on j…”
 TO ESTABLISH THE CREATING AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD WORKERS ACT OF 2025. J. English Notification that SB148 is now Act 587
SB153 Act 588 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ommittee on joint retirement Social Security, who was fired Senate Bill 153 by Senator Dotson recommended pass calendar. joint retireme…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE; AND … J. Dotson Notification that SB153 is now Act 588
SB157 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ss calendar. joint retirement Social Security and was first Senate Bill 157 by Senator Dodson recommended passes amit number 2, the”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING BENEFITS UNDER THE STATE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS. J. Dotson Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
SB232 Act 429 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “following Senate Bill 91 by Senator Penzo, Senate Bill 232 by Senator Hickey, symbol 271 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill…”
 TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS SCHOLARSHIP LOTTERY ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. Hickey Notification that SB232 is now Act 429
SB275 Act 441 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ate Bill 232 by Senator Hickey, symbol 271 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 275 by Senator Irving in to 80 by Senator Irving 319 by Senator…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES. Irvin Notification that SB275 is now Act 441
SB329 Act 426 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…ving 319 by Senator Boyd. Senator Bill 327 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 329 by Senator Boyd, about 3:44 by”
 TO CREATE THE ONLINE MARKETPLACE GUARANTEES ACT. J. Boyd Notification that SB329 is now Act 426
SB354 · 2 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “Senate Bill 354 by Senator Disemain, an act for the Department of Correctio…”
 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT CAPITAL … J. Dismang Died on the Senate Budget Calendar Having Failed …
SB378 Act 446 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “Central Irvington 368 by Centra Irving. Senate Bill 378 by Senator Carl, Senate Bill 3. by central curls Senate Bil…”
 TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SUBMIT A QUARTERLY REPORT CONCERNING … Crowell Notification that SB378 is now Act 446
SB388 Act 447 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…e Bill 378 by Senator Carl, Senate Bill 3. by central curls Senate Bill 388 by Senator Cross, Senate Bill 4 won by Senator Bowen, 403 b…”
 TO REPEAL THE ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT RELATED TO THE PROGRESS OF FOREIGN OFFICES OF THE … Crowell Notification that SB388 is now Act 447
SB406 Act 752 · 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “SB406 A. Clark TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INF…”
 TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INFORMATION BEFORE RECORDING A DEED TO REAL … A. Clark Notification that SB406 is now Act 752
SB426 Act 654 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…agencies where your committee on the Gross bills to is for Senate Bill 426 by Senator Hester compared to the grossed copy of the origi…”
 TO CREATE THE DEFENSE AGAINST CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ACT; AND TO ESTABLISH ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL … Hester Notification that SB426 is now Act 654
SB442 Act 667 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…nd unle Gross calendar Committee on Gross who was the first Senate Bill 442 by Senator Bryant compared the engrossed copy with the orig…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO PROVIDE FOR FORFEITURE OF ASSETS USED TO … J. Bryant Notification that SB442 is now Act 667
SB469 · 2 mentions in chapter
Matched: “SB469 C. Penzo TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTY CAMPAIGN POLITI…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTY CAMPAIGN POLITICAL PARTY COMMITTEES; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF … C. Penzo Died on Senate Calendar at Sine Die adjournment.
SB521 Act 748 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…Du pass calendar Committee on State agencies team was first Senate Bill 521 by Senator Davis recommended pass calendar Committee on sta…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING REIMBURSEMENT; AND TO EXTEND THE TIME PERIOD … B. Davis Notification that SB521 is now Act 748
SB525 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…due pass calendar Committee on City County, to whom was the Senate Bill 525 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended new passes amended num…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INCORPORATION AND ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPALITIES; AND TO TRANSFER INCORPORATION DUTIES … M. Johnson Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
SB530 Act 701 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…riginals. Transportation. Will you commit on gross bills to Senate Bill 530 by Senator Davis compared the engrossed copy of the origina…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND FOREST MAINTENANCE INCOME TAX CREDIT. B. Davis Notification that SB530 is now Act 701
SB544 Act 775 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…Du pass. calendar coming on insurance commerce and was for Senate Bill 544 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommend to pass calendar Committ…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT. M. Johnson Notification that SB544 is now Act 775
SB550 Act 703 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…mended number one calendar Committee on AR who was referred Senate bill 550, but Hill recommend Du Pas calendar Committee on Arita who…”
 TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY COMMISSION TO THE ARKANSAS BOARD … Hill Notification that SB550 is now Act 703
SB564 Act 596 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “calendar Committee on City County who was for Senate Bill 564 by Senator Flip I recommend to pass calendar, coming down t…”
 TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "BEER" TO CHANGE THE ALLOWABLE ALCOHOLIC CONTENT AND TO INCLUDE … Flippo Notification that SB564 is now Act 596
SB570 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…to pass calendar Committee on state agencies team referred Senate Bill 570 by Senator Dotson recommend due pass calendar, state agenci…”
 TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE. J. Dotson Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
SB574 Act 742 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…pass. calendar Committee on City County Low, who was first Senate Bill 574 by Senator Petty recommend Du pass calendar, bring on City…”
 TO REQUIRE A MUNICIPALITY THAT OPERATES A WATERWORKS SYSTEM OR SEWAGE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE SERVICE … J. Petty Notification that SB574 is now Act 742
SB594 Act 705 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “first Senate Bill 594 by Senator McKee recommend to pass calendar committee on in…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY FOR NEW … M. McKee Notification that SB594 is now Act 705
SB597 Act 770 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “…nse of threat of harm upon a financial institution employee Senate Bill 597. Judiciary symbol 598 but central English to amend various…”
 TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF THREAT OF HARM UPON A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION EMPLOYEE. B. Johnson Notification that SB597 is now Act 770
SB91 Act 459 · 2 mentions in transcript
Matched: “following Senate Bill 91 by Senator Penzo, Senate Bill 232 by Senator Hickey, symbol…”
 TO PROVIDE THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS SHALL HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO REGULATE OR CONTROL THE … C. Penzo Notification that SB91 is now Act 459
HB1417 Act 215 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “was first House Bill 1417. 415. Senator Mhm Wooldridge recommend Du Pas calendar. Com…”
 TO DESIGNATE THE OFFICIAL DUCK OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. Ladyman Notification that HB1417 is now Act 215
HB1424 Act 628 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1424 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.”
 TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR SEVERE OBESITY TREATMENTS. L. Johnson Notification that HB1424 is now Act 628
HB1549 Act 489 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1549 R. Scott Richardson Bryant TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECU…”
 TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025. R. Scott Richardson Notification that HB1549 is now Act 489
HB1555 Act 995 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1555 Painter Hester TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM PROCEDURES FOR FILLING…”
 TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM PROCEDURES FOR FILLING A VACANCY IN A MUNICIPAL OFFICE. Painter Notification that HB1555 is now Act 995
HB1557 Act 480 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1557 R. Scott Richardson Bryant TO AMEND THE DUTIES AND POWERS O…”
 TO AMEND THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONCERNING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. R. Scott Richardson Notification that HB1557 is now Act 480
HB1561 Act 473 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1561 Painter Hill TO ESTABLISH THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROTEC…”
 TO ESTABLISH THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROTECTION ACT OF 2025. Painter Notification that HB1561 is now Act 473
HB1598 Act 474 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1598 Brooks English TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ES…”
 TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; … Brooks Notification that HB1598 is now Act 474
HB1640 Act 476 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1640 Duke Sullivan TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "ADMINISTRATOR" AS…”
 TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "ADMINISTRATOR" AS IT RELATES TO ETHICAL GUIDELINES AND PROHIBITIONS; AND … Duke Notification that HB1640 is now Act 476
HB1645 Act 601 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Committee on City, County, Local, whom is for House Bill 1645 by Representative Brown, recommend”
 TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING ADVERTISING BY A MICROBREWERY-RESTAURANT PRIVATE CLUB. M. Brown Notification that HB1645 is now Act 601
HB1654 Act 490 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1654 Tosh Wallace TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL LICENSE…”
 TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE FOR THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE … Tosh Notification that HB1654 is now Act 490
HB1656 Act 1024 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…and Tax. Committee on engrossed bills to whom has referred House Bill 1656 by Representative Beck and Senator Davis, compared to the e…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION. Beck Notification that HB1656 is now Act 1024
HB1681 Act 812 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “Motion to withdraw HB1681 for purpose of amendment.”
 TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. Vaught Notification that HB1681 is now Act 812
HB1686 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ss. Calendar. Committee on City, County, Local, whom is for House Bill 1686. 6, by Representative Hawke, recommend do pass. Calendar. C…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LICENSES TO CARRY CONCEALED HANDGUNS. Childress Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
HB1690 Act 583 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred House Bill 1690 by Representative Pilkington, recommended to pass.”
 TO TRANSFER THE NUCLEAR PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE … Pilkington Notification that HB1690 is now Act 583
HB1691 Act 497 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1691 Torres Wallace TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY TO BE EXEMPT…”
 TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY TO BE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION; AND TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN … Torres Notification that HB1691 is now Act 497
HB1697 Act 477 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1697 Joey Carr Dotson TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 1…”
 TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL … Joey Carr Notification that HB1697 is now Act 477
HB1707 Act 524 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred House Bill 1707 by Representative Hawke, recommended to pass. Calendar. Sen…”
 TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND PORTIONS … Hawk Notification that HB1707 is now Act 524
HB1721 Act 394 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Callender. Committee on Insurance Commerce, who was for the House Bill 1721, 1321 by Representative Woodridge, recommend do pass. Calen…”
 TO AMEND SECTIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO PROHIBIT GREYHOUND RACING AND SIMULCASTING OF GREYHOUND … M. Brown Notification that HB1721 is now Act 394
HB1741 Act 526 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…mber one. Calendar. Committee on Agri, to whom was referred House Bill 1741 by Senator Wooldridge, recommended to pass.”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURAL LIMING MATERIALS ACT. Wooldridge Notification that HB1741 is now Act 526
HB1744 Act 530 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…due pass. Calendar. Committee on Agrita, whom was deferred House Bill 1744 by Rep. Wooldridge, recommend due pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO FERTILIZER. Wooldridge Notification that HB1744 is now Act 530
HB1785 Act 525 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ss. Calendar. Committee on City, County, Local, whom is for House Bill 1785, by Representative Moore, recommend do pass.”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERS OF A COUNTY DEPOSITORY BOARD. J. Moore Notification that HB1785 is now Act 525
HB1789 Act 605 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on City, County, Local, whom is for House Bill 1789, by Representative Bork, recommend do pass. Calendar. Commi…”
 TO RESTRICT A LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ISSUING AN IDENTIFICATION … R. Burkes Notification that HB1789 is now Act 605
HB1794 Act 559 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…e. Committee on Insurance and Commerce to whom was deferred House Bill 1794 by Representative Duke. Recommend do pass. Calendar.”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR REAL ESTATE LICENSEES; AND TO CREATE … Duke Notification that HB1794 is now Act 559
HB1803 Act 657 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “referred House Bill 1803 by Representative Carr and Senator Wallace, compared to the…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS … Joey Carr Notification that HB1803 is now Act 657
HB1814 Act 712 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Committee on Insurance and Commerce, to whom is referred House Bill 1814 by Representative Gassaway, recommended to pass as amended…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY OVER UTILITIES; AND TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF … Gazaway Notification that HB1814 is now Act 712
SB117 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB117 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN PRACTICE ACT;…”
 TO CREATE THE NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN PRACTICE ACT; TO PROVIDE FOR LICENSURE OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS IN … C. Penzo Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
SB160 Act 589 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “to whom was referred to senate bill 160 by senator dodson recommend due pass calendar committee on…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. J. Dotson Notification that SB160 is now Act 589
SB1725 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB1725 - Clincher Motion on HB1725”
 Pre-2017 bill
SB271 Act 460 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 91 by Senator Penzo, Senate Bill 232 by Senator Hickey, Senate Bill 271 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 275 by Senator Irving, Senate…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A COUNTY CLERK'S CERTIFICATION OF SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES TO THE … Crowell Notification that SB271 is now Act 460
SB280 Act 442 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 271 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 275 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 280 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 319 by Senator Boyd, Senate…”
 TO DESIGNATE THE OIL AND GAS COMMISSION AS THE CUSTODIAN OF ALL PROPERTY AND THE … Irvin Notification that SB280 is now Act 442
SB284 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB284 J. Payton TO MODIFY THE EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY UNDER THE WORK…”
 TO MODIFY THE EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED MEASURE … J. Payton Sine Die adjournment
SB285 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB285 J. Payton TO MODIFY THE COMPENSATION RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE…”
 TO MODIFY THE COMPENSATION RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT … J. Payton Sine Die adjournment
SB286 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB286 J. Payton TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL WAGE LOSS BENEFITS IN ADDITIO…”
 TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL WAGE LOSS BENEFITS IN ADDITION TO SCHEDULED INJURY PAYMENTS UNDER THE WORKERS' … J. Payton Sine Die adjournment
SB287 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB287 Motion to Withdrawal”
 TO MODIFY CERTAIN ATTORNEY FEES FOR CONTROVERTED MEDICAL EXPENSES, APPEALS, AND CHANGES OF PHYSICIANS UNDER … J. Payton Sine Die adjournment
SB288 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB288 J. Payton TO MODIFY A PHYSICIAN CHANGE UNDER THE WORKERS' C…”
 TO MODIFY A PHYSICIAN CHANGE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED MEASURE … J. Payton Sine Die adjournment
SB290 Act 921 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…oval. Finally, for your committee on Agri to whom was first Senate Bill 290 by Senator Johnson,”
 TO PROHIBIT A MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS IN WATERSHEDS AND OTHER BODIES OF … B. Johnson Notification that SB290 is now Act 921
SB293 Act 487 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…alendar committee on state agencies to whom was referred to senate bill 293 by senator hammer recommend due pass to concur in house ame…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REQUIRED POSTINGS AT A POLLING SITE; AND TO AMEND … K. Hammer Notification that SB293 is now Act 487
SB3 Act 116 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…gton 368 by Centra Irving. Senate Bill 378 by Senator Carl, Senate Bill 3. by central curls Senate Bill 388 by Senator Cross, Senate…”
 TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES. D. Sullivan Notification that SB3 is now Act 116
SB319 Act 461 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 275 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 280 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 319 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 327 by Senator Curl, Senate Bi…”
 TO AMEND THE UNIFORM LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT; AND TO CLARIFY CHARGING ORDERS UNDER THE … J. Boyd Notification that SB319 is now Act 461
SB327 Act 443 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 280 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 319 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 327 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 329 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bi…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAYMENTS TO LOCALITIES. Crowell Notification that SB327 is now Act 443
SB344 Act 444 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 327 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 329 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 344 by Senator Irving,”
 TO TRANSFER THE HEALTHY EMPLOYEE LIFESTYLE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE DEPARTMENT … Irvin Notification that SB344 is now Act 444
SB355 Act 1000 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB355 J. Bryant TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF OBSTRUCTING GOVE…”
 TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS. J. Bryant Notification that SB355 is now Act 1000
SB368 Act 445 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Senate Bill 368 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 378 by Senator Curl, Senate…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MINERAL, TIMBER, AND OTHER RESOURCES ON STATE LANDS; TO REDUCE … Irvin Notification that SB368 is now Act 445
SB380 Act 439 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 368 by Senator Irving, Senate Bill 378 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 380 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 388 by Senator Curl, Senate Bi…”
 TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THE OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT TO SUBMIT A REPORT … Crowell Notification that SB380 is now Act 439
SB397 Act 931 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB397 D. Wallace TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION OF…”
 TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION OF RAIL EMPLOYEES IN REPORTS INVOLVING RAILROAD FATALITIES. D. Wallace Notification that SB397 is now Act 931
SB4 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 3. by central curls Senate Bill 388 by Senator Cross, Senate Bill 4 won by Senator Bowen, 403 by Senator Tucker. 414 by Senator…”
 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.
SB401 Act 448 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 380 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 388 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 401 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 403 by Senator Tucker, Senate…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT. J. Boyd Notification that SB401 is now Act 448
SB403 Act 449 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Bill 388 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 401 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 403 by Senator Tucker, Senate Bill 414 by Senator Hammer, Senat…”
 TO CREATE THE THE 2030 ARKANSAS COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE; AND TO PLAN AND CONDUCT STATEWIDE … C. Tucker Notification that SB403 is now Act 449
SB412 Act 614 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB412 J. Boyd TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINIST…”
 TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO SET THE PER-MILE AMOUNT FOR THE … J. Boyd Notification that SB412 is now Act 614
SB414 Act 463 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 401 by Senator Boyd, Senate Bill 403 by Senator Tucker, Senate Bill 414 by Senator Hammer, Senate Bill 432 by Senator Petty, Prepar…”
 TO AMEND THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW … K. Hammer Notification that SB414 is now Act 463
SB425 Act 722 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB425 J. English TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE…”
 TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ENHANCED TRANSPORTATION; AND TO DECLARE AN … J. English Notification that SB425 is now Act 722
SB427 Act 663 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…orrectly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills: Senate Bill 427 by Senator Bryant, compare the engrossed copy with the orig…”
 TO AMEND PROMOTING PROSTITUTION OFFENSES; TO ENHANCE THE PENALTIES FOR PROMOTING PROSTITUTION IN THE FIRST, … J. Bryant Notification that SB427 is now Act 663
SB431 Act 987 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…orrectly engrossed. Calendar. Committee on Engrossed Bills: Senate Bill 431 by Senator Bryant, compare the engrossed copy with the orig…”
 TO AMEND THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT OF 2013; TO ELIMINATE THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR … J. Bryant Notification that SB431 is now Act 987
SB432 Act 428 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…l 403 by Senator Tucker, Senate Bill 414 by Senator Hammer, Senate Bill 432 by Senator Petty, Prepare the enrolled copies with the orig…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ACCOUNTANTS; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCY FOR … J. Petty Notification that SB432 is now Act 428
SB439 Act 737 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Agencies. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom was referred Senate Bill 439 by Senator Irving, compared to the engrossed copy with orig…”
 TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING; AND … Irvin Notification that SB439 is now Act 737
SB440 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB440 D. Wallace TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERA…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE USE OF ALKALINE … D. Wallace Sine Die adjournment
SB447 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…Agencies. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom was referred Senate Bill 447 by Senator Petty, compared to the engrossed copy with origi…”
 TO REQUIRE PERMITTED COMMON CARRIERS TO SUBMIT REPORTS DETAILING SHIPMENTS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES INTO THE … J. Petty Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment.
SB448 Act 579 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB448 J. Petty TO AUTHORIZE THE FINANCING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IM…”
 TO AUTHORIZE THE FINANCING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS, BUILDING RESILIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, AND … J. Petty Notification that SB448 is now Act 579
SB450 Act 915 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB450 B. Davis TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCLUDE…”
 TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCLUDE A HUMAN FETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION … B. Davis Notification that SB450 is now Act 915
SB464 Act 698 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB464 A. Clark TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING SALES OF RAW MILK; TO…”
 TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING SALES OF RAW MILK; TO ALLOW SALES OF RAW MILK … A. Clark Notification that SB464 is now Act 698
SB467 Act 645 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB467 C. Penzo TO MODIFY THE DEFINITION OF "HEALTHCARE PROVIDER"…”
 TO MODIFY THE DEFINITION OF "HEALTHCARE PROVIDER" REGARDING STUDENT ATHLETE CONCUSSION EDUCATION TO INCLUDE CHIROPRACTORS … C. Penzo Notification that SB467 is now Act 645
SB470 Act 646 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB470 J. Dotson TO REQUIRE AN ADULT APPROVED TO OVERSEE THE ADMIN…”
 TO REQUIRE AN ADULT APPROVED TO OVERSEE THE ADMINISTRATION OF A STATEWIDE STUDENT ASSESSMENT TO … J. Dotson Notification that SB470 is now Act 646
SB481 Act 779 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on Insurance and Commerce, to whom is for Senate Bill 481, by Senator Gilmore, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF PROPERTY INSURANCE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF … Gilmore Notification that SB481 is now Act 779
SB483 Act 957 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB483 Irvin TO REPEAL CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STAT…”
 TO REPEAL CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT AND THE STATE SECURITIES DEPARTMENT; … Irvin Notification that SB483 is now Act 957
SB484 Act 726 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB484 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.”
 TO ESTABLISH A PROCESS WHEREBY A VACANCY IS FILLED ON A SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF … Irvin Notification that SB484 is now Act 726
SB487 Act 754 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB487 Irvin TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR EXPUNGEMENT OF…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RECORDS. Irvin Notification that SB487 is now Act 754
SB490 Act 972 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB490 Irvin TO ALLOW A COURT TO WAIVE CERTAIN FEES WHEN A JUVENIL…”
 TO ALLOW A COURT TO WAIVE CERTAIN FEES WHEN A JUVENILE IS ORDERED TO REGISTER … Irvin Notification that SB490 is now Act 972
SB498 Act 581 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB498 J. Petty TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF DRIVER A…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF DRIVER AND VEHICLE RECORDS AND TO PROTECT DRIVER … J. Petty Notification that SB498 is now Act 581
SB5 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…mmend Du pass calendar. City County local to whom his first Senate Bill 5:30, 563 by Senator Irving recommend due pass calendar Commi…”
 TO ADD THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG HARM OR HOMICIDE. B. King Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
SB503 Act 616 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB503 Crowell TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AN EMPLOYER MUST…”
 TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AN EMPLOYER MUST HAVE TO BE MANDATED TO FILE … Crowell Notification that SB503 is now Act 616
SB505 Act 595 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB505 J. Bryant TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL PLANNING; A…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL PLANNING; AND TO REQUIRE AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR CHANGES … J. Bryant Notification that SB505 is now Act 595
SB508 Act 756 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB508 Irvin TO AMEND THE FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT OF A STIPEND FOR CE…”
 TO AMEND THE FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT OF A STIPEND FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC … Irvin Notification that SB508 is now Act 756
SB515 Act 647 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB515 J. Petty TO REQUIRE THAT A UNIT DEDICATED TO ARKANSAS VETER…”
 TO REQUIRE THAT A UNIT DEDICATED TO ARKANSAS VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES BE INCLUDED WITHIN … J. Petty Notification that SB515 is now Act 647
SB519 Act 958 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…. Calendar. Committee on Insurance Commerce, to whom is for Senate Bill 519, by Senator Boyd, recommended you pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO AMEND THE STANDARD NONFORFEITURE LAW FOR LIFE INSURANCE; AND TO REGULATE THE PAYMENT OF … J. Boyd Notification that SB519 is now Act 958
SB522 Act 648 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB522 M. McKee TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR MATHEMATICS, SCIENCES, AND THE ARTS; AND … M. McKee Notification that SB522 is now Act 648
SB533 Act 934 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…d number two. Calendar. Committee on Agri to whom was first Senate Bill 533 by Senator Dees, recommend due pass as amended number one.…”
 TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF CONSUMABLE HEMP PRODUCTS BY THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO CONTROL BOARD; … Dees Notification that SB533 is now Act 934
SB536 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies, two moves for Senate Bill 536 by Senator Sullivan, recommend do pass.”
 TO ABOLISH AND TRANSFER THE ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY AND THE STATE LIBRARY BOARD; AND TO … D. Sullivan Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
SB539 Act 723 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…nal sent correctly engrossed calendar on Gross to his first Senate Bill 539 by Central Gilmore. than gross copy of the original”
 TO UPDATE AND CLARIFY CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE LAW REGARDING THE DIVISION OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION … Gilmore Notification that SB539 is now Act 723
SB545 Act 564 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB545 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THE PROPERTY AND FIN…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THE PROPERTY AND FINANCES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER … M. Johnson Notification that SB545 is now Act 564
SB547 Act 728 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB547 D. Sullivan TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT A HOMESCHOOLED S…”
 TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT A HOMESCHOOLED STUDENT LIVE WITHIN A CERTAIN RADIUS OF A … D. Sullivan Notification that SB547 is now Act 728
SB551 Act 764 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on State Agencies, two moves for Senate Bill 551 by Senator Hammer, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee o…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CANVASSING FOR A PETITION FOR A LOCAL OPTION ELECTION. K. Hammer Notification that SB551 is now Act 764
SB552 Act 650 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “Calendar. Committee on Insurance Commerce, to whom is for Senate Bill 552, by Senator Hammer, recommended you pass. Calendar. Committ…”
 TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF "PRINCIPAL OFFICE" USED UNDER THE ARKANSAS BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT OF … K. Hammer Notification that SB552 is now Act 650
SB553 Act 671 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on City, County, Local, to whom was first Senate Bill 553 by Senator Hammer recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING LAW; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF A MUNICIPAL TREASURER; … K. Hammer Notification that SB553 is now Act 671
SB560 Act 740 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…and Tax. Committee on Engrossed Bills to whom was referred Senate Bill 560 by Senator English, compared to the engrossed copy with ori…”
 TO DECREASE THE BASE CONTRIBUTION RATE; TO INCREASE THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSESSMENT RATE; TO INCREASE FUNDING … J. English Notification that SB560 is now Act 740
SB563 Act 741 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on City, County, Local, to whom was first Senate Bill 563 by Senator Irving recommended due pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY COMMISSION TO IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY FOR CERTAIN … Irvin Notification that SB563 is now Act 741
SB565 Act 936 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB565 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.”
 TO ALLOW PROCUREMENT CERTIFICATIONS TO BE COMBINED; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REPRESENTATION IN … Flippo Notification that SB565 is now Act 936
SB568 Act 1012 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ealth. Committee on engrossed bills to whom has referred to Senate Bill 568 by Senator Crowell, compared to the engrossed, copy of the…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAXES APPLICABLE TO LITHIUM EXTRACTION AND DEVELOPMENT; TO PROVIDE … Crowell Notification that SB568 is now Act 1012
SB571 Act 1002 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ss. Calendar. Committee on City, County, Local, whom is for Senate Bill 571 by Senator Petty, recommend”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL BUILDING AND ZONING REGULATIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT A MUNICIPALITY … J. Petty Notification that SB571 is now Act 1002
SB572 Act 649 · 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “Motion to withdrawn SB572 from committee”
 TO CREATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCESS AND TRANSPARENCY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ACCESS TO … J. Dotson Notification that SB572 is now Act 649
SB584 Act 768 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…pass. Calendar. Committee on State Agencies, two moves for Senate Bill 584 by Senator Hammer, recommend do pass. Calendar. Committee o…”
 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LOCAL INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS. K. Hammer Notification that SB584 is now Act 768
SB586 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…lendar. Committee on State Agencies to whom was referred to Senate Bill 586 by Senator Dotson, recommended to pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO CREATE THE "PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION ACT"; AND AMENDING A PORTION OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION … J. Dotson Died on Senate Calendar at Sine Die adjournment.
SB593 · 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…. Calendar. Committee on Insurance Commerce, to whom is for Senate Bill 593, by Senator Boyd, recommended you pass. Calendar. Committee…”
 TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGER LICENSURE ACT; AND TO CREATE THE PHARMACY SERVICES … J. Boyd Sine Die adjournment

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Speaker 3 1:44
Senate will be called to order any requests for leave at this
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 1:53
time. Madam Secretary, please call the roll. Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowell, Davis, Des, Dima. That's an English flippo flowers Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King Latin, Love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice, Scott stone,
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Chair Unverified 2:14
Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Thank you, Madam Secretary. If everyone in the chamber and in the galleries would please rise. We will be first led in prayer by an individual who'll be introduced by Senator Stone following that, we will have the Pledge of allegiance. Senator Stone, you're recognized. Thank you, members.
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Senator Matt Stone Unverified 2:37
I want to introduce my nephew, John Stone. And if you want to just indulge me for about 30 seconds. I just want to tell you what a blessing my nephew has been to our family. You know, my brother never was able to have children, but at age 58, he had a son, and I'm telling you this is 11 years later, John,
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Speaker 15 2:59
you've been a blessing to our family. Would you come lead us in prayer, please? Let's pray, dear
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Speaker 17 3:10
God, thank you for the day and thank you for letting us all come here to meet to make decisions. And um, I pray for the leaders of our country, and thank you for all the people that have fought to give us freedom and thank you for everything you've done. And help all the people that are in need and help us to spread your word to all the people around us. And um just help us to have peace today and thank you for
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Speaker 18 3:38
everything you've done. I see things in Jesus' name. Amen. United States
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Speaker 25 3:49
stand one nation under God. In the visible. Thank you, young man, for those inspiring words. What a pleasure it is to have you in the Arkansas State Senate today. Ladies and gentlemen in the galleries, welcome to your Arkansas State Senate. It is our expectation that each of you will exercise proper decorum and govern yourselves accordingly during today's proceedings. Without objection, the rules will be suspended and the Senate will dispense with the reading of the journal, the morning hour has now begun. I'd like to and recognize Senator Petty,
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Chair Unverified 4:28
who will introduce our Senate pages for the day. Senator Petty, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President, members, I'd
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 4:36
like to recognize our Senate pages for today. Uh, when I call your name, if you would come forward and stand in front so we can be you can be recognized. Madison Cox, who is a homeschool, is represented by Senator Rice. Uh, Zion McDaniel, uh, from Little Rock Southwest High School is one of Senator Love's pages today, uh, Marilyn Martinez also out of Little Rock Southwest High School. Again, Senator Loves, and then Deonta Mitchell, also from Little Rock Southwest High School, Senator Love, I see a trend here. Uh, Grace Finley from Gravitt High School, uh, one of Senator Deus pages, and then John Stone, who you heard just now from Columbia Christian Academy and again Senator Stone. So if you would help me and welcoming these pages today. Thank you, Madam President. Thanks, Senator Petty. We're glad to
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Speaker 25 5:41
have our pages with us in the Senate today. Other introductions or announcements.
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Chair Unverified 5:44
Senator McKee, you're recognized. Members, I'd like to ask for leave for my friend Justice of the Peace Jimmy Jeremy Brown to be on the floor today with us. Thank you. Senator Hester, you're recognized. Oh,
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Senator Bart Hester Unverified 6:20
I'm sorry. Uh, thank you, Madam Governor. A members, I'm going to ask that we recess for about 10 minutes and meet up in the back room. I want to walk through some logistics of some things today, if that's
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Chair Unverified 6:32
OK. Let me make one more introduction for some folks that we have in the galleries,
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Speaker 25 6:37
and then we will recess after that. I'd like to welcome. We've got Many students in this gallery here from the East Initiative, Arkansas STEM Coalition. We have students from Clinton Primary School and Hope, Hamburg High School, Lincoln Middle School, Pottsville High School and Sulfur Rock Elementary. So please make them feel welcome.
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Chair Unverified 7:03
And with that Senate will stand in recess for approximately 10 minutes. I Senate will come back to order. I will remind the body that we are still in the morning
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Speaker 9 23:04
hour. Any further announcements or introductions, if not, Madam Secretary, are there items at the desk? Yes, your committee on
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Chair Unverified 23:10
gross bills to who we first sent 82 by Senator Payton compared the gross copy of the ritual and by the same correctly engrossed revenue and tax. Were your committee on Uh And gross spills to his 1st 120 centri Pinza compared the engrossed copy of the original pants I'm correctly engrossed. Public health. For your Committee on the gross bills him his first sent 3302 by Sentra Doson compared the engrossed copy of the original I correctly engrossed. Joint budget when you come on gross pills to his first sent 434 by Senator Dodson compared to the grossed copy with Rachel and find the same correctly engrossed state agenciesittee on Gross bills, who was 1st 439 by Central Irving compared to the grossed copy of the ritual and byte correctly and Gross State agencies, we are committed on a gross bills toy 447 by Senator Petty compared the engrossed copy with the originals. Transportation. Will you commit on gross bills to Senate Bill 530 by Senator Davis compared the engrossed copy of the original and find the same correctly and gross revenue and tax on gross bills to was first sent 5 60% English compared to the grossed copy of the original and find some correctly engrossed. Public health Committee on Eress who was first sent 568 by Senator Crow compared the gross copy of the Rachel and find time correctly engrossed. Revenue and tax on gross referred House Bill 1656. Representative Beck and Senator Davis compared the gross copy of the ritual and find some for a gross agriculture Committee on Gross, to whom
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Speaker 52 24:37
was Ferd House 1803 by Representative Carne, Senator Wallace compared
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Chair Unverified 24:40
the Gross copy with the original and I'm correctly engrossed. State agencies where your committee on the Gross bills to is for Senate Bill 426 by Senator Hester compared to the grossed copy of the original and find the same curricully growth calendar on growth bills to was first sent 427 by Senator Bryant compared the copy with Rachel and find them correctly engrossed calendar Committee on grosselton was first sent Bill 431 by Senator Bryant compared the gross copy of the ritual find unle Gross calendar Committee on Gross who was the first Senate Bill 442 by Senator Bryant compared the engrossed copy with the original and find the same correctly engrossed calendar Committee on Gross West, who was first sent by 537 by Senator Gilmore, the res copy of the original sent correctly engrossed calendar on Gross to his first Senate Bill 539 by Central Gilmore. than gross copy of the original I correctly engrossed calendar on grossmis to House Bill 1363 by Senator Stone and Representative Jean compared the gross copy of the original time correctly engrossed calendar Committee on Gross whom his first House Bill 1724 by McKenzie and Central English compared the gross cop riel and Feinstein correctly engrossed calendar Committee on bills who started House Bill 1745 Representative Hawkins, Senator Hammer. gross copy of the original and sent correctly engrossed calendar. I'll be OK. Uh Dear Madam
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Speaker 65 26:08
President, will your committee on Wilson referred the
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Chair Unverified 26:12
following Senate Bill 91 by Senator Penzo, Senate Bill 232 by Senator Hickey, symbol 271 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 275 by Senator Irving in to 80 by Senator Irving 319 by Senator Boyd. Senator Bill 327 by Senator Curl, Senate Bill 329 by Senator Boyd, about 3:44 by Central Irvington 368 by Centra Irving. Senate Bill 378 by Senator Carl, Senate Bill 3. by central curls Senate Bill 388 by Senator Cross, Senate Bill 4 won by Senator Bowen, 403 by Senator Tucker. 414 by Senator Hammerson 432 by Senator Petty ro copies with the original and find the same correctly enrolled in at 9:49 a.m. delivered to the governor for her approval. Violent your Committee on Ara who was first sent 290 by center Johnson, uh. Recommend Du pass as amended number 2 calendar Committee on Arata who was first sent Bill 533 by Senator D's recommended to pass as amended number one calendar Committee on AR who was referred Senate bill 550, but Hill recommend Du Pas calendar Committee on Arita who was referred House Bill 1525 by Representative Senate recommend due passesitted number one calendar Committee on Ari who was first House Bill 1417. 415. Senator Mhm Wooldridge recommend Du Pas calendar. Committee on Arata who was for House Bill 1742 by Representative uh World Rege recommend do pass calendar Committee on Agrata who was for House Bill 1743 by Representative Warri coming to pass calendar Committee on Agrata whom was the House Bill 1744 by Representative Wooldridge recommend to pass calendar on Agrata who was the 3 House Bill 1772 by Ris and Dualt recommend Du pass calendar. City County local to whom his first Senate Bill 5:30, 563 by Senator Irving recommend due pass calendar Committee on City County, to whom was the Senate Bill 525 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommended new passes amended number one. Calendar Committee on City County who was first sent 553 by Central Hammer recommend Du pass calendar Committee on City County who was for Senate Bill 564 by Senator Flip I recommend to pass calendar, coming down to City County Local who was first in 571 by Senator Petty recommend DuP pass. calendar Committee on City County Low, who was first Senate Bill 574 by Senator Petty recommend Du pass calendar, bring on City County local home was for House Bill 1455 by Representative Felkington recommended pass calendar of the City County Local who was for house 1645 by Representative Brown recommended a pass calendar Committee on City County Local who was for house about 1686 by Representative Hawk recommended due pass calendar committee on City County local who was for was 1785 by Representative Moore recommend Du past calendar Committee on City County Local who was for House was 1789 by Representativeor recommended pass calendar, County Local who was for House Bill 1802, but Warren recommended past calendar Committee on Insurance and Commerce, who was first sent 481 by Senator Gilmore recommend do pass calendar Committee on Insurance and Commerce, who was first sent 519 by Senator Boyd recommend Du pass. calendar coming on insurance commerce and was for Senate Bill 544 by Senator Mark Johnson, recommend to pass calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce who was first symbol 552 by Central hammer recommend to pass calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce to his first in 593 by Central Boyd recommend Du pass calendars insurance commerce to first Senate Bill 594 by Senator McKee recommend to pass calendar committee on insurance commerce to for House Bill 1079 by Representative. Allan recommend do pass as amended number one calendar insurance commerce to infer the House Bill 1300 by Representative Johnson recommended new pass calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce to House Bill 1301 by Johnson recommend to pass calendar, on insurance commerce to house 1721 1321 by Representative Wooldridge you recommend new pass calendarit on insurance commerce, who was referred House Bill 1467 by Representative A recommend to pass. cal end ar Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred House Bill 1468 by Representative Kazar recommend to pass as amended number one calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce who was for House Bill 1700 by Representative Anchor recommended pass this amended number one. Committee on Insurance Commerce, who was referred House 1794 by Reson Duke recommend DuP pass calendar Committee on Insurance Commerce to Miss Ford Houseville 1814 by Representative Gassway, recommend to pass as amended number 1 calendar Committee on Joint Retirement Social Security who referred Senate Bill 148 by Senator English recommended pass calendar Committee on joint retirement Social Security, who was fired Senate Bill 153 by Senator Dotson recommended pass calendar. joint retirement Social Security and was first Senate Bill 157 by Senator Dodson recommended passes amit number 2, the calendar Committee on Joint retirement. And Social Security to him was about 160 best senator Dotson recommend due pass calendar Committee on state agencies to whom was first sent 293 by Central Hammer recommend to pass to concur in House Amendment number 1, calendarittee on state agencies team was first sent before 89 by Central Letting recommend Du pass calendar Committee on State agencies team was first Senate Bill 521 by Senator Davis recommended pass calendar Committee on state agencies team was first Senate. 5:36 by Centra Sullivan recommend Du pass calendar Committee on state agencies team was first in 551 by Central Hammer recommend to pass calendar Committee on state agencies team referred Senate Bill 570 by Senator Dotson recommend due pass calendar, state agencies to research about 584 by Senator Hammer recommend to pass calendar of state agencies to 1st 586 by Centra Dotson recommended to pass the calendar Committee on state agencies to house. 1690 by Representative Pilkington recommended past calendar Committee on State agencies to whom was referred house 1707 by Representative Hawk recommendedin's calendar. 9597 by Center Blake Johnson to create the criminal offense of threat of harm upon a financial institution employee Senate Bill 597. Judiciary symbol 598 but central English to amend various laws related to division of workforce services and in the definition of employee and workers' compensation law resulting from initiated Act 4 of 1948, Senate Bill 598. Public health Any other announcements
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Speaker 68 33:25
or introductions. I have been asked to announce
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Speaker 4 33:30
that many of our county sheriffs are here. I believe they
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Chair Unverified 33:35
are in the VIP gallery above me. I don't know, I can't see them, but if our sheriffs are here, I want to say thank you to our sheriffs and work with local law enforcement. Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized for an announcement. Thank you, Madam President.
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 34:00
It's my honor to introduce our doctor of the day is uh Doctor Daniel Rubin. He's a radiologist from my district, Conway. He's with Conway Regional Medical Center, and our nurse, of course, as always, is Lee, and thank you so much for being here.
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Chair Unverified 34:22
Thank you, Senator Johnson. If there are no further announcements, introductions, or other business to come before the body in the morning hour, the morning hour has expired. We will now begin the business
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Speaker 25 34:34
agenda. And I have been asked to inform members and this is not an April Fool's Day joke, but the plan is to adjourn today at 5 p.m. or before, so that is not an April Fool's Day joke We will begin.
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Chair Unverified 34:54
With the budget calendar today. Sender dismaying. Senate about 3504 of a central dismay, an act for the Department of Corrections Division of Correction Development and Enhancement capital improvement appropriation. Uh, thank you, members. This is
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Senator Jonathan Dismang Unverified 35:28
the Capital Improvement Project appropriation for the uh proposed prison. There's already been appropriation that's gone through for 75 million. The estimated cost of the prison is 825 million, so this is the additional appropriation needed uh for the construction of the prison. this is appropriation only. It does not have any funding tied to it at this point
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Chair Unverified 35:56
again, preparation only $750 million. Happy to take questions. Question for Senator dismay. So Senator King, do you
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Senator Jonathan Dismang Unverified 36:11
have a question for Senator Dismaying, or do you wish to speak against for Yeah, OK, uh, as far as additional funding, we've already, again Robert talked about the $75 million preparation and 75 million that's already been a uh allocated and uh sent over to corrections they have that as it stands right now. There's an additional $330 million that is setting in a restricted reserve account. This body put that money in 2 years ago. This would be we would need additional. moneys obviously to be able to fully appropriate or fully spend in this appropriation, uh, we're working with the sen or the House right now on how we would do that, that will come a little later in the session. One of the things we want to make sure that we do in that process is having an accountable plan with the Department of Corrections so that we're able to during ALC make sure that we're tracking, monitoring, and understanding the process and the progress of the prison construction, um, anything that we do and to let money out. Of that fund to go into, you know, be utilized by this appropriation would require a 3/5 vote by the ALC membership. Again, so it will, we will have a funding bill later on when we get into session, uh, hopefully not too long from now. There will be separate and apart from any other funding bills that we have, and that will, those monies will be collected into a 3/5 voter account and as money is needed and requested by the executive branch for the prison construction. They'll come make a letter, and we would let that money out. If the legislative auditor council chooses to do so with
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Chair Unverified 37:43
a 3/5 vote. Other questions? Send your love, you're recognized for a question. Thank
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Senator Fredrick J. Love Unverified 37:52
you, Governor. Senator Dima, let me, let me, uh, help me understand this, is this appropriation is for $750 million. Is that correct? All right, we've already. Provided that $300 million or $330 million or is that that that is
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Senator Jonathan Dismang Unverified 38:11
funding only. It is not appropriated for, so they do not have the ability to spin that without an appropriation.
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Speaker 109 38:19
OK, so we provided them an appropriation, not appropriation funding, funding last year for $330 million.
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Senator Fredrick J. Love Unverified 38:26
That's correct. And you're saying that with this $750 million appropriation they'll have the ability to spend that $330 million plus the additional this is not funding. 750 million on top of the 300, that's, that's correct. This
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Senator Jonathan Dismang Unverified 38:44
is, this is, if you have a capital project, uh, the state has a capital project, I should say, that we want funded. You are supposed to file an appropriation for a capital project in the amount of the anticipated construction costs. That's what this is. It is only a vehicle to spin. The appropriation threshold. On the second part of that, you have to fund it. Funding is typically a 51% vote threshold and so we as a body will dictate how we want to fund this prison. So we may do some set asides, restricted reserves, the, the, the vehicle that we've used in the past in the 3:30 is a restricted reserve account that can only be used for prison construction that requires a first, a letter from the governor and then approval of 3/5 of the Legislative council for money to be let. So what I would anticipate as we move through the construction process where the state moves through the construction progress uh process, uh, the governor will issue a letter requesting an amount for that stage of construction. We will review what's happened. We'll see what's going to happen in the future, the best of our ability, and we'll choose or not choose with the 3/5 vote to let that money be utilized and be spent by this appropriation. Anyone else? Any other questions for Senator Dismay. OK.
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Chair Unverified 40:05
So you know the questions. Anyone wish to speak against, for,
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 40:08
or on Senator King, you're recognized to speak
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Chair Unverified 40:11
against. Thank you, Madam President. I appreciate Senator Dimay
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Senator Bryan King Unverified 40:15
and going through the process and this is just the beginning of the process, so I'm going to talk about a few things in this because I was elected in 2006, back when we did not have the crime crisis that we have and the overcrowding. It was still a problem back then, but it was not to the mega crisis. And I've learned in life and it's like my grandfather taught me, there's the deal and there's who you deal with. You can make the best deal in the world on a bill that sounds great and go down. process and then there's who you deal with and how it turns out. And basically what happened was when Governor Bbe got in budget trouble as any governor would do, tries to look at saving money. He started letting people out of jail prison that shouldn't have been let out. It was called the Public Protection Act. You can go through this handout right here in 2011, but the Public Protection Act was not about protecting the public. It was about letting people out of out of prison that should have never been let out of prison. They should have stayed, but once again it comes down to money. Every decision we talk about down here comes down to money. This is what Senator Dismay talked about was basically the process for the money for this, but in 2011 as you go through the handout, you can see. It did not protect the citizens. You can see that violent crime continued to go up. Significantly in every part of the state. You can see in 2015, Senator Jeremy Hutchison comes in with his big ideas and you can see through the bill title that it's gonna protect the public. It's gonna reduce crime, reduce overcrowding. Once again, what got promised to the citizens. That never happened. We spent millions on a consultant that was going to tell us all these great things if it was going to solve these problems and wasted millions of dollars. You can go through the handout. Arkansas prison population among the fastest growing. Inmate growth outstrips prisons with prisons overcapacity earlier approval release for more than 700 inmates at that time, some of these legislators were getting on the board of corrections and it really wasn't their fault because they were funded, not funded correctly with the money to take care of the problem and the issue by people in this body and governors. You can see the FBI crime statistics go up our violent crime, property crime went up. If you look at, and I always go back to the dollar, if you see where politicians prioritize things, see, see where they spend the money. You can see where education was at 44% of the budget in 2007, went to education, public safety was only 1.9% of the budget. Corrections was 8% of the budget. Look at county turnback. Every one of these percentages, look what happened in the last budget. You want to see where the money and priority I talked about in 23 about the budget and RSA there was not enough money for corrections. 8% of the budget corrections budget never changed 8%. If we'd have been serious about funding corrections 2 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, correction should have been 10 or 12% of the budget. Public safety should have been 2.2 or 2.5% of the budget. That's why we're in the crisis it is because of money and who's funding it and the lack of funding. If you look at the graph, whatever you want to say, whether you want learn to spending is gonna go up. You look at the Medicaid spending is not gonna go down. Corrections and all these other ones have stayed flat, which is essentially a cut. Our county turn back, city turnback dollars as a percentage is less than when I first come in. That's actually a cut to our cities and counties because the cost of everything going up. Medicaid was the big winner in it, 24% to 32%. Our state budget's like a balloon. It's pretty simple. You expand in one area, you're going to contract in the others, and that's what happened. So when this process started in 2017, I proposed that if you went to correction, it's got sentence 4 times. You serve 80% of your sentence. It was time to get tough on things and provide the funding. At that time, we passed a bill out of the Senate. Governor Hutchinson opposed it. We got down at the end of the budget, and we do with the funding and everything. I proposed at that time Amazon was remitting the internet tax voluntarily. They estimated it's probably 4 or 5 times that now as a revenue stream to take care of this problem, but that was rejected by many of the members here once again, if you're not going to appropriate the money, then what you say out does not matter. So when this process started On the prison part, I can tell you that the $470 million figure for 3000 beds was a total farce. That's $156,000 per bed. And folks, I know I'm talking a lot and we're doing it and hey, it's early in the day and we're gonna get a lot of the talking out as we go through the process and I won't have to repeat these things. 156,000 per bed irresponsible farce, never would happen. Other states had even started pre-COVID price explosions were much more than that, 285,000. Utah was gonna build a prison for 500 and something million. It wound up being almost a billion dollars. Let me tell you something, folks, you can talk about process 35 votes, what do you want, you get in this process once you get down this path with these mega prisons, Utah, Alabama, every one of these megaprisons are mega financial disasters. Every single one of them. Just look at Alabama, look at Utah. You want to see what the real problem is in our state where it's coming from, if you look at this, when it comes to inmates and incarceration in county jail backlog a counties, 8 counties contribute 2 out of 3 inmates to incarceration in county backlog according to border correction facilities. Benton, Washington, and Sebastian County alone contributed almost 1 out of every 4 inmates to incarceration. Look at the figures. What is really happening here is you have counties, we have border correction facilities and in Pulaski County and Jefferson County. The 8 counties are Pulaski, Jefferson, Faulkner, and Celine, Sebastian Crawford, Benton, Washington County. Pulaski and Jefferson already have border correction facilities, and I will say this, I've told the people in Northwest Arkansas, we gotta build them up there. That's where the population growth is somewhere up there. But what has happened is in my counties we passed jail taxes and make sacrifices either that in the budget. To, to find these jails and this wouldn't be as bad a crisis had these bodies and many of you been funding corrections at 10, 12% of the budget and up public safety to 2.5%, but police officers in that they don't fund big pack checks and money to contribute like they do in these other areas like Medicaid. That's just the truth of it. If you look at where the process went to this facility, I said all along 470 million was never going to do it. Board of Corrections came out with a consultant that said 1.2 billion last year. Now we've jumped around like a frog on a hot rock. Every time it because the rock gets hard, the frog's gotta jump. We went from 470 million, what now we're at 825 million, even more, with no details or specifics. This part of Franklin County, it is in Senator Suville's district, not my part. There is no way you're gonna get 800 people. to work out there. That's, that is so ridiculous. It wouldn't matter if it's Texas Instruments building out there. No company employing that many people would look at a location like this. I'm a real guy. As I said, there's a deal and there's who you deal with in this. Look at all the promises that we've made, jumped around on millions of dollars, no specifics. If a school did that for a building. You'd want them investigated. Let's talk about Joe Perfuri. First off, he says to this body legislative that the community needs to embrace it. That happened? No, that didn't happen. You know, he doesn't care about that. He says one thing in front of a committee, doesn't matter. You know what else he said? He said, well, the road structure's fine. The highway department came back and said no. When you do a construction project of this thing and you're talking concrete trucks, cranes, and everything like that. You're gonna have to redo a lot of these roads before you even get started in the process. They never even called the electric cooperative and find out what it took to get power in there. This place is on a mountain of rock. There's no water. You're literally conceivingly trying to build a 3000. 800 population city way out in the country where there's no road or any structure, no water, no sewer, nothing. Didn't even call the electric cooperative. There's a guy in a construction said, I wouldn't let my wife build the she shed in the back without checking that out. That's how incompetence level that this really is. If you want to go to really who we're trusted in this. If you want to really keep going in this. Joe Perfury at the April meeting in 23 up in Batesville, I got the transcript of it finally. said we were going to expand calico Rock where you already have 100% staffing up at Calico Rock, 525 beds, they're gonna have to up it from the 75 million to 115 million. Joe Perfuri shut that down. That decision alone, folks. costs taxpayers $40 to $50 million more dollars in building in this megaprison mega financial disaster when you talk per bed. We could have been 525 beds already 2 years down the road had Joelperfury not shut down. I'll share the uh the transcript of the meeting. That's what we're getting into right now when you start this process going down there and look at what else happened. This has been riddled with lies, deception, and gross incompetence. And you want to trust people like this that make a decision, the calico rock expansion was a no-brainer. Easy decision. You know, they would sit there and say, well, what are we gonna do if we do nothing and not get nothing. That's ridiculous. I've heard that threat all the time down here. We've got other options and I would like love to have the Senate floor debate at some time, my option versus the other option. If we don't stop controlling the crime on the front end, we will never get out of this mess. It once you, if you have high crime rates for a while, the next steps are you have public defenders overburden your current system overburdened, your jails overburdened. The only way to financially get out of this instead of this financial death spiral that what one side wants to go down is to reduce crime before it even happens because once you reduce crime before it even happens, you save so much money because if you have a high crime rate, which we already have a high incarceration rate, embarrassingly. Once you arrest somebody, you have to haul them to jail. You take them to jail. Guess what? They have a booking. They have a stay in jail till they either get bonded out or stay to their court date. They have a public defender in the process. Then they have a court date and then they get sentenced to incarceration at Costas, and then you turn around and have to rehabilitate them. And then turn around and have probation parole, which we're not funding. They are overworked and overburdened and underfunded, and they will be 5 years from now. This keeping people that are the serious crimes and, yeah, it's going to help out some, but it will not step in our into the crime rate. Little Rock is 7500 officers short right now. We need to be hiring public safety officers and paying our up public safety people and these officers more and get more people in and doing positive. situations out here to actually reduce the crime. That is the only option that we have to get out of this. Going down this megaprison mega financial death spiral built upon lies, deception, and gross incompetence is not the first step in the process that we should do. We will never get out of that. The other part of my plan is to help county jail, county sheriffs and equalize the pay and deputies so they're not losing. Every county out there, all 75 county deputies make less in cities. My plan will actually equal ize that pay and let them keep from losing deputies. So many times they pay for the training 2 or 3 years later, they're gone to a city or somewhere else. There are a lot of things that we can do, folks that we need to debate and look at before we step into this megaprison mega financial disaster depo that we're gonna go into. Let me add the three counties I mentioned, Benton, Washington, Sebastian County that contribute almost 1 out of every 4 inmates, they're not passing jail taxes. Everyone in my county, Senator Stokeville, Franklin County passed a jail. Is this a crisis with state backed folks? Yes. But it's only when they don't pass jail taxes, we're going to let these three counties continue to run over us with prisoners. Why would any county in the future pass a jail tax expansion or a new jail, why not just do like Benton County. Keep dumping more people in the state system. This will bankrupt us just not in this process alone, which has never been explained. I cannot imagine letting go of almost a billion dollars without any detailed specifics, the reality is this prison for the amount with if you look at other states and everything, whatever they want to promise, you know what, they'll be lucky to be 2000 prisoners up there in 67 years, you'll be lucky to have 40 500 people working up there. You look at 2000 prisoners with the amount of money, that's 400 and something,000 per bed. There are a lot of options that are better than doing this. And for Joe Perfury to shut down that calico rock expansion, literally cost taxpayers $40 to $50 million more dollars that we could expand it right then rather than go down this path of this megaprison and cost us more money. So I'd ask for a no vote and let's stop this process and look for a more physically responsible way that's actually going to lower crime. Anyone wished to speak for
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Speaker 35 54:01
Senator Hester, you're recognized to speak for. Thank you, Madam Governor. So
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Senator Bart Hester Unverified 54:06
this is, um, we're about that time of session, right, where the difficult things come before us. You know, I was looking at uh our calendar. I don't know, we got 50, 60 bills on today. Maybe a dozen of them. I have a principled position for or against. Most of them, I can take it or leave it, right? And so if I could take it or leave it, I'm going to find a way to vote for it or find a way to vote against it at that point. I think we're here, most of the members in this room have a principal position for or against a prison and funding one. Most of us do. And so I'm gonna talk to our members right now that say they understand and they're for the prison. Uh, but they have some technical reason why they don't think they can vote for it, or some personal choice, right? I wish it was like this or I wish it was like that. Well, there's 50 or 60 bills on our calendar today that I wish were different. But I don't get that option to do. We get, we work in a representative republic democracy where it doesn't get to be the way that I want it. It doesn't get the way Senator Hill wants it or Senator Dismay wants it. It gets to be the way that the group comes together with a decision. So when I started thinking about why would I vote for this. I called my local prosecutor in Benton County. And I said, hey, I remember a story from just not long ago, a young lady that murdered a police officer. And I remember some horrifying facts about that. Can you refresh me? So her name was Shauna Cash. And if you'll listen to me, there's a shot of cash or a dozen China caches, and every one of your districts. She was arrested in Grant County and released in May of 21. She was arrested in Washington County and released for no room in May of 21. She was arrested in Benton County and released in May of 21. In April of 21, she murdered Officer Apple. Three times she should have been in county jails 3 times she was released because no room. Now we have a memorial highway in northwest Arkansas named Officer Apple Memorial Highway. What I'm trying to tell you is there's many Shanacas in every one of our districts right now. She should, they should be in prison, but there is no room. And I hope the rest of you don't spend the rest of your lives driving down an office or Apple or an officer or whatever, or just maybe it's a friend of yours, maybe a schoolmate, maybe a co-worker, and maybe they don't get the privilege of having a highway named after them. But I'm telling you, the Shawna cass are in every one of our districts right now. Every one of us know it. We've got to have room and I'm begging you to not have something horrible happen in your district when we could have made a difference today. I'm asking you to vote yes.
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Chair Unverified 57:08
Anyone speak against or on against Senator Payton, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Colleagues, I'm
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Senator John Payton Unverified 57:18
all for a new prison. I think we need more prison space. I think we need more beds. I think we've had that problem for years as demonstrated by Senator Hester. But I had an employee that stole money and we prosecuted her and and she was sentenced to prison, and they said there's no room to put her in a prison, and I call up there at Newport, and there's plenty of room in the prison. They didn't have a staff. I think I remember a few months ago when our governor took the reins of the state of Arkansas, and she had a pretty good dust up with the board of Corrections about expanding prison beds, adding prison beds and the dust up was because the border of Corrections was saying, we don't have the staff. They, they had the building, they had the, the bed space, but they didn't have the staff. I've been in business all my life. And location, location, location. And I don't have a dog in the fight up there in Stubblefield's district. It's, it's not gonna bother me if he's got a good place to put it and the, and the people don't want it. But if we're putting it, if, if we're fixing a vote on an appropriation for 3/4 of a billion dollars because we decided we wanna build a 3000 bed prison. Then we need to figure out where in Arkansas. We have the logistics to support a 3000 bed prison. And if Arkansas is a rural state and we want to put the prison out in a rural area, then maybe we should build 3, 1000 bed prisons. Uh, Senator Irvin and I are very familiar with calico rock. The people in Calico Rock wanted it. And it's been doing great in Calico Rock, but we didn't go up there and try to build a 3000 bed prison. It's 500 or 600 beds, and it could probably handle an expansion. What I'm saying is this is not a good plan. It may be a great location for a smaller prison. But there's no population to support an 800 person workforce, from what I understand in this, in this area. Uh I think we should be considering Where you're gonna build it. If you go, if you're gonna build a 3000 bed prison, then that's going to narrow down your selection sites. If you're gonna build 3 1000 bed prisons, then you can probably stick them out in the middle of nowhere and and get away with it. But uh I can't vote for this appropriation. I understand it's appropriation, and it's not funding. But it's a bad business decision and, and I'm not gonna be responsible. A year or 2 years from now when we spend 3 quarter of a billion dollars. We've got the most beautiful, up to-date modern facility. We came in under budget. And nobody to work there.
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To speak for Senator Boyd, you're recognized.
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Senator Justin Boyd Unverified 1:00:26
Thank you. I didn't prepare remarks, but I feel like there's some things that can't go left unchecked. So first of all, we have prisons and we have jails. Jail's House, county inmates, and they house state prisoners temporarily. So if, if it were all up to the counties, why would we even re reimburse jails for state inmates, and the answer is simple because they're state inmates. This body, the house, they make the laws, they determine the rules of what is a crime. These bodies determine what the punishment is. And so at the end of the day, It's not the county, it's the state. Those, those jails are there. So these sheriffs up here, they deserve better. We need to vote for this thing. And then finally, when it comes to workforce, I just have something simple to say, you know, I observe every day people drive from one community to another. They choose to live one place, they choose to work another because that's where the job is. So this idea that there's not a workforce. I just disagree. So I'd ask for a good vote. Thank you. Any other member wished to
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Chair Unverified 1:01:39
speak against or for Seeing no other sin or dismaying your recognized clothes. Thank you, Governor. Members, I appreciate the debate and the
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Senator Jonathan Dismang Unverified 1:01:52
discussion on the appropriation. One thing I would like to just say is there are other pieces to this puzzle that are being filled right now, uh, after we have the discussion on this, we're going to have a debate on the pay plan which contemplates significant increases in pay for those working in our prison system. In fact, we actually gave the funding last session to the Department of Corrections and they couldn't spend it because the pay wasn't high enough to attract the number of jobs needed to fill the positions, so they had to carryover. And we're looking to rectify that situation. I understand. That the members want to be engaged in this process as it moves forward, regardless of what happens with this appropriation. And you're going to have the ability to do that. And with that, I would appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Thank you, Senator. The
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Speaker 35 1:02:46
sender has closed. I would remind members that This vote in order to pass will require 27 votes. With that, Madam Secretary, please call the roll. But. Bro. Caldwell. Clark Clark, Crowe. Davis, Days. This man Dotson.
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Chair Unverified 1:04:29
Any senator who did not vote or wishes to have your vote changed. I believe that
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Speaker 35 1:04:34
Senator Hills was inaccurately recorded as yes, but you wish for it to be no. Is that correct? Thank you, Senator. Other senators who wish to vote or did not vote, Senator Murdoch present. Any other senator, please check the board. Seeing no other police cast up the ballot. By a vote of 19 yeah 10 nay to not voting for present Senate Bill 354 fails. Next, we will
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take up Senate Bill 392. Send Bill 392 by Senator Davis, to
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Speaker 65 1:05:19
in Arkansas law concerning the classification and compensation of state employees and declare an emergency.
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:05:42
Senator Davis, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Um, this is the state employee pay plan, we have had multiple meetings on it, um, in personnel and have had opportunities for questions. We've worked with all groups, including the state employee association, to ensure that it was meeting expectations. I want to be clear, this is a labor market rate plan, um, so there's a little over 16,000 state employees that will be getting raises, so that they will be paid in line with labor market rates, um, there are some employees that will not be getting raises, and that means that they are currently being paid labor market rates. So this bill does a couple of things. First of all, it reduces the current number of classifications, there's around 2500 right now different job titles. It reduces it down to 850 and um it establishes a new grade structure with 6 new pay tables instead of 4, which is what we previously had. There's no connection to the old from the old tables to the new tables. So it's entirely different when people try to compare grades where they're at now versus the grade they will be. There is no connection or lines drawn. It's entirely new. Um, so it also creates groups, um, and jobs and jobs series and jobath so that there can be a way for career advancement for to encourage people to have a career at the state and be able to be promoted within their job series. And lastly, it creates a student loan program to help assist state employees and repaying student loans, and that will be up to the different agencies to come up with the rules, um, to determine that, and we do have caps, um, monetary caps within the bill on that. Um, with that, I am happy to answer any questions. Questions for Senator Davis. Senator Payton, Senator King,
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Chair Unverified 1:07:34
do you have a question? But yeah OK, so send her Payton, then sender King. Hopefully this
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:07:44
is real easy, but in Section 1 where it sets up the The uh The, the installments to pay back on student loans. I mean, it seems like all the language is there, but I can't find where it says whether those are quarterly installments, annual installments, you know, I mean, it talks about installments and it's gonna be 5 installments. But it doesn't say what the time frame is on those installments. So those will be rules that will
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:08:15
be promulgated for each agency. We made sure since it was a new program that it would come to us and we would see how each different group is setting it up, um, those are up to $2000.05 $2000 max payments, and that's up to each agency to determine one, if they have the funds for that program, and if so, how they're going to distribute those funds. So if we were going
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:08:34
to leave it up to the agency, why did we get so specific on saying that the It has to be 5 installments and it's capped at $2000. I mean, if they could make 5 installments in 5 days of $2000 then we're not accomplishing anything by putting those restrictions in
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:08:53
the bill. Well, that'll be up to us if we don't like the rules and the way that they say we're gonna pay out this money, then we can just not approve those rules and they can come back to us with a different set of rules, but I think it was to put some parameters around the way agencies can do it, since it is a new program, um, but sure we see that guidelines for a question, I just
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:09:10
thought I was missing something. Now you got me concerned. Thanks. Thanks.
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Senator Bryan King Unverified 1:09:18
Senator King, you're recognized for a question. So in this, in my understanding is there's what, 50 or 6000 state employees that are not getting any
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:09:34
raise at all, OK. And again, just to be clear, that's because this is a labor market rate plan, so that is the reason that they're not getting raises is because they are currently at labor market rates. Senator Payton, you're
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:09:49
recognized for a follow up. Thank you, Madam President. Well, this is on section 2. So I realized we already have elected officials whose spouses Work for the state. This is set in a dollar value of not to exceed $50,000 it's replacing in language that doesn't clearly state what that figure was before. Do you know what the figure is and how much we're raising that or lowering it. Gosh, I wanna,
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:10:15
I, oh, I don't want to say for sure. I feel like the figure was somewhere around like 40 or 45,000 and we had to have approval through the legislature, but I don't want to say that for certain, um, because we've dealt with that issue in the recent past, but I get it for you. I don't have it in front of me or I mean, are you pretty
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:10:35
sure it's a, it's an increase or do you think it's pretty much the same or I think it's a little bit of
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:10:40
an increase just to adjust with the times so that we're not, you know, having an old figure of say 20,000 or whatever, which I don't think is what it is currently, um, but I think it's just adjusting. For the. I'm
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Chair Unverified 1:11:00
sorry, it was 36,000. Any other questions for Senator Davis? Anyone wish to speak against. Senator Caldwell, you're recognized to speak against.
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Senator Ronald Caldwell Unverified 1:11:17
Thank you, Madam Chair, members, we have tried through the years to give our employees good raises, uh, the one department that gets left out every single time is a division of Ag. Everyone in this room has an extension office in their county, uh, the only way that extension service or the vision of Ag it's a pay raise that we manually put it there when K through 12 got. pay raises a very significant pay raise. Everybody got it. Uh when uh higher ed got their pay raises, division of ag is left out of that, and they, they are not put in there and I have asked the governor to come back and give the vision of A $6.5 million to get their pay raises, and now we're going to come in and give the executive branch an extensive pay rate, which I am in favor of, but not until the governor Assures us that she's going to put $6.5 billion in the division of AG budgets, so I ask you for a no vote on this bill until we get that assurance that we will get that $6.5 billion.
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Anyone wish to speak for anyone else wish to speak against, Senator King, you're recognized to speak against. As you
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Senator Bryan King Unverified 1:12:38
can thank you Madam President, last time I was against more it's about an explanation like Senator Caldwell, Juan I'm a no vote, if basically if you look at personnel over the years, it should follow a little bit what is going on here in Arkansas. I mean, one thing is the 6000 people that are not getting a raise at McKenzie, which I do not like, we don't need, uh, I don't like New York consultants trying to consult us down there and this is once again another issue that I have. Nothing against Senator Davis because any big project is never gonna be perfect. So it is not against Senator Davis, but if you look at the 6000 employees that are not getting a raise, they say at market rates. Well, that may be a market where it's high cost of living. I live in a rural area, so somebody making the same amount of money will be banking more than somebody in Pulaski County that could be doing the same job. That's one of the questions that I have that I don't think can raise. If you're giving me this amount of money, then there should be some more equity and fairness and looking at the whole situations, even though I'm in a rural area where somebody making the same salary. It's not the same as somebody making more in Benton County even though I talked about Benton County last time. The biggest thing that I look at in state government that I've seen over the years is the explosion of jobs, of high paying jobs. You, when you talk $100,000 a year job salary wise, you might as well add 40,000 of it because it used to be 27% for salary and benefit or benefits. Now it's 40%, so you're talking 140,000. So Joe Perfuri that I mentioned earlier, that's making 180,000, he's almost making a quarter of a million dollars. And just cost us 40 to $50 million on a dumb decision that should have been a no-brainer. So that's what, that's a quarter of a million dollars in 4 years, you're going to pay him a million dollars. And the one thing about waste and fraud when Elon and all this is catching on is if you waste a million dollars, you really wasted $2 million because when you waste a million dollars, takes a million dollars of good to get it back to good. You talk about $2 million you're almost 0.5% of giving a cola to every state employee, but if you want to look at these figures where we have not done the job that we should have done is the absolute explosion in these high dollar house salary jobs, which a lot of them are just political appointee jobs that it's actually the career people doing the job, and I'm for raises. So nurses and I'm for raises on prison guards and spending money on that. But if you look in 2015 in core state government, there were 217 people making over $100,000 a year. In 2025, 854. If you want to look at this figure right here and you're looking at core state government and spending money and once again, we are spending money, whatever you want to be. Lawrence, whatever, spending money, correction, spending money. Our revenues are going down. DFAA predicts next year that I think is concerning, and I'm a farmer and pessimist, that revenues are gonna get back to normal, which I don't know in this world today, we really know what normal is anymore, to be honest with you. If you look at the tariffs and agriculture about us continuing spending. We're not doing a careful enough job in spending and as I mentioned theorfiri thing. costing us 40 $50 million more and paying him a quarter of a million dollars a year, but in 2015, folks, 3 people made over $200,000. Now, I'm not talking to the people down here that do the job out in the field and everything like that that deserve raises the prison guards, the nurses, all those representative Mayberry's got a nurse's bill that I'm for spending more money on 2015 there were 3 people making over $200,000. You know what that figure today is in 2025. 172. There are some serious problems going on with this. There is a reason why in Arkansas in 2015, there's a study I'll show with you, we spend more per capita than the rest of the states around us, meaning we're the most wasteful spending government around us in this in this surrounding states. Florida is like 300 or 4000 less per capita than we are. If you really want to look at that. But in 2015, 3 people made over $200,000. Now it's 172. If we don't get control of spending a bunch of these political appointees that's getting paid the job that the real people are actually doing the job, not these political appointees. And get serious about these high-paying jobs and start recruiting. We are financially, next year, right now, revenue spending wise, I don't see how we keep up and we're headed to the red unless the economy turns around, which I hope it does. Anyone else? I
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wish to speak for or against Senator Stubblefield for.
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Senator Gary Stubblefield Unverified 1:17:14
this Listen, most of you have known me cause I've been here a long time and you know, I've been a farmer all my life. Farming, uh, until you've been one and grown food for other people. A lot of people just don't recognize the importance of what we do and how many people it affects. It's a leading industry in the state. Everything we do revolves around farming. It doesn't make any difference if you live in Fayetteville or Little Rock or any other county, Walmart has to truck all that food in and out. JB Hunt has to truck all the food in and out. Tyson's is is is agriculture. Almost all of our big industries are tied to agriculture. I see little farmers, uh, middle-sized farmers that are struggling right now and even larger row crop farmers. Some of those are struggling right now. We are, we as a industry are hurting the last place. We need to do any cutting is in agriculture because folks, we can do a lot of things, but you cannot survive without agriculture. We've got to start realizing that and, and pay more attention to that and treat them the way that they deserve to be treated because I'm telling you, agriculture is a tough road. It's hard. It's hard work and it requires a lot of sacrifice. So I just want you to think about that when you vote.
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Anyone else wished to speak against or for Senator Davis, you're recognized clothes. Thank you, Madam President. Um,
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:19:09
to answer a few questions, Senator Payton, that allotment will be annual, so they'll determine how they're going to make the payments, but it's an annual payment, but they'll still be rules promulgated for those programs per agency. Um, it is correct that there are, as we said, about 6000 employees who will not be receiving raises, those employees, it's because they are currently making labor market rates, so they have been paid what the labor market pays in the private sector and across. Those employees are still eligible for performance money. They can still get raises, they can perform well, get increases there, and they could also potentially be on an expert differential. So there's opportunity for these employees to receive raises, but the focus really, and I think the direction from the legislature over the years was to have a labor market rate plan, so that we start employees out at a rate that they're able to stay here with the state when we train them, we want to invest in a high quality workforce. We want people that are going to stay with us and provide services for the state, to the people, well, um, so we're seeing in over 16% increase in pay for correctional officers, over 15% increase for pay for social services, our social work. workers that deal with our kids in foster care, a 10 over 10% pay increase for state police and an over 10% increase for nursing, and we all know we've had issues keeping and retaining nurses at places like Human Development centers across the state who deal with the most um fragile, fragile and a critical population. I'd also like to speak to Senator Caldwell's comments on um the division of Bag, the county extension officers. That is not in this pay plan. Those employees are in the University of Arkansas Division of AG budget. If we want to take up funding for those county extension officers, then we need to be making phone calls to the UFA division of Ag and talk to them about it. Um, I've got their budget right here and if you look through, you can see that there are maximum. Maximum pay is $199,000. Why aren't they making that? I don't know. Let's call you of a division of Ag and ask them why they're not paying their county extension officers what they should get paid. So that is not part, that that is not an executive branch function. They are not employees of the executive branch that's not part of this pay plan, that is in UFA division of AG budget. So I want to be clear on that if we have issue and we want to give them $6.5 million then we need to call them and ask them, um, why they're not paying their employees more and what they plan to spend that $6.5 million on. Um, in closing, um, Again, so many groups have been worked with to see this come to fruition. Um, everyone's been at the table, there's been a ton of input over um a couple of years now, we've been meeting about it extensively, making adjustments, ensuring that um nothing is perfect, but everything is as good as it could be, and that we're doing right by the state employees who are working hard for citizens across the state of Arkansas and deserve to be paid a rate that is similar to the private sector and matches. Those labor market rates. So, thank you, and I asked for a good vote. Senator has closed.
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Any objection to rolling the vote. Objection noted. Madam Secretary, please call the roll. going. Brant Caldwell. Caldwell
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Speaker 161 1:22:52
Clark. Crow Davis. Days. This man. Dotson English.
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Speaker 164 1:23:02
Flipper. Flippo Yes, flowers. Gilmore. Hammer. Hester Hickey. Heke.
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Hell. Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson. King. Letting Letting Love. Love McKee. Murdoch, Murdoch, Peyton. Penzo. Pencil.
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Patty. Rice, Scott. Scott Stone. Stuberfield. Sullivan. Tucker? Wallace. Any senator
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who did not vote Wallace. Yes. Who wishes to vote or change
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Speaker 238 1:24:27
vote, love present Jamie, Senator Scott, yes. Senator Penzo, no. Murdoch present. Any other senator. Please check the board. Any other senator,
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please check the board. Hickey, yes. Letting, letting present any other senator see no other, please cast up the ballot. By a
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Speaker 240 1:25:01
vote of 22 y, 7 nay, and 6 present. Senate Bill 392 passes and the
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Chair Unverified 1:25:07
corresponding Emergency clause fails. Senator Davis, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:25:19
make a motion to expunge the vote by which the emergency clause failed on Senate Bill 392. Motion to expunge the vote by
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which the emergency clause failed on Senate Bill 392. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.
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Speaker 247 1:25:43
Any opposed. Is habit motion carries. now or about it now? OK. Button down the emergency. s.
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Members, we will take up the vote now on just the emergency clause. For Senate Bill 392. Ask him to put the speaker. All right, thank
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 1:26:13
you, Madam President. I'd like to make a motion to vote on the emergency clause on Senate Bill 392. All those in
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favor. The motion to vote. Signify by saying aye. And he opposed, I have it, Madam Secretary, if there's no
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objection to rolling the vote. Is there any objection? Objection noted, Madam Secretary, please call
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the roll. Bo Bran Caldwell. Caldwell. Clark Clark
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Crow. Crowe. Davis. Days, this man Dotson. English.
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Flip out flowers. Gilmore
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 1:27:15
hammer. Hester. Hickey Hike Hill
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Speaker 161 1:27:23
Hell. Arvin. Like Johnson. Mark Johnson King lighting, love. McKee Murdo Murdoch. Payton. Penzo. Penzo. Patty, rice. Rice, Scott. down, Stuberfield. Stabil Sullivan. Tucker?
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Wallace. Any senator who did not vote or who wishes to change his or her vote, Senator Hickey, yes. Senator Kroll, yes. Any
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other senator Seeing no other. Please cast up the ballot by a vote
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of 29. 29, 1 nay, 5 not voting, the emergency clause to Senate Bill 392 is adopted, please transmit the bill and the emergency corresponding emergency clause to
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the House. Senator Tucker, you are recognized for an announcement. Thank you, Madam President.
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Senator Clarke Tucker Unverified 1:28:47
We have a second doctor of the day today, who not only is an outstanding physician. She also has the patience of Job for waiting for us to debate these last couple of bills so I could, so I could get her introduction again. And so Doctor Shealey, thank you so much for your patience. We have Doctor Kristen Shealy. She's an internal medicine at UAMS. If any of y'all need a PCP when you're in town, away from your hometowns, Dr. Shealey can take care of you. So thank you so much for being here today. Doctor Sheley, welcome to the Senate.
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Next we will move to the business agenda. Senator Irvin. You're recognized for emotion? I need to withdraw
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 1:30:04
the committee, the bill from the. This is my bill and I'm making a motion to withdraw the bill from the committee so I can engross an amendment so it's ready to go back. All those
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in favor, the motion please signify by saying
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Speaker 275 1:30:20
I I and he opposed? Is habit. Amendment one, the Senate Bill 484. This is my bill, my
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amendment. I appreciate how you get that. All those in favor of the
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amendment, please signify by saying aye, any opposed? I have it. Amendment is adopted, please send to engrossing. Send her Flippo, you're recognized for a similar motion.
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Senator Blake Johnson, you'll be recognized next for a similar motion. I study.
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Senator Scott Flippo Unverified 1:30:53
5, 65. Thank you Governor. I just need my bill,
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Speaker 280 1:30:56
my amendment. You want to withdraw it first. You want to
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Speaker 281 1:31:03
withdraw from. Oh, they withdrawal, what's what's. Senate agencies for purposes of amendment. All those
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Speaker 273 1:31:12
in favor of the motion, Senator Flippo, please come back. All those in favor, the motion, please signify I was saying I.
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Speaker 173 1:31:19
Any opposed? I have it, motion carries. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 565.
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My bill, my amendment. All those in favor of the amendment, please signify by
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saying I. And he opposed. I have it. Amendment is adopted, please send to engrossing. Senator Blake Johnson. You're recognized for a similar motion on House Bill 1424. Mhm. Black po Senate bill or House
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Bill 1424 from uh in insurance and commerce to
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the floor for purpose of amendment. All those in favor
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of the motion please signify to say aye. Any opposed? I have it, motion carries. Amendment
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1, the House Bill 1424. My bill, my amendment. All those in favor of the
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amendment, please signify by saying aye. And
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he opposed, I have it. Me is adopted, please send to engrossing. Next, we will take up Senate bill 117.
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Sitting about 117 by central Pennzo to create the
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neuropath physician uh practice act to provide for last licenger of neuropathy physicians in Arkansas and to create a state, uh, board of Natural Medicine. Senator Penzo, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President, uh, some, some of
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:32:52
you all may have noticed, but I, I, I followed a handful of uh healthcare bills this session, um. One of my, my goal, my goals were to increase access, uh, lower health care costs and give patients options in their healthcare choices, uh, SB 117 uh does all three of those, in my opinion. Um, Naturopathic physicians, this is something I've worked on pretty much ever since I got elected to the legislature. I have um kind of a background story on why Naturopathic physicians came into my life and why they're important to me, um, there was a point in my life where I had a lot of healthcare issues. I, I had gut issues as a kid, but, you know, it was just blamed on you, you eat too fast, uh, you know, I'd get a stomachache every time I'd eat, but as, as time went on as I got older, I started having more severe problems with joint pain, rashes, um, all kinds of weird issues, high blood pressure, um, and it got to one point where I gave up fast food and alcohol one year for Lent. Um, when L Lent was over, I went out and had a couple of cheeseburgers and some beverages, and I woke up the next morning with a fully distended abdomen. I was miserable, uh, went to multiple doctors. Nobody could figure out what was wrong with me. Um, I got referred to a specialist. They couldn't figure out what was wrong, um, was going to a dermatologist. They were giving me, uh, creams for my rashes, special shampoos for my, my scalp. It was just a miserable time in my life, and I, I remember this girl I went to college with, she said she was going to be a doctor. So I called her up, tracked her down, and, and I said, Hey, did you ever go to medical school? She said, no, I went to naturopathic physician school, and I was like, tell me more. And so she told me about what a naturopathic position was. I told her about my, my issues, and she said, Clint, you've got food allergies. Come in, we'll do some blood work. So I came into her clinic and at the time in Arkansas, she can't practice as a naturopathic doctor naturopathic physician, cause we, we don't license that that profession here. So she was working under a chiropractor, um, and of course she couldn't do the blood work because she wasn't allowed to by law. She's, she's a doctor in Arizona. That's where she went to school in Arizona, she has prescriptive authority. She can prescribe drugs. She can do surgery in Arizona. But in Arkansas, she has to work under a chiropractor, um, one of the, the naturopathic physicians that helped me with this particular bill this year, uh, she works under her acupuncture license, so that's that caps out her scope of what she can do. under that, that acupuncture license. So We do the blood work, we send it off. Results come back. And she puts me on a 4-day rotation diet. And over the course of 6 months. Within a month, I was already feeling better, but within the course of 6 months, I lost 70 pounds. My testosterone levels went up. My cholesterol levels went down. My blood pressure went down. Everything started working better. I was a different man. All, all my numbers were better. No drugs, just lifestyle change, eliminating certain foods from my diet that cause problems. So, obviously I was sold on naturopathic doctors. We're, we're allopathic medicine. Didn't have an answer for me, naturopathic medicine did. And I'm, I'm from the belief that We should have a holistic health care system and our health care system is geared specifically towards drugs, surgeries, and just allopathic medicine. I see my chiropractor and my physical therapist way more than I do my allopathic primary care physician. But that's my choice and I believe all Arkansans should have the choice to, to get their healthcare where they see fit. I believe that a lot of Issues in our society can be handled. I mean, there's a lot more information out there about food additives, uh, seed oils being bad for people, uh, you know, the old, old, you know, Senator Penzo, I'm going to have
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Speaker 35 1:37:47
to interrupt you. If I could ask members of the body who are having side conversations, particularly those who are creating a A roar, it's a Some of you all may not be able to hear the senator at the well, and I know each of you when you're at the well, once you're voice to be heard and so I would ask that you give that respect to whoever's at the well at the time. Thank you.
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:38:12
Thank you, Madam President. Trying to think where I left off there. The, the We're a different place in our society now with what, what healthcare looks like. Um, we, we know that food dyes are bad. We know that seed oils are bad. We know that the, the old Idea of what healthcare looks like is different now. Um, I, I, I think of one example, um, I, I know I have a family member that was labeled as diabetic. I used to be into personal training and physical therapy back in the day. A lot of y'all know that. So I, I worked with this family member on diet and exercise, um, and of course it's family members, so that's OK, right? So I did some coaching on them, um. And they were able to get off all their Diabetes medication. Well, years go by and their health declines again, and they ended up getting a glucose monitor that feeds to their phone. And a lot of the foods they were told to eat, it was good for their diabetic condition, we're causing Blood sugar spikes. And so that helped them kind of regulate, but With that being said, a lot of the old mentality of what is good for us. A lot of that's changing with with new discoveries and sites. So what this bill does, it, it, it, it sets up a licensure for naturopathic physicians in Arkansas. One of the committee members didn't want to create a new board. We initially started with putting them with the medical board. Well, the medical board doesn't really want to play nice. So I wanted to set up they're on board. Well, one of the committee members didn't want to create a new board, which I understand. So what we did was take the acupuncture board. And merge it with this and create the natural medicine board. So a lot, several pages of this bill are actually, you know, near the end or just striking a lot of the language from that, uh, Current board that exists and make it a natural medicine board, so it'll be made up of 3 naturopathic physicians, 3 acupuncturists, and 2 members of the public. Um, and that's pretty much what a lot of the back end of this is, um, and I'd be happy to answer any questions about what, what anybody might have about naturopathic physicians. Questions for Senator
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Chair Unverified 1:41:03
Penzo, Senator Ervin, you're recognized for a question, then Senator Sullivan. Thank you. You're setting up
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 1:41:09
a new license. Is there a requirement in your language for criminal background check.
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:41:23
I believe there is, um you know what? I do not
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 1:41:32
off the top of my head. Um The reason I'm asking and I apologize, it was just looking at this, but um when you talk about they're using routes of administration. On page 10 of the bill. The reason why I think criminal background check is important is because on page 10 of your bill, you're talking about using routes of administration of therapeutic substances that include oral, nasal. Our ocular ocular rectal, vaginal and transdermal consistent with the education and training of a naturopathic physician. And then also using barrier contraception. So I just think if you're, if they're doing vaginal or rectal type of therapies that it probably would be a really good idea to have criminal background check as part of the licensing.
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OK. Senator Sullivan, you're recognized. Thank you,
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Senator Dan Sullivan Chair Unverified 1:42:37
Governor. You know, long look at the number of commissions and boards that we have and just not long ago, a couple of years ago in transition services, we had over 200 boards and commissions and we're trying to reduce those, um, this is just add another board, and if so, why aren't they under
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:42:58
another board? Well, that's exactly what I said, Senator Hill did not want to create another uh board, so I looked for another board to place them on. So this, this utilizes an existing board and turns the acupuncture board into a excuse me, Senator Hill's OK with all of that? Yeah, I
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Speaker 315 1:43:15
mean if it was I just didn't hear that if this was earlier in the
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:43:21
session, I would probably want to put massage therapists and consolidate some other stuff into. but we're not going to make it complicated. I'd be happy to consolidate 2 days. Huh? We got 2 days. Thank you. We, we can run a separate bill to, to consolidate some more words to it if you want to.
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The questions for Senator Penzo. Senator Blake Johnson, you're recognized. Well, I had never been around
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Speaker 288 1:43:56
one of these physicians. What kind of educational uh background do they have? What does this consist of?
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:44:03
Well, thank you for that question. There's, there's 4100 hours of training they receive. It's a, it's a, it's a doctorate level uh education, um, like I said, and uh, there. Their curriculum is taught by MDs, DOs, chiropractors, and other naturopathic physicians, so it's, it's, it's more of a holistic um type of health care. We're not trying to replace allopathic medicine where we're not saying that, you know, that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to give an alternative to to allopathic medicine. So they're, they're training, they, they don't do uh residencies like MDs do, uh, but they have Very adequate training, some of their training is more geared towards, like they have a lot more nutrition training than they do, um, than doctors do, MDs, um, but they, you know, they don't have all the, the Training on pharmaceuticals, that's where a lot of the allopathic medical doctors, most of their training is geared towards more surgical intervention drugs, things like that. So it's a different type of uh education, but it's, it's very complimentary and uh if you, um, Senator Hester, I'm sorry, uh, Ballinger, um, his wife went to get his, her uh uh cancer treatment in Arizon. Arizona and the MDs and the naturopathic physicians work together in the, the naturopathic physicians in Arizona that work with the oncologist, they, they work on the nutrition and things like that to help uh recovery. So it's, it's more of a complimentary than a than a
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Speaker 288 1:45:59
replacement. I mean, I worked with DO and they're very knowledgeable on, you know, orthopedic matters and, and what is the background on, on these, these physicians compared to like a DO on, uh, you know, Orthopedic or or bone and because this bill allows them to order radiology and I've been trying to express that that uh physical therapist has extensive training in that and is not allowed to order radiology and we're creating a whole new thing here that can do what's a physical therapist has to get a doctor to get radiology done and and and I know the background and the extent of education that That they get, uh, do they, do they, do these guys have that kind of training and, and neuromuscular uh Yeah, and you know, I would
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:47:00
probably say that, you know, they're, they're Going to be somewhat comparable to, to, uh, They, they're gonna, physical therapists are gonna be trained. They're, they're specialized in the physical body. Chiropractors are trained in manipulation. Uh, dieticians are trained in dietetics. The naturopathic physician has a little bit of all those pieces. So it's, it's not going to be as extensive as maybe a physical therapist. Now, they can order it, but they're not going to be the ones that are going
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Speaker 288 1:47:42
to be reading. It's, it's the same thing I've said under the scope of the physical therapist, they should be able to order it and not, you know, that
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:47:48
would create efficiencies that is not allowed in, and you know me and I would be happy to be on board with you on that I just
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Speaker 288 1:47:55
don't wanna. Because my daughter is in that. I don't feel like I I need to be the one that does that, but and I appreciate your bill and and just had to know more about their
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Senator Justin Boyd Unverified 1:48:12
training. Yeah. Senator Boyd, you're recognized. Thank you. Uh, Senator Penza, I just wanted to clarify, you said this is not an attempt to replace allopathic method a medicine. I just want to make sure it's not some back door to actually replace osteopathic medicine either. It is not. I think,
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:48:27
I think there's a place for, for every uh type of medicine and I'm, I'm a big fan of holistic medicine, and we have a piece that's missing in Arkansas. 23 states and 3 territories have licensure right now for naturopathic doctors, and I think that we're we're missing an integral piece of the, our healthcare system, um, you know, because we, I, I don't want people being dependent on drugs, um, you know, I'm, and I'm not trying to replace the good pharmacists either. But what I'm saying is there There's a lot of things we can fix. With lifestyle changes, diet and exercise, and I think naturopathic physicians are probably some of the best positioned people to educate, uh, our constituents on how to be healthier. Uh, just one quick
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Senator Justin Boyd Unverified 1:49:28
follow up. I, I am a little concerned about Senator Irvin's concern. I just would ask if you would consider clarifying the background check on the house. I'd be happy to
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:49:41
make sure that's In there. Any other questions for Senator Pinzo. Anyone
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Chair Unverified 1:49:50
wish to speak against or for. Send her your recognized clothes. Thank you, Madam President. I, I would just, like I said, I,
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 1:50:08
I think this is a good, good for Arkansans. I do think it will ultimately lower healthcare costs in the state, uh, if, if we can educate people on better, better lifestyle, and I just
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Chair Unverified 1:50:24
would appreciate a good vote. Senator has closed any objection to rolling the boat. Objection noted, Madam Secretary, please
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Speaker 157 1:50:35
call the roll. Bo Bran Caldwell. Caldwell
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Clark, Crowell Davis. Davis. These dismay. This man Dotson English. English
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Flip out. Flowers Gilmore.
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Hammer. Hester. Hester Hickey. Hill Irvin. Like Johnson. Mark Johnson,
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King lighting, love, McKee Murdoch, Murdoch. Payton Penza.
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Patty. Rice, Rice,
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Scott? Scott Stan. afield. Sullivan
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Tucker. Tucker Wallace Any Any
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senator who did not vote or who wishes to change his or her vote.
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Chair Unverified 1:52:08
Senator Davis, no. Senator Hester, yes. couple. Tucker, yes. Any others? Please check the board. Seeing no other please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 24 yeah 4
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Speaker 240 1:52:31
nay, 6 not voting 1 present, Senate Bill 117 passes, please transmit. To the house. Senator Payton. You're recognized.
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Speaker 303 1:52:51
is Can I bite you? OK. motion for. OK. So you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President.
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:53:05
Colleagues, this is the Senate Bill 284, passed out a health committee. It's been on our calendar for several days. I'd like to make a motion to withdraw it from consideration and refer it to interim study. All those in favor of the motion please signify by saying aye.
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Chair Unverified 1:53:22
Any opposed ayes have it. Motion carries. So the next we
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:53:29
have Senate Bill 285, same thing it passed out of public health. It's been on the agenda for several days. I'd like to withdraw it from consideration and assign it to interim study. All those
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Chair Unverified 1:53:39
in favor of the motion to re-refer. Please signify by saying aye. And he nose, eyes have it, motion carries. I move that we do the same thing with Senate Bill 286. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. And he opposed. I have it
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Speaker 358 1:53:59
motion carries, and I move that we do the same thing with 288. All those
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in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. Any opposed? I have it, motion carries. I think I'm out of bills. You have Senate Bill 287, I believe that you had a motion on to, it's still in. I need to
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:54:24
withdraw it and so so Saville 287, I need to withdraw it from, remove it from. Committee and send it to interim study.
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All those in favor of the motion to withdraw Senate Bill 287 from committee and Senate to interim study policing and 5% high. And he opposed, I have it agreeable.
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Senator John Payton Unverified 1:54:44
I have another one. The sales tax cut. Hm
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Next, we will take up Senate Bill 355, Senator Bryant. Senate Bill 355 by Senator Bryant to amend the criminal offense of obstructing governmental operations. Thank you, Madam President,
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 1:55:10
members, this is going to add a, a provision within the obstructing governmental operations for individual having received an in-person service of a subpoena. Issued by a judge or a court clerk knowingly fails to appear at a trial. Or a court hearing in a criminal matter. What's going on is our district courts are summonsing individuals to court to testify they're not showing up. They're having to do a show cause hearing, they're not getting the individual there and there's very little that they can do to get them there um or be able to prosecute them once they're there. So what this will do is allow the prosecutors to charge individuals that do not show up after receiving in-person service of a subpoena. If they do get charged, uh, they can go up to a class. misdemeanor, which is if I have up to a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail. So with that I'd be happy
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Chair Unverified 1:56:05
to take any questions, any questions for Senator Bryant. Anyone Senator Boyd, you recognize her question. Senator Bryant, thank you for bringing this bill.
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Senator Justin Boyd Unverified 1:56:15
Are we going to have a place to put these people in county jail since we don't seem to be expanding, expanding prison. That'll be that'll be a
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 1:56:21
great question. Hopefully we'll have an answer soon. Any other questions? Say no
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other questions. Anyone wish to speak against or for. Senator
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Speaker 223 1:56:32
has closed any objection to rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 1:56:40
Secretary, please roll the boat. Roy Bryant Caldwell, Clark K Crowe, Davis, Des, Dima Dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King Lating, Love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice, Scottstone, steer Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace.
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Any senator wish to change his or her vote, saying no one, please cast up the ballot by a vote
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Speaker 240 1:57:13
of 35 years, he wrote name Senate Bill 355 passes, please
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Speaker 177 1:57:17
transmit to the house. Senate Bill 397. Senate Bill 397 by Senator Wallace to protect
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confidential personal information of rail employees and reports involving railroad fatalities. Senator
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 1:57:31
Wallace who recognized members this bill comes from our railroads. Uh, and it's a, it's a simple ass. 90% of all railroad train accidents, train car accidents, not the fault of the trained employees. They're, they're just along for the ride and then they see the, the vehicles on the on the track or hitting, and what they're asking is that the names of the crews Not be released to the public with these exceptions. If the crew's at fault, that 10% that's at fault released the name. If anybody wants to for you. They can for you and get it. Um, and the court or any law enforcement first responders, if they need that information, they can get it. They're simply just asking to keep them shielded from newspapers and in uh Folks that just want to know just to know. Uh, simple requests and I'll stand by for your questions. Questions for Senator
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Chair Unverified 1:58:43
Wallace, anyone wish to speak against or for. Senator, you are recognized clothes. I'm closed, Senator
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Speaker 223 1:58:50
has closed any objection rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 1:58:57
boat. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowe, Davis, Des, dismaying dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott Stone Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote. See no
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one please cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 e, zero, nay,
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Senate Bill 397 passes, please transmit to the house. Senator Clark, see here.
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We have Senate Bill 406. so. It Senate Bill 406 by Senator Clark to require a county recorder to verify certain information before recording a deed to real estate. Senator Clark, you're
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Senator Alan Clark Unverified 2:00:10
recognized. Thank you, Madam Governor, colleagues, I would like to refer SB 406 back to City County Local for purpose of amendment. Do I need to make that as a motion? That was emotion.
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All those in favor of the aforementioned motion, please signify by saying aye. And he opposed, I
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Speaker 4 2:00:32
have it, motion carries. Thank you. Senate Bill 412.
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Senate Bill 412 by Senator Boyd to authorize the Department of Finance Administration to set the per mile amount for the income tax deduction for travel and transportation expenses by proclamation. Senator Boy, you recognized. Thank you, Senate Bill 412
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Senator Justin Boyd Unverified 2:00:56
is a taxpayer-friendly bill which facilitates the Secretary of DFA to more efficiently align the mileage deduction of the state with the federal mileage reduction rate, while placing controls which ensure the rate is capped at $1 per mile, and it's not fiscally irresponsible.
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Questions for Senator Boyd. Anyone wish to speak against or for. Senator, I'm closed. I'd
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Speaker 292 2:01:25
appreciate a good vote, Senator has closed any objection to rolling the boat, saying no objection. Madam Secretary,
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:01:31
please roll the boat. Bowen, Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crowe, Davis, Ds, Dima dots and English flippo Flowers Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill Irvine, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott stone, Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator
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wish to change his or her vote. Seeing no 10, Sandra King. Not voting. Any others see no one, please cast up the ballot, by a vote of 34 yeah, 0, nay, 1 not voting Senate
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Speaker 240 2:02:08
Bill 412 passes, please transmit to the House Senate Bill 425. Senate Bill 425 by
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Chair Unverified 2:02:16
Central English to amend various provisions of the Arkansas Code concerning enhanced transportation and declare an emergency. Senator English, you are recognized. Thank you very
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Senator Jane English Unverified 2:02:26
much. So ladies and gentlemen, this bill is a part of inadequacy and it's for the enhanced transportation funding for the next 2 years. Any questions for Senator English? Saying
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no questions. Anyone wish to speak against or for.
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Speaker 4 2:02:48
Senator has closed any objection to rolling the vote. I see an objection,
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Speaker 157 2:02:59
Madam Secretary, please call the roll Ma. Bright But Caldwell Caldwell. Clark Clark Crowe. Davis There Days This man.
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Speaker 164 2:03:20
This man. Dotson English. English Flippo. Flippo. Flowers, Gilmore
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Gilmore Hammer. Hammer Hester, Hickie He Hi
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Hill Irvin. Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson, King lading. Letting Life, Love, love, McKee. Murdoch Murdoch. Peyton Titan. Penzo.
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Penzo. Patty rice. Rice. Scott Scott Stone
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Stab afield. Steerfield. Sullivan. Tucker Wallace.
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Speaker 161 2:04:42
Any senator who did not vote who
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Chair Unverified 2:04:48
needs to change your vote. I see
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Speaker 115 2:04:57
Hill, yes, hammer, yes. Hickey, yes, English. Yes. Senator English, I want to confirm that you are voting yes
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Speaker 234 2:05:11
on this bill. These, yes, love, yes. Scott, yes, Murdoch, yes. This main, yes. Penzo present.
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Any other senator? Peyton present, any other the sender, please check the board. seen
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Speaker 240 2:05:33
no other, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 27 2 nay, for not voting, 2
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present Senate bill 425 passes and the corresponding emergency clause is adopted, please transmit to the house. We are passing over Senate Bill 428. Senate Bill 429 we're passing over and Senate Bill 4:30, we're passing over, we will move next
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Speaker 65 2:06:10
to Senate Bill 440. Senate Bill 440
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by Senator Wallace to amend the law concerning embalmers and funeral directors and to regulate the use of akeline. Hydro us and to regulate alkaline hydrous facilities.
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 2:06:24
Senator Wallace, you're recognized this bill is brought to us by the State Board of embalmers and funeral directors and uh burial services. Um There's a new technology that slowly replacing cremation. And it's uh use of liquid alkaline hydrolysis. So you get a combination of liquid alkaline and, and pressure. Uh, and it's uh currently being done in 30 states. This law has been passed in 30 states. And, uh, it's a simple requirement right now, the funeral directors and the bombers, the board don't have the authority to monitor. This new type of, I'm gonna call it cremation. Uh, and that's all that they're asking is, in addition to monitoring their cemeteries and their burial services and cremation. They also would like to have the authority to monitor this to make sure that the bodies are being disposed of in proper fashion. And with that, I will stand by for
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Chair Unverified 2:07:42
your questions. Questions for Senator Wallace. Saying no questions. Anyone wished to speak against or for. Send her your recognized clothes. Well,
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 2:07:53
it's a dying and I'm closed on
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that. Senator has closed any objection to rolling the vote, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:08:05
boat. Boyd, Bryant Caldwell, Clark Krull, Davis Des, Dismay dots and English flippo Flowers Gilmore Hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice scotstone, Stubberfield, Solomon, Tucker. Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her
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vote. Seeing no one, please cast up the ballot. vote of 35 e,
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Speaker 240 2:08:35
zero, nay, Senate Bill 440 passes, please transmit to the
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House. Senate Bill 448. 448 by Centri Petty to authorize the financing of energy efficiency improvements, alternative energy improvements, building resilience improvements and water conservation improvements. Senator Petty, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Members, I apologize
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:08:56
for the length of this bill, but in a nutshell, what we're doing is modernizing a law that was passed back in 2013 when it was passed back then, the intention was to make an option available to the uh to the market for financing improvements to mostly commercial buildings when that was passed, or since that's passed, it's just proven to be administratively burdensome and costly, and so it's not been utilized. What we're doing with this bill is uh modernizing it. We've worked with the Bankers Association, the bank commissioner, the Association of Counties and collectors with some amendments and things, and there's no known opposition at this time, but in short, CPAce is a financing mechanism that allows you to finance improvements, mostly around energy efficiency if you want to improve the efficiency of your windows on a large commercial building. You're not going to tear down the bank billing just because it's 30 years old, you're going to improve it. And so this is a financing mechanism to improve those Adams. And what it allows you to do is finance those by voluntary collection of of the payback of those funds, not with public money, but the the mechanism, it would be collected on your tax bill each year or what we're doing here, it also allows it to go directly to the lender, but again, it's expanding that and it's a, it's a free market mechanism for financing improvements in energy efficiencies. No public money is involved in this. It's just modernizing a bill that was passed previously, and I'd be glad to answer any questions, any questions for Senator Petty. Anyone wish to speak against
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Speaker 35 2:10:54
or for? Send her, you're free to close. I am closed and I'd appreciate a good vote. Senator
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:11:02
is closed. Any objection to rolling the
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Speaker 223 2:11:07
boat. Objection noted, Madam Secretary, please
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call the roll. Boyd Brant. OK, bright. Caldwell.
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Caldwell, Clark. Crowe Davis. Days There's this. This man. Dotson
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Dotson. English. Flippo Lapa
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flowers. Flowers, Gilmore. Hammer. Hammer. Hester Hickey. Hill Hill.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:11:56
Irvin Like Johnson, Mark Johnson.
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Speaker 161 2:12:08
King. King Lighting love. McKee. Murdoch Murdoch Titan Pena. Penzo. Patty Brice. Scott. Stan, Stuberfield. Saba. Sullivan Tucker. Wallace. Any senator wished to vote
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who did not vote or wish to change his or her vote? Seeing no 10, seeing Senator Hill, yes, Senator Pinzo present. And he had the senator see no other senator, please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 25 1 nay,
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7, not voting and to present Senate bill 448 passes, please transmit to the house. Senate
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Bill 450. Senate Bill 450 by Senator Davis to require the Department of Education to include a human fetal growth and development discussion in the relevant standards during the Arkansas Academic Standards revision cycle. Senator Davis, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Uh,
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 2:13:44
we had a little bit of debate surrounding this bill yesterday, but currently right now, the Department of Ed has standards for human growth and development in grades K through 12. Uh, this bill allows for human fetal growth and development standards, um, in public education, and it's simply just says that the Department of Ed in consultation with the Department of Health shall determine the appropriate grade levels for students to receive, um, this. curriculum, um, the standards are simply that um it will include discussion and the discussion shall include a high definition ultrasound, which shows brain, heart, sex organs, and other vital organs in early fetal development, um, and also the process of fertilization, every stage of human development in the uterus, um, and so I know for me as a person who has had, you know, 4 babies in or 6 babies in utero rather in in birth. For that I've seen all different variations of ultrasounds, um, from what they were 17 years ago to what they are now with those high definition 4D ultrasounds, and it's, it is life changing to see um a little heart flutter so early on when you go to your 8 week appointment to see an actual real baby, and when we talk about what's impactful in showing students things that are true and real, um, I think it's important to focus on an ultrasound, especially a high definition ultrasound where we can see a real baby and a life and a heart beating and organs developing. Um, we know that that's what changes minds when women go to a crisis pregnancy centers, um, to decide if they're going to have their baby or have an abortion, we know that ultrasounds change minds and save lives, and I think it's important that as we're educating students um in secondary education and talking about fetal development and babies growing in utero that we show them real actual live pictures of babies in the womb, um, and talk about that development in a real way so that when they're older and grown women and men when they go to the doctor to see, to learn about their baby, um, that what they learned in school is consistent with what they're hearing from their doctor when they decide to start a family, um, and that's why I think this bill is so important and important to focus on that high definition ultrasound. With that, I'm happy to take any questions. Questions for Senator
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Chair Unverified 2:16:11
Davis. Senator Payton, you're recognized for a question. Thank you, Madam President.
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Senator John Payton Unverified 2:16:15
So when it says that the Department of Education shall include the human fetal growth and development discussion in the relevant standards during the Arkansas academic Standards revision cycle. So what's the timeline on that? They meet every 2 years and determine standards and appropriate curriculum to meet
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 2:16:33
those standards. So that is a current working group that they have when they're meeting next or when you clause. I was just wondering when they have a standard. I don't know exactly when they meet, but they have a standard time that they meet every 2 years to talk about curriculum and and what meets the standards set forth in law. more than 2 years from now. No, I imagine it's probably after we have session every 2 years because we changed standards and do different things, so my assumption would be that it's sometime in the calendar year after we have session and they've got to implement new standards that we pass. Thank you. Any
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other questions for Senator Davis? Anyone wish to speak against or for. Senator, you're recognized
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Speaker 223 2:17:22
clothes. Thank you, members. I'm closed for my bill and ask for a good vote. Senator has closed.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:17:33
Any objection rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark K Crowell, Davis, Des, Desma Dodson English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott Stone Stubberfield,
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Sullivan, Tucker, Wallace. Any senator
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wish to change his or her vote, send her flowers, no. Senator Sullivan
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present. Love, no, Scott, no. Murdoch, no, Tucker, no letting not voting rice present.
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Letting know. I'm sorry, Senator Caldwell, present. Any other senators, please check the board. Seeing no other, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 26, 6 nay, 3
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Speaker 240 2:18:41
presents, Senate Bill 450 passes, please transmit to the house. Next, we'll take up Senate Bill
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464. Senate Bill 464 by Senator Clark to amend the laws concerning sales of raw milk and allow sales of raw milk and raw milk products at locations other than the farm where the raw milk or raw milk product was produced and declare an emergency. Senator Clark, you're recognized. Thank you, Governor. Colleagues, the, uh, I did
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Senator Alan Clark Unverified 2:19:10
not think I'd be running another raw milk bill this session, but this is the best one so far, uh, out of all the sessions, so, uh, it's got a lot of good stuff in it, uh, on page 1 line 29. It changes from line 28 incidental sales of goat milk, sheep milk, and whole milk that has not been pasteurized to sale of raw milk and raw milk products. This is mainly about goat cheese or goat milk cheese, but uh It allows Huy, etc. uh, without being so specific, uh, the, and it goes on to tell you, uh, on page 2, top of the page, all those products. We also the natural food stores came to us on page 2, line 22 and asked to be included with the farmers' markets, and that seemed to be a natural thing to do, uh, so we've got them included. That's a clean up that we didn't get done last time, uh, down here on 31, it changes the size of the sign that you have to have if you're selling non-pasteurized milk to 18 inches by 24 inches from 24, which is still a large sign, but much more manageable in a store. And the, uh, and for those who are concerned about the safety of page 3, began with line 15, raw milks for raw milk products produced in this state may be sold at a location that is not the farm where the raw milk product is produced if the raw milk product is clearly labeled with the following statement. And you have some very clear labeling about the dangers and how it should have been handled, etc. that were not there before in the interest of safety, so I think that's a very good point that we picked up running the other bill from opposition. I think it's very good, Bill, and I'd be happy to take any questions. Any questions for Senator Clark? Anyone wish
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Chair Unverified 2:21:20
to speak against or for. Senator, you are free to close. I'm closed. I'd appreciate a good vote. Senator has closed
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Speaker 238 2:21:38
any objection to rolling the boat. Seeing
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:21:41
no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crow, Davis, Des, Dismay dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore, hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting Love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice, Scott Stone
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Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator wish
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to change his or her vote, send her flowers, no. Senator Gilmore, no. Any other senator. Seeing
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no other please cast up the ballot by a vote of 33, yeah, 2 nay. Senate
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Bill 464 passes and the corresponding emergency clause is adopted, please transmit to the House. Senate Bill 467.
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Senate Bill 467 by Senator Penzo to modify the definition of healthcare provider regarding student athlete uh concussion education to include chiropractors or chiropractic physicians. Senator Penzo, you're recognized.
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 2:22:49
Thank you, Madam President. Uh, we, we passed a piece of legislation earlier, um, and we left chiropractors out of the uh definition of healthcare providers, they brought it to our attention. I didn't want to send the amend the bill, but I told them after it passed and there was an act number, we'd go ahead and add them to it. So pretty much it just adds them to the definition along with allopathic osteopathic physicians, APRNs, athletic trainers. Things of that. So it's just a clean up bill, uh, from a chiropractors I'd make and
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appreciate a good vote. Any questions? Anyone wish to speak
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Speaker 223 2:23:30
against or for Senator has closed. Any objection to rolling the boat? Say no objection, Madam Secretary, please
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:23:42
roll the boat. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowell, Davis Ds, Dismay dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey, Hill. Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice, Scott Stone Stubberfield, Sullivan, Tucker, Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her boat.
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Seeing no one, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 35, 0, nay, Senate Bill
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467 passes, please transmit to the House. Senate Bill 469. Senate Bill 469
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by Senator Penzo, to amend the law concerning county campaign political party committees and to amend portions of initiated Act 1 of 1996. Senator Penzo, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Did anybody get a picture of
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 2:24:34
that? There was actually 35 votes on one of my bills and Hickey voted for it, so that's, that's impressive. Um. So, uh, Senate Bill 469, uh, just, just raises the maximum contribution to a county committee from 5 to $10,000. That's all the bill does. Any questions for Senator
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Penzo, seeing no questions, anyone questioned by Senator Clark. Why
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 2:25:13
constituent reached out to me and asked me to run the bill for him because he wanted to donate to the county committee. Do you mind if I ask what constituent? Yes. OK, no, that's not. Any other questions? Anyone wish
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to speak against or for? Send her you're free to
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close. We closed. Thank you. Senators closed. Any objection to
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Objection noted. Madam Secretary, please call the roll.
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Boyd, Bo Br Bright Caldwell. Caldwell. Clark Clark Crow. Crowl Davis.
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Days Days This man.
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This man. Dotson, English, English. Flippo. Flippo
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Flowers Gilmore. Gilmore, hammer.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:26:34
Hammer, Hester Hester, Hickey hell hell.
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Irvin, Blake Johnson, Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson. King King Laing
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Letting Live. Love No
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McKee, McKee. Murdoch Murdoch. Peyton Peyton.
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And so, and so. Patty. Rice. Rice
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Scott No down Stan. Deerfield, Stab or fail, Sullivan Tucker Wallace.
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Any senator Who would like to vote, who did not vote. Or who'd like to
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change your vote. See I see Senator
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Chair Unverified 2:28:12
Clark. No. Senator Gilmore, no. Senator Hester, no. Senator Kroll, no. Hammer No. Stone, no. Any other senator who wish to vote, who did not vote or wish to change your vote. seen no other, please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 6 yeah 13, nay, 15, not voting, and 1 present. Senate Bill 469 fails. Senate Bill 470. 470 by Senator Dodson to require an adult approved to oversee the administration of a statewide excuse me. Senator Johnson, you're recognized Thank you, Madam
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Senator Jim Dotson Chair Unverified 2:29:08
President. Senate Bill 470 makes a simple change in the Uh, virtual assessments, so right now if you're in a virtual student in a school and I apologize. We didn't finish reading
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the title. Go ahead. Senate Bill 470 by
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Speaker 443 2:29:25
Senator Dotson to require an adult approved to oversee the administration of a statewide student assessment to
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Speaker 238 2:29:32
certain students in a virtual setting to meet certain requirements. Senator Dodson, now you're recognized. I apologize for
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Senator Jim Dotson Chair Unverified 2:29:40
that. Thank you. So if you're a virtual student or in a virtual school, you can take your assessments online, uh, the proctoring of that virtual assessment can be done obviously remotely online. However, an adult has to stay in the room during the entirety of the of the time. The department of Education said that they'd still like to make sure that that's the case through grade 8, but 9th through 12th graders, um, not necessarily need an adult just sitting in the room to be sitting in the room. It still requires the law still requires that uh if it's the proctor has to have at least another camera watching the student during the taking of the test, but this just simply removes the requirement for grades 9 through 12 that an adult be sitting in the room like a parent during that assessment. Happy to try to
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Speaker 35 2:30:43
answer any questions. Appreciate a good vote. No questions. Anyone wish to speak against or for Senator has closed. Any
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Speaker 238 2:30:52
objection to rolling the boat. See
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Speaker 443 2:30:57
no objection, please roll the boat. Boyd, Bryant, Caldwell, Clark, Kroll, Davis, Des, Dimain, Dotson, English, Flippo, flowers, Gilmore, Hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, Keen Letting, Love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice, Scott, Stone, Stubblefield, Sullivan, Tucker, Wallace. Senator was to change his or her
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Chair Unverified 2:31:27
vote, Senator Flowers present. Any other senator?
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Speaker 35 2:31:34
Seeing no other Please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 34, 0, nay, 1 present, Senate Bill 470 passes,
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Speaker 240 2:31:46
please transmit. To the house. Senate Bill 483.
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Chair Unverified 2:31:53
Senate Bill 483 by Senator Irving. To repeal certain reporting requirements for the state insurance department in the state securities department and to revise certain reporting requirements with state insurance department. Senator Irvin, you're recognized. Thank
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 2:32:07
you members. At the beginning of our session, Senator Hester had given us a big list of all these different reports that uh were mandated throughout state law. This is the one for the Department of Insurance, and I'm happy to answer any questions. The committee met, we reviewed all of the different ones that were submitted to us and all agreed, um, and this is the final bill. That reflects that
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Speaker 35 2:32:34
Any questions for Senator Ervin? Anyone wished to speak against or for. Send her you're
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Speaker 223 2:32:43
free to close. I'm closed. Appreciate a good sender is closed. Any objection to rolling the boat, seeing
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:32:50
no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Boyd, Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowe, Davis Des Desma Dotson, English flippo flowers, Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hickey Hill Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting, Love, McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Pennzo Petty, rise Scott Stone Stubberfield Sullivan. Wallace. Any senator was to change
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Chair Unverified 2:33:14
his or her vote. Seeing no one. Please cast up the ballot by a
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Speaker 240 2:33:23
vote of 35 yeah, 0, nay, Senate Bill 483 passes, please transmit to the house. Senate Bill 487. 487 by Senator Irving, to
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Speaker 65 2:33:33
amend the law on the destruction of or
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 2:33:38
expungement of juvenile delinquency records. Senator Ervin, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President, members, there are 3 bills that I'll be presenting, um, one's still in committee. These two are with for working with the juvenile judges. What this bill does is, uh, it brings into line with the adult criminal code on and it removes the dependency neglect cases, um, for expungement, and only the delinquency cases are expunged on the 2. first birthday. The reason why expunge is now just as sealed is because all of these records now are moving from paper to computer and so they're electronic, and so it becomes virtually impossible to destroy that. So that's why it's reflected, and this brings the crim the juvenile code into consistency with the adult code. Uh, again, there was no opposition in committee, and this is uh work with the administrative office of. courts and the juvenile judges and the juvenile division. I'd be happy to answer
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Chair Unverified 2:34:47
any questions. Any questions for us in Urban? Anyone was just, oh, sorry, Senator Dotson question.
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Senator Jim Dotson Chair Unverified 2:34:54
Thank you, Madam Chair. So just as far as the destroying, they can't delete the electronic records, so these will still exist. They'll just be sealed and not destroyed. So at some point a judge could
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 2:35:09
reverse that and unseal them, not to my, I mean, unless we change the definition, but if you look at the definition of sealed as defined in 1690-14. 04, it's pretty clear definition. Thank you. Thank you. Any other
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questions for Senator Ervin? Anyone wish to speak against
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Speaker 223 2:35:31
or for. Senator has closed any objection to rolling the boat. Madam Secretary, please roll the boat.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:35:42
Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowe, Davis Des, Dismay dots, and English flippo flowers Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rise Scott, Stone Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator wish to change
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Chair Unverified 2:36:03
his or her vote, Senator Dodson, no. Any other sender, sender D's present. McKee, no. Pinzo, no. King not voting. Any other senator. Seeing no other police cast up the ballot. By a vote of 303 name, one not voting, one
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Speaker 240 2:36:28
pre, Senate Bill 487 passes, please transmit to the house. Senate Bill 490. that sending 490 but sent to Irving to allow a court to
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Speaker 65 2:36:40
waiver certain fees when a juvenile is
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ordered to register as a sex offender. Senator
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 2:36:49
Ervin, you're recognized. Uh, this is the 2nd bill, uh, with the juvenile judges um that they brought forward again, there was no objection in the committee, but it allows the circuit court to waive this certain fee again, trying to get them back to work, um, and doing things that they need to be doing. This was, um, allowing this, uh, to waive this certain fee. It's
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Chair Unverified 2:37:22
a straightforward bill. Any questions for and Urban. Anyone wish to speak against or for? Senator has
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Speaker 223 2:37:28
closed any objection to rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:37:33
Secretary, please roll the vote. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crow, Davis, Ds, Dismay dots and English flippo Flowers Gilmore, hammer, Hester Hickey Hill Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott, Stone Stubberfield Sullivan,
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Tucker Wallace. Any senator wish
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to change his or her vote, Senator McKee. present flowers present. Boyd present. Bryant present. Any other
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Speaker 238 2:38:03
senator? Seeing no other, please cast up
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the ballot by a vote of 31,
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0, nay, for present Senate Bill 490 passes. Please transmit to the House Senate Bill 498. 498 by Senator
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Chair Unverified 2:38:21
Petty to amend the law concerning disclosure of driver and vehicle records and protect driver and vehicle records from public disclosure. Senator Petty, you're recognized. Thank you,
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:38:33
Madam President. Members SB 498 updates the state law concerning the release of motor vehicle records and driver records to correspond more closely to the federal standards. Currently there's a conflict between the state and federal law concerning the protection of those motor vehicle records. Arkansas declares them public records. Some believe that it is makes it available for FOI purposes if they wanted to FOI your vehicle make and where you live and so forth, that's not the case in practice, but this is going to clarify that while the federal government requires substantial protections, uh, SB 498 is going to resolve that conflict by providing additional protections of your voter motor vehicle. records, uh, current law also restricts uh courts and law enforcement officers to receiving records for only related to traffic laws, uh, SB 498 is going to allow more access to those records, uh, for courts and law enforcement who need them for other crimes. SB 498 also contain or creates a single standard for releasing the motor vehicle records rather than having multiple standards across different code sections, and then finally, uh current Arkansas law prohibits the disclosure of a digital driver's license photos without the approval of the driver and SB 498 will again allow that to be released to courts and law enforcement agencies, and so, uh, with that, I'll be happy to try to answer. any questions.
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Chair Unverified 2:40:12
Questions for Senator Petty, Senator Tucker, you're recognized her question. Thank you, Madam
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Senator Clarke Tucker Unverified 2:40:16
President. Senator, on balance, is this bill make documents more transparent or For the public or or is it just for courts or I'm sorry, I didn't get the first part of your question. On balance, would this bill make documents more transparent and accessible to members of the public. Uh, in
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:40:38
terms of your, your driving records. No, it would, it would more align with the federal protections that are available there. Currently, if someone wanted to come and find out where you live, although you have a different setting here as a as an elected official, but if you were not, they have access to your make and model of car and all of that in some circles, they believe they would have access. This would clarify that and and restrict it to those that more closely aligned with the federal. laws, so it would restrict it that only
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Senator Clarke Tucker Unverified 2:41:06
courts and law enforcement would have access to that information. That is correct and as it
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:41:10
relates to the the current discrepancy, yes, the discrepancy between state law and federal law. Yes,
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Senator Clarke Tucker Unverified 2:41:15
thank you. Of the questions for Senator Petty.
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:41:26
Anyone wish to speak against or for? Senator, you're free to close.
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Speaker 223 2:41:35
Thank you, Madam President, I am closed, and I appreciate a good vote, Senator has closed any objection to rolling
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:41:42
the boat, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crow, Davis, Ds, Dimados and English flippo flowers, Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting, love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott Stone Stubber
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Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator was to change his or her vote, flowers present, King not
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voting. Tucker present. Penzo present. Any other senator. Seeing no other please cast up the ballot by
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a vote of 31 yeah, zero nay, 1 not voting, 3 present. Senate Bill 498 passes, please transmit to the house.
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Chair Unverified 2:42:30
Senate Bill 503. Sent 503 by Central Crow to reduce the number of employees and employer must have to be mandated to file an annual income tax withholding statement electronically and require the electronic filing of a withholding return for certain employers. Senator Crow, you're recognized, uh, colleagues, this
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Senator Steve Crowell Chair Unverified 2:42:53
is a kind of like a bill we ran last session. It's with W-2s, uh, filing them electronically last session, we, we did this from The 250 employee thresholds of the 125 employee threshold with no known uh no known oppositions and it worked out really well. It saves months of paperwork and fraudulent returns. This one simply moves it from 125 employees to 75 employees. That'll change about 262 businesses in the state to make it easier.
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Chair Unverified 2:43:32
Any questions for Senator Kroll. Anyone wish to speak against
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Speaker 238 2:43:41
or for. Senator has closed. Any objection to rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary,
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:43:47
please roll the boat. Boyd, Bryant Caldwell, Clark Krull, Davis Des, dismaying dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rise Scottsone Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator
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Chair Unverified 2:44:07
which should change his or her vote. Senator Dotson present. McKee, present. not
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voting. Peyton. presents. Anyone else? Please check the board. Seeing no other, please cast
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up the ballot. By a vote of 31 ya.
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0, nay, 1 not voting 3 present. Senate Bill 503 passes, please transmit to the House. Senate Bill 505.
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505 by Senator Bryant to amend the law concerning municipal planning and require an administrative procedure for changes to the zoning or district designation of property in certain instances. Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President.
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 2:44:55
Members, I think we can all say that this session has been challenging with our municipal partners and our developers as our cities grow and we try to compromise our what our property rights are and what what sustainable, responsible. growth looks like. What do I have here is a bill that is uh a balance between developers and municipalities. When a municipal pality or a planning commission of a city redo their land use map and generates new zoning areas within a within a municipal boundaries. What that does is once they generate that map and it goes through the planning process and all the public meetings or notices that the city does and it goes to city council, City council does the same process before they adopt that new land use map. It stays as is until a developer or a landowner wants to go implements the change on that map. And so if you had a property that was part of the change within the land use map and you went to the city and you wanted to do something. In accordance with that land use map, you had to go rezone that property in accordance with the land use map, which means you had to go through public comment, uh, notice all the city council meetings, the readings, just to get your property rezoned to what the city wants your land area to be used for, which is what you want it to be used for. And then once you do that, you have to go back and submit your plans and go through the exact same process. So what this bill does is it allows the city by ordinance. As a permissive action to implement an administrative process with the submittal of a landowner and approval of the city to avoid that middle process and have your land rezoned according to the land use map. And so it also allows for an appeal process in the events um it doesn't go your way and you want to appeal it to the city council. The appeal process is allowed instead of going to the circuit courts as allowed by a code currently. So with that, I'm glad to take any questions, any questions for Senator Bryant? Anyone wish to speak against or for. Senator, you're free to
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Chair Unverified 2:46:57
close. I'm close. Thank you. The center is closed. Any objection to rolling the boat? Objection noted, Madam Secretary, please call
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Speaker 157 2:47:22
the roll. O. Brandt. Bra Caldwell. Caldwell.
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Clark. Clark, Crow. Crowe Davis Davis. There. They
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this man. Dotson, Dotson. English. English. Pro Flip out Flower
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up, flowers. Flowers? Gilmore Gilmore. Hammer Uh Hester Hickey. Hickey
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Hill Irvin, he said no. Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson. Mark Johnson. King lighting sledding.
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Love McKee Murdoch. Murdoch Payton.
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Pino. Penza. Patty. Rice
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Scott. Stan. Stab afield. Stab a fail. Sullivan Sullivan. Tucker? Wallace.
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Any member who wished to vote, who did not vote, or change your vote,
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Senator Davis, yes. These, yes. Gilmore Gilmore. Yes. Murdock present. Anyone else on this side? This side, Cinder Crow, yes. Senator Clark, yes.
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He'll, yes. Sullivan, yes, Mark Johnson, yes, letting no. Flowers present. Penzo,
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yes. Wallace Yes. Anyone else? Hickey, yes. Anyone else, please check
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the board. Seeing no
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other. Please cast up the ballot by a
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vote of 23, yeah. 23, 3 nay, 4 not voting, 5 present. Senate Bill 505 passes, please transmit to the house. Senate Bill 508, Senator Irvin. Sentinel 508 by Senator Irving
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to amend the frequency of payment of a stipend for certain members of the public school employee health benefit advisory commission and the state Employee Health Benefit Advisory Commission. Senator Ervin, you're recognized. Thank you, members.
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 2:50:39
I passed this bill earlier and we had a mistake in it. We found after it was signed, um, and so now we have to fix it. So, uh, each appointed member who is not an active employee shall be paid a stipend $100 per meeting, not per month. So significant change that we need to make. Appreciate your
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Chair Unverified 2:51:03
good vote. Any questions? Anyone wish to speak against or for Senator has closed. Any objection
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Speaker 223 2:51:08
to rolling the boat. Seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the vote.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:51:14
Boy, Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crowe, Davis Ds, dismay dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting Love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott Stone Stubberfield Sullivan Tucker Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote, Senator McKee present.
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Senator King not voting. Pennzo present. Any other senator seen no other, please cast up
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Speaker 35 2:51:51
the ballot by a vote of 32 yeah, 0, nay,
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1, not voting, 2 present. Senate Bill 508 passes, please transmit to the House. Senate Bill 515. Senate
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Bill 5:15 by Senator Petty to require
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that a unit dedicated to Arkansas veterans and their families be included within an existing Arkansas history course content guidelines. Senator Petty, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Members, we do a lot
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:52:22
of good down here. One of the things that I think we do really well is, is to respect and and appreciate veterans um I had the opportunity to work the last few years with some veteran organizations related to some private sector stuff also our local VFW celebrated 100 years recently. They're the oldest in in Arkansas. And in doing that, There was a lot of conversations, a lot of stories that that came up, but one thing that that really kind of stuck to me and, and kind of pricked my heart is the fact that some, and I'll share a couple of statistics. The last known surviving World War I veteran passed away in 2011. We have 66,000 World War II veterans alive is all and only about 10% of the Vietnam War veterans remain alive. And so, the freedoms that we have today, the ability to stand here and to debate and to discuss and to do the things we do is because of that, and the generation that is before us, uh, have, have, have made it available for us to be able to do that, but the generation that's coming up behind us. They don't know what It means to be a veteran, to, to leave your job, to leave your family, to leave a crying child to go away to war and I just think it's a, it's the right thing to do to, to, to keep that present. In in the eyes of our educators and our students, and so this is all this is doing is, is making it uh required to have one unit about what it means to be a veteran, not who caused the war, not who won the war, but truly tell the stories of what a veteran does. And so with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Questions for Senator Petty, Senator Clark, you're recognized for a question. Centro
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Petty, what is a unit? A unit would be an hour or they
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:54:26
could coordinate it with a a a Veterans Day. A lot of schools have a Veterans Day, but it's not a semester long. It's we're leaving it up to the Department of Education. I just think it's important that the focus be on veterans, not on the war and the political ramifications of war, but a unit could be an hour or a day, whatever the school chooses.
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Any other questions, seeing no other questions. Anyone wish to speak against or for. Senator Petty, who were free to close. Thank you, Madam
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Senator Jim Petty Unverified 2:54:56
President, I would appreciate a
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Speaker 223 2:54:59
good vote, Senator has closed any objection to rolling the boat, seeing no objection,
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:55:06
Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Boyd, Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crowe, Davis, Des, dismaying dots and English flippo flowers Gilmore, hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irving, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting, Love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty. ricotstone Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any
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senator wish to change his or her vote. Seeing no one,
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Speaker 240 2:55:32
please cast up the ballot by a vote of 35, 0, nay, Senate Bill 515 passes, please transmit to the House Senate Bill 522. 522 by
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Senator McKee to amend the law regarding the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the arts. And to amend the law relating to the tuition and fees paid by students enrolled in the online programs. Senator McKee, you're recognized. Thank you, Governor.
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Senator Matt McKee Unverified 2:55:59
Members, this bill is for the school for the Arkansas School for Math and Science located in Hot Springs. What this bill does is more closely align it with the goals of Les and the access programs that we've just passed. This allows the board of trustees to set fees for online programs and so that it can be more closely aligned. I'm happy to take any questions. Any questions for Senator
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McKee. Anyone wish to speak against or
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Speaker 223 2:56:30
for send her his clothes. Any objection to rolling the
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 2:56:39
boat? No objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Right there. Bryant Caldwell, Clark K Crow, Davis, Des, dismaying dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Benzo Petty, rice Scott stone Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker
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Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote. Seeing no one, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 years, 0, nay, Senate Bill 522 passes, please transmit. To the House Senate Bill 545, Senator
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Mark Johnson. Senate Bill 5:45 by Senator Mark Johnson to amend the law related to the property and finances of state institutions of higher education and to amend the law related to bonds and to amend the law regarding rents, tolls, fees, and other charges related to athletic contest. Senator Johnson, you're recognized. Thank you,
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 2:57:39
Madam President, colleagues, Senate Bill 545 is a bill that helps modernize uh the higher education bond law. Uh, this was first passed. 1947 and it allows governing bodies such as the Board of trustees of our higher. Higher education institutions to issue revenue bonds. Again, these are not general obligations. These are revenue bonds with defined revenues that will pay them off, uh, in the last century, we talked about new construction, remodeling, purchase of buildings and tracts of land that's capital costs in today's world, we have things like software and medical equipment and things that can be bonded or can be financed through these bonds issues, but Uh, it's generally agreed by the uh bond council and the other lawyers that since these are tax exempt bonds that must follow the IRS rules, Arkansas law requires that we have a some specific procedures in place and so, uh, Senate Bill 545 makes sure that all those are set in uh in the proper procedures. These bonds are for capital assets, but uh software which is kind of intangible to me, but it's deemed to be a capital asset under the IRS rules on this. So this is to make sure that we're up to speed on keeping these issues current, uh, so when a, a higher education institution board authorizes bond issue that it will meet both all of our uh constitutional requirements as well as the IRS requirements. I will try to answer any questions if anybody has any. Questions for
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Senator Johnson. Saying no questions. Anyone wished
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Speaker 35 2:59:27
to speak against or for. Send her your recognized clothes. I'm closed, Madam President. Appreciate
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 2:59:33
a good vote, Senator has closed
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objection noted to rolling the vote, Madam Secretary, please
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call the roll. Boyd. Brandt Caldwell. Clark Clark. That's
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right Crowl Yeah. Davis. Days. Days
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This man Dotson English. Filippo flowers. Flowers, Gilmore.
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Gilmore Hammer. Hester Hickey.
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Heke Hill. Irvin Blake
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Johnson. Blake Johnson. Mark Johnson. King Letting Gladding Love Love
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McKee Murdoch. Murdoch, Peyton Payton pencil. Pena. Patty. Patty, rice. Scott Scott stone, steerfield Sullivan. All right. Tucker?
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Tacker Wallace Wallace. I
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didn't hear. Any senator wished to vote or change your vote, Senator Hill, we, we weren't able to
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hear you. Yes, Senator Hill, yes. Senator Stubblefield, yes, love, yes. Scott, yes. Murdoch, yes. Pinzo no. Letting, yes. Hickey, yes. Tucker, yes. Sorry, Senator Tucker, I thought it's a little miscommunication. Gilmore, yes. Wallace, yes. Any others, please check the board. Seeing no others, please
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cast up the ballot by a vote of
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27, 3 nay for not voting 1 present Senate bill 545 passes, please transmit to the house. Senate Bill 547. Senate Bill
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547 by Senator Sullivan to repeal the requirement that a homeschool student live within a
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certain radius of a private school for purposes of participating in an extracurricular activity. Senator straightforward right now if you if you're
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Senator Dan Sullivan Chair Unverified 3:02:40
a homeschool student to build law says you have to go play within 25 miles of your school, that's not consistent with what we do for uh a student that wants to go to a private school, they can drive as far as they want. This bill just clarifies that there's no distance if a student lives in Pocahontas and wants to play sports in Rogers, they can. I don't know why they would, but they can. I just eliminates that district, that mileage limit that was on there of 25 miles. I don't know how that was established. I be glad to answer any questions. Questions for Senator Sullivan.
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Anyone wish to speak against or for Senator has closed. Any objection to rolling the
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:03:32
boat. Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. forward, Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Crowell, Davis, Des, dismayed dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore, hammer, Hester, Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice, scots stuff.
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Phil Sullivan Tucker Wallace. Any sender wished to change his or her
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vote, send her flowers. No. Any other Seeing no other please cast up the ballot by vote of 34 yeah, one
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nay, Senate Bill 547. Passes, please transmit to the house. We have one announcement and one motion before we go to the House bill.
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Senator Hester, you are recognized for an announcement. Thank you, Madam
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Senator Bart Hester Unverified 3:04:23
Governor. Um, so the good news is we're moving pretty good through the calendar today. The bad news is we've got a longer calendar tomorrow, uh, good news, we don't have any resolutions on for Thursday. Bad news is we have 10 tomorrow, 10, uh, sports teams being recognized for state championships. So We'll make a decision afterwards, but they ask is that you would review your resolutions and say one or two paragraphs about the schools and I'm probably going to call us in at 1 o'clock instead of 1:30 so we can get through those so they can then go down to the house, but if you've got any feedback for that, please talk to me while we're mowing through the uh house bills.
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Thanks. Send her Penzo, you're recognized for emotion. Thank you, Madam
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Senator Clint Penzo Unverified 3:05:14
President. um, I'd like to think, think there might have been a little misinformation floating around on this. I'd like the opportunity to talk to some folks, uh, about it, uh, you may not like it and I may not run it again, but I'd like to make a motion to expunge the vote by which Senate Bill 469 failed.
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Motion to expunge the vote. By which Senate Bill 4609 failed. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. And he opposed as habit motion carries. Senator Bryant, I believe you also had a motion.
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 3:06:02
Thank you, Madam President. was to withdraw House Bill 1681 from Agra for the purposes of amendment. All those in favor,
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please signify by saying aye. Any opposed? Is habit, motion carries. Amendment 1, the House Bill 1681. Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you, members just to change the funding mechanism
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 3:06:24
and the amount being requested being funded so we get in gross, so you'll be on a on the computer for a while.
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Thanks. All those in favor of the amendment, please signify by saying aye, any opposed, I have it. Amendment is
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Speaker 240 3:06:41
adopted. Please send to engrossing. We will move now to the House bills. Beginning with House Bill 1549. House Bill
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1549 by sent Brant to create the Arkansas cybersecurity Act of 2025. Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. House Bill 1549 is
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 3:07:04
the cybersecurity Act of 2025. It is an agency bill to align with the recommendations from the AR Ford initiative from the governor's office. It grants the state cybersecurity officer the authority to direct and manage all the functions related to the state's cybersecurity and information security for the executive branch. As centralized oversight to establish cybersecurity governance policies, procedures, and standards for all executive offices as functional reporting, cybersecurity personnel and those informational security job functions will have a functional report to the cybersecurity office. However, the administrative, they'll stay within their agencies. It'll create a cyber cyber response team to allow the state's chief information office security officer to create a multi-agency response team in response to threats. provides for compliance and auditing to report its findings to the Joint Committee on Advanced Communications and Information Technology. There is zero impact fiscal impact for this. I think during the committee it was it was said that there was 500 to 600,000 malware attacks pushed out on a daily basis. Arkansas is not immune to those. The analogy given that I thought was best by the House sponsor was picture an offensive line and no quarterback. This creates a quarterback for the offensive line within the agencies, so it's an agency bill and with that I'll be glad to take
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Chair Unverified 3:08:26
any questions. questions for Senator Bryant. Anyone wish to speak against or for. Send your your recognized clothes.
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Speaker 223 3:08:36
Sends closed. Any objection rolling the boat, seeing no objection,
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:08:43
Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Boyd Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crow, Davis Ds, Dimain Dots and English flip of flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey, Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice, Scott stone, Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker
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Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote? Seeing no one, please
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Speaker 240 3:09:11
cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 ya, 0, nay, House Bill 1549 passes. Please return to the house.
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House Bill 1555. House 1555 by Representative Painter and Senator Hester to establish uniform procedures for filling a vacancy in a municipal office. Senator Hester, you're recognized. Members, what this does it right now
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Senator Bart Hester Unverified 3:09:31
if there's a vacant city municipal office there, there's an election that allows the city council or city board to appoint somebody for that position for the remainder of that vacancy, um, it's for affordability to You know, just, just another option for that city. Happy to
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answer any questions. Questions for Sandra Hester. Saying no questions. Anyone wish to speak against or for.
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Speaker 223 3:09:59
Senator has closed any objection to rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:10:06
Boyd, Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Kroll, Davis, Ds, Dima dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore Hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice scotch stone, Stubberfield Tucker, Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote. Send
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Speaker 35 3:10:26
her flowers? No. Any other senator. Seeing no other police cast up the ballot by a vote of 34 yeah,
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Speaker 240 3:10:42
one nay. House Bill 1555 passes as amended. Please return to the house. House Bill 1557. House for 1557
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by Senator Bryant to amend the duties and powers of the division of Information Systems information systems concerning information technology. Senator Bryant, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President, members, this too is an agency
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 3:11:04
bill to align with the recommendations from the AR Ford initiative from the Governor's office. This what this bill does, we'll centralize IT planning, IT project management and governance within the division of Information Systems. With the goal of creating an overall strategic information technology plan for the state. What this will do is help reduce duplicative IT services, streamline operations, enhanced transparency in IT spending and resource allocation to improve service delivery to our citizens. In the centralized IT project management, it increases the authority and oversight for IT projects assessing the viability, operational efficiency and cost benefit analysis of the project and to identify and implement measures to reduce the duplicative processes of IT. Uh, in the centralized IT governance that provides uniform oversight and management of IT procurement across all of our state entities, including opportunities to drive cost efficiency. It also created an IT governance team to prioritize initiatives, allocate resources, and oversee IT strategy to be able to be used by our municipalities and our division of higher ed, so it's good Bill. I'll be glad to take any questions.
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Chair Unverified 3:12:13
Questions for Senator Bryant, Senator Payton, you're recognized for a question. Thank you,
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:12:18
Madam President. So on this Authority to purchase. products or services. At the top of page or middle of page 4. It says, you know, I guess we're granting somebody authority. To buy something as long as it's under 5000 in one situation. are between 20 and 5000 and 20,000 in another situation. What is that? What, what is the language? Well, what is the product or service that we're talking about allowing them to purchase, how many units can they purchase? In other words, Let's just say it's cows and and they're under $5000 a head, could they buy 100 head? I mean, what is it that divide here? Product or service. Give me a second, Senator
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Senator Joshua Bryant Chair Unverified 3:13:07
Payton. I'll make sure I get clarity on your ask. So subparagraph B is a state agency shall not use state, federal, or public grant funds to enter into any agreement for the acquisition development or enhancement of any information technology or any contract for information technology services without the approval. So that's what they're, that's the information technology or our contract for these sources are what the product is. Is that what you're asking? Not a, not necessarily a cow, but relates related to the form of
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:13:56
IT and IT technology. OK, I just don't know that. We do that, but I don't know in what situations we do grant them the authority to make those purchases, but I mean I know we have a procurement process that has thresholds. But uh This just seems to be outside the box.
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Chair Unverified 3:14:21
Appreciate it. Any other questions for Senator Bryan. Anyone wish to speak against or for? Senator has closed any objection to rolling the boat. Madam Secretary, Oh, objection noted, Madam
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Speaker 157 3:14:40
Secretary, please call the roll forward Brant
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Caldwell Caldwell. Clark Clark Crowell, Davis. These Bas
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This man This man Dotson. Dotson. English Flipper.
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Flippo flowers. Gilmore. Gilmore Hammer I Hester Hickey. Hell
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:15:14
Irvin, Blake Johnson.
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Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King. King letting. Lighting
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Love. Love. McKee Murdoch, Murdoch.
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Titan Pencil. And so
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Patty. Rice Scott, Scott
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stone. Stab afield. De Phil
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Sullivan. attacker Wallace. I Any senator wished to vote who did not vote or change your vote, Senator Blake Johnson, yes.
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Senator Gilmore, yes. Dotson, yes. These, yes, Murdoch. Yes. Scott, yes, letting, yes. Caldwell, yes. Urban presents. Penzo, yes, Clark present. dismaying, yes. Any other,
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please check the board. Seeing no other police cast
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up the ballot by a vote of
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27, 0 nay, for not voting for present House Bill 1557 passes. Please return to the house. House Bill 1561. House for
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1561 by Central Hill to establish the research and education Protection Act of 2025. Senator Hill, you're recognized. Thank you, Governor. Colleagues, this
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Senator Ricky Hill Unverified 3:17:24
is a bill. There's a comprehensive attempt to protect our institutions. From those of our foreign adversaries whose interests aren't out of line with the state of Arkansas or the US It addresses the following key areas. It does discloses past gifts of $250,000 or more since 2019. Makes them disclose future gifts of 200,000 or more, disclose past contracts of $250,000 or more with these, with people from these countries and also we need disclosure for the future. It investigates, it's an investigative process by the Inspector General to address alleged violations to comply with the 4 that I just mentioned. It's a prohibition of cultural exchange agreements with foreign adversary countries and reporting obligations. The screening process for hiring institutions and federal research expenditures of 10 million or more. The four adversary uh travel monitoring program restrictions and reporting on travel to and from that based off of From the universities or the colleges that people are traveling to those countries. The restrictions in partnership with foreign adversary countries. And the imposition of a criminal penalties for misappropriation of trade secrets and intellectual property by the foreign adversaries. With that, I'll take any questions. Any
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questions for Senator Hill. Anyone wish to speak against or for. Send her you're free to close. Senator
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Speaker 223 3:19:01
has closed any objection to rolling the boat, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Bryant
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:19:11
Caldwell, Clark Kroll, Davis, Ds, dissing dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo Petty, Rice scotstone Stub Phil
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Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator was to change his or her vote. Senator Tucker. No, Senator Murdoch, no. Senator Love, no, Senator Scott present. Senator letting know. Any other senator. Seeing no other, please cast up
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Speaker 240 3:19:50
the ballot by a vote of 29 yeah, 5 nay, 1 present, House Bill 1561 passes. Please return to the house. House bill 1598. 1598 by Representative Brooks and Central
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English to require the Department of Education to establish a new accountability system for public schools and to remove public schools from school ratings for
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Senator Jane English Unverified 3:20:16
certain school years. Senator English, you're recognized. Thank you very much. So as you all know, we passed Les Act in 2023, and one of the things that we did with the Learns Act was we established a new assessment tools, excuse me, called Atlas. So we have um completed a first round of testing and or assessment and we're in the 2nd round of assessment, but we needed to be able to defer or pause the A through F, um grading. In order to give us a couple of years of, of time to be able to look at those scores, so that's exactly what this
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does. Questions for Senator English. Anyone wish to speak against or
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Speaker 51 3:21:04
for. Senator has closed any objection to rolling the votes, seeing none, Madam Secretary, please roll the boat. Boyd
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:21:13
Bryant Caldwell, Clark Kroll, Davis Des, Dima dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting the Love McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice, scot, stone, Stubberfield Sullivan, Tucker, Wallace.
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Chair Unverified 3:21:29
Any senator wish to change his or her boats and her flowers. No, any other senator. Seeing no other Senator King, not voting. Seeing no others, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 33, 1
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Speaker 240 3:21:50
nay, one not voting. House Bill 1598 passes, please return to the House. House Bill 1640. House was 1640 by
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Centra Sullivan to amend the definition of administrator as it relates to ethical guidelines and prohibitions and to amend the restrictions on employment specific to public school administrators. Senator Sullivan, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam Governor. I need to thank
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Senator Dan Sullivan Chair Unverified 3:22:15
you twice. My protocol manager told me I didn't thank you last time. So I've done it twice now. Well, I feel very faint. Thank you, if you remember the solution tree incident we had, I think it was a year ago, we had very strong bipartisan support to end that solution tree contract, uh, and open that up. We work closely, I think Senator Chesterfield was very involved in that. At this bill is. result of that, and it just changes identifies additionally a principal, assistant principal, a curriculum director, uh, that's new language. For public schools and then down the end, they must notify the board of directors currently employing an administrator, uh, so we're, if you're going to have an outside contract, it has to be approved now. You can't do that quietly or do it off to the side. It just has to be approved. Be glad to take any questions. Questions for Senator Sullivan. Anyone wish to speak against or
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Speaker 223 3:23:23
for Senator has closed. Any objection to rolling the boat, seeing none, Madam Secretary,
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:23:29
please roll the boat. Thank you Boyd Brit Caldwell, Clark Krull, Davis Des, Dima Dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore, hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Ivin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love McKee Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice scotstone. Stubberville Sullivan Tucker
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Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote. Senator
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Speaker 35 3:23:54
Flowers, no. Any other senator seeing no other please cast up the
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ballot by a vote of 34 yeah, 1 nay. House Bill 1640 passes, please return to the house. House Bill 1654. House for
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1654 by Representative Tas and Senator Wallace to authorize the issuance of a special license
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Chair Unverified 3:24:14
plate for a Make A Wish foundation foundation of the Mid-South and to address the inventory of the Mid-South Community College Education Special license plate. Senator Wallace, you'll recognized.
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 3:24:27
Thank you, Governor. Remember it's this bill is a supporting the Make A Wish organization and uh it will create a license plate which will beplacing the mid South Community College played, of which there's still 115 still in inventory. The cost is about $30. The $10 admin fee, uh, the Make A Wish Foundation is fronting the money upfront and then over time as they collect the money, that money will come back to the Make A Wish Foundation and will. Hip, promote, help promote, make a wish, uh, And with that, I stand by for your questions. There's no, no cost
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Speaker 4 3:25:15
to the state. Any questions anyone wish to speak against or for Senator has closed. Any
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Speaker 51 3:25:20
objection to rolling the boat, seeing none, Madam Secretary, please roll a boat.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:25:25
Boyd, Bryant Caldwell, Clark, Krull, Davis, Des, dismaying dots and English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting love. Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, rice Scot stone steer Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator wished to change his or her
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Speaker 240 3:25:46
vote, seeing that no one, please cast up the ballot by a vote of 35 ya, zero nay, House Bill 1654 passes. Please return to the house. House Bill 1691.
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Chair Unverified 3:26:03
House for 1691 by Senator Wallace to provide for certain property to be exempt from taxation and provide that certain motor vehicles used exclusively for public charity are exempt from from personal property tax. Senator Wallace should recognized. Thank
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 3:26:19
you, Governor. Members of current law already exempts buildings and materials used solely for public charity from property taxes. The state also recognizes that motor vehicles owned and used exclusively by is qualify for this exemption. What this bill changes, it clarifies and it expands the tax exemption to include motor vehicles that are leased for at least 12 months, but Cheritable organizations, not just those that they own. This change in the law will align with existing rules that allow state and local governments to decide whether to lease or buy their own vehicles while still receiving tax exemptions, and with that, I stand by for your questions. Any
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Chair Unverified 3:27:02
questions for Senator Wallace. Senator Payton, you're recognized.
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:27:08
Thank you, Madam President. So it says charitable organizations. Is that the same or different from Nonprofit organizations. Um, it could
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 3:27:17
be churches, it could be a nonprofit as long as the chritable organization. Well, that's, that's
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:27:23
my question. How do we define charitable organization versus nonprofit because some nonprofits are not executives making millions of dollars a year, provided a vehicle. So I'm just trying to figure out whether we're talking about A church, a charitable organization or just a a business that competes with other business, but they label themselves nonprofit. Well, that would
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 3:27:46
be determined by the state agency, DFNA, and their folks. Well, secondly, can you give me any advice
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:27:53
on how to get in the, how to get a car tax relief bill heard. I'm working on that one for you.
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Senator Dave Wallace Unverified 3:28:00
As soon as I get the bus. Seatbelts passed, I'll come back and help you. Thank you. Yeah
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Chair Unverified 3:28:10
Any other questions, Senator Hickey, Senator Hickey, you're recognized clarification based on
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Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr Unverified 3:28:14
Senator Payton right there, we discussed this in revenue and tax and DFNA said there was no fiscal impact, but it was all inclusive was my understanding. So to answer your question, it was all inclusive because we had, we had asked them that question also to make sure that it wasn't going to be an impact on the state, and whenever they did, I believe it is inclusive, so just want to make sure we have that stated right.
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Speaker 516 3:28:40
That way you understood it too, wasn't it, Senator
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:28:49
Wallace. Senator Payton, thank you, Madam President. So Senator Wallace, You have a fiscal impact statement says there's no fiscal impact to state revenues, but it does have physical to the counties or cities. Yes, sir. OK, thank you. Any other questions? Anyone wish to speak against or for.
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Chair Unverified 3:29:11
Send her, you're free to close. I'm closed. Senator has closed. Any objection to rolling the boat.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:29:24
Saying no objection, Madam Secretary, please. Roll the boat, ow, Bryant Caldwell, Clark K Crowe, Davis Des, Dismay dots and English flip of flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King, letting, love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo Petty, Rice
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Chair Unverified 3:29:42
Scottstown, Stubber Phil Sullivan, Tucker Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or her vote. Peyton, no. Any other senator
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Speaker 35 3:29:54
see no one please cast up the
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Speaker 240 3:29:57
ballot by a vote of 34, 1 nay, House Bill 16981 passes, please return to the house. House Bill 1697. House for 1697 by center uh
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Carent Dotson to amend provisions of Title 6 and Title 19 of the Arkansas Code concerning provisional positions and motor vehicle restrictions for state-supported institutions of higher education and declare an emergency. Senator Dodson, you recognized. Thank
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Senator Jim Dotson Chair Unverified 3:30:29
you, Madam President. Members, this bill comes up every 2 years since uh provisional positions and uh motor vehicle authorizations for institutions of higher education are in code every 2 years they come and they say, hey, we might need these, we might not need them, but only when we're in session can we authorize them for any adjustments or changes to those numbers. So we make this uh do this every 2 years for provisional positions doesn't mean they're going to use them all, but to allow them to have the ability to to use them if they have the funds necessary to. Happy to try and answer any questions. Any questions for Senator Dotson anyone wish to
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Speaker 35 3:31:09
speak against or for Senator has closed any objection to rolling
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Speaker 223 3:31:16
the vote, seeing no objection, Madam Secretary,
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:31:20
please roll the vote. Board Bryant Caldwell, Clark Crow, Davistes, dismay dots in English flippo flowers, Gilmore hammer, Hester Hickey Hill, Irvin, Blake Johnson, Mark Johnson, King letting love, McKee, Murdoch, Peyton, Penzo, Petty, Rice Scott Stonefield Sullivan, Tucker
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Chair Unverified 3:31:37
Wallace. Any senator wish to change his or
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Speaker 238 3:31:41
her vote, Senator Irvin present, letting, not voting. King not voting. Flowers present. Any other senator? Please check the board, seeing no other, please
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Speaker 240 3:31:59
cast up the ballot by a vote of 31, 0 nay to not voting 2 present House Bill 1697 passes in the corresponding emergency clause is adopted, please return to the house. We are passing over House Bill 1705 today. We are also passing over House Bill 1716 today. We will next take up House Bill 1725. House
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Chair Unverified 3:32:24
for 1725 by Senator Davis to amend the law concerning the Office of sheriff and to amend the law concerning compensation for the Office of sheriff. Senator Davis. You are recognized. Thank you, Madam
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:32:42
President. This bill I'm bringing back, we debated it, um, before spring break at length, and so I just want to make some clarification points. This is about compensation for sheriffs who um are not certified law enforcement officers. So, um, Amendment 55 states that the Quorum Court sets the compensation for the county elected officials as provided by law. So we set the salary minimum and maximum in the legislature. law and that's for counties classes 1 through 7. So the sheriff's pay minimum and maximum pay is different depending on which class of county you fall into based on your population. Um, our Constitution also says that the salary of an elected official cannot be lowered during their term. So this is why we're trying to handle this on the front end, um, this bill, to be clear, does not mandate qualifications. It does not mandate qualifications for sheriffs, for an elected official. It only discusses salary, which simply encourages law enforcement certification. We passed a similar law to this 10 years ago for coroners. Um, again, we did not mandate qualifications, but we encourage certification via salary for coroners about 10 years ago. In the last 3 years, the Franklin County Sheriff, the Johnson County Sheriff, and the Hot Springs County Sheriff were all convicted of crimes. Those are the most recent sheriffs to be arrested and convicted of crimes. Out of those three, none of them were certified law enforcement. So So this bill is supported by the sheriff's Association, the Association of Arkansas Counties, the county Judges Association, and the Quorum Court Association. Simply put, this bill encourages, but does not mandate qualifications are through salary. So it does not mandate qualifications, it's simply encourages sheriffs to have a law law enforcement certification, otherwise they're paid a minimum salary, which starts for a class one county. at a little over 48,000 and for a class seven county, the minimum salary is a little over 129,000. to
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Chair Unverified 3:35:05
answer any questions for Senator Davis, Senator Mark Johnson, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Senator
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 3:35:12
Davis, uh, I promised my sheriff I would vote for this. I expressed to him some concerns because as you know, Sheriffs are a constitutional officer created in the Constitution and while I, I love the intent of it and I'm grateful for you to you for bringing it. Uh, would you agree that perhaps we need to at some point update the constitutional provision to accomplish what you're doing through this salary level. Would you agree? Yes, I think it's not a bad idea
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:35:48
to have that conversation in the future, and there are other constitutional, um, offices that have requirements in our Constitution. Yes, ma'am, for example,
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 3:36:00
the Attorney General is not required to be a lawyer. Of course we had a wonderful attorney general who's now presiding over our body, but she was an attorney before she did it, but you only have to be learned in the law of which there's not quite a standard, but I'm glad you. agree with me because I, I'm real careful when we fudge on the constitutional things, but I'm going to support the bill because the problems that have come forth that you've described. So thank, thank you for
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Chair Unverified 3:36:32
that. Thank you. Any other questions or compliments for the presiding officer. Senator Clark, you recognized. Saoirse Davis, any of the three arrests
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Senator Alan Clark Unverified 3:36:39
have anything to do with lack of training? Or were they criminal? Have to do with what? I'm sorry, lack of training or were they criminal charges? I don't know. I
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:36:51
just know they were convicted of crimes. They were criminal charges.
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Senator Alan Clark Unverified 3:36:58
Uh, the, there are requirements in the Constitution for constitutional officers, but outside of that, the, are there any requirements to be governor? I, I mean, I think
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:37:10
you just probably have to be 18. Yeah,
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Senator Alan Clark Unverified 3:37:13
but I mean outside what's in the Constitution. Oh, I don't know the answer to that. Any requirements for a lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, auditor, House of Representatives, county judge. Not that I'm aware of. That's because I, I think training is a great thing. But I question that we question the will of the people. Because surely they know when these people are elected, whether they have law enforcement experience or they don't. Uh, and so I questioned why we went on any office. But some type of requirement that's not in the Constitution.
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:38:00
Well, luckily this bill doesn't have any requirements. It simply says that if you're not certified law enforcement, you're paid a minimum salary, which ranges from 48,000 to $129,000 depending on the size of the county that you live in. Um, and additionally, um, you made another point that I was going to speak to you. Sorry, will you say again what you were just saying. About cutsitutional officers not having requirements outside the Constitution. You
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Senator Alan Clark Unverified 3:38:24
were talking about people should know, and, and I think we've all been
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:38:31
through enough elections to understand that, um, you know, people who run campaigns are not always truthful or maybe don't always highlight, um, certain things about them, and so I, I don't think it's fair just to assume that voters know everything about a candidate running for office, including whether or not they're certified law enforcement, so we are continuing to trust voters to vote for the sheriff of their choice, um, and we're not requiring anything of an elected sheriff. We're just simply saying we are encouraging you to have law enforcement certification, and if so, we can pay you at a different point
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair Unverified 3:39:13
on the salary schedule. Thank you. Thanks. Now the
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Senator Jim Dotson Chair Unverified 3:39:17
questions Senator Dodson, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Senator Davis, this is adjusting the salary of an elected official based off of experience versus um or training versus for the position itself, which is how we determine the, the salary for almost every other elected position that I'm aware of. As far as I know, we do not differentiate as far as salary salary based off of training or experience of legislators, legislators that have 10 years of experience don't have an increased amount of salary more than somebody who starts on day one. It's for the position and it's, it's across the board regardless because the people voted for that sheriff. Are you, are you suggesting we should have training for legislators and uh and it A different salary schedule for those that aren't trained to be in elected positions. I mean, that's actually
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:40:14
a great idea that I'm not opposed to and the and and the truth is we do pay different salaries based on leadership and positions held within the Senate and in the past we've paid based on who's chairman of the committee and different things like that. So we have actually differentiated salaries and continue to do so to this day here in the Senate, depending on a position you may hold, for example, I think, I believe the prote gets paid a little bit more. based on their duties, their responsibilities. So we do have different pay for some of those positions, and again, the people bringing us this legislation and saying, please help us with this, are the very people that deal with the sheriffs, including the sheriffs themselves, the county judges, the Association of Counties, and the Quorum Court. So they're asking for help for a problem, they're being embarrassed by sheriffs that aren't law enforcement certified that are getting arrested and convicted of crimes, and they're asking for help. to be able to solve a problem that they have in their counties if they need to, um, and I think it's our job in um cases where we can be responsive to their issues and try to help them where it's our place and to help solve this problem, we have to do it through legislation, which is our place, and so, to me, it's responding to the needs of our constituents and people who are running our counties and keeping them in line and keeping law and order, what sheriffs do in our counties, and I think it's important to um help with out where we can.
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Speaker 520 3:41:42
the questions. Any other question? Anyone wish to speak against. Senator
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Chair Unverified 3:41:51
Rice and then Senator Peyton, one in between. Senator Rice, you recognized. Thank you, Madam
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Senator Terry Rice Unverified 3:41:58
President, uh, members, uh, two reasons I don't want to give you that I have a problem with the bill. First, I don't run that many bills, but I do believe in process. I try to take care of business and I know business can be done in different ways. But this body rejected this bill the other day. It was voted down. There was, it was asked. Uh, to run again and it was voted down in the chair ruled that it was over and it was said, send it back to the house has failed. Now that's not always the final deal. That's not the final deal in this. The problem is, at the end of the day, And uh Madam Governor was not in the chair at that time. Uh, it was said, Whatever we hear every day, it after the bills are read, we are going through the process, everybody was talking, but before that, standing right here, the committee chairs, the transportation chair said transportation will meet immediately. Everybody, a lot started clearing out. Si Irving in health said health meets in 10 minutes. People continued to clear out. The chair Again said started the term after reading of the bills and so on. A lot of talking going on. The gavel did not hit. Go watch the video, it didn't hit. I agree with that. But I was walking through the back room, quiet room on my way out, and I hear on the speaker. House Bill 1725. And before I could get down the hall. I hear Uh, something to the effect of Without objection. We look at the video and then said, Ask for the eyes and there were 2 or 3 eyes. I don't think there were 6 people, 67 senators in there at most. From what the video shows, and it said nays and there was a nay and by the time I yanked that door open, you can hear me about a second later saying no or nay. And it was ruled, the eyes have it. That was after it says without objection, the nays were the objection. So this is kind of technical. It's not real clean. We voted the other day to return the bill to the House has failed. That's the process I have a problem with. Now, on the bill. I've talked to two Western Arkansas sheriffs, one totally for this helped, helped put it together and felt it needed. We disagree. We disagree because I told him I can find you certified sheriffs around this country. That, that are uh failures have been in trouble. It's not just because they hadn't had training. And I saw one the other day that had killed the judge that had been friends to him. So this is not exclusive. We may have had some in Arkansas, but these are people who are elected. By the voters. That's who they want. And I didn't hear it because I'm a little hard of hearing, but somebody evidently said the other day asked Senator Davis, and it's not Senator Davis' fault. I'm not. anybody's fault to blame, so they said, what about Buford Pusser? I don't think some people know who Buford Pusser is or was or mythical Buford busser. But if you elect somebody to do a job and hopefully they'll get some training and I don't know what's allowed as far as online or I had one sheriff tell me they expected when he got elected to take 11 weeks off. And go get training because he didn't have law enforcement training. He said, Man, I can't do that. I've just been elected sheriff in office. I've got people around me to do it. But we're going to tell our Kansans, the voters, you can't elect to you won't. You elect to law enforcement, the sheriffs are, are for this and certain people for, you're gonna elect who we say. That you're going to elect and this has been brought up by some of y'all. What about these other offices? I'd like to have maybe some more experience in some other offices. But this go back to voters. Let's trust the voters. I don't think this is going to make or break Arkansas. But I think the process wasn't followed, as cleanly as it could have been, and I don't think this bill is necessary, so I'd ask for
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Chair Unverified 3:47:13
a no. Anyone that wished to speak for anyone else wished to speak against Senator Payton, you're recognized to speak against. Thank you, Madam President.
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Senator John Payton Unverified 3:47:22
It's real simple. Two people run for sheriff, one of them advertises, he's got all kinds of law enforcement experience, and the other one advertises, he's got all kinds of managerial experience, whichever one the people vote for, that wins that office is the sheriff. And if the people value the experience more on the management side than they do on the law enforcement side, then we shouldn't devalue that, and there shouldn't be two separate pay scales based on, on the experience of What we think is the right kind of experience. People campaign, people advertise what their talents are, what their experience is, and the people vote. Appreci no vote on
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Chair Unverified 3:48:06
this. Any Others wish to speak for or against or on the bill. If not, Senator Davis, you're recognized clothes. Thank you, Madam President. um, when
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Senator Breanne Davis Unverified 3:48:16
sheriffs are not certified law enforcement, they actually have an agreement worked out with law enforcement training that they do not have to do it all at one time in those 13 weeks, but they can do it over a period of time, so it doesn't pull them out of the sheriff's office for a 13 week chunk. So that's already worked out, um, law enforcement working together across lines to ensure that sheriffs that do want to be certified can be certified in a practical way where they can still serve the people that they represent. Um You know, I understand that this is everyone has mixed feelings about it, it's a little contentious, but again, um, the association of counties, the county judges, the Quorum Court Association, and the sheriff's Association all have endorsed the spill and um support it and have asked us to help them with an issue they're having with sheriffs who are not certified law enforcement. Again, we are not requiring or mandating anything. We are simply encouraging good behavior, which is for them to get law enforcement certified, so that they can do the best job representing their people as sheriff in their county. With that, I'm closed and ask for a good vote. Thank
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Chair Unverified 3:49:25
you. Senator has closed, Madam Secretary, please call the roll. Boet Brant.
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Speaker 157 3:49:34
Right Caldwell. Clark Crowl. raw Davis days.
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Representative Justin Gonzales Unverified 3:49:44
This man, Dotson English flippo flowers. Gilmore. Hammer, Hester,
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Speaker 161 3:50:06
Hicky. Irvin, Irvin Blake Johnson. You hear? Like Johnson. is. Mark Johnson. King, King. Lighting. Letting Love Love
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McKee. Murdoch Murdoch Peyton. And so Patty. Rice,
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Scott. Scott Stan. Stabil. Sullivan. attacker. Tucker. Wallace.
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Any senator who wishes to change his or her vote or wishes to vote, who did not vote, Senator Bryant, no. Senator Hill, no. Senator letting know. Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Leding, yes. Senator Tucker, yes. Any other senator. Senator Murdoch, yes. Any other senator saying no other. Senator
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Love, yes. Scott, yes. Any other saying no other. Please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 1714 nay, 3 not voting, one present, House Bill 1725 fails. Hm
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This is non-debatable motion. clincher motion is non-debatable. Madam Secretary, please call the roll. What? Oh, all
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Speaker 450 3:52:27
those in favor. Uh And he opposed. As habit. Motion carries. I'd send you're recognized for emotion.
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Senator Jim Dotson Chair Unverified 3:52:49
Absolutely 572 Uh, make a motion to suspend the rules and withdraw Senate Bill 572 from education for purposes of amendment. You all have
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Chair Unverified 3:53:11
heard the motion, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Any opposed. I have it, motion carries. Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 572. My bill, my amendment. All those in favor of the amendment please signify by saying aye. Any oppose? I habit Amendment
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is adopted, please send to engrossing. Madam Secretary. We are Passing over House Bill 1760. Are there items at the desk? engrossed.
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Chair Unverified 3:53:53
And were your committee on growth bills to as far as Senate Bill 484 by Senator Irving compared the gross copy of the ritual find and correctly engrossed. Education Committee on the Gross bills to his first Senate Bill 565, a central flippo who the ross copy of the original if I same correctly state agencies Gross for House Bill 1424 by Senator Blake Johnson compared the gross copy of the original and find the same correctly engrossed. Insurance and commerce House was 1681 by Senator Bron, President Gross copied the ritual and found the same correctly and gross. Agriculture. OK. and then I'm gonna. Earlier today, a committee report from City County local reported House Bill 1686 do pass out of committee. Bill number was transposed, the actual bill number is House Bill 1618. Will your committee on City County Local who was far Houseville 1618 by Representative Pok recommend Ducalendar. Where you come in on state agencies to whom 486 by Senator Blake Johnson, recommend do pass calendar Senate Bill 599 by Senator Tucker to eliminate the internal degrees decrees of adoption and to amend the revised uniform Adoption Act, Senate Bill 599. Judiciary 600 by Cenator Tucker to regulate contracts to mandate contractual provisions for certain contracts and to clarify. by proper jurisdiction for certain contracts, 600 judiciary, 601 Sen Hester to create a pathway for graduate of a foreign medical school to be licensed in the state. If he or she is offered full-time employment as a physician for a healthcare provider symbol 601. Public Health number 602 by Senator Crowell to prohibit the insurance companies and appraisers from requiring an insured to use certain facilities, repair. replace damaged motor vehicle safety class, glass, and a penalties for violations symbol 602. Insurance and commerce Tucker to require an air ambulance to contract the state promise system for direct for direction on the best designation to transport a purse, a person that was 603, public health 7604 by Senator Davis to amend provisions of the Arkansas Code regarding the course choice program Senate Bill 604. to create the delta um canniba,
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Speaker 8 3:56:40
uh, excise Tax Act and uh tax delta products. 605605. Senator Blake Johnson, you're recognized for an announcement.
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Insurance and commerce is meeting
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5 minutes upon adjournment. Public health is meeting 15 minutes upon adjournment. Senator Mark Johnson,
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you recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Joint
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Senator Mark Johnson Unverified 3:57:10
energy will be meeting upon adjournment, and it's in Big Mac. A I'm sorry that it's so confusing, but it is in a, and I believe that the other veterans Committee was going to be meeting in B, so we'll all work it out, but we wanna make sure it is in Big Mac. Thank you, Madam. Any other announcements,
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seeing no other Senate will stand an adjournment subject to the clearing of the desk until
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Agenda

Call to Order

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Roll Call

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Prayer

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Doctor of the Day

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SENATE BILLS FOR THIRD READING AND PASSAGE

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SB484 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.

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SB565 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.

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HB1424 Motion to withdrawal for purpose of amendment.

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SB117 C. Penzo TO CREATE THE NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN PRACTICE ACT; TO PROVIDE FOR LICENSURE OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS IN ARKANSAS; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NATURAL MEDICINE.

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SB284 J. Payton TO MODIFY THE EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED MEASURE 1948, NO. 4.

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Motion to Withdrawal

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SB285 J. Payton TO MODIFY THE COMPENSATION RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948.

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Motion to Withdrawal

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SB286 J. Payton TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL WAGE LOSS BENEFITS IN ADDITION TO SCHEDULED INJURY PAYMENTS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED MEASURE 1948, NO. 4.

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Motion to Withdrawal

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SB288 J. Payton TO MODIFY A PHYSICIAN CHANGE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED MEASURE 1948, NO. 4.

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Motion to Withdrawal

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SB287 Motion to Withdrawal

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SB355 J. Bryant TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS.

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SB397 D. Wallace TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION OF RAIL EMPLOYEES IN REPORTS INVOLVING RAILROAD FATALITIES.

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SB406 A. Clark TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INFORMATION BEFORE RECORDING A DEED TO REAL ESTATE.

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SB406 - To re-refer SB406 to committee for purpose of amendment

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SB412 J. Boyd TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO SET THE PER-MILE AMOUNT FOR THE INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES BY PROCLAMATION.

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SB425 J. English TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ENHANCED TRANSPORTATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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SB440 D. Wallace TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; TO REGULATE THE USE OF ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS; AND TO REGULATE ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS FACILITIES.

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SB448 J. Petty TO AUTHORIZE THE FINANCING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS, BUILDING RESILIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, AND WATER CONSERVATION IMPROVEMENTS.

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SB450 B. Davis TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCLUDE A HUMAN FETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION IN THE RELEVANT STANDARDS DURING THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC STANDARDS REVISION CYCLE.

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SB464 A. Clark TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING SALES OF RAW MILK; TO ALLOW SALES OF RAW MILK AND RAW MILK PRODUCTS AT LOCATIONS OTHER THAN THE FARM WHERE THE RAW MILK OR RAW MILK PRODUCT WAS PRODUCED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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SB467 C. Penzo TO MODIFY THE DEFINITION OF "HEALTHCARE PROVIDER" REGARDING STUDENT ATHLETE CONCUSSION EDUCATION TO INCLUDE CHIROPRACTORS OR CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIANS.

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SB469 C. Penzo TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTY CAMPAIGN POLITICAL PARTY COMMITTEES; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.

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SB470 J. Dotson TO REQUIRE AN ADULT APPROVED TO OVERSEE THE ADMINISTRATION OF A STATEWIDE STUDENT ASSESSMENT TO CERTAIN STUDENTS IN A VIRTUAL SETTING TO MEET CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.

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SB483 Irvin TO REPEAL CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT AND THE STATE SECURITIES DEPARTMENT; AND TO REVISE CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.

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SB487 Irvin TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RECORDS.

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SB490 Irvin TO ALLOW A COURT TO WAIVE CERTAIN FEES WHEN A JUVENILE IS ORDERED TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.

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SB498 J. Petty TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF DRIVER AND VEHICLE RECORDS AND TO PROTECT DRIVER AND VEHICLE RECORDS FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.

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SB503 Crowell TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AN EMPLOYER MUST HAVE TO BE MANDATED TO FILE AN ANNUAL INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING STATEMENT ELECTRONICALLY; AND TO REQUIRE THE ELECTRONIC FILING OF A WITHHOLDING RETURN FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYERS.

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SB505 J. Bryant TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL PLANNING; AND TO REQUIRE AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE FOR CHANGES TO THE ZONING OR DISTRICT DESIGNATION OF PROPERTY IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.

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SB508 Irvin TO AMEND THE FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT OF A STIPEND FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFIT ADVISORY COMMISSION AND THE STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFIT ADVISORY COMMISSION.

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SB515 J. Petty TO REQUIRE THAT A UNIT DEDICATED TO ARKANSAS VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES BE INCLUDED WITHIN EXISTING ARKANSAS HISTORY COURSE CONTENT GUIDELINES.

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SB522 M. McKee TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR MATHEMATICS, SCIENCES, AND THE ARTS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THE TUITION AND FEES PAID BY STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE ONLINE PROGRAMS.

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SB545 M. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO THE PROPERTY AND FINANCES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO BONDS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING RENTS, TOLLS, FEES, AND OTHER CHARGES RELATED TO ATHLETIC CONTESTS.

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SB547 D. Sullivan TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT A HOMESCHOOLED STUDENT LIVE WITHIN A CERTAIN RADIUS OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR PURPOSES OF PARTICIPATING IN AN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY.

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Motion to expunge the vote by which SB469 failed

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Motion to withdraw HB1681 for purpose of amendment.

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HOUSE BILLS FOR THIRD READING AND PASSAGE

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HB1549 R. Scott Richardson Bryant TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025.

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HB1555 Painter Hester TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM PROCEDURES FOR FILLING A VACANCY IN A MUNICIPAL OFFICE.

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HB1557 R. Scott Richardson Bryant TO AMEND THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONCERNING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

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HB1561 Painter Hill TO ESTABLISH THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROTECTION ACT OF 2025.

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HB1598 Brooks English TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS; AND TO REMOVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM SCHOOL RATINGS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL YEARS.

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HB1640 Duke Sullivan TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "ADMINISTRATOR" AS IT RELATES TO ETHICAL GUIDELINES AND PROHIBITIONS; AND TO AMEND THE RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYMENT SPECIFIC TO PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS.

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HB1654 Tosh Wallace TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE FOR THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID SOUTH; AND TO ADDRESS THE INVENTORY OF THE MID-SOUTH COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION SPECIAL LICENSE PLATE.

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HB1691 Torres Wallace TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY TO BE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION; AND TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PUBLIC CHARITY ARE EXEMPT FROM PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX.

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HB1697 Joey Carr Dotson TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF TITLE 6 AND TITLE 19 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PROVISIONAL POSITIONS AND MOTOR VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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HB1725 Schulz Davis TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COMPENSATION FOR THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF.

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SB1725 - Clincher Motion on HB1725

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Motion to withdrawn SB572 from committee

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Budget Bills and their Emergency Clauses to be considered which have been introduced by Senators

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SB354 AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION.

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SB392 TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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Motion to Expunge by which the emergency clause failed on SB392

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SB392 - Motion to vote on the Emergency Clause on SB392

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Items to be read across the desk

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Announcements

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Adjourn

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