House Convenes
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Bills discussed (95)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HR1070
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HR1070 McAlindon TO CELEBRATE AND RECOGNIZE MARCH 21, 2025, AS WOR…”
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TO CELEBRATE AND RECOGNIZE MARCH 21, 2025, AS WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY IN THE STATE … | McAlindon | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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HR1073
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HR1073 Evans TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS 250 COMMISSION AS IT BEGINS…”
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TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS 250 COMMISSION AS IT BEGINS ITS WORK TO CELEBRATE ARKANSAS'S RICH … | Evans | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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HR1074
· 3 mentions in transcript, chapter
Matched: “Madam Clerk, please read House Resolution 1074. House resolution 1074”
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TO RECOGNIZE THE CONWAY KIWANIS BOOKCASE FOR EVERY CHILD PROJECT FOR INCREASING LITERACY AND STUDENT … | Bentley | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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HR1084
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “HR1084 Springer TO HONOR MARTHA JARROW FOR HER MANY YEARS OF SERVI…”
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TO HONOR MARTHA JARROW FOR HER MANY YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES … | Springer | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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SB324
Act 519
· 3 mentions in chapter, transcript
Matched: “SB324 #1 M. Johnson Brooks TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBER…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF A COUNTY PLANNING BOARD. | M. Johnson | Notification that SB324 is now Act 519 |
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HB1072
Act 876
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1072 C. Cooper TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING ELIG…”
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TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING ELIGIBILITY FOR THE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR DISABLED VETERANS, … | C. Cooper | Notification that HB1072 is now Act 876 |
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HB1241
Act 568
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1241 J. Mayberry TO ENSURE THAT THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM RE…”
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TO ENSURE THAT THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM REIMBURSES FOR DENTAL AND ANESTHESIA COSTS FOR HIGH … | J. Mayberry | Notification that HB1241 is now Act 568 |
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HB1243
Act 994
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1243 Underwood TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY REGARDING CAMPAIGN CONTR…”
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TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY REGARDING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES; TO AMEND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTING AND PROTECT … | Underwood | Notification that HB1243 is now Act 994 |
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HB1296
Act 556
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1296 L. Johnson TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES PROV…”
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TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES PROVIDED IN MOBILE UNITS. | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1296 is now Act 556 |
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HB1314
Act 512
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1314 L. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN AUDITS OF HE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN AUDITS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS … | Irvin | Notification that HB1314 is now Act 512 |
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HB1320
Act 626
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1320 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRISIS STABILIZATION…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS AND HEALTHCARE INSURERS. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1320 is now Act 626 |
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HB1321
Act 513
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1321 Wooldridge TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY AND FAIL FIRST PROTOCOL…”
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TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY AND FAIL FIRST PROTOCOLS CONCERNING CERTAIN PRESCRIBED VENTILATORS. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1321 is now Act 513 |
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HB1367
Act 346
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…owing measures of regular session at 95th General Assembly. House Bill 1367 Act 3461517 Act 347, House Bill 1583 Act 348, House Bill 15…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TITLE INSURANCE ACT; AND TO REGULATE ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS BY … | Warren | Notification that HB1367 is now Act 346 |
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HB1422
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1422 Long TO CREATE THE ONLY CITIZENS VOTE ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW…”
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TO CREATE THE ONLY CITIZENS VOTE ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DRIVER'S LICENSES … | Long | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1467
Act 557
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1467 Achor TO AMEND THE UNIFORM MONEY SERVICES ACT.”
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TO AMEND THE UNIFORM MONEY SERVICES ACT. | J. Boyd | Notification that HB1467 is now Act 557 |
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HB1519
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1519 Cavenaugh TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMME…”
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TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HIRING AND … | Cavenaugh | Died in House at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1525
Act 923
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1525 Steimel TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY; AND TO A…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY; AND TO ADDRESS AGRICULTURAL IMPACT REMEDIATION AGREEMENTS. | Steimel | Notification that HB1525 is now Act 923 |
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HB1531
Act 630
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “on Insurance and Commerce and homes the fired House Bill 1531 vaguely reporting to some consideration here for the same r…”
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TO PROHIBIT PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS FROM RESTRICTING OR LIMITING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS TO A LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NETWORK … | Achor | Notification that HB1531 is now Act 630 |
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HB1545
Act 501
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1545 K. Brown TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSI…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021. | K. Brown | Notification that HB1545 is now Act 501 |
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HB1549
Act 489
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1549 R. Scott Richardson TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY AC…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025. | R. Scott Richardson | Notification that HB1549 is now Act 489 |
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HB1557
Act 480
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1557 R. Scott Richardson TO AMEND THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE D…”
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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 |
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HB1558
Act 392
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1558 #1 McGrew TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS REAL EST…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS REAL ESTATE COMMISSION; TO CREATE A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT … | McGrew | Notification that HB1558 is now Act 392 |
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HB1562
Act 941
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1562 Gazaway CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF AN ORAL LEASE OF FARM…”
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CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF AN ORAL LEASE OF FARMLANDS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1562 is now Act 941 |
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HB1563
Act 356
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1451, Act 353. House Bill 1601. Act 354. Ho 1689 at 355. House Bill 1563 Act 356. House 1579 Act”
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TO ADD A FELONY OFFENSE THAT FALLS UNDER THE DEFINITION OF RESTRICTED RELEASE FELONY WITH … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1563 is now Act 356 |
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HB1594
Act 621
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “on Revenue and Taxation? Fired House Bill 1594 Baley report and consideration. And here's return with the…”
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TO CREATE A FARMER SALES TAX IDENTIFICATION CARD; AND TO RELIEVE A SELLER OF SALES … | Vaught | Notification that HB1594 is now Act 621 |
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HB1611
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1611 Gonzales TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF ANIMAL FIGHTING WITH RE…”
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TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF ANIMAL FIGHTING WITH RESPECT TO THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL ANIMAL … | Gonzales | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1630
Act 599
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1630 Gazaway TO ADD A MISDEMEANOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OFFENSE T…”
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TO ADD A MISDEMEANOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OFFENSE TO THE PREDICATE OFFENSES FOR CAPITAL MURDER, MURDER … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1630 is now Act 599 |
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HB1679
Act 861
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1679 M. Brown TO AMEND THE REVISED ARKANSAS ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT;…”
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TO AMEND THE REVISED ARKANSAS ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT; TO ALLOW CERTAIN CLASSES OF PERSONS TO … | M. Brown | Notification that HB1679 is now Act 861 |
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HB1681
Act 812
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1681 Vaught TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIE…”
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TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Vaught | Notification that HB1681 is now Act 812 |
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HB1684
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1684 McAlindon TO CREATE THE PARENTS AND TEACHERS HELPING STUDEN…”
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TO CREATE THE PARENTS AND TEACHERS HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED (PATHS) ACT. | McAlindon | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1691
Act 497
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1691 Torres TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY TO BE EXEMPT FROM TA…”
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TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY TO BE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION; AND TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN … | Torres | Notification that HB1691 is now Act 497 |
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HB1695
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1695 J. Richardson TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPER…”
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TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO ALLOW A … | J. Richardson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1703
Act 570
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1703 L. Johnson TO PROVIDE A DRUG REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS FOR CERT…”
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TO PROVIDE A DRUG REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS FOR CERTAIN HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. | L. Johnson | Notification that HB1703 is now Act 570 |
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HB1707
Act 524
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1707 Hawk TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE…”
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TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND PORTIONS … | Hawk | Notification that HB1707 is now Act 524 |
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HB1724
Act 503
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1724 B. McKenzie TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS; AND … | B. McKenzie | Notification that HB1724 is now Act 503 |
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HB1736
Act 603
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1736 M. Brown TO AMEND ARTICLE 9 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.”
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TO AMEND ARTICLE 9 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. | M. Brown | Notification that HB1736 is now Act 603 |
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HB1737
Act 584
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1737 M. Brown TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEN…”
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TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "TRANSMITTING UTILITY" TO … | M. Brown | Notification that HB1737 is now Act 584 |
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HB1741
Act 526
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1741 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURAL LIMING MATERI…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURAL LIMING MATERIALS ACT. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1741 is now Act 526 |
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HB1742
Act 527
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1742 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO SEED CERTIFICATION.”
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TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO SEED CERTIFICATION. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1742 is now Act 527 |
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HB1743
Act 586
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1743 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FEED LAW OF 1997.”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FEED LAW OF 1997. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1743 is now Act 586 |
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HB1744
Act 530
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1744 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO FERTILIZER.”
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TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO FERTILIZER. | Wooldridge | Notification that HB1744 is now Act 530 |
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HB1745
Act 604
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1745 Hawk TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS T…”
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TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS TO POSSESS A UNITED STATES WORK AUTHORIZATION; TO … | Hawk | Notification that HB1745 is now Act 604 |
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HB1746
Act 997
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1746 M. Brown TO AMEND THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.”
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TO AMEND THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. | M. Brown | Notification that HB1746 is now Act 997 |
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HB1757
Act 528
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1757 Joey Carr TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RAILROADS; AND TO CRE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RAILROADS; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF TAMPERING WITH RAIL … | Joey Carr | Notification that HB1757 is now Act 528 |
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HB1759
Act 551
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “hospital for 1658, House Bill 1759, Senate Bill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate…”
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TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF TIME A TAXPAYER HAS TO ASSESS TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY ACQUIRED … | Milligan | Notification that HB1759 is now Act 551 |
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HB1760
Act 486
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1760 Milligan TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE JURISDICTION TO CO…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE JURISDICTION TO CONSIDER CERTAIN PETITIONS FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF … | Milligan | Notification that HB1760 is now Act 486 |
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HB1772
Act 529
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1772 Vaught CONCERNING VEGETABLE GARDEN PROTECTION.”
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CONCERNING VEGETABLE GARDEN PROTECTION. | Vaught | Notification that HB1772 is now Act 529 |
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HB1774
Act 562
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1774 Beaty Jr. TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS FAIR HOUS…”
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TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS FAIR HOUSING COMMISSION. | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1774 is now Act 562 |
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HB1782
Act 642
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1782 Hudson TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING S…”
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TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON … | Hudson | Notification that HB1782 is now Act 642 |
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HB1785
Act 525
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1785 J. Moore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERS OF A COUNT…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERS OF A COUNTY DEPOSITORY BOARD. | J. Moore | Notification that HB1785 is now Act 525 |
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HB1789
Act 605
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1789 R. Burkes TO RESTRICT A LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM PROVIDING FUN…”
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TO RESTRICT A LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ISSUING AN IDENTIFICATION … | R. Burkes | Notification that HB1789 is now Act 605 |
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HB1794
Act 559
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1794 Duke TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUI…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR REAL ESTATE LICENSEES; AND TO CREATE … | Duke | Notification that HB1794 is now Act 559 |
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HB1796
Act 711
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…we your committee on public transportation who was referred House Bill 1796. House Bill 1798, House Bill 1845, vaguely reporting the sa…”
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TO REQUIRE THE DISPLAY OF GENDER INFORMATION ON AN ARKANSAS DRIVER’S LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD. | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1796 is now Act 711 |
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HB1798
Act 531
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…on public transportation who was referred House Bill 1796. House Bill 1798, House Bill 1845, vaguely reporting the same consideration…”
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TO ESTABLISH A GREEN ENVELOPE PROGRAM. | Nazarenko | Notification that HB1798 is now Act 531 |
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HB1800
Act 998
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1800 McAlindon TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR CAMPAI…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE BY A REPRESENTATIVE … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1800 is now Act 998 |
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HB1802
Act 606
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1802 Warren TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND…”
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TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO RELOCATE … | Warren | Notification that HB1802 is now Act 606 |
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HB1803
Act 657
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1803 Joey Carr TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MO…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS … | Joey Carr | Notification that HB1803 is now Act 657 |
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HB1814
Act 712
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1814 Gazaway TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY OVE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY OVER UTILITIES; AND TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF … | Gazaway | Notification that HB1814 is now Act 712 |
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HB1845
Act 926
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ortation who was referred House Bill 1796. House Bill 1798, House Bill 1845, vaguely reporting the same consideration here for the same…”
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TO ALLOW THE ELECTRONIC ADMINISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE OWNERSHIP OF MOTOR VEHICLES; TO … | Holcomb | Notification that HB1845 is now Act 926 |
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HR1085
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HR1085 McCullough TO RECOGNIZE PARALYMPIC MEDALIST OLIVIA CHAMBERS…”
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TO RECOGNIZE PARALYMPIC MEDALIST OLIVIA CHAMBERS OF LITTLE ROCK FOR HER REMARKABLE GIFTS AND INCREDIBLE … | McCullough | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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HR1086
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HR1086 McAlindon TO CONGRATULATE BENTONVILLE EDUCATOR BONNIE POLLO…”
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TO CONGRATULATE BENTONVILLE EDUCATOR BONNIE POLLOCK FOR RECEIVING A MILKEN EDUCATOR AWARD AND ITS ACCOMPANYING … | McAlindon | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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HR1087
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HR1087 Vaught TO RECOGNIZE THE DE QUEEN HIGH SCHOOL LADY LEOPARDS…”
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TO RECOGNIZE THE DE QUEEN HIGH SCHOOL LADY LEOPARDS BASKETBALL TEAM AS THE CLASS 4A … | Vaught | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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HR1088
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HR1088 L. Johnson TO RECOGNIZE MARCH 19, 2025, AS ROOTED DAY IN AR…”
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TO RECOGNIZE MARCH 19, 2025, AS ROOTED DAY IN ARKANSAS. | L. Johnson | READ AND ADOPTED. |
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SB218
Act 440
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB218 Irvin Steimel TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATI…”
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TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM. | Irvin | Notification that SB218 is now Act 440 |
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SB227
Act 505
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB227 C. Tucker Eubanks TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT O…”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF … | C. Tucker | Notification that SB227 is now Act 505 |
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SB271
Act 460
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB271 Crowell Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A COUNTY CLE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A COUNTY CLERK'S CERTIFICATION OF SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES TO THE … | Crowell | Notification that SB271 is now Act 460 |
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SB275
Act 441
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB275 Irvin J. Moore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REGULATION O…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES. | Irvin | Notification that SB275 is now Act 441 |
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SB293
Act 487
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB293 K. Hammer A. Brown TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REQUIRED…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REQUIRED POSTINGS AT A POLLING SITE; AND TO AMEND … | K. Hammer | Notification that SB293 is now Act 487 |
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SB299
Act 403
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB299 K. Hammer A. Brown TO REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER TO WITNESS AN…”
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TO REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER TO WITNESS AN ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTING A RESIDENT OF A LONG-TERM … | K. Hammer | Notification that SB299 is now Act 403 |
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SB319
Act 461
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB319 J. Boyd Maddox TO AMEND THE UNIFORM LIMITED LIABILITY COMPA…”
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TO AMEND THE UNIFORM LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT; AND TO CLARIFY CHARGING ORDERS UNDER THE … | J. Boyd | Notification that SB319 is now Act 461 |
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SB327
Act 443
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB327 Crowell Jean TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAYMENTS TO LOCALI…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAYMENTS TO LOCALITIES. | Crowell | Notification that SB327 is now Act 443 |
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SB329
Act 426
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB329 J. Boyd R. Burkes TO CREATE THE ONLINE MARKETPLACE GUARANTE…”
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TO CREATE THE ONLINE MARKETPLACE GUARANTEES ACT. | J. Boyd | Notification that SB329 is now Act 426 |
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SB344
Act 444
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB344 Irvin L. Johnson TO TRANSFER THE HEALTHY EMPLOYEE LIFESTYLE…”
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TO TRANSFER THE HEALTHY EMPLOYEE LIFESTYLE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE DEPARTMENT … | Irvin | Notification that SB344 is now Act 444 |
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SB353
Act 405
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB353 Hester Wooldridge TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DATE…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DATES FOR ELECTIONS; TO AMEND THE DATES OF PRIMARY … | Hester | Notification that SB353 is now Act 405 |
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SB368
Act 445
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB368 Irvin M. Shepherd TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MINERAL, TIMB…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MINERAL, TIMBER, AND OTHER RESOURCES ON STATE LANDS; TO REDUCE … | Irvin | Notification that SB368 is now Act 445 |
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SB374
Act 751
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB374 B. Davis Wing TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CIVIL SERVICE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM. | B. Davis | Notification that SB374 is now Act 751 |
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SB378
Act 446
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB378 Crowell Cavenaugh TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE ARKANS…”
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TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SUBMIT A QUARTERLY REPORT CONCERNING … | Crowell | Notification that SB378 is now Act 446 |
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SB379
Act 464
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “hospital for 1658, House Bill 1759, Senate Bill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate…”
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TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THE TAX ADVISORY COUNCIL TO SUBMIT A REPORT. | Crowell | Notification that SB379 is now Act 464 |
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SB380
Act 439
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “SB380 Crowell Cavenaugh TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THE OFFICE OF…”
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TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THE OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT TO SUBMIT A REPORT … | Crowell | Notification that SB380 is now Act 439 |
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SB381
Act 465
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “hospital for 1658, House Bill 1759, Senate Bill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate Bill 384, Senate…”
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TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO SUBMIT A REPORT … | Crowell | Notification that SB381 is now Act 465 |
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SB382
Act 466
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…or 1658, House Bill 1759, Senate Bill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate Bill 384, Senate Bill 385, Senate…”
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TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY SUBMIT A REPORT CONCERNING THE … | Crowell | Notification that SB382 is now Act 466 |
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SB383
Act 467
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ll 1759, Senate Bill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate Bill 384, Senate Bill 385, Senate Bill 387, Senate…”
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TO REPEAL THE ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED UNDER THE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT ACT OF 2001. | Crowell | Notification that SB383 is now Act 467 |
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SB384
Act 468
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate Bill 384, Senate Bill 385, Senate Bill 387, Senate Bill 389.va leave…”
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TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY SUBMIT A PROGRAM FACT SHEET … | Crowell | Notification that SB384 is now Act 468 |
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SB385
Act 469
· 1 mention in transcript
Matched: “…ill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate Bill 384, Senate Bill 385, Senate Bill 387, Senate Bill 389.va leave reporting the sa…”
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TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE RURAL SERVICES DIVISION OF THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION … | Crowell | Notification that SB385 is now Act 469 |
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SB387
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Representative Brian S. Evans
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I invite the members, staff, press, and guests in the galleries to stand and be led in prayer by Pastor Jeremy Sullivan, senior pastor of the Compass Church in Batesville, to remain
standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to be led by Representative Lane Jean. Would you
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pray with me? Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to gather here today. Lord, I pray for these men and women in this room. I pray that you would help them to experience your grace and your peace in their lives. Lord to pray for their families
as they come here to do business for the state and to make decisions for the state. I know they also bring uh weight with the concerns with them about the people they love. I pray, Father, that you would show your grace to them as well. Lord, I pray that you'd help these men and women to be guided by your wisdom. Give them wisdom to make good decisions today, but also uh with the things they face in their own life. Father, I pray that the decisions made, uh, would be ones that are good for the people of Arkansas. That Arkansas might be a state
that flourishes and the people of the state might have quiet and peaceful lives. Lord, I pray that You would help our state and these men and women to model charitable disagreement with one another. And healthy cooperation for the good of all people. Lord, we pray that our state could be an example to our country of what it looks like to work together for everyone's good. And Father, most of all, we pray that your kingdom would come and your will would be done in Arkansas as it is in heaven. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Members, please indicate your presence by pushing your yellow present button. Prepare the machine, madam clerk.
Representative Zack Gramlich
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Has everyone indicated their presence?
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Cast up the ballot, Madam clerk. There are 96 members present,
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chair sees decorum. Are there any requests for leave? Representative Painter, for what purpose? Leave, you're recognized. Leave for Bart Schultz Schultz. So ordered Representative Brown, for what purpose? Leave? You're recognized. Lee for
Representative Walker. I leave granted for Representative Stephen Walker. So ordered Representative Shepherd, for what purpose? Leave, you're recognized. Representative Womack is granted for Representative Richard Womack. So ordered. Any other requests for leave?
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Seeing known Representative Matthew Shepherd moves that we dispense with the reading of the previous day's journal. No objections, so ordered.
Madam Clark, any reports from select committees? You're recognized. Mr. Speaker, we're your Committee
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Bill 132 beg leave report with the same consideration here for time with the same recognition that it do pass as amendment number 2, respectfully submitted. Lane Jean, chair. Madam
Clarker reports from standing committees. You're recognized. Mr. Speaker, your committee
on Insurance and Commerce and homes the fired House Bill 1531 vaguely reporting to some consideration here for the same recommendation that do passes amendment number 2, respectfully submitted. Representative Maddox, Chair, Mr. Speaker, your committee on Insurance and commerce was fired House Bill
1771 vaguely report the same consideration here, the same recommendation that do pass respectfully submitted. Representative Maddox, chair. Mr. Speaker, we your committee on public transportation who was referred House Bill 1796. House Bill 1798, House Bill 1845, vaguely reporting the same consideration here for the same recommendation that do pass, respectfully submitted. Representative Holcombe. Chair, Mr. Speaker, your Committee on Public Transportation, to whom was referred to house 1834 beg leave reporting the same consideration here with the same recommendation that do pass as Amendment number one respectfully submitted. Representative Milligan, Vice Chair. Mr. Speaker, we're your committee on revenue and taxation to whoms referred to
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hospital for 1658, House Bill 1759, Senate Bill 379, Senate Bill 381, Senate Bill 382, Senate Bill 383, Senate Bill 384, Senate Bill 385, Senate Bill 387, Senate Bill 389.va leave reporting the same consideration here for the same recognition that do pass effectively submitted. Representative Kavanaugh, chair, Mr. Speaker of your Committee
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on Revenue and Taxation? Fired House Bill 1594 Baley report and consideration. And here's return with the same recommendation that you passes amendment number 1, respectfully submitted Representative Kavanaugh, chair. Thank you, Madam Clark. Any unfinished business? Do you
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have, uh, any executive communications. Please read the letter
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from the governor. To the Speaker of the House. Dear Mr. Speaker, this is inform you that on March 20th, 2025, I reviewed and approved the following measures of regular session at 95th General Assembly. House Bill 1367 Act 3461517 Act 347, House Bill 1583 Act 348, House Bill 1595 Act 349. That's 1620 Act 350. House 1398, Act 352, House Bill 1451, Act 353. House Bill 1601. Act 354. Ho 1689 at 355. House Bill 1563 Act 356. House 1579 Act
357, house 1593 Act 358. House 1347 Act 363. hospitals 1348, Act 364, House Bill 1603. Act 365 hospitals 1609 Act 366 House 1628 Act 367, house 1629 at 368. High 1643 Act 369. House was 1644 Act 370. House 1661 at 371. High 385, Act 374 High 1548 at 375, house 1575 Act 376. House Bill 1169, Act 383. House 1253 Act 384. House 1291, Act 385. House 1586, Act 386. House 1610 Act 387.
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Sincerely, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas. Thank you,
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Madam Clerk. Members, I would direct your attention to the back of the chamber today serving with us so faithfully our Arkansas state troopers. We have with us Sergeant Chuck Lewis, administrative Services Division of Little Rock, Corporal Trey Keller, the Highway Patrol Administration, also of Little Rock. Gentlemen, thank you for your service to the state and to the House of Representatives.
Members up, uh, above me in the North gallery today, we have members and staff of the Arkansas 250 Commission, uh, including Commissioner Shay Lewis, Marty Ryle, Dale James, Ebony Mitchell, Jan Zimmerman, Doctor David Ware, Tanya Mims, and Ken Morden. They are accompanied by
Kim Williams, commission staff. Would you please welcome them to the house? In the East gallery today over
to my left, we have, uh, here as guest of Representative Chad Pierce. It's the baseville Chamber
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Leadership Group. They are accompanied by Crystal Johnson, president of the Batesville Chamber. Please welcome them. I want to make sure I haven't skipped anyone.
All right, members, uh, Representative Keith Brooks moves that we place Senate Bill 324 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment without objection. So ordered Madam Clark,
please read amendment number one. Amendment number 1 to Senate Bill 324. Representative
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Brooks, you're recognized to explain amendment number one.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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We'll pass over that for the moment, see if we can get Representative Brooks, uh,
located. Members, um, Just take just a moment. Uh, to recognize a couple other folks that are here with us today. If you, uh,
looking up in the North gallery, uh, as we recognize the 250 commission, there may be a couple of faces up there that you recognize,
uh, long term servants of our state, servants of this body, uh, and just overall, some of the finest two folks that you will ever
become acquainted with. Would you please welcome back to the house. Representative Charlene Fe and her husband Tom Fe. She told me earlier today that
she would be sitting up above me to thump me on the head. If I got out of line today.
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Madam Clark, please read House Resolution 1070. House
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Resolution 1070 by Representative McAlena to celebrate and recognize March 21st, 2025 as World Down Syndrome Day in the state of Arkansas.
Chair
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Representative McAlinden, you're recognized to present your resolution. All
Representative Mindy McAlindon
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21:53
right, good afternoon. So I bring your resolution
recognizing March 21 as World Down Syndrome Day. Um, this resolution was brought to me or the idea was brought to me by a constituent who runs our Down syndrome connection of Northwest Arkansas, and they are remarkable organization. They're a very small group of parents, but they have a strong network. It's over 250 families, business leaders, educators, and therapists, all supporting individuals with Down's syndrome. They are there from day one. They have a collaboration with Mercy Hospital, and if you have a child with Down's syndrome, they are there that day,
supporting you from that time until your child is 40 years old and older. They make a lasting impact. The volunteers have put in nearly over 1000 service hours and this year alone, advocating, educating and uplifting the Down syndrome community. World Town Center Day is observed on March 21st. A date chosen to represent the triplication of the 21st chromosome, which is the cause of Down syndrome. This resolution reflects the
incredible work done by the Down syndrome connection of Northwest Arkansas in the incredible families across Arkansas. So I ask you to approve this resolution. Thank you. Representative McAlinden has explained
the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against
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the resolution. But will I speak for the resolution. Representative McAlennon is closed
for the resolution. The question before the House is the passage of House resolution 1070. All those in favor say aye.
Po nay, the ayes have it. Congratulations, Representative McAlinden. Your resolution has been adopted. Madam clerk, please read House
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resolution. 1073. House Resolution 1073 by Representative Evans to recognize
the Arkansas 250 commission as it begins, it works, it's worked to celebrate Arkansas's rich 250 year history from the signing of the Declaration of Independence on
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July 4, 1776 through July 4th, 2026. Speaker Evans, you are recognized to explain your
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resolution. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, uh, it's
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always great when you know that for just a brief moment in time that you're
experiencing a part of history, uh, that could be in our history chronicles and books for ages to come. Very honored today to have this 250 commission with us that we recognized earlier.
And so I would also ask them again if they would please stand. What a great group it's doing a lot of great work for our state. Members on July 4th, 2026, the United States will Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
United States Congress established that the United States semi-quincentennial commission, which is working in conjunction with the
American 250.org incorporated was uh established to orchestrate this great occasion. And I'm thankful to Governor Sanders, who took the initiative to bring our state into this as well
Representative Brian S. Evans
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and created the Arkansas 250 Commission to plan and organize and coordinate our activities while we do this celebration. This, uh, semi-quicentennial
event is a once in a generation
opportunity to engage children, students, and adults in educational activities, civic engagement and public service opportunities. What a moment in history, 250 years, uh, that we
will be celebrating the signing of that declaration of Independence next year, and it's gonna take a lot of planning and a lot of coordinating. Uh, we've, we've talked about some of the big things that's gonna happen across our state, and I'm very grateful to this. group that is standing in the north gallery who has taken this initiative on and is doing a
tremendous amount of legwork to prepare us for this celebration next year. And so would you please just once again rise and give them a round of applause. Madam Speaker, I would ask that you have
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the clerk. Um, give the name of the resolution by title, please. Madam clerk, please read the
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resolution in title only. To recognize the Arkansas 250 Commission as it begins its work to celebrate Arkansas's rich 250 year history from the signing of the Declaration
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of Independence on July 4th, 1776 through July 4th, 2026. 250 years of history
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and we are part of that today, each and every one of you, uh, as we adopt this resolution, and I thank you for being here
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and I would appreciate a good vote. Speaker
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Evans has explained the resolution. Does anyone wish to speak against the resolution? For the resolution?
Speaker Evans is closed for his resolution. The question before the House is the passage of House Resolution 1073. All those in favor say aye. Congratulations, Speaker Evans, you're resolution has been adopted.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Madam Clerk, please read House Resolution 1074. House resolution 1074
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by Representative Bentley to recognize the Conway Kiwana's bookcase for Every Child Project for increasing literacy and student retention rates by building personalized bookcases as gifts for children enrolled in the Federal Head Start program. Representative Bentley, you're recognized to explain
your resolution. Thank you, Chairman. Colleagues, I'd like to
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uh recognize an amazing group from the city of Conway that I get represented,
like representing Matt Brown and Steve, Steve McGee, if they'd like to join me in the well, they're happy to do so. Uh. The Conway Corners Book Club. You ready, Steve. Steve McGhee, you want to join me down here? So, uh, the city of Conway is blessed with some great straight reps. So we have Matt Brown and Steve and I and some other good friends from Faulkner County worked together, but, you know, a lot of us hear some griping about the illiteracy rates that we have here in our state, but there's a group of people that decided that they were gonna do something about it and they were
gonna put their, their, uh, feet to work and their hands to work, and they do some great things. So if the folks with the Qantas uh book Club project would stand up for me there. We'll, we'll applaud them in just a minute, but in the year 2005, Mr. Jim Davidson, along with the Conway police chief at that time, and some other members from Conway decided they would do something to make a difference in the kids' lives in Conway. So each, they started by making 50 bookcases for the kids in the Head Start program. Met with the superintendent, see the kids that really needed, uh, the books in that community, brought them, gave them a bookcase with their name engraved on it, a
little, uh, reading buddy and a stuffed animal and some books, and since 2005, this group has done 1000 bookcases from 2005 to now. Done a great job in the year uh 22,020, the Kiwanis Club decided to step and helped Mr. Jim Davison, so now we have the NAB Hos Company in Conway building the bookcases and this group gets together with the library. I've been honored to go there when they give the kids the bookcases at the library and the whole group there in the in the library does a great job encouraging those kids to read and really making a difference in illiteracy in our state, um, and with that, I
would like to have the, uh, clerk read the uh resolution and title only, please.
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Madam Clerk, please read the resolution by title. To
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recognize the Conway Kiwanis bookcase for Every Child Project for increasing literacy
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and student retention rates by building personalized bookcases as gifts for children enrolled in the Federal Head Start program. Representative Bentley has explained the resolution. Would anyone like
to speak against the resolution? Would anyone like to speak for the resolution?
Representative Bentley is closed for the resolution. The question before the House is the passage of House resolution 1074. All
Representative Brian S. Evans
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those in favor say aye. Oppose nay, the ayes have it. Congratulations, Representative Bentley. Your resolution has been adopted. Madam Clark,
please read House Resolution 1084. House Resolution 1084 by
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Representative Springer, to honor Martha Jarreau for her many years of service to the House of Representatives and the state
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of Arkansas. Springer, you're recognized to present your resolution. Good afternoon.
Representative Joy Springer
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In recognition of Women's History Month with all the women who are members of the House, join me in the well, please.
Thank you, ladies for joining me here today. We have in our midst a servant leader by the name of Martha Gyro. She is a person who prioritizes serving the needs of others. She fosters our growth. And she builds a collaborative environment within our organization here. With that being said, I ask that the clerk. Read the resolution in its entirety.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Madam clerk, please read the resolution in its entirety. Whereas
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March is celebrated in Women's History Month, a significant occasion dedicated to honoring the remarkable contribution of women who have profoundly influenced their fields and committees, paving communities, paving the way for future generations to strive relentless for excellence. And whereas Martha E Jarreau stands out as a distinguished leader in the role she has embraced with passion and steadfast commitment as a director of member services within the House. Representatives where her intelligence, exceptional skills, achievements, and immense dedication have propelled the
legislative process to new heights benefiting all members and staff. And whereas Martha Giro's innovative initiatives such as developing and implementing comprehensive cross-training programs and streamline communication strategies have inspired her colleagues and cultivated a collaborative and inclusive environment where creativity and shared success thrive among team members in her office and throughout the institution. And whereas Martha Jerose, a student in confidence, energy were noticed when Martha attended the Southern Legislative Conference, and she was selected to serve as a member of the.
inaugural staff Alliance for Intergovernmental Leadership sale, Chief of Staff, branch leadership and staff leadership task force. And whereas Martha Giro's strong commitment to delivering exceptional service in a consistently exceeding expectations has established an exemplary standard of excellence within the institution, and she is an invaluable resource for legislators offering expert guidance on member initiatives and navigating the complexities of procedural matters with skill and insight. And whereas Martha Giro exemplifies a profound sense of faith that informs her actions
and decision making processes, equipping her with the resilience necessary to confront and overcome multifaceted challenges in her deep affection for her family and her dedication to maintaining a healthy work-life balance serve as a cornerstone of her strength, motivating her to make a positive impact both in her professional endeavors and within her personal life. And whereas Martha Gerre is passionately devoted to empowering her staff through mentorship and professional development opportunities, ensuring they possess. To requisite tools and resources to thrive in their spros and achieve their career
aspirations. And whereas Martha Jareau's brainpower, communication skills, and professionalism allowed her the opportunity to be selected to be a part of the Staff Academy for Governmental Excellence, SAGE, a program of the Council of State Government, CSG South, which is the nation's only regionally focused leadership development program for state government staff and which equips staff leaders to navigate the unique dynamics of a career in public service, building a diverse. of highly skilled leaders among state government staff. Now, therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives in the ninety-fifth General Assembly of the state of Arkansas that the
House of Representatives formally recognize and celebrate Martha Eljare for her remarkable contributions to the House of Representatives and her staff, her steadfast faith, which enriches the workplace culture and the boundless love she extends to her family, staff, colleagues, and the institution.
Representative Springer has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution. For the resolution. Representative Springer is closed
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for the resolution question before the House is the adoption of House Resolution 1084. All those in favor say aye. Pona. Yeah, I have it. Congratulations. You're gonna been adopted.
Madam Clark, please read House Resolution 10877presentative Valt
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to recognize that the Queen High School lady leopards basketball team as a class 4A state champions. Representative,
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you are recognized to present the resolution.
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Lady Leopards, would you please stand? Y'all, this is a fun group of girls
to watch play basketball. They were regional champs, and then they took on Pulaski Academy, who was undefeated. This team had only had one loss
before they went to state, and then they gave Pulaski academy. Pulaski Academy, a run for their money, which was they came home, the state champions by a score of 62 to 54. And it was in the last few minutes when it really started to pull
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away. They were really neck and neck a lot back and forth,
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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um, my granddaughter kept looking at me saying, DD, are we winning? Are we winning? Because one would make a basket and the other one would. They have some they've got a couple
of girls on there that's already committed, uh, to play college, a couple of other ones that's, uh, looking at being, uh, playing basketball. It's a great team, they do a lot of, they're not only athletic athletes, their academically just as strong as they are, uh, which
I think makes them a very special team. And it's the first time I've actually got to recognize one
of my teams from back home because we're usually not in session when baseball or softball or anything like that
happen. So I'm so excited to have them here. Would you help me congratulate the lady leopards as a class 4A state champions. Mr. Speaker, have the
clerk read only title only. Thank you. Madam Clark, please read the title of the
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resolution that the Queen High School lady leopards
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basketball team as a Class 4A state champion.
That said, I'd appreciate a good vote. Good job,
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girls. Representative Vaugh has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution. For the
resolution. Representative Hawk, you were recognized to speak for the resolution. Just want to
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tell you guys that on Arkansas PBS this last weekend, they were the 2nd most girls basketball team watched across the state of Arkansas. They had almost 30,000 people watched that game on Arkansas
Representative Brian S. Evans
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PBS, so congratulations girls. Representative Hawk has spoke for the resolution. Would you like to speak against the
resolution. For the resolution. Representative Vaugh is closed for the resolution. The question before the House is the passage of House resolution 1087. All those in favor say aye. Po, the eyes have it. Congratulations, Representative Vaut, resolution is adopted.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Madam Clark, please read House Resolution 1085. House Resolution 1085
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by Representative McCullough to recognize the Paralympic medalist Olivia Chambers of Little Rock for her remarkable gifts and incredible achievements that bring renown to her in the state of Arkansas. Representative
McCulley, you're recognized to explain the resolution. Thank you,
Representative Tippi McCullough
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Mr. Speaker. This is simply, um, following through with the process for the resolution for the point of personal privilege. I took the other day to recognize Paralympic medalist in Paris, uh, Olivia Chambers, while they were here. So appreciate a good vote.
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Representative McCullough has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak
against the resolution for the resolution. Representative McCullough is closed for the resolution. Question before the house is the passage of House Resolution 1085. All those in favor say aye. Osna, I have it. Congratulations, Representative McCullough. The resolution
Representative Brian S. Evans
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is adopted. Madam Clerk, please read resolution 1086.
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Resolution by Representative McAlinden. Congratulate Bentonville educator Bonnie Pollack for receiving a Milken educator Award and it's accompanying prize of
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$25,000. Representative McLyon, you're recognized to
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explain the resolution. Colleagues, I rise today to recognize an
Representative Mindy McAlindon
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outstanding educator in our state, Ms. Bonnie Pollock. She goes, she teaches at Old High Middle School in Bentonville. On March 5th, she received the prestigious Milliken Educator Award, which is often called the
Oscars of Education. And this is a fun award because you don't actually know that you've been nominated and you don't know that it's coming. So she was completely stunned when she received the award, she receives $25,000 as well, and it acknowledges the amazing transformative impact that she has made in teaching. She has 12 years of dedication to education. She fosters collaboration. She propels student growth, connects learning to real world experiences. Her commitment is evident and last year she had 5 students that qualified as
final. to the Arkansas Civic B. This honor connects her with the national network of Milliant educators and mentors. It is a testament to the excellence and education of Arkansas to see that our teachers are being recognized nationally. Is Doctor Oliva said, this doesn't mean that you're the best in Arkansas only. This means that you're one of the best in the nation. And it's a huge tribute to her. So congratulations to Miss Bonnie Pollock for her dedication, her creativity, and
her impact. And with that, would you please ask the clerk to read the resolution
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title of the resolution to congratulate Bentonville educator Bonnie Pollock for receiving a Milken Educator Award and it's accompanying prize of
Representative Brian S. Evans
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$25,000. Representative McAlennon has explained the resolution. Would anyone like to speak against the resolution? For the resolution. Representative
McAlinden is closed for the resolution. Question before the house is the passage of House Resolution 1086. All those in favor say aye. Pona.
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You always have it. Members will go, thank you, yes. Members,
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I want to go back to the top of your agenda. Representative Brooks moves that we play Senate Bill 324 back on second reading for the purpose of amendment. That objection so ordered. Madam Clerk, please read amendment number one. Amendment
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number 1 is Senate Bill 324. Representative Brooks, you're
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recognized to explain amendment number one. Thank you, Mr.
Representative Keith Brooks
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Speaker. Ma simply adding me as a house sponsor. I'd appreciate
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a good vote. Representative Brooks has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to
Representative Brian S. Evans
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speak against the amendment. For the amendment Representative Brooks is closed for the amendment question before the House is the passage of amendment number 1 to Senate Bill 324. All those in favor say aye. poses nay, you guys have
it. The amendment is adopted, and please send the bill as amended to engrossing. Representative Sonia Barker, for what purpose?
You're recognizedpresentative Gonzales. I leave granted for Representative Justin Gonzalez. So ordered. Members, uh, Want to note, uh,
Representative Brian S. Evans
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kind of walking all up through the through the chamber, helping us out today, sitting down on these benches. We have a great group of pages that are here today. We
thank them for their service to us and their engagement and the work that we are doing, uh, taking their time to come help and serve us. So would you please, uh, stand, give them a round of applause and remain standing if, if possible.
If you would, uh, please remain standing. I would like to ask you to join me, uh, in just
a moment of silence, uh, in the passing of Representative Carlton Wing's mother this morning. Thank you, you may be seated.
Please keep the wing family in your prayers in the coming days as they have a lot of decisions, uh, facing them. Beginning today. Representative Nazarenko, for what purpose? Point of personal privilege, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker and uh colleagues, I just want
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to draw your attention over here to the East Gallery. I've got a, you may have seen the group that had
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been outside. We've got about 25 homeschoolers and their family over here with us today. They were over in the Supreme Court and now after this they're gonna go over here and get a great tour of the, uh, of the, uh, house over here. So I just want to welcome them into the Arkansas House of Representatives. So, thank you. Thank you for joining us. Representative
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Alissa Brown, for what purpose? privilege. You're recognized.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker, and members soon on a non-disclosed day and a non-disclosed location, a couple 1000 United States Navy sailors will leave for a deployment that could last close to 2026. They will leave behind their family and friends to protect and serve our great nation. I don't know how many Arkansans will be on that carrier. Or how many are currently on deployment, but I do know one. Lieutenant Anthony Lee Brown. But since he refuses to use my
official title as representative, I won't use his and I will just say brother. He will say goodbye to his wife, Emily, and 3 beautiful children, Benaya, Leila, and Samuel. Who also sacrifice in service. And since we're here in session, I didn't get the chance to go and tell him goodbye or see you later in person. So members I ask you to join me on behalf of the Arkansas House of Representatives to all the
sailors deploying or currently on deployment, we say thank you for your service. May God bless you. May he protect you and as always, fair winds and following seas. Thank you. Members at the request of Representative
Lee Johnson, we will pass over House Resolution 1088 today.
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Morning hour has ended. Members of Representative Richard McGrew recommends that we concur in Senate
Amendment number 1 to House Bill 1558. Madam Clerk, please read Senate Amendment number 1. Senate
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Amendment number 1, the House Bill 1558. Representative McGrew,
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you are recognized to explain Amendment One. Thank you, Speaker.
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This is my property mention bill that cleared both this chamber and the other. It's a Senate amendment is simply changes the language, uh, AG Conor thing on
the roof probably doesn't change the the. The bulk of the building and all. Hope for a good vote.
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Thank you. Representative McGrew has explained the amendment. Would anyone like to speak against the
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amendment. Then when I speak for the amendment. Representative McGrew is closed for the amendment. Question before the house is concurrence with amendment number 1 to House Bill 1558. Prepair the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted.
So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot By a vote of 94, 0, nay, and 0 present. You have concurred in Senate Amendment number 1 to House Bill 1558. Madam Clark, please read House
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Bill 1745. 1745 by Representative Hawke to require certain commercial driver license
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holders to possess a United States work authorization to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the state and to create related offenses. Representative to explain your bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, back in the 90s when NAFTA was created, this allowed for trucking companies to transport goods into the United States and onward to Canada and backwards. Over the course of the past 6 years, according to the highway police and state police, we've seen a large increase in fraudulent Mexican CDLs that are in the marketplace. Currently House Bill 1745 is a, is a solution for that. This bill requires Mexican and Canadian trucking companies to get a work
authorization form prior to driving our. saw roads. This form would be obtained through the federal government. The Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Highway Police said in committee yesterday that this will be a great tool to help valid to help validate the identity of drivers and their driving privileges. I want to be clear on this bill. I know that there's been some things passed out, some text messages that have been sent. We are not expanding driving privileges for illegal immigrants. It's not happening. All we're doing is providing another layer of protection for Arkansans.
Yesterday in committee, we also heard that we weren't going far enough, that this bill was not going far enough. The reality of this bill is we're going as far as the federal government will allow us to go. We've worked with the Arkansas State Police. We've worked with the highway police. We've worked worked with the attorney general's office, and this is as far as we can go. The state of Texas passed this bill, something similar to this bill, 2 years ago,
and it's working right now. So with that, I would appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Hawke has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? You when I speak for the bill. Representative Hawke is closed for the bill.
Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1745. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone voted everyone voted. Cast up the
ballot by a vote of 93, 1 nay, and one present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk,
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please read House Bill 1757. That's about 1757 by Representative Carr to amend the law concerning railroads and to create the offense of
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tampering with rail infrastructure. Representative Carr, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1757. This prohibits tampering with rail infrastructure, rail property, rail equipment.
And what it does is it raises the penalty to a class D felony, the entire rail industry are in support of this bill. So with that, I would entertain any questions. Representative Carr has explained the bill. Would
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anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Carr is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the
passage of House Bill 1757, repair the machine, Madam Clerk.
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Everyone voted As everyone voted. Cast up the
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ballot. By a vote of 90 e, 6 nays,
and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please
read House Bill 1691. 1691 by Representative Torres to
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provide for certain properties to be exempt from taxation and to provide the certain motor vehicles used exclusively for public charity
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are exempt from personal property tax. Representative Torres, you're recognized to explain your bill.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker and House members. House Bill 1691 simply proposes an exemption from personal property taxes for certain motor vehicles used exclusively for public charity purposes. So basically it clarifies and expands the tax exemption to include motor vehicles that are leased for at least 12 months by charitable organizations, not just the ones that they currently own.
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Representative Torres has explained to Bill, would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone I speak for the bill?
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Representative Torres is closed for the bill, question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1691. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone voted Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 96 ya, 0, nay, and
0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House
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Bill 1072. Gospel 1072 by Representative Cooper to clarify the requirements for establishing eligibility for the property tax exemption for disabled veterans, surviving spouses, and
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minor dependent children. Representative Cooper, you're recognized to explain
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your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, this is a bill that has become very important to me. I was hoping it'd be the first bill heard by the new Veterans Affairs Committee, but since it
addresses a tax issue, I think there were some rules that prevented that, but I do appreciate Speaker Evans' consideration and assistance with trying to assign it to that. Friends, HP 1072 makes what I believe to be a much-needed clarification for disabled veterans. Who as a result of their service connected disability are exempt from payment of property taxes. This idea was brought to me by a constituent in my district and I
thought, Arkansas code 263306 states, a disabled veteran who has been awarded special monthly compensation by the Department of Veterans Affairs. For the loss of or the loss of use of one or both, one or both, one or more limbs for total blindness in one or both eyes. Or for service connected 100% total and permanent disability shall be exempt from payment of all state taxes on the homestead and personal property owned. The law goes on to state that the 100% totally and permanently
disabled veteran desiring to claim this exemption. Must furnish to the county tax collector a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs, verifying the veteran is in fact 100% totally and permanently disabled. The law does not state how often this letter should be provided to the collector. And we found that collectors have been making these rules and determinations themselves and requiring that the letter be submitted annually. Or on some other semi-annual basis, even though there's
nothing in the law that requires my constituent and his peers have asked if this letter could be submitted only once. Since a 100% total and permanent disabled status is very highly unlikely requiring annual submissions can be burdensome on veterans who have a difficult time getting to the collector's office. Or can't remember to get a letter and to submit it. Especially those who are elderly. Or with mental health concerns or with physical disabilities. I thought this was a reasonable
while working on this bill and visiting with veterans, I found that many find this annual requirement difficult. And many face difficulties getting the letter that they need from the VA. We've also found that these issues have been going on for many years. I found an attorney general opinion from 2010 that addressed this issue. Bear with me just a minute here. I want to read parts of this AG opinion to you. I think it's very important.
This was an opinion requested by the then director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs. He said, we would like to know whether ACA 263306 requires eligible persons to provide a letter from the department annually. Or should one letter issued by the department be kept on the county collector's file from year to year. The director said, it is my contention that the code requires one letter be furnished by the veteran and retained in the tax collector's
file from year to year, not a new letter each year. We request your opinion as to whether the code is written requires persons eligible for the exemption to supply the county tax collectors with an annual letter from the department. Or does the code only require submission of one tax exemption letter to be retained on file, establishing the current and future exemption status. In response, the Attorney General said, in my opinion, A conclusive answer to your question. Probably requires legislative clarification.
The AG went on to state. There are a few textual arguments supporting the reading that a single letter will suffice to establish the exemption indefinitely. The statute requires the veteran to file, quote, a letter, which may indicate that a single letter is sufficient. Are their veterans are only eligible for the exemption if they have a form of permanent disability that is described by the statute set out above. So presumably, the legislature had in mind that when a veteran became eligible eligible for the exemption.
Here she would always remain eligible. In my opinion, the combined force of these two textual points, the use of the indefinite article and the permanent nature of the disability. Add significant weight to the argument that the legislature intended for one letter to suffice indefinitely. The AG concluded, as noted above, one can make a strong argument that the statute contemplates a one-time verification. But given the statute's context, I cannot confidently predict how a court would resolve your question.
Legislative or judicial clarification is warranted. Colleagues, HB 1072 does just that. It provides that clarification suggest, if you look at the bill with me, it simply states, A letter from the department required under this subsection. is required to be submitted only one time to establish eligibility for the exemption provided under this section. Annual submission of a letter
from the department is not required. If you look on section C, this is an amendment I added. After having some conversations with my county tax collector, this amendment was added to address concerns that she brought to me. A taxpayer shall notify the county collector if he or she has previously submitted a letter under this subsection, but no longer qualifies for the exemption provided under this section because he or she is not a disabled veteran as provided
in subdivision A1 AI of this section. This is
a permanent Disability Very highly unlikely to be revoked by the VA. I've heard of one example. Uh, and a veteran had cancer. Uh, that would have been tied to his service with that he went into remission, so he lost that
status. Section C would cover that issue. It'd be very rare for that to happen, but if it does happen, section C will cover that. The veteran loses that exemption. They're required to report that to
the collector and resume paying. Colleagues, I think this is a good bill to solve this issue for disabled veterans as mentioned, state law does not clarify how often this letter should be submitted. But I believe by reading of the law that the original intent was for the letter to be submitted, submitted once to establish
eligibility. The assessment coordination division has no rules on this issue. The AG's opinion said that legislative clarification is needed, which is what I'm trying to do. Essentially, the collectors have been left to make their own rules on this and theoretically 75 counties could handle this 75 different ways. I think bringing consistency across the state to this issue is also a factor and a big forensic bill was brought to me by disabled veterans, and I
believe that it's a reasonable request. We're trying to help these women and men who may be mentally or physically unable to acquire this paperwork and get it filed in a timely manner. There's really no great reason to require them to file this paperwork annually when they have a permanent disabled status that is highly unlikely to never change. And if it does change, remember, I've added the protection in the bill to cover that. We owe it to our disabled veterans to help ease this burden. They paid so much to I hope you agree with me.
Hope for a good
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for a question. I like this very
much, uh, but as you, as it states, it pertains also to surviving spouses. We'll notarized
statement that they have not remarried. If they should remarry. Uh, a notarized statement saying in addition to the The statement from the VA,
we have to submit a statement so. I don't think that
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that exemption However, if you should remarry,
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Then you would be required to
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notify the collector of that again. Thank you.
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Representative Steinel, for what purpose? Question. You're recognized. Um, what happened? Well, if, if they owned
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property and they passed away,
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And, and there's no heirs, then what happens to that property? Does
There's, there's tax is gonna go to the state land commissioner, I'm assuming for. Is that what you're asking? If there's no heirs to the property
That is illegal, quote that for you. 263306 that established this exemption. Only a disabled veteran and a surviving spouse and minor dependent child of a disabled veteran who are citizens and residents of the state of Arkansas. Shall we be eligible for the exemption provided in this section. Any person evading or violating any provision of this section or attempting to secure benefits under this section, which he or she is not entitled, shall be guilty of a violation, and upon
conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than $100 no more than $1000. It's already illegal. And I would venture to say that, um, if they were guilty of an illegal offense of trying to claim this exemption. They haven't
been paying property tax on it. They would also be subject to penalties, fees and interest for that period of time that they were not paying property tax, Madam Speaker. You're recognized right, and
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I appreciate it being illegal, but still, it has to be reported
that they passed away. Correct? I mean, how are they going to know if they only had to submit a uh form once in their life. For this deduction, and they pass away, and there's no other form that person when we see it with uh Social Security payments going out to dead folks, uh, all the time, you know, years and years beyond. So how would they ever be notified once that, uh, I mean, and I, and, and Representative Cooper, this is a great bill. I love veterans, and I want to get on the right side
of this, and I appreciate you answering my questions.
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Sure The heirs would be required to notify the collector of this, or else they are breaking the law. Also just want to say
that, uh, Senator Mark Johnson and I, he's the Senate sponsor. We have agreed to sit down with the collectors.
To address any lingering concerns passed today. I would appreciate a good vote. Thank you Representative
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Beatty. Representative Cooper has left the well.
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Representative Cooper has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill. Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Cooper, do you wish to close for your bill? Representative Cooper is closed for his bill. The question before the House
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is the passage of House Bill 1072. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. Has everyone voted?
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cast up the ballot, Madam Clerk. With a vote of 86, 1 nay, and 4 present. The bill has passed. Madam clerk, please read House Bill 1545. House
Bill 1545 by Representative Brown to amend the Arkansas Military Child School Transitions Act of 2021. Representative Carolyn Brown,
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Colleagues, the, um, amendment to the military child school transitions Act of 2021. is to clarify. What we've been doing with the Purple Star School program, so that is now in code. And, um, One of the big benefits of this. Legislation. is that it provides for early registration or advanced registration for students moving into the state.
That used to only pertain to military students. But with this legislation, it will now pertain to all those wonderful people moving to Arkansas, and, uh, enhance, uh, their ability to for companies to, um, Bring their employees here. It will also pertain to students transitioning from one school to another within Arkansas. And with that, I would take any questions you may have. Seeing none, I would hope for a good boat.
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Representative Brown has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Brown, do you wish to close for your bill? Representative Brown is closed for her bill.
The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1545. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, madam clerk.
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With a vote of 87 yeah, one nay, and two present. The bill has
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passed. Madam clerk, please read House Bill 1724. I'm sorry. House
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Bill 1684. House Bill 1684 by Representative
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McAlinna to create the parents and teachers helping students succeed PAs Act.
Representative McAloon, you are recognized to explain your
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bill. Thank you colleagues. This is House Bill 1684, um, known as the PAs Act, it is parents and teachers helping students succeed ACT. It is a step forward in making sure that, uh, there, we are fostering an educational environment where parents and teachers are actively involved in our students' success. It's important that when parents are involved and teachers are supported, then our students
will thrive, and this bill does that. It ensures that teachers have the ability to set rules for the classroom, to implement. Consequences to ask for assistance as well as training. And for parents, it gives parents an opportunity to view their children's educational materials, their health records to remove a child from a classroom if they don't like the subject being taught, if it goes against their beliefs, temporarily, um, and also if there's any change in status in their health or in their services that they will be notified by the school. And so again, I just ask you to
vote for House Bill 1684 because it does foster an environment where parents and teachers can work together to help our students succeed. And with that, I'd take any questions. Saying that, I asked for
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a good vote. Representative McAlinden has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative McAlinden, are you close for your bill? The
question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1684. Prepare the machine, madam clerk.
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Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Madam clerk. With a vote of 74
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yeah, 14 nay, and 1 present, the bill has passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1724. 1724 by Representative McKenzie to amend the law concerning
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local school boards of directors and school board elections and to amend the date on which an election of a school district board of directors is held. Representative McKenzie, you are
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recognized to present your bill. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I rise today to present House Bill 1724. Um, this is a continued protection of moving school board elections to win voters actually vote. Which uh has created record uh voter turnout in every district across Arkansas. Uh, as long as we govern our schools by elections, we should do everything in our power to maximize participation in those elections. Uh, school board members should be elected to even number years like every other elected office. As
nonpartisan position, school board members should be elected with all other nonpartisan races during the preferential primary with runoffs in the general election. Um, the annual school election has provided uh by the con the Arkansas Constitution will not be impacted. School districts will save money by no longer having to bear the entire cost of odd year elections. Uniform 4 or 6 years will provide 2 years of consistency, no change in those school boards while allowing for individuals to still enter into a board that uh that they wish to stand for
election for. Uh, treatment of those existing terms are prescribed to uh ensure fairness and as nearly as possible that can equal number. of positions are are uh equal the number of positions that are up during every school board election. Um, this bill we collaborated with the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators in the Arkansas School Boards Association to make this bill better. We have addressed their concerns and adding in that local that that local opt-in of 4 to 6-year terms. Um, And the additional concerns with
uh the, the single disagreement of the timing of the runoff elections. Um, if we are starting from scratch to create uh to create school board elections, we would not create our current system, um, of alternating high and low turnout elections and holding elections when there are no others. Um, this bill is a good bill. It's um it's a measure of compromise and I'm happy to answer any questions. If not, I hope for a good vote. Representative McKenzie has explained the
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bill would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill.
Representative McKenzie, do you wish to close for your bill? Represent McKenzie has clothes for his bill. The
question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1724. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. Has everyone voted? casts
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up the ballot, Madam clerk. With a vote of 65
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yeah, 19 nay, and 1 present, the bill has passed.
At the request of Representative Gonzalez, we are passing over Has Bill 1611. Madam Clerk, please read
House Bill 1630. 1630 by Representative Gazaway to
add a misdemeanor controlled substance offense to the predicate offense for capital murder, murder in the first degree and manslaughter. Representative Gazaway, you are recognized
to explain your bill. Thank you, Madam Speaker,
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colleagues, this bill, uh, Just changes the law in a, in a slight regard to what our current law is currently, if
you're involved in a felony drug deal and you kill someone, that is a predicate offense that will qualify you to be charged with capital murder. This would amend that law to say if you're involved in any drug deal, regardless of what the substance is, if it's pills, marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, whatever it may be. It doesn't matter what the substance is, if you're involved in a drug deal and you kill someone, that can be a predicate offense. To up the charge to potentially capital murder, first-degree murder, or manslaughter as the
case may be and as the facts may justify. That's all the bill does, and I'm happy to answer any questions. I
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appreciate a good vote. Thank you very much. Representative Gazaway has explained his bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill. Representative Gazaway is closed
for his bill, the question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1630, prepare the machine, madam clerk. Has everyone voted?
Cast up the ballot, Madame Clark. The vote of 77, 12 nay, and 0 present, the bill has passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1762. I'm sorry, 1782. House Bill 1782 by Representative Hudson to
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prohibit over the counter diet pills from being sold, transferred, or otherwise furnished to a person who
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is under 18 years. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
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Colleagues, today I bringing House Bill 1782. You'll recall a couple of weeks ago, we acknowledged eating disorder awareness week and one of the cool things about this bill is
that it came from discussions following that week among some of the women who, uh, spoke about their experience with eating disorders, including, in particular, Representative Denise Garner and Representative Deanne Vaut. Uh, what this bill does is it restricts the sale of diet pills for kids under the age of 18.
Um, this would only apply to build the pills that are actually marketed as diet pills. This doesn't, this doesn't include dietary supplements. It doesn't include laxatives. It doesn't include protein powders and shakes and muscle milk and all that stuff. It's just diet pills. And one of the reasons that this is important is actually sort of laid bare in a study that came out just this year in January of 2025. Um, and what the, what the researchers discovered was that laws restricting over the counter diet. s found that over 30 years, the
age restriction policy would prevent over 57,000 eating disorder diagnoses and 22,000 diet pill-related adverse events in the, in the state of Massachusetts. Obviously, Massachusetts is a lot longer or a lot larger state than we are, but you can extrapolate what a benefit that this can be for kids in the state since what the other thing the study found is that a lot of people, the majority of people really start using diet pills when they are under 18 and that the use of diet pills in kids under 18 often does lead to
eating disorders. So this would require that, that, uh, retail stores, card kits before letting them get it. Obviously, if their parent wants to purchase these diet pills for them, they are welcome to do so, but it also allows parents to have a little bit more input into what their kids are ingesting and putting into their bodies. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Seeing that I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Hudson has
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explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill.
Representative Hudson is closed for her bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1782.
Prepare the machine, madam clerk. Has everyone
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voted? Cast up the ballot, Madam clerk. With a vote of 86 0 nay, and 2 present, the bill has passed. Madam clerk, please read House Bill 1241.
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That 1241 by Representative Mayberry to ensure that the Arkansas Medicaid program reimburses for dental and anesthesia costs for high
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complexity oral health care. Representative Mayberry, you are
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recognized to explain your bill. If you are in the state of Arkansas and you have a developmental disability, intellectual disability, medically complex person, individual, and you need dental care. It often requires that you need anesthesia, even to have the
basic. Of dental care, like a teeth cleaning. Because It's very hard to perhaps get someone who's afraid of that sound or that smell to even be still long enough to have someone put something in their mouth or maybe even just look in their mouth for a quick second. And right now, you're going to have a really hard time, especially if you're on Medicaid, finding a dentist that can treat you properly. This bill will take a huge leap towards making sure that that
person can get the care. I've worked extensively with the Arkansas Dental Association on an idea with lion College School of Dental Medicine, which should be opening this summer, and it actually will potentially make the cost of that care. Less expensive because the overhead by doing some of these services at the Lion Dental School will actually, uh, the overhead will not be there as opposed to when it's in a
hospital. So we could actually be finding a less expensive way to provide top quality care. On top of that, where will be training the next generation of dentists. That is a plus for anybody else in the future because these dentists will have the opportunity to work with this group and kind of learn what they need to do, so that might, they might not need, um, Uh, anesthesia when they go for
those basic trips. I, all cards on the table, there is a fiscal impact with this. We spent, I, I was in public health 3 different times to get this bill through. We worked on it with DHS and DHS is now neutral on this bill. Thank you to Lee Johnson for all of his help trying to get the wording just right on this. The fiscal impact that was out there before is not what it is. DHS is not going to make a new fiscal impact because we did
change some things, we limited it. So after $3750 We have limited to that amount. We expect that there would be absolutely no more than 600 cases in a year. If you factor all that in, the state match to Medicaid would be $670,000. That's it. We are providing a vitally needed service in the state of
Arkansas to this group. I really would appreciate a good vote. This is very needed. I don't know of anyone against this bill now, as I said, DHS is neutral. We are finding an inno innovative way to provide quality care at a lower cost for a very special
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group of people. Representative Rose, for what purpose? Question you're recognized. Thank you. Representative Mayberry, what
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happens to these folks if this doesn't happen? They don't get any care. If we don't pass this,
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And, and you will see, uh, if you were in those committees, you know that there were people there who were saying, right now, they cannot get this care. So, if we don't pass this, those especially adults with disabilities will not be able to have dental care. And if you want to talk about costs Our costs will actually go up because you could get infections from not taking, not having good oral health care. And you could be admitted into the hospital and we're gonna
have even higher costs and possibly death. So again, I appreciate the question. Representative Rose. Any others? I'd appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Mayberry has explained the bill when
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anyone like to speak against the bill. For the bill, Representative Rose, you're
recognized. Thank you, colleagues. This bill went kind
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of through a grueling process, at least 3, maybe 4 different times through
committee. Uh, I think it truly went through a refining process that made it the best possible bill that it could be. Uh, one of the most compelling testimonies we heard was a family who has an adult child who deals with significant disabilities and was having to have a heart procedure, but before they could have that heart procedure, they had to have a specific dental exam done. And that exam could not be done without anesthesia. Wasn't covered, uh, it's a significant expense. Most
families can't afford that. So we've got people who need life-saving surgeries and they can't get them because they can't get dental exams and Representative Mayberry's bill is solving those kinds of problems for people who, uh, for most of us have disabilities, we can't begin to comprehend and costs that we can't begin to think about having to pay. So with that, I'd appreciate a
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good vote. Representative Rose had spoken for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill
Representative Brown, you're recognized to speak for the bill.
Representative Matt Brown
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Colleagues, I support this bill. I have heard from my former dentist who is now at UAMS. And
another dentist whose name I can't recall at this time, but the, the deal is, is that the reimbursement rates are so
low. And the dentists want to be able
to serve this patient group. And they just simply cannot afford to
keep keep serving them when they cannot even recoup their costs. I would appreciate a good vote on this bill. Thank you. Representative Brown has spoken
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for the bill. Would anyone wish to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Mayberry is closed for her bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1241. Prepare the machine, madam
clerk. Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Madame clerk. With a vote of 85 yeah, 1 nay,
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Madam Clark, please read House Bill 167979 by Representative
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Brown to amend the revised Arkansas Anatomical Gift Act to allow certain classes
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of persons to revoke or amend an anatomical gift upon the death of the donor and to require certain reporting of procurement organizations. Representative Brown, you're recognized to
explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Matt Brown
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colleagues, this bill is attempting to address a problem that I never knew existed until last year. Uh, when
unfortunately my family, uh, had to deal with the loss of my father. Um, after that experience, which was not good, um, because of what happened during our experience, I started doing some digging into our walls regarding consent and the ability to revoke consent on behalf of incapacitated donor. And in reviewing these laws, I learned three things. Uh, number one, The folks of our state, including myself, when you sign up for organ donation on your driver's license, people are not aware of how extensive that consent is. Uh, I thought it meant that somebody needs my hearts or lungs or wherever to
save someone, they could have them, and I was all for that. That's why it's on my license. Uh, but in fact, under the law, it allows uh agencies to take more than that, including soft tissues, bones, hair, things of that nature up to and including the entire body. The second thing I learned was that under our law, consent only goes one way. If you have consent on your driver's license or if you don't have consent on your driver's license, and you're in that situation. Your family may give consent on your behalf when you're incapacitated, your power of attorney can, your next of kin can, it goes all the way
down to, and I quote, an adult who exhibited special care and concern for you, unquote. So I guess that means like probably a neighbor that took care of an elderly. However, the consent only goes one way. But I was shocked to learn was that your power of attorney under current law has no right to modify that consent in the hospital any way, shape, or form. form. So even if your loved one has changed their mind, even if your loved one has told you their wishes to not be an organ donor or to say you may have My lungs and hearts and kidneys, but please leave my skin because I'd like a viewing at my funeral
home. You have no right to make that change. The third thing I learned, and this was from constituents that brought this to me is unfortunately, the experience that we had was not uncommon. Uh, there are more and more stories out there in this state concerning when this process goes off the rails and families are being treated not with compassion and kindness, but are be treating uh and Another thing that I learned was that the organ procurement agencies in this state are also inserting themselves into the
decision of families of when to remove life support. So the family makes a call of we're ready to remove life support and let our loved one pass away. The procurement agency comes in and says, we override your decision, we're going to leave them on life support for another 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours till we can get up and do our thing. And they're keeping the families out of the process. And I was also shocked to learn that in these cases, the families are the ones being charged for this. So this bill is designed to try to fix this problem by making only 2 small things. The first thing it does is this
bill clarifies that under the, uh, if passed, the power attorney of the of the person who's incapacitated in the hospital would have the ability to modify the consent to organ donation at bedside. This bill also provides that if there is no power of attorney, then the next of kin who have the right to consent to medical treatments and things like that would have the same right. The other thing this bill does is that it allows or requires or procurement agencies in this state to start reporting at the state level so we can start getting data on the number of transplants that are happening, the number of recoveries. Is it going for research? Is it going
for education? Is it going for transplant and let us start getting data on what's going on because at the state level, this is an unregulated industry and we don't have the data to make sure that everything is going OK. With that, I'll be glad to take any. done I appreciate a good vote. Representative
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Brown has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? But like speak for the bill. Representative Brown is closed for the bill. Question before the House is the passage of
House Bill 1679. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted. So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 88 ye, 3 nays, and
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2 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House
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Bill 1525. I spell 1525 by Representative Steel to amend the law concerning real property and to address agricultural impact remediation agreements. Representative Steinmel, you're recognized to explain your bill.
Representative Trey Steimel
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This, uh, bills brought to us by the uh department of Ag and what this is gonna do is, is, uh, interest in solar and wind farms increase across, uh, Arkansas on our farmlands, what this is going to require is a remediation plan in simple terms. I can get into the weeds as much as you want, but in simple terms, it's gonna pretty much, you're gonna have to bring the ground back like it was before the renewable energy facility hit, uh, hit the ground. And, um, there was one amendment made to this.
That was important to me because when I asked for was that if it is a private property owner or farm owner, and they put a solar field in or a wind farm in, and it is, it is powering their own property, then they do not have to file this remediation plan. And with that, I will take any questions. Representative Beck,
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for what purpose? Question in the in this case, what you're
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saying is if a firm came in and they were using the property, the the remediation.
plan would have to be and they would be the ones responsible
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for that. Uh, yes, Representative. All right, now,
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so, so, so the question is are they required to, uh, have a set of some money aside or fund aside to make sure that that plan is. No, no representative. They just have to have these uh plans
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in place, 45 days, uh, from the completion or from the start of the project in order, you know, so they just have to have the plans on how they're going to
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bring this, uh, this, this dirt or this, uh, farm, farm
ground back. All right, thank you. Representative Long, for what purpose? Question? You're recognized for a question I didn't know if the solar panels there for your home. And you. OK, I'm sorry if you're you have uh solar panels set up at your home, and you're selling your excess power to the power
company, you know, net metering type situation. Uh, does that bring the, um, a person such as myself under needing to fill, fill out this form because I am selling some power back. No, this will, I mean,
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if, like I said, I still had trouble hearing you. So if I heard you correctly, you're asking if this is gonna be like personal use, where you're selling or if you are a, uh, an ag farmer selling it back to, uh, a co op that Yeah, I can you hear me now? OK, I'm sorry. Um, no, in a
situation, you know, many people have solar panels set up at their home, and they sell the excess power back to the, back to the grid. And I was wondering, since, you know, the power is, you know, going into the grid, you know, you can get money for it if that would rope these people into needing to do this remediation plan, or is it strictly a real commercial type facility
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that this is gonna be commercial. It's not going to deal with residential. there's some definitions here where
it requires a certain size of solar field or wind field. So, uh, that won't apply to residential.
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Representative for what purpose? You're recognized for a question because I
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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know this came through our committee and I just now realized I needed to
probably ask this question beforehand. Who is going to pay for Getting
Representative Trey Steimel
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it back to net zero. Who who's who is gonna be It's the cost.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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no further questions, I appreciate a good vote. Representative Starmel has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Steel is
closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House
Bill 1525. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. So everyone voted.
So everyone voted, cast up the ballot. By a vote of 87, yeah, 0, nay, and 8 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1681. 1681 by Representative Vault to
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establish the water and sewer treatment facilities grant program to transfer funding from the securities reserve fund and to declare an emergency. Representative Vaut, you're recognized to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm gonna
take a little bit more time than what I usually take.
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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Trying to explain a bill. So, um, I'll say water is not a red or a blue issue. Water is not a north or a south issue. Water is not a rich or a poor issue, and we have a major water problem in the state of Arkansas. And I believe that everyone deserves good, clean water. I have people that's in my
district that sends me pictures quite often, uh, trying to fill up a bathtub for a child to take
a bath, and there's dirt in the tub from the water. For 6 years. I've tried to work on this issue. Because
the more we kick down this can down the road, the more expensive it truly does get. I want
to thank Mr. Speaker, and several that have met with me the last several months trying to get this bill exactly where we need it to be. And I do appreciate each and every one of your help.
I needed everyone's help because we need everybody's eyes on it, whether they were in a city, a municipality in the rural areas in Northwest Arkansas, where it's growing so fast that they can't keep up with the water issues that they have there, or if it was, um, Dealing with our nursing homes and our hospitals. This is an economic development
issue. We're losing people coming to our state because we can't
provide water, sewer treatments, and we can't provide the water that they need. We have businesses that would like to grow in our, in our districts, but they can't grow because we can't do the water sewer treatment that they need or provide them with the water that they need. Again, I believe water is something that everybody Should have and deserves. I think about what our schools will do when we don't have enough water for schools and we have to shut down schools because they don't have water. I
think about hospitals and what hospitals will have to go through if we can't provide them with good, clean water. And then our nursing homes, what happens when we can't get good clean water to our nursing homes. And we're having to move people. Again I wanted to take a little bit of time and try to explain some background on this. House Bill 1681 and 2021, the Department of Agriculture did a survey, and it
showed that we needed 5 billion with a B. Water, waste needs in our state. In 2024, that same exact, there was no change in, you know, who was working over there. The same Department of Agriculture shows that we have a $9 billion water wastewater need in our
state. What if we keep at our current trajectory, trajectory, crumbling water, sewer
infrastructures in most of the state. Capacity challenging, stifling growth, and, and already seeing missed economic opportunities within our own districts. Costs of capital construction continues to move out of the reach of so many of our districts. With House Bill 1681, this program will provide a source of funding to start to bend. The trajectory of our state. And get so many projects moving forward.
This is truly a statewide opportunity to, to actually move projects forward in our state. $50 million as was brought to my attention in committee is just a band-aid. I understand that. We're looking at taking $50 million of the interest from security reserve funds. After all the obligations are already met. So there's 4 obligations that's already coming out of there. This would be the 5th obligation. So if
There was not $50 million left in there and there was only $1 million in there, then we might have a million dollars to go toward water grants in our state. We made two different buckets. There's an 80% bucket and there's a 20% bucket. The 80% of the funding to be used, uh, in systems where there's 1200 plus, and they would require matching funds. So if we did something and say representative Burke's district. Her district would have to, her water system would
have to come up with half, and then we would match the half. But for those that are 20% of funding, which is, you know, a lot of our very rural districts, very small towns who don't have the money that they need to actually move forward in projects. They would not be required to do matching funding. And they would also not have to be shovel ready, like the, the 80% would have to be. And all projects must be going forward in the first year.
No system is actually eligible again. So I'll use Representative Burks again. If her community gets it, they can't reapply for it. Again, if there's less than 50 million. After we've paid the 4 priorities that already come out of there. Then, uh Then it would obviously be less than 50 million in grants available. Um, Rules would be established by
the ARNC and approved by ALC. And the reason that we chose ARNC is because they already do these through federal grants. There's already these federal grants out there, and they're already used to administering these type of grants. And so that's why we thought that would be the easiest and best way to use it. Again, there's no General fund money used in this. None at all. There's no use of funds obligated from other sources, such as in the RSA and programs will sunset in 10 years.
Again, I know it's a band-aid, but again, from 2021 to 2024, I want to remind you, we went from $5 billion to $9 billion. And things are not getting cheaper and people are really, uh, needing our help in this
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issue. And I take any questions. Representative, for what purpose? Question.
Representative Johnny Rye
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Representative Yes, sir. Real problem. We've been talking
about this for 4 and 5 years I, I'll tell you Lepanto. Can't even drink their water. They go, they go to Truman to wash their clothes. I mean, this is some serious stuff, and we need to get it straight and I
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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hope this helps, OK? Thank you. I will say someone said to me, this is a city county issue. And I, I get that, I see that. But at this point, they can't come up with those monies. And,
and so I think it's, um, Again, everybody deserves the
good, clean water. And if we can help as a state, then I think we should figure out how
to help as a state. And with that, I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Vaugh
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has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Would anyone like speak for the bill? Representative Bot is closed for the
Representative Brian S. Evans
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bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1681. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. Members, your one vote is for the bill and the emergency clause.
Has everyone voted? So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 96, 0, nay, and 0 present, the bill and the emergency clause has passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill
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1741 Representative Wooldridges to amend the Arkansas Agricultural Libing Materials Act. Representative Waters, you are recognized
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to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and
Representative Steven Walker
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thank you, colleagues, uh, the next 4 bills, 1741 through 1944 Department of Ag cleanup bills. They, uh, changed some clerical responsibilities from boards to the department, and they make some word changes like the word fee to some and, uh, some additional words like that.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. See none, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Woldridge has explained the
Representative Brian S. Evans
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bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? the bill Representative Water is closed for the bill. Question before
the house is the passage of House Bill 1741. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted. So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 95, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1742. House 1742
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by Representative Walridge to amend the law related to seed certification.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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And ordered you recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative Jean asked me to get straight to the point. This bill does the exact same thing
Representative Zack Gramlich
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as the last one. With that, I'd appreciate a good boat. Represent Waters has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak
Representative Brian S. Evans
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against the bill? For the bill Representative Water is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1742, repair the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone voted
So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 93, 1 nay,
and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 174343 by Representative Woolridge to
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amend the Arkansas Fee Law of 1997. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This
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bill does the exact same thing. Representative
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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Waterridge has explained the bill. Would anyone
Representative Brian S. Evans
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like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative
Woodridge is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1743. Prepair the machine, Madam clerk. Every everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 938, 1 nay, and zero present. The bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1744.
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House 1744 by Representative Wooldridge to amend the law related to the fertilizer. Represent water you
Representative Brian S. Evans
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recognize to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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Speaker. This bill is a department bill. It's technical correction bill that does the exact same thing with that, I'd appreciate a good
Representative Brian S. Evans
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vote. Representative Waldridge has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Wadge is closed for the bill. Question
before the house is the passage of House Bill 1744, prepare the machine, Madam Clerk.
Everyone voted, everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 938, 1
nay, and zero present. The bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1562
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Madam Clark, please read House Bill 15622presentative Gazaway concerning the termination of an oral lease of farmlands and
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to amend the law concerning notice of termination.
Representative Gazaway, you're recognized to explain your bill.
Representative Jimmy Gazaway
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Thank you Mr. Speaker, colleagues, this, uh, bill clarifies existing law and adds some additional ways that an
owner of real property can terminate an oral farm lease. So currently under statute, the only way a person can terminate an oral farm lease is by sending notice to the lessee by certified mail. This adds any other method of delivery, uh, pursuant to Rule 4 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure, which are all the same ways that you would serve a lawsuit. So, Primarily by a License process server, also still includes certified mail, warning order published in a newspaper, but ways that are
intended and calculated to provide actual notice as opposed to just certified mail because we all know how reliable the US Postal Service and
the mail is these days. So that's what the bill does, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Representative
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Eubanks, for what purpose? Question, you're recognized for a question. How much notice
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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do you have to give? That person, if you want to terminate your lease. Yeah, I can't remember. I
Representative Jimmy Gazaway
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think the statute provides that, uh, this is not, this is not
intended to address or change how much notice is required, just how it can be given. And so, again, uh, a process server handing someone notification that they're going to terminate the lease in my estimation is a lot better than, uh, you know, sending something certified mail and hoping that it gets there. So, uh, That's all it does. And again, happy to answer any questions. This bill is supported by Farm Bureau, I should say, by the way. So appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Gazaway has
Representative Brian S. Evans
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explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Gazaway
is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1562. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 95 yeah, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House
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Bill 1772 by Representative concerning vegetable garden protection. Representative Vaut, you're recognized
to explain your bill. If you feel like
Representative DeAnn Vaught
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you're living through deja vu, you are. So it's the same deal that I had before. I went, uh, down to the Senate.
Some senators tried to help me with some language, and then when we got it redrafted, the senators didn't care for the language and they went back to pretty much my original
bill that we had. So, Please free the gardens today.
And with that, I appreciate a good vote. Representativeard has explained the
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bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Vau is closed for the bill. The
question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1772. Prepare the machine, Madam Clark. So everyone voted. As everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
By a vote of 908 0 nay, and 3 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill
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1320. Is 1320 by Representative Wooldridge, to amend the law concerning crisis stabilization units and healthcare insurers. Representative orders,
you are recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker and
Representative Steven Walker
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thank you, colleagues. This is a bill that's extremely important to me. I'm passionate about this bill. It has to do with our crisis stabilization units, and I'd like to thank uh Representative Johnson and so many others that have helped us to work on this, Representative
Kavanaugh and invite for a solution. Uh, basically what this does is it amends 3 sections of code and it adds crisis stabilization units. It includes them in uh the ProtE Act of 1995, the, uh, any willing Provider law and another sub statute of that. To make sure that insurance companies have to utilize and pay for these services. So we established crisis stabilization units around the state. This just requires that they follow suit with Medicaid and pay for these services. It also doesn't take any authority away from the
insurance commissioner, they can, uh, promulgate or regulate the rules of this, and it says that they can't put a prior authorization on this service to try to slow the process down. If you're truly having a crisis, you can go to one of these crisis stabilization units and get the help that You need. With that, I'd be happy to take any questions.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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So no, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Wooldridge has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Waldridge is closed for the bill.
Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1320, repair the machine, Madam Clerk.
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So everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By
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a vote of 96, 0 nay, and zero present. The bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1321 Representative
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Wooldridge to regulate step therapy and fail first protocols
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concerning certain prescribed ventilators to explain
Representative Steven Walker
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your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues, uh, 1321 is a bill that basically codifies the process that we have in place currently, uh, for NIV therapy. So, COPD and other ALS type symptoms that require respirator or ventilated therapy, this codifies into law. we're doing currently. What it also does is it prevents a first fail, uh, like a lot of other states have adopted. They've adopted legislation that
requires you to be put on a CPAP or some other process that we know will not treat your illness. You have to fail that first, go through the process, and then you would qualify for an NIV treatment. So this just prevents a patient from having to go through that fail first test, and I get some of the help
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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that they need with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Seeing none, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Wooldridge has explained the bill. Would
Representative Brian S. Evans
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anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill
Representative Wooldridge is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1321. Prepare the machine, Madam clerk. Everyone voted So
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everyone voted. Cass up the ball. By a vote
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of 94, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1814. Gospel 1814 by Representative
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Gazaway to amend the law concerning municipal authority over utilities and to revise the definition of public utility under Title 14 chapter 200. Representative Gazaway, you're recognized to
Representative Jimmy Gazaway
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explain your bill. Thank Mr. Speaker, colleagues, is basically a technical correction bill and Title 14, chapter 200, we define public utility and public utility, uh, there are two types of public utilities that are discussed there. One is a public utility that's governed by a commission. One is, others are public utilities that are not governed
by a commission. And so there's a certain set of rules that apply to commissioned governed utilities that don't apply to other governed utilities and in order to clarify that the rules that, that apply solely to the commission governed utilities. It required a change where the definition set at sec, we had to strike at sec and put through 100 through, uh, 129 to make it clear. So that's all it does, just clarifies the law, essentially technical correction, but I'm happy to answer
any questions. Saying that appreciate a good vote. Thank you.
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Representative Gazaway is explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Gazaway is closed for the bill. question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1814. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted.
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Everyone voted Cast up the ballot. by
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a vote of 95 ya, 0 nay, and 0
present. The bill is passed. Members at the request of Representative Lee Johnson, we will pass over House Bill 1296. House Bill 1703. And House Bill 1314. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1736. Representative Brown to amend Article 9 of the
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Uniform Commercial Code. Representative Brown, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Uh, House Bill 1736, this is a part
Representative Matt Brown
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of the Arkansas bar package for this session. Uh, this bill would bring the 2018 amendments to Article 9 that have been promulgated by the Uniform law commissioners, uh, for the non-lawyers in the room. Those are the folks that gave us the UCC, which I think is one of the uniform laws I like the best. It's what makes it possible to write a check here in Arkansas and mail it to somebody in Missouri for the whole system to work. Uh, these updates clarify that if a bank, for example, forecloses on a membership interest in LLC, the bank is not your partner in the LLC. All they are entitled to is whatever distribution you might be getting from your company, but they do not have any rights in
the company itself. I personally thought this was already clear in the law, but they thought it needed to be clarified further, and so that's
Representative Brian S. Evans
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what it does. Appreciate a good vote. Representative Brown has explained the bill. Would anyone like to
speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Brown's closed for the bill, question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1736. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted. So everyone voted.
Cased up the ballot. By a vote of 95, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House
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Bill 174646 by Representative Brown to amend the Uniform Commercial Code. Representative
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Brown, you're recognized to explain your bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Same song, 2nd verse, 1746 are the 2022 amendments to the UCC that've been put out by the Uniformed law commissioners. 24 states have already adopted these updates. Right now it's
pending in 12 state legislator legislatures other than our own. Uh, this is a pretty long bill. Most of it is technical corrections. The highlights of the changes are number one, this creates a new Article 12 under the UCC, which provides the guidelines by which a bank, if a bank chooses to take collateral, uh, take, Controllable electronic records, which I think is nerd speak for Bitcoin. If it chooses to take that as an asset for a loan, it provides how they can perfect their security interest in that asset. It also updates, uh, uh, new rules for mixed transactions involving the sales of both
goods and services, updates rules regarding negotiable instruments and electronic checks, and it provides that, uh, it also provides updates for the rules regarding there's no known opposition. I appreciate a good vote. Representative
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Brown has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
the bill Representative Brown is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1746. Prepare the
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machine, Madam clerk. So everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
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By a vote of 95, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1737presentative Brown to amend the transmitting Utility Act and
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to amend the definition of transmitting utility to include fiber optic and broadband lines. Representative Brown, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you,
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Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, my last bill for the
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day, this is the 3rd bill in the bar package for this session. Uh, this bill adds fiber optic to the transmitting Utility Act. Uh, the transmitting utility Act as part of our commercial code. It was last updated in the 1960s, and it provides, for example, if a bank finances a project to extend a telephone line, how the bank can perfect its security interests in that telephone line. Um, the current act provides for a mechanism for telegraphs but does not cover things like internet and fiber optics. This bill simply allows a fiber optic company to take advantage of the same advantages that a telegraph company in the state would have. Appreciate a good vote.
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Representative Brown has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Brown is
closed for the bill. question before the House is the passage of House
Bill 1737. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted. As everyone voted Cast up the ballot.
By a vote of 92, 0, nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill
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1519. 1519 by Representative Kavanaugh to allow the Secretary of the Department of Commerce to
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participate in the hiring and contracting of employees for the state insurance department, state bank department, and state securities department.
Representative Kavanaugh, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. Uh, this bill is just brought to us by the Department of Commerce and it's just clarifying that they have the authority to hire employees and do shared
services, and it's just a clarification. And with that, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Kavanaugh
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has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Kavanaugh
has closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1519. Prepare the machine, Madam clerk. So everyone voted? Everyone voted
Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 95 yeah, 0, nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please
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read House Bill 1794. Is 1794 by Representative
Duke to amend the law concerning continuing education requirements for real estate licensees and to create continuing education exemptions for certain real estate broker licenses. Representative Duke, you're recognized to explain your
bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I'm gonna
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try and summarize this as best I can.
So, um, I like a lot of y'all know, I live near a couple of border states and in In the course of the last several years, became aware of the fact that some of them offer exemptions for continuing education in the real estate field. And so I started having discussions with just people here in, in my district and around and discovered that there's lots of exemptions in other professions at some point in time for continuing education. So I started drafting a bill, I showed it to the commission, I showed it to the real estate Association and they suggested some really good changes and I made all of the
changes that they suggested and just in summary, I'm not gonna go through the weeds unless you would like me to go through the weeds. It gives a a path to exemption in the real estate from real estate educate continuing education. Um, you have to make an application, the commission, um, is going to be approving it. There are different paths for the, um, for the, uh, licensees or the salespeople and for the associate brokers and there's a little bit of a higher standard for your executive brokers and for your principal brokers because they supervise people. So if their people have some
infractions or if they don't do their continuing ed, the executive broker in the Principal broker, they could get their license their continuing ed waiver revoked. You also have to have 25 years of continuing experience with achievements. So you can't just get the license and then do nothing with it for 25 years and then apply for it. You have to have had achievement, some type of experience, again, that gives the commission the ability to review that. And I just really want to emphasize that if there is an infraction, if you don't do your continuing ed, if you,
you know, um, get in trouble for something or one of your licensees gets in trouble for then the commission can revoke that continued education. But I think it is a really good opportunity to reward our folks who have done well in our industry, that are qualified in that industry and have done all the things right for a long period of time to be able to just seek, get that kind of reward that they get in other, um, professions as well to be able to step back from that continuing education is some of y'all know, sometimes those continuing ads after you've done it, 25, 30 years, sometimes you could teach the class yourself.
And also, it doesn't mean they can. can't take the continuing ed pieces on their own if they would like to. And again, because you are well qualified and you have to have some achievements along these lines, you will have demonstrated to the commission over the years that if there's something that happens in your field during that time, you've demonstrated in the past that you are going to address that. You're going to take care of it in your profession and with your licensees. And with that, I will do my very best to answer any questions. No.
I asked, I don't really know what I do, but I
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don't do this very often, so I'm gonna step out over here. Representative Duke has explained the bill. Would anyone
like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Duke Clothes for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1794. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. So everyone voted Everyone voted.
Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 908, 0, nay, and 2 present, the bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 146767 by Representative
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Aker to mend them uniform Money Services Act. Representative Aker, you're recognized to explain your
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues, uh, today
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I bring you a bill from the Department of Financial Services concerning an emerging trend of Bitcoin kiosks. The department has
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become aware of increased risks in this emerging new business associated with Bitcoin kiosks and proposes language to better protect consumers while allowing the legitimate operators of Bitcoin kiosks to operate. So essentially these operate similar to an ATM, however, they don't have the same consumer protections and our regulations that brings those into compliance with that. But that, I'll take any questions. Seeing none, I appreciate a good vote. Representative Acer has explained the bill. Would anyone
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like to speak against the bill? for the bill
Representative Acer is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1467, repair the machine, Madam Clerk.
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So everyone voted, everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
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By a vote of 94, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1557.
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Representative Richardson to amend the duties and powers of the division of Information Systems concerning information
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technology. Representative Richardson, you are recognized to explain
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your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Um, I bring the before. Uh, the house, uh,
the House bill. 1557. This is mostly an agency bill coming to us from the Office of, uh, State Technology, um, and, uh, they are looking to
do a little better job of defining the responsibilities of uh technology within the state, aligning, uh, those with what's, uh, generally expected. Um, this includes things like our, uh, project management, and if you've been in ALC, you've heard me ask lots of questions about, uh, project management, oversight, who's seeing through with that, who's making sure that we're staying on budget and then we're taking care of. the things that we need to take care of to ensure that we come in on budget, um, and, uh, this gives them a little more authority in that realm to bring
those information technology projects under one, hat and manage, uh, those, uh, projects. Um, also does another uh uh uh a few other things to align the responsibilities for establishing governance and oversight, uh, ensuring that we have one unified technology plan for the entire, uh, state. So, uh, with that, um, I'm happy to try to answer any questions. Seeing none,
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Representative Richardson has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill. Representative Richardson
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is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1557. Prepair the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone
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voted Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
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By a vote of 92, 0, nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House
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Bill 1802 resentative Warren to create the talent recruitment grant program and to provide initiatives for individuals to relocate to the state.
Representative Dobby, you're recognized to explain the
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, it's my privilege to present this bill for Representative Warren, who became a new granddad at 2 o'clock this afternoon with a new Arkansan named Knox William
Warren. So we have a, we have a new arkansan in me. House Bill 1802, many of you may have heard of the program already alive and working in 3 Arkansas communities. It is a talent recruitment grant program, educated people with great jobs are realizing that they can work remotely and don't have to live in large metropolitan cities.
Or even in unpleasant climates. Arkansas is an amazing alternative if they need a job, we have jobs that need to be filled, and we are known as the natural state, a place that offers so much more. This program is already working without funding in 3 Arkansas cities, Fort Smith, West Memphis, and Texarkana. We want people to know that Arkansas is a great option, and that's why we need this legislation. This bill would simply set up a mechanism to allow this program to grow.
There is no state funding involved or committed. It works in tandem with the state program in the future, then this bill's already there to take advantage of any state funding in the future. In the meantime, this program seeks funding from outside sources such as charitable individuals, are foundations who want to support economic growth in our state. We have parts of the state with declining populations and a need for new people to come spark revival and economic growth. This bill will be a great tool
to aid many communities and regions in our state. The program would be administered by the 8 Regional Development districts throughout the state, and on a personal note, in Texarkana, we've had this program. We now have 9 new households in our town with $800,000 of new economic benefit to our region just from those 9. households. I would ask for your vote, ask for great support and asked to invite new people into our state. Thank you.
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Representative Doby has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? for the bill. Representative Day is closed
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for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1802. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone voted As everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
By a vote of 72 ya, 7 nay, and 11 present. The bill
is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1695. 1695 by Representative Richardson to clarify the
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foreclosure process for property subject to a municipal lien to allow the municipality to petition to set aside the sale of property to certain persons and to provide for the priority of unrecorded municipal liens. Representative Richardson, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So HB 1695 is helping cities and
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towns address neglected and abandoned properties. So addressing neglected and abandoned properties is an issue that's impacting every city in the town or town in Arkansas. neglected and abandoned properties have a huge impact in our communities. They endanger the health and wellness of residents, stifle economic development and impede growth opportunities. this existing law will allow cities and towns to place liens on property to recover costs spent by the city or the town when cleaning up these
properties. HB 1695 will enhance and clarify what the process of, what the process is for making a handful of impactful changes to help cities and towns, but it doesn't fundamentally alter the existing process. In addition to this bill, the municipal league is conducting trainings on the lien process around the state to help cities and towns address neglected and abandoned properties. In fact, they'll be in Crossit tomorrow to do such training.
This bill does not reinvent the wheel. But there are substantive, substantive changes to clarify the current legal process and options available for cities and towns. These changes do not change the fundamentals of the current legal process. County clerks have been consulted as well. The land commit as well as the land commissioner's office, and we have worked through all of their issues and made the necessary changes and as far as I know, there are no known opposition that have been made to me.
This bill clarifies confusion in the existing law between cleaning up properties and removing dilapidated buildings. It gives cities and towns more time to file liens with the clerk. They still must be done within a year. Allow cities and towns to collect costs of clean up from property owners directly. Ensure cities, let the county clerk know once a lien has been satisfied, there is no, no such requirement. The, there was no such requirement like this before. And ultimate, the ultimate goal is to get clear title, so these
properties can be productive again and encourage cities and towns to communicate with the land commissioner's office to identify these property owners with liens in cities and towns. So the thought is that this will bolster the city and the town's ability to address abandoned and neglected properties. Again, this bill does nothing. Nothing about this bill does anything to diminish property owners' due process and rights. It is designed
to deal with unhealthy and dangerous
structures only. And with that No questions.
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Representative Richardson, you're recognized for a question.
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Uh, thank you, uh, uh. Mr. Speaker, uh, so as I read this bill, maybe you can help me understand a little bit better in the, in the first section, it talks about this a city's ability to specific terms remove or raise.
building our house that's in the opinion of the city council or council, uh, town council to be dilapidated, unsightly, unsafe, unsanitary. So if it's Unsightly. So unsightly
is what's currently in the law. That's, that's current law. So it's not changing anything, but this is to specifically give cities and count or cities and towns, what the process, how to go about the process to remove those properties that are more dangerous, not necessarily unsightly, because that's what's
in current law, and it's not removing anything from current law. You're recognized for a follow-up. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So if a city, as I read this, if a city sees a a building as unsightly a home is unsightly. They have the authority now under the law to remove that
building. It is my understanding that they will still have to follow a process and contact the landowner or the property owner and give the property owner an opportunity to fix it, correct it, or choose not to. And if they don't choose to do any of
those choices, then the city can then step in.
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Thank you. Representative Birch, what? Presentative Richardson has left
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the well. Representative Richardson has, Explained the bill, would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Burke, you recognized
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the leak against the bill of collection. It says in this,
in this, uh, bill that the manner of collection would be the same as a civil judgment, whereas right now, the cities can put a lien on the property, but are we going to have cities now garnishing wages and, and doing other things that are required of a civil judge on to that, I would appreciate it. Thank you. Representative Burke has spoke
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against the bill. You would like to speak for the bill. Representative Brown, you reckon I speak for the bill.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, listen, thank you, Mr. Speaker, I'm sorry y'all have listened to me like 5 times today, but, uh, this is a
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good build. We actually ran into this exact problem in my law office, my law partner had a client that had a piece of property. I think in this case it was a, uh, lean for landscaping, city, uh, did the ordinance, put a lien against the property, guy was from out of state, didn't get it. It got too far in the process. The city went to foreclose. They got a judgment, set it for auction. Guy finally found out about it and said, hey, here's the check, I'm ready to pay it off and the city wouldn't take his money. And they were able to use the, the loopholes in the code to essentially say, well, we're gonna play. hardball and we're gonna take
your property because we don't like you. And so this bill I think fixes that problem because it makes that process more akin to a judicial foreclosure, which is uh regulated by the court every step of the way, it gives the property owner notice, it gives the property owner time to pay that judgment off and they have to take their money. We literally had to file a lawsuit against the city and get an injunction to save this guy's property. So I think this is a good bill clarifies it,
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and I think I see a question. Representative Rose, for what purpose? Question, you're recognized for a
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question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Uh, I kind of want to reiterate, uh, what was said by Representative Burks,
the language here on page 5 says, uh, starting on page 5, a city or town may collect costs incurred under this subsection from the owner of the building or house in any manner provided for the collection of a civil judgment. So in a situation like this, could it, could they then garnish wages? Garnishment requires a court action and a court
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order, so the city would not be able to unilaterally garnish wages on their
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own. Uh, the right way the process would work is you have a, you'd have an open case, you have a judgment in that case, or what you would actually have to
do probably in this case, you have to take your, your lien and have a case open we're trying to enforce that lien and then it would be through the judicial process. Uh, but no, the city
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couldn't unilaterally do it. Follow up. You're recognized. Thank you. And I appreciate, uh, what you just shared in the example with kind of a loophole closing to where they would have to take the property owner, uh, paying the amount that they owed, uh, this goes back to where it says, in any manner provided for the collection of a civil judgment.
So, um, if not garnishment of wages. Is this still expanding ways that individual could incur costs or have those costs, levied on them or Made to pay those. I mean, I guess that you could argue that you are getting more cautious in
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terms of they are doing collection activities and they are allowed to assert their attorney's fee for, for closing
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a lien or whatever. I mean, I guess to the extent of that, but no, I mean, this is a bill where they've got their lien against it in the, in the court records. If, honestly, I think 9 times out of 100, nothing will ever
happen on that in the case I cited, I think the city was just being a little You know, not nice, um, used 99% of the time what happens in these cases is the lien's out there, and then when the property's finally ready to be sold, that's when the lien has to be addressed in order to be able to get clear title. Thank you,
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thank you, Mr. Speaker. Appreciate. Representative. Brown has left well. Representative Brown has explained the bill. Oh, Representative Brown spoke for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? like to speak for the bill.
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Represented Richardson, recognized Clo. Representative Andrews, you reckon I speak for the bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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I pulled Um, I work with, I talked to this about this bill, probably a year and a half ago, um, Camden's run the same issue as Fort Smith has. We've got dilapidated structures, basically, they're, they're crackhead meth shacks
that like to arsenals like to burn at 2 in the morning. And this is really what these are aimed towards, not the messed up landscape or whatever, it's, it's the places that firefighters have to go put out at 2 a.m. So this is the top of properties that this is, um, for, uh, talking about. So appreciate a good vote. Representative Andrews who
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spoke for the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill,
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Representative Richardson you recognized a close for your bill.
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Representative Burke's the, the way I understand from the municipal league that costs would, the cost that they incurred in maintaining that property, they would be taken back if the property is sold, those monies would be a, would go from that standpoint and not from a garnishment. With that, I'm closed. Representative Richardson is
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closed for the bill. Question before the house is the
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passage of House Bill 1695. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. So everyone
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voted. So everyone voted Cat up the ballot. By a vote of 78 y, 5 nays, and 9 present. The bill is passed. Madame Clark, please read House
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Bill 1785 15 by Representative Moore to amend the law concerning the members of a county depository board. Representing
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more you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues, County depository boards are currently comprised
of the county judge, the county collector, and the county treasurer. What this bill does is that for those counties who have combined their treasurer and collector's office, this allows quorum courts to select an additional member, uh, the 3rd member to that county board. That'll take any questions. Seeing them would appreciate a good vote. Thank you. Representative Moore has explained the bill.
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Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Moore is closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage
of House Bill 1785. Prepare the machine, Madam
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Clerk. So everyone voted Everyone voted. Cast up
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the ballot. By a vote of 95, 0, nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1760ative Milligan to amend the law
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concerning the jurisdiction to consider certain petitions for the adjustment of a property assessment Milligan, you're recognized to explain
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your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues. House Bill 1760, real simple Bill, the, uh, the, the disabled and the 65 and older that's gonna have their property froze, their values, this, this list assessor take it straight to the county judge and JPs said, no, don't have to wait till the equalization board, they don't go through them. That's all this bill does. Appreciate a good vote. Representative Milligan has explained
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the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill
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Representative Milligan is closed for the bill, questioned before the House is the passage of House Bill 1760. Prepare the machine, Madam clerk. Everyone voted So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 92, 0 nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1789 Representative Burks
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to restrict the local government from providing funds for the purpose of issuing an identification card to an individual
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in certain circumstances. Representative Burkes were recognized
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to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker House Bill 1789 is a very simple bill. Uh, we do offer at the state, so if you can't get a driver's license, you can go Chinkar one of the requirements for doing that is that you have to prove, uh, lawful presence in the United States to receive the government. identification card. So we've
learned that there are some municipalities that have municipal ID cards, and they do not require that, uh, that criteria. So they will issue a municipal ID card to somebody without requiring what we require at the state level, proof of lawful presence. So there, the recipient is getting an official government ID card from the city, but they haven't met that standard. That's all this bill does. We're requiring that the municipalities, if they are going to spend taxpayer money to issue these ID cards. They meet the same standard that we meet. At the state level, and that is
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all, please, uh, ask for a good vote. Thank you. Representative
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Burks has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Gonzalez Worthy, you're recognized to speak against the
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bill. Thank you, Speaker. Municipal IDs, they have nothing to do with immigration,
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therefore, um, it's not considered, um, cities that are having, uh, that have sanctuary policies and the like, which has, uh, which is in in the bill. It It's solely is about access to local services such as having an ID uh for banks, for banking, for schools, for, um, increasing safe interactions with law enforcement. Um, currently, the municipalities that, that have
IDs, um, are, um, Little Rock and North Little Rock. Keep in mind that immigrants helped Little Rock deliver their best senses yet in 2020, which resulted in more public funding for Little Rock. Those who those who request a municipal ID. They pay for those IDs. Our neighboring cities like New Orleans and Memphis, they too have municipal IDs.
So there is no cost for the IDs to affect municipal costs. Therefore Municipal IDs, it's about local efficiency in services and safety and not immigration. I am voting no on House Bill 1789.
Thank you. Representative Gonzalez Worthen has spoke against the bill. Would anyone like
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to speak for the bill? Anyone like to speak against the bill?
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Representative Burke, she recognized clothes for your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. It is true that it is, um, a policy of many sanctuary cities to offer these municipal ID cards. And when they do that, and they don't require proof of lawful presence where, um, diminishing the value of this official government identification card. We're putting public safety at risk because law enforcement officers cannot rely on that card to meet the same standard that our state ID cards. So please, I ask for a good vote on House Bill 1789. Thank you.
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Representative Burks is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1789. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted. So everyone voted.
Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 708 17A and 0 present. The bill is passed.
Madam Clerk, please read House Bill 1707. High school 1707
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by Representative Hawke who require certain candidates to file reports with the Secretary of State to amend portions of the initiated Act one of 1996 and to declare an
emergency. Representative Hack, you are recognized to explain your bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues, so what this bill does is currently, when we file our election reports or anybody in the state does, they go to the Secretary of State's website and you do it on the portal, right? Everybody's familiar with the portal right now. All this
bill's doing is making every elected official in the state, go and do the same thing we're doing with the portal. This was talked to me from our county clerks, and right now we're having a funding and staffing problem with our county clerks. Uh, right now, when you look at city councils, when you look at Quorum courts, when you look at sheriffs, anybody running for local office right now, they have to file these election reports, send them to the county clerk, and they have to file these things away and, and they're just really understaffed and if we can have a central location for anybody in the
public to be able to go online and look up a candidate, see their election reports from one click, uh, that's all we're trying to do here. I talked with the Secretary of State's office on this. Uh, it's a $50,000 upgrade, which they've got that in their budget already, so there's. No new appropriation that's gonna need to take place for this to happen, and they are OK with it. And with that, I'll take any questions. Singing none, I would appreciate a good vote. Representative Hawk has explained
the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
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Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Representative Hawke is closed for
the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1707. Prepair the machine, madam clerk. Members, your one vote is
for the bill and the emergency. Everyone voted So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
By a vote of 85 years, 3 nays, and 1 present, the bill and the emergency clause has passed. Madam, please read
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House Bill 1422. 1422 by Representative Long to create the only Citizens Vote Act to amend the law concerning the driver's
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licenses and an identification cards of certain non-citizens and to amend Arkansas constitution Amendment 51, Section 13. Representative Long, you're recognized to explain your bill.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It came to my attention, uh, last year that some states have been, uh, having problem with non-citizens registering to vote. I contacted our Secretary of State's office to find out if that was a problem in Arkansas. What I found out led to the writing this bill. HB 1422, which I named the only Citizens Vote Act. Um He's trying to address this problem. Under current Arkansas law, there's only 2 documents required to register to vote. A valid driver's license. And a Social Security card. According to the Department of
Finance, um, or DFA. Arkansas currently has 71,648 legal aliens with driver's licenses or state-issued ID cards. Now these cards look just like everybody else's, uh, driver's license with one exception in kind of squint print. Uh, it says limited term, which, you know, I had no idea what that meant until I started looking into this bill. But, uh, the limited term means the the driver's license is set to expire when they're, um,
Immigration documents expire, their, their visa. Uh, unfortunately, uh, along with myself, I think a lot of the people that work at the polling places were not aware of what limited term means either. But if you think about it, 71,648 people or more people than we'd have in two house districts if they were all concentrated in one area. So it's, it's got quite a significant number. We don't know how many of them may or may not have been registered to vote. And the reason why is because
currently under law, The um Department of Finance can't share this information with Secretary of State's office. So Secretary of State's office is quite excited to get this straightened out because they said it would help them to go through and clean up the voter rolls if any of these people had intentionally or inadvertently. Um, registered to vote. In addition, the bill also
authorizes the Secretary of State's office to use other databases, um, to help them clean up the voter rolls as they may come online. They, in the past have tried to use, uh, one from, I think it's called Safe from uh the federal government, but it's not been very user-friendly. In addition to, um, Uh, setting up this sharing of the data between DFA and, and Secretary of State. Uh, this bill also requires that the driver's license be turned.
Vertically in the portrait type styles such as, uh, people have when they're under 21. Uh, the reason for this. When I, I tried to just go in and make the, um, limited term a little bit larger print, maybe change the color. And unfortunately, the federal government has a specific size that it has to be and it has to be in black. And it just really doesn't stand out very well, so that's why we came up with the idea of going with the, the vertical format which so it would stand out a little bit better when a person went in and maybe tried to vote, um, The, um, the a lot of the folks that are.
They work in our polling places for older people and, um, they will be trained to look for this new vertical. card and if that's the one, then they would have looked for the term limited limited term. You know what started off to be my bill. Became my first agency bill. The Secretary of State's office. I was excited about to help me to, uh, to do this bill. They even sent somebody to, um, Uh, to the community to help speak for the bill.
I think we would all agree that only citizens should vote. I appreciate
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a good vote. Representative Clowney, for what purpose? You're recognized for a question,
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how much will this, I, I remember a similar bill coming through a few sessions ago and there was an issue about how much it would cost, how
much would this cost for DFNA to implement fiscal impact that I got back was $152,000. Which I thought was off
the chart. It to me it seemed like rather, you know, I'm not a tech
guy, but you know, to take the information that they already have, put it in a file and send it over to the Secretary of State's office. It seemed like it should have been a lot less expensive than that. And I do intend to follow up on it to see what it does cost to implement it in excessive amount, and we might need to look into, uh, if they're overpaying for other things. Follow up You're recognized. I wasn't in committee when this
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ran yesterday, so I have one other question, which is about
the vertical orientation. Isn't that what we currently use for minors' identification and if so, did anybody express concern that that might cause some of the folks that spoke against the
bills, you know, made that assertion, um, Secretary of State's office and DFA didn't seem to have a problem with it because it still will say limited terms. So basically, that's just the, the first thing that the poll worker will look for. If they see that, then they'll know. To look closely to see if it says limited term. If not, they'll just know it's for a
young person under age 21. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate
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your good vote. Representative Long has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? Representative Gonzalez Worthen, you're
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recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you, Speaker.
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House Bill 1422. has been introduced, but it's a non-issue. As I was knocking doors, running for office. One of the things that I did, and I'm sure all of you did the same. It was, you would come across people who were not registered to vote. And so I would ask them, Um, estas. Are you registered to
vote? And they would say, no, no. And then, and then I would ask, I would proceed, it is Ciudoana or ciuddao, are you a citizen? Are you not a citizen? And they would say, no, I'm not a citizen. The thing is, is that If you're not a citizen, And you're in the process of becoming a citizen. The absolutely worst thing you could do is register to vote and then go vote. Why?
Because on the registration form. It says The information I have provided is true to the best of my knowledge. I do not claim the right to vote in another county or state, if I have provided false information, I may be subject to a fine of up to $10,000 and or imprisonment of up to 10 years under state and federal laws. Immigrants do not want to break
the law. Especially in this manner, because if they're in line for citizenship. This will totally erase that. They will never be able to become citizens. Therefore, they're not gonna go and vote and there are no documented cases at this time. I have knocked, knocked a lot of doors. Last Friday, I had the privilege of being at a naturalization ceremony at the University of Arkansas, 15 brand
new citizens and all 15 were so excited to register to vote. The vertical IDs as representative Clowney mentioned having those vertical. When we use those for minors. Those are going to cause confusion. The other thing that that will cause is Recognizing, well, why is this vertical and not Horizontal Um, there are many other forms
of ID to register to vote other than a driver's license, um, student IDs, military IDs, uh, state or federal employment IDs, um, Concealed handgun weapon IDs, passports, so there are a lot of other, um, other, other information that you can use when you go and vote. The Secretary of State gave Arkansas an A, Arkansas received an A in in-person voting, and
our voter rolls have been purged. Making non-citizen voting and non-issue, and it's never been seen in Arkansas. So we would be singling out immigrants, non-citizens include a variety of people that would have to go and redo their license, uh, for example, who are, who would be impacted? All immigrants Such as those who have visas,
green card holders, DACA students, um, TPS compact migrants like Marshallese community in Springdale, Arkansas, where I am from, um, refugees, international students, faculty, farm workers, high tech, uh, foreign workers, etc. The list goes on and on and on. For those who are, um, non-citizens, that they would have to go and get a, a different. of, of license. Yes, there is a
monetary impact, $152,000. So, this is a bad bill. This bill. Places immigrants. In a situation where they're impacted, it continues to increase fear. They're being singled out, they're gonna it's gonna increase nervousness, um, so this is and and they have actually been very helpful in reducing crime and reporting crime, such as human
trafficking, countering positive progress, which we have recently made. And so by having that ID as a vertical ID versus a horizontal ID for your driver's license, that, that is something that is It, it's gonna cause a major issue in our communities, and I, I would ask that you vote no for House Bill 1422. Thank
you. Representative Gonzalez Worthen has spoke against the bill.
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Would anyone like to speak for the bill? Against the bill, Representative Clowney, you're recognized to speak against the bill. Thank you,
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Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I'll be as quick as I can because I know it's been
a long day, but I do feel like we should all just take a beat and slow down and understand exactly what it is we are about to vote on here before we take that vote. This will be changing 71,000 driver's licenses. The driver's licenses of people who
are in Arkansas legally. 71,000, that is $152,000 estimate for the impact, um, as we mentioned, and, and I just, it's gonna be a big spend, however you cut it. There's one other just logistical issue in addition to what ourpresentative Gonzalez worth than just brought up. I wanted just to note that under this bill, page 6 of this bill, um, eliminates access to real ID for non-citizens, so that's, as y'all know, necessary to, um, fly now.
Out of many places, um. In I, I can't remember the year, but recently, Steve Womack, Representative Womack from Northwest Arkansas, Congressman Womack sponsored legislation to ensure that the Marshallese community, a huge population in Northwest Arkansas has access to real ID. That bill passed. Uh, at the federal level with broad Republican support. I want you to know that this bill undoes that access. They will no longer be able to get access because on page 6, it says this
identification is not valid for any federal ID. That's a big deal. It does work that was done at the federal level, and I just wanted to point it out as one of the many reasons why this is
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a dangerous piece of has spoke against the bill. Would anyone like speak for the bill? Against the bill Representative Long, you're recognized to close for your bill
like to address when I was talking about earlier, that I've tried to uh increase the font and change the color, so we didn't have to change the orientation of the card was because that was required for
real ID. So we didn't affect anything as far as real ID because we left the font the same size, same color. And so, you know, you know, anybody can still use it. Uh, the other thing is, this is going to catch the cards as they come up for renewal. Nobody has to, you know, you don't have to send 1000 people showing up January 1st to get their license
changed or, uh, it's license or, um,
state-issued ID. Um It was one other point I think that she made. Oh, The, the, the folks that are here, you know, non-citizens, and I'm glad they're working towards citizenship. And I think once they do achieve citizenship, they might appreciate this bill just like I do, because it will help to not diminish their vote if
somebody does, you know, uh, illegally sign up to to register to vote.
Uh, but the other people, while they're waiting to, um, to become citizens. They are guests in this country, and we offer a lot of benefits in this country. I think it's a small price to ask that they, um, with a, uh, a card that looks a little bit different, uh, in the meantime while they're waiting on citizenship. I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Long is
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closed for the bill. The question before the House is the passage
of House Bill 1422. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. So everyone voted Everyone voted. Cast up the
ballot By a vote of 53, 25 nay, and 8 present, the bill has failed. Madam clerk, please read House Bill 1549.
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House Bill 1549 by Representative Richardson to create the Arkansas Cybersecurity Act of 2025.
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Representative Richardson, you're recognized to explain your
bill. Thank you, uh, Mr. Speaker, um, House Bill 1549, yeah, the cybersecurity Act of, uh, 2025. Uh, this bill is, uh, similar to the other bill, kind of an agency bill. We're bringing, uh, the responsibilities of cybersecurity under one hat so we can have coordination across the board for that. It's extremely important when you're dealing with cybersecurity that you have a central point to place governance and oversight
to do, uh, the testing. We're also establishing with In this bill, a, uh, group that will be responsible for, uh, responding to any types of, uh, cybersecurity incidents being a point, uh, uh, central point to coordinate, uh, law enforcement efforts and any other efforts that are required to remediate or uh reduce the risk of that exposure. Um, so, uh, that's, uh, mostly what the bill does, uh, before I get out of here, I also wanna make sure I point out that this, uh, this wouldn't have been impossible without
help from our agency. folks who are, have been sitting up in the uh balcony, making sure I don't make a mess of this, uh, Jay Horton, of course, Jennifer Davis is a legal counsel and Gary Vance is our CIO. And with that, I'm happy to answer questions. The nun, I would appreciate a really good vote.
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Representative Richardson has explained the bill. Would anyone like
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to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Richardson is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage
of House Bill 1549. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. Everyone voted Everyone
voted Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 92, 0, nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1803. 1803 by Representative Carr to
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amend the law concerning the placement of a monument of the state Capitol grounds in recognition and honor
of Maurice Lee, Footsie Britt. Representative Carr, you're
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recognized to explain your bill. Thank you for, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Morris Footsy Britt. He was nicknamed
Footsie after wearing a pair of shoes at a local fair as an adolescence. He was a young kid, he wore a size 13, valedictorian of Lone Oak High School in 1937, went to the University of Arkansas on scholarship, basketball, football, He then received his BA in journalism, was part of the Army ROTC program, graduated 2nd
lieutenant. 1941, he was drafted by the Detroit Lions, interrupted by World War II, 1942, he was assigned with Company L, 3rd Infantry Division, landed in North Africa in the 3rd Army with General George S. Patton. Now listen to these next 4 acts that he did over the next 5 months. 19th September 1943, Brit and was a part of the amphibious landings in Salerno, which was Operations Avalanche.
He led the assault. He destroyed an enemy machine gun position. He, he led the, uh, 30th Infantry to capture a Cerno and received the Silver Star. There's the first one. Here comes number 2, the next month, 29th of October, he led his men in the river crossing the Paterno River for his actions there, he received the Bronze Star medal with Valor insignia. Act 3 on the morning of 10th November 1943, he overcame the enemy hand grenades, machine guns, rifles, Lieutenant Britt
inspired and led a handful of men and repelling to counterattack by about 100 Germans against his company because of his, uh, Courage He came into fire. His canteen filled glasses were shattered. A bullet pierced his side, his chest, his face. And his hands were covered with grenade wounds for his actions above and beyond the call of duty. He was awarded the Medal of Honor. The British Military Cross, the
Italian Military Medal for valor in a battlefield promotion to captain for gallantry. Going above and beyond, despite his wounds, he refused medical treatment. Until ordered to do so by his battalion commander, following the battle, he had personally terminated 5 and wounded an unknown number of soldiers wiped out an enemy machine gun fired 5 mags of carbine and undetermined amount of N1 rifle ammunition. He resulted in the capture of 4 Germans, 2 of them wounded,
enabled, and enabled several captured Americans to escape because of his courage. He repulsed a German attack. And if that would have been successful, his company would have been destroyed. Fourth act, 22 of January 1944. He directed mortar and artillery fire from close proximity over the next day, contributed to destruction of 25 German machine gun positions. He was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism.
He was just boy became abrupt and ended in February 1944 when a German tank fired a shell upon his command post, uh, blowing off his right arm at the elbow, fracturing the leg, and perforating his back in 47 places while recuperating his wounds, he participated in. In the war bond tour and For military history's sake, he became the first recipient of the top 4 combat decorations for valor in the US Army Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service
Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star with valor. He also received 4 Purple Hearts, Army commendation, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European African-American, Middle Eastern. Campaign medal with 4 bronze campaign stars. World War II victory medal, the UK's Military Cross, Italy's Medal of Military Honor, and the Army Presidential Unit citation. September 448, he was the dedicating honoree at War Memorial Stadium here in Little Rock.
He stated the memory of her native sons and daughters who have given so much that we might have our freedom. Following the dedication ceremony, the first game ensued. It was the University of Arkansas Razorbacks against Abilene Christian and the Razor bikes was victorious, 40 to 6. In 1966, he was elected the 11th lieutenant Governor, the first Republican lieutenant governor to be elected since Reconstruction. He was appointed later, he
served again in 1968 and 1970. He was appointed by Richard Nixon as administration director, district director of Small Business Administration, and he served in that capacity from 71 to 85. He served on several children's hospital, Easter Seals Federal Executive Association. He was inducted the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1972, and received the NCAA Sports Achievement Award. Uh, I was fortunate to hear the gentleman speak to my graduating class. In a ceremony at Brian in 1987, and I know several of you other
people have, uh, have met and worked, uh, with him, but from Carlisle to Lone Oak or Razorback in Fayetteville, a line in Detroit, European, hero, US Army captain, World War II decorated hero, community service activists, and lieutenant Governor. We are, this bill will call for a, an amendment to the bust and monuments that are placed inside. This was brought to me by Congressman Hill's office. I worked with Secretary of State,
all funds are donated. There will be zero tax dollars to, to pay for this. And, uh, the bus will be placed by the Secretary of State's office in relation to the existing bust of Lieutenant Governor Rockefeller in the capital. And at this time I would entertain any questions. Representative Steele, for
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what purpose? Question, you're recognized for a question. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. Representative, great idea. I fully support it. I think you may have answered my
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question, which was the exact location of the monument. Yes, sir. Secretary of State, uh, with the Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission with and the Secretary of State's office, they will place it in relation to the existing lieutenant Governor's, uh, monument. Representative Hawk, for
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what purpose? Question, you're recognized for question. Representative, I'm looking at the bill and it says
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that the funds shall consist of gifts, grants, and donations of individuals is who's response is the Secretary of State going to have to handle this, or are they, are they gonna be, uh,
watching over the funds to make sure you get to enough to, to make the bust, like, who's in charge
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of all that my understanding is the capital arts and Grounds commission as, uh, that fund is created and the money is, is deposited there from the grants and the funds that they, they will, uh, have oversight with that. And they also will be, The group primarily responsible for putting up the bids and selecting who the sculptor will be. Follow up. You recognized and quickly, so these are
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just, there's not gonna be like a dedicated person
that's going out trying to find and and get these gifts and donations. It's just as they come in, like, we're not putting a staff member in charge of trying to fundraise for this thing, right? Now, in my
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understanding is the, the money is already there, ready to be donated. Sounds good. Thank you. Uh, with that, I'll, uh, I'll be
closed and I appreciate a good vote. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Representative Carr has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? the bill Representative Carr is closed
for the bill. The question before the House is the passage of House Bill 1803. Prepare the machine, Madam clerk. So everyone voted So everyone
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voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 95,
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0, nay, and 1 present. The bill is passed. Representative McAlinden, for what purpose? Let's hear your
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motion. I move to HB 1800 back to House Committee of state agencies and governmental affairs. That's
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motion. It's a debatable motion. Please come to the well and explain your motion. HB 1800 is a transparency
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bill for, um, agents of foreign principles, and I just want to tighten up some of the language and amend it here instead of amending it on the Senate side. So I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Michael Lindon
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has explained the motion. Would anyone like to speak against the motion? For the motion Representative Mac Lindon is closed for the motion, question before the House. It's the passage of the motion to re-refer House Bill 1800 back to committee. All those in favor say aye. Posey You have it, Madam clerks send the bill back to committee. Madam Clark, please read House Bill 1774. 1774 by
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Representative Beatty to amend the membership of the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission.
Representative Beatty, you were recognized to explain your
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bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Uh, members, I'm here to present House Bill 1774 is a law or a bill to amend the membership of the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission. Uh, basically what the bill would do is change membership to 7 members with a 4-year term, 5 members appointed by the governor, uh, one member from
the Senate Protem, one member by the speaker, justification for this is current, uh, requirement for appointments are very specific and difficult to find and maintain, uh, compliance, uh, difficult to find candidates who are willing to serve and meet the narrow requirements as defined and broadening these requirements will allow a greater pool. of candidates to be considered for appointment and give the people the opportunity to participate. Uh, it will result
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in an active and engaged board with that, I don't. Representative Beatty has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative
Beatty is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of House Bill 1774, prepare the machine, Madam clerk. Everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot.
By a vote of 89, 1 nay, and 0 present. The bill
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is passed. Madam Clark, please read House Bill
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124343 by Representative Underwood to increase the transparency regarding campaign contributions and expenditures to amend campaign finance
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reporting and protect election integrity and to amend portions of initiated Act 1 of 1996. Representative Underwood, you're recognized to explain your
bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Um, this
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bill is, uh, in my opinion, a good transparency bill. So this last election cycle, this mic right, um, this last election
cycle, I discovered that if you were running for a local race, city council, mayor, uh, county judge. You only have to file a campaign finance report, uh, right before the election, and then you have to file a report after the election, but basically, nobody knows what you're raising or spending the entire time you're running. Uh, originally my bill was to put everybody on the same schedule we're at, and I discovered that, uh, there's, that there's a lot of opposition to that, which is fine. So I changed this bill to um kind of strike a balance. So basically
what this bill does is if you, and the way it is currently is, is this way too. If you don't raise or spend $500 you don't have a report. If you do raise or spend $500 you still have to file the pre-election report and the post-election report. This adds a requirement that if you raise or spend $5000 you then have to go on the same reporting schedule that we are on doing monthly reporting on election years, the years that your, uh, names on the ballot. On years that you're not on the ballot, you just have an annual report.
So I think that system increases transparency for, uh, Arkansans, but also doesn't require those who are not really raising and spending a bunch of money to have a bunch of reporting requirements. And finally, I'll say, um, I did run by municipal League and the Association of Counties, and they were uh good with the bill. And Representative Underwood has explained the bill.
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Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Underwood is
closed for the bill. Question before the house is the
passage of House Bill 1243. Prepare the machine, Madam clerk. So
everyone voted. Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 91, 0 nay, and zero present. The bill is passed. Members without
objection, I'd like to take some of the next bills out of order.
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Seeing no objection. Madam Clerk, please read Senate 424 by
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Representative Hudson to amend the law concerning the
accountability and transparency of a municipal improvement district. Representative
Hudson, you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker and thank you, colleagues. Um, I'm presenting 424 today mostly because I wanted to beat out Representative Ray, foremost unlikely pairing of the session. Um, y'all probably didn't have me and Senator Stubblefield working on a bill together, but here we are. Um Today, I'm presenting House or
Senate Bill 424. This is really just a transparency bill. It does a couple of important things with regard to municipal improvement districts. One, it requires that public comment be made available to property owners and those who have an interest in these municipal improvement boards, and 2, it requires that these boards have a meeting every quarter of the year. Right now, the law just says that they are required to have 4 meetings but doesn't specify that it has to be on a quarterly basis, which means they could sit down one. afternoon and have 4 meetings all at once. So this is just a
transparency bill to clarify some of the things that are already in the law, um, and make these meetings more accessible to those with an interest in it. Happy to answer any questions. Seeing that, I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Hudson has explained
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the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Hudson is closed for the bill, question before the House is the passage of
Senate Bill 424. Prepare the machine, madam clerk. Everyone voted. Everyone voted, cast up the ballot. By a vote of 94, 0 nay, and 1 present. The bill is passed.
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Madam Clerk, please read Senate Bill 353. 353 by Representative Woolridge to amend the law concerning
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the dates for elections to amend the dates of primary elections, school elections, and certain special elections, and to change the date of the
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fiscal session of the General Assembly. Representative Water,
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you're recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues, uh, Senate Bill 353 is a great common sense piece of legislation. There's no opposition. Um, I want to thank the Speaker and Senator Hester for helping work on this, uh, legislation. It's supported by
our federal delegation, by the governor's office, uh, the Association of Counties and municipal Leagues, our clerks, everyone is in favor of this election commissioners. Basically, what it does is, as you know now, we alternate based on presidential primaries, we flip back and forth between March primaries and May primaries, that changes the filing deadline and a lot of other things, including our fiscal session. This just says that we're gonna, we're gonna go with March primaries moving forward that way our filing deadline is the same. Our primaries are always the same.
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Our fiscal session is always the same. With that, I'll answer any questions. seen none,
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I'd appreciate a good vote. Representative Waters has explained the bill. Would anyone like to
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speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Water is closed for the bill, question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 353. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone voted
So everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 89, 0, nay, and 3 present. The bill is
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passed. Madam clerk, please read Senate Bill 409. 409
by Representative Torres to prohibit discrimination of
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agricultural producers by financial services providers and
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to establish the farmer Protection Act. Representative
Representative Randy Torres
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Torres, you were recognized to explain your bill. Thank you Mr. Speaker. House members, Senate Bill 409 is called the Farmers' Protection Act, and it aims to prevent banks and financial institutions from refusing services to our farmers and agricultural businesses based on environmental or social concerns. does 4 things, prevents discrimination against farmers.
It limits environmental, social, and governance policies. It creates a public list of financial institutions that discriminate. And finally, it allows farmers to report discrimination. Uh, this legislation may seem, uh, familiar to you all, uh, because it was actually passed, uh, 2 years ago, and it incorporated energy, fossil fuel, firearms and ammunition industry, and all we're doing is adding agriculture producer.
With that, I'll take any questions. Say 9, I'd appreciate a good vote.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Representative Torres has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
For the bill Representative Torres is closed for the bill. Question before the house is the passage of Senate Bill 409. Pre the machine, Madam Clerk. Everyone voted
Everyone voted. Cast up the ballot By a vote of 82, 10 nay,
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and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read Senate Bill 293. C
293 by Representative Brown to amend the law concerning the required postings at a
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polling site and to amend the list concerning required posting of notices, information, and material at polling site on election day. Representative Brown, you're recognized
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to explain your bill. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Members
Representative Matt Brown
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293 is just moving existing requirements for polling sites to the same section. No new requirements, moving it to the same section. That's all. Appreciate a good vote. Representative Brown has explained the
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bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill? For the bill Representative Brown
Representative Brian S. Evans
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is closed for the bill, question before the House is the passage of Senate Bill 293. Prepare the machine, Madam Clark. Everyone voted.
As everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 90s, 2
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nay, and 0 present. The bill is passed. Madam Clerk, please read Senate Bill 299. Senate Bill 299 by
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Representative Brown to require a staff member to witness an administrator assisting a resident of a long-term residential care facility with absentee voting. Representative Brown, you're
recognized to explain your bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Representative Matt Brown
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Last one, this one is a short bill
that requires at least one facility staff member to witness and administrator assisting a voter in a long-term care facility. This just protects everyone involved and no opposition, that's it, 2 sentences. Appreciate a good vote. Representative Brown has explained the bill. Would anyone like to speak against the bill?
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For the bill Representative Brown is closed for the bill. Question before
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the house is the passage of Senate Bill 299.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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Prepare the machine, Madam clerk. So everyone voted. Because everyone voted. Cast up the ballot. By a vote of 87, 0, nay, and 1 present, the bill
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is passed. Representative Meeks, for what purpose? Motion places. You're recognized. Thank you.
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Pursuant to House Rule 33M, I move that we adjourn until Monday, March 31st at 1:38 p.m. That's
Representative Brian S. Evans
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a proper motion. It's non-debatable. All those in favor say aye. Osna The eyes have it. Any committee announcements. Any committee announcements.
members, please watch your emails. We will have staff here all next week. There may be some information dropping for you about how we will plan for the last couple of weeks of session. Also, please watch the website as there could be committees, uh, posted for Monday, so please stay in tune to the website
for committee appointments on for Monday, and check your emails for any messages that may come sometime next week.
Seeing no other committee announcements, the desk will remain open as needed for the reading of the bills and upon completion of the items named in the adjourned motion. The House will be adjourned
Agenda
Call to order
Prayer
Pledge
Roll call
MOTION TO AMEND
Number Sponsor Subtitle
SB324 #1 M. Johnson Brooks TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF A COUNTY PLANNING BOARD.
brooks
nazarenko- point of personal privelge
brown-point of personal privilege
RESOLUTIONS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HR1070 McAlindon TO CELEBRATE AND RECOGNIZE MARCH 21, 2025, AS WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
mcalindon
HR1073 Evans TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS 250 COMMISSION AS IT BEGINS ITS WORK TO CELEBRATE ARKANSAS'S RICH TWO-HUNDRED-FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY FROM THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON JULY 4, 1776, THROUGH JULY 4, 2026.
evans
HR1074 Bentley TO RECOGNIZE THE CONWAY KIWANIS BOOKCASE FOR EVERY CHILD PROJECT FOR INCREASING LITERACY AND STUDENT DETENTION RATES BY BUILDING PERSONALIZED BOOKCASES AS GIFTS FOR CHILDREN ENROLLED IN THE FEDERAL HEAD START PROGRAM.
bentley
HR1084 Springer TO HONOR MARTHA JARROW FOR HER MANY YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
springer
HR1087 Vaught TO RECOGNIZE THE DE QUEEN HIGH SCHOOL LADY LEOPARDS BASKETBALL TEAM AS THE CLASS 4A STATE CHAMPIONS.
vaught
hawk
HR1085 McCullough TO RECOGNIZE PARALYMPIC MEDALIST OLIVIA CHAMBERS OF LITTLE ROCK FOR HER REMARKABLE GIFTS AND INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENTS THAT BRING RENOWN TO HER AND TO THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
mccullough
HR1086 McAlindon TO CONGRATULATE BENTONVILLE EDUCATOR BONNIE POLLOCK FOR RECEIVING A MILKEN EDUCATOR AWARD AND ITS ACCOMPANYING PRIZE OF $25,000.
mcalindon
HR1088 L. Johnson TO RECOGNIZE MARCH 19, 2025, AS ROOTED DAY IN ARKANSAS.
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CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HB1558 #1 McGrew TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS REAL ESTATE COMMISSION; TO CREATE A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT BROKER AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE LICENSE; AND TO AMEND THE REAL ESTATE LICENSE LAW.
mcgrew
REGULAR BILLS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
HB1745 Hawk TO REQUIRE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE HOLDERS TO POSSESS A UNITED STATES WORK AUTHORIZATION TO OPERATE A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE IN THE STATE; AND TO CREATE RELATED OFFENSES.
hawk
HB1757 Joey Carr TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RAILROADS; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF TAMPERING WITH RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE.
HB1691 Torres 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.
torres
HB1072 C. Cooper TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING ELIGIBILITY FOR THE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR DISABLED VETERANS, SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND MINOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN.
cooper
HB1545 K. Brown TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021.
brown
HB1684 McAlindon TO CREATE THE PARENTS AND TEACHERS HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED (PATHS) ACT.
mcalindon
HB1724 B. McKenzie TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS; AND TO AMEND THE DATE ON WHICH AN ELECTION OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS HELD.
mckenzie
HB1611 Gonzales TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF ANIMAL FIGHTING WITH RESPECT TO THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL ANIMAL FIGHTING; AND TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL ROOSTER FIGHTING.
HB1630 Gazaway TO ADD A MISDEMEANOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OFFENSE TO THE PREDICATE OFFENSES FOR CAPITAL MURDER, MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, AND MANSLAUGHTER.
gazaway
HB1782 Hudson TO PROHIBIT OVER-THE-COUNTER DIET PILLS FROM BEING SOLD, TRANSFERRED, OR OTHERWISE FURNISHED TO A PERSON WHO IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
hudson
HB1241 J. Mayberry TO ENSURE THAT THE ARKANSAS MEDICAID PROGRAM REIMBURSES FOR DENTAL AND ANESTHESIA COSTS FOR HIGH COMPLEXITY ORAL HEALTH CARE.
mayberry
rose
k.brown
HB1679 M. Brown TO AMEND THE REVISED ARKANSAS ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT; TO ALLOW CERTAIN CLASSES OF PERSONS TO REVOKE OR AMEND AN ANATOMICAL GIFT UPON THE DEATH OF THE DONOR; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN REPORTING OF PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS.
brown
HB1525 Steimel TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY; AND TO ADDRESS AGRICULTURAL IMPACT REMEDIATION AGREEMENTS.
HB1681 Vaught TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM; TO TRANSFER FUNDING FROM THE SECURITIES RESERVE FUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
vaught
HB1741 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS AGRICULTURAL LIMING MATERIALS ACT.
woolridge
HB1742 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO SEED CERTIFICATION.
woolridge
HB1743 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FEED LAW OF 1997.
woolridge
HB1744 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO FERTILIZER.
woolridge
HB1562 Gazaway CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF AN ORAL LEASE OF FARMLANDS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NOTICE OF TERMINATION.
gazaway
HB1772 Vaught CONCERNING VEGETABLE GARDEN PROTECTION.
vaught
HB1320 Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS AND HEALTHCARE INSURERS.
woolridge
HB1321 Wooldridge TO REGULATE STEP THERAPY AND FAIL FIRST PROTOCOLS CONCERNING CERTAIN PRESCRIBED VENTILATORS.
wooloridge
HB1814 Gazaway TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY OVER UTILITIES; AND TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF "PUBLIC UTILITY" UNDER TITLE 14, CHAPTER 200.
gazaway
HB1296 L. Johnson TO MANDATE COVERAGE FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES PROVIDED IN MOBILE UNITS.
HB1703 L. Johnson TO PROVIDE A DRUG REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS FOR CERTAIN HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS.
HB1314 L. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CERTAIN AUDITS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS; AND TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MEDICAL AUDIT BILL OF RIGHTS ACT.
HB1736 M. Brown TO AMEND ARTICLE 9 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.
brown
HB1746 M. Brown TO AMEND THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.
brown
HB1737 M. Brown TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "TRANSMITTING UTILITY" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES.
brown
HB1519 Cavenaugh TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HIRING AND CONTRACTING OF EMPLOYEES FOR THE STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, STATE BANK DEPARTMENT, AND STATE SECURITIES DEPARTMENT.
cavenaugh
HB1794 Duke TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR REAL ESTATE LICENSEES; AND TO CREATE CONTINUING EDUCATION EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN REAL ESTATE BROKER LICENSEES.
duke
HB1467 Achor TO AMEND THE UNIFORM MONEY SERVICES ACT.
achors
HB1557 R. Scott Richardson TO AMEND THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONCERNING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
richardson
HB1802 Warren TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO RELOCATE TO THE STATE.
dalby
HB1695 J. Richardson TO CLARIFY THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS FOR PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A MUNICIPAL LIEN; TO ALLOW A MUNICIPALITY TO PETITION TO SET ASIDE THE SALE OF PROPERTY TO CERTAIN PERSONS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRIORITY OF UNRECORDED MUNICIPAL LIENS.
richardson
burks
m. brown
w.andrews
richardson
HB1785 J. Moore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MEMBERS OF A COUNTY DEPOSITORY BOARD.
moore
HB1760 Milligan TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE JURISDICTION TO CONSIDER CERTAIN PETITIONS FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF A PROPERTY ASSESSMENT.
miiligan
HB1789 R. Burkes TO RESTRICT A LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ISSUING AN IDENTIFICATION CARD TO AN INDIVIDUAL IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
burkes
gonzales worthen
HB1707 Hawk TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
hawk
HB1422 Long TO CREATE THE ONLY CITIZENS VOTE ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DRIVER'S LICENSES AND IDENTIFICATION CARDS OF CERTAIN NONCITIZENS; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51, SECTION 13.
long
gonzales-worthen
clowney
HB1549 R. Scott Richardson TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CYBERSECURITY ACT OF 2025.
richardson
HB1803 Joey Carr TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION AND HONOR OF MAURICE LEE “FOOTSIE” BRITT.
carr
HB1800 McAlindon TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DISCLOSURE FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE BY AGENTS OF A FOREIGN PRINCIPAL; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990.
motion to rerefer
mcalindon
HB1774 Beaty Jr. TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS FAIR HOUSING COMMISSION.
beaty
HB1243 Underwood TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY REGARDING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES; TO AMEND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTING AND PROTECT ELECTION INTEGRITY; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.underwood
REGULAR SENATE BILLS
Number Sponsor Subtitle
SB99 C. Penzo Gramlich TO AUTHORIZE A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT TO DELEGATE CERTAIN TASKS.
SB380 Crowell Cavenaugh TO REPEAL THE LAW REQUIRING THE OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT TO SUBMIT A REPORT CONCERNING THE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM.
SB327 Crowell Jean TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAYMENTS TO LOCALITIES.
SB218 Irvin Steimel TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM.
SB378 Crowell Cavenaugh TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SUBMIT A QUARTERLY REPORT CONCERNING THE TRAINING ACTIVITIES OF THE ARKANSAS INDUSTRY TRAINING PROGRAM.
SB388 Crowell Cavenaugh TO REPEAL THE ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT RELATED TO THE PROGRESS OF FOREIGN OFFICES OF THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.
SB275 Irvin J. Moore TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES.
SB368 Irvin M. Shepherd TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MINERAL, TIMBER, AND OTHER RESOURCES ON STATE LANDS; TO REDUCE MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE; AND TO AMEND THE NOTIFICATION RELATED TO LEASES AND PERMITS.
SB319 J. Boyd Maddox TO AMEND THE UNIFORM LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT; AND TO CLARIFY CHARGING ORDERS UNDER THE UNIFORM LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT.
SB329 J. Boyd R. Burkes TO CREATE THE ONLINE MARKETPLACE GUARANTEES ACT.
SB432 J. Petty Warren TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ACCOUNTANTS; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCY FOR THE PRACTICE OF ACCOUNTANCY.
SB401 J. Boyd Achor TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT.
SB374 B. Davis Wing TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM.
SB91 C. Penzo Ray TO PROVIDE THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS SHALL HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO REGULATE OR CONTROL THE AMOUNT CHARGED FOR A RENTAL APPLICATION FEE OR RENTAL DEPOSIT FOR PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
SB424 G. Stubblefield Hudson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY OF A MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
hudson
SB227 C. Tucker Eubanks TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 CONCERNING PUBLIC MEETINGS.
SB353 Hester Wooldridge TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DATES FOR ELECTIONS; TO AMEND THE DATES OF PRIMARY ELECTIONS, SCHOOL ELECTIONS, AND CERTAIN SPECIAL ELECTIONS; AND TO CHANGE THE DATE OF THE FISCAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
woolridge
SB271 Crowell Wooldridge TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A COUNTY CLERK'S CERTIFICATION OF SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES TO THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.
SB409 B. Johnson Torres TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS BY FINANCIAL SERVICES PROVIDERS; AND TO ESTABLISH THE FARMER PROTECTION ACT.
torres
SB414 K. Hammer Hawk TO AMEND THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING NOTICES RELATED TO THE ELECTION PROCESS.
SB344 Irvin L. Johnson TO TRANSFER THE HEALTHY EMPLOYEE LIFESTYLE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PROGRAM.
SB293 K. Hammer A. Brown TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REQUIRED POSTINGS AT A POLLING SITE; AND TO AMEND THE LIST CONCERNING REQUIRED POSTING OF NOTICES, INFORMATION, AND MATERIAL AT A POLLING SITE ON ELECTION DAY.
brown
SB299 K. Hammer A. Brown TO REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER TO WITNESS AN ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTING A RESIDENT OF A LONG- TERM RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY WITH ABSENTEE VOTING.
brown
SB403 C. Tucker Beaty, Jr. TO CREATE THE THE 2030 ARKANSAS COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE; AND TO PLAN AND CONDUCT STATEWIDE EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH INITIATIVES TO INCREASE COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND PARTICIPATION IN THE 2030 FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS.
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Representative Zack Gramlich
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Representative Tracy Steele Chair
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Representative Mindy McAlindon
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Representative Mary Bentley
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Representative Joy Springer
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Representative DeAnn Vaught
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Representative RJ Hawk
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Representative Tippi McCullough
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Representative Keith Brooks
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Representative Jason Nazarenko
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Representative Matt Brown
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Representative Richard McGrew
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Representative John P. Carr
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Representative Randy Torres
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Representative Cameron Cooper
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Senator Missy Irvin Chair
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Representative Trey Steimel
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Representative Brit McKenzie
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Representative Jimmy Gazaway
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Representative Ashley Hudson
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Representative Julie Mayberry
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Representative Ryan A. Rose
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Representative Rick Beck
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Representative Wayne Long Chair
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Representative Johnny Rye
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Representative Steven Walker
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Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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Representative Frances Cavenaugh
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Representative Hope Duke
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Representative Aker
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Representative Sonia Eubanks Barker
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Representative R. Scott Richardson
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Representative Carol Dalby
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Representative Wade Andrews
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Representative Kendra Moore
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Representative Jon Milligan
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Representative Justin Gonzales
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Representative Nicole Clowney
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Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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Representative Kendon Underwood
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