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Bills discussed (64)
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Status |
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HB1243
Act 994
· 4 mentions in agenda, transcript, chapter
Matched: “…END THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS FAIR HOUSING COMMISSION. 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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SB343
Act 734
· 4 mentions in agenda, chapter, transcript
Matched: “…PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. SB343 Irvin TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATE-OWNED MOTOR VEHICLE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATE-OWNED MOTOR VEHICLES; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC PROPERTY; … | Irvin | Notification that SB343 is now Act 734 |
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SB351
Act 592
· 4 mentions in agenda, chapter, transcript
Matched: “…DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. SENATE BILLS Number Sponsor Subtitle SB351 J. Dismang TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT … | J. Dismang | Notification that SB351 is now Act 592 |
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SB370
Act 462
· 4 mentions in agenda, chapter, transcript
Matched: “…OF 1990; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996. SB370 Irvin TO TRANSFER THE ARKANSAS WINE PRODUCERS COUNCIL FROM…”
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TO TRANSFER THE ARKANSAS WINE PRODUCERS COUNCIL FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO THE DEPARTMENT … | Irvin | Notification that SB370 is now Act 462 |
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HB1028
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…EAL THE LAW PROHIBITING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Page 3 of 5 HB1028 A. Collins TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE LAW CONCERNING OBSCEN…”
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TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE LAW CONCERNING OBSCENITY AND THE PROCESS FOR CHALLENGING MATERIALS INCLUDED … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1035
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1035 A. Collins TO CREATE THE ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION ACT OF 2…”
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TO CREATE THE ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION ACT OF 2025; TO ALLOW ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION; TO … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1036
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1036 A. Collins TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION;…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION; TO ALLOW VOTER REGISTRATION DURING EARLY VOTING AND … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1037
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…NTEGRITY; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996. HB1037 A. Collins TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING PERSONS WHO MAY…”
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AN ACT TO CREATE THE PREREGISTRATION TO VOTE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1038
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1038 A. Collins TO CREATE THE NO-EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF 2…”
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TO CREATE THE NO-EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF 2025; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1039
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…NG; AND TO REPEAL VOTER QUALIFICATIONS FOR ABSENTEE VOTING. HB1039 A. Collins TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOT…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS. | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1040
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1040 A. Collins TO CREATE THE WATER IN LINE ACT OF 2025; AND TO…”
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TO CREATE THE WATER IN LINE ACT OF 2025; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1041
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1041 A. Collins TO PROHIBIT DECEPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT DEEPFAKES I…”
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TO PROHIBIT DECEPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT DEEPFAKES IN ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS. | R. Scott Richardson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1042
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1042 A. Collins TO CREATE THE DIRECT DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2025; TO R…”
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TO CREATE THE DIRECT DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2025; TO REPEAL THE ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1043
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…NG OF A BALLOT INITIATIVE PETITION AND REFERENDUM PETITION. HB1043 A. Collins TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE AND REPORTING OF NONCANDID…”
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TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE AND REPORTING OF NONCANDIDATE EXPENDITURES PERTAINING TO APPELLATE JUDICIAL ELECTIONS; AND TO … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1058
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1058 Unger TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CONFLICTS OF I…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; … | Unger | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1059
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…GIVING ADVANCE NOTICE TO ENTITIES OF REQUIRED INSPECTIONS. HB1059 Unger TO PROVIDE THE OPTION FOR A FREE LIFETIME HUNTING AND…”
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TO PROVIDE THE OPTION FOR A FREE LIFETIME HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSE TO A COMMERCIAL … | Unger | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1069
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…DIANS TO BRING THEIR INFANTS SIX MONTHS OR YOUNGER TO WORK. HB1069 S. Meeks TO OBSERVE STANDARD TIME YEAR ROUND IN ARKANSAS; A…”
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TO OBSERVE STANDARD TIME YEAR ROUND IN ARKANSAS; AND TO ELIMINATE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IN … | S. Meeks | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1078
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1078 Long TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS; AND…”
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TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR A RUNOFF ELECTION FOR … | Long | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1162
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…TO ADOPT NEW LAWS CONCERNING APPELLATE JUDICIAL CAMPAIGNS. HB1162 Duffield TO ESTABLISH GOOD FRIDAY AS AN OFFICIAL STATE HOLI…”
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TO ESTABLISH GOOD FRIDAY AS AN OFFICIAL STATE HOLIDAY. | Duffield | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1187
Act 858
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…AL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967. HB1187 Vaught TO AUTHORIZE A LICENSURE BY ENDORSEMENT FOR MARRIAGE…”
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TO AUTHORIZE A LICENSURE BY ENDORSEMENT FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS. | Vaught | Notification that HB1187 is now Act 858 |
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HB1281
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…CANDIDATES FOR THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HB1281 McAlindon TO AMEND REPORTING FOR A CANDIDATE FOR CERTAIN MU…”
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TO AMEND REPORTING FOR A CANDIDATE FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND FOR COUNTY OFFICE; AND … | McAlindon | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1415
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1415 L. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DUTIES OF THE ST…”
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TO REQUIRE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO RESPOND TO A REQUEST FOR A FIRE INQUIRY. | L. Johnson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1459
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1459 L. Johnson CONCERNING RECURRING REPORTS SUBMITTED TO THE GE…”
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CONCERNING RECURRING REPORTS SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. | L. Johnson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1461
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1461 L. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE EVALUATION OF NE…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE EVALUATION OF NECESSITY OF VARIOUS COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS. | L. Johnson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1470
Act 582
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…EVALUATION OF NECESSITY OF VARIOUS COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS. HB1470 Beaty Jr. TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF INFORM…”
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TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PLANS. | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1470 is now Act 582 |
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HB1494
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1494 Hawk TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS GUIDANCE OUT OF THE DARKNESS AC…”
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TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS GUIDANCE OUT OF THE DARKNESS ACT; AND TO REQUIRE STATE AGENCIES … | Hawk | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1614
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1614 Lundstrum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DESIGNATIONS RELATED…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DESIGNATIONS RELATED TO CERTAIN CRIMINAL JUSTICE GRANT PROGRAMS. | Lundstrum | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1621
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…TICE GRANT PROGRAMS. REGULAR AGENDA Number Sponsor Subtitle HB1621 Wardlaw TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AN…”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO EXEMPT PERSONAL INFORMATION OF … | Wardlaw | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1631
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…S, ELECTED MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS, AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY. HB1631 Wardlaw TO ADDRESS THE ISSUANCE OF HUNTING AND FISHING LICE…”
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TO ADDRESS THE ISSUANCE OF HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS. | Wardlaw | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1632
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS. HB1632 Wardlaw TO REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE ARKANSAS STATE GAME…”
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TO REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE ARKANSAS STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION FOR FREE OR DISCOUNTED … | Wardlaw | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1667
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…AT WAS MANUFACTURED IN WHOLE OR IN PART USING FORCED LABOR. HB1667 Bentley TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AN…”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING … | Bentley | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1683
Act 924
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…AND THE STATE LIBRARY BOARD TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. HB1683 McAlindon TO PROHIBIT THE PROCUREMENT BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENT…”
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TO PROHIBIT THE PROCUREMENT BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE OR A COMPONENT … | McAlindon | Notification that HB1683 is now Act 924 |
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HB1706
Act 829
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ISSION FOR FREE OR DISCOUNTED HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES. HB1706 McCollum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROH…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING. | McCollum | Notification that HB1706 is now Act 829 |
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HB1720
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING. HB1720 Vaught TO CREATE THE BABIES AT WORK ACT; TO ALLOW STATE AGE…”
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TO CREATE THE BABIES AT WORK ACT; TO ALLOW STATE AGENCIES TO PERMIT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES … | Vaught | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1739
Act 814
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…RKANSAS; AND TO ELIMINATE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IN ARKANSAS. HB1739 M. Brown TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIALS AC…”
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TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIALS ACT. | M. Brown | Notification that HB1739 is now Act 814 |
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HB1753
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…estrictions designating areas as 'Members and Staff Only'. HB1753 Long TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION; TO OPT…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION; TO OPT-OUT OF THE NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT … | Long | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1769
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…BLIC MEETINGS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967. HB1769 Barnett CONCERNING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER STANDARDS; AND T…”
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CONCERNING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER STANDARDS; AND TO REQUIRE A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OR ASSESSMENT TO BECOME … | Barnett | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1773
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HB1773 Long TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTRIBUTION LIMITS FOR BA…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTRIBUTION LIMITS FOR BALLOT QUESTION COMMITTEES AND LEGISLATIVE QUESTION COMMITTEES. | Long | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1774
Act 562
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…OT QUESTION COMMITTEES AND LEGISLATIVE QUESTION COMMITTEES. 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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HB1797
Act 944
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…EPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT DEEPFAKES IN ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS. HB1797 Beaty Jr. TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPM…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. | Beaty Jr. | Notification that HB1797 is now Act 944 |
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HJR1001
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…L CENSUS. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Number Sponsor Subtitle HJR1001 A. Collins A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE THE CITIZEN…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE THE CITIZENS' REDISTRICTING COMMISSION AND TO REPEAL THE BOARD OF … | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1002
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ICTING COMMISSION AND TO REPEAL THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. HJR1002 J. Richardson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REPEAL THE EXCEPTION TO THE PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY … | J. Richardson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1003
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ON TO THE PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY AND INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE. HJR1003 A. Collins THE ARKANSAS GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE AMENDMENT. Pa…”
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THE ARKANSAS GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE AMENDMENT. | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1004
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ICENSURE BY ENDORSEMENT FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS. HJR1004 Ladyman APPLYING TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOR AN ARTIC…”
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APPLYING TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOR AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION OF THE STATES FOR … | Ladyman | Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1005
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…THE ARKANSAS GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE AMENDMENT. Page 2 of 5 HJR1005 Long AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO CREATE TH…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS. | Long | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1006
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…ONSTITUTION TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS. HJR1006 B. McKenzie AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION PROVI…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION PROVIDING THAT A GOVERNMENTAL BODY SHALL NOT USE STATE … | B. McKenzie | WITHDRAWN BY AUTHOR |
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HJR1007
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…NTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH A LOBBYIST FOR LOBBYING PURPOSES. HJR1007 Cavenaugh A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE A PROCEDURE…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE A PROCEDURE FOR THE RECALL OF CERTAIN ELECTED OFFICIALS. | Cavenaugh | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1008
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…TE A PROCEDURE FOR THE RECALL OF CERTAIN ELECTED OFFICIALS. HJR1008 S. Meeks AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNI…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE TAXATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND REAL PROPERTY … | S. Meeks | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1009
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…RSONAL PROPERTY AND REAL PROPERTY IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. HJR1009 K. Brown AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO BE KN…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO BE KNOWN AS THE ARKANSAS VICTIMS' BILL OF … | K. Brown | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1010
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HJR1010 Unger A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT BY A TWO-T…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE, THE SENATE MAY REMOVE MEMBERS … | Unger | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1011
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HJR1011 S. Meeks A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE CONSIDER…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE CONSIDERATION OF BILLS OTHER THAN APPROPRIATION BILLS DURING A FISCAL … | S. Meeks | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1012
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HJR1012 R. Scott Richardson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTI…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REPEAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE REAPPRAISAL AND REASSESSMENT OF … | R. Scott Richardson | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1013
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 79, CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY TAXES. HJR1013 Pilkington A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTA…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN VACANCIES SHALL BE FILLED BY APPOINTMENT BY THE … | Pilkington | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1014
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…N VACANCIES SHALL BE FILLED BY APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR. HJR1014 Beaty Jr. A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DE…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL … | Beaty Jr. | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1015
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…OMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. HJR1015 Lundstrum A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY BY REQUIRING A JUDICIAL CANDIDATE TO DECLARE HIS OR … | Lundstrum | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1016
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…AFFILIATION OR INDEPENDENT STATUS WHEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE. HJR1016 Ray A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REPEAL THE PROVISION OF A…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REPEAL THE PROVISION OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 5, § 1, ALLOWING … | Ray | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1017
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HJR1017 Ray A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROVIDING THAT A PROPOSED ST…”
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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROVIDING THAT A PROPOSED STATE-WIDE INITIATED ACT OR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SHALL BECOME … | Ray | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HJR1018
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “HJR1018 Ray THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT.”
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THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT. | Ray | Approved by the Governor |
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HJR1019
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…THE STATE. HJR1018 Ray THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT. HJR1019 S. Meeks AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REMOV…”
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AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REMOVE REFERENCES TO GREYHOUND RACING FROM ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, … | S. Meeks | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB12
· 2 mentions in chapter, agenda
Matched: “SB12 B. King TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AN…”
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TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING … | B. King | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB184
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…NG THE REVIEW OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PLANS. Page 4 of 5 SB184 D. Sullivan TO TRANSFER THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE ARKANS…”
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TO TRANSFER THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COMMISSION AND THE STATE … | D. Sullivan | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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SB403
Act 449
· 2 mentions in agenda, chapter
Matched: “…IONS REGARDING REDISTRICTING BY THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. SB403 C. Tucker TO CREATE THE THE 2030 ARKANSAS COMPLETE COUNT CO…”
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TO CREATE THE THE 2030 ARKANSAS COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE; AND TO PLAN AND CONDUCT STATEWIDE … | C. Tucker | Notification that SB403 is now Act 449 |
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HB1024
· 1 mention in agenda
Matched: “…TION, AMENDMENT 100. DEFERRED BILLS Number Sponsor Subtitle HB1024 A. Collins TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES; AN…”
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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES; AND TO REPEAL THE LAW PROHIBITING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. | A. Collins | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. |
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HB1740
Act 585
· 1 mention in chapter
Matched: “HB1740 K. Moore TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM TH…”
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TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967. | K. Moore | Notification that HB1740 is now Act 585 |
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We are back. And uh one announce on the record before we begin that we're going to rank constitutional amendments on Monday. Staff has prepared a, you have that OK, staff's prepared a ballot essentially where you'll rank the top 5 constitutional amendments. The constitutional amendment that would be your number one choice will be awarded 5 points. Number 2, choice, 4 points, 3333 points, etc. and.
Then we'll tabulate all of those, we'll ultimately determine which received the top 5 in votes, and then we'll come back next week and have presentations on those 5, top 5 again, and then ultimately we'll vote on a top. One, of course, the House will be able to refer out if we choose to, we certainly don't have to refer out anything, but if we choose to, we can
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
Unverified
1:04
refer out one constitutional amendment, Representative Wooldridge we had to make a
choice in this and I don't, we don't have to refer anything out, so. Uh,
but that'll be the process and we'll have those ballots and we'll take that uh. We'll take that vote on Monday, so with that we still have several items on our agenda, so we're gonna get through as many of those as we can. Representative Long has a couple of bills. Representative Long. Are you ready to run those today but once it comes off. All right. Representative Beatty has um. Bill, but he's not here at the moment. Representative Underwood, we talked about you
running your bill this afternoon. And that's House Bill 1243. All right. Representative Underwood, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr.
Representative Kendon Underwood
Unverified
2:08
Chair. Thank you committee. Kendon Underwood, uh, State Representative District 16, um,
I'm excited to step back
in the batter box in this committee and field all your questions. Um, this bill, so I discovered this last election cycle, and I think you heard this earlier today, um, on another bill, but if you're running for a local municipal race or county race, you only have to file currently a campaign finance report like 7 days or a week before the election, um, and then you have to. File a final report. So you legitimately don't have to file anything. Nobody knows how much money you've raised or spent throughout the entire cycle, um,
if you're running for one of those races. To me, um, that's kind of crazy because some of these races or some of these positions, you're running to manage the budget of an entire city. It's a full-time job, you know, you're making more money in some of these cities, certainly, um, then maybe even the governor makes and and her position. So I, I really think for transparency purposes, we to increase the frequency of the filing. So originally my idea was to just put them on the same schedule that we're on, um, I
have amended the bill since that point because I do recognize that people running for school board or JP or city council positions, um, likely really don't need to file. They're not raising and spending that much money, so they don't really need to be filing that much. So, uh, there's probably a million different ways we could do this, but essentially what this bill does is it requires uh local candidates on election year. or for the years that they're on the ballot. campaign finance reports, uh, on the same schedule that we're on, which is monthly reports, if
they have raised or spent $5000 or more. Um, I'll admit that number is arbitrary. I could depict any number. I just felt like $5000 if you're spending or or or raising $5000 you certainly should be able to file campaign finance reports. A candidate, um, um, who has raised or spent um. In excess of $500 which is the current trigger, will be on the same reporting schedule that they currently are on one right before the election and then uh
the, the post uh report. And then if you don't raise anything, uh, if you, if you're below $500 you don't have to file a report, which is again the same as it is now, um, on off years where you're not running for election, there's just an annual report, so I picked December 31st to cover the entire year, uh, of what you've raised. Again, maybe it's not the perfect situation, but it's still more reporting that what they're having to do now and so um I have a bunch more arguments. I know this committee
runs long, so I'll just open it up for questions, so. All right, Representative Underwood has
explained the bill. Are there any questions about the committee, Representative Meeks?
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Uh, I'm good with the bill. Just real quick, uh, any feedback from any of the, uh, you know, cities, counties, you know, people that would be,
Representative Kendon Underwood
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you know, affected by this. Yeah, very good question. Thank you for bringing that up. Two things I forgot to bring up that that reminds
me one, my initial bill, they did not like, so that's why I amended it and now Association of Counties and municipal League
are both good with this bill, um, and then the other thing that you didn't raise, but it reminds me earlier today we talked about Representative Hawke's bill, about moving it to the Secretary of State's office. This Currently leaves it with the clerk's office and the reason for that is because that obviously hasn't became law yet. I recognize that that could create a problem, um, and so my plan is to hold if this bill were to pass and we get to the Senate and it looks like The Senate is favorable to his bill. I'm going to amend the bill to change that from clerk to the Secretary of State's
office. Obviously, I don't know if the Senate's going to vote for that bill or not. I hope they
do, but if they don't, then my bill would be
um accurate based off of what it is today. Represent the Meeks, does that satisfy you? All right. Yeah, and I had the same questions, I think, uh, that Representative Meeks asked, so in terms of. Your JP's city council members. People like that, to just to be clear, this only applies if they
make more or if they, uh, received more than $5000 in contributions. Is that right? Or $5000. OK, so if they loan them their candidacy $5000 then they'll have to report, is that right? OK.
Representative Kendon Underwood
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Um, which will be, it's gonna be it'd be the same reporting that we're on based off of the $5000 trigger. Anything below that is, I guess,
essentially what they're doing now. OK, now you talked about that the However, they're reporting
Representative Kendon Underwood
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frequency is not gonna be as much as ours,
is that right? That's correct because as you know, we still have to file in off years we have to file quarterly. Uh, I'm not requiring
them to do quarterly reporting. This just has an annual reporting
on the off years. I see, yeah, and so during an election year though,
Representative Kendon Underwood
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they will have to file, what is it monthly? Yes, the monthly report, um, if they hit
that trigger, got you. OK. Very good. And the association of counties and municipally have removed any opposition they
Representative Kendon Underwood
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have. Yes, that's my understanding. I send it to both of them, I guess it was Monday or Tuesday, I don't know what day it is, but uh I sent
Representative Andrew Collins
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it to them and they said they were fine with it, so right, Representative Collins. Thank you Mr. Chair, and um I guess my only question would be, we've passed at least one bill. I had a bill that moved that final report to January 15th, and I'm for the state and district candidates, and I didn't know if keeping those matched up was important enough that you, if you were going to amend it down the road, if you
would make that or and or other changes we've already done through law just
Representative Kendon Underwood
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to sync those up. Yeah, I'd be open to that certainly I think I don't know if you were
in here, um, when I mentioned that about Representative Hawks. bill that we just passed out earlier this morning, so certainly if we, if we've passed some sort of bill that is going to affect the reporting, um, and I don't know what what the status is of your bill, but uh I'd be, they, they need to be
Representative Andrew Collins
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consistent in my view, so that one has been passed and was signed, so that's enacted and so I, I guess that would
just be my suggestion. I don't think it's, you know, essential necessarily, but if the goal is to match them,
Representative Rick Beck
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that would be one way I think that'd be fine to do. Thanks. Representative Beck Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, So, and I may, I may be not understanding it, but it says that I'm talking about the $500 trigger now. Alright, so $500 trigger is a pre-election report and a final report, correct? Correct. That's currently, that's currently what they have
to do the pre-election report is filed before the election. So if I get halfway through the election cycle and now I tripped the $500. I'm already not filed my pre-election report because I didn't trip it that quickly. So I'm saying through the election you could raise or spend $500 and you would have not filed your pre-election report because you hadn't tripped to $500 at
Representative Kendon Underwood
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that point. Are you saying if you get within
that 7 in that 7 day window if you trip it then if you trip if you trip the $500 which again, that's already the the law. So currently, if you raise or
Representative Rick Beck
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spend $500 then you're required to file the pre-election report. So during the election
cycle and I'm not making myself so during the election cycle. Halfway through
Right. 10 days into this thing, you get contributions of up to $500. You were, you know.
450 before now you someone gave you $50 so now you've hit $500. You've already not filed
Representative Kendon Underwood
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your pre-election report. Right, and I could be wrong about this, but I think if you, once you trip that, then you, it triggers you having to start doing the reporting. Now, currently my bill doesn't do that at $500. My bill does that at $5000. So,
Representative Rick Beck
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OK, go ahead, I'm sorry, I'm I'm sorry,
Representative Kendon Underwood
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so yes, if you're in the middle of your, let's say, I don't know if you're running for office. Once you get to that $5000
limit, yes, you've now triggered it, and then the next report, you're gonna have to file on them
Representative Rick Beck
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just like we do currently. So you're, you're saying it has existed and I, I maybe I didn't realize that. I thought they had to file
the pre-election regardless now, but you're saying they don't even file that now until
Representative Kendon Underwood
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they hit 500 I believe and I think uh and I could be, I don't want to misspeak, but I think earlier we heard maybe from Mr. Sloane that that was, that's currently the law is that it's $500 is the trigger for that pre-election report and if you don't raise or spend $500
Representative Rick Beck
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you don't have to file a report. My bill doesn't change
that. All right, I, I, all right, thank you. So yeah, Representative Underwood just to follow up on that regardless right now, a candidate is has to file a pre-election report that may be the only report they have to file. They don't, that's been one of the problems I think as as you and I have discussed is that the only real report they had to file was one that occurred just right before the election so they could go, they
could raise a ton of money and and didn't have to file a report or show any of it until just a very short time before the election, and so that would be the pre-election. report, you've not changed the law with regard to the filing of the pre-election report. It's just it it if they raise more than 5000, then they're gonna have to start doing monthly reporting during the
Representative Kendon Underwood
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election season, correct, that's right. And so, and that's what brought this to my attention was we had mayor races that were a large
cities and nobody knew how much they were raising or spending, and again it was for the one I was thinking of was for a city that I think it was like the salary is like $160,000. Or something. To me that's crazy that you, you're, nobody has a clue what you're raising and spending
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in that race, right? Yeah, yeah. All right, very good. Any
other questions by the committee, Representative Rose? Thank you. Yeah, I just kind of
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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wanted to make, make sure I was clear and maybe for some of the other committee members as well, but you kind of have a category
of candidates who run a race. And raise very little spend very little under $500 or whatever it is, and the requirements are on them are relatively loose, next to nothing, right? And then you have the category of of candidates who raise in excess or spend in excess of 500 but less than 5000 and they have that pre-election report and then you have candidates who raise or spend in excess of 5000 and in an election year they
are then on the same reporting calendar that we're on. Yes,
Representative Kendon Underwood
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that's correct, and, and The reason for that is, is kind of what on the outset is I'm trying to capture those races where a lot of money is being funneled, you know, maybe there's and, you know, we don't know, but maybe there's out of state interest in that race or whatever, um. But not trying to capture those people that are running for smaller races like a school board race or a city council race because some of the feedback that I heard, um, for those races are is that it's very difficult to find candidates to run for those races, and we don't want to
discourage those people um for running for office and especially when they're not really raising and spending a bunch of money and so I don't think they need to be filing a bunch of reports if, you know, they don't really have a lot of money to do that
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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and we don't need to create a lot of work for people filing reports that have $0 on it. Uh, it's a similar question when I asked Representative Hawk on his bill this morning, but Implementing this would also um bring accountability for candidates who may be violating campaign contribution limits or receiving a legal contributions
as well and hold them kind of uh well not kind of hold them to the
Representative Kendon Underwood
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same level of accountability that all candidates running for office. Is that correct? Yeah, I think that's true, and I think, you know, the public should know those type of things before they're voting for these individuals to, you know, manage
their city. Thank you. All right, any other questions about the committee? Seeing no further questions by the committee, we have no one signed up to speak for or against the bill. Representative Underwood, you're recognized to close for your
Representative Kendon Underwood
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bill, um, committee, I appreciate you guys taking the time and kind of working with me, you know, as I do appreciate the questions on this bill because I think it's an important issue and I know there's a lot of ways that we could tackle it, but this is just the solution that I felt like, uh,
addressed what my concerns were, and with that, I'm closed and uh I'd make a motion to pass. Representative Underwood's closed and made a motion to pass. Is there any discussion on the motion, seeing no discussion on the motion, all those in favor say aye. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Congratulations, you've passed your bill. Thank you.
Representative Ladyman was here earlier. But
That is uh I think he said he's gonna run. OK. All right. Uh,
taking care of Representative Underwood. Representative Collins. 1037 waiting on an amendment. Also deceptive and fraudulent deep fakes. the amendment on that. What about 1037
amend Arkansas law concerning persons who may register to vote, both amendments. OK. And then we've got Beatty Junior with two bills. He's not here. Senate bills we have Dima and Eaves on Senate Bill 351. Let's see, neither one of them. Senate Bill 370, Irvin and Eaton. See neither one of them. Senate Bill 343, Irvin and
Representative Nicole Clowney
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Clowney. Are you ready to present on that? OK. Yeah Yeah. Mr. Chair, with your permission, could I have some people from the Department of Transformation and Shared Services
at the table. My understanding is there's an amendment. Yes, there is no staff will pass out that amendment.
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All right, I believe the committee should have an
Representative Nicole Clowney
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amendment. Representative Clowney, you're recognized to present the amendment. Sure, thank you, Mr. Chair. So
if you'll look at the bill as it stands right now as I presented this morning on page 3 lines 13 through 21 listed out it enumerated certain agencies that have within them law enforcement um type. Uh, purposes, law enforcement
purposes, those vehicles were exempt, but it sort of kept, we kept learning about newer and, you know, different agencies that had things that we wanted to exempt. So this amendment basically just says instead of enumerating specific agencies that are exempt says. State-owned vehicles just does not include categorically does not include any vehicles that are owned by a cabinet-level department of the executive branch of state government and used for law enforcement. That was a way to capture everybody that we were trying to, and again, as I mentioned this morning, um we're not including law enforcement vehicles in this
bill because they have their own systems
that they operate on. Alright, Representative Clowney
Representative Stephen Meeks
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has explained the amendment. Is there any, are there any questions on the amendment Representative Meeks. Thank you. Um, so I just, uh, two questions, um, do we have cabinet level department executive branch folks that own vehicles. So you see what I'm saying? It says, so the way this is worded,
I, I, I catch your intent, but the way this is worded is includes vehicles that are owned by cabinet-level department of the executive branch. this is. So do, do we have, do we have any cabinet
level, you know, like Mr. Chair, can I have our
Chair
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You, yes, if you introduce yourself for the record. Courtney Trailer, chief of staff at um TSS and yes,
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all 15 departments have vehicles that they've
Representative Stephen Meeks
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purchased and that they own and then as a, as a department that the head of each department have their own, are we supplying vehicles to the head of each department as I guess the question I'm trying to get to. To the head of each department does the Secretary of Education and the secretary of, you know, the, the head of TSS get.
Chair
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the head of, OK, that that was the question vehicles that are
Representative Stephen Meeks
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allocated to the department. OK, so these are used for department personnel and we're not buying personal vehicles essentially for these depar OK, that's what I was checking. All right, thank you.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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Representative Rose, you're recognized. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure I was clear too, says are
owned by cabinet level department of the executive branch of state government and used for law enforcement. So is this referring to only vehicles that are used for law enforcement that are owned by executive
level. Cabinet departments. Correct. So not all cabinet level department Executive branch vehicles only the ones used
Speaker 85
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for law enforcement. So our intent is to
have telematics installed on all cabinet-level department vehicles. We were wanting to exclude those that are used
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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for law enforcement. So the amendment is is saying only vehicles that are used for law enforcement are excluded. OK, got
Speaker 85
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earlier point, there may be some that the department have designated as for a specific individual. Um, I'm not aware of that. We don't manage that at the, at this level, but a
Chair
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department may have made a decision that individuals
that do travel a lot, have a, a vehicle assigned to them. So I have a question. So for example, I mean, take the vehicles that the governor's transported in. I don't know if those are owned by the. State, uh, same for the Attorney General. I don't Know that that, you know, when they're taking them to and from an event if that's law enforcement purposes, there are specific exemption in
Speaker 93
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here for them. Good. Well, those the Jennifer Davis, staff attorney with the department, those vehicles
aren't considered under the cabinet level, so the GPS portion of this only applies to cabinet level, so those would
not apply. I see. OK, yeah, executive, uh, yeah, I got you, very good. All right, any other questions by the committee? All right, seeing no further questions by the committee, Representative Clowney, you're making a motion to adopt the amendment. It's a motion to adopt the amendment. Uh, is there any discussion on the motion, seeing none all those in favor say aye. All those opposed the amendment's been adopted. Representative Clowney, you recognized to present the bill
Representative Nicole Clowney
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as amended. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. I I've spent some time explaining this morning and I want to be respectful of y'all's time, but just to summarize, this is a bill that would consolidate the fleet management to underneath the Department of Transformation and Shared Services. There were some questions that arose this morning and I was fielding them as best as I could, um, with some help, but we have some more people here with some more answers for those of y'all that may have them. You want me to go ahead and
explain that, all right, I do recall there were a number of questions and there were some um
thought that maybe there needed to be some additional people here to answer. Looks like they're
here. Any questions by the committee? Now everybody's shy. All right,
Representative Rick Beck
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Representative Beck, you're recognized not shy. So, uh, it's, it's my understanding that this is supposed to be a cost savings for us, uh, I guess, uh, the efficiency of the use of the vehicles would somehow be improved as a result of this, so.
With, with that said, um, The cost, I'm really going after this it's a juice worth the squeeze on this, right? I mean, the GPS
stuff I, I, I don't see how it's gonna save you a lot of money. It might, it might, but, but, or is it, are you saving more money putting the fleet together under one. Group and is there any cost that any kind of data out there that says, OK, this is how much we save by, you know, doing shared services with the fleet under
one group right your group putting everybody's fleets together
Speaker 103
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out of one place, right? Not necessarily, um, right now we have the fleet is managed by all 15 departments separately and then they report centrally in DFNA today, but right now they don't, they're not doing any. It's a very manual process. So if someone wants to check out a vehicle, they have to go get a binder, sign it out, and then they have to manually put in,
you know, what their, their name, where they're going, how many miles if they got gas. And so what we want to do is automate that. So that it, it reduces the risk of error and having bad data, which is what we have today. When McKenzie was here and helped us with this analysis. We had a, we struggled to put together the data on all our vehicles. I mean, it was a struggle just to figure out how many vehicles we had, what are considered law enforcement. I mean, it just wasn't it, it brought to light the fact that
we're not doing good analysis today with the vehicles we have and making sure we're maximizing the utilization of those vehicles. So. we did, they did identify several 100 vehicles that are considered underutilized. Now granted, those are just vehicles that had less than 100 miles on them. There's, since we've learned there are many reasons for that. Some of that is the manual process and so at the end of the month, someone has to then take all those slips of paper that you use when you
check out a vehicle and manually key it in to a system. Um, but from there nothing is really done with that data. But we, we tried to pull together that day to realize that there were probably 600 vehicles that had less than 100 miles on it. And what we learned is some of that is accurate because they're dedicated to a certain maybe a DHS facility where it's just mainly used for specific purpose on campus and so that's legitimate. We're not trying to maximize the use of those vans for those for patient
care or for, you know, specific needs, um, but it did bring to light that we have inaccurate data. And so we don't know what the utilization of some of our vehicles really is. We do know that we have some our average vehicle is 9 years old, I think approaching 10 years old now and um and we also spend about $8 million a year on mileage reimbursement. So somehow we need to do a better job of marrying the underutilized vehicles with the people that
are traveling and getting high mileage reimbursement, and it, I think there is some savings there. Um, I could not quantify what that is today just because we don't
Chair
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have good data today. I don't know. I hope that answered your question of
Representative Rick Beck
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why we went down this path, so I just follow up. The so, OK, I went down
the wrong rabbit hole. I was, I was thinking you're gonna be recording closer to the mileage of the cars are being used with a GPS and all that stuff, and I
but, but what you're actually saying is what this this this is the GPS is a relatively small portion of this. It's really more about keeping track of those vehicles and they're usage automatically as opposed to manually and that's a cost savings associated with that. Is that statement correct? That is probably the primary
Chair
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benefit of this, yeah. Thank you. Uh, Representative Rose, you're recognized. Mr.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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It seems like I remembered us discussing this
and I saw it somewhere in the bill at one point. Um Is the GPS data available for like uh a FOIA request or a subpoena could be used. One in a court case
or two for political gain if somebody wanted to use it against somebody to say they traveled too much or
Speaker 91
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something along those lines. So it is available for FOIA, I think after
Senator Missy Irvin
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30 days has passed, um, a subpoena would be, of
course, we'd have to respond to a subpoena on, so that would be
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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different, but they are available under FOIA after 30 days. And as it is currently, These are not
Speaker 93
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instituted on all these vehicles. Not currently. They are allowed, um, it's a May right now in the law. Um, we're just changing it to a shell. By 2020 January 1st, 2028. So there is some transition.
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And then you guys will be. will be tracking all of the data in terms of fuel.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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Travel, imagining where to, where from, when, etc. and all of that would be publicly available then I
Speaker 85
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believe it is today, um, it's just not recorded it's not automated today. We capture that just handwritten in a binder for each vehicle right, we would have to go make copies of
Speaker 93
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that binder, locate them and things of that nature. All right, all right, thank you. All right, just
You know, I raised the concern earlier that this seems a lot like micromanaging, uh, maybe even more than is already being done. Talking about putting GPS trackers on all the Requiring not just that you may in the event that you thought there was a problem that you're requiring every state vehicle. Cabinet level, I guess, and below that there be a GPS tracker. Some might argue that that is
oppressive to uh constantly monitor every movement of a state employee and that maybe the better policy would be to trust our state employees to do the right thing and in the event that you have some reason to believe that they're not doing the right thing, then you have the ability under the existing law to Put a GPS tracker on their vehicle if you'd like. Now, part of what I hear the rationale being is essentially that you need to study the fleet to determine the most efficient use of these vehicles and if
that were your justification, you could probably place the GPS trackers on there for a period of time in order to complete a study to then know what the best use of your fleet is, but the way I understand the bill is that this is going to be a permanent. Uh, requirement. And that this GPS data will be uh foilable, it'll be subpoena. You'll be able to subpoena it. And again, I'm all for transparency. I'm all for um.
for efficiency, but there's a fine line when we talk about efficiency and transparency of micromanagement and kind of this oppressive nature of constant monitoring and so I'd just like to hear your response to that. So, so
Representative Nicole Clowney
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um, I think there's a few things I think. And obviously, you know that This is an issue I care about. I will tell you that we already track this. I mean we already track state employees, right?
We, we monitor what state employees are doing. We fill out this paperwork, where they go, how they use their vehicles, that is already all foable. Nothing new is being added, nothing new will be discoverable, except that now our records will be more accurate, um, I would also add that it's actually a legitimate safety issue. We have people, you know, I, I would say we're not tracking employees. We are tracking. The vehicles that state employees are driving and those vehicles um can be used in ways that are very dangerous and also
um it is helpful to the state to have information if those vehicles are being driven safely, and there are lawsuits that come against the state, um, the easiest way to defend our employees against that kind of charge is to have that data on hand to see um the
truth of the matter. Well, and so let me ask in response to that. I mean, I think, you know, the idea or the assertion that you're tracking vehicles and not employees is a different. to that a distinction because there's an employee that has to drive the vehicle. So you are in fact tracking the employees, just doing so while, while also
Representative Nicole Clowney
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tracking the vehicle. To be fair, you said the employees every move, which is not true. The employees'
moves that are taken while driving the state-owned vehicle would be my next question to you. Would you also be in favor of placing a tracker on their body so that we can know how many bathroom breaks they take. No, because their bodies are not state owned. While they're while they're being paid by the state, I think they're, I think, uh, while the taxpayers are paying their salary, their every movement is, uh, you know, are they how many smoke breaks are they
taking? How much time are they, uh, spending doing frivolous things
that aren't related to their job. I certainly think that, you know, that may very well be justified under
Senator Missy Irvin
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this rationale. Uh, I, I will want to point out that we already do that to a certain extent for state employees. I mean, when I log on to my computer every day, there's a notice that says everything that I'm doing is being tracked and can be monitored. Now, do, is there somebody in the control room that sits and like monitors what I'm doing all day? No. However, if there are issues that come up, they can go back and look at my performance, how often I'm online, how often I'm not, am I,
Speaker 93
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you know, on the browser more than that so we're technically already doing that in some form or fashion, and we're notified and we have been notified. for 20 years at least of of that. So we're already doing that to
Speaker 103
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a certain extent. This is just doing it in a vehicle. And, and I'll add, you know, the, the primary
Speaker 85
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goal of this is that we get requests for new vehicles and it's hard to justify spending money on new vehicles when we know we have some that are not being utilized and so we're just we're trying to get a better sense of where is the
need for, where do we need to put our fleet, where do we need to put our resources on providing state employees a safe vehicle. in
which to travel to do their job. The all safety justification. Representative Hawk, you're recognized. I
Representative RJ Hawk
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don't think I have a question, sir. I apologize. I don't know how I got in the queue, but I'll think I'll think
of one if you want me to Representative Beatty, you're recognized.
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, kind of walked in midway through the presentation, so I, I got just a question. I remember at a previous um uh ALC meeting where there was discussion about an overall fleet management plan and program for the state, uh, that was to be conducted by um shared services, uh, has that been completed or is this what you guys are trying to propose for, for that fleet management. I see a lot of head shaking, but I don't hear a lot of answers here. Yes sir, that was
Speaker 103
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completed and I believe that was back in September, October time frame, and we committed to have that report. We submitted it December, I believe the 16th, um, and that was the McKenzie study and this is part of that plan that they recommended that we
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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implement. Well, I, I remember the McKenzie study, but I also
thought that Y'all are gonna create an overall plan that you were going to submit. So is this the plan that you from the McKenzie study that you're submitting or was this not part and incorporating
in that overall fleet management because to me, a lot of what's in here should have been
Speaker 103
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included in the fleet management plan. It was, it was included in the plan that was submitted in
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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December. Yes, sir. And so now we're this is part, this is part of that plan so you're taking. What I'm trying to say is you're taking rules that that you promulgated related to vehicles and you're gonna reduce that to statute. Is that what this is doing?
Representative Nicole Clowney
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35:42
Right, we turned in a report that McKenzie had So I think Representative Betty, I think maybe if this doesn't answer your question, let me know, but, um, earlier when we were talking about this, I mentioned that this is sort of part two of something that Senator Ervin started, I think 10 years ago or where she had the May and so I think it's in statute that you may do this, and we are changing it to a shall, and so I think that has to be a statutory change. Well
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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36:07
All right, I, I guess I just need to see that report and read that and then maybe I'll be a
little clearer because I have not seen that report yet. I mean, your report, I think I saw some of the McKenzie study, but there's two
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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36:22
different documents I'd like to see that. So thank y'all. Representative Wooldridge, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, Representative, does it outline in here what kind of device would
be used to make these type recordings? Like are we talking about
Chair
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dash cam or. It doesn't specify. It just says telematics, I believe, or GPS.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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So, I mean, that's pretty broad, isn't it, because I mean, you can then choose to put a dash cam in every state vehicle and then you're
Speaker 103
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going to record employees' conversations in the vehicle and, and I think probably when the original bill, or the legislation back in 2011, the technology was quite different. So I think today there are a lot more options and we can be there is a definition of it says
Representative Nicole Clowney
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37:08
global positioning device. Global positioning device is a device that can access a global navigation satellite system that
uses radio frequency information technology and provides reliable location and time information and it's capable of recording the travel and location
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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37:24
follow-ups? Yes sir, so my, my point to that is I saw that in the definition, but it doesn't prohibit you from using a dash cam and dash cams have all of those features as well, plus record everything that's coming up and down the road, the audio. inside the vehicle, things like that, so I mean, Under this, you could, I guess,
or a state, the state could put a dash cam in as long as it's got GPS
Representative Nicole Clowney
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capabilities and it will record those things, right? That's, that's true they could, um they could today.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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37:54
There's nothing preventing him from doing it today as well just
Representative Nicole Clowney
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to do something and, and if that were what they chose, right, OK, that would be much more expensive than a traditional GPS, but yeah,
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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38:06
I don't know that um the other question that I had, at what level does this stop in my example. would be to cabinet secretaries drive state vehicles.
Speaker 79
38:16
I would think that would vary across. Each cabinet, um, I think some do and some don't, so theirs
Speaker 157
38:21
will have a GPS tracker as well. If they're not law
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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38:35
enforcement, yes. Representative Rose, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I had, I had
a couple of questions about the data, but Something uh Representative
Wooldridge just brought up was about the type of device and how broad that definition is because I mean technically my phone, right, uh, you can, you can track everywhere I go with my phone. You can track that data with a dash cam, and I'm sure a simple air tag or a GPS tracking to buy something along those lines. I remembered this morning. There was discussion about this, this would eventually lead to cost savings. I'm not hearing that there's a very specific device decided. So
Speaker 103
39:19
I was just curious how you guys calculated that this would save costs. I think we calculated it because having the data, first of all, you know, we don't have a comprehensive set of data as to what vehicle utilization is, and then, but we know that there's a set of underutilized vehicles that we don't need and then fine tuning where we need to reallocate vehicles for where we're reimbursing $8 million in travel and mileage. I think the combination of those three and
just making sure we're maximizing the utilization of the existing vehicles that have and then getting down to the right size, will lead to some savings. So I think McKenzie estimated 3 to 5 million in savings. That was their estimate. I don't know that that. I'm not comfortable saying that that's what we're gonna achieve because of the, the lack of accurate data today. Was that annual or one time? Part of
Chair
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that was one time and some of that was annual.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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How many, how many vehicles roughly, you can, OK, and how much per device? Um,
Chair
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40:25
I would say it's about 20 if I had to guess, on,
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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40:31
on $20 on the GPS you mean? That's it, just 2 for 20 $20 for a GPS tracker. OK. And so that So that um $20 per vehicle for
4000 vehicles and you're estimating that that cost will be offset by the savings of efficiencies. Yes, sir. OK, and you don't have a specific device.
Speaker 103
41:00
We've talked to a few vendors, but we have not narrowed that down, because we're trying to find um The best price, the best value that gets us what we need, um, in addition to a reservation system that automates a lot of what people have to do manually today. So we've just explored.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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41:24
Was that $20.01 time for a device or is it $20 a month tracking. So $20 per
Speaker 169
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month per vehicle. For the, for the life of those vehicles being used. Is that correct? Correct. So
Speaker 103
41:42
it's about a million dollars a year. Which we, that's why I think there's part of the time frame to install those. It's not till January 1, 28, so that we can recognize some savings through the vehicles that we do add that
to, I think some vehicles already have that, so we just want to expand that and then see if we can reduce that mileage reimbursement and reassign some vehicles, and then once we have savings. Then we can add those to the vehicles. So we, it wouldn't be. An incremental cost. Sure, um, the total cost of ownership would go
Chair
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down as the goal. I can't speak for all of the committee, but
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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42:25
$20 a month. For every vehicle annually is roughly a million dollars a year that we're not currently mandating must be spent, and this says shall, correct? By 2028, yes, sir, that, that would be what we'd be agreeing to. Yes. And we don't, we don't have to my knowledge, you have some estimates, you have some, some good ideas, but you don't have the ability to ensure that this will actually bring cost
savings. We have a rough estimate of how much it'll be a month. Is there an install fee on top of
Speaker 103
43:01
that $20? Not for the, not with the vendors we've spoken to.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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43:04
OK, so the $20 they're gonna install these for free like, like your coffee makers, you buy coffee from us, we'll give you the coffee maker or whatever, OK. Um, OK, I want to come
Speaker 175
43:14
back to that. Can I have a few follow-ups, Mr. Chair. You're recognized, um, I'm sorry, can we just, I think there was one
Representative Nicole Clowney
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other thing somebody wanted to say on that before we move on. Is that OK, Representative Rose? OK. I will,
Speaker 91
43:27
we have 4000 vehicles in the fleet. But not all of those will be GPS because
Speaker 93
43:32
if we are exempting those used for law enforcement, that is a good A good number of vehicles, you know, Department of Corrections, public safety, and things like that. I, I don't have those numbers, we would have to, we would
Senator Missy Irvin
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have to look, but I know there's other departments that do have some law enforcement that would be exempt, so it would not be 4000. Um, while I recognize that
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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43:59
So an undeterminant number. Not
to exceed 4000. That's correct. OK. Um So, I get with this,
would this allow shared services to access. The speeds at
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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44:24
Pardon, I'm sorry, would that create a fireable offense?
Speaker 103
44:31
Uh, there's not currently a policy that would. take that?
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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44:41
that would not be intended another way. If you knew that an employee was driving 100 MPH in a state vehicle, what would happen from there
Speaker 103
44:48
now that you have that data? If I had that data, I would think we would want to make sure that employee is aware that that's probably an unsafe manner in which to operate a state, state property, but other than that,
It wouldn't, I'm not sure what the decision would
Senator Missy Irvin
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45:05
be on how to handle any disciplinary action. The current fleet manual right now has one small thing about GPS and it just says that they're installed on state vehicles and um those opting to do so are asked to consider the cost of doing so in the best of business interests, and it deals with the records being foible after 30 days. Um, there are other language in here that essentially that, you know, when you sign up to get a state vehicle, you have to fill out.
the driver authorization form, and then they have to go and look at um pull our driving record. And so they, they pull our driving record periodically as well to make sure that I haven't gotten any tickets in the meantime. So in that, I take the responsibility that says I'm gonna obey all traffic laws, and I'm gonna wear my seat belt that any passengers will wear a seatbelt and that if I am found to not follow those rules that I can lose my privileges of driving a
Speaker 93
45:58
state vehicle. That's what our current manual says. So and that's what's
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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46:03
currently in place. Uh, are you saying Here that if this were to
be passed, you don't anticipate or it's not the intention that rules will be changed that will
Speaker 129
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then say these could be fireable offenses. I don't think that's been
Speaker 103
46:22
considered. I think the ultimate goal was to get. More accurate data on the 4000 vehicles that the state operates. Um And maybe there is also some
safety options on that software for that that's included in that $20 so like if we, you can tell if there's low low tire pressure or if the oil light comes on or I mean any of the other safety items that someone might need to be aware of to operate that safely, um, that would be the intent. I don't, and I think, you know, the. Yes, someone could be restricted from driving a state vehicle if they're not operating it safely. That, that privilege could be
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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47:04
revoked if they don't demonstrate safe behavior. I'll I'll
hop back in the queue after this little series, Mr. Sheriff, that's all right. I want to go back to cost for just a second, um, the vendors that you said you'd spoken with, um, is there, is there, do you guys just have the ability and, and it's ignorance here. Do you guys just have the ability to enter into that contract or is it gonna
Speaker 103
47:27
have to be approved by ALC or It would have to be approved, I would assume, but it depends. Some of these vendors are on a
state contract, but even entering into those, we would have to come for approval. We may not have to do an RFP to get. You know, to, to, I guess, get 3 quotes or 3 bids, but that's what essentially what we're trying to do, um, but I believe some of these vendors are already on a state contract.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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47:52
I'll just say And I'm sorry, it seems to be just you and I that are going back and forth here on this, and I apologize you're, you're getting my ire if I go back and this is on the floor and my colleagues are gonna say, you
mean to tell me that you knew roughly a million dollars a year in in monthly fees was going to be attached to this. You didn't know exactly how many vehicles it was, you didn't know who would have to sign off on it. You didn't know who the vendor was or what the exact price was because that $20 could change between now and 2028. It could be $40 you know, it could be $60 and, and so I guess I'm just
gonna want to give you an opportunity to to talk about
Speaker 103
48:30
that, and I'll hop out, Mr. Chair. So we've been shopping a lot of different vendors. We've been doing a lot of um research
because we don't have a specific vendor. We haven't narrowed that down because this, obviously it hasn't passed yet, so we wanna make, you know, we're just trying to come up with, OK, what are all the options and what do we think it could cost? So that's pretty much what we've done as far as research and then um You know, but By talking to all the different vendors, realizing, OK, who's on a state contract, who's not. We've talked to several different states to find out what they've done, um, you know, we've especially surrounding
states, we've, we've put out information to some of the organizations that we're a part of to find out, OK, what have you all learned and do you and every state we've talked to. They have telematics installed on their vehicles. Now, some of them use it for different purposes. Tennessee uses it primarily my understanding after talking to their fleet manager, it's primarily for safety. They're not looking at vehicle utilization. They are tracking speed, they are tracking who breaks hard. They are tracking those type of things. They have
a, a great story of how, um, someone that was driving a state vehicle, there was an alert that they realized their car was hijacked, and so, you know, they were able to locate that car, go get that person that was on the side of the road. I mean they're, they've they've Tennessee has a, a good case story for while they do, while they do that. Um, Louisiana, different story. They don't own vehicles, they rent all their vehicles, but that comes with telematics and so they use that telematics through the rental vehicles
because it's already on there. Um, so they're looking at where that vehicle went, who drove it, some of the required reporting is automated through that. Um, so, so we're talking to other states to understand what vendors have you used? Who, who do you have positive experiences with Department of um DOT here in Arkansas, they have a big contract, all of their vehicles have telematics and we're learning from them, OK, which they've worked with I
think a couple of vendors and so which which vendor have you had the best experience with and how do you use that information. So we're going out there, I think in 2 weeks to have more in-depth conversations with them. So it's already being used in the state. It's just. It's a, it's we're asking for this information to make it easier for state employees, so they don't have to do. I hear a lot of complaints about the process of getting a vehicle, the manual recording of the
vehicle and then someone having to key that in at the end of each month. It's not efficient. It's 1985 process of, of doing that and collecting data, and we just want to automate that and make it easier, um, and we want to have accurate data on those. on our fleet like and that's part of the problem why I can't give you solid numbers because we don't have a really good process to collect that data and have solid information. Um, we don't have a good process for identifying which it's very
manual and I have to go to each department. So since this amendment has been made, I'm gonna have to go to each department and ask, OK, tell me, give me a list of your vehicles that are considered law enforcement,
Representative Nicole Clowney
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51:53
because we just, we don't have that. And I would just add Representative Rose. I, I absolutely understand not feeling comfortable voting on a bill without knowing the cost. Um, we need a number of vehicles that this will impact. I didn't realize we weren't going to have that today, so I apologize for that. We will get that, um, I
will also say just as I know you know, we can't have a vendor in mind before this becomes law, um, we have to go through the normal bid process and all of that. So, I think it's a little bit tricky, it's a little bit chicken and egg, but to the ex that we can know at least the number of vehicles um that
will be needing updates. I think we you committee members absolutely deserve to have that information before this vote.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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52:36
Sorry, I was, I was hopping out and I appreciate that. I'm, I'm confused a little bit because
I, I kind of would think it was.
Along the lines of what you said that we would have to go through the typical
Speaker 103
52:50
bid process, but just a second ago you said kind of sort of maybe not. Well, if it's on a state contract, if we do go with a vendor that's on a state contract, it wouldn't have to go through the bid process, but we would still have to come
Representative Nicole Clowney
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53:02
to you all for the procurement of that contract with that vendor and we couldn't come to any contract discussions with any particular vendor before we make this
law, right? So, yeah. Yeah, I'll take a, I'll take a break for a minute. All right, Representative Beck, you're recognized.
Representative Rick Beck
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53:21
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I have a couple of questions
here. One is, well the first one is that some of your vehicles already have this. So And I, and I had assumed something earlier and maybe that was my mistake that you were talking about what the vendor of the vehicle, the Ford and Chevrolet, they all have GPS tracking on them if you just turn it on, but even that cost a monthly fee. I and I don't know whether you guys are gonna try
to use that or or whether you actually had a system now that's when you say some of the vehicles were equipped with it.
Chair
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54:02
are, what are they equipped with? Maybe that's just
Speaker 103
54:06
a good starter. We have several departments that have opted to um implement GPS on their or telematics on their vehicles like TSS, we, we just added 3 of our vehicles, um. And I think other departments have done that, but it's not
centralized at all. We all use different vendors and there's no central
Representative Rick Beck
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54:27
central look at anything that, that clears that up for me. But, you
know, I, I'm listening and, and, and what's interesting that all the discussion and the, the questions here are around employees and vehicles, but yet if you read what this thing that the bill says, it's talking about tracking your vehicles, and you said that The, the very cost of this savings is we're gonna be able
to better track our vehicles. So with all that said, why are we even talking about tracking the employees. You know, if, if you're gonna do this, track the vehicles. You don't need to know who's driving it. You know what's going on with the bill. You, you know how it's being utilized. I mean, whether it's being utilized or not, I think that was one of your concerns that you had, so why would we even consider tracking the vehicle as to who's driving the vehicle, and that way it eliminates a lot of the concerns, I think other members
of this committee have with that you're tracking individuals. So, I mean, certainly if you saw that a vehicle was being operated in a manner that shouldn't be, you could, you'd probably want to go back and look in a separate data and say, OK, that car was signed out to this individual at that time, and you could do the, the safety things, but the, the concern that I have is like I think, I think some of the other committee has this concern is you're using it to track individuals. It's like you don't need to track individuals to do what you want, you know, and to do what this thing says, you
don't have to track individuals. All you got to track is the vehicle so you could say. The things on the vehicle, employees would know that, hey, we, we track all state vehicles and we keep records on them, so now you have all your data to get the efficiency that you want. And you haven't, there's, there's
no real master record as to who was driving and how all the state employees are moving around the state. And correct
Representative Nicole Clowney
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56:22
me if I'm wrong, but I think that that's what this
bill does, Representative Beck. We're not tracking individual employees, we're only tracking the vehicles with this language is only
Representative Rick Beck
Unverified
56:31
about tracking vehicles. So in that same, so just to be clear, what you're saying is there's there's a large data set that's on this vehicle that it's going being utilized wherever it's going, and there's no connection. That that data set does not include who was driving that vehicle at that time. It We are trying to automate that
Speaker 103
56:57
so that we do know who the driver is because that's a required field that we have to report, um, to DFNA as as far as, you know, that's part of the form that you have to fill out when you drive a state vehicle. You have to um put who the driver is. The destination, the purpose of the trip. Um, how many miles it took to get there and, or you're ending odometer mileage as well as your beginning odometer mileage, and if you stop for gas, so we're just trying to automate that so
it's not a required manual entry. Now it's not manual entry at the end of the month as to who drives it, but, um, let's say if someone complains about license, you know, they call with a specific license plate that a state vehicle ran them off the road. We need to know who drove. that vehicle and so we would have to, we, and I don't think that's the purpose of tracking that, but that also could, we could look that up and say that car was not anywhere near the, you know, they reported. So I
think it, it could, um, but, but we have to know who drove the vehicle, um, that's part of what is required to be turned in when they fill
Representative Rick Beck
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58:07
out that record so maybe it will help me clear this up. An me this, OK, I'm, I'm, I'm a state employee. I'm gonna utilize
the vehicle. You got your new tracking system. me. OK, I What do I do? Today you're
Speaker 103
58:23
in the future, in the future, OK, well. We don't really have that defined yet because we haven't
found, we haven't finalized a vendor to know what, you know, all they're gonna option. Ideally, what I'd like to have is that they go, they can go up to, uh, with the code and lock the car door, get in and drive. And we know because they've gone on a reservation system prior to that trip to say who's driving, how many passengers, where they're going and how, how many days they're gonna be there so that we can determine it makes, it's really beneficial to the state for you to drive directly and for us to reimburse you
mileage, like if you're going less than 100 miles perhaps, you know, whatever that breakeven point is, and we can say, you need to travel with those 4 people in 1 vehicle and we'll, we'll reimburse your mileage or You'll need an SUV. So we, we need to get a larger vehicle for you if you're traveling with 4 people to go to your destination and then once they enter who it is, they can go and lock that vehicle and then go on their trip and all that is captured automatically and there's no month in keying.
Representative Nicole Clowney
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59:33
Of that manual For every single trip that vehicle took and that information is presented. I mean,
it's kept now right? all of that is is required now, um, and that is reported to Audit currently and they audit the
Representative Rick Beck
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59:48
use of the vehicle, so that's all. I understand, but so you understand the confusion here because,
because you're, you're saying you're gonna feel I'm gonna fill out a report that says I'm doing this, regardless of the new system. I'm going to
this place. And, and, uh, Chairman God why's going with me and, and we're taking off and we got a vehicle. That's
fine. Yeah, if there's an approval process for us to do that, that, that's fine. And that's all the information you need. Your new automated system's not going to collect that information. It's gonna collect the information that that vehicle left that lot. Now you, you might know that I was authorized to take that vehicle, but other than that, now you've shifted over to a whole new set of data which is about that vehicle, where it's
at, what speed it's traveling, and all of those things, which is what you need and I think you'll do that, that'll help you out. But my point is, is if you keep this debt, the, the dest me, Chairman Gass separate, it's not, you know, you know who had the vehicle at that time, but it doesn't have to be there. So now if someone for the information on. The vehicle. Here's what the vehicle did. This is where I was traveling. This is the speed it was taken. So it seems like you, you're trying to take this new system and incorporate into it
how the, the people are driving and who's driving and how they're driving, whereas I don't think you need that. I think you just need that on the vehicle because you know who's driving the vehicle. Does that make sense? And that's all you need to know that they was under I signed it out or whatever you gave me the codes and I, I operated it for that time. That's all you need and then, and
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:01:26
but you don't keep anything else concerning that. So those are separate. It's confusing, but they are kept in separate databases. The, the, the man, the manual logout information, all of that stuff
and where you are, who you're with, that is
Speaker 91
1:01:40
separate from the information that would be. Yeah, so typically a reservation system is gonna have its
Senator Missy Irvin
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1:01:45
data, so you have signed up to, you know, get a vehicle, this is where you're going, this is how long you're going to be gone. All the telematic information is typically kept in a different system. Now, with all systems, even as it is currently today, can those be linked? Yes, but do we generate a report that says Jennifer Davis has driven the
these vehicles, and this is all the performance of those at this time. That is not something that do, but those, that information is technically all there. It's just kept somewhat separately because they have different functions. You have the reservation function and then you have the GPS telematic function, those are, are, are kind of separate functions even though it's overall part of one system, but they are tied in so that way if there is
Speaker 93
1:02:32
an issue, whether somebody is hijacked or um somebody's involved in an accident or something of that
that the Um I don't know the developers, those the reports and things like that can be pulled to correlate the user and the information at
Representative Rick Beck
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1:02:48
that time. So, so the, the reservation system, you, you guys
Senator Missy Irvin
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1:02:53
already have that. No, no. Right now it's all manual. So even though it is manual, those cars that have GPS they can still take that GPS system and the spreadsheet or whatever system that department
is keeping their reservations in whether it's a binder and put those together and still have the exact same information. It's just whether or not it's going
Representative Rick Beck
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1:03:19
to be. The reservations are going to be automated. Alright, so, so the final question
then I'll just tap out here, but Then The, the reservation system is not, it does not exist now this automated reservation system. You're gonna, you, is that part of the $20 per car system or is
Chair
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1:03:38
that another system we're gonna be purchasing? It's, we're trying to find us, find one that
Speaker 103
1:03:45
integrates into that, um. A lot of, a lot of entities do that kind of homegrown, like, for instance, um, Energy and environment currently has an in-house developed tool that they use for a reservation system and so we may do something like that, um, just build on what they've already built. We haven't and I apologize, but we haven't gotten
far enough into the research to know where that tool exists and, and, you know, what
we can use. All right, thank you very much. All right, well, I, I think it's abundantly clear to me at this point that it is about tracking people. It's about tracking vehicles, but it's also about tracking people. It's been admitted that other states anyway track how fast someone's driving, uh, how many miles they've driven, how fast they drove, including down to how hard they break.
I mean, at some point we, I just think we have to say how much are we going to micromanage people and what's next? Are we going to put a body tracker on state employees to monitor how many bathroom breaks they take to monitor how many smoke breaks they take to monitor how much time they spend on their computer to monitor how much time they spend on phone calls and texting on their personal phone, on their state phone. Um Just where do you draw the line on the electronic micromanaging of employees and I just again note the irony that there was a
a bill presented today about uh tracking someone I understand it was without their knowledge or consent, but nevertheless, GPS tracking someone constituting the criminal offense of harassment. But we're, we're about to do that to state employees and say, I
hope you like it. And so I just, you know, at some point I think. I just, please, I mean I
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:05:30
that's the second reference to that bill today, and that feels highly inappropriate to me. I
mean, I, I just, I really don't appreciate the personal attack. If we could just keep this about the policy, that would be
amazing. Well, there's no personal attack and it's
precisely about the policy because it's a comparison. Between two ideas that are closely related that deal with GPS tracking is, it is precisely about the policy. It's not personal. I didn't reference you. I'm
referencing the law and how it applies in different scenarios and how it's related and so. Again, can I say something? Hey, I'm Leslie Fiskin. I'm Secretary of
Speaker 203
1:06:02
Transformation and Shared Services. Can I, I just wanted to have you been recognized? Alright
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:06:15
Any other questions by the committee? Representative Wooldridge. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not an attorney, uh, but I'm enjoying listening to you opine on this. Can you, uh, show me, I know we had talked about it
a while ago and I'm trying to find it in the bill. Where, where does it give you the authority that you
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:06:33
may do it now that you're changing the Ma to shall. That's on page 3 representatives line 25. OK. Each state agency border commission may see how that struck through.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:06:46
Right, so my, I guess question would be if you've got the ability to do it now,
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:06:54
why are you asking for a language change. Because each agency does it separately now, and so some agencies do it,
some agencies don't. This is TSS asking for the authority as a department to have all of the agencies fall under
it and, and have that, uh, have
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:07:10
those devices in all of the state vehicles. So every agency has the unilateral authority to decide that's not governed or
that decision's not made at a higher level in the executive branch. I don't think so. No, it's
not. So department by department. OK, so that, I guess. A little bit of latitude, Mr. Chair, you're recognized the governor has a cabinet secretary cabinet, and, and if the executive branch were to say we want these vehicles recorded, the cabinet secretaries would then have the authority, you're saying under current law to say,
man, no, we're not gonna do that. And you're wanting us to change it to where they don't have a choice to. Basically go against the executive branch or I, I, I don't understand, I guess. At what level is this being decided? Like, why, who is asked for this bill to
Speaker 103
1:08:10
be brought. Um The governor, the governor. It's part of the efficiency study that was done uh with McKenzie and part of the challenge was not having enough
data to have, I mean, there just isn't enough accurate data to understand the full utilization of all the 4000 vehicles and so this was the first step to have accurate data, which will
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:08:32
then we could make better decisions. Sure, I understand that. And last question, um. So earlier I'd asked about the cabinet level, if the cabinet person, it looks like the amendment exempts a cabinet level department executive,
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:08:47
is that right? that And as law enforcement and
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:08:53
they have to be a cabinet level and used for law enforcement. OK, so just regular law
Speaker 85
1:09:00
enforcement vehicles are not exempted. All law enforcement
Speaker 103
1:09:03
vehicles are exempt. Better, this only applies to cabinet-level departments, so the 15 departments that are cabinet and we're saying that of the 15 that we're that we want to implement this on all the law enforcement vehicles are exempt. So all of the
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:09:17
law enforcement vehicles and say, Department of Public Safety, which are, uh, it's gonna be a huge chunk of
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:09:24
the 4000 that we're talking about, that would all be exempt. OK, I'm still confused though. So cabinet
level vehicles, so cabinet secretaries that drive a state vehicle. unless they are law enforcement office or they will be trapped. If they drive a vehicle, they drive a vehicle, but if they drive a vehicle and they are also a law enforcement officer, they
Speaker 209
1:09:46
will be exempt along with all other law enforcement officer vehicles is used for law enforcement, not the driver, why would we exempt law enforcement?
Speaker 93
1:09:57
We worked with the Department of Public Safety and Corrections on that, and there's a number of reasons. It could be that many of those vehicles are used for undercover operations and you don't want, especially if they're releasable under FOIA, you do not want the, you know, information about that vehicle. Getting out, a lot of them are using them for, you know, sting operations and things of that nature. That was some of their concerns, additionally, it's just a safety issue for those, plus they already have the dash cams, the other GPSs in the vehicle, so they're already tracking amongst themselves the
best utilization of that and having any of that utilization on what a police cruiser goes through and how many miles and how fast
Senator Missy Irvin
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1:10:34
they're driving, is going to skew any of the other data that we have that it's
Speaker 177
1:10:39
used for a normal. State purpose. OK, I
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:10:44
mean, I, I guess some of that makes sense. I, I think the foible part of it does not, because I mean, obviously you couldn't fo it in advance of a sting. It would be after the fact, and I'm, I'm for exempting law enforcement to be honest, I'm not, I'm, I'm gonna vote no in general just because I think
it's overreaching to a lot of the points that have been made, but again, I, I don't understand. I don't understand everything about the bill, um, but I just have some concerns and I I appreciate that. I'll let
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:11:13
it go with that. Thank you. Representative Rose, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
A familiar uh Representative Klein, I'm sure you are, but just for clarity, are you familiar with the
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:11:25
term metadata. I've heard it. I am not Steven Meeks, but
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:11:32
It's, it's fine when I was in, when I was in college, it was the first time I was introduced to the term and I asked my professor what mata ta ta was, so it, it's more or less it's, it's digital data that is embedded in other data. Like a photograph, like a video frame. Like tracking data. Um My, my assumption, which I know could get me in trouble, but my assumption is that there is metadata that will be attached to the tracking information. A
lot of the tracking information itself may be metadata. So when we're talking about something that could be foyer. Or something that could be subpoenaed. Imagine there's a lot of, of itty-bitty data that is available like destinations along a A journey for a vehicle where they stop.
For 5 minutes or where they spent the night, where they started, where they ended. Does that make sense so far that that information would be available in the in the tracking devices, metadata.
Chair
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1:12:35
It should be. I think that's that's available on all our vehicles,
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:12:38
so it would be included on that as well. So follow me with this and I'm, I'm, I feel like I'm, I'm referencing at least more than one account that I, I know of just from conversation, but we have state employees who live close to the Capitol. We have state employees who live far from the capital. The state employees who may live a good ways off but also keep a residence here. We have state employees who may
travel all across the state and in those journeys, they may stay overnight somewhere. And in the scenario I'm gonna give you, which is a real one, but we can make it a hypothetical one too. They could start out in Little Rock and have a trip to the other side of the state, north, south, east, west, wherever it is, and this could be something they do semi-regular. And in the course of their journeys, instead of staying in a hotel, their house, their primary residence, maybe somewhere in between point A and point B. They may stop there frequently, they may spend the night there, see their family, visit their
kids, whatever it might be, and they're in their state vehicle. And we're now saying if we pass this, that that residence that they may stop at with some frequency, whether it's because they're passing through or they're staying the night or whatever it is that that data of where their residence is, is now
Speaker 103
1:13:54
publicly available. Does that make sense? my understanding is it would already be publicly available because they have to record that on the the home address if they stop there every destination has
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:14:07
to be entered on that form where
Speaker 103
1:14:10
they stop. And you've made that publicly available? No one's asked for it, so no, I don't make it public. Well, I'm not the keeper of it today, but um. If anyone asks for it, it's a form that's
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:14:23
already, I mean, that information's being captured today. It's supposed
to be the current policy captures the address of every stop of every state vehicle that's not exempted.
Speaker 163
1:14:32
Wayne Long behind you nodding vigorously, I know and, and that's part of why we
Speaker 103
1:14:39
want to automate this because to use a vehicle is so it it requires so much manual writing of everything, every stop you make is required to be entered in that log in that vehicle log.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:14:50
I want to go back to this. With cost savings. Can you tell me specifically how that's calculated. I still hadn't heard that yet. So
Chair
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1:15:01
today there's a few different ways that McKenzie has recommended we're going to capture cost savings
Speaker 103
1:15:09
make sure we're on the same page how this specifically would be saving. OK, the GPS, so that's one of them, um, by, by being able to know I have of those 4000 vehicles, I have 200 that have not been driven. More than 100 miles in a year, tells me I probably don't need those vehicles or I need to go figure out why they're not being driven more than 100 miles. Maybe there's special purpose. Maybe they're, you know, it's a truck that's used for
maintenance that only goes between here and the commerce building. And so that, that makes sense. We still need that vehicle because it carries ladders, equipment, etc. But if, if it's a pool vehicle that we're using for people to check out and for for anyone to use. We don't need that vehicle and we need to sell it. We don't need to have the cost of the insurance. We don't need to have it sitting on a lot,
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:16:03
not being used and deteriorating rough number of vehicles, you think? 300 that you would get rid of. We
Speaker 103
1:16:11
have, we've started getting rid of vehicles as part of this exercise. I think we've gotten rid of over 100 as of maybe 124 as of today, that have been identified as underutilized.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:16:22
So you've gotten rid of 100 without this, and you're anticipating 200 more because of this once I
Speaker 103
1:16:29
know once I have data, I could tell you how many we should get rid of. I just don't have all the data today because It's manually Um, entered in a system and
there's not a good way to do the analysis. So I'm, I'm hoping that we could identify 200 more vehicles that are underutilized or we shifted instead to looking at The $8 million that we're paying for travel reimbursement. We know we have 66 employees that are getting over 10,000 a year. So maybe they need vehicles. So maybe we need to shift those underutilized vehicles to those departments so that they can instead not, we don't incur that high cost of travel reimbursement.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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1:17:13
The whole, the point is efficiency. The point
is to save money, um. There is a hope That you will find more efficiencies through this. You have optimistic savings, but not necessarily. Data yet is what
Chair
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1:17:28
has to be better than what we do
today, OK. All right, all right, thank you, thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Mayberry, you're recognized.
Representative Julie Mayberry
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1:17:38
Thank you, Chair. Um, I'm gonna make a motion in just a second,
but I wanna, wanna ask a question because on page 2 and page 3, the very beginning of page 3, it does say that they're supposed to be a report that's turned into the legislative council. That's like already a shall so is that done every year because it seems like when people have asked questions, I keep hearing I don't have those numbers, I don't know what they are, so I'm wondering if, if that part of this is not being done every year. Has
Speaker 103
1:18:10
that report gone? Legislative council? Yes, uh, DFNA is currently responsible
for that and so they have a um system that they track that inventory and that's what we have 4000 vehicles that they have reported to me, um, but there's not a clear line of distinguished we can we don't distinguish, it's
Chair
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1:18:28
hard to know which ones are law enforcement. In those, unless you go line by line and
Representative Julie Mayberry
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1:18:36
look at the vehicle description. OK. Well, My motion is there's a lot of conversation about the cost of this, and I don't think we're gonna come to the resolution
today and so my motion is, can we get a fiscal impact on this and then come back when you have better numbers for us to look at and that way we, we feel more comfortable with what that is. That's my motion, a physical
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:19:01
impact. I think Representative Maybury just if I may, I think that we tried to get a fiscal impact and we couldn't. Is that correct? I'm, I'm sorry, I just want to make sure I'm right
Speaker 225
1:19:10
before I say this. Um, is that correct? we can't, Can we get
Representative Nicole Clowney
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1:19:13
one? Is it possible to get one for this committee?
We'll try. Well, I will contact DFNA and try
Representative Julie Mayberry
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1:19:21
to get that for you, Representative Mayberry, for sure. OK, cause I, I, I was gonna say I know every committee a member is allowed to ask for a fiscal impact on any bill, um, health, health bill, I mean any any committee were allowed to request that and so I'm asking if we can, and I think they have to have it back within 3 days, 5 days, 5 days which we
won't be here in 5 days, but for fiscal impact. All right, Representative
Mayberry's made a request for a fiscal impact. It's my understanding. On a request for fiscal impact has been made and there's not, if there's not one, and there is not that no action can be taken on the bill until the fiscal impact is prepared and presented, and so we're going to. Send that request to the appropriate entity to to prepare and send this committee a fiscal impact, and then the committee must receive the fiscal impact or have the fiscal impact for one day before any action can be taken on the bill. So
Representative Mayberry's made the request. It sounds like no further action can be taken on the bill today. Thank you. All right, thank you. All right.
So you wanna have a bill they'd like to run quickly? It wasn't a joke. I have one, but I can't. It hasn't been 24 hours. All right, seeing no further business before this committee tonight. Representative Beatty, hang on. Some like the room that we Representative Beatty, you sure you want to do this? This committee is not quite. Yeah Which, what numbers do you have represented Beatty? 403.
177 Plus words. membership. OK. House Bill 1774. All right, let's start with that one.
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:22:07
Representative Beatty, you're recognized. Representative Howard Beatty District 95, um, thank you, Mr. Chairman, uh, committee members present House Bill 1774. It's an act to amend the membership of the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission, um, Basically right now what what this
bill would do is, uh, would add 7 members total, 4-year terms, uh, 5 members appointed by the governor subject to confirmation by the Senate, 5 members would have knowledge or experience in the fields of real
estate, home building, mortgage lending, banking, or other related field, uh, one member would be appointed by the president, a pro tem of the Senate, uh, this demonstrated active involvement or interest in fair housing issues. One member by the Speaker of the House. uh, with like, um, similar demonstrated involvement or interest in fair housing. The justification for these changes, uh, current statutory requirements uh for appointments are very specific and difficult to maintain compliance. It's
difficult to find candidates who are willing to serve and also meet the very narrow uh requirements and, and burdensome for appointing authorities, uh, citizens interested in serving or anyone else making those recommendations. So broadening these requirements. will allow much greater pool of candidates, uh, to be considered for appointment and give more people an opportunity to participate. It will result in an active and engaged board of directors with that'll entertain any questions.
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:23:39
All right, uh, Representative Wooldridge, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Representative. So I was trying
to get this pulled up, so is this the statute that governs the board appointment and certification of all of our local housing authorities.
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:23:52
I, I don't think so. I think this is just a fair housing
Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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1:23:57
commission at the state level. OK, so this is the state level. This doesn't because right now every housing authority in our districts or communities have a state statute by which those boards are made up, they're governed, how folks
roll off of them. This doesn't amend or change. that
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:24:12
in any way? No, I, I, I think this is strictly the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission. Thank you.
All right, any other questions by the committee? See no further questions by the committee. We have no one signed up to speak for or against the bill Representative Beatty, you recognized
to close for your bill. I'm closed, Miss Cher. I offer a motion to do pass. I appreciate a good vote. I
got a motion to pass. Is there any discussion on the motion, seeing none, all those in favor say aye, all those opposed, yes Aot,
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:24:41
congratulations, you passed your bill. You got one more? I got one more that I can be just as quick. Uh, Representative Howard Beatty District 95 here to present Senate Bill 403. Basically sent bill 403 is an act to create the 2020 Arkansas Complete Count Committee to plan for the statewide educational outreach initiatives to increase community awareness and participation in the 2030 federal census. Um, and, and members, if you, if you have this bill, you can kind of look through uh the required
the need for this, uh, I think if, if you look on page 2 of the bill on line one, it points out that accurate information is critical to planning and growth and development for the social needs of Arkansas, uh, and during the 2022 census, Arkansas had the highest uh undercount in the 2020 census at at um 5.04% undercount. It was one of 6 states that considered by the US Bureau of Census to have statistically significant undercounts during
the 2020 federal census. Over 300 program, federal programs, um, uh, rely on that census data to allocate their funds. It was estimated that um that undercount um from those 50, that those 55 um federal programs that spend money they allocate somewhere around $10 billion to Arkans. So for fiscal year 2016 based on that data and it it's estimated that based on the undercount that that census, uh, cost over
$5 billion to the state of Arkansas. So, um, basically that's the justification for this um for this bill, uh, it was signed, uh, brought with um Senator Clark Tucker this morning when he was in here presenting, uh, we're kind of hoping that maybe we could run those at the same time, but he said he's gonna leave it in my hands and so I, I think this makes the case for it. It gives us time. We're halfway through now, and we need to get on task, uh, and, and get the educational programs out
there and work on getting our Our communities and our folks comfortable with the reporting, uh, to take advantage of the monies that we're missing out that we can employ here in the state with
Representative Andrew Collins
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1:26:58
entertaining questions. Representative Collins, you're recognized. Thank you, uh, Mr. Chair. So, uh, Representative Beatty, you know, you and I are both on some sort of federal group as the majority leader and as the minority leader regarding the census, and I think he probably got the same mail I did. How is this different from that? I, I.
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:27:17
I think this is gonna be something that we here in the state can take an active participation in
and help educate our folks instead of just the, the two of us working and advocating on behalf of the state. I think this will establish a, you know, if you look in here, the establishment of the board and the working group and the committee. So it, it's something that we can proactively work on here as a team in the state of Arkansas. Well,
Representative Andrew Collins
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1:27:39
and I appreciate that and I appreciate the bill. I, I guess I just want to understand, are they two separate things like this group will compliment.
coexist with whatever that other group is, which I
think maybe it's determined by federal law. I'm not sure
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:27:55
if it is or not. I, I think it is. I think
it's uh under federal law and and with the um the census commission that, that we, we get the notices and things that we get,
Representative Stephen Meeks
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1:28:09
um. Got it. Thank you. Representative Meeks, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh only question I, I definitely understand the concern you're trying to, trying to fill here. Uh, only question
I have is, uh, 30-member board, that's a pretty large group to try to try to get together, uh, and I'm just wondering, does that board need to be that big because we understand that you try to get 30 people to agree and go in one direction, that can be, can be a challenge sometimes. So just, just curious about thoughts on
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:28:40
that? Well, my, my thoughts on, on that are we're gonna, this committee's gonna be working for all 75 counties in the state, and I think everyone's gonna want to have a stakeholder, someone involved in
the committee, so I'm, I'm, I mean, that's, I, I think it's gonna, it's a monumental task and it this is a task that can't be completed by 5 or 6 folks. It it needs to have a collective
involvement. All right, any other questions by the committee? Seeing no further questions by the committee, we have no one signed up to speak for or against
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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1:29:14
the bill. Representative Beatty, you recognized to close for the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, members of
the community, this is, this is probably one of the most important things that we can do
for the state moving forward to prepare for the 2030 census by focusing on improving the accuracy of our, our census data. This bill will make certain and ensure that Arkansas receives its fair share of federal funds and resources based on the true population count of the
state of Arkansas, and with that, I appreciate your attention and allowing me to get these pills out and I'd offer a motion to
pass. All right, we have a motion to pass on the floors is there any discussion on the motion Representative Beck, you're recognized.
Representative Rick Beck
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1:29:56
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to emphasize the importance of that. Thanks for bringing this bill. It's, it's great. I had a city that that dramatically got underreported and they are held out of a lot of federal funds that could help that city, uh, right now because it just they just didn't get their reporting done right and, and when they tried to appeal it, it, there's literally nothing they could do. It's they're stuck there until the next census, so this is a very important thank you for bringing this bill. Thank you. All right, any other discussion on the motion?
Seeing no further discussion on the motion, all those in favor say aye aye and all those opposed, guys have it. Congratulations, you've passed your bill with that see no further business for this committee. We are adjourned. was.
Agenda
CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT
HB1614 Lundstrum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DESIGNATIONS RELATED TO CERTAIN CRIMINAL JUSTICE GRANT PROGRAMS.
REGULAR AGENDA
HB1621 Wardlaw TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO EXEMPT PERSONAL INFORMATION OF ELECTED CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS, JUDICIAL OFFICIALS, ELECTED COUNTY OFFICIALS, ELECTED MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS, AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY.
HB1631 Wardlaw TO ADDRESS THE ISSUANCE OF HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS.
HB1632 Wardlaw TO REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT TO THE ARKANSAS STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION FOR FREE OR DISCOUNTED HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES.
HB1706 McCollum TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
HB1720 Vaught TO CREATE THE BABIES AT WORK ACT; TO ALLOW STATE AGENCIES TO PERMIT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WHO ARE PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS TO BRING THEIR INFANTS SIX MONTHS OR YOUNGER TO WORK.
HB1069 S. Meeks TO OBSERVE STANDARD TIME YEAR ROUND IN ARKANSAS; AND TO ELIMINATE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IN ARKANSAS.
HB1739 M. Brown TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIALS ACT.
HB1740 K. Moore TO EXEMPT CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967.
HB1187 Vaught TO AUTHORIZE A LICENSURE BY ENDORSEMENT FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS.
HJR1004 Ladyman APPLYING TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOR AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION OF THE STATES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO IMPOSE TERM LIMITS OF MEMBERS FOR THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
HB1753 Long TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION; TO OPT-OUT OF THE NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT OF 1993; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51, § 5.
HB1773 Long TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CONTRIBUTION LIMITS FOR BALLOT QUESTION COMMITTEES AND LEGISLATIVE QUESTION COMMITTEES.
HB1774 Beaty Jr. TO AMEND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS FAIR HOUSING COMMISSION.
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.
HB1037 A. Collins TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING PERSONS WHO MAY REGISTER TO VOTE; AND AMENDING PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51, UNDER THE AUTHORITY GRANTED BY ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51, § 19.
HB1041 A. Collins TO PROHIBIT DECEPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT DEEPFAKES IN ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS.
HB1797 Beaty Jr. TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; TO AMEND A PORTION OF THE ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 2000; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SENATE BILLS
SB351 J. Dismang TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.
SB370 Irvin TO TRANSFER THE ARKANSAS WINE PRODUCERS COUNCIL FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
SB343 Irvin TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATE-OWNED MOTOR VEHICLES; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC PROPERTY; AND TO AMEND THE AUTOMOBILE AND PICKUP TRUCK ACQUISITION ACT FOR THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
SB12 B. King TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING REDISTRICTING BY THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT.
SB403 C. Tucker 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.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
HJR1001 A. Collins A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE THE CITIZENS' REDISTRICTING COMMISSION AND TO REPEAL THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT.
HJR1002 J. Richardson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REPEAL THE EXCEPTION TO THE PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY AND INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.
HJR1003 A. Collins THE ARKANSAS GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE AMENDMENT.
HJR1005 Long AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS.
HJR1006 B. McKenzie AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION PROVIDING THAT A GOVERNMENTAL BODY SHALL NOT USE STATE OR LOCAL FUNDS TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH A LOBBYIST FOR LOBBYING PURPOSES.
HJR1007 Cavenaugh A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO CREATE A PROCEDURE FOR THE RECALL OF CERTAIN ELECTED OFFICIALS.
HJR1008 S. Meeks AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE TAXATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND REAL PROPERTY IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
HJR1009 K. Brown AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO BE KNOWN AS THE ARKANSAS VICTIMS' BILL OF RIGHTS; AND TO PROVIDE RIGHTS FOR VICTIMS OF MISDEMEANOR AND FELONY OFFENSES, INCLUDING VICTIMS IN THE ADULT AND JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS.
HJR1010 Unger A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE, THE SENATE MAY REMOVE MEMBERS OF CERTAIN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS FOR CAUSE ONLY, AFTER NOTICE AND HEARING.
HJR1011 S. Meeks A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE CONSIDERATION OF BILLS OTHER THAN APPROPRIATION BILLS DURING A FISCAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
HJR1012 R. Scott Richardson AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REPEAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE REAPPRAISAL AND REASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 79, CONCERNING REAL PROPERTY TAXES.
HJR1013 Pilkington A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN VACANCIES SHALL BE FILLED BY APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR.
HJR1014 Beaty Jr. A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
HJR1015 Lundstrum A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY BY REQUIRING A JUDICIAL CANDIDATE TO DECLARE HIS OR HER POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION OR INDEPENDENT STATUS WHEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
HJR1016 Ray A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REPEAL THE PROVISION OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 5, § 1, ALLOWING THE SPONSOR OF AN INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM PETITION TO CORRECT OR AMEND A PETITION.
HJR1017 Ray A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROVIDING THAT A PROPOSED STATE-WIDE INITIATED ACT OR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SHALL BECOME A LAW WHEN APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF THE VOTES CAST IN THE ELECTION AND A MAJORITY OF THE COUNTIES OF THE STATE.
HJR1018 Ray THE CITIZENS ONLY VOTING AMENDMENT.
HJR1019 S. Meeks AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REMOVE REFERENCES TO GREYHOUND RACING FROM ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 100.
HB1028 A. Collins TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE LAW CONCERNING OBSCENITY AND THE PROCESS FOR CHALLENGING MATERIALS INCLUDED IN A LIBRARY; AND TO REQUIRE A LIBRARY TO HAVE A POLICY PROHIBITING BOOK BANNING IN ORDER TO RECEIVE STATE FUNDING.
HB1035 A. Collins TO CREATE THE ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION ACT OF 2025; TO ALLOW ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION; TO AMEND ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51; AND TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
HB1036 A. Collins TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION; TO ALLOW VOTER REGISTRATION DURING EARLY VOTING AND ON ELECTION DAY; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 51.
HB1038 A. Collins TO CREATE THE NO-EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF 2025; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE VOTING; AND TO REPEAL VOTER
QUALIFICATIONS FOR ABSENTEE VOTING.
HB1039 A. Collins TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS.
HB1040 A. Collins TO CREATE THE WATER IN LINE ACT OF 2025; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PENALTIES FOR MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES RELATED TO VOTING.
HB1042 A. Collins TO CREATE THE DIRECT DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2025; TO REPEAL THE ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL ARKANSANS AND VOTER PROTECTION ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND THE PROCEDURE FOR THE FILING OF A BALLOT
INITIATIVE PETITION AND REFERENDUM PETITION.
HB1043 A. Collins TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE AND REPORTING OF NONCANDIDATE EXPENDITURES PERTAINING TO APPELLATE JUDICIAL ELECTIONS; AND TO ADOPT NEW LAWS CONCERNING APPELLATE JUDICIAL CAMPAIGNS.
HB1162 Duffield TO ESTABLISH GOOD FRIDAY AS AN OFFICIAL STATE HOLIDAY.
HB1058 Unger TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ETHICS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; AND TO PROHIBIT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FROM GIVING ADVANCE NOTICE TO ENTITIES OF REQUIRED INSPECTIONS.
HB1059 Unger TO PROVIDE THE OPTION FOR A FREE LIFETIME HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSE TO A COMMERCIAL TRUCK DRIVER WHO IS A RESIDENT AND PROVIDES CERTAIN INFORMATION RELATED TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
HB1078 Long TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR A RUNOFF ELECTION FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
HB1281 McAlindon TO AMEND REPORTING FOR A CANDIDATE FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND FOR COUNTY OFFICE; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.
HB1415 L. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DUTIES OF THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL; AND TO ALLOW THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL TO REQUEST AN INQUIRY BY THE DIVISION OF ARKANSAS STATE POLICE FOR ARSON.
HB1494 Hawk TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS GUIDANCE OUT OF THE DARKNESS ACT; AND TO REQUIRE STATE AGENCIES TO PUBLISH FEDERAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS ONLINE.
HB1459 L. Johnson CONCERNING RECURRING REPORTS SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
HB1461 L. Johnson TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE EVALUATION OF NECESSITY OF VARIOUS COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS. TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF INFORMATION
HB1470 Beaty Jr. TECHNOLOGY PLANS.
SB184 D. Sullivan TO TRANSFER THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COMMISSION AND THE STATE LIBRARY BOARD TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
HB1683 McAlindon TO PROHIBIT THE PROCUREMENT BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE OR A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE THAT WAS MANUFACTURED IN WHOLE OR IN PART USING FORCED LABOR.
HB1667 Bentley TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PUBLIC MEETINGS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967.
HB1769 Barnett CONCERNING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER STANDARDS; AND TO REQUIRE A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OR ASSESSMENT TO BECOME OR BE EMPLOYED AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
Documents
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| Agenda — STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE, Mar 19, 2025 | Agenda | 5 | Official source ↗ |
Speakers
Representative Jimmy Gazaway Chair
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Representative Jeremy Wooldridge
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Representative Kendon Underwood
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Representative Stephen Meeks
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Representative Andrew Collins
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Representative Rick Beck
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Speaker 21
Representative Ryan A. Rose
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Speaker 56
Representative Nicole Clowney
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Speaker 70
Chair
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Speaker 79
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Senator Missy Irvin
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Speaker 118
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Representative RJ Hawk
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Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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Speaker 152
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Representative Julie Mayberry
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Speaker 225