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Speaker 17
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The House of Representatives for Arkansasoy State will come to order.
invite the members staff press and guest in the galleries to stand and be led in prayer by the Bo state chaplain Brodie Williamson. and to remain standing for the pledge of allegiance led by Representative Ford. please bow heads dear heavenly Father, we
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thank you for having us here today. We pray for the safety of everyone in this room and we pray for all these delegates
thank you for everything you do for us and you're in Jesus' name I pray
Members, please indicate your presence by pushing your yellow present button prepare the machine Mister Clark is everybody press the yellow button to record their attendants
Cast up the ballot Mister Clark with members present the chair sees a quorum 77
members present The chair appoints the following committee to notify the senate that the house is organized and ready for business. Representative AJ Walton
The chair points to the following committee to notify the governor that the organ organizer is ready for business EndivRogers ispresentative rogers in here Mr. Cook please read
the calendar item House Bill1001 House Bill11
Chair
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by Representative Charles to improve rural health Representative Charles, you are recognized to explain the bill
Gentlemen, we've got listed you'll see on your calendar on your desk most of these are lead sponsors Mr Charpresentative Charles not in the in the room is there a cosponsor to the bill I know he'll do it but
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typically we have is our cosponsor on this bill are you a cosponsor sir Representative Jones
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you are recognized to explain the bill members of the how y'all doing? alrighty so this bill is to increase funding for healthcare in rural areas I'm from a rural area myself that is played by gun violence is a young African American man I see how bad the royal healthcare system is at the moment the bill I'm proposing increases healthcare funding for the rural hospitals and
These be your jersey this bill addresses both problem at one by investing in ruralhaur and encouraging more medical professionals to serve these rural communities we
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can improve emergency care reduce health health disparities and give
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rural families access to the proper care they need I believe we could fund this bill through state healthcare funds the federal health grants and also
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by targeted budget reallocations Any Yes sir Representative Perry
Representative Mark Perry
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15:17
for what purpose? it says here that is a tax that is imposed on individuals who make at least300,000 dollars.
Chair
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how much will this tax beerry me interrupt you just I did a poor job of explaining this whenever whenever you want to be recognized you standpeaker recognize you and he'll say for what purpose you'll respond question then he'll grant you he'll recognize you from there we don't just jump into it no it's my fault just want to clarify that so we're going forward but wait to be recognized with the question then you can explain. for what purpose Representative Perry question you're recognized
Representative Mark Perry
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15:56
it says here that as a tax that is imposed on an individual who learns at least300,000 dollars. How much will this tax be? This tax will be 10%
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Thank you Representative Underwood for what purpose ue s you're recognized Mr Jones
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what made you pick the number of300,000 dollars when people under that amount of
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money would also be using the same hospitals feel as if you make at least300,000 dollars in their network you have maybe just a little bit to spare for your
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people Representative Pilkington for what purpose? recognizecognized you said the tax would be 10%? Is that 10% of an individual's income?
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Representative Unger you get for what purpose? question recognized how are you going to choose how to allocate
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the The funding will be allocated determining on maybe the area and the population of the area it could also depend on like maybe if the hospital they have nearing the rural areas are beginning to close down or are declining in services thank you
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Representative William for what purpose? you are recognized is there any unintended consequences that might hurt rural communities instead of helping them?
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Is there any unintended like consequences that could hurt the rural communities instead of help them. don't believe so
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Representedalby for what purpose?ues you are recognized so how exactly do
Representative Carol Dalby
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18:13
you plan on funding this bill for the long term because we cannot just write a blank check because that will be fiscally irresponsible and that will lead us to a financial crisis. So how would you plan to fund this in the long term? in
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the long term I will continue to take the 10% from those making the300,000 I also use in federal
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Representative Henley for what purpose you're recognized for a loan or
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short short term goal? this is a long term building improved is general
healthcare in rural areas. OK Representative Mackenzie
Representative Brit McKenzie
Unverified
19:04
purpose? you're recognized thank you would you think that with targeting these people who
make over300,000 dollars. do you think that might negatively impact the people who might move to
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Arkansas who might help our economy I believe it
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could but it can't because as I believe that maybe taking the300,000 then becomes a part of your civic duty life ok maybe I would want to help thank you Representative innneit for what purpose
uhpresentative Jones has left the well Representative Jones has explained the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill?
RepresentativemcCole you are recognized to speak against the bill while he's coming up if you
Chair
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speak for or against you come to the well and also if you ask more than one question you have to ask follow
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up question that sort of thing so be mindful of that too Thank you Mr Speaker as a personal on person in a family that doesn't make above300,000 dollars. it specifies within the bill that it's to help have more healthcare professionals in rural areas of Arkansas for healthcare. Now when it happened more professionals does not mean that it's a higher quality it doesn't specify that so that
means for us that are making300,000 dollars or more with a 10% income tax which is quite a lot may not even be making things more higher quality it's just that there's more healthcare professionals. You may be getting the same you may be getting more people but if they don't know what they're doing it's a waste of our time and Representative Mickulllum has spoke against the
bill does anybody wish to speak for
the bill Representative Pierce you are recognized to speak for the bill During
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my further research I have researched that in rural are in rural places in Arkansas there has been a bunch of declining funds for rural hospitals and this also has
impacted maternity Although the 10% may seem a lot for mem people who make above so to not just promote a life but to save a life as well in today's economy nobody has the amount of money for transportation or has the type of transportation to travel miles away to a nearby hospital to Same healthcare that could be provided by rural healthalthcare
Representative Pearerce has spoken has spoken for the bill an dy be like to speak
Representative Carol Dalby
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22:51
against the bill Representativealby like when we throw government subsidies at rural healthcare it can create a tempor
and or bureaucratic positions but does not help the long term. like Senator McCollum said not sendator Representative Mccollum said it can it doesn't it wasn't the bill did not
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specify it would be better healthcare. it would just be more healthcare and with just more healthcare we open ourselves to malpractice lawsuits and how would you combat the malpractice lawsuits
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Represented McGruder what purpose? you're recognized right right now it's just questions guy if you want to ask a question s stand up Representative Eden for what purpose
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and to clarify in 1/30 line it says expand funding for rural health and quality of care in rural communities so it's just it's just not the it's just not expanding it's the quality as well just ask them
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would you agree would you agree I'm confused
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by your would you agree that the increases the quality and the
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hands on for the healthcare or just do that creates more healthcare possessions but I do not agree that a better quality of healthcare Representative dalby has spoken against the bill would
anybody like to speak for the bill Representative whittaker would like to speak for the bill
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you're recognize Thank you Mr Speaker I'm not gonna get up here and act like I know all the statistics to rural areas but I live in a rural area just like our fellow representative here and I understand his his calls for it for me I stay in Clarendon
and we only have a clinic so it's only so much they can do for us besides provide medicine and give us provide us with common things for like flu or cough or like soreness so we have to go to stogar and Stutgars is never tipop shape and they're have flaws too so we have to go to childrenn's all the way in LittleRock which is an hour and some change I see his cause as trying to not only better the community's health but it the also the people working there because like umpresentative Dadley said
he does not feel as if they're trying to if it's going to better the quality or to sustainability but it's only going to just bring in more and if they're not doing anything it's not gonna work
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that's the whole point of the quality.uality is improving, making better not just looking better or bringing people Representative Whittaker has spoken for the
bill would anybody like to speak against the bill? Representative Hensley you have
Representative Dolly Henley
Unverified
27:02
Thank you Mr Speaker the only reason why I'm speaking out against this bill is that I get the full purpose of what it is trying to do is trying to better health care in rural communities but if you look at the bill it does not specify where that money is coming from that is the main issue for me if it specified where the money came from I will be fully forward but it only says that it was taxing people who make more than300,000 dollars a year that's not enough explaining for a bill dealing with health care thank you
Representative Hensley has spoken for the bill Anybody like to speak against the bill Representative Ququaite,
Representative Ry
Unverified
27:54
you're recognized Although rural healthcare is important I think we can all agree on that the issue remains in the
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10% tax that would seem almost like an attack on the upper middle class
income earners. I mean 10% of your yearly income if you're making300,000 that's a lot of money now if we switched it to something more like4% of a monthly income that could be a little more reasonable but 10% just seems like kind of seems like an infringement on people's on people's money man it seems like we're trying to take from the rich and from the poor not as much of a work together to solve an issue
RepresentativeRaja spoke against the bill would anybody like to speak for the bill Representative
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Richardson, you have a floor? I'm gonna support this bill to improve rural healthcare in Arkansas
tooo many people in small towns struggle to access doctors hospitals and basic healthcare. this bill will help expand medical service and support healthier communities across our state I believe if you stay in a rural area 300000 is a lot and 10% is not a lot taken from that as many elders it's a lot of elders stay in rural areas even though I stay in a rural area a hospital is like30 minutes
away and it may not seem like a long time but like in a when you in need 30 minutes can be a lot so I believe that this is a great bill and it will help out a lot for the rural community. Representative Richardson has spoken for the bill would anybody like
to speak against the bill Represented aught for what purpose? I'd like to make a motion you reckon not I move immediate consider
Chair
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30:23
there's a proper motion not debatable all in favor say aye Any right this is this is a procedure gentlemen to end debate and vote immediately we call it motion for immediate
consideration for some of you that are familiar with roberts rules of water it's usually previous question but we we're governed by masons and we use immediate consideration and what that does it ends debate immediately if we get 2/3 of the body voting for the motion we move immediately into the vote on the under on the underlying bill in this case it probably failed because there were no votes really for lack of a better term so debate would continue in the
future and and yesterday inirls state we got very we used it very a lot. We used it about every bill so be mindful of it but you do need a voice vote and when he calls we don't put everything on the board motions and and resolutions different things like that we just voice vote so you you've got pay attention keep up with the with with what's happening and and vote as we go forward and that's what happened there just to just to recap anybody wish to speak against
the bill Representative Gruder for what for what you're recognize my problem is there's
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a lot of doctors the issue I see is for taxing them would not drive them away from Arkansas?
Representative Macgruder has spoken against the billspeakerpeaker Evans you're recognized thank you Mrpeaker guysys wanna
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great debate. I've been listening to this and I'm really impressed with your engagement and your
Representative Brian S. Evans
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willingness to come and speak for and against this issue and so if you were if you had thoughts on this and you were wanting to come speak for and against you hold that thought but I want pause just for a moment
got two very special guests here today that I want to take just a moment and introduce and one of these guys is has been a great friend to me you have probably seen him around all week and that is from the Americanlegion Boy State Board of directors Mr.ynn Cotton back here in the back now
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you probably don't know this how famous he really is but now he's he's he's big time famous for
two reasons one he's big time famous because of the dedication that he has poured into Arkansas Boy state for more years than I can even think of he gives a week two weeks, three weeks of his life
Representative Brian S. Evans
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33:40
every summer volunteers comes down and makes sure that you guys have a great way the other reason that he is so famous is because he is the father of your United States senator Tom Cotton. you may have heard of senator Tom Cotton and he is here with us today Senator Cotton I would love for you to come down and greet these guys
if you if you if you would Guys from your United States Capitol all the way back from Washington DC please welcome United States Senator Tom Cotton
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thank you well it's great to be back at Boy State I was a delegate myself in your position32 years ago in 1994 my father was a delegate in 1962 he's been either a counselor or on the
board or a chairman now for30 years we have deep affection and devotion to this program I think now that you've been through it for a week you can understand why you've probably made some friends here that are gonna be friends for the rest of your life and be able to stay in touch with them as well in a way that my dad and I weren't always able to give the state of technology back then but I I hope this week is instilled in you a greater sense of confidence and ambition as you go forward into your senior year and then once you get out of high school and also a sense
of patriotism as well that you've learned a little bit more about our states and about our nation and what makes Arkansas and America such a special place and that you're gonna take that back home and you're gonna try to help instill that in your peers and your classmates and your teammates and in your community as well because your teachers and coaches sent you here for a reason they selected you because they saw a spark of leadership in you not just next year not just for the next few years but for the rest of your life as
young men who can grow into adults who lead our communities who lead our state who lead our nation so I wanna express again my congratulations to you for being elected to the house it goes to show the confidence that you're peers had in you and urge you to take that responsibility seriously as you go on in the next steps of your life so thank you all for letting me come here congratulations again on being a Boise
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state delegate and being in the house of Representatives.
Representative Brian S. Evans
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guys US Senator cotton is was one of us he wore the colors just like each of you have and I did and his dad did and many of our our friends that are here today he is a fabulous senator for for us here in Arkansas he cares deeply about all four corners of our state he represents us very well in WashingtondC He is a leader right now in the administration on national and global security so he is up there serving us he is a veteran he's a combat veteran so when you're laying your head down on
the pillow at night and you're safe and secure in your home and back in your communities you can credit a whole lot of that to the work of Senator Cotton has done on national security so Senator cotton, thank you for being here today it's quite an honor to have you here in our chamber. pe ak er anybody wish to speak for the bill
p re s ent ative carr you have
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you're recognized OK I personally feel like we should support the bill because it could be a better atmosphere better equipment, better health status and a better life from where I'm coming from I come from a small town called allamer
we don't really have a lot we don't really we have to go like to LittleRock oralm bluffje to have better stuff like you go to a sub down in all the time you're not gonna really get stuff we may we kind of looking at it like oh when he don't know what he talking about he just throwing out numbers but y'all gotta look at the better for it like it can actually help it can actually sit there and be a good thing for us so I feel like we work together and get that out there we can be better
in a car has spoken for the bill would anybody wish to speak against the bill? Representative Allan for what purpose
Representative Fred Allen
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motion your motion I'd like to motion for immediate consideration that's a proper motion not debatable all in favor say aye any need a post nay
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motion carries the question before the house is passage of House Bill1001 Be the machine Mister Clark
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Has everybody voted has everyone voted Cast up the ballot Mr
Clark by a vote of 24 yea 51 nays and one present the bill
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House Bill2 clerk please read House Bill1002. House Bill1002 uhpresentative
Chair
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Mcie to provide more funding to rural Arkansas school districts to hire more teachers p re s ent ative Mcee, you are recognized to explain the bill
Representative Richard McGrew
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To summarize this bill was created with the purpose of morere r
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rural communities and 2A this bill will reduce the number of differing classes a teacher can for example if a teacher is in charge of teaching biology, chemistry and two other classes that cannot be forced into a position to teach another.
this is because we want a more effective use of one teacher's time over their subjects. while this does mean we get more standardized teaching for smaller schools. this this would also mean some schools may be required to hire one or more teachers so we're also proposing that we increase the sign on bonus to create more desire for these positions thank you
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Representativeaaway, for what purpose? you're recognized so how are we going to
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be able to alloc This bill will be state funded the plea for this bill is a cry out to the state Representativealby said this funding
Representative Carol Dalby
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would only be for one a two a and purpose you're recognized thank you
you said the funding would be for one a two a and3A and this is all state funded so we are depending on the good nature of our of our state and we're so this bill I believe is actively dividing us because
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unity between the higher classes and the poorer classes is important this is actively dividing us so how would you combat that Representative you
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Again, this is primarily to target 12 and3A schools which experience the most stretch out teachers we believe that these rural schools are the primarily people who are being affected by this we don't believe that many of the four and upA schools have experienced this problem but those who do experience this as well will also receive the same benefits
Representative Eubanks for what purpose? you are recognized
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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43:20
this bill would be trying to add more teachers to rural areas. I come from a rural3A school. The Learns Act and the Access Acts were both passed recently and they did sweeping education reforms and also created a50,000 dollars starting amount for all Arkansas teachers The issue I'm seeing with this bill is that you do not have anywhere that you're saying that you're going to get the funding from. I know you said recently
the state but where are you going to cut from to get this funding and then I also have an issue coming in that we are already having a shortage of teachers from burnout because yes we when the the learns bill was created it did help new teachers coming into the state but for teachers who had been teaching for many years who already had that initial s higher salary it lowered their amount. So what do you plan to do to prefix that issue?
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that is an excellent question.addly we do not have an answer at
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RepresentativemcClark for what purpose? you are recognized What evidence do we have that's simply hiring
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more teachers will improve educational outcome the idea behind this bill was so teachers can specify in certain topics so by hiring these teachers
we're allowing them to teach primarily just these subjects which is enhanced teaching which is the goal
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of this bill Representative Hoidday for what purpose so recognizecog so you say
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that this would you would offer a
what about the more experienced teachers oh my what about the more experienced teachers that have been there for a while What about their their salaries salaries will remain
Representative Richard McGrew
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the same they will also be reaping the benefits by having to teach less classes they're
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they're still teaching the same number of classes but they're only over3 subjects which is a lot less of a curriculum to learn
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they get to specify and explain much more effectively Representativeremlich, what purpose Boton but recognized how do we ensure the money goes directly toward
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it is included on the sign-on bonus which is how we plan to promote new teachers to come to the school Representative
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Barnes for what purpose? you are recognized how will you ensure that this won't lower the experience for teachers because you are
bringing in more less experienced like let's say teachers that have not finished their full education, how will this will this not harm our student's learning ga in We believe
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that by hiring these new teachers the sign-on bonus will be enticing enough to
gather actually experienced teachers who are capable in their subject but by also reducing the number
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of classes that the previous teachers who are already at these schools are teaching we're getting a greater education per class. Representativehat for what purpose you're recognized
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wouldn't this bill cause just more teachers to be hired working less hours so like several teachers working for like maybe only two classes This is specifically why we chose for teachers to
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teach up to3 classes. we believe this is a standard amount that a teacher should teach to teach
as many students as possible in one day they can teach up to 2, maybe3 of the same class to all of these students but we believe that this number is the most effective means of increasing Representative Allen for what purpose? Representative McGee has presented the
bill. would anybody like to speak against the bill
Representative Allen you're recognized to speak against
Representative Fred Allen
Unverified
49:33
the bill While having a sign-on bonus for new teachers coming in could help us get more teachers overall
I believe that that sign on bonus could also make more experienced teachers who have been in schools for a while and been in the education business for a while leave because Something that benefits them a lot more than the older inexperienced teachers so that's why I am against this bill thank you Representative Allan has spoken against the bill
Does anybody wish to speak for
the bill? Representative Mcelroy you are recognized to speak for the
bill. I am totally for this bill I had teachers who have taught
five different subjects in one day and I feel like prep time is why our teachers are so tired they have to prep all the time for different subjects and removing that prep time with like give them more time to rest and recover after only having to teach one or two different courses thatre representative McIlroy has spoken for the bill
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Representative Henley for what purpose should should motion for consideration on the bill immediate consideration on the bill proper motion not debatable all in favor say aye any opposed say
the question before the house is passage of house bill 1002 prepare the machine Mr clerk Has everybody voted
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Everyone has voted castst up the bout Mr Kirk By a vote of38 yes 36 nay and two present the bill has failed. wait passed
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gentlemen just real quick just to just just to update you because to explain to
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you about immediate consideration it's a it's a great motion it's used a lot of times in here when everything's been said but everyone hasn't said it the the the downfall to it is you cut off the ability for the sponsor to close for his bill. He he he he or she in this case he doesn't get to doesn't get to come back and answer any questions so be mindful if you're for the bill if you think you got the votes yes it's great but if you if you're against the
bill and you don't think you have the votes it's great but be mindful there are consequences in that case you had a very tight bill and you didn't have the votes either way you probably need a little bit more debate so be mindful and use that strategically but you do cut off all debate when you go to that motion it's it's final on everything Representative y you are the pro tempore. please come up
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House Bill103 by Representativechaffet an act to create the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 20 thank you this
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bill would try to solve the problem of the overconsumption of resources, energy and land by AI data centers that
put strain on the communities and counties that they are based in as well as violating resident's trust.
iv ing local communities the power to impose stricter zoning laws that would prohibit data centers instructions and their areas as well as passing ordinances limiting energy and water usage up to the up to the counties as well as proposing a 10% tax on these corporations that goes towards conservation effort
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Representative Wooing for what purpose?ues you're recognized what's the plan if that centers are crucial for like like growth why give counties the power to outright ban them? S shouldn't there be a statewide standard? at wrote it down here if that if data centers are crucial for continued growth, why give counties the power to outright ban them? shoulduldn't there be a statewide standard? so the reason
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we give counties the or the the ability to either
choose to impose these laws or not it's because some counties they benefit from these data centers while other counties with maybe more rural residents it may be harming them so that's why we're giving them the power to choose this because in the end we want the counties to be happy and we want to do what's going to benefit them the
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most. for what purposes granny how will this affect existing
Representative Steve Unger
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57:06
data centers like that possessed by the food andugs Administration in Jefferson, Arkansas.
Yeah so this is really affecting ones by the tax so whatever revenue these corporations make, like I said 10% of it would go to conservation efforts to the fact that they are consuming energy as well as taking up land if the counties choose to do so this really also impacts ones that are meant to be built so this one packx corporations that want to build ones so like zoning areas you know they have to be put into place and then approved so it gives it
really is affecting new aid ent centers the
Representative Steve Unger
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most so have a follow up question would this just be for a corporations or would that include the federal government recognize for a follow
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up permission granted my question was how would this
Representative Steve Unger
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affect data centers that will be built by the federal government not corporations I believe it would fall under the same thing because it
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is a state law but that being said,
ed is over the state so I believe they would have jurisdiction over that. Thank you.
p re s ent ative Perrier for what purpose question permission granting why did you choose 10%? how much of an effect it would 10% would allow these companies to still remain or operatable but they're you know 10% tax is of course costing them money but would also be able to raise a significant amount of money to preserve our wildlife or you
know ecosystems in our environment Representative Hogan Representative Hoen
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for what Representative Shalin has presented the bill What
Representative Ry
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do you like to speak against the bill what's his name
Chair
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Representativehogan, you're recognized to speak against the bill
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While I agree that data centers can definitely raise costs associated with utilities for local communities. I also would argue that they do provide a lot of jobs for local communities and can be very beneficial for boosting a local economy so I just don't see any plan to to accommodate to how how all of these lost jobs and if there's no plan to create more jobs that are lost I don't see how local communities are going to benefit from this
Chair
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would anyone like to speak for the bill Representative Mccollum you're recognized
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to speak for the bill Thank you Mr Speaker. seeing as I was on the committee that decided to have this passed to go to the House of Representatives. I'm highly in
favor of this bill there's many layers to this and as you can tell in Arkansas there's not much regulation on data centers and to kind of answer the question about how the federal funding we have to realize that the federal government has separate regulations that that is up to them for us we have to think of the entire and majority of our state as a whole and I believe that having that county by county basis my county Boone County for example doesn't a lot of our groundwater we have a lot
of houses that are on wells. a lot of the ground wa ter that could be used if it wasn't gray water from Harrison Arkansas could be taken away. So Boone County might not want to have a data center they should have the opportunity to decide that. So why don't you agree that that would be a standard basis for not just across the state but each county should be able to have a voice on a data center. Data centers are very controversial topic and many people have different opinions on it so I believe that it should be base by base
like counting by counting basis Whyn't you agree?
Chair
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Representative Mccollum has spoken for the bill. would anyone like to speak against the bill Representative McNeareren Representative Mackenzie you're recognized to speak against the bill
Representative Brit McKenzie
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1:02:00
Good evening. I believe that this bill would not be good because of the 10% Most businesses operate a much narrower frameworks than we realize.10% is enough to cause a business to fail and if a business is gonna fail it's just gonna go to Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas leaves the game. and our economy suffers and then we suffer and our children suffer don't vote for this bill
Chair
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it's not worth it p re s ent Mackenzie has spoken against the bill would anyone like to speak for the bill Representative Richmond you're recognized to speak for the bill yeah, I
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was on the committee as well to for this bill it was
talk about it a whole lot with the 10% these are not small companies these are so I don't think that that's that Representative Richmond has spoken for the bill would anyone like to
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speak against the bill?
Representative Unger you're recognizing and speak against it Bill. I
Representative Steve Unger
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would like to preface this by saying I love the intents of the bill. I love the intent of like preventing electricity hikes for like Arkansans and rural Arkansans especially. but I think the central issue with this bill is that it doesn't really have a role for the federal government like during questioning the presenter of the bill said that the federal government will be considered a
corporation. this would affect things like the food and drug administration that needs data centers for like scientific research, drug research, medical research, whatever and that 10 % tax that'll increase the strain on the federal budget and cause issues especially when we're trying to like when we're trying to improve scientific research for like these communities for like food regulation and safety standards so that's why I think we need to revise and resubmit. thank you. Representative Unger has
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spoken for the bill. Would anyone like
to speak against the bill. I mean he was speaking against it would anyone like to speak for the bill Representative Collins you've been recognized to speak
Representative Andrew Collins
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for the bill I believe this bill is very thorough in in second page line four states that local community should play a role in
determining if data centers should be placed in or around the communities so it also gives the people a chance to kind of say what they want and it also keeps conservation Representative Collins has spoken for the bill would anyone like
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to speak against the bill? for the bill Represented McGur you've been recognized to speak for the bill
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er I think we should vote for it because what's stopping data centers from they take up so much land that what's the point of having them because we're getting money off of us for we'repaying for AI regardless so what's stopping them from increasing it or making more fancier stuff that we don't need and the 10% was not just for that it was more for property tax Representative McGre has spoken
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for the bill would anyone like to speak would anyone like
to speak for the bill Representative Eaves you've been
Representative Les D. Eaves
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my hometown Texarkana there's a plan for a data center for a data center
I don't want their there isn't need to be one we already have problems with noise pollution, water consump lectris in our costst rates are really are pretty or electricity bills we're already have problems with our
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Representative Eaves do you wish to close
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Recognitions to close the bill thank you for everyone
to considering this bill I want to emphasize that this bill is not about completely denying the AIentitters it's about balance Each county gets its option in providing these data data centers zoning they get the option to tax these areas so there's a lot of counties in
fact there's an AI data center that's very good and it puts hundreds of jobs into that county and it would be beneficial and at the end of the day that's what we want we want the counties to make the best decision for their people. they know it's best for them so that's why we're giving it to them I would do want to address unger's point so the federal he mentioned that like the FDA has AI data centers that is a federal issue the state can't do anything about federal so if the if the higher ups at you know the US fed if they want to put into ad
center then that is not up to the state and they will do that and they likely will and those type of data centers are good. Like I said
this is about balance and all the counties get to decide whether or not they want to have this or not and it will hopefully help them in the long term.
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Thank y'all. Representative che f ley has closed the floor for the bill. The question before the house is the passage of house bill 1003.
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repair the machine Mr clerk As everyone voted has everyone voted cast up the ballot Mr Clark
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y the vote of62 yay seven days and three present
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the bill is passed Mr Clark, please read House Bill1 4
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House Bill104 by Representative dotson to create the motor vehicle registration Affordability Act and to reduce the registration fees for motor vehicle Representative dotson, you are recognized to explain the bill.
Representative Dolly Henley
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Thank you Mr. Speaker this bill is to create a tax deduction for a car vehicle reduction on the register it is supposed to bring money back due to higher fuel prices so since America is now turning to moreevV vehicles a decrea decreases the tax on every initiative from gaz hybrid to electric the it decreases the the amount of money that you have to
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Representative William, for what Question you're recognized isn't this just shifting costs instead of or for not reducing them for most vehicle owners
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can you repeat the question? I'm sorry isn't this shifting costs for most vehicle owners instead of reducing
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them? shifting it's shifting the cost and reducing them because the initial price for everyone I
know gas is35 dollars the hybrid was 150 and thenevv is just 200 so shift is shifting the calls by also while also lowering them for a follow up you're
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approved why are we why are we wanting electric vehicle owners to pay more than gas owners if we if we're trying to get more electric vehicles for emissions.
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Well, the only reason why the initiatives forevV prices are
Representative Dolly Henley
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so high those are the initiatives that are set already $200 is the maximum for the normal vehicle registration registration for anevv vehicle.as is also the same thing within the state of Arkansas those have been set in the president of the th35 dollars the $150 and then the $200. my bad Representative garner for what purpose
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you're recognized so if I was say I was a gas to 2 wouldn't that affect me thinking that the hybrid drivers are getting more of a deal than I am. they're not making
Representative Dolly Henley
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more of a deal the deal is that your prices on your gas vehicle are decreasing every every every car with dealing with gas hybrid orevv they have all
received a good decrease so there is nobody making a major profit off of it everybody is being included
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within the decrease recognizecognized so wouldn't it have been easier to do a percent instead of just decreasing
Representative Dolly Henley
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the numbers to bring that up I forgot to bring that up I forgot to put the percentages of everyone and on the bill so that was my my fault but it does I think I could I have them the percentages that it decreases by
the gas is being decreased by32 or37 uhevVs being decreased by37 and then no EV is being decreased by47 and then hybrid is being decreased by42 representativeuans for what purpose are recognized.
So I like the concept of this
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with the big issue we're all struggling with
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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it rising fuel prices are happening all over the country right now the only question I have is this so how are you thinking that we're increased registration fees are going to help reduce the fuel price because if EV owners when they were buying their electric vehicles we're getting tax credits from the government or getting to have extra reductions on the purchase price of it whereas gas owners were not getting that same benefit and now we're flipping it it seems with this bill whereevV
owners would be having to pay a higher registration fee. So what in
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what way would this help reduce fuel prices the
Representative Dolly Henley
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bill is never to reduce fuel prices. Fuel prices are high alone this bill is bringing money back to the person of that said vehicle instead of having to pay a high registration fee you're paying putting in much lower to make sure you have more money for gas that way it can be more efficient for the vehicle and the owner of that vehicle
Representative MickcCulllum for what purpose? recognizecog thank
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you Mr Speaker so I I know that this has been implemented in the state of California but how would you vehicle registration funds a lot of our state highways, its maintenance our county road a lot a lot of these things are funded by vehicle registration. How would you fulfill that funding deficit that would be
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created by your bill the way that that funny deficit will have to
Representative Dolly Henley
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be created because that's a thing that I was thinking about once my bill had passed committee because I don't think I specified that good enough and I can take accountability for that but I think I will have to try to find ways that we could pull money out of other said committees so probably like judiciary or something like that po money so we could put it back into the the money that we're taking out for these tax credits so that way we're still making them revenue for that said a
of transportation and all that other stuff
resentative makealendo for what purpose? re co g
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n ized so as gas prices continue to increase at a quickly time manner. when are you going to be able to make these changes when the bill is act and so how so as the gas prices increase
over time, how quickly are you able to make these
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acts and if so how? if it was as soon as possible really I know with gas prices continuing we're going higher it's gonna become a you know bigger situation for you know whatever and I think as soon as possible would be the best option for us to make sure of that Representative Henley has
present Does anybody wish to speak against the bill? Representative Ry you
are recognized to speak against the bill I
Representative Ry
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think we can all agree that as gas prices
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rise it is pulling more money out of our pockets how the the main point is what happens once they go back down or we're gonna keep taking money
out of highway funds and stuff like that to keep it in the consumer's pocket and what if this has a negative effect because as highway and road funds go down due to this lower amount of spending so does the quality of these places and as the quality goes down the car crashes amount of accidents pop tires all of that goes up. so then you got more money coming out of American people's pockets than the original case so what are we gonna do about that Representative ye has spoken
against the bill. Does anybody wish to speak for the bill? Representative Perry you're recognized to speak for the
Representative Mark Perry
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bill I believe this bill will have a positive impact on ourkansas because it is putting more
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money in the common Arkansan's pocket to spend on whatever they may need in their life. Maybe they need some groceries that month and reducing their car registration may get them those groceries that they may need. Many of ourkansas are living paycheck to paycheck. This will
get them the money they need to live that
month. Representative Perry has spoke for the bill. does anybody wish to speak
against the bill? Representative Mckenzie you're recognized to speak against the bill Good
Representative Brit McKenzie
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evening everyone. I was in the committee that was pushing this bill through I was against
it it was this bill is going to if it passes remove up to 10% of the state's entire budget. that is not something we can afford. Our budget is already strained as it's going to be terrible if it crisis strikes the state and we won't have any money to bail ourselves out. thank you. Representative Mckenzie has spoken
against the bill does anybody wish to speak for
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the bill? Representative McIlroy wishes to speak for the
bill I support this bill because reducing vehicle registration fees helps offset the burden of high gas prices like
parents their families are already spending more and more money at the gas pumps and lower registration costs can't put that money back into their pockets we can't directly control the gas prices but we can reduce other transportation fees. Representative McIlroy has
spoken for the bill. Does anybody wish to speak against the bill? Representative Lynch, you
are recognized to speak for the bill or against the bill
Representative Roger D. Lynch
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I would like to speak against the bill today due to the registration costs not truly going to make a huge effect on your everydayme Arkansan I understand like the gas bill did go from 20 or it was35 dollars to20 dollars registration it is $15 I understand yes it can matter paycheck to paycheck but the biggest problem with this bill is that it says it'll make an incentive for electric car drivers to go electric but as an electric car owner myself that
isn't a large money comparison to your savings and cost of gas. yes it is a consideration every year and yes it is a headache but saving me $80 isn't a drastic effect in the amount I'm saving compared to how much I'm saving to the cost of gas and it's not worth it because it is gonna take so much money out of the fund towards fixing potholes fixing issues on our roads which is already underfunded in the state Representative Lynch has spoken against the
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bill. Does anybody wish to speak for the
Representative John orarl you're recognized to speak for the bill
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just to add on to what he said it's basically like I'm totally with the bill because you gotta realize families already be going through a lot gas prices is extremely high you spending about 100 overly over h00 dollars just to fill one
tank of you gotta realize people still got to put food in their house people still got to prepare for families kids intuition all of that I feel like that we should further go along with this bill to increase I mean to decrease the fuel pumps and try to work together because how how we gonna live life steady throwing in more money trying to fill up a gas tank when we could be using that to survive Representative Carr has spoken for the bill Representative
dotson, do you wish to close for your bill?
Representative Dolly Henley
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Now I understand the a lot of the tension coming with this bill and that's the point of me making this bill the bill is supposed to be controversial but at the same time it's supposed to be good the the bill is supposed to bring money back into the people's pockets with lower registration fees yes that does mean that some things are gonna have to take effect like road maintenance and all of that but at the same time those things can be fixed over time with the state's sur
you bring it in money taking out money and making it ensuring that the people are paying not paying more at the the gas pump and ensuring that they have things to provide food on the table more gas in their cars and more opportunities to do more things with the money that they owe and especially for the people who live paycheck to paycheck that way they do not have to worry about this situation going on with gas prices the whole reason of this bill is to make sure that the American
with that money has the reasonable amount to keep supplying for their Representative dotson has closed for
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the bill the question before the house is passage of bill House Bill1004. Prepare the machine Mr clerk Has everyone voted
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Everyone has voted Cast up the ballot, Mr by a vote of 20 yeae 46 nays and four present the bill has failed. that will be we will be addressing the senate bills we are on
a little bit of a time crunch so we will only take about two questions per each bill.
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Gentlemen, let me let me elaborate on that for just a minute. you've got roughly 2030
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minutes left and we've got these foursenate bills I think you want to give the sponsors a a chance to present so we we we don't have to cut off all debate but we've got Look on the backside of your agenda there should be4 Senate bills
yeah we're gonna present those but we've got about 20 30 minutes left so we need to be concise so we can get through these four before you guys have to take
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off for the afternoon. Mr. Clark, plea please read Senate bill one. Senate Bill1 by RepresentativeRoberts to fight food through healthy incentives. RepresentativeRoberts, you are
recognized to preser to explain the bill Good morning
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my fellow representatives this bill was being created
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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to combat the growing issue of food insecurity in our great state.cross the state right now we are having issues of access to clean and healthy food. when you go to the grocery store you're able to get access to foods that are very unhealthy for a lot cheaper when you try to buy something that is
healthier say saladd or lettuce or anything that would be good that we know is a good healthier food. it is always priced higher whereas when you're trying to purchase something that is cheaper you always for families who are fighting financial cris right now they're having to buy what's cheaper and oftentimes that is not a healthier food. So what this bill is proposing is to allow for an increased in retention and snap benefits. I know Governor Sanders has recently tried to remove the ability for junk foods to be
offered from Snap and to try to allow for snap benefits
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to only be for healthier foods. this would help give a better incentive to doing that so thank you RepresentativeRoberts has explained the
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bill questions Representative Unger you have for what purpose ue
Representative Steve Unger
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s you're recognized mechanism do you plan to use to provide more healthy food for like snap users great question. so theres this
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program being used in a dozen states right now called the Doublebuckx programme and so what it does is for there's a $20 cap per day but for every dollar of healthier foods that you purchased that's an extra dollar that goes back into your Snap benefits as like an incentive to try to help offer more healthier options. Representative meccalin for what purpose?
you're recognized how does the bill define junk food?
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it is a broad term and to do that I would refer back to
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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when governor Sanders made her proclamation defining junk foods that were being cut from snap benefits this bill is really trying to help reduce childhood obesity is trying to help give more access to healthier food options. I know for so many families right now there's such an incentive to try to get healthier foods but when you were on such a tight budget with how expensive gas is right now with how expensive housing is right now you only can afford what you can
and when the healthier option isn't cheap like it usually is not. you go for the more common junk foods so I would refer back
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to governor Sanders on that RepresentativeRoberts has explained the bill would anybody like
to speak against the bill p re s ent ative Kavanaugh for what purpose speaking against
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but recog to speak against the bill that is fair that a statewide
tax benefits are you using them so utritional foods that will frankly ought that everyone is on snap some people are actually you know using their funds to buy healthy food so I don't think we should tax everybody for
Representative Kavanov has spoken against the bill.u would anybody like to speak for the bill Representative
Lustrom you are recognized to speak for the for the bill come to the well
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I think I would like to clarify maybe I believe the intent of the bill wasn't to be a tax on junk food but rather an incentive to allow people in poor situations and give them the access to actually make healthier food decisions and I think that this bill would be a great addition to trying to make Arkansas a healthier state overall considering that we are
ranked pretty high in OC obesity across the state and I believe a large part of that may be due to us also being a poor state especially in more rural areas and that might only give poor individuals access to junk food so this incentive specifically on Snap benefits I think would be great and allow many individuals to essentially actually have access to buy healthier foods
Representative Luundstrom has spoken for the bill. Would anybody like to speak against the bill? Representative I can't see your
name but of Hall, you are recognized to speak against the bill. Paul blue shirt
Representative Brad Hall
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I eat a lot of snacks so I don't want to go to the store and pay $8 for a bag of chips because it's already5 dollars I don't want to pay an extra3 dollars for a bag of two
that's why I'm speaking against it Representative Hall has spoken for the bill against the bill would anybody like to speak for
the bill Representative Jean you are you're recognized to speak for the bill.
Representative Lane Jean
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I just wanna say this Arkansas is one of the top obesity states and that's very dear to me because because my family you know but like I but like to just get on that topicm we really need to go with this bill because healthy food is just something we need in everyday life and I'm not gonna lie going to the store to actually try to get vegetables and all type of stuff
that's gonna contribute to your body is is very very high like very expensive so I feel like this will help Representative
Jean has spoken for the bill. RepresentativeRoberts do you wish to
Representative Jon S. Eubanks
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close for your bill? recognized know that the bill right now has issues with specifically an increased tax for added junk
food. However, I do want to clarify that that would only be for Snap benefitfit users. it would not be for everyone. This bill was intentionally designed to be something that can help lower income families who are on Snap and on EBg funds so that they can have better options this was never intended to everyone. This
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is just meant to help get those individuals a better option. so I RepresentativeRoberts has
closed for the bill. The question before the house is the is
the passage of senate bill number one re pa re
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the machine, Mr Kirk everybody voted Everybody's voted Cast up
the ballot Mr Clark By vote of43 yaa 278 and five present the bill has
Mr Clark, please read calendar aidn
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Senate bill number 2. senate bill two by Representative Howell to mandate reading tests and to require tutoring to students who fail the reading tests
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p re s ent ative of how you're recognized to explain the bill so first I would just like to say I'm extremely proud of how much work I put into this bill so just bear with me so this bill was originally designed to help with the literacy crisis that we're currently in not only as a state but as a country I don't know if I'm the only one but I know we all seen on Tikok that video of them high school seniors they couldn't read that sentence and it was lowke kind of embarrassing and so that really called to me and I feel like that reading tests should be
implemented in early middle school ages that way if the student does not pass the reading test they will get free tutoring offered by the state which in which will increase jobs for teachers as well so it kind of ties into the first bill that we passed which would lead to lay's ro rural schools for teachers this bill would increase would increase jobs it would help our states test scores because as we all know our graduation rates are really high and so are our so are our grades but our ACT
scores and our state mandated test scores they're not where they need to be Representative Howe
has explained the bill would questions we will only be taking to Representativeholaco for what
purpose? the one in the orange I can't see your name I'm sorry have a question
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you are recognized. my question for this bill is why is he test given at grade 8 reading is such a critical part of learning and if it's not caught early and like say elementary years and that student can really fall behind and it's very hard for them to be able to catch up especially when their peers there's just so much further ahead. so my question is why
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grade 8 and why not a year that is a lot earlier in their developmental process. from my understanding in the
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discussion we changed it to earlier ages was is any anybody in theJ am I am I tripping or did we I thought we changed it to grade six and seventh but I could be wrong I I we did ok so maybe it was just a typo but I did we did work to implement it in earlier grades because we talked about that what you presented and it didn't make sense it was just pushed in more behind in the high school ages to where they would not be able to catch up on state test Representative Mayberry for what purpose?
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you're recognized what would you do for the students who just don't care and
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just skim to the reading tests that is an excellent question and for those students we would have to we talked about offering incentives for those who consistently do not show an effort in those incentives will have to be things that they would actually want to try for and not just like a certificate that they get like most schools do and so that would honestly be left up for the school's discretion to
Moving on would anybody like to speak against the bill? Representative Howe has presented the bill you are
free to leave the well. would be like ok Representative dalby you recognized
Representative Carol Dalby
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against the bill the only reason that I'm against this bill is because it's not
clear on older students. I think we should require older students to pass the reading test because they're getting ready to go out into society and likewise I've seen the ikok that's going around where the girl try to bring attention to the seniors that failed reading tests they couldn't read a sentence and she was expelled from her school and I think that should just be a call to attention to this bill. and I just need think it needs to go back to community to hander some to fine tune some things
Representativedalby has spoken against the bill. Would anybody like to speak for
the bill? Representative Henley, you are blessed to speak for the bill
Representative Dolly Henley
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Thank you Mr. Speaker and the reason why I'm speaking for this bill is because it catches its earth it catches it catches it early as the student comes into middle school
those are the times where the tests start to really matter they start taking bigger effect you're starting to get prepared for the ACT starting the you know some parents are starting to get their kids prepared to take the ACT so you have to make sure those scores are there it also makes sure that no student is is in is actually ensuring that they can get the proper test scores that they deserve and need to be successful in life and it's here to the I know the argument is that it's not really
helping but the bill is clear as day is get the help started at the beginning of middle school and working their way up so that way we can get the Irish test scores within our state a lot higher thank you due to time to transfer about
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to close butpresentative how would you like to close for your bill? Representative How is closed for his bill
the question before the house is the passage of senate bill two re pa re that
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machine Mr C Has everybody voted Everyone has voted has everyone voted
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right there we go as up the ballot Mr clerk
by a vote of67 yaa six nays and one present the bill sent
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read Senate bill number3. Senate Bill3 by Representative Blanton an act to create the freedom to earn act. and to reduce the individual and corporate income tax
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Good morning my fellow representatives. I'm bringing a bill forward to combat the cost of living
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crisis. this bill is is to reduce the income tax from3.7 to3% flat on all taxable income ro und 45 to55% of our people in Arkansas are living paycheck to paycheck. this bill will help alleviate financial pressures on your neighbors by giving them a from 200 to700 dollars depending on their salary.
This money can be spent on groceries, gas or rent. this bill has an additional benefit of also helping combat the unemployment crisis in Arkansasy bringing jobs to the state by making this state more attractive to other companies in higher states such as New York, Illinois and California. Thank you. Representativeynton has explained
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Would anybody like to speak against the bill? sorry sorry Representative McClare what is your purpose Ques you're recognized what evidence suggests that lowering taxes from3.7 to3.0 will generate enough economic growth to offset to
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pardon me to offset lost revenue from previous historical state tax cuts from the one just four
years ago we had a tax cut of6.9 to3.7. yet we did not go into a deficit we are actually in a surplus of367 million dollars Representative Eubanks state
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your purpose. you're recognized with the income tax decrease what
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would you do to say help claim some of the funds that are going to be lost from this reduced income tax.
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a our current annual Gdp growth is at 2.5. The projected one after the income tax is cut is anywhere from 2.7 to3.2% also it will reduce the tax structure and make it
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way more simple reducing costs fordministrative the administration we will
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move on representative Blanton has
explained the bill would anybody like to speak against
the bill? Representative Unger you are recognized to speak
Representative Steve Unger
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against the bill The main selling point for this bill is that it provides incentives for economic growth in Arkansas but we should ask who is getting this economic growth, right? CEOs are paid nearly 270 times more than the workers that they employ. so most of these benefits will be
going to these big companies and these big rich CEOs that don't really need this extra money like the decrease is literally from3.7 to3%. that's a.7% decrease that's not going to do anything for the average person but what it's going to do is it's gonna allow for these big companies to get tax breaks and they are going to be the ones that are actually benefiting from this bill thank you does anybody want to speak
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for the bill Representative Pinkleton you're recognized as speaking
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for the bill By lowering lowering the income tax we attract businesses to Arkansas and those businesses bring jobs and taxes with them so through the long term by lowering the income tax we can actually increase the revenue for the government since these businesses are bringing in more would anybody like to speak against the bill?
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Representative, would you like to close for your bill
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my fellow delegates, I believe this is the bill for the common man that lives in Arkansas. I would appreciate your vote. thank you. Representative Blanton has closer of
the bill for the house is the passage of Senate Bill number3 prepare the machine Mr Clark.
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Has everybody voted has everyone voted I up the ballot Mister
Clark by a vote of5 or53yaa fi5 n and 16 present this bill has passed Mr Clark, please read the calendar item Senate bill number4.
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Senate Bill4 by Representative Here to create the mixed use zoning Act of 2026.
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thank you gentlemen, I'm here to represent a bill which would incentivize the usage of mixuse zoning inside of growing and or medium sized cities through a statewide grant program to provide the adoption of effective dual usage zones this economic grant program would provide affordable housing
options to disenfranchise communities and help to grow small businesses this would also have the secondary benefit of providing communities connections encouraging new green areas and introducing new third areas as these communities will choose to adopt the grant grow there will be an increase in foot traffic and help to allow thriving downtown communities across the state of Arkansas. a 1% hotel tourism tax funds it out of50 million dollars cap in order to get the grant a
developer applies to the state and commits to repurposing buildings into mixeduse zoning and also vows to lease the homes they create to a low income residents under a certain threshold once the application is submitted the city that the applicant comes from gets the final approval. Thank you. re ative Heron has presented the bill Would anybody wish
to speak against the bill? for the bill
Representative Heron would you like to close rebuild? Representative Heron has closer bill the question before the house is the passage of Senate Bill number4. rather the machine Mrurt cast the ballot As about it everyone voted now cast up the ballot Mr Clark
By a vote of51 yea se nay and 13 present the
Speaker 368
1:51:43
bill has passed Representative Walker for what purpose recognized pursuant to rulele33m. I move we adjourn Boy state house session. that's a proper motion.
Speaker 369
1:51:53
it is not debatable. all in favor say aye
and opposed say nay motion pass Arkansas Bo state is hereby adjourned sign die. Great
Representative Mindy McAlindon
Unverified
1:52:22
job guys so so as the parliamentarian said at the very beginning today
Representative Brian S. Evans
Unverified
1:52:29
you know when you're at home tuning in watching the news
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