#SB290 doesn’t apply to moratoriums in place before the bill’s effective date.

I talked to UA staff Friday night. Ours isn’t the only campus where this is happening.

Here’s how to look up the status of a bill: – Go to arkleg.state.ar.us – Type the bill number (eg, SB209) in the “Search for bills” search bar

if we moved the candidate filing period to the week the legislature leaves town we’d never have a single lawmaker file for re-election what do you say should we try it

People keep asking what I’m gonna do once my term ends, and I’m pretty sure I’ll still be just standing in House Public Health, waiting to run a bill.

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The fact that House State Agencies is meeting at almost 9:00p on the very last night of session is a great reason to bring back the bill-filing deadline.

There have been longer and crazier. But yes.

Honestly, my last-ever bill dying on the House floor at the hands of the state chamber is probably how my legislative career should end. Feels right.

True, but only because I didn’t want to say Northwest Arkansas Republicans wanted to deny a first-term Democrat a win on a good bill because she beat a Republican incumbent and serves a competitive district. So I thought I’d just blame Kenny.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Representative Nicole Clowney of Fayetteville.

The 2013 Regular Sessions is most often remembered as the session when Arkansas lawmakers voted to extend Medicaid—but they also signed off on issuing bonds to help Big River Steel, a massive economic development project at the time. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…

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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson sent House members home till September to keep from having to deal with this.