The Arkansas Senate on Monday sent the governor a bill that would require sponsors of proposed ballot measures to collect sufficient signatures of registered voters from at least 50 counties, up from the current requirement of 15 counties, to qualify their measures for the ballot.
A bill that would require new political parties to collect 10,000 signatures of registered voters to get on the ballot fell short of clearing the Arkansas Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
The Arkansas Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to amend a bill aimed at ending affirmative action programs in state and local government in Arkansas in order to give state agencies two years to implement the bill, if it s enacted into law.