Arkansas general revenue budget would increase by $109.3 million, or 1.76%, to $6.31 billion in the next fiscal year that starts July 1 under the proposed Revenue Stabilization Act unveiled Thursday in the Legislature s Joint Budget Committee.
The release this week of the Arkansas Legislative Audit’s report into the Lecterngate scandal will start a chain of events that will not end well for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The Joint Budget Committee on Thursday authorized the Bureau of Legislative Research staff to draft legislation to appropriate $4.2 million to the state Department of Corrections to reimburse county jails for holding state inmates and to fund the appropriation with $4.2 million in state general revenue.