House approves end to Confederate Flag Day arktimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arktimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bathroom bill stalls as Arkansas lawmakers consider costs
Bathroom bill stalls as Arkansas lawmakers consider costs REP. CINDY CRAWFORD: head sponsor of a new bathroom bill
A bill to force schools, arenas and all other publicly owned buildings in Arkansas to require people to use the bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth got gummed up in a House committee Monday over worries that it could cost the state millions.
Rep. Cindy Crawford (R-Fort Smith) will be sent for a fiscal impact study and then will come back the House Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs, Chair
Dwight Tosh (R-Jonesboro) said. Tosh made the order for a fiscal impact study after nearly an hour of testimony from people who opposed the bathroom bill. Many of them represented universities, prisons, arenas and other government entities and said the costs to meet requirements set out in HB 1882 would be sky high.
DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE: Matthew Shepherd defending a sham “hate crimes” bill.
The Republican leadership dumped further shame on themselves this afternoon by ignoring rules and sending a sham “hate crimes” bill to the House floor without a roll call vote.
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Chair Rep. Carol Dalby (R-Texarkana) ignored requests for a roll call vote on a do-pass recommendation in the House Judiciary Committee for SB 622, the meaningless “hate crime” bill that House and Senate leadership have gotten behind to give some window dressing to the state for refusing to pass a real hate crime bill that includes specific coverage for sexual orientation and transgender people. It passed the Senate and only a House vote keeps it from the governor, who’s anxious to sign it.
House approves abortion ban, sends it to the governor
House approves abortion ban, sends it to the governor
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THE ROLL CALL: Votes for Reps. Clowney (against) and Wardlaw (for) don’t appear on the board because they were paired to allow for the absent Wardlaw to vote, but they are added in final tally.
The Arkansas House today approved SB 6,
a ban on all abortions except to save a woman’s life, by a vote of 76-19. It goes to the governor, who is most likely going to sign it though he’s avoided saying so directly so far. He’s mentioned his past support for a rape/incest exception (the same thing, right?) but backers say that sop is no longer necessary.
One to watch: Legislative filing on Indian tribe recognition arktimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arktimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.