by - February 12, 2025 5:22 pm
The Arkansas Senate on Wednesday (Feb. 12) passed five measures to alter the petition signature gathering process, while also advancing the governor’s maternal health package. In the Arkansas House, members…
by - January 29, 2025 9:00 pm
Arkansas legislators spent a second day advancing two controversial bills that stirred debate on the House and Senate floors on Wednesday (Jan. 29). In the Arkansas Senate, SB 3 by…
by - January 29, 2025 1:00 pm
The year 2025 has not disappointed for Northeast Arkansas and its growing political influence at the state capitol and in Washington, D.C. We received a surprise in mid-January when U.S….
by - May 2, 2024 6:46 pm
The Arkansas legislature concluded most of its fiscal session business on Thursday (May 2) before adjourning until next Thursday when they will reconvene to sine die, the permanent adjournment of…
by - May 2, 2019 9:22 pm
Perhaps the most important bill passed by the Arkansas General Assembly this spring was the more than $300 million highway funding bill supported by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Three Jonesboro-area lawmakers…
by - April 28, 2019 10:22 am
State Rep. Charles Blake, D-Little Rock, and State Rep. Andy Davis, R-Little Rock, don’t see eye-to-eye on every issue, but they agree on a number of accomplishments from the recently…
by - April 24, 2019 5:55 pm
The 92nd General Assembly on Wednesday (April 24) adjourned the 2019 legislative session by approving a single last-minute bill that will allow Little Rock to revamp its current city manager…
by - April 8, 2019 11:09 pm
After nearly three months of line-by-line scrutiny of one of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s major legislative priorities to reorganize state government, the Arkansas Senate on Monday (April 8) approved a 2,047-page…
by - March 26, 2019 8:24 pm
The Arkansas Senate on Tuesday (March 26) backed legislation to alter the state’s term limits law, and later followed that up by unanimously approving one of several ethics reform bills…
by - November 30, 2017 8:04 am
In our latest installment of “The List,” our roundup of new candidate filings and a comprehensive roster of those seeking office in Arkansas in 2018, we’ve added the latest announcements….
by - June 7, 2017 5:22 pm
With the conclusion of the regular session of the 91st General Assembly, and a subsequent 3-day special session designed to address Medicaid issues, we are now officially in the “interim.”…
by - April 25, 2017 7:12 pm
The state Legislature will meet May 1 to adjourn its regular biennial session and then enter into a three-day special session to pass health care legislation and make technical corrections…
by - December 9, 2016 3:48 pm
Rep. Joe Jett of Success, who has been chairman of the House Revenue and Taxation Committee, announced Friday (Dec. 8) he is switching from the Democratic to the Republican Party,…
by - November 10, 2016 7:07 pm
Democrats will control only 26 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives in the next legislative session, but they will have an 11-9 majority on one of the…
by - October 31, 2016 1:23 pm
The Senate president pro tempore said the Legislature may self-impose a limit of two referred constitutional amendments and that one of them could change the process for voter-initiated proposals. Sen….
by - October 6, 2016 2:48 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has said he wants a second round of tax cuts in the 2017 legislative session, but some legislators are more cautious in the wake of three straight…
by - October 3, 2016 4:35 pm
The House and Senate Education Committees voted to add $30 million over two years to a fund for “catastrophic” special education needs as it prepares the adequacy report that will…
by - May 16, 2016 8:00 pm
Highways may be the inspiration for the special session beginning May 19, but Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s call also includes 14 other items such as ending new claims in a workers’…
by - May 4, 2016 4:12 pm
The fiscal session moved toward its conclusion Wednesday (May 4) with the passage in the House and Senate of the Revenue Stabilization Act, the funding mechanism that governs how all…
by - August 2, 2015 2:51 pm
Former Arkansas State Senate Chief of Staff Bill “Scoop” Lancaster has a new book out full of inside stories regarding his time in state politics. It is titled “Inside the…
