Senate Bill 10 and identical House Bill 1006 state that each aims to make state government operate more efficiently and effectively.
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The legislation received much attention this week for its provisions moving the Arkansas History Commission from under the Department of Parks and Tourism to the Department of Arkansas Heritage. The bills also would rename the agency the Arkansas State Archives.
But the bills also would eliminate or alter a number of boards, task forces and committees.
The legislation would change the following (initial statutes in parentheses):
• The Arkansas History Commission would be moved from the Department of Parks and Tourism to the Department of Arkansas Heritage and renamed the Arkansas State Archives.
• The Arkansas Governor's Mansion Commission (22-3-804) law would be amended to change the membership. Eight members would serve at the pleasure of the governor. The ninth would be the director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, who would be allowed to vote. The subsequent law (22-3-805) would be changed to give the governor sole authority to accept gifts, grants and donations; previously the commission also had to approve them. The commission no longer would make rules concerning improvements and repairs to the mansion.
• Amend the law on the Electronic Recording Commission (14-2-305) to establish that the staff member assigned to assist in coordinating meetings and gathering data should come from the Association of Arkansas Counties rather than the Bureau of Legislative Research.
• Amend the law on the Arkansas Commission for the Newborn Umbilical Cord Blood Initiative to meet once a year rather than quarterly (20-8-601).
• Statute 25-38-207 would be amended to reduce from 21 to 20 the members of the Arkansas Agriculture Boards, eliminating the member chosen from the Arkansas Young and Beginning Farmer Advisory Board.
• Section 1 of Act 1298 of 2013 would be amended to allow the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore of the Senate and the governor to appoint seven of the members of the Arkansas Legislative Task Force for Child Abuse Prevention.
• The expiration date for the State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Legislative Task Force would be extended from June 30, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2018. The dates were set by the uncodified Acts 3 and 6 from the first special session in 2013.
• Section 1 of Act 839 of 2015 would be amended to allow the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate to appoint 15 representatives to the Legislative Task Force on the Best Practices for Special Education.
Repealed laws would affect (with initial statutes in parentheses):
• Arkansas Young and Beginning Farmer Advisory Board of the state Agriculture Department (starting with statute 2-1-201).
• Public Elementary and Secondary School Insurance Program and Public School Motor Vehicle Insurance Program Advisory Committee (6-21-711).
• Arkansas Teacher Housing Development Act (6-26-101).
• Court reports related to the Children's Reporting and Information System (9-27-361(a)(2)(D)).
• Arkansas Public School Desegregation Lawsuit Resolution Task Force (10-3-1506).
• Arkansas Cyberinfrastructure Task Force Act (10-3-2501).
• Oversight subcommittee to monitor the care of people with developmental disabilities (20-10-233).
• Antony Hobbs III Task Force on Automated External Defibrillators (20-13-105).
• Community Services Oversight and Planning Council (20-76-601).
• Building Authority Council (22-2-106).
• Legislative Task Force on Sustainable Building Design and Practices (22-3-1806).
• Whole Child Initiative (Section 1 of Act 1326).
The legislation would set expiration dates for the following (with initial statutes in parentheses):
• Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee law expires Sept. 30, 2017(10-3-1501).
• Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission Oversight Committee law expires Dec. 31, 2016 (10-3-1901).
• Arkansas Legislative Task Force on Abused and Neglected Children law expires June 30, 2017 (10-3-2301).
• Legislative Criminal Justice Oversight law expires Sept. 30, 2017 (10-3-2801).
• Behavioral Health Treatment Access Legislative Task Force law expires Sept. 30, 2017 (10-3-3001).
• Rural Fire Departments Study Committee law expires Sept. 30, 2017 (14-272-101).
• Arkansas Alternative Energy Commission law expires Sept. 30, 2017 (15-10-801).
• Alzheimer's Advisory Council law expires Sept. 30, 2017 (20-8-601).
• Task Force on Alpha-gal law expires Dec. 31, 2016 (20-15-2201).
• Task Force on Substance Abuse Treatment Services law expires Sept. 30, 2017 (20-64-910).
A Section on 05/21/2016