The effort to keep Arkansas' Medicaid expansion another year faced uncertainty on Tuesday, with the program falling short of the votes needed for its reautho...
by The Associated Press - April 13, 2021LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas lawmakers on Monday approved a stripped-down alternative to hate crimes legislation that longtime supporters of such laws have critici...
by The Associated Press - April 12, 2021House Speaker Matthew Shepherd, R-El Dorado, defended the chairwoman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday after she was criticized for refusing to hold...
by John Moritz - April 10, 2021Arkansas teachers wouldn't be required to address students by a name or pronoun inconsistent with the student's biological sex under proposed legislation tha...
by Frank E. Lockwood, Rachel Herzog - April 9, 2021The Arkansas Senate on Thursday handily voted to confirm Gov. Asa Hutchinson's appointment of Health Secretary Jose Romero, who has been at the helm of the D...
by Michael R. Wickline - April 9, 2021A so-called class protection bill being pushed by legislative leaders in lieu of a bill targeting hate crimes was sent to the House floor Thursday, though op...
by John Moritz - April 9, 2021A bill that would allow law enforcement agencies to charge records-requesters up to $20 per hour for each hour of audiovisual material provided beyond the fi...
April 9, 2021An Arkansas House committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would gradually increase the price of used motor vehicles exempt from the sales tax from $4,000 ...
by Michael R. Wickline - April 9, 2021Four bills that would tighten restrictions on absentee ballots and adjust the state law around election violation complaints were endorsed by a Senate commit...
by Rachel Herzog - April 9, 2021Gov. Asa Hutchinson wants to provide $20 million more in state funds to the public school employees health insurance plan in the current fiscal year, which e...
by Michael R. Wickline - April 9, 2021Legislation that its sponsor has called "a class-protection bill" cleared the Arkansas Senate on Wednesday afternoon, after a competing hate crimes bill fail...
by John Moritz, Michael R. Wickline - April 8, 2021A state Senate committee on Wednesday backed legislation that would rewrite Arkansas' nursing home staffing laws, sending it to the full Senate for final leg...
by Eric Besson - April 8, 2021A bill to allow public schools to teach intelligent design as a theory of how the Earth came to be gained the approval of the Arkansas House on Wednesday, de...
by Rachel Herzog - April 8, 2021A measure to dissolve the state Medical Board's current membership and split new appointments among the governor and leaders of the House and Senate gained t...
by John Moritz - April 8, 2021The Arkansas Senate on Wednesday approved two bills that would increase the authority of the state election board and of county election boards.
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