Interior designers are out of $$

The Arkansas House just failed to pass the $10,635 appropriation to the Board of Registered Interior Designers. The funds that were to be distributed to them are collected through registration costs of the board's members. Rep. Dan Greenberg took this board on last summer and spoke against the appropriation request. He'll now seek to have the board abolished. The bill received 60 votes for (30 votes against), but it needed 2/3's approval from the full body.

Update: And yes, as I always do, I voted against the War Memorial Stadium Commission appropriation. If we're against wasteful spending in government, nothing is more wasteful than spending $5,000,000+ in taxpayer money to play two football games annually in a dilapidated stadium (and one is normally against some double directional non-conference gimme). That's 500 times the size of the interior designers' budget.

Update II: Paul's Law, the proposal to prohibit texting while driving, passed by a vote of 78 for, 12 against, and 1 voting present. Rep. Mark Martin spoke against the bill on the basis that it is a primary offense, meaning that drivers can be specifically pulled over for texting while driving. Drivers can only be cited for secondary offenses when stopped for another valid reason.