The 88th General Assembly
has convened the 2012 fiscal session

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Thursday on the House floor

Legislation of note on today's calendar includes a bill by Rep. Greenberg that rwuires express statutory cross-referece for all new exemptions to the Arkansas FOI Act. The bill failed by a vote of 49-17.

Rep. Lindsley Smith's bill to commemorate Thomas Paine Day passed this year by a vote of 66-21-3.

Update: Speaker Robbie Wills just sent the animal cruelty bill to House Agriculture. It will be reassigned to Judiciary in the morning, and I've already set it for a speacial order of business beginningat 10:00 a.m. Tuesday morning.