Tomorrow in House Judiciary

Tomorrow's agenda will be made available shortly after 2:00 p.m. today (the rules require the agenda to be available 18 hours prior to the meeting), and there are a couple of changes. We'll begin with a special order of business on SB77, the first offense animal cruelty bill. Rep. Pam Adcock (D-Little Rock) will present the bill, and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will accept questions from the committee (as will others in the audience).

Due to weather concerns, we are removing the special orders of business requested by Rep. Donna Hutchinson (R-Bella Vista) on voyeurism and registered sex offenders (two different bills), and they will now be heard on February 3. Several witnesses may not have been able to make the trek to Little Rock tomorrow. Rep. Randy Stewart (D-Kirby) is likely to present his bill regarding concealed handguns on college campuses, so it could be a pretty lively meeting. Stewart's bill merely requires that if specific institutions prohibit firearms on campus that they conspicuously post signs saying so. We convene at 10:00 a.m. in Rm. 149.

Update: Rep. Stewart will not run his bill in the morning due to an amendment to add sponsors. He's also making a modification to appease an aginner, and he'll likely run the bill next week.