"Agreed-to" Workers Comp bill comes out of committee

HB 1362 by Rep. Mike Burris & Rep. Rick Green came out of Insurance and Commerce with a do pass. This is an agreed upon bill between the Arkansas AFL-CIO and the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce, with the support of the Arkansas Workers Compensation Commissioners.

Since I've been in the legislature, labor and business have done a phenomenal job of working through kinks in legislation, but I still snicker each time a sponsor brings a bill to committee with the statement that it's "agreed to." As former Rep. Will Bond used to say, that means it's agreed to between the "people that are right here in the room, and only right now."