THV profiles the proposed "Tim Tebow" law at noon

Today's THV will take up the issue of home-schooled kids in public school sports in its C-Block segment at noon today. SB842 (Sen. Gil Baker) is on today's Senate Education agenda. Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was allowed to play football for his local high school in Florida -- even though he was home-schooled -- due to that state's equal access law.

Elsewhere in the Capitol today, we're expecting a couple of non-binding resolutions to be debated today in House State Agencies by Rep. Debra Hobbs (R-Rogers). The resolutions seek to (1) rescind the previous application to Congress requesting that it balance the public debt [HCR1022], and (2) an amended version of the sovereignty resolution [HCR1031]. Sen. Elliott's SB799 to provide an in-state tuition rate to anyone who graduated from an Arkansas high school and attended school here for three years is on today's Senate floor calendar. SB2, which would repeal the sales tax on mini-storage units, has a fiscal impact of over $4 million and is on today's House floor calendar.

I'm running four bills on the House floor this afternoon, one of which includes the 107-page overhaul of the Child Maltreatment Act. The existing act was struck down by a Benton County Circuit Judge last year as unconstitutional for the lack of due process provisions in the code.