Votes at a glance: key Arkansas House floor actions and final outcomes

The Arkansas House took a series of final votes on bills and amendments during the floor session. Below are the principal measures that received action on the floor, with outcomes recorded in the transcript.

Votes at a glance

- House Bill 19 30 (Wardlaw): minimum reimbursement levels for health‑care services — FAILED, roll‑call: 44 y, 45 n, 4 present. - House Bill 18 74 (McKenzie): amend use of professional development funding for public schools — PASSED, roll‑call: 61 y, 25 n, 10 present. - House Bill 13 12 (Brooks) — adequacy/public school funding adjustments (includes health insurance phasing): PASSED, roll‑call: 93 y, 3 n, 0 present. - Batch appropriation items (House bills 11‑06, 11‑26, and multiple Senate bills listed by the Budget Committee): PASSED (batch votes recorded with emergency clauses; tallies recorded in transcript per bill). - House Bill 19 74 (Long): require E‑Verify for state entities and political subdivisions when hiring — PASSED, roll‑call: 76 y, 20 n, 0 present. - House Bill 13 32 (Pilkington): Medicaid evaluation of obesity‑related claims/cost reporting — PASSED, roll‑call: 79 y, 2 n, 8 present. - House Bill 19 19 (Burks): public school access and transparency act (companion to SB 572) — PASSED, roll‑call: 83 y, 8 n, 0 present. - House Bill 18 06 (Vaught): curriculum transparency portal and parent opt‑out tools (if funding available) — PASSED, roll‑call: 55 y, 25 n, 10 present. - House Bill 19 67 (Carolyn Brown): expand unlawful distribution of intimate images statute — PASSED, roll‑call: 97 y, 0 n, 0 present. - House Bill 19 75 (Gramlich): Child Content Creation Protection Act — PASSED, roll‑call: 89 y, 1 n, 0 present. - House Bill 19 59 (Brown): abolish writ of scire facias to revive judgments — PASSED, roll‑call: 96 y, 0 n, 1 present. - House Bill 19 88 (Tosh): change auto auction salvage fee distribution — PASSED, roll‑call: 97 y, 0 n, 0 present. - House Bill 17 62 (Hall): permit revocation for industrial waste disposal violations — PASSED, roll‑call: 97 y, 0 n, 0 present. - House Bill 19 33 (McCollum): create school board recall/petition process — PASSED, roll‑call: 74 y, 18 n, 4 present. - House Bill 2,001 (Painter): Arkansas Towing and Recovery Reform and Efficiency Act (caps, invoice requirements, emergency clause) — PASSED (emergency clause), roll‑call: 78 y, 9 n, 6 present. - House Bill 19 94 (Collins): require notification when self‑storage unit is compromised — PASSED, roll‑call: 74 y, 13 n, 10 present. - House Bill 16 25 (Barnett): require professional liability insurance for home inspectors — PASSED, roll‑call: 68 y, 25 n, 13 present. - House Bill 19 95 (Bentley): separate sheriff and tax collector in Perry County (local bill) — PASSED, roll‑call: 95 y, 0 n, 1 present. - House Bill 19 91 (Childress): fire code exemption for certain residential developments outside city limits — PASSED, roll‑call: 76 y, 8 n, 4 present.

Amendments and concurrence actions

The House also recorded numerous floor actions to concur in Senate amendments for many bills (for example, concurrence votes on amendments to HB 1688, HB 18803, HB 1814, HB 1808, HB 1333, HB 1424, HB 1602, HB 1531, HB 1700, HB 1820, HB 1771, HB 1454, HB 1543, HB 1666, HB 1777 and others). When a concurrence vote was taken the clerk recorded the tallies (examples: 92‑0‑0; 95‑0‑1; 94‑0‑2; 82‑5‑4; 78‑9‑7 depending on the item). All recorded concurrence votes are reflected in the session minutes and were sent to engrossing or returned to the Senate as appropriate.

Batched budget and Senate bills

Budget chair actions were taken to batch several appropriation and Senate measures for third reading and emergency clauses. The transcript shows multi‑bill batch votes (for example, a batch that included Senate bills 34, 35, 36, 40, 41, 51, 52, 55, 71, 81 and 124 was adopted with the emergency clause recorded as 97 y, 0 n, 0 present). A number of Senate bills with appropriations or technical changes were passed in those batches; the Budget Committee announced a few Senate bills to be taken up separately.

Context and how to read this summary

- This is a concise list of floor actions recorded in the session transcript; it does not summarize internal committee amendments or all committee concurrence votes in full detail. For bills where the transcript logged a roll‑call tally, that tally is included above. - Ceremonial resolutions, guest recognitions, opening prayer and page assignments are excluded from this list.

Provenance (first and last transcript references for selected items)

- HB 19 30 topic intro: "House bill 19 30 by representative Wardlaw to mandate minimum reimbursement levels for health care services." (transcript block beginning 4824.88) - HB 19 30 topic finish: "Cast up the ballot with a vote of 44 yays, 45 nays, 4 present. Bill is failed." (transcript block beginning 7527.98) - HB 18 74 intro: "House Bill 18 74 by Representative McKenzie to amend the use of professional development funding ..." (block beginning 7538.06); final tally: 61 y, 25 n, 10 present (block ~7728.06) - HB 13 12 intro/final: adequacy bill read/returned and passed (blocks ~7749.60 and ~8118.76; vote 93 y, 3 n) - HB 19 74 intro/final (E‑Verify): intro block ~8199.50; final tally 76 y, 20 n (block ~8481.75)

Speakers (representative sample of those who announced or defended final votes)

- Representative Wardlaw — sponsor of HB 19 30 - Representative McKenzie — sponsor of HB 18 74 and education items - Representative Brooks — sponsor of HB 13 12 (adequacy) - Representative Jean — Budget Chair (presented batch appropriation items) - Madam Clerk — procedural reads and vote calls - Mister Speaker — presiding officer

Notes on numeric tallies and sources

Where roll‑call tallies are included above they are drawn verbatim from the session transcript. Where tallies were given as part of batch votes the transcript records each bill’s passage in the batch with its voting outcome or notes that the emergency clause was adopted.

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