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Committee adopts legal‑aid and ARPA reporting amendments; maternal‑health reporting amendment approved; multiple amendments released back to joint budget
Summary
At the Joint Budget Committee (special language) meeting, members adopted amendments altering funding distribution for public legal aid, changed ARPA reporting frequency, approved a maternal‑health reporting amendment, and released several amendments back to joint budget.
The committee took several procedural and substantive votes on special‑language items during the session.
House Bill 1202 — amendment on legal‑aid distribution: Representative Collins presented an amendment to House Bill 1202 that struck language splitting a fund (previously shown as 45%/55%) and directed the full amount to Legal Aid of Arkansas. Collins said the change eliminates the prior split and that “the 100% will go to the remaining entity, which is Legal Aid of Arkansas.” After brief…
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