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Senate panel votes to codify Arkansas Office of Outdoor Recreation into law
Summary
The Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee voted to convert the Office of Outdoor Recreation — created by executive order in 2021 — into statute, a move sponsors said will stabilize the office and preserve its grant and partnership work.
Senator Brianne Davis, state senator for District 25, asked the State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee to approve a bill codifying the Arkansas Office of Outdoor Recreation on the committee's consent agenda Tuesday.
The measure moves the office from its original creation by executive order into permanent state law, supporters said. "This is a noncontroversial, pretty simple bill," Davis told the committee before turning the presentation over to the office's director.
"In 2021, Governor Hutchinson created the sixteenth formal Office of Outdoor Recreation in the country here in Arkansas," Catherine Andrews, director…
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