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Senate approves multiple bills on vehicle rules, healthcare and consumer protections
Summary
The Arkansas Senate voted on a slate of bills that include changes to ATV road access, absentee voting in long-term care facilities, psychiatric clinical pharmacist services, an online marketplace guarantees framework and updates to offender-registration rules.
The Arkansas Senate on the floor moved a package of bills addressing transportation rules, healthcare licensure and consumer protections.
Key floor outcomes included passage of Senate Bill 261, which revises access rules for all-terrain vehicles on unpaved county roads and adds an insurance requirement in the amendment adopted on the floor; Senate Bill 299, which requires two staff witnesses when long-term care facility staff assist residents with absentee ballots; and Senate Bill 309, amending the Arkansas Health Care Consumer Act to permit inclusion, on a permissive basis, of certain clinical psychiatric pharmacist services within a psychiatric cooperative care model.
Senate Bill 329, the “online marketplace guarantees” bill, was approved after the sponsor described the measure as…
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