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Arkansas House approves simpler adjournment script in new house rule
Summary
The House Rules Committee approved a change to the daily adjournment motion that replaces a nine‑item recitation with a short scripted line, a procedural amendment presented by Rep. Terry Meeks and backed by members as an efficiency measure.
Representative Terry Meeks, the committee’s senior House member, successfully pushed a change to the House’s adjournment procedure that shortens the traditional nine‑item recital used to preserve continuity of business. "The new adjourned motion will simply be that in accordance with house rule 33(m), I move we adjourn until 1:30 tomorrow afternoon," Meeks told the committee, adding that the change will “shorten it down to that nice short sweet sentence.”
Meeks said the…
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