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Committee approves measure to allow monument honoring Hoxie school integration on Capitol grounds
Summary
The committee approved House Bill 1194, allowing a privately funded monument to be placed on the state Capitol grounds to commemorate Hoxie, Arkansas, one of the earliest challenged school integrations in U.S. history. The bill establishes a fund in the Secretary of State's office to receive private donations.
Representative Fran Cavanagh presented House Bill 1194, which would permit placement of a monument on the state Capitol grounds commemorating the Hoxie school integration, described by the sponsor as the first legally challenged school integration in the nation and historically significant.
Cavanagh told the committee the bill would authorize creation of a fund in the Secretary of State's office to receive private donations for the monument; she said a nonprofit already exists that is working to raise money. Committee members asked whether funds would be held by the Secretary of State; the sponsor confirmed the legislation sets up the fund in that office to hold privately raised money.
No members spoke in opposition, and the committee passed the bill by voice vote.
