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Arkansas Senate Education Committee adopts rules, defers fiscal-impact requirement
Summary
The Senate Education Committee adopted its procedural rules but delayed a proposed requirement that every bill include a fiscal impact statement, after members raised concerns it could slow committee business. The panel also discussed lottery scholarship-study requirements and set a meeting schedule.
The Senate Education Committee adopted its rules for the session on a voice vote but agreed to defer consideration of a proposed rule requiring a fiscal impact statement on every bill.
Committee leadership proposed adding a requirement that "each bill must have a fiscal impact statement." The committee chair (name not specified) said, "I would make a motion that we have that, fiscal impact statement as required for all of our bills." The chair also read the draft language for the proposed rule: "Fiscal impact statement shall be made available to the committee at least 1 day before the bill may be called up for final action in the committee."
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