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ALC Executive Subcommittee approves emergency rules, renews BLR publishing contract; Code of Arkansas Rules website noted
Summary
The Executive Subcommittee approved emergency rules and authorized BLR to renew its LexisNexis publishing contract; the council also heard that the BLR Code of Arkansas Rules website launched and won an innovation award.
House Co-Chair Les D. Eaves presented the Executive Subcommittee report at the Aug. 15 Arkansas Legislative Council meeting, noting the subcommittee had approved emergency rules for the Arkansas Sentencing Commission and the Office of Property Risk and that those approvals are effective upon adjournment of the ALC meeting.
Co-Chair Eaves said the subcommittee authorized the Bureau of Legislative Research to proceed with a contract renewal with LexisNexis for publishing and editing the Arkansas Code and noted an emergency action taken July 25 authorizing BLR to amend and extend a contract with Ikaso Consulting Services, LLC, for procurement consulting through the end of the year.
Ms. Jill Thayer, chief legal counsel for BLR, told the council that the Code of Arkansas Rules website — the centralized site created under a 2019 act assigned to BLR to compile and codify state agency rules — went live Jan. 1, 2025, and that the site received the Robert J. Colburn, Jr. Innovation Award at the National Association of Secretaries of State conference. Thayer and others thanked legislators involved in creating the enabling Act and the BLR administrative rules team for their work.
The Executive Subcommittee report was moved and adopted by voice vote. Co-Chair Eaves also announced that ALC week will move to the week of Sept. 22–26, 2025.
Why it matters: renewing BLR's publishing contract affects how the Arkansas Code is produced and maintained; emergency-rule approvals and contract amendments change agency rule and procurement timelines.
The report was adopted by voice vote; the council continued with standing-subcommittee reports.
