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The Ninety-Forth Arkansas General Assembly is the legislative body of the state of Arkansas in 2023 and 2024. The Arkansas Senate and Arkansas House of Representatives were both controlled by the Republicans. In the Senate, 29 senators were Republicans and 6 were Democrats. In the House, 82 representatives were Republicans and 18 were Democrats.
The General Assembly of Arkansas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 members. All 135 representatives and state senators represent an equal number of constituent districts.
The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly.The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 83,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the y
An Arkansas Senate panel advanced a drastically scaled-back hate crimes bill on Monday that longtime supporters of such legislation have derided for not including specific references to race ...
It is now a felony for doctors to provide care to trans youth in Arkansas. Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed the bill, calling it "overboard" and "extreme."
A total of 1,091 bills become law; Governor Asa Hutchinson did not veto any bills. The governor's priority, state government reorganization, merged state agencies from 42 to 15 under the Transformation and Efficiency Act of 2019. Act 182 cuts Arkansas's top individual income tax rate from 6.9 percent to 5.9 percent over two years.
He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022, including as Majority Whip. He has since served in the Arkansas Senate. He is a Republican. He is an auto auctioneer and raises cattle. [1] He sponsored a bill criminalizing the presence of adults in a bathroom unless they are the same sex as any minors present. [2]
Arkansas House Bill 1570 (HB 1570), also known as the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act or Act 626, is a 2021 law in the state of Arkansas that bans gender-affirming medical procedures for transgender people under 18, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex reassignment surgery. The law also bans the use of public ...