THIS WEEK: Arkansas Legislative Action Alert
Here is some of the legislation coming up in committees on Tuesday morning, Jan. 28, 2025.
We need to watch these bills and contact our legislators about them.
These are among those that we’ve found are most important.
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We’ve listed the bills according to the committees in which they’ll be introduced, and each bill is hotlinked to the Arkansas State Legislature info.
You can copy/paste the committee members’ email addresses into your email SEND TO box quickly and easily.
SB10 — (Coming up Tuesday morning, Jan. 28, 2025) SUPPORT SB 10
TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACT OF 2023; AND TO REGULATE THE IMPACT ON WATER USAGE AND THE ELECTRIC GRID BY BLOCKCHAIN NETWORKS AND DIGITAL ASSET MINING.
SB10 comes up in the Senate Committee on City, County, and Local Affairs — Room 272 — Agenda Tuesday, January 28, 2025. Please reach out to these committee members and let them know you want them to SUPPORT SB 10
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Sen. Gary Stubblefield, Chair |
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Bills coming up Tuesday morning at 10:00 am, January 28, 2025 in Senate State Agencies Committee held in the Old Supreme Court (OSC) (Here is the Agenda) :
SB12 — (Coming up Tuesday morning Jan. 28) SUPPORT SB 12
TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO SUBJECT ALL COMMUNICATION WITH THE BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO ESTABLISH A PENALTY.
HISTORY
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SJR1— (Coming up Tuesday morning Jan. 28) SUPPORT SJR1
AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE A VOTE OF THREE-FOURTHS OF EACH HOUSE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ENACT, AMEND, OR REPEAL LAWS CONCERNING ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS OR ACCESS TO PUBLIC MEETINGS.
Please call, email, or text the Senate State Agencies Committee members and tell them you want them to SUPPORT these bills listed above!
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Sen. Scott Flippo, Chair |
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Additionally, here are some bills that we support, but they’re probably not coming up this week. However, we still need to be contacting our legislators about these to let them know to SUPPORT them whenever they do come up.
SB11 – No upcoming events for this bill. SUPPORT SB 11
TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS DATA CENTERS ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND THE UNIFORM MONEY SERVICES ACT.
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SB5 (Part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) – No upcoming events.
SUPPORT SB 5
TO ADD THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG HARM OR HOMICIDE.
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SB6 (Part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) – No upcoming events.
SUPPORT SB 6
TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF VACCINE HARM.
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SB2 – No upcoming events for this bill. SUPPORT SB 2
TO REPEAL THE STATEWIDE FLUORIDATION PROGRAM; AND TO REMOVE THE MANDATE FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN A FLUORIDE CONTENT.
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Now, shifting gears — the bad stuff!! We must keep an eye out for an offensive BAD bill HB1168 sponsored by Rep. Lee Johnson from Greenwood. It’s on the deferred list in the House Committee on Judiciary in Room 149 for Tuesday morning, Jan 28, but could come off that list anytime! Here is the agenda.
Arkansas appears to be Acting To Limit Legal Liability Of Healthcare Providers, Physicians and Healthcare Professionals For Care Provided During COVID-19 Pandemic. It also appears that it is the professional medical organizations that are advocating for such protections from the mandatory Covid-19 mandates of Dr. Anthony Fauci which Biden also pardoned just before he left office. (This makes Fauci really look guilty! How can you pardon someone who’s never been found guilty yet?)
HB1168 (This BAD bill will Make America UN-Healthy)
TO PROVIDE CRIMINAL IMMUNITY FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS FOR NEGLIGENT ACTS OR OMISSIONS (Kill HB1168)
Bill sponsor: Representative L. Johnson (R) Occupation: Physician
phone: (479) 883-6393, email: lee.johnson@arkansashouse.org
(b) A healthcare professional who is providing a healthcare service and is otherwise lawfully acting is immune from criminal liability for any harm or damages to the person receiving the healthcare service alleged to arise from a negligent act or omission related to providing the healthcare service.
Secure Arkansas has heard from many people who are OUTRAGED at this bill!
HB1168 would decriminalize medical mistakes made by health care providers. This is not good. HB1168 must be killed. If you have healthcare professionals making mistakes, they need to be run out of town.
From Harvard Law Today April 7, 2020 (It appears that this is one of the driving forces behind HB1168)
Some snippets:
Emergency statutes must be passed to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits, say Harvard Law professors
State governments must enact emergency immunity statutes to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits and criminal prosecution during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Law Professors I. Glenn Cohen ’03 and Andrew Manuel Crespo ’08 recently argued in The Journal of the American Medical Association. As they further explained in The New York Times, shortages of ventilators and other critical medical supplies will soon require physicians to ration precious resources, creating a risk of legal liability. With co-author Douglas B. White, a professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, Cohen and Crespo point to a Maryland law that grants immunity to health care providers acting in good faith as a model that other states should follow.
Please call, email, or text the House Judiciary Committee members and tell them NOT to support this horrible bill, HB1168!
And another BAD bill, HB1011, regarding abortion, is coming up Tuesday morning, Jan. 28, 2025!
TO CREATE THE RESTORE ROE ACT; AND TO RESTORE A WOMAN’S ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICES. Kill HB1011
Please call, text, or email these legislators below and tell them you do NOT SUPPORT HB1011 and to vote against it.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE
Room 130 — Agenda
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Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, Chair |
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Stay diligent, and hang in there!
Session has just begun, and it’s up to us to do our part.
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