... cannot be sued, the claims commission is set up to pay for damages by state entities. The appeal was to the legislative committee because it has to OK payments approved by the claims commission. By unanimous vote, the Claims Review Subcommittee rejected UCAâ s appeal ...

... lawmakers to decide whether Passailaigue should be paid that much. "If that's what the commission and the legislative committee believe we need to invest to have an experienced hand running the lottery and get it off to the right start ...

... improvements would require money. The committee voted to refer the recommendations to the Legislative Council for other legislative committees to review and possibly draft legislation to be considered in a future legislative session.

... was one of the lawmakers who raised concerns about the way Passailaigue was hired, but didn't vote when the legislative committee overseeing the commission approved the salary allowance. Maloch questioned whether the commission was opening ...

... Beebe's call for increased tobacco taxes. The competing proposal for funding a trauma system was filed as legislative committees advanced measures to make aggravated animal cruelty a felony, expand state law on video voyeurism, and ban ...

... taking the cause before the legislature by contacting state senators and representatives. The members of the FCRTA Legislative Committee were asked to assemble at the conclusion of the business meeting. Parliamentarian Nancy Mitchell presented Historian ...

... national news attention given the resolution's initial rejection. That was worthy national attention: A state legislative committee in Arkansas, where Barack Obama got his worst drubbing, refused today to approve a resolution congratulating ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) An Arkansas legislative committee has backed a bill allowing concealed weapons in churches, despite concerns of a pastor who said he was shot in a sanctuary two ...

... Beebe's proposals to increase the tax on cigarettes but reduce the sales tax on groceries advanced Wednesday in legislative committees. The House Rules Committee recommended a bill that would increase taxes on cigarettes by 56 cents a pack and ...

... lawmakers. Lawmakers voted 58-35 in favor of the bill by Sen. Jimmy Jeffress, who a day earlier tearfully urged a legislative committee to back the plan. Jeffress, a retired school teacher from Crossett, told lawmakers that keeping teens off the ...