Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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Google-News-Wire
- April 18, 2024
- arkansas department of finance and administration
- Arkansas department of human services
- arkansas medicaid
- Clarke Tucker
- crisis pregnancy centers
- Denise Garner
- faith-based organizations
- grants
- infant mortality
- john payton
- Joint Budget Committee
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
- nicole clowney
- postpartum
- Pregnancy
- pregnancy resource center
- prenatal
- reproductive health
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Trend – Abortion
An Arkansas legislative panel on Thursday approved the doubling of a taxpayer-funded grant to support pregnancy resource centers, which are often religiously affiliated and discourage abortion while encouraging birth. Republican leaders statewide have held up pregnancy resource centers as critical since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and Arkansas subsequently […]
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Arkansas lawmakers question governor’s lectern purchase, potential law violations found in audit • Arkansas Advocate
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Google-News-Wire
- April 17, 2024
- arkansas legislative audit
- Beckett Events
- carol dalby
- cortney kennedy
- FOIA
- Freedom Of Information Act
- john payton
- judd deere
- julie mayberry
- kim hammer
- lectern
- Legislative Joint Auditing Committee
- mark johnson
- matt campbell
- missy irvin
- podium
- procurement
- Prosecuting Attorney
- Republican Party of Arkansas
- robin lundstrum
- Ryan Owsley
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- tim griffin
- tippi mccullough
Arkansas lawmakers questioned representatives of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin on Tuesday in light of Monday’s audit report that highlighted several potential breaches of state law in the $19,000 purchase of a lectern for Sanders’ office last year. The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee heard the report and voted with no dissent […]
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Arkansas Senate approves seven potential bills to regulate cryptocurrency mines • Arkansas Advocate
The Arkansas Senate cleared the way Thursday for lawmakers to take up several potential amendments to a 2023 law that limited the state’s ability to regulate cryptocurrency mining operations. Act 851 of 2023, or the Arkansas Data Centers Act, was introduced just over a week before the 2023 legislative session ended and passed both chambers […]
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