Arkansas lawmakers propose amendments as passage of fiscal 2025 budget nears • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 27, 2024
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Arkansas’ 2024 fiscal session, which was initially projected to end this week, is now expected to end May 2 or possibly the following week, House Speaker Matthew Shepherd said Thursday. During the final days of the session, the Legislature will pass the fiscal year 2025 budget, also known as the Revenue Stabilization Act. The Joint […]
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Arkansas lawmakers consider shifting funds from health care data hub to UAMS midwifery program • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 24, 2024
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An Arkansas legislative panel on Tuesday approved diverting funds from a state health care data hub to start a midwifery education program at the state’s largest medical school. Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, proposed removing the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement from a section of a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences appropriations bill and rewriting […]
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Crypto regulations, lectern audit become the talk of the Arkansas fiscal session • Arkansas Advocate
Last week Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the first of many appropriations bills for her proposed $6.3 billion state budget that will head to her desk in the coming weeks. Sanders signed a general appropriations bill for the judicial branch, the legislative branch and the state auditor, as well as a separate bill setting […]
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Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 18, 2024
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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 pregnancy centers seek help with advertising, material needs from $1M state grant
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- January 8, 2024
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Twenty-one pregnancy resource centers throughout Arkansas have applied for a taxpayer funds to bolster services for the second year in a row. The $1 million grant program will provide financial support to the centers, sometimes called “crisis pregnancy centers” and often religiously affiliated. Adoption agencies and maternity care homes are also eligible for the grant, […]
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