State agencies will be closely watching events at the state Capitol starting Monday – the first day of the “Fiscal Session.” Votes cast during that time will determine which state agencies get new funding to keep up with the...
Yesterday’s failed Senate vote on the Medicaid appropriation was critical to keeping hundreds of thousands of Arkansans insured. Earlier this week, we wrote about the devastating impact to the state budget, if the Medicaid appropriation bill does not pass with Arkansas...
The Arkansas Legislature has published funding allocations for fiscal year 2014-2015 according to the Revenue Stabilization Laws. The total budget is just over $5 billion, an overall increase of about 2.2 percent or $108 million from the current 2013-2014...
We are less than a week away from the convening of the 2012 General Assembly. Lawmakers return to Little Rock this month for the “fiscal session” in which they are to consider budget bills to fund state government through...
This week’s bad weather didn’t keep the Arkansas General Assembly from gathering to open the 2010 fiscal session—the first of its kind. By all accounts today, the expectation is that this session will be quick—in and out in a month, with...
Jan. 15, 2010 The U.S. Senate returns from recess on Jan. 20 to join the House, which headed back to work this week. Meanwhile, the Arkansas General Assembly this week held budget hearings in advance of Arkansas’ first fiscal...
The Legislature began hearings this week of the Joint Budget Committee as part of the first Fiscal Session that will focus on the state agency budget dubbed the “Big Six.” These agencies include: the Department of Education Public School...