The House took the first step today to enable House Speaker Jeremy Gillam to add another constitutional amendment to the 2018 ballot, one that would make it much harder for the people to put amendments on the ballot.
The Arkansas Senate fell a vote short today of approving resolutions calling for U.S. constitutional amendments to prohibit same-sex marriage and ban abortion.
Today is the deadline for the Arkansas legislature to file joint resolutions — that is, legislatively referred amendments to the state constitution — and the Capitol is seeing a flurry of last-minute filings from members.
Sen. Bryan King, a longtime crusader for enacting restrictions for ballot access, filed a senate joint resolution on Wednesday to refer a constitutional amendment to voters that would impose Voter ID.
Secretary of State Mark Martin's office this morning quietly posted a list of ballot initiatives for the November election that included both a measure to legalize three casinos in the state and a second medical marijuana proposal, a constitutional amendment.This does NOT mean those two amendment have cleared the signature verification process.
Yes, we'll have three constitutional amendments on the ballot, including a giant corporate welfare proposal to allow an increase in the state debt and legalization of taxpayer susbisides for local chambers of commerce.