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'Mary Bentley'

Bill to outlaw abortion filed with hopes of reaching the Trump Supreme Court

Sen. Jason Rapert and Rep. Mary Bentley have filed legislation to make abortion a felony except to save a woman's life. It's aiming for a U.S. Supreme Court reversal.
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Health department takes it on the chin from legislators

Money spent on contact tracing, strategy for testing at issue.
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Resist the masks! So say some sheriffs and legislators

Round up the usual suspects for opposition to the governor's mask mandate, including at least two sheriffs.

Even Leslie Rutledge has concerns about random drug tests of school employees

Attorney general casts doubt on constitutionality of new law allowing random drug tests for school employees.
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Sponsor pulls down hog waste regulation bill for this session

After an extended debate before a House committee today,. the sponsor pulled down the hotly controversial SB 550 to transfer regulation of liquid animal waste from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission. It goes to interim study, which means it's dead for this session.

Farm Bureau seeks to cover itself on hog manure bill

When a state representative says she has to read an amendment SHE nominally filed before commenting on it, it speaks volumes about who's really in charge of the bill to ease regulations on factory hog farms by switching permitting from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission.
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Bart Hester's new judgeship bill includes a ringer in Mary Bentley's Perry County

Sen. Bart Hester has introduced legislation to create six new circuit judgeships, but look closely, there's some trickery afoot.

Suffer the poor, the legislature is in session

Still more from the annals of Arkansas legislative efforts to grind the poor by Rep. Mary Bentley of Perry County.
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On the trail of True Grit means a visit to Oklahoma

Rep. Mary Bentley's introduction yesterday of a bill to create a True Grit Trail in Arkansas — a highway route supposedly tailored to Charles Portis' famous novel — will require some fiction, as I noted yesterday.

House passes 'trigger' bill to ban abortion

The House today completed action on a bill to virtually ban abortion in Arkansas should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
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Women suffer when men control our narratives

Thursday, the Arkansas House of Representatives is expected to vote on GOP Sen. Jason Rapert's "trigger law" outlawing nearly every abortion in Arkansas if Roe v. Wade is overturned. The bill passed in the Arkansas Senate last week with three Democrats voting in support. I predict that the narrative on abortion in Arkansas will continue to be controlled by the GOP evangelicals who believe women either need to be punished for our choices or saved from our naivety and these goals can only be accomplished by passing Rapert's bill.

Another election problem: Wrong ballots in Yell County

Here's another report of voters being denied proper ballots in this year's election — this time in Yell County.
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