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AR Code § 10-3-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 4 - Legislative Joint Auditing Committee|§ 10-3-406. Meetings during legislative session

 (a) The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee is authorized to meet and transact its normal business during all legislative sessions as provided in this section.  (b)  (1) If members of the House of Representatives and members of the Senate each have selected their respective cochairs for the new biennial period, either cochair may call a meeting of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee members during legislative sessions.  (2)  (A) If members of the House and members of the Senate each have not selected their respective cochairs for the new biennial period, meetings of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee during the legislative session shall be called by either cochair of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, who shall be the person who served in this capacity prior to the commencement of the current General Assembly.  (B)  (i) The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall consist of the members of the General Assembly who served on the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee prior to the commencement of the current General Assembly.  (ii) If any regular member of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee is no longer serving in the General Assembly, then this vacancy shall be assumed by the first or second alternate as provided by law.        (c) In the meetings, primary consideration shall be given to matters that require immediate attention and that cannot wait until the conclusion of the legislative session.
AR Code § 10-3-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 4 - Legislative Joint Auditing Committee|§ 10-3-407. Duties — Cochairs

 (a) The duties of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall be to provide for the auditing of any entity of the state or political subdivision of the state for the purpose of furnishing the General Assembly with information vital to the discharge of its constitutional duties.  (b)  (1) Immediately after its organization, the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall commence the performance of its duties herein prescribed.  (2) The Senate members of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall select one (1) of their number as cochair and one (1) of their number as co-vice chair.  (3) The House members of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall select one (1) of their number as cochair and one (1) of their number as co-vice chair.  (4) The Senate cochair shall appoint all Senate Legislative Joint Auditing Committee members to subcommittees of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, and the House cochair shall appoint all House Legislative Joint Auditing Committee members to subcommittees of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.  (5) The Senate cochair shall appoint a Senate Legislative Joint Auditing Committee member as cochair of each of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee's subcommittees, and the House cochair shall appoint a House Legislative Joint Auditing Committee member as the cochair of each of the subcommittees of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.  (6) The Senate cochair and the House cochair shall alternate in presiding at meetings of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee unless the cochairs otherwise agree.
AR Code § 10-3-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 4 - Legislative Joint Auditing Committee|§ 10-3-408. Rules

 The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee may establish any rules as it may deem fit which are not inconsistent with law.
AR Code § 10-3-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 4 - Legislative Joint Auditing Committee|§ 10-3-409. Compensation of Legislative Auditor and employees — Cooperation with Council of State Governments — Reimbursement

 (a)  (1) The Legislative Auditor shall be entitled to such salary as may be authorized by appropriation of the General Assembly.  (2) All other employees of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall receive such remuneration as may be provided by the annual appropriations.    (b) The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee is authorized to cooperate with the Council of State Governments and with national and regional organizations established to study governmental problems and may authorize one (1) or more of its members to attend the meetings thereof which the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee deems appropriate. Any member of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee attending the meetings shall be reimbursed only for actual and reasonable expenses for transportation, meals, lodging, and other necessary expenses.
AR Code § 10-3-410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 4 - Legislative Joint Auditing Committee|§ 10-3-410. Abolishment or consolidation of agencies

 The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee is authorized to recommend to the General Assembly the abolishment or consolidation of any entity of the state which the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee deems appropriate as a result of its review of audits performed by its staff.
AR Code § 10-3-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 5 - Joint Budget Committee|§ 10-3-501. Act supplemental

 This act is supplemental to the existing laws of this state pertaining to the selection of members of the Joint Budget Committee and shall modify only those portions of such laws or parts of laws as are specifically in conflict herewith.
AR Code § 10-3-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 5 - Joint Budget Committee|§ 10-3-507. Presession budget hearings

 (a) The members appointed to serve on the Joint Budget Committee at the next-following regular session of the General Assembly who are not members of the Legislative Council shall be privileged to attend all presession budget hearings of the Legislative Council held after the October 1 preceding the next regular session of the General Assembly.  (b) All such members of the Joint Budget Committee who are not regular members of the Legislative Council shall be given notice of all presession budget hearings scheduled by the Legislative Council and shall be privileged to attend the budget hearings and to participate therein and vote on budget recommendations the same as regular members of the Legislative Council.  (c) The members shall be entitled to receive per diem and mileage for attendance at such presession budget hearings of the Legislative Council at the same rates provided by law for attendance at meetings of the interim committees of the General Assembly, and payment therefor shall be made as follows:  (1) Regular members of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee who are appointed to the Legislative Council shall receive per diem and mileage for attendance at Legislative Council presession budget hearings from funds appropriated for the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee;  (2) Members of either house of the General Assembly who are not regular members of the Legislative Council or regular members of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall receive the per diem and mileage from funds appropriated for the payment of per diem and mileage for attendance at meetings of the interim committees of the General Assembly; and  (3) Members of the Legislative Council shall receive per diem and mileage from funds appropriated for the support of the Legislative Council.    (d) The House Chair of the Special Language Subcommittee of the Joint Budget Committee shall serve on the corresponding subcommittee of the Legislative Council and Joint Budget Committee presession budget hearings as an ex officio nonvoting member.
AR Code § 10-3-508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 5 - Joint Budget Committee|§ 10-3-508. Duties

 In addition to participation by members of the Joint Budget Committee in the presession budget hearings of the Legislative Council, as authorized in § 10-3-507, the Joint Budget Committee during a regular session, a fiscal session, and a special session of the General Assembly shall perform any duties as are provided by the Joint Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
AR Code § 10-3-509 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 5 - Joint Budget Committee|§ 10-3-509. Meeting during the interim

 (a) The House of Representatives members of the Joint Budget Committee shall serve as an interim committee to be known as the House Interim Budget Committee.  (b) The Joint Budget Committee and the House Interim Budget Committee shall be authorized to meet during the interim to work on budgetary and other matters as come before the Joint Budget Committee.  (c) The members of the Joint Budget Committee shall be paid per diem and mileage reimbursement from moneys appropriated for the payment of per diem and mileage for members of the General Assembly when attending meetings of interim committees.
AR Code § 10-3-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 6 - Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications|§ 10-3-601. Intent

 It is the intent of this subchapter to establish procedures whereby the types of contracts to be let for legislative printing or duplicating requirements may be determined after study and review of the printing or duplicating needs of the General Assembly. Adequate specifications and safeguards may be established for such contracts in order that the State Procurement Director might be advised thereof in the letting of contracts for legislative printing or duplicating requirements.
AR Code § 10-3-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 6 - Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications|§ 10-3-602. Creation — Composition

 There is established a joint interim committee of the General Assembly, consisting of the chair and vice chair of the respective efficiency committees of the House of Representatives and Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives or his or her designee, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, which committee shall be designated and be known as the “Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications”.
AR Code § 10-3-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 6 - Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications|§ 10-3-603. Meetings — Officers — Compensation

 (a)  (1) The Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications shall meet subsequent to the adjournment of each regular session of the General Assembly, at a time to be determined jointly by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and shall select from its membership two (2) cochairs, one (1) cochair to be a member of the House of Representatives to be elected by the members of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications who are members of the House and one (1) cochair to be a Senator to be elected by the members of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications who are members of the Senate.  (2) The Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications may elect such other officers as it deems necessary for the performance of its duties.    (b)  (1) The two (2) cochairs shall preside at each meeting of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications or may rotate from meeting to meeting as presiding officers as they determine.  (2) A majority vote of the full membership of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications shall be necessary to take final action on any matter.  (3) The Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications may establish rules for its procedures and shall meet upon call of the cochairs thereof, upon call by a majority of its members, or at other intervals as may be established in its rules.    (c)  (1) Members of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications shall receive per diem for attending meetings of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications or other official business of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications at the rate provided by law for attendance by members of the General Assembly at meetings of interim committees and, in addition, shall receive mileage for travel in attending meetings or other official business of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications at the rate provided by law for state employees.  (2) Per diem and mileage of members of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications shall be paid from any appropriation made for paying per diem, expenses, and mileage of members of the interim committees.
AR Code § 10-3-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 6 - Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications|§ 10-3-604. Duties

 It shall be the duty of the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications to:   (1) Study and review all purchases by the General Assembly of printing and duplicating services and stationery;  (2) Designate those items which should be purchased under commercial term contracts awarded by the State Procurement Director, those items which should be purchased under one-time commercial contracts awarded by the director, and those items of printing or duplicating that can be best accomplished by facilities operated by the General Assembly or its staff or by another state agency and paid for on a cost basis through an intergovernmental transfer of funds;  (3) Promulgate standards, specifications, and rules governing the size, composition, and printing or duplicating processes that shall be used in furnishing printing or duplicating services for the General Assembly and certify the specifications and requirements to the director, who shall incorporate the specifications and requirements in contracts to be let for legislative printing needs;  (4) Establish requirements for the furnishing of bonds for performance under legislative printing or duplicating contracts, establish penalty provisions for failure to perform under the terms of the contracts, and establish procedures for the evaluation of performance under those contracts for the purpose of determining when the penalty provisions shall be invoked, and the amount thereof, in case of breach of contract or failures to fulfill contracts within the terms thereof;  (5) Make any additional rules or specifications and advise the director for incorporation in legislative printing or duplicating contracts as the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications determines necessary in order that the efficiency of the General Assembly might be expedited.
AR Code § 10-3-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 6 - Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications|§ 10-3-605. State Procurement Director — Contracts

 The State Procurement Director shall incorporate into all contracts for legislative printing or duplicating requirements the specifications, bond requirements, penalty provisions, and other requirements as may be certified to it by the Joint Committee on Legislative Printing Requirements and Specifications and shall let contracts for legislative printing or duplicating requirements in accordance therewith in the manner now established by law.
AR Code § 10-3-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 7 - Retirement Committees|§ 10-3-701. Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs — Creation — Members

 (a) There is established a joint committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be known as the “Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs”, to consist of twenty (20) members.  (b)  (1) The ten (10) House members and ten (10) House alternates shall be selected as prescribed by the Rules of the House of Representatives.  (2) The House Cochair of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs and House Co-vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall be selected in accordance with the Rules of the House of Representatives.  (3) In addition to the regular House members appointed under subdivision (b)(1) of this section, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint, during each regular session, one (1) additional House member from each caucus district to serve as a nonvoting member of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs only during the interim between sessions of the General Assembly.    (c)  (1) At the commencement of each regular session of the General Assembly, ten (10) members of the Senate shall be named pursuant to the Rules of the Senate to serve on the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs. Vacancies shall be filled pursuant to the Rules of the Senate.  (2) Pursuant to the Rules of the Senate, one (1) Senate member of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall be designated to serve as Senate Cochair of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs and one (1) Senate member shall be designated to serve as Senate Co-vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs.
AR Code § 10-3-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 7 - Retirement Committees|§ 10-3-702. Bills referred to Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs — Fiscal note

 (a) All bills introduced in either house of the General Assembly to amend any of the existing publicly supported retirement systems laws of this state or to establish new or expanded public retirement or social security programs shall be referred to the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs.  (b)  (1) The Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall cause a fiscal note to be prepared and attached to each bill reflecting estimated cost or fiscal impact of the bill upon the revenues of the State of Arkansas and its various agencies and upon the actuarial soundness of the retirement systems.  (2)  (A) In connection with the preparation of the fiscal notes, the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs is authorized to request the respective retirement systems to review proposed retirement bills and to furnish the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs with an evaluation thereof in writing.  (B) If the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs deems it necessary, the services of actuaries may be obtained in evaluating the respective bills, provided that funds have been provided for that purpose.    (3)  (A) No bill amending an existing publicly supported retirement system by increasing the multiplier, changing terms of or allowing the purchase of credited service, shortening vesting periods or shortening the years of service required for standard retirement without penalty, or which would establish a new or expanded public retirement program, shall be acted upon in either house until the fiscal note provided for in subsection (a) of this section has been attached to the bill, two-thirds (2/3) of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs has recommended the passage of the bill, and the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs has reported its recommendations in regard to the bill.  (B) However, upon suspension of the Joint Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate, a retirement system bill may be withdrawn from further consideration by the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs and may be acted upon without a report of the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs being attached thereto.
AR Code § 10-3-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 7 - Retirement Committees|§ 10-3-703. Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs — Members — Duties

 (a) Upon adjournment of each regular session, fiscal session, and special session of the General Assembly, the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs is designated and constituted as a joint interim committee of the General Assembly to be known as the “Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs”.  (b) The Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall consist of the members appointed to the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs during each regular session of the General Assembly, and they shall serve thereon until the next following regular session, at which time all members shall be appointed in the manner provided in § 10-3-701.  (c) The Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall make continuing review of the statistics, actuarial solvency, adequacy of benefits, and all other aspects of the publicly supported retirement systems of this state. The Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall also study and review all proposals for changes or amendments to any of the existing public retirement laws or for the creation of new or expanded public retirement systems and shall report its findings and recommendations to each session of the General Assembly in regard to each such proposal. Any member of the General Assembly, the boards of trustees and administrators of the publicly supported retirement systems of this state, and any member of any system may present information and request the review by the Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs of proposed changes in the various retirement systems.  (d) The Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall periodically report to the Legislative Council on the status of its studies and findings. The Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs shall undertake such special studies as may be referred to the Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs by the Legislative Council and report to the Legislative Council in regard thereto.  (e) In the event a vacancy occurs on the Joint Interim Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as provided in subsection (b) of this section for the original appointment.
AR Code § 10-3-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 8 - Energy Committees|§ 10-3-801. Subchapter supplemental

 The provisions of this subchapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the laws of this state and the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Rules of the Senate pertaining to the standing and interim committees of the General Assembly and of the House of Representatives and Senate.