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AR Code § 10-2-224 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Compensation and Expenses|§ 10-2-224. Compensation for attendance at national or regional conferences

 (a) When the General Assembly is in recess for a period of two (2) weeks or more, a member of the General Assembly is:  (1) Authorized to attend national or regional conferences under the same conditions as apply to the attendance at the conferences after sine die adjournment of the General Assembly; and  (2) Entitled to receive reimbursement from the same sources and under the same conditions for conferences occurring after sine die adjournment for:  (A) Reasonable and necessary expenses for:  (i) Travel;  (ii) Meals; and  (iii) Lodging; and    (B) Other authorized expenses.      (b)  (1) A member of the General Assembly may travel to a national or regional conference by commercial airplane, private vehicle, or other approved method of transportation.  (2)  (A) Reimbursement for out-of-state travel is the lesser rate of reasonable airfare or the established rate of private car mileage based on map mileage when driven.  (B) Travel authorized by a chair of a legislative committee shall also be subject to approval by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.  (C) When the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate provides the written authorization to travel, the Speaker of the House of Representatives or his or her designee or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate or his or her designee shall determine the amount of reimbursement in dollars and cents.    (3)  (A) A member of the General Assembly who prefers to be reimbursed for travel to a national or regional conference by a mode of transportation other than private vehicle or commercial airplane shall submit a request for reimbursement to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate in a manner established respectively by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.  (B) A member of the General Assembly who submits a request for reimbursement under subdivision (b)(3)(A) of this section shall be reimbursed at a rate documented in writing and approved by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
AR Code § 10-2-225 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 2 - Compensation and Expenses|§ 10-2-225. Funds

 Funds appropriated to the Bureau of Legislative Research for interim committee study expenses shall be available for use by interim committees meeting during an extended recess of the General Assembly as authorized in § 10-2-223.
AR Code § 10-2-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-301. Compelling attendance — Orders — Sentences

 (a) The Senate and the House of Representatives meeting separately or in joint meeting may:  (1) Issue the necessary subpoenas and process to summon and compel a person to appear before them or a committee thereof;  (2) Carry into execution their orders and sentences; and  (3) Summon and compel the attendance of witnesses in as full a manner as a court of law and with like effect.    (b) A subpoena for a witness shall be issued at the request of:  (1) A member of the Senate or a member of the House with the majority support of the member's respective house;  (2) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate on behalf of the majority of the members of the Senate;  (3) The Speaker of the House of Representatives on behalf of the majority of the members of the House; and  (4) The party accused.
AR Code § 10-2-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-303. Process — Issuance and execution

 (a) All process issued by the House of Representatives and subpoenas and other process for witnesses when attendance may be required in the House or before a committee of the House shall be under the hand of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and attested by the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives.  (b) All process issued by the Senate shall be under the hand of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and attested by the Secretary of the Senate.  (c) All process issued for a joint meeting of the Senate and the House shall be under the hand of the:  (1) Speaker of the House of Representatives and attested by the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives if the process was requested by a member of the House or the Speaker of the House of Representatives; or  (2) President Pro Tempore of the Senate and attested by the Secretary of the Senate if the process was requested by:  (A) A member of the Senate;  (B) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate; or  (C) The party accused if the party accused is not a member of the House, a member of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
AR Code § 10-2-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-304. Fees, costs, and expenses

 (a) Every witness attending either house or a committee thereof or a joint meeting of both houses, being summoned, shall be allowed the same fees as allowed by law to witnesses for their attendance in any court, to be paid as other costs.  (b) The fees of all officers and witnesses before either house, or a joint meeting, and all other costs and expenses arising therein, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the house in which the proceedings may be had or if had in a joint meeting of both houses, then out of the contingent fund of the General Assembly unless the party charged be adjudged to pay the costs and expenses, in which case he or she shall pay them, and payment may be enforced by attachment.
AR Code § 10-2-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-305. Depositions

 (a) In cases not otherwise provided for by law, depositions may be taken and read in either house or before a committee thereof, or before both houses in joint meeting, in all cases in which the taking and reading of depositions would be allowed in any cause pending before a court of law.  (b) When necessary, the presiding officer of the house in which they may be required or of a joint meeting may issue commissions to take such depositions.  (c) The proceedings in taking and returning depositions shall be the same as may be prescribed by law for taking depositions to be read in a court of law.
AR Code § 10-2-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-306. Administration of oaths by committee — Depositions — Perjury

 (a) The chair or a member at any time acting as chair of a committee of either house of the General Assembly or joint committee of the two (2) houses of the General Assembly, or his or her designee, when the committee is empowered to issue subpoenas for persons, papers, or records, shall be fully empowered to administer oaths and to take depositions for the purpose for which the committee or joint committee is empowered to issue subpoenas for persons, papers, or records.  (b)  (1) If a person subpoenaed to appear before the Senate, the House of Representatives, or a Senate or House committee or joint interim committee fails to appear or produce subpoenaed material, the fact of the refusal to appear or produce subpoenaed material shall be certified to the circuit court of the county in which the hearing is held.  (2) The circuit court shall punish the person for contempt of the General Assembly under subdivision (b)(1) of this section in the same manner as punishment for contempt is imposed for failure to respond to a subpoena or directive of the circuit court.    (c) A person who is administered the oath and who provides false testimony while under oath is guilty of perjury and subject to the penalties prescribed by law.
AR Code § 10-2-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-307. Subpoena by committee

 The committee so empowered may issue its subpoena signed by its chair or acting chair for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers or records, and the subpoena may be served by any officer authorized to serve process in civil cases.
AR Code § 10-2-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Witnesses|§ 10-2-308. Interrogatories by committee

 (a) If in the discretion of the committee it is desirable to take the testimony of any witness without having the witness present, this may be done by reducing to writing the interrogatories to be proposed to the witness and forwarding them to any officer in this state authorized to administer oaths, and he or she is clothed with power and authorized to compel the attendance of the witness before him or her at a place to be by him or her designated by summons and attachment and to take the answer of the witness to the interrogatories, requiring the witness to subscribe and swear to the truthfulness of the interrogatories, which affidavit shall be certified by the officer.  (b) The usual fees allowed officers for taking depositions and witnesses for their attendance shall be allowed for the services authorized by this section, to be paid as other current expenses of the General Assembly. The fees shall not be demanded in advance.
AR Code § 10-2-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 2 - Legislative Proceedings|Subchapter 5 - Bills, Resolutions, and Amendments|§ 10-2-501. Preparation

 (a) A member of the General Assembly may choose to impose the restrictions of subsection (b) of this section by filing written notice with the Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research.  (b) If requested in writing by a member of the General Assembly, the staff of the Bureau of Legislative Research shall not:  (1) Draft any bill, resolution, or amendment for the member pursuant to the instructions of a lobbyist registered under § 21-8-601 without the prior direct approval of the member;  (2) List the name of the member on any bill, resolution, or amendment pursuant to the instructions of a lobbyist registered under § 21-8-601 without the prior direct approval of the member; or  (3) On a bill, resolution, or amendment of which the member is the lead sponsor, establish the order of cosponsors pursuant to the instructions of a lobbyist registered under § 21-8-601 without the prior direct approval of the lead sponsor.    (c) The prior direct approval requirement of this section is met when a senator or representative communicates authorization to the staff of the bureau by telephone, electronic mail, fax, other written document, or in person.
AR Code § 10-3-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-3-101. Presession assignment of regular standing committees

 The presession assignments of members of regular standing Senate and House of Representatives committees and the designation of committee chair and vice chair shall be made in the Senate pursuant to the Rules of the Senate and in the House by the Speaker-elect of the House of Representatives as soon as is feasible after each biennial general election.
AR Code § 10-3-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-3-102. Presession meetings

 (a) The Senate and House of Representatives standing committees appointed after the biennial general election as provided in § 10-3-101 are authorized to meet during the months of December and January prior to the convening of the General Assembly for the purpose of taking under consideration prefiled bills assigned to the various committees and for the purpose of holding hearings on those bills. No final committee recommendations shall be made on any bills prefiled and submitted to the various committees until after the General Assembly is convened in session.  (b) Members of Senate and House standing committees attending presession committee meetings as authorized in this section shall be entitled to receive per diem and mileage for attending the meetings.
AR Code § 10-3-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-202. Purpose and intent

 It is the purpose and intent of §§ 10-3-201 — 10-3-208, 10-3-212 — 10-3-214, and 10-3-216 to provide for the necessary interim activities of the General Assembly in order that the members of the General Assembly may become better informed in matters coming before the General Assembly, to assure greater participation by all members of the General Assembly in the study of the many complex problems which face the General Assembly each session, and to provide the General Assembly with the essential staff and facilities to effectively carry out its responsibility as representatives of the citizens of this state.
AR Code § 10-3-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-204. Interim committee chairs

 The chair and vice chair of each House of Representatives standing committee which composes a House interim committee shall serve as chair and vice chair of the House interim committee, and the chair and vice chair of each Senate standing committee which composes a Senate interim committee shall serve as chair and vice chair of the Senate interim committee. If the House and Senate interim committees of comparable subject matter jurisdiction elect to meet jointly, the chair of the House committee and the chair of the Senate committee may alternately serve as chair of the interim committee in such manner as they agree.
AR Code § 10-3-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-205. Staff — Assignment and duties

 (a) The Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research shall have the responsibility of employing the necessary professional and clerical personnel to staff the interim committees. He or she shall assign, after conferring with the chair of each of the committees, such staff to the committees as may be needed to carry out the functions and duties of the committee, within the limitations of the staff available.  (b) Staff personnel assigned to each committee shall assist the chair of the committee in preparing agendas, notices of meetings, undertaking research and writing research memoranda, taking and preparing minutes, reports, and recommendations of the committee and shall provide other assistance as may be necessary to assist the committee in carrying out its functions and duties.  (c) If any interim committee finds that the staff assigned to that committee is inadequate or that separate or additional staffing is necessary on a temporary or permanent basis in order to enable the committee to carry out its functions and duties, the chair of the committee may file a request for additional staff with the director, who shall present the request to the Legislative Council for its consideration, or the committee may request the House of Representatives or Senate to employ the separate or additional staff pursuant to the authority granted in Acts 1995, No. 1312, § 20.
AR Code § 10-3-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-206. Meetings

 (a) Each of the subject matter interim committees may meet at the times and for such duration as it deems necessary to properly carry out its functions and duties. If any committee shall find it necessary for the committee to meet in excess of twelve (12) days per year, it shall report the necessity for any additional meeting to the Legislative Council. If funds are available to hold additional meetings, the Legislative Council shall so advise the requesting committee.  (b) The chair of each of the subject matter interim committees shall confer with the Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research in arranging meeting dates for the committees in order to avoid conflicting committee meetings and in order to assure maximum utilization of available staff and facilities for meetings of the committees.
AR Code § 10-3-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-207. Ad hoc subcommittees and citizen advisory panels

 The various subject matter interim committees may establish ad hoc subcommittees and citizen advisory panels consisting of state and local agency officials and employees and interested citizens, but state and local agency officials and employees and private citizens shall not be entitled to any per diem or mileage for attending meetings of an advisory panel.
AR Code § 10-3-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-209. Expenses of members

 (a) The Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research shall be the disbursing officer of the funds appropriated for paying per diem, expenses, and mileage to members of the General Assembly attending regular and special meetings and other committee-related activities of the interim committees of the General Assembly as provided by law, unless specific provisions are made to the contrary.  (b) Payments for per diem and mileage for attendance by members of the Senate and House of Representatives at meetings of interim committees shall be upon written claims filed therefor.
AR Code § 10-3-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-210. Attendance at regional or national conferences — Reimbursement of expenses

 (a) Members of the interim committees may be authorized to attend regional or national conferences of legislators or other public officials where attendance thereat will serve a beneficial legislative purpose. Members shall be entitled to receive reimbursement for reasonable and necessary expenses for travel, meals, lodging, and other authorized expenses incurred in connection therewith.  (b) Attendance at the meetings shall be authorized by vote of the committee or in accordance with uniform rules and procedures established by the committees with the approval of the Legislative Council.
AR Code § 10-3-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-211. Function during recess — Compensation

 If a regular session of the General Assembly is extended and the House of Representatives and the Senate recess for a period in excess of thirty (30) calendar days, the Legislative Council, the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, and other interim committees of the General Assembly are authorized to meet and transact their normal business during the recess. They shall be entitled to per diem and mileage for attending meetings and attending to the official business of the committee to the same extent as during the interim between sessions of the General Assembly.
AR Code § 10-3-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-212. Rules Committee of the Senate and Rules Committee of the House of Representatives — Meetings — Compensation

 (a) The Rules Committee of the Senate and the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives are authorized to meet jointly or separately at any time during the interim between legislative sessions as the Rules Committee of the Senate and the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives shall deem necessary or desirable to review the Rules of the Senate, the Rules of the House of Representatives, and the Joint Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate and to make recommendations for revisions in the rules or new rules as the Rules Committee of the Senate and the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives shall deem appropriate.  (b) The members of the Rules Committee of the Senate and the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives shall be entitled to receive per diem at the rate set for attendance at meetings of the subject matter interim committees of the House and Senate for attending subject matter or separate meetings of the Rules Committee of the Senate and the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives. Members shall also be entitled to mileage reimbursement as provided by law.
AR Code § 10-3-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-213. Requests for and receipt of information — Continuing studies — Agency assistance

 (a) Requests for information or study or legislation received from the Governor or from other state agencies or departments by the Legislative Council may be referred to the appropriate interim committee for its consideration.  (b) All state agencies shall furnish to the respective interim committees any information and assistance the committees may reasonably request.  (c) It shall be the responsibility of each of the interim committees to receive information and suggestions for new legislation or changes in existing legislation from the Governor, state agencies and departments, county and city officials, and from interested lay groups in the state within the subject areas of their respective committees.  (d) Each of the committees shall make continuing studies of the programs of state agencies, laws of the state, and the general operation of government within the subject matter jurisdiction of the committee and shall make any recommendations regarding them as it shall deem appropriate.
AR Code § 10-3-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 2 - Interim Committees Generally|§ 10-3-214. Committee studies — Duties of Legislative Council — Reports and findings

 (a) In addition to the functions and duties of the Legislative Council which are prescribed by law, it shall be the responsibility of the Legislative Council, in order to coordinate the efforts of the interim committees and to avoid duplication of effort by the committees, to review and screen all study resolutions referred by the General Assembly and all study proposals sponsored by members of the General Assembly during the interim and approved by the Legislative Council. It shall either refer the study resolutions or study proposals to the appropriate interim committee for study or in unusual cases retain the study proposal or resolution and conduct the study. Nothing in §§ 10-3-201—10-3-208, 10-3-212—10-3-214, and 10-3-216, however, shall be construed to alter or diminish the exclusive interim and presession budget jurisdiction and authority of the Legislative Council as now prescribed by law.  (b) The respective interim committees may initiate and conduct studies by motion or resolution adopted by a majority of the membership of the committee, but when an interim committee initiates a study on its own motion, it shall advise the Legislative Council of the study to be made in order that the Legislative Council may suggest ways to eliminate duplication of effort among the interim committees.  (c) Each of the interim committees shall periodically report to the Legislative Council regarding studies referred to or undertaken by the committee and shall advise the Legislative Council of the status of each study pending before it.  (d) Each committee shall file a copy of its minutes, final reports, and recommendations on each study with the Legislative Council. Findings and recommendations of the interim committees shall be advisory only and shall not be binding on the standing committees of the Senate and House of Representatives during legislative sessions.