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AR Code § 10-3-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 8 - Energy Committees|§ 10-3-802. Joint Committee on Energy — Membership — Cochairs

 (a) There is created a joint standing committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be known as the “Joint Committee on Energy”.  (b)  (1) The Joint Committee on Energy shall be a select committee of the House of Representatives and Senate whose members shall be chosen as follows:  (A)  (i) Ten (10) members of the Senate to be named pursuant to the Rules of the Senate.  (ii) Each Senate member is authorized to appoint a member of the Senate to serve as his or her alternate on the Joint Committee on Energy; and    (B)  (i) Fifteen (15) members of the House of Representatives to be selected as prescribed by the Rules of the House of Representatives.  (ii) One (1) alternate member for each of the fifteen (15) House members shall be selected as prescribed by the Rules of the House of Representatives.      (2) Senate members and alternate Senate members of the Joint Committee on Energy shall be appointed at each regular biennial session of the General Assembly and shall serve until the convening of the next regular session of the General Assembly.    (c) Members appointed to the Joint Committee on Energy shall serve on the Joint Committee on Energy in addition to their service on the regular standing and select committees of the Senate.  (d)  (1)  (A) One (1) of the Senate members of the Joint Committee on Energy shall be designated pursuant to the Rules of the Senate to serve as the Senate Cochair of the Joint Committee on Energy.  (B) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall designate two (2) of the House members appointed to the Joint Committee on Energy to serve as the House Cochair of the Joint Committee on Energy and the House Co-vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Energy.    (2) The cochairs of the Joint Committee on Energy shall preside at alternate meetings of the Joint Committee on Energy unless the cochairs shall agree otherwise.
AR Code § 10-3-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 8 - Energy Committees|§ 10-3-803. Duties of Joint Committee on Energy

 Bills pertaining to energy sources, supplies, needs, and problems shall be referred to the Joint Committee on Energy. In addition, the Joint Committee on Energy shall make continuing studies and shall cooperate with the appropriate agencies of this state, agencies of the United States Government, and the Congress of the United States in the exchange and dissemination of information and in the development of legislation, designed to promote the conservation and efficient utilization of existing energy sources, and in developing new energy sources to meet the needs of this and future generations.
AR Code § 10-3-820 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 8 - Energy Committees|§ 10-3-820. Joint Interim Committee on Energy — Members — Duties

 (a) The members of the House of Representatives and the Senate appointed at each regular session of the General Assembly to the Joint Committee on Energy shall constitute a joint interim committee of the General Assembly to function in the interim between the sine die adjournment or extended recess of the regular session or fiscal session of each General Assembly until the convening of the next regular session or fiscal session of the General Assembly or reconvening of the current General Assembly during an extended recess. This joint interim committee shall be known as the “Joint Interim Committee on Energy” and shall function in addition to the other interim committees of the General Assembly established by law. In the event a vacancy shall occur on the Joint Interim Committee on Energy, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as provided for the initial appointment.  (b) The Joint Interim Committee on Energy shall make continuing studies of energy resources and problems, either initiated by the Joint Interim Committee on Energy or referred to it by either house of the General Assembly for study, in the interim between sessions of the General Assembly. Interim study proposals and resolutions filed with the Legislative Council under the provisions of § 10-3-214 for review and referral to the appropriate germane interim committee of the General Assembly, relating to energy, shall be referred to the Joint Interim Committee on Energy. The Joint Interim Committee on Energy shall undertake each study referred to it by members of the General Assembly or by the Legislative Council and shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations in regard to each study request prior to the convening of the next regular session of the General Assembly.  (c) In addition, the Joint Interim Committee on Energy shall exercise leadership in the interim between legislative sessions and shall attempt to coordinate the various energy activities, studies, and planning activities of the General Assembly which relate to the conservation, development, and use of energy resources for the various committees of the General Assembly.  (d) The Joint Interim Committee on Energy shall cooperate with the Governor, the appropriate administrative agencies of this state, legislative and administrative agencies of other states, and with the federal government, including participation in regional and national meetings and seminars of state and federal officials in the exchange of information and data on energy resources, supplies, reserves, and in the conservation, storage, and use of energy, including the disposal of energy waste and by-products.
AR Code § 10-3-821 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 8 - Energy Committees|§ 10-3-821. Joint Interim Committee on Energy — Meetings — Cooperation with other states

 (a) The Joint Interim Committee on Energy shall meet upon call by either or both of the cochairs of the Joint Interim Committee on Energy, or at such other times as may be provided in the rules of the Joint Interim Committee on Energy, or upon written call by any five (5) of its members.  (b) The Joint Interim Committee on Energy shall cooperate with the Southwest Regional Energy Council, the Council of State Governments, the Southern Legislative Conference, the Southern States Energy Board, the National Conference of State Legislatures and its committees, and other appropriate conferences or associations of public officials concerned with the problems of energy for the purpose of coordinating the combined energy activities and resources of the legislative departments of the respective states in efforts to assist the Congress of the United States and the federal government in coordinating state and national programs for the conservation, preservation, and use of our energy resources.
AR Code § 10-3-822 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 8 - Energy Committees|§ 10-3-822. Joint Interim Committee on Energy — Expenses — Staff

 (a) The per diem and mileage, including reimbursement for expenses for attending out-of-state meetings as provided by law, shall be paid from funds appropriated for per diem, mileage, and expenses of members of the General Assembly for attending interim committee meetings or from other funds provided by law for that purpose.  (b) The Bureau of Legislative Research shall furnish such staff assistance as may be requested by the Joint Interim Committee on Energy. The Arkansas Energy Office and all other appropriate state agencies shall be available to assist and advise the Joint Interim Committee on Energy on energy matters as may be requested by the Joint Interim Committee on Energy.
AR Code § 10-3-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 9 - Joint Performance Review Committee|§ 10-3-902. Duties

 The Joint Performance Review Committee shall have the authority and responsibility to:   (1) Make random and periodic performance review of specific governmental programs and agencies;  (2) Conduct investigations into such specific problem areas of the administration of state government as may be brought to the attention of the Joint Performance Review Committee;  (3) Refer specific problems regarding the operation of state government to appropriate interim committees of the General Assembly for continuing study;  (4) Conduct hearings on citizen complaints and views regarding the operation of state government and serve as a forum for citizens to air their complaints and suggestions regarding the operation of state government;  (5) Review the expenditures of the various agencies, departments, and programs of state government to assure that they are being administered in accordance with legislative intent and are being administered in such manner as to provide the taxpayers with the greatest service at the lowest reasonable cost; and  (6) Make such reports and recommendations to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Legislative Council as the Joint Performance Review Committee deems necessary or appropriate to promote more effective and efficient operation of state government.
AR Code § 10-3-1003 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 10 - Committees on Education|§ 10-3-1003. Routine collaboration with Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, Division of Career and Technical Education, and Division of Higher Education

 (a) The House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education between legislative sessions shall continually and routinely:  (1) Assess the needs and problems of:  (A) The public school districts of this state;  (B) Technical institutes and vocational-technical schools; and  (C) Institutions of higher education; and    (2) Engage in a constant dialogue with the:  (A) Division of Elementary and Secondary Education;  (B) Division of Career and Technical Education; and  (C) Division of Higher Education.      (b) In order to assist the General Assembly, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Division of Career and Technical Education, and the Division of Higher Education shall not only respond to the inquiries of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education, but shall of their own motion alert the membership of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education to problems and needs of, and recommendations concerning, all public education endeavors in Arkansas.
AR Code § 10-3-1101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1101. Creation — Members — Expenses

 (a) There is established a joint interim committee of the Senate and House of Representatives to be known as the “Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities”, to consist of fourteen (14) members of the General Assembly as follows:  (1) The Chair of the House Joint Budget Committee;  (2) Two (2) members of the House of Representatives selected in accordance with the Rules of the House of Representatives;  (3) The Chair of the House Management Committee and two (2) additional members of the House Management Committee to be designated by its chair;  (4) The Speaker of the House of Representatives or his or her designee;  (5) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate;  (6) The Chair of the Senate Joint Budget Committee;  (7) One (1) member of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; and  (8) Four (4) members of the Senate to be appointed by the Chair of the Senate Efficiency Committee.    (b)  (1) The members of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall receive per diem at the rate provided by law for attendance by members of the General Assembly at meetings of interim committees for each day in attending meetings of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities or performing other duties as authorized by the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities.  (2) In addition thereto, the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall receive mileage for travel from their homes to the State Capitol Building.
AR Code § 10-3-1102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1102. Officers — Meetings

 (a) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities 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 committee who are members of the House and one (1) cochair to be a Senator to be elected by the members of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities who are members of the Senate. The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities may elect such other officers as it deems necessary for the performance of its duties.  (b) The two (2) cochairs shall preside at each meeting of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities or may rotate from meeting to meeting as presiding officers, as they determine. A majority vote of the full membership of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall be necessary to take final action on any matter. The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities 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) The Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research shall serve as secretary to the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities, without a vote.
AR Code § 10-3-1103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1103. When committee functions — Administrative responsibilities

 (a) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall function during the interim between regular sessions, fiscal sessions, or special sessions of the General Assembly and may function, if necessary, while the General Assembly is in regular session, fiscal session, special session, or an extension of a regular session, fiscal session, or special session, for the purpose of discharging its duties under this subchapter.  (b) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall administer all provisions of this subchapter relating to repairs, improvements, and furnishing of committee rooms and legislative facilities in the State Capitol Building, including, if necessary, the payment of rental required for the housing of state agencies moved from the State Capitol Building as a result of any project undertaken by the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter until space for the agencies may be provided in other public facilities.
AR Code § 10-3-1104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1104. Powers and duties

 (a) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall review the existing usage of the space presently used by the General Assembly in the State Capitol Building and shall make such reallocations thereof or improvements thereto as in the judgment of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities are necessary to serve the needs of the Senate and the House of Representatives, their respective standing committees, and the several interim committees of the General Assembly and legislative staff services.  (b) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities may undertake any or all of the improvements contemplated in this subchapter after conferring with the Legislative Council, the agencies affected, and the Governor, giving due consideration to the needs and convenience of the several state agencies presently housed in the State Capitol Building in space to be converted to legislative use, and especially after considering the plans for providing space for the agencies in a state office building, and may undertake improvements as a single project or in a series of projects as the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities may determine to be in the best interest of the General Assembly.  (c) [Repealed.]
AR Code § 10-3-1105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1105. Rooms in State Capitol Building assigned for use of General Assembly

 There is assigned in the State Capitol Building for the exclusive and continual use of the General Assembly, its members, its agencies, and its committees the three (3) rooms on the west wing of the third floor, these being rooms heretofore occupied by the Arkansas State History Museum.
AR Code § 10-3-1106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1106. Additional legislative space

 In addition to the space now provided in the State Capitol Building for the General Assembly and its committees, the following additional space in the State Capitol Building is designated as legislative space if the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities determines that it is needed for legislative committee space or for other legislative facilities:   (1) The office space on the north wing of the first floor of the State Capitol Building currently used by the Office of State Procurement, the Division of Correction, the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, and the Department of Commerce;  (2) The office space on the west side of the first floor of the State Capitol Building presently used by the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, which shall be made available to Arkansas Legislative Audit, or such other legislative uses as may be determined by the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities;  (3) The office space on the southeast wing of the first floor of the State Capitol Building presently assigned to the Accounting Division of the Department of Finance and Administration, and any other portion of the space assigned to the Department of Finance and Administration the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities determines is needed for legislative use;  (4) The office space on the southeast wing of the second floor of the State Capitol Building currently assigned for use by the Budget Division of the Department of Finance and Administration. The space now provided for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission on the southwest wing of the second floor of the State Capitol Building shall be made available for the Budget Division of the Department of Finance and Administration unless the director determines that the location of the Budget Division in some other facilities would be more advantageous to the agency;  (5) The former Supreme Court Chamber on the south end of the second floor of the State Capitol Building, to be air conditioned and serve as a large Senate committee room, but preserving the present decor of the chamber, i.e., changes contemplated involve only such things as air conditioning, carpeting, repainting, improved lighting, and installation of sound and recording equipment, and necessary committee tables and chairs, and other minor changes, essentially preserving the room in its present state; and  (6) The space presently assigned Arkansas Legislative Audit on the west portion of the fourth floor of the State Capitol Building shall be available for the Bureau of Legislative Research of the Legislative Council, Budget and Fiscal Review Section, or such other uses as determined by the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities.
AR Code § 10-3-1107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1107. Allocation of space for General Assembly — Furnishings

 (a) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall determine the best and most efficient means of allocating the additional space in the State Capitol Building, as provided by this subchapter, to be used by the Senate and the House of Representatives and for providing space for staff for the General Assembly, for either house of the General Assembly, and interim committees thereof.  (b) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall provide for supplying the furnishings for any additional space for use by the Senate and the House of Representatives pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, provided that all furnishings shall be purchased in accordance with competitive bids awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, as required by the purchasing laws of this state.
AR Code § 10-3-1108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1108. Employment of architect

 The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall have the authority to employ an architect to prepare plans and specifications for the work to be done, to supervise the construction, and to furnish other architectural services which the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities may require in the performance of its duties, and for that purpose the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities may enter into contracts with the architect. The fee which may be paid the architect shall not exceed nine percent (9%) of the cost of the project. Any contract shall provide that the architect shall furnish without additional cost to the state such services as may be required in the performance of the work.
AR Code § 10-3-1109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1109. Contracts

 (a)  (1) Construction work to be performed shall be under contract, to be awarded by the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities to the lowest responsible bidder, but the total cost of the project, including cost of publishing legal notices, payment of architect fees, payments to contractors, and all other expenses of whatever nature incident to and reasonably necessary in connection with the project shall not exceed the appropriation provided for it.  (2) All expenditures of funds shall be in strict compliance with the applicable provisions of the fiscal laws of this state pertaining to the expenditure of public funds and the state purchasing laws of this state.  (3) All contracts let under the provisions of this subchapter shall be subject to the approval of the Governor, the Auditor of State, and the Treasurer of State, as provided in Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, Section 15 [repealed].    (b) All actions by the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities in relation to the work to be performed under contracts shall be in strict compliance with the applicable provisions of §§ 22-9-202 — 22-9-204.  (c) All payments to contractors under contracts let under the provisions of this subchapter shall be made only after the approval of the amounts thereof by the architect.  (d) All contracts which the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities proposes to enter into shall be subject to the approval as to form only by the Attorney General.
AR Code § 10-3-1111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 10 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Committees|Subchapter 11 - Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities|§ 10-3-1111. Disbursing officer

 The Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research shall be the disbursing officer for the funds appropriated to the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities, and all disbursements shall be upon the direction or authorization of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities.