Arkansas General Assembly Legislative Highlights
- Opposes restrictive SNAP bills.
- Opposes restrictive smoking age bill.
- Opposes restrictive alcohol bills.
- Opposes action that would repeal the requirement for the DFA Director to levy a 0% sales tax rate on food under certain economic conditions.
- Advocates for pro-business and consumer bills.
- Advocates for a bill that decreased the Soft Drink Tax.
- Advocates for the wage base for calculating unemployment insurance from $12,000 to $10,000; reduces weekly benefit amounts; restricts benefits available to individuals who have received severance pay.
- Advocates for the bill that prohibits local political subdivisions from requiring more from employers than required in federal and state law.
- Tort Reform.
- Passed a bill that gave an option for retailers to offer debit cards for lottery purchases.
- Passed a discount protection bill for retailers.
- Passed an expended wine in the grocery store bill.
- Passed the Inform Act of 2021. Arkansas was the first State in the Nation to pass this anti-organized retail crime bill.
- Passed a state-wide uniformity bill for all plastics and packaging.
