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Votes at a glance: key House actions on Feb. 10, 2025

February 10, 2025 | House of Representatives, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas


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Votes at a glance: key House actions on Feb. 10, 2025
The Arkansas House recorded votes on a range of bills and motions on Feb. 10. Below are the items the chamber voted on during the floor session and the recorded tallies cited by the clerk.

- House Resolution 10 16 (Kids Count Day): Adopted by voice vote during the morning hour recognizing Feb. 10, 2025 as Kids Count Day and the Arkansas Kids Count Coalition for advocacy on behalf of children.

- Senate Bill 58 (remove prohibition preventing some nonprofit/government-funded hospitals from holding licensed retail pharmacy permits): Passed, recorded vote 95 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present.

- Motion by Representative Eubanks to refer S.B. 142 back to committee for amendment: Motion made on the floor; sponsor explained a correction needed. (Motion recorded; no final tally read aloud in transcript beyond explanation.)

- Senate Bill 182 (require local government to continue operating under prior annual appropriation ordinance until new ordinance adopted; emergency clause): Passed, recorded vote 92 yeas, 0 nays, 3 present.

- House Bill 13 74 (report by Arkansas Development Commission concerning contracts awarded to businesses in operation less than five years): Failed on final passage, recorded vote 29 yeas, 37 nays, 18 present.

- House Bill 13 53 (regulate vision benefit managers): Passed, recorded vote 96 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present. (See separate article for fuller coverage.)

- House Bill 12 79 (amend Arkansas Egg Marketing Act to authorize limited repackaging by retailers under specified criteria): Passed, recorded vote 94 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present.

- House Bill 12 22 (amend ballot-title review to allow AG review for conflict with U.S. Constitution/federal statutes and prevent conflicting submissions): Passed, recorded vote 62 yeas, 30 nays, 4 present. (See separate article for fuller coverage.)

- House Bill 13 83 (petroleum storage tank cleanup payment cleanup): Passed, recorded vote 96 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present.

- House Bill 10 49 (criminalize unlawful squatting): Passed, recorded vote 89 yeas, 2 nays, 5 present. (See separate article for fuller coverage.)

- House Bill 12 63 (unauthorized removal or failure to charge an electronic monitoring device): Passed, recorded vote 86 yeas, 3 nays, 6 present.

- House Bill 12 82 (unauthorized practice of law amendment): Passed, recorded vote 97 yeas, 0 nays, 0 present.

- House Bill 13 87 (require public water authority board members to publish contact name and phone number on authority website): Passed, recorded vote 87 yeas, 1 nay, 5 present.

- Senate Bill 80 (governor liaison item presented as an emergency; part of budget items): Passed with emergency clause, recorded vote 95 yeas, 0 nays, 1 present.

- Senate Bill 125 (part of a batch for higher education appropriations): Failed on recorded vote 72 yeas, 16 nays, 8 present (transcript notes the bill failed).

- Multiple batch reappropriation and higher-education items were considered and passed by the House in recorded batch votes; the clerk recorded multiple unanimous or near-unanimous tallies for those batch items on the yellow budget calendar (transcript lists the bills and recorded tallies on the floor).

These items reflect the roll-call and machine votes read into the record during the Feb. 10 session. For measures that received extended floor debate, separate articles cover substantive discussion and sponsor remarks.

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