92nd General Assembly

Speed limits on Arkansas highways will be increasing soon. The Arkansas Highway Commission has voted to approve a study from the Arkansas Department of Transportation that has recommended increasing highway and interstate speed limits. During the previous legislation session, the…

When I was running for governor in 2014, I promised to cut our income taxes by $100 million. With the support of the General Assembly, we not only kept that promise, but over the course of the past five years,…

During the 2019 Regular Session, the General Assembly passed several pieces of legislation concerning our elections. One of those pieces of legislation will change the date of our primaries. Arkansas will join 13 other states holding a March 3, 2020…

The city of Fayetteville may soon be the next Arkansas community to embrace a new state law allowing the limited public consumption of alcohol. Nearly a month after the Little Rock City Council voted to pass an ordinance creating its own…

Today I’d like to share some thoughts about Winthrop Rockefeller, one of Arkansas’s great governors, and about the building we have named in his honor. Governor Rockefeller and the building share a bit of history, so naming the building for…

The legislature officially ended the 2019 regular session when it adjourned sine die on April 24. Unless the governor calls a special session, legislators are not scheduled to convene again until the 2020 fiscal session. Generally, bills approved during this year’s…

When we pass legislation to grow our economy, it does not stop at tax incentives and workforce training. In Arkansas, we know our economy can also grow by bringing in people from out of state to appreciate our natural resources,…

During the recent regular session, the legislature referred three proposed constitutional amendments to Arkansas voters. One would limit terms of legislators to 12 years. Another would permanently extend a highway program that is now scheduled to expire in 2023. The…

 Now that I have signed the last bill of the 92nd General Assembly, the really hard work begins for my administration. Before I talk about the tasks ahead, though, I want to commend the legislators for focusing on the challenges…

More than 900 bills have been signed into law this session. This General Assembly has reduced taxes, addressed infrastructure needs, increased funding to education, and transformed state government. One of the last bills we passed was the amendment to the…