FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Contact: Jerry Cox, 501-375-7000
Today, the Arkansas Supreme Court ignored the voice of 57% of the voters—nearly 580,000 people—and ruled in favor of a lower court’s opinion striking down Act One, the Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care Act. This good law prevented unmarried, cohabiting couples from serving as adoptive or foster parents.
A lot happened at the Legislature this year. Technically, the House and Senate have not adjourned yet, but it looks like the only thing they have left to discuss is redrawing congressional district boundaries.
Family Council published nearly three dozen blog posts about the Legislature from January to April. We’ve compiled many of those posts into one simple e-book you can download for free.
You can read about major votes, pieces of legislation, or just daily life at the Capitol. The book includes many of the pictures we took while working day in and day out in Little Rock. The chapters of the book more or less follow the chronological order of events out at the Capitol, making it fairly easy to follow.
You can download this free e-book and our other e-book, Abolishing Arkansas’ Lottery, for free by going to our e-books page.
Below is the outcome of the vote on SB774, the “Tim Tebow” bill, from this morning. The bill failed yesterday, but was re-run this morning at 9:00 AM. It failed by one vote.
If passed, it would have allowed home schoolers to try out for extracurricular activities at their local public school.