Rep. Meeks Files Human Trafficking Act of 2013

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Representative David Meeks has filed HB1203, the Human Trafficking Act of 2013.

The bill addresses human trafficking and illegal slavery. The bill improves and expands some of Arkansas’ existing laws, and creates a state task force to prevent human trafficking. It also provides additional protection for the victims of human trafficking, and allows them to seek damages through civil action.

If passed, this bill will do a lot of good protecting Arkansans and combating human trafficking.

You can read the full text of the bill here.

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Representative Mayberry Files First Pro-Life Bill of Session

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Rep. Andy Mayberry (R-Hensley) has filed the first pro-life bill of the session.

H.B. 1037, also known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibits abortion once an unborn child is capable of feeling pain—roughly twenty weeks into a pregnancy—except to save the life of the mother or prevent “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

The bill has more than fifty sponsors in the House of Representatives, meaning if it makes it out of the House Public Health Committee, it is bound to pass the entire House.

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