The Arkansas Legislature will convene on January 13, and pre-filing for bills begins today.
Family Council plans to review every piece of legislation filed at the capitol, and we will alert our friends about any important measures.
We are preparing to defend good laws and defeat bad laws in the coming months. Here are a few good things that we would like to see lawmakers do in 2025:
- Pass a tax credit and a budget appropriation for pregnancy help organizations.
- Stop abortionists in other states from delivering abortion drugs to women in Arkansas.
- Ensure homeschoolers are able to access and use public funding for education under Arkansas’ LEARNS Act.
- Protect parental rights, religious liberty, and rights of conscience in Arkansas.
- Reform the state’s petition process to prevent wealthy, out-of-state interests from placing misleading measures on the state ballot.
- Promote restrictions on predatory gambling like sports betting.
- Prevent assisted suicide and other policies that result in a disregard for the lives of the elderly and disabled.
- Oppose efforts to weaken Arkansas’ pro-life laws.
- Oppose efforts by the marijuana industry to expand sales.
- Oppose legislation that would expand public drinking in entertainment districts in Arkansas.
- Stop any “tort reform” measures that would put a price tag on human life or make it harder to hold nursing homes accountable when their negligence injures or kills another person.
- Defeat “hate crimes” legislation in Arkansas.
- Stop any effort to weaken Arkansas’ good transparency laws.
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