Arkansas Lottery Spends Almost $7,000 on Travel in a Month

Arkansas Lottery

Last month the Arkansas Lottery spent another $6,962.06 on mileage reimbursements for its employees, according to the State of Arkansas’ transparency website.

State employees receive 42 cents for every mile they travel on state business in their personal vehicles.

Since the fiscal year began on July 1, 2020, the Arkansas Lottery has paid its employees $104,128.10 in mileage reimbursements.

That’s enough to cover nearly 250,000 miles of driving!

All told, the Arkansas Lottery paid its employees for approximately 16,576 miles of travel — in a single month.

Many employees have received thousands of dollars in reimbursements for driving their personal vehicles on state business.

As we have written many, many times, the Arkansas Lottery probably could save a lot of money by using state vehicles for travel instead of paying employees to drive their personal vehicles.

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Here’s How Your State Representative Voted on S.B. 6

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This week the Arkansas House of Representatives passed S.B. 6.

This good bill by Sen. Jason Rapert (R – Conway) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) prohibits abortion in Arkansas except when the mother’s life is at risk.

The bill passed with 76 votes in favor of it. Nineteen representatives voted against it. One voted “Present,” and four did not vote.

Below is a breakdown of how the Arkansas House of Representatives voted on S.B. 6.

Voted For S.B. 6

  • Barker
  • Beatty Jr.
  • Beck
  • Bentley
  • S. Berry
  • M. Berry
  • Boyd
  • Bragg
  • Breaux
  • Brooks
  • Brown
  • Bryant
  • Carr
  • Cavenaugh
  • Christiansen
  • Cloud
  • Coleman
  • C. Cooper
  • Cozart
  • Crawford
  • Dalby
  • M. Davis
  • Deffenbaugh
  • Dotson
  • Eaves
  • Eubanks
  • Evans
  • C. Fite
  • L. Fite
  • Fortner
  • Furman
  • Gazaway
  • Gonzales
  • M. Gray
  • Haak
  • Hawks
  • Hillman
  • Holcomb
  • Hollowell
  • Jean
  • L. Johnson
  • Ladyman
  • Lowery
  • Lundstrum
  • Lynch
  • Maddox
  • J. Mayberry
  • McClure
  • McCollum
  • M. McElroy
  • McGrew
  • McKenzie
  • McNair
  • S. Meeks
  • Miller
  • Milligan
  • Payton
  • Penzo
  • Pilkington
  • Ray
  • Richmond
  • Rye
  • Shepherd
  • Slape
  • B. Smith
  • S. Smith
  • Speaks
  • Tosh
  • Underwood
  • Vaught
  • Wardlaw
  • Warren
  • Watson
  • Wing
  • Womack
  • Wooten

Voted Against S.B. 6

  • F. Allen
  • Clowney
  • A. Collins
  • Ennett
  • D. Ferguson
  • V. Flowers
  • D. Garner
  • Godfrey
  • M. Hodges
  • Hudson
  • Love
  • McCullough
  • Murdock
  • Nicks
  • Perry
  • Richardson
  • Scott
  • Springer
  • D. Whitaker

Voted “Present” on S.B. 6

  • Tollett

Did Not Vote

  • K. Ferguson
  • Fielding
  • Jett
  • Magie

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Bill Filed to Prohibit Fraudulent Fertility Treatment

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On Thursday Sen. Charles Beckham (R – McNeil) and Rep. Jimmy Gazaway (R – Paragould) filed S.B. 474.

This good bill prohibits fraud and abuse in fertility treatments.

Right now Arkansas law contains very few provisions to prevent someone from conducting fertility treatments that are fraudulent or abusive.

S.B. 474 changes that by making it a crime for a person or healthcare provider to use unauthorized human reproductive material in a fertility treatment. This prevents reproductive material from another person from being used without appropriate consent.

The bill also makes it a crime for individuals who perform fertility treatments to misrepresent the identity of the person who has donated the reproductive material for the treatment or to misrepresent the quality of the material or the treatment procedure.

This helps address situations in which a person or company who does fertility treatments lies about the donor or secretly uses material or treatment procedures that probably will not work.

S.B. 474 also makes it possible for a person who engages in fraudulent fertility treatments to be sued.

This bill will make much-needed improvements to Arkansas’ laws governing fertility treatments and protect Arkansans from fraudulent or abusive conduct.

Read The Bill Here.

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