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Senator Rapert Files Taxpayers’ Protection Amendment

Jan 28, 2013JerryLegislature, TaxesArkansas Legislature, Legislation, Legislature, Taxes

This morning Senator Jason Rapert (R-Bigelow) filed SJR4, the Taxpayers’ Protection Amendment.

Under his amendment a ¾ vote of the Arkansas Legislature would be necessary to levy a new tax or raise existing taxes.

A simple majority vote would allow the legislature to lower taxes or change tax deductions, exemptions, exceptions, or credits.

Senator Rapert filed a similar amendment two years ago.

Please contact your lawmakers, and ask them each to support Senator Rapert’s amendment.

The phone number for the Arkansas Senate is 501-682-2902.
The Arkansas House of Representatives is 501-682-6211.

You can read the latest version of the amendment here.

Representative Mayberry Files First Pro-Life Bill of Session

Jan 17, 2013JerryAbortion, Legislation, LegislatureAbortion, Arkansas Legislature, Legislation, Legislature, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

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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Pastors Prayer Meeting a Success

Jan 16, 2013JerryArkansas Pastors Network, LegislatureArkansas Legislature, Arkansas Pastors Network, Legislature

About a dozen ministers braved the icy weather to meet with and pray over lawmakers at the Capitol in Little Rock yesterday morning. Several of us joined legislators for breakfast in the cafeteria beforehand to talk about the pressures elected officials face and offer support and encouragement. Afterwards, we met in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building for corporate and individual prayer. About 25 lawmakers came to meet with pastors throughout the course of the morning.

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