{"id":10,"date":"2016-04-08T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/2016\/04\/08\/arkansas-works-passes-both-houses-of\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:16:16","slug":"arkansas-works-passes-both-houses-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/2016\/04\/08\/arkansas-works-passes-both-houses-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Works Passes Both Houses of Legislature; Benton County Delegation Split in Support of Measure to Expand Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMembers of the Arkansas General Assembly
\nmeeting in special session voted separately Thursday to approve House Bill
\n1001and Senate Bill 1, identical measures popularly known as \u201cArkansas Works\u201d,
\nwhich is Governor Hutchinson\u2019s plan for Medicaid expansion in Arkansas.  The House voted 70-30 in favor of the
\nmeasure.  Benton County Representatives
\nJana Della Rosa (Rogers), Dan Douglas (Bentonville), and Sue Scott (Rogers)
\nvoted in favor of passage. <\/div>\n

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\n\"Hendren<\/div>\n

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\nSenator
\nJim Hendren presenting SB1 to the Arkansas Senate<\/b><\/div>\n

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\nRepresentatives Robin Lundstrum (Springdale),
\nJim Dotson (Bentonville), Grant Hodges (Rogers), and Rebecca Petty (Rogers) all
\nvoted against the Governor\u2019s plan. 
\nSenator Cecile Bledsoe (Rogers), and Senator Bart Hester (Cave Springs) also
\nvoted against Senate Bill 1 which was sponsored by their fellow Benton County
\nSenator, Jim Hendren (Sulphur Springs). <\/div>\n

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\n\"Senate<\/div>\n

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\nThe
\nArkansas Senate Chamber \u201cTote Board\u201d indicating how Senators voted on SB1<\/b><\/div>\n

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\nA simple majority is all that was required to
\npass the measure in both houses, but a \u00be majority will be required to pass the
\nappropriation for funding the program. That appropriation will be debated in
\nthe regular fiscal session which begins next week in Little Rock.  Failure to fund the measure will have a
\nserious impact on the Arkansas state budget. All of the legislators were
\npresented with numbers projecting a possible budget shortfall of at least $150
\nmillion dollars should the program go unfunded. Legislators were also informed
\nthat number will grow exponentially in the coming years without the proper
\nfunding of Arkansas Works included in the budget going forward.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the Arkansas General Assembly meeting in special session voted separately Thursday to approve House Bill 1001and Senate Bill 1, identical measures popularly known as \u201cArkansas Works\u201d, which is Governor Hutchinson\u2019s plan for Medicaid expansion in Arkansas.  The House voted 70-30 in favor of the measure.  Benton County Representatives Jana Della Rosa (Rogers), Dan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chambernews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RhO8-a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impactpossible.com\/voice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}