What happened on Monday, 03 January 2022
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Committee requests data on COVID fund usage in high-performing vs low-performing school districts
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
The study analyzes Arkansas school funding's impact on performance, adequacy, and equity.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Committee members address challenges in ensuring equitable educational resources across Arkansas schools.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Scholar discusses the impact of mentor George Thompson on his life and career
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
The committee reviewed proposed Board of Nursing rule updates (definitions, licensure fees, collaborative practice), an alcohol‑instrumentation rule, septic‑tank cleaner standards and a DHS emergency rule authorizing home‑health and pharmacy providers to administer COVID‑19 vaccines in patient homes; each rule was recorded as reviewed with no objection.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Legislators convened to begin the 2022 adequacy study, heard Bureau of Legislative Research staff describe school-level data capability and a legal overview of Lakeview responsibilities, and asked for follow-up analyses on gifted-and-talented funding, ESSER spending, and program timelines. Final reports are due Nov. 1, 2022.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
UAMS’s Winthrop B. Rockefeller Cancer Institute briefed the Senate Public Health committee on plans to expand community outreach and a patient‑navigation program across Arkansas, hire navigators, and deploy new mobile mammography and low‑dose CT vans; the legislature committed $3.5 million for new mobile units.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Hospitals told the Senate Public Health committee that travel‑nurse bill rates have risen to roughly $150 per hour, that facilities are using more than 100 travel nurses to staff surges, and that faculty shortages and small class sizes constrain efforts to retain and expand the in‑state nursing workforce.
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
PACE Foundation and UAMS told the Senate Public Health committee they are running the nation’s first large IVIG clinical trial and a statewide incidence study for PANS/PANDAS and asked Arkansas health agencies, Medicaid and provider groups to help recruit eligible children for the trials.