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HB1180, also known as the Baby Olivia Act, is a dangerous and misleading bill that seeks to force anti-abortion propaganda into Arkansas classrooms under the guise of sex education.
HB1032 seeks to amend Arkansas Code Title 20, Chapter 9, Subchapter 1, by adding a new section, 20-9-106, to specifically ban conversion therapy. This bill defines "conversion therapy" as any practice or...
HB1049 is a harmful bill copied from other states to address an issue that the sponsor has admitted does not exist in Arkansas. It would criminalize unlawful squatting, further entrenching...
SB3, filed by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-20), is a dangerous bill that would undermine one of the most effective tools we have to address our nation’s ongoing history of discrimination against people of color...