LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas lawmakers are returning to the Capitol for
the second week of the legislative session and plan to begin discussing the
governor’s plan to reorganize state agencies.
The House and Senate are set to convene Tuesday afternoon after a long weekend
marking the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. A Senate committee on Tuesday
morning is expected to begin discussing Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s plan to cut the
number of state agencies answering directly to him from 42 to 15. Hutchinson has
promoted the proposed reorganization as a way to make state government more
efficient.
Lawmakers convened the 92nd General Assembly last week and are expected to also
focus in the coming weeks on Hutchinson’s proposed income tax cut and an effort
to find additional long-term funding for the state’s highways.
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