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Will Arkansas Study Commission Examine Capital Issues?

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"Creation of task forces by lawmakers on the upswing in state," is Michael Wickline's report from the Sunday edition of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.The Arkansas General Assembly is increasingly turning to task forces to study issues ranging from traumatic brain injury to reducing poverty. In the regular session that adjourned on May 1, lawmakers enacted laws creating 14 task forces, re-establishing another one and extending the life of three others that are staffed by the Bureau of Legislative Research, according to information provided by the bureau. In addition, four other task forces exist with no sunset provisions in the laws that created them, and two others are scheduled to end sometime this year. The new task forces include the Blue Ribbon Committee on Highway Finance, the alternative energy commission and task forces on athletic training in public schools, Alzheimer's disease, history education, criminal justice, and cyber-infrastructure, according to the bureau...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).