Arkansas fiscal session

A special session to address the Legislature’s failure to do its job will cost taxpayers $100,000. read more >

A bill aimed at avoiding a special election for the lieutenant governor's office following Mark Darr's resignation over ethics violations has been filed in the Senate. read more >

A bill intended to shield Arkansas businesses from federal penalties if their operations don't fully comply with the nation's health care law has been postponed by a House committee. read more >

Two Arkansas legislators say they want to shield businesses from federal penalties if their operations don't fully comply with the nation's health care law. read more >

The Arkansas Legislature convenes Monday for a session restricted to the state's financial matters. The top item on the agenda is whether the state should continue its compromise Medicaid expansion under the federal health care law. read more >

Arkansas legislators enter their 2014 session with the state's private-option Medicaid plan at the top of their agenda. Their third fiscal session opens Monday in Little Rock. Legislators meeting last year approved using federal dollars to buy private insurance for poorer Medicaid patients, but support for the plan has waned over the past few weeks. read more >