The sponsor of a bill aiming to protect Arkansas tenants pulled it down for modification Wednesday morning after a lawyer from the Arkansas Realtors Association declared the group's opposition and several members of both parties indicated they were skeptical of the proposal.
After narrowly rejecting it on Monday, the Arkansas House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a measure by Rep. Aaron Pilkington(R-Clarksville) that would allow pharmacists to dispense oral contraceptives to women without a prescription from a doctor. House Bill 1290 now heads to the Senate.
Because it’s uncommon for older teenagers in foster care to be adopted, many are emancipated at age 18 or 21 without ever finding a permanent home. In the last state fiscal year, 235 young people “aged out” of the Arkansas system. Too old to be a ward of the state but unprepared to be cast out on their own, they entered adult life highly disadvantaged.
Arkansas's first-in-the-nation work requirement for certain Medicaid beneficiaries expanded in January to include some 45,000 additional people.
But the state may be losing patience with the county.
Judges would be barred from committing misdemeanor offenders to state lockups if they are determined to be low-risk after undergoing an assessment. DYS would also be required to develop a “reinvestment plan” to reallocate funds now used for locking up kids to alternative programs -- but providers worry a new contract to run the lockups could eat up much of that money.
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C., released an analysis Jan. 10 summing up the many criticisms of Arkansas's experimental work requirement for certain Medicaid beneficiaries.
Almost 17,000 Arkansans have now lost their health insurance due to the state's experimental work requirement for certain low-income adult Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a monthly report released by the state Department of Human Services on Monday.
Red tape and a confusing website cut off health insurance for thousands of working people
Federal Medicaid agency says Arkansas needs better plan to evaluate work requirement.
The cost of health insurance may feel unreasonably high, but everything’s relative: Data published on Nov. 1 showed Arkansas continues to see some of the lowest premiums in the U.S., both for employer-sponsored insurance and plans purchased on the…
Under the terms of its agreement with the federal government, Arkansas’s work requirement for certain Medicaid beneficiaries requires the state to commission an independent evaluation to measure whether the policy is meeting its goals. But as of Nov. 1,…
