2021 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: Health Insurance
This is the third article in a series of summaries of Insurance legislation from the 93rd Arkansas General Assembly. The 93rd Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 11, 2021 and entered into an extended recess on April 27, 2021. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for the…
2021 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: Property & Casualty Insurance
This is the second article in a series of summaries of Insurance legislation from the 93rd Arkansas General Assembly. The 93rd Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 11, 2021 and entered into an extended recess on April 27, 2021. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for…
2021 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: General
This is the first article in a series of summaries of Insurance legislation from the 93rd Arkansas General Assembly. The 93rd Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 11, 2021 and entered into an extended recess on April 27, 2021. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for the…
Expiration of Arkansas' Public Health Emergency
Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was initiated in Arkansas in March 2020, Governor Asa Hutchinson has repeatedly renewed the emergency order, maintaining the public health emergency for fourteen (14) months. However, Governor Hutchinson has declared that he will not renew the current…
Arkansas Legislature Passes Bill to Ease Local Government Expansion of Broadband Access
February 15, 2021
by John S. Bryant
Arkansas’ 93rd General Assembly unanimously passed legislation amending the Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Act of 2013 last week. Generally, government entities in Arkansas are prohibited from providing “directly or indirectly, basic local exchange, voice, data, broadband, video, or wireless…