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Arkansas Advocates 2023 Legislative Session Recap, Vol. 6
Some bills (some helpful, some harmful) have cleared the final hurdle and have become law, so we’re really in the thick of it now.
Some bills (some helpful, some harmful) have cleared the final hurdle and have become law, so we’re really in the thick of it now.
Gov. Sanders’ proposal to impose work requirements on people enrolled in Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion plan (ARHOME) is a misguided policy that’s already been tried — and failed. What we learned from the flawed experiment was that work requirements don’t...
Find an overview of bills on AACF’s legislative agenda and that AACF generally either supports or opposes.
Week 4 While some parts of the state were weighed down with ice and stymied by power outages, business was pretty usual at the Arkansas Capitol, despite the will-it-or-won’t-it-ice debacle. We are continually grateful for the everyday Arkansans who...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is thrilled to announce that Keesa Smith has been named our new Executive Director! Keesa will begin at AACF on February 20, and she will help us create and execute a vision for...
Get updates on bills that could have a positive or negative impact on Arkansas’s children and families.
Find an overview of bills on AACF’s legislative agenda and that AACF generally either supports or opposes.
Here you'll find an overview of bills that Arkansas Advocates either supports or opposes.
AACF is pleased to announce that Jennifer Ferguson and Laura Kellams will serve as interim co-executive directors, beginning January 1, 2023.
We hope to carry this momentum into the 2023 Regular Legislative Session, as we can be sure there will be many bills to support and defend against that will affect the lives of Arkansas's children and families.