Arkansas Legislature convenes for special session
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Asa Hutchinson's proposed $87.1 million bond issue for an economic-development project in southern Arkansas sailed through House and Senate committees Tuesday, the opening day of a special session expected to last three days.
Two other parts of the governor's agenda, a measure to move the date of the state primary elections and a measure to amend the state's driving-while-intoxicated law, stalled in Senate committees.
Bond issue
The House and Senate committees on agriculture, forestry and economic development advanced matching bills that would authorize an $87.1 million bond issue to help Lockheed Martin compete for a U.S. Department of Defense contract to assemble 55,000 joint light tactical vehicles, or JLTVs, for the Army and the Marine Corps over 25 years.