Arkansas Meeting on illegal immigration

The Arkansas State Legislature will have a meeting to discuss the cost of illegal immigration to Arkansas. Details are below:

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 171, State Capitol
Little Rock, Arkansas

A. Call to Order
B. Minutes of August 13, 2007 Meeting
C. Comments by Chairs, Senator Faris, Chair, Senate Committee and Representative Saunders, Vice-Chair, House Committee
D. Interim Study Proposal 2007-189 by Representatives Rick Green, et al. and Senator Whitaker, et al. requesting that the House and Senate Interim Committees on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Study the Impact of Legal and Illegal Immigration on Various State Agencies
1. Comments by Sponsors, Representative Rick Green and Representative Jon Woods and Senator Whitaker
2. Update on Immigration Fact Sheet, Kristen Sharp, Bureau of Legislative Research
3. Unfinished Testimony from the August 13, 2007 Meeting
a. AFL-CIO, Alan Hughes, Director, and Ricky Belk,
Secretary/Treasurer; Dennis Donahue, Carpenter's Union;
Matt Fair, Plumber's Union; Gary Jones, Trades Council
4. Testimony by State Agency Personnel
a. Department of Education, Dr. Diana Julian, Deputy
Commissioner and Jim Boardman, Assistant Commissioner,
Research and Technology
b. Department of Health, Dr. Joseph Bates, Deputy State Health
Officer and Associate Director of Science, and Jodiane Tritt,
Director of Community Support
c. Department of Human Services, Janie Huddleston, Deputy
Director, and Dawn Zekis, Senior Policy Analyst, Director's Office
d. Workers' Compensation Commission, Butch Reeves, Chairman;
Karen McKinney, Commissioner; Philip Alan Hood,
Commissioner; Alan McClain, CEO; and Judy Jolley, Special Fund Administrator
e. AR State Police, Winford Phillips, Director, and Tim K'Nuckles, Chief of Staff
5. Other Testimony
a. AR Hospital Association, Bo Ryall, Exec. Vice President
b. AR State Chamber of Commerce, Kenny Hall, Exec. Vice President
c. AR Farm Bureau, Rodney Baker, Director, Governmental Affairs
E. Committee Discussion
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
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An immigration reform group based in California has an action alert for HR 1940, which would end the practice of granting automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens.
http://capwiz.com/caps/issues/alert/?alertid=10247066