The Nation - News from June 22, 1989
Arkansas legislators met in an emergency special session to re-pass hundreds of spending bills that were ruled invalid because the Legislature violated a requirement in the state’s constitution. Virtually all state spending will halt July 1, when Arkansas’ fiscal biennium begins, unless the legislators approve nearly 300 appropriations bills all over again. “I am embarrassed,” state Rep. Jodie Mahony said of the procedural snafu during the regular session, which ended in April. “But it is an honest mistake.” The special session convened after a specially appointed Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that the General Appropriation Act did not pass with a three-fourths majority.
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