ARKANSAS, USA — Gov. Asa Hutchinson has had a much more successful legislative session than headlines would suggest. The governor discussed his achievements and letdowns in a Talk Business & Politics interview that aired statewide on Sunday (April 18).
Hutchinson has signed new laws dealing with hate crimes, raising teacher pay, improving computer science requirements, and reforming law enforcement practices.
“In terms of my priorities, I’m very, very happy with what we’ve been able to accomplish in terms of raising teacher pay, our computer science initiative, our law enforcement efforts, but then also in terms of our budgets and tax cuts,” he said. “We’re working together very well and it’s going to be a very successful session on these points, and then you cap that off with passing what some people call a hate crimes bill, but that was one of my priorities. It was important for us to do that as a state, and I appreciate the leadership and the way they worked through that and got that passed. So I’m very pleased with those substantive issues coming out of this session.”
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