Arkansas Lawmakers Expect to Address Student Funding, Medicaid in 9th-Ever Fiscal Session | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas lawmakers expect to address student funding, Medicaid in 9th-ever fiscal session | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas' Educational Freedom Accounts -- which provide state aid to help parents pay for their children's expenses in private, parochial or home schools -- and the state's Medicaid program are expected by legislative leaders to be among the major issues in the state's ninth fiscal session that begins Wednesday.

Inside Arkansas Fiscal Sessions: Key Facts

What is the ‘Fiscal Session” of the Arkansas General Assembly? It is the session of the General Assembly held in even numbered years.[i] It is primarily, but not exclusively, for state budget matters, specifically appropriation bills. An “appropriation bill” is legislation authorizing the expenditure of money from the State Treasury. There are three types of legislative sessions:  Fiscal Sessions held in even numbered years, Regular Sessions he…