Jon Milligan

Voted to pass Senate Bill 638. Sales tax on a motorboat is now paid by the buyer straight to the state when the boat is registered, instead of being collected by the dealer. Dealers are barred from collecting it. A buyer who pays late owes a penalty of ten percent on top, and cannot register the boat until both are paid. Tax is charged only on the difference when a boat is traded in. The same rules apply to a boat bought from a dealer in another state. If the price on the invoice is below the published value for that boat, the buyer must satisfy the state that the invoice is genuine. The Arkansas House passed it 58-23 and it became Act 1019 of 2025.

April 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Co-sponsored Arkansas HB1877, which became Act 977 and amended criminal offenses concerning possession of sexually explicit material depicting a child, including indistinguishable computer-generated images.

April 22, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: arkleg.state.ar.us · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 406. A county recorder may no longer file a deed unless the person giving up the land shows up in person with a state or federal photo ID. If the deed is mailed in, a photocopy of the ID must come with it. The recorder attaches a copy of the ID to the recorded deed, and files an unredacted copy under seal. The aim is to stop forged property transfers. Seven groups are exempt, including lawyers, real estate agents, banks and title agents, so the burden falls mainly on owners who file their own deeds. The Arkansas House passed it 51-31 and it became Act 752 of 2025.

April 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Co-sponsored Arkansas HB1489, which became Act 302 and amended the method of execution to include nitrogen gas.

March 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: arkleg.state.ar.us · researched August 7, 2026

Co-sponsored Arkansas HB1049, which became Act 238 and amended criminal law to criminalize unlawful squatting.

March 4, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 591. It is a standby law, and it does not apply yet. If it ever applies, it would be a Class A misdemeanor to perform an abortion while knowing the woman wants it only because of the race of the fetus. Before any abortion, the provider would have to ask the woman if she knows the race of the fetus. The provider would also have to try to get her pregnancy medical records first. The woman herself could never be charged or sued. The act starts only if a court blocks Arkansas's near-total abortion ban, or the state repeals or loosens it. The Arkansas House passed it 63-17 and it became Act 973 of 2025.

April 16, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 551. It adds new rules to petitions for a local vote on whether alcohol may be sold. A canvasser is the person who collects names. The canvasser must warn each signer that petition fraud is a crime. The canvasser must also check a copy of the signer's photo ID, and may not take a name if identity cannot be confirmed. The signer must read the ballot title in front of the canvasser. Skipping the warning or the reading step is now a crime. The county clerk must throw out all of a canvasser's names if the clerk finds it more likely than not that the canvasser broke these laws. The Arkansas House passed it 71-20 and it became Act 764 of 2025.

April 14, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 584. It takes the rules that already govern statewide ballot petitions and applies them to county and city petitions as well. Sponsors of a local measure must now file the wording with the county clerk first, and the clerk may reject it as misleading or as conflicting with federal law. Paid canvassers, the people paid to collect names, must be listed with the clerk, and paying by the signature stays banned. The clerk must throw out a canvasser's names if the clerk finds it more likely than not that the canvasser broke the canvassing or fraud laws. The Arkansas House passed it 73-20 and it became Act 768 of 2025.

April 14, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 210. A person may now sign a petition only after reading the ballot title in front of the canvasser, or hearing it read aloud there. The ballot title is the official summary voters see. A canvasser is someone who collects names to put a measure on the ballot. Having read it earlier somewhere else does not count. A canvasser who knowingly takes a signature without that step commits an offense. The canvasser must also swear on each signature sheet that every signer did it. The Arkansas House passed it 57-33 and it became Act 274 of 2025.

March 10, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 208. A canvasser must now look at a copy of a person's photo ID before taking that person's name. A canvasser is someone who carries a petition around and collects names to put a measure on the ballot. If the canvasser cannot tell who the person is, the canvasser may not take the name. So a person without an accepted photo ID cannot sign. Each sheet carries a sworn oath. A canvasser who swears it without checking IDs is treated as having lied on that form. The Arkansas House passed it 70-24 and it became Act 240 of 2025.

February 25, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 211. Every canvasser must file a sworn statement with the Secretary of State. A canvasser is a person who collects names to put a measure on the ballot. The statement says the canvasser followed Arkansas's rules on collecting names, lying under oath, forgery and fraud. Until it is filed, none of that canvasser's names may be counted. Once it is filed, that canvasser may not collect more names, unless the Secretary of State rules the petition qualifies for extra time to add names. Names are not thrown out if the canvasser died or was too ill to file. The statement is not proof either way that the names are real. The Arkansas House passed it 65-27 and it became Act 241 of 2025.

February 25, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 207. A canvasser must now warn each person that petition fraud is a crime before that person signs. A canvasser is a person who carries a petition around and collects names to put a measure on the ballot. The warning has to be spoken out loud. It may be written only when speaking is not possible, and then it goes on its own sheet, not on the petition. Skipping the warning is added to the list of things a canvasser may be punished for. The Arkansas House passed it 67-26 and it became Act 218 of 2025.

February 24, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Co-sponsored Arkansas HB1001, which became Act 1 and reduced individual, trust, estate, and corporate income-tax rates.

May 6, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: arkleg.state.ar.us · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1866. Eli's Law requires every public school and open-enrollment charter school in Arkansas to put an audio recording device in each locker room and changing room. It starts with the 2027-2028 school year. A sign must be posted in each room saying a recording device is there. A recording must be kept at least ninety days and no more than twelve months, unless someone has alleged wrongdoing it could help prove. The school must post notice on its website ten days before destroying a recording. Only a school administrator, or a parent or guardian raising an allegation, may ask for one. The act provides no money. The Arkansas House passed it 71-21 and it became Act 908 of 2025.

April 14, 2025Opposes Data Privacy

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Co-sponsored Arkansas HB1148, which became Act 597 and created the Arkansas Privacy Act and addressed certain images captured by unmanned aircraft systems.

April 14, 2025Supports Data Privacy

Source: arkleg.state.ar.us · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 486. It writes a definition of sex based on biology into Arkansas law. It then requires shared restrooms, changing rooms and sleeping rooms to be set aside for one sex. The rule covers government buildings, shelters, state prisons, county and city jails, and places that hold young people. A person who finds someone of the other sex in a restroom or changing room may sue the operator, but only if the operator let that person in or did not take reasonable steps to keep them out. A person made to share a sleeping room with someone of the other sex may also sue. Suits must be filed within two years. Staff may still go in to clean, to give medical help, or to do their jobs. Rooms for one person and for families are still allowed. Prisons may still house a transgender or intersex inmate case by case to keep them safe. The Arkansas House passed it 60-22 and it became Act 955 of 2025.

April 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 520. It bars Arkansas counties, cities and towns from running a diversity, equity and inclusion program or office. They also may not ask a job seeker or worker to write down their views on race, ethnicity, sex, color or national origin. Any Arkansas resident may report a breach of the rule. If the local government does not fix it in 30 days, that resident may sue and have their legal fees paid. The act still allows different treatment by sex where it serves an important public purpose. It also still lets staff teach and talk about these ideas. The Arkansas House passed it 68-22 and it became Act 747 of 2025.

April 14, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 3. It bars state and local government in Arkansas from treating anyone better or worse because of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. That rule covers public jobs, public schools and colleges, and what the government buys. Most of the act repeals programs that were already in place. Schools no longer write plans to hire and keep minority teachers. State colleges no longer run programs to keep minority students and staff. State agencies no longer try to hire minority workers in step with the state's population. The Critical Needs Minority Teacher Scholarship is renamed and opened to any student who meets the grade and test rules. The act protects preferences given to veterans. The Arkansas House passed it 65-27 and it became Act 116 of 2025.

February 6, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Joint Resolution 15. It would change the state constitution to let lawmakers set up economic development districts. It would also let them hand out public loans and grants to build up the economy. A district could borrow money without that debt counting toward the limits the constitution sets. Land inside a district would pay no ordinary taxes, only charges the district itself sets. Cities and counties could lend their credit to a district. The constitution otherwise bars them from doing that for a private firm. Anything in the constitution that clashes with the change would be wiped out. This is not law. It goes to Arkansas voters in November 2026. The Arkansas House adopted it 74-21. Both chambers agreed, so it goes on the November 2026 ballot.

April 16, 2025

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 640. It ends the term of every sitting member of the State Library Board on the day the act takes effect. The Governor then appoints all seven replacements at once and must call their first meeting within thirty days. At that meeting the new members draw lots for staggered terms: one serves a year, two serve three years, two serve five and two serve seven. Everyone appointed after them serves seven years. A short term drawn by lot does not count against the limit on how many terms a member may serve. The Arkansas House passed it 60-29 and it became Act 903 of 2025.

April 15, 2025

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Voted to pass House Bill 1489. Arkansas may now carry out a death sentence with nitrogen gas as well as lethal injection. The act sets no procedure for a nitrogen execution and does not say who picks between the two. The prison director must tell a condemned prisoner in writing, within seven days of the death warrant, which method will be used, and must name the drugs if it is injection. The secrecy rule that already hid drug suppliers is widened to cover nitrogen suppliers, and shielding them from public records requests and lawsuits. The division must publish its nitrogen procedure on request. A death sentence now stays in force even if a court strikes down a method. The Arkansas House passed it 67-23 and it became Act 302 of 2025.

March 4, 2025

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Voted to pass House Bill 1222. The Attorney General may now turn down a proposed ballot measure if its text clashes with the United States Constitution or a federal law. That is a new reason, on top of the old power to reject wording that misleads. It stays the Attorney General's choice. The act also bars a sponsor from having two clashing versions of the same idea before the Attorney General at once. A sponsor may file a new version after one is rejected, or, once one is certified, after the next general election. Two measures clash if they cover the same subject, have the same aim, and differ in wording anywhere. So even near-identical drafts are caught. Petitions filed against that rule must be turned down. The Arkansas House passed it 62-30 and it became Act 154 of 2025.

February 10, 2025

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 364. A contractor who worked without the license Arkansas requires may now sue the customer for the value of that work. Before, the law barred such a claim outright, which was the strongest consequence of working unlicensed. The contractor must first pay any fines the licensing board charged, and must apply to the board for a license. The act asks only that the contractor apply, not that the board say yes. A contractor still cannot sue to enforce the contract itself. The Arkansas House passed it 66-23 and it became Act 750 of 2025.

April 14, 2025

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Co-sponsored a law making Arkansas colleges report and restrict research agreements and contracts with countries named foreign adversaries, including China, Russia, Iran and North Korea (Act 473 of 2025).

April 8, 2025

Source: arkleg.state.ar.us · researched August 7, 2026