Others were in conflict with state law or later EO’s, while state statutes had replaced some executive orders and were recommended for dissolution. Clinton utilized executive orders to create the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission, implementing drug-free workplaces in state agencies, and to place moratoriums on state purchasing, travel and hiring.īragg found that many executive orders had been completed in their missions. Dale Bumpers used executive orders to create an affirmative action program in the state as well as an Arkansas Bikeways Commission.

Many were in response to disasters, but there are plenty that attended to COVID-19, cybersecurity in advance of Y2K, implementation of federal laws at the state level, and working groups charged with developing Arkansas legislation for consideration. Governors Dale Bumpers, David Pryor, Bill Clinton, Frank White, Jim Guy Tucker, Mike Huckabee, Mike Beebe and Asa Hutchinson utilized executive orders for a variety of purposes. That has subsequently been replaced by state law governing ethics for elected officials and state government employees. Winthrop Rockefeller to establish a code of ethics for public officials. The oldest executive order provided in the report is a singular order from former Gov. The report shows Sanders is hardly the first governor to utilize executive orders.

Specifically, Sanders’ EO 23-03 requested reviews, analyses and recommendations related to executive orders, government overreach and bureaucracy throughout state government. Inspector General Allison Bragg was tasked with reviewing all executive orders in effect or completed. Sarah Sanders issued a number of executive ordersfor state agencies to provide reports to her within 30, 60 or 90 days.Ī Talk Business & Politics review of three of the major executive orders finds that the Department of Education, Department of Transformation and Shared Services, and the Office of Inspector General completed these assignments within the window requested by the governor. On her first two days in office in January, Gov.

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