2015 Arkansas Code
Title 10 - General Assembly
Chapter 3 - Committees
Subchapter 9 - Joint Performance Review Committee
§ 10-3-901 - Creation -- Members -- Meetings -- Expenses.

(a) (1) There is hereby created the "Joint Performance Review Committee", which shall consist of twenty (20) members of the House of Representatives to be selected as prescribed by the Rules of the House of Representatives and ten (10) members of the Senate to be appointed pursuant to the Rules of the Senate.

(2) (A) There shall be a Senate cochair and a House cochair and a Senate co-vice chair and a House co-vice chair of the committee.

(B) (i) The House cochair and House co-vice chair shall be selected according to the Rules of the House of Representatives.

(ii) The Senate cochair and Senate co-vice chair shall be selected according to the Rules of the Senate.

(b) (1) The House members of the committee and the Senate members of the committee may meet separately as separate committees of the House and Senate or may meet jointly as a joint committee at such times as to which the House and Senate membership agree to the holding of joint meetings.

(2) The committee may meet at such places within the state as it deems appropriate.

(c) At all joint meetings of the committee, a quorum shall consist of a majority of the Senate members of the committee and a majority of the House members of the committee.

(d) All votes taken at each joint meeting of the committee shall be by separate Senate vote and separate House vote, and no motion shall pass unless it receives a favorable vote of the majority of the members of the House committee and a favorable vote of the majority of the members of the Senate committee.

(e) Members of the committee shall be entitled to per diem and mileage at the rate provided by law to be paid from funds appropriated for payment of per diem and mileage for attendance at meetings of interim committees of the House and Senate.

(f) (1) (A) When meeting as a joint committee, the committee may subpoena persons, documents, and records upon approval of a majority of the House membership of the committee and a majority of the Senate membership of the committee.

(B) However, no action of the joint committee regarding the exercise of the subpoena power shall be taken except upon notice of at least one (1) week to all members of the committee or upon a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the House membership of the committee and a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Senate membership of the committee.

(2) (A) If the House members meet as a separate committee under subsection (b) of this section, the House committee may subpoena persons, documents, and records upon approval of a majority of the membership of the House committee.

(B) However, no action of the House committee regarding the exercise of the subpoena power shall be taken except upon notice of at least one (1) week to all members of the House committee or upon a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the membership of the House committee.

(3) (A) If the Senate members meet as a separate committee under subsection (b) of this section, the Senate committee may subpoena persons, documents, and records upon approval of a majority of the membership of the Senate committee.

(B) However, no action of the Senate committee regarding the exercise of the subpoena power shall be taken except upon notice of at least one (1) week to all members of the Senate committee or upon a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the membership of the Senate committee.