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Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Kim Hammer said Thursday he expects the committee will make a final decision today about its latest ethics complaint, after it deliberated for nearly five hours Thursday in a closed, executive session.

The Arkansas Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday didnt rule on an ethics complaint filed by Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, against Sen. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, after meeting for more than nine hours about the complaint in executive session.

Republican State Treasurer nominee Mark Lowery has been fined $800 and issued a public letter of caution by the Arkansas Ethics Commission, according to Ethics Commission records released Tuesday.

Republican state treasurer nominee Mark Lowery of Maumelle has been fined $800 and issued a public letter of caution by the Arkansas Ethics Commission, according to commission records released Tuesday.

Arkansas Sen. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, has reimbursed the Senate nearly $3,000 that she improperly received in per diem and travel expense payments for Legislative meetings she attended via videoconference.

A state senator from Pine Bluff who attended legislative meetings via videoconference has reimbursed the Senate nearly $3,000 that she improperly received in per diem and travel expense payments for those meetings.

The Arkansas Senate on Monday approved procedures for the chamber to follow as it considers its Ethics Committees findings and recommended penalties on ethics complaints filed against Sens. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, and Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, by Senate President Pro Tempore Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana.

The Arkansas Senate Ethics Committee didnt find state Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, persuasive in his reasoning for his decision to sign the reimbursement sign-in sheet for fellow Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, for a June 3 Boys State committee meeting that Clark didnt attend, the committee said in a report released late Monday afternoon.

Arkansas Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, said he made a mistake in asking Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, to sign Clarks name on a sign-in sheet to be paid reimbursement for a Senate Boys State committee meeting June 3 that Clark didnt attend because he was sick.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders raised $13.18 million in contributions and spent that much in the primary election, including a $4.25 million transfer to her general election account, according to her latest campaign finance report.