Arkansas Code Title 10. General Assembly § 10-3-205. Staff

(a) The Director of the Bureau of Legislative Research shall have the responsibility of employing the necessary professional and clerical personnel to staff the interim committees. He or she shall assign, after conferring with the chair of each of the committees, such staff to the committees as may be needed to carry out the functions and duties of the committee, within the limitations of the staff available.

(b) Staff personnel assigned to each committee shall assist the chair of the committee in preparing agendas, notices of meetings, undertaking research and writing research memoranda, taking and preparing minutes, reports, and recommendations of the committee and shall provide other assistance as may be necessary to assist the committee in carrying out its functions and duties.

(c) If any interim committee finds that the staff assigned to that committee is inadequate or that separate or additional staffing is necessary on a temporary or permanent basis in order to enable the committee to carry out its functions and duties, the chair of the committee may file a request for additional staff with the director, who shall present the request to the Legislative Council for its consideration, or the committee may request the House of Representatives or Senate to employ the separate or additional staff pursuant to the authority granted in Acts 1995, No. 1312, § 20.