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DState Representative · District 64
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: Arkansas House District 64
Kenneth Ferguson is serving his sixth term in the Arkansas House, representing District 64, which includes portions of Jefferson, Lincoln and Desha counties.[1][2]
The House lists his address as Pine Bluff, and the legislature lists his occupation as retired.[1][2] For the 95th General Assembly he serves on the House Public Health, Welfare, and Labor Committee, the House Insurance and Commerce Committee and the House Rules Committee.[2]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-19.
Ken Ferguson is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for Arkansas House District 64 as D. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
Most contested
Creates a licensing system for naturopathic physicians overseen by a new Arkansas State Board of Natural Medicine, defining their scope of practice, education requirements, background checks, and unlicensed-practice prohibition.
Apr 15, 2025 · Failed 46–44 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
TO REQUIRE CERTAIN RECORDS BE PROVIDED TO AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS A MINOR.
Requires employers with more than ten employees to give each minor employee an itemized pay statement showing pay basis, rates of pay, gross pay and deductions each time wages are paid.
Apr 16, 2025 · Failed 42–34 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Requires state agencies and political subdivisions to verify new hires through E-Verify, bars employing unauthorized aliens, and lets the Department of Labor and Licensing request verification records, with a 30-day cure period for noncompliance starting July 1, 2026.
Apr 10, 2025 · Passed 76–20 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Creates a licensing system for naturopathic physicians overseen by a new Arkansas State Board of Natural Medicine, defining their scope of practice, education requirements, background checks, and unlicensed-practice prohibition.
Apr 15, 2025 · Failed 46–44 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Bars medical professionals from soliciting people injured in an accident or disaster for treatment unless they have a prior relationship or 30 days have passed; makes violation a Class D felony and voids related payment agreements.
Jan 30, 2025 · Failed 40–36 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
TO MANDATE MINIMUM REIMBURSEMENT LEVELS FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES.
Requires health benefit plans to pay providers a minimum reimbursement level set by the Insurance Commissioner from neighboring states' commercial-to-Medicare price ratios, phased in from 45% in 2026 to 100% in 2030; insurers must document compliance.
Apr 10, 2025 · Failed 44–45 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Requires the Department of Human Services, with the Department of Education, to set up regional behavioral health programs by January 1, 2026, respond within 48 hours to school requests about students likely to injure themselves or others, develop management plans, and find funding.
Apr 14, 2025 · Passed 51–22 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Lets students transfer to another public school within their resident district under the school choice laws, requires districts to adopt and post a transfer policy, and lets a district claim lack of capacity once 95% of grade-level seats are filled.
Apr 9, 2025 · Passed 59–30 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
REGARDING THE DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL MOTTO AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Adds a Ten Commandments poster or framed copy, at least 16 by 20 inches, to the national motto display in public school and college classrooms and libraries and taxpayer-funded public buildings, using donations or voluntary contributions.
Apr 7, 2025 · Passed 71–20 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Bars medical professionals from soliciting people injured in an accident or disaster for treatment unless they have a prior relationship or 30 days have passed; makes violation a Class D felony and voids related payment agreements.
Jan 30, 2025 · Failed 40–36 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Removes concealed handgun licenses, college employee badges and public assistance cards from accepted voter ID, and excludes noncitizen licenses. Requires monthly checks of noncitizen license holders against voter rolls, with matches cancelled and referred to the Attorney General for prosecution.
Mar 20, 2025 · Failed 53–25 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Mar 11, 2025: Requires a person to read the ballot title, or hear it read aloud, in the canvasser's presence before signing an initiative or referendum petition, and makes it a misdemeanor for a canvasser to knowingly accept a signature without that. Takes effect immediately.
Mar 10, 2025 · Failed 56–35 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Requires crop residue burns to be reported to the Department of Agriculture and follow state smoke management guidelines, and shields those who comply from civil liability unless the claimant proves negligence.
Apr 3, 2025 · Failed 33–40 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Apr 28, 2026: Appropriates money for the Division of Environmental Quality for 2026-27, covering state and federal operations and programs for wastewater licensing, land reclamation, hazardous waste permits, abandoned mines and surface coal mining.
Apr 27, 2026 · Failed 66–25 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
TO PROHIBIT A MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS IN WATERSHEDS AND OTHER BODIES OF WATER.
Bars state agencies from imposing permit moratoriums in watersheds or bodies of water unless adopted by rule and approved by legislative review; approved moratoriums expire after four years unless the Legislative Council approves renewal.
Apr 15, 2025 · Passed 70–11Official record ↗
Most contested
TO AMEND THE EXCURSION TRAIN PERMIT TO INCLUDE EXCURSION BOATS.
Lets operators of excursion boats, as well as excursion trains, apply to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division for a permit to sell and serve alcoholic beverages on scheduled, fixed-route trips.
Feb 6, 2025 · Passed 63–17 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Creates the Class D felony of tampering with rail infrastructure, covering recklessly obstructing or interfering with tracks, signals, trains and related equipment without lawful authority, plus related assaults, threats and false reports.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 90–6 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
As introduced, withholds a school district's state transportation funding until it either puts a bus passenger restraint proposal on the next school election ballot or buys, installs and maintains restraint systems on newly purchased buses.
Feb 26, 2025 · Passed 68–9 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Bars cities from enforcing municipal building and zoning rules on county-owned property inside city limits that is used for a public purpose; the county must follow its own building and zoning rules there.
Apr 15, 2025 · Passed 62–26 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF SHORT-TERM RENTALS BY A LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Bars cities, towns and counties from banning short-term rentals or capping their number jurisdiction-wide, while letting them require permits with fees and owner contact information, and suspend permits after repeated violations or a felony at the rental.
Apr 8, 2025 · Failed 33–49 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
TO REQUIRE A COUNTY RECORDER TO VERIFY CERTAIN INFORMATION BEFORE RECORDING A DEED TO REAL ESTATE.
Bars county recorders from accepting a real estate deed unless the grantor, or someone signing for the grantor, appears in person with a valid photo ID, with exceptions for deeds presented by attorneys, real estate brokers, lenders, title agents, and government representatives.
Apr 14, 2025 · Passed 51–31 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Allows private landowners, leaseholders and commercial businesses to use automatic license plate readers to monitor access to their property, limits their data retention to 60 days, bars selling the data, and requires a subpoena for government to compel its release.
Apr 9, 2025 · Passed 56–27 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
TO AMEND THE SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR DATA CENTERS.
On the version voted Apr 7, 2025: Amends the data center sales and use tax exemption: adds a qualified large data center category (at least $2 billion invested within ten years), sets qualified data centers at $500 million, and excludes facilities primarily engaged in virtual currency transactions.
Mar 10, 2025 · Passed 71–17 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Requires the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, by the 2026-27 school year, to add digital media standards to the K-12 library media standards, covering digital citizenship, digital wellness, internet safety, social media literacy and proper use of artificial intelligence.
Apr 7, 2025 · Passed 65–15 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Requires public high schools to give military recruiters access to students in grades 10-12 on the same basis as employers and colleges, with no extra privacy, administrative or parental consent barriers.
Mar 12, 2025 · Passed 96–1 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs letter for the disabled veteran property tax exemption to be submitted only once, not annually, and requires taxpayers who no longer qualify as disabled veterans to notify the county collector.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 86–1 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 10 of 57 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Rights & public safety (5), Jobs & cost of living (3), Education & families (1)
TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW; TO CREATE FUNDS; TO MAKE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM FUNDS AND FUND ACCOUNTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
What it does: Sets 2026-27 revenue allocations to state funds, including $6.64 billion in the first allocation tier, and transfers $100 million to a Medicaid set-aside, $70 million to a Children's Educational Freedom Account set-as…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 6–12, Republicans 67–10
Apr 28, 2026Official record ↗
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION - DISBURSING OFFICER SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION.
What it does: Appropriates $1.5 million more for fiscal 2025-2026 for Pregnancy Help Organization grants, on top of the earlier appropriation, and transfers $3.5 million from the General Revenue Allotment Reserve Fund to fund those…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 5–11, Republicans 76–1
Apr 27, 2026Official record ↗
TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND THE ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
What it does: Transfers the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf, with their functions, staff, property and funds, to the Arkansas School for the Deaf and Blind, and updates state law references. Decla…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 4–8, Republicans 80–0
Apr 15, 2025Official record ↗
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LOCAL INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS.
What it does: Applies petition procedures for statewide initiatives and referendums to local ones: sponsors file drafts and canvasser lists with the county clerk, who reviews ballot titles and counts signatures in place of the Atto…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 4–13, Republicans 69–7
Apr 14, 2025Official record ↗
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CANVASSING FOR A PETITION FOR A LOCAL OPTION ELECTION.
What it does: Changes local option petition rules: signers must read the ballot title or hear it read, canvassers must disclose that petition fraud is a crime, check photo ID and file affidavits, and clerks may not count signatures…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 5–12, Republicans 66–8
Apr 14, 2025Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
With most of their party · Failed 46–44 · Yes 46–No 44 · Democrats 0–17, Republicans 46–27
Apr 15, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 40–36 · Yes 40–No 36 · Democrats 18–0, Republicans 22–36
Jan 30, 2025Official record ↗
TO MANDATE MINIMUM REIMBURSEMENT LEVELS FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES.
With most of their party · Failed 44–45 · Yes 44–No 45 · Democrats 17–1, Republicans 27–44
Apr 10, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 53–25 · Yes 53–No 25 · Democrats 0–19, Republicans 53–6
Mar 20, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 56–35 · Yes 56–No 35 · Democrats 0–18, Republicans 56–17
Mar 10, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 62–29 · Yes 62–No 29 · Democrats 0–19, Republicans 62–10
Mar 10, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 51–22 · Yes 51–No 22 · Democrats 0–16, Republicans 51–6
Apr 14, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 61–27 · Yes 61–No 27 · Democrats 0–18, Republicans 61–9
Mar 5, 2025Official record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
Motion: Read the third time and failed.
Appropriates $550,000 for fiscal 2026-27 to pay the Educational Television Division's Public Broadcasting Service membership dues, matched one-to-one with private donations that must be certified before funds are paid.
Motion: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Motion: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Appropriates money for salaries, extra help and operations of Department of Health licensing boards, including the medical, nursing, pharmacy, optometry, psychology and social work boards, for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
Motion: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Appropriates money for the State Insurance Department for the 2026-27 fiscal year, covering operations, fraud investigation, prepaid funeral programs, continuing education and state and public school employee claims.
Motion: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Sets 2026-27 revenue allocations to state funds, including $6.64 billion in the first allocation tier, and transfers $100 million to a Medicaid set-aside, $70 million to a Children's Educational Freedom Account set-aside, and other amounts to reserve set-asides.
Motion: Read the third time and failed.
Appropriates $550,000 for fiscal 2026-27 to pay the Educational Television Division's Public Broadcasting Service membership dues, matched one-to-one with private donations that must be certified before funds are paid.
Motion: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Sets 2026-27 revenue allocations to state funds, including $6.64 billion in the first allocation tier, and transfers $100 million to a Medicaid set-aside, $70 million to a Children's Educational Freedom Account set-aside, and other amounts to reserve set-asides.
Motion: EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
Sets 2026-27 revenue allocations to state funds, including $6.64 billion in the first allocation tier, and transfers $100 million to a Medicaid set-aside, $70 million to a Children's Educational Freedom Account set-aside, and other amounts to reserve set-asides.
Motion: Read the third time and failed.
On the version voted Apr 29, 2026: Appropriates $550,000 for fiscal 2026-27 to pay the Educational Television Division's Public Broadcasting Service membership dues, matched one-to-one with private donations that must be certified before funds are paid.
Motion: Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Appropriates money from the Public School Fund for the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education for 2026-27, including about $3.66 billion in the main section, the school computer network, Office of Education Renewal Zones, and sexual risk avoidance education.
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