Issues
SMALL BUSINESS OWNER AND SUPPORTER
Alan is a small-business owner and serves as CEO of Clark’s Building and Decorating Center. He has held leadershiproles in several industry organizations, including serving on the board of directors for the National Lumber Building Materials Dealers Association and as past president of the Mid-America Lumberman’s Association. He has also been chairman of the POS Pace Committee for Ace Hardware and president of the Central Arkansas Ace Team. Additionally, Alan served on the board of the Hot Springs Home Builders Association.
In the 2025 legislative session, Alan sponsored two laws allowing Arkansas producers to sell raw milk, goat milk, and sheep milk at farmer’s markets and natural food stores. He also helped pass the law protecting local independent pharmacists from predatory Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN
Alan has been a leader in protecting the unborn and helped to make our state the most pro-life in the country. His efforts also include sponsoring Arkansas’s first-in-the-nation law protecting our children from experimental gender-transition procedures.
He has also reformed the child welfare system, creating and serving as chair of the Child Maltreatment Investigations Oversight Committee.
He has passed legislation to keep children safe from predators and abusers. In 2021, he sponsored the law that makes courts consider the best interest of the child in custody cases and sponsored the 2019 law on visitation rights for grandparents.
PROMOTING EDUCATION
Alan has consistently championed efforts to enhance education and expand opportunities for Arkansas’s children. In his first term, he was involved in every major education reform bill passed, including the Public School Choice Act. In that session, he sponsored the law making it easier for charter schools to be created in Arkansas.
In 2021, Alan helped pass the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, preventing biological males from playing in women’ssports at Arkansas schools. He also cosponsored the 2023 LEARNS Act to improve literacy, increase teacher salaries, further expand school choice options, and enhance career readiness for Arkansas students.
He has worked in a bipartisan way to improve reading scores in Arkansas. In 2021, he sponsored legislation requiringschool districts to develop literacy plans for its students and increased state funding for districts scoring below certain reading levels. Additionally, he sponsored the law promoting the Science of Reading which promotes phonics and comprehension for all students learning to read.
FIGHTING CRIME
Alan currently chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and in 2023 he cosponsored the PROTECT Act—ensuring thestate’s most violent offenders are not released early and, in some cases, must serve 100% of their sentence. Alan has sponsored and cosponsored numerous criminal justice laws as a senator, including ones cracking down on human trafficking and protecting first responders and property from rioters.
PERSONAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS
Alan sponsored the 2025 law allowing over-the-counter sales of Ivermectin. During the pandemic he helped pass lawspreventing the state government from mandating COVID vaccines or penalizing businesses if customers did not wear a mask.
Also in 2025, Alan sponsored the law ensuring faith-based adoption and foster care providers can continue to serve children in Arkansas. He also helped pass the Ten Commandments Monument display on the State Capitol grounds.
SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
Alan sponsored laws allowing concealed carry in municipal parks and preventing the government from stopping the saleor transportation of a firearm by emergency declaration. He also sponsored the law guaranteeing churches the ability to allow concealed carry if they so choose.
CUTTING TAXES
Since 2015, Alan has helped pass income and corporate tax cuts totaling more than $800 million, including the most recent reduction of the top rate by 0.5% and adjusting the tax table to allow more Arkansans to be eligible for lower rates on their taxes. He also helped pass legislation to increase the Homestead Property Tax Credit to $600.
REFORMING GOVERNMENT
During his first term, Alan cosponsored the law preventing taxpayer dollars from being used by public servants to lobby for or against ballot measures. In the most recent session, he sponsored legislation to grant newly formed municipalities the ability to receive the same government turnback funds other cities receive without waiting for the next census.
In 2025, Alan sponsored a new law to help protect property owners from title theft by requiring a valid photo identification before the transfer of a property title. He also sponsored legislation to protect first responders involved in child custody cases, requiring courts to consider their service to maximize their time with their children.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Alan passed legislation that requires a custodian of public records to respond to a Freedom of Information request within a certain time if records do not exist or if the records fall under an exemption. In the past a custodian did not have to respond to a FOI request if the records did not exist or the records fell under an exemption.
