Tara Shephard
Democrat • 79th District 94th General Assembly- Party
- Democrat
- Past Service
- Seniority
- 93
- Religion
- Baptist
- Occupation
- Correctional Auditor; Compliance Manager
Rep. Tara Shephard is serving her first term in the Arkansas House of Representatives. She represents District 79 which includes portions of Pulaski County.
For the 94th General Assembly, Rep. Shephard serves on the House Public Transportation Committee and the House Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs Committee. Rep. Shephard also serves on the Joint Budget Committee.
Elected Terms
2023 (Jan 1st, 2023 — Jan 1st, 2025)Newsroom
This week, the House tackled several key issues including state employee pay, digital asset mining r...
On Thursday, the House passed SB80. This bill amends the Revenue Stabilization Act (RSA) by outlinin...
On Wednesday, the House passed HB1097. This bill amends the Revenue Stabilization Act (RSA) by outli...
On Tuesday, the House City, County, and Local Affairs Committee advanced two bills addressing regula...
During the third week of the 2024 Fiscal Session, members received the proposed Revenue Stabilizatio...
Members are now reviewing the proposed Revenue Stabilization Act for the 2025 Fiscal Year.The Revenu...
The Joint Budget Committee advanced SB77 on Wednesday. This bill outlines a temporary pay plan for s...
On Tuesday, the Joint Budget Personnel Subcommittee adopted an amendment for SB77 and advanced the a...
The General Assembly is now entering the third week of the 2024 Fiscal Session.This week, the House...
The House passed more than 80 appropriation bills on Thursday.The bills included appropriations for...
On Wednesday, the House passed HR1013. This resolution will allow for the introduction of legislatio...
On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee advanced nine resolutions to introduce non-appropriation bills...
The General Assembly began the second week of the 2024 Fiscal Session on Monday.The House Management...
The 2024 Fiscal Session is now underway.The House and Senate convened for a Joint Session on Wednesd...
On the second day of the 2024 Fiscal Session, the House passed HB1003, the General Appropriation Act...
The 2024 Fiscal Session is now underway.The House and Senate convened for a Joint Session on Wednesd...
More than twenty bills passed in the 2023 Regular Session address Arkansas elections.From how an ini...
In the final week of the 2023 Regular Session, the House passed a criminal justice reform bill, a ta...
On Tuesday, the House adopted HJR1006. This resolution is a proposed constitutional amendment that w...
On Monday, the House passed HB1345.This bill increases the income tax deduction for a teacher’s clas...
House members completed the 12th week of the 2023 Regular Session on Thursday. Next week, the House...
More than 360 bills have been signed into law and many more are making their way to the Governor’s d...
On Tuesday, the House passed SB248. This bill creates the Arkansas Challenge Plus Scholarship Progra...
On Monday, the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committeebegan hearing testimony for pr...
When House members return from the spring break recess, they will begin the process of reviewing pro...
House members will now be taking an extended recess. When the House reconvenes on March 27, members...
On Thursday, the House passed HB1496. This bill amends the law concerning abuse of an athletic conte...
On Wednesday, the House passed HB1207. This bill creates the Fast-Track Permits Act. It states that...
On Tuesday, the House passed SB66. This bill states that a commercial entity shall use a reasonable...
On Monday, the House passed several bills regarding elections including the following:HB1457-This bi...
In the 9th week of the 2023 Regular Session, the House passed several bills addressing education, el...
On Thursday, the House passed HB1462. This bill clarifies the definition of “unaccompanied homeless...
On Wednesday, the House passed HB1035. This bill requires a healthcare insurer that offers, issues,...
EDUCATIONThe LEARNS Act provides for reading coaches statewide, offers high schoolers a career ready...
On Tuesday, the House Education Committee advanced several bills including HB1511. This bill states...
House members began the 9th week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.The House passed several bill...
In the 8th week of the 2023 Regular Session, the House passed SB294. This bill creates the LEARNS Ac...
With a vote of 78-21 and one member voting present, the House passed SB294.This bill creates the LEA...
On Wednesday, the House passed HB1486. This bill amends the law concerning distracted driving. It st...
On Tuesday, the House Education Committee began hearing testimony regarding SB294. This bill creates...
House members began the 8th week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.The House passed HB1458. This...
In the 7th week of the 2023 Regular Session, House members voted on a number of bills impacting empl...
On Thursday, the House passed HB1349. This bill states that an esports tournament organizer is autho...
On Wednesday, the House passed HB1419. This bill amends the procedure for the filing of a ballot ini...
On Tuesday, the House passed HB1244. This bill would require the Department of Finance and Administr...
The 2023 Regular Session is now in its 7th week.On Monday, the House passed HB1153. This bill is tit...
More than 70 bills have been signed into law since the 2023 Regular Session began and several more a...
On Thursday, the House passed HB1181. This bill establishes the Counseling Compact in Arkansas. It a...
The House Aging, Children and Youth, and Legislative and Military Affairs Committee advanced HB1153....
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee advanced HB1355. This bill would allow any Arkansan who is...
House members began the 6th week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.The House passed HB1325. This...
On the 5th week of the Regular Session, the House passed legislation addressing substance abuse, tee...
On Thursday, the House passed HB1340. This bill seeks to have veteran disability benefits excluded a...
On Wednesday, the House passed HCR1007. The resolution provides for an extension of the current sess...
On Tuesday, The House Education Committee advanced HB1185. This bill states that a student who atten...
The House began the 5th week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.The House passed HB1144. This bil...
On Thursday, the House Public Transportation Committee advanced HB1324. This bill would allow law en...
House members passed several bills on Wednesday including three bills advanced by the House Educatio...
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee advanced HB1004. This bill amends the Sex Offender Registr...
The House entered the 4th week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.The House passed HB1208 and HB1...
On the third week of the 2023 Regular Session, the House passed proposed legislation impacting every...
The House Revenue and Taxation Committeeadvanced HB1026 on Thursday. This bill would prohibit local...
On Wednesday, the House passed HB1125 which prohibits level 3 and level 4 sex offenders from owning...
On Tuesday, the House passed HB1150, HB1123, and HB1098.HB1150 would extend the time period aut...
The third week of the 2023 Regular Session began Monday afternoon.The House passed HB1122which amend...
House members will enter the third week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.In the second week, se...
On Thursday, theHouse passed HB1023. This bill states that all US flags and Arkansas flags of purcha...
House committees advanced several bills on Wednesday.The House State Agencies and Governmental Affai...
Members began the second week of the 2023 Regular Session on Tuesday.The House Public Transportation...
The 2023 Regular Session is now underway.The session began on Monday, January 9 when members of the...
House members have completed their business for the first week of the 2023 Regular Session.On Thursd...
Several House committees convened for organizational meetings on Wednesday morning.The full House pa...
On the second day of the 2023 Regular Session, the House and Senate convened for a Joint Session.Dur...
Members of the 94th General Assembly took the oath of office Monday morning.After swearing-in, the H...
The 94th General Assembly will convene at noon on Monday, January 9.The House will have 26 new membe...
