article_snippet.sent: Arkansas legislature also passed changes to its legislation at the behest of the state's Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson, who rejected a previous version of the bill at the last minute on Wednesday following public uproar and a personal plea from his son.
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson signed its legislation last night.
article_snippet.sent: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs a reworked religious freedom bill into law on Thursday evening.
article_snippet.sent: Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson earlier that day said Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson wants the legislature to either recall the bill from Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson desk or pass a follow-up measure that would make the proposal more closely mirror a 1993 federal religious-freedom law .
article_snippet.sent: The fixes passed the state's Senate Wednesday night and the state's Senate House Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson on Wednesday had requested the legislative changes, saying Hutchinson could not sign The altered bill until they were made. '
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson said during a press conference outside the state Capitol. '
article_snippet.sent: Upon signing The altered bill Thursday, Hutchinson said, 'I know it's been a contentious debate.' 'we resolved it in an Arkansas way and in the right way for our country and for the people of Arkansas.'
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson said Hutchinson recognizes this is not the end of the debate, 'but the fact that this might not solve every problem for everyone probably means this's a good bill.'
article_snippet.sent: Conservative lawmakers said Conservative lawmakers didn't appreciate the slap in the face from Hutchinson, who had said numerous times in the past that Hutchinson would approve the legislation in its current form when its reached Hutchinson desk, but Conservative lawmakers worked to make the necessary adjustments just the same. '
article_snippet.sent: I don't feel it was right for the governor to say the governor was going to sign something that the governor watched all the way through and didn't sign,' state senator Terry Rice told Arkansas Online. '
article_snippet.sent: I'm very puzzled at this point to see why a good bill would need to be amended at this late date, considering everybody in the chamber has had a chance to see the chamber,' Jerry Cox, the group's leader, said. '
article_snippet.sent: Hutchinson, who took office just two months ago, seeking to avoid an uprising of equal intensity in his own state, pushed legislators in Arkansas to make adjustments to legislators bill before his put his name on it.
article_snippet.sent: The Arkansas-based retail corporation Wal-Mart publicly lobbied the Republican politician not to approve their bill, labeling their bill as discriminatory.
highlights_snippet.sent: Arkansas legislature also passed changes to Arkansas legislature legislation at the behest of the state's Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson .
  