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  • Comment: Thank you Ivanvector for doing this digging in this situation. Obviously as a member of the Arkansas House Petty passes WP:NPOL, so she is obviously notable. Should probably be tagged with COI/AUTO if it is shown to be written by Petty or her office. May be in need of a rewrite to create a neutral point of view. Bkissin (talk) 13:03, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
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Rebecca Dean Petty
Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
from the 94th district
Assumed office
January 2015
Preceded byDebra Hobbs
Personal details
Born (1970-04-13) April 13, 1970 (age 54)
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Political partyRepublican
Residence(s)Rogers, Benton County
Arkansas, USA
Alma materHatfield (Arkansas) High School
Tulsa Community College

Arkansas Tech University

John Brown University
OccupationAdvocate for crime victims and exploited children

Rebecca Dean Petty (born April 13, 1970)[1] is an advocate for victims of violent crime from Rogers, Arkansas. Her 12-year-old daughter was murdered in 1999. She is also a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 94th district. The AR House district she represents encompasses a part of Benton County in the northwestern portion of Arkansas, her adopted state.[2]

Background

Petty was born in Wichita, Kansas,[3] and graduated in 1988 from Hatfield High School[citation needed] in Hatfield in Polk County, Arkansas, an institution which closed in 2005. Petty also attended Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dates not available,[3] and earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice in 2013 from Arkansas Tech University at Russellville, at which she was an inductee of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. She since pursued a master's degree in leadership and ethics at the private John Brown University in Siloam Springs in Benton County. She lists her religious affiliation as a non-denominational Christian.[2]

Career

From 2000 to 2008, Petty was the executive director of The Andi Foundation for Children. Since 2009, she has been a Crime Victim/Child Advocate consultant for the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin.[3] She is a founding member of the Surviving Parents Coalition, a group with fights child predators.[2] Petty also works with the United States Department of Justice on training for Amber Alerts. She advocates "keeping our children safe from sexual predators by equipping our police with the tools they need to put criminals behind bars."[1]

Petty is active in the Benton County Republican organization. In the low-turnout primary on May 20, 2014, she defeated Margaret "Marge" Wolf (born c. 1937), a former Wisconsin resident, a member of the Rogers City Council, and the president of the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank.[1] Petty polled 878 votes (55.3 percent) to Wolf's 710 (44.7 percent). The House seat was vacated by the term-limited Debra Hobbs, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor; Hobbs was defeated by Tim Griffin, the former U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district. Petty carried the endorsement of State Senator Bart Hester of Cave Springs.[1]

In the November 4 general election, Petty defeated the Democratic nominee, Grimsley Graham (born c. 1948), an English teacher at Rogers High School for thirty years,[4] 3,508 votes (57.8 percent) to 2,565 (42.2 percent), in a heavily Republican year statewide and nationally.[5]

Representative Petty holds these committee assignments:

  1. Vice-Chair of the House Judiciary Committee;
  2. Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative, and Military Affairs; and
  3. House Rules Committee.[2]

In January 2015, Petty proposed legislation before the House Judiciary Committee to allow families of murder victims to witness the executions of the convicted criminals so as to gain some closure to their grief.[6] The legislation passed both houses and was soon signed into law by Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson.[7] The next month Petty proposed legislation to allow executions in Arkansas by firing squad.[7]

Petty joined dozens of her fellow Republicans and two Democrats in co-sponsoring legislation in February 2015 submitted by Representative Lane Jean of Magnolia to reduce unemployment compensation benefits. The measure was signed into law by Governor Hutchinson.[8]

The same month, she supported House Bill 1228—sponsored by Bob Ballinger of Carroll County—which sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion.[9] The measure passed the House seventy-two to twenty.[9] One of the opponents, Representative Camille Bennett, a former city attorney for Lonoke, Arkansas, called for a reworking of the legislation.[10] Bennett claimed the Ballinger bill would establish a "type of religious litmus test" which could impact nearly any law under consideration by the legislature.[11] The measure was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, SB 975, by Governor Hutchinson.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Larry Henry (February 6, 2014). "Child Advocate Rebecca Petty Seeks State House Seat". Fort Smith, Arkansas: KFSM-TV. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d "Rebecca Petty". arkansashouse.org. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Rebecca Petty's Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  4. ^ Ellen Thalls (October 22, 2014). "Graham, Petty Square Off in Rogers State House Race". KFSM-TV. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  5. ^ "District 94". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  6. ^ Curt Lanning (January 29, 2015). "Rep. Petty Presents Bill To Allow Crime Victim Families To Watch Executions In Person". KFSM-TV. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  7. ^ a b Curt Lanning (February 26, 2015). "Mother of Slain Child Proposed Firing Squad Execution Bill". KFSM-TV. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  8. ^ "HB 1489 - Reduces Unemployment Benefits - Key Vote". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  9. ^ a b "HB 1228". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  10. ^ "Indiana, Arkansas try to stem religious objections uproar". Atlantic Broadband. April 3, 2015. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  11. ^ "Opponents of Religious Freedom Bill Point Out Law Differences, Possible Unintended Consequences". Little Rock, Arkansas: Fox Channel 16. April 1, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  12. ^ "Gov. Hutchinson signs revised religious freedom bill; HB 1228 recalled". Little Rock: KTHV-TV. April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
Preceded by Arkansas State Representative for
District 94 (Benton County)

Rebecca Petty
2015–

Succeeded by
Incumbent


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