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Arkansas governor signs bills creating $173M COVID-19 fund

by Associated Press
| March 28, 2020 12:03 AM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' governor signed legislation early Saturday creating a $173 million fund he can use to respond to the coronavirus outbreak and to avoid cutting some agencies' budgets because of the pandemic's economic fallout.

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