Greg Leding
| Greg Leding | |
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Leding addresses a Washington County Democrats rally in Springdale, Arkansas, in July 2016
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Assumed office January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Lindsley Armstrong Smith |
| Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 86th district |
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| Minority Leader of the Arkansas House of Representatives (2012-2014) | |
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April 10, 1978 Spingdale, Arkansas, USA |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Emily Ironside (m. 2013) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Arkansas |
| Religion | Roman Catholic Church |
| Website | Official website |
Greg Leding (born April 10, 1978) is a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives serving the 86th district in Fayetteville, the state's third-largest city, which includes Fayetteville High School, the West Dickson Street Commercial Historic District, the Fayetteville Historic Square, the Washington-Willow Historic District, and the University of Arkansas, the state's largest university. Fayetteville is located in Washington County.
A lifelong resident of Arkansas, Leding graduated from Springdale High School and holds a bachelor's degree from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.
First elected to the Arkansas General Assembly in 2010, Leding, a member of the Democratic Party, served as Minority Leader during his second term (2012-2014).
The 91st General Assembly convened on Monday, January 9, 2017. Leding filed a number of bills, including:
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Committee assignments for the 88th and 89th General Assemblies can be found here.
During his first term, Leding passed The Jason Flatt Act, a measure to reduce youth suicide in Arkansas. In his second term, during which he served as the House Minority Leader, Leding worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a bipartisan package of bills to prevent human trafficking in Arkansas. Other bipartisan legislative achievements in 2013 include The Landowner Notification Act, a measure to protect landowners living in the Fayetteville Shale, co-sponsored by Senator Jason Rapert (R-Conway), as well as bipartisan legislation to better protect the Buffalo National River, co-sponsored by Representative Kelley Linck (R-Flippin). In 2015, bills passed by Leding included the Student Online Personal Information and Protection Act and a bipartisan bill to help the families of firefighters who die of job-related cancers. Other legislative efforts have included a 2015 bipartisan measure to end juvenile life without parole, co-sponsored by Senator Missy Irvin (R-Mountain View); efforts in 2015 to address privacy issues, establish the Arkansas New Jobs Training Program, and add the words "sexual orientation, gender identity" to the Arkansas Civil Rights Act of 1993; efforts in 2013, 2015, 2017 to establish paid family leave and to address Arkansas's landlord-tenant laws (including its lack of any warranty of habitability and its criminal eviction statutes); and efforts in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 to address wage theft. Leding is also working with Arkansas veterans to secure hyperbaric oxygen therapy as means of treatment for veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury.
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