Senator Breanne Davis of Russellville won a special election in 2018. She represents District 25, which includes most of Pope and Conway Counties.
Senator Davis is the chair of the Senate Rules, Resolutions and Memorials Committee. She is a member of the Senate Education Committee, the Senate City, County and Local Affairs Committee, the Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth Committee, the Joint Budget Committee, Arkansas Legislative Council. Senator Davis is serving as the Senate Majority Whip of the 95th General Assembly.
During the 94th General Assembly, Senator Davis was the lead sponsor of ACT 237 of 2023, commonly known as the LEARNS Act. The LEARNS Act made sweeping reforms in school finance, literacy, teacher pay and parental choice.
In 2021 Senator Davis sponsored legislation to create “Lila’s Law,” which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities who need an organ transplant. She sponsored legislation to mandate Medicaid coverage of continuous glucose monitors for people with diabetes and to amend the law regulating paid canvassers for ballot issues.
In 2019 she co-sponsored Act 198 to expand Internet access in small towns and rural areas. She also co-sponsored laws to raise the maximum speed limit on interstates to 75 miles an hour, to strengthen investigations into maltreatment at long term care facilities and to clarify implementation of Amendment 100, the Arkansas Casino Gaming Amendment.
She has served on the Russellville School Board, for which she has been President, Communications Liaison and Legislative Liaison.
She has served on the Arkansas Board of State Athletic Training, the Arkansas Commission on Eye and Vision Care of School-Age Children, the Russellville Downtown Master Planning Commission and Leadership Russellville.
Senator Davis graduated from Russellville High School and has a bachelor’s degree in speech communications from Arkansas Tech.
Senator Breanne Davis was the first member of the General Assembly to give birth while in office, when she had a baby girl in the fall of 2018. She and her husband, John-Paul, have two sons and two daughters.
