Career
His District 93, which he has represented since 2013, includes parts of Benton County. Since 2011, Dotson has been an account executive for Cox Business, a telecommunications firm located in Springdale in Washington County, Arkansas. From 2005 to 2011, he was a sales representative for Digital Printing Solutions.
Dotson was then unopposed in the general election for the seat vacated by Republican Jon Woods, who was instead elected to the Arkansas State Senate.
Representative Dotson in 2013 co-sponsored the proposed spending cap on the state budget, but the bill failed by a two-vote margin in the House. He joined the required two-thirds majority to override the vetoes of Democratic Governor Mike Beebe to enact legislation to require photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban abortion after twenty weeks of gestation.
He had co-sponsored both measures. He also supported related pro-life legislation to ban abortion whenever fetal heartbeat is detected, to forbid the inclusion of abortion in the state insurance exchange, and to make the death of an unborn child a felony in certain cases.
He co-sponsored legislation to empower leaders of universities and religious institutions to engage in the concealed carry of firearms in the name of safety.
He voted to prohibit the governor from regulating firearms during an emergency. Dotson supported the bill, signed by Governor Beebe, to permit the sale of up to five hundred gallons per month of unpasteurized whole milk directly from the farm to consumers. He did not vote on the legislation to make the office of prosecuting attorney in Arkansas nonpartisan.
Dotson was re-nominated for a second term in the state House in the Republican primary held on May 20, 2014.
