Education
Hickey obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Texarkana, Texas, campus of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University–Commerce, then known as East Texas State University.
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Jimmy Jimmy Hickey
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Since January 2015, Hickey has been the Senate Majority Whip. He owns three companies, GBU Operations, Incorporated., Oak Creek Investment Properties, Incorporated., and XB Construction. He is a former vice-president of Commercial National Bank of Texarkana, an institution in both Texas and Arkansas with which he was affiliated for twenty-five years.
From 2004 to 2010, Hickey served for two terms on the Texarkana, Arkansas, School Board and for a time was the board vice-president and the president
He was elected to the Senate from the revised District 11 in 2012 when he narrowly unseated the Democrat Steve Harrelson, 14,510 to 13,148, formerly the senator from District 21. The previous District 11 senator, the Democrat attorney Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas, instead ran successfully in the revised District 20.
Hickey"s Senate term expires at the end of 2016. Hickey opposes abortion, having voted to ban the practice after twenty weeks of gestation or whenever fetal heartbeat is determined.
He voted to allow university staff to carry concealed weapons.
In 2013, Hickey joined the Senate majority to amend state income tax rates and to reduce the amount of weekly unemployment compensation benefits. He also voted to test the recipients of unemployment compensation for illegal use of narcotics. He voted successfully to override Governor Mike Beebe"s veto of a bill to require photo identification when one casts a ballot in Arkansas.
He voted to make the office of prosecuting attorney in Arkansas nonpartisan.
He voted to allow handguns to be carried on church properties and sponsored a bill to forbid the release of information on the holders of concealed carry permits. He did not vote on the issue of permitting the sale of unpasteurized whole milk within his state.
Religion
Since a human being is the central factor in the plan of salvation, the Gospel must be taught, understood and accepted by him.
Politics
Represented in Baptist churches are equally diverse worship styles, cultural mores and approaches to Scriptural interpretation. The resulting challenges and opportunities have made the believers stronger —through fellowship, respect, mutual support and dialog, all based on a belief that unity in Christ involves growth and understanding.
Views
The family is the most basic of human institutions through which people are nurtured and sustained in love, responsibility, and respect.
Membership
He is a member of the Trinity Baptist Church in Texarkana, Arkansas. He is a member of the Southern Legislative Conference, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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