Opinion No.

The Honorable Dan Greenberg State Representative

608 West Commerce Drive, Suite 1 Bryant, Arkansas 72022-6202

Dear Representative Greenberg:

I am writing in response to your request for my opinion on a question I will paraphrase as follows:

Is there a special constitutional duty on the part of the state legislature under Article 19, section 19, to support the education and/or treatment of those who lack the ability to "understand or carry on the ordinary affairs of life" — particularly those who have the type of developmental disorders that would have been diagnosed, at the time that the…