In 1997, he received a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Mass Communications from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia in Clark County, Arkansas.
[5] He also sponsored the state's first ethics law targeting Arkansas’ banking, insurance, securities and utility, regulators.
In addition, Sanders has to his credit sweeping laws that corrected years of structural problems with Arkansas’ parole system (Acts 435, 1029 and 1030).
Sanders is one of the architects of Arkansas’ Private Option, the conservative alternative to President Barack Obama’s Medicaid expansion contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Republican governors in Iowa, Utah, and Indiana have proposed plans similar to Arkansas’ innovative model.