Arkansas Administrative Code

20 CAR § 705-606. Food and nutrition. (a)(1) If the crisis stabilization unit prepares meals on site, the crisis stabilization unit shall have a current food establishment health inspection as required by the Department of Health. (2) When meals are provided by a food service, a …

20 CAR § 706-101. Purpose. (a) To assure that outpatient behavioral health services care and services provided by certified behavioral health agencies comply with applicable laws, which require, among other things, that all care reimbursed by the Arkansas medical assistance progr…

20 CAR § 706-102. Scope. (a) Current behavioral health agency certification under this part is a condition of Medicaid provider enrollment. (b)(1) Department of Human Services behavioral health agency certification must be obtained for each site before application for Medicaid pr…

20 CAR § 706-103. Definitions. As used in this part: (1)(A) “Accreditation” means full accreditation (preliminary, expedited, probationary, pending, conditional, deferred, or provisional accreditations will not be accepted) as an outpatient behavioral healthcare provider issued b…

20 CAR § 706-104. Compliance timeline. (a)(1) Entities currently certified as rehabilitative services for persons with mental illness (RSPMI) providers will be grandfathered in as certified behavioral health agencies. (2) Current RSPMI agency recertification procedures are based …

20 CAR § 706-105. Application for department behavioral health agency certification. (a)(1) New behavioral health agency applicants must complete: (A) Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Agency Certification Form 100; (B) Department of Human Services Behavioral Health …

20 CAR § 706-106. Application review process. (a) Timeline. (1)(A) The Department of Human Services will review behavioral health agency application forms and materials within ninety (90) calendar days after the department receives a complete application package. (B) The departme…

20 CAR § 706-107. Department access to applicants/providers. (a) The Department of Human Services may contact applicants and providers at any time. (b) The department may make unannounced visits to applicants/providers. (c) Applicants/providers shall provide the department prompt…

20 CAR § 706-108. Additional certification requirements. (a) Care and services must: (1)(A) Comply with all state and federal laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the furnishing of health care funded in whole or in part by federal funds, to all state laws and policies appli…

20 CAR § 706-201. Staffing. At a minimum, behavioral health agency staffing shall be sufficient to establish and implement services for each behavioral health agency client, and must include the following: (1)(A) Chief executive officer/executive director (or functional equivalen…

20 CAR § 706-202. Multidisciplinary team or teams. (a)(1) Any client identified as Tier 2 by the independent assessment shall be assigned a multidisciplinary team that includes professionals and qualified behavioral health providers as necessary to ensure coordination of each cli…

20 CAR § 706-203. Quality assurance meetings. Each provider must hold a quarterly quality assurance meeting.

20 CAR § 706-204. Healthcare professional notification/disqualification. (a) Notice of covered healthcare practitioners. (1) Within twenty (20) days of the effective date of this part, applicants/providers must notify the Office of Medicaid Inspector General of the names of cover…

20 CAR § 706-205. Primary work location. Applicants/providers must maintain documentation identifying the primary work location of all mental health professionals and qualified behavioral health providers providing services on behalf of the behavioral health agency.

20 CAR § 706-206. Disclosures. (a) Providers must maintain copies of disclosure forms signed by the client, or by the client’s parent or guardian, before outpatient behavioral health services are delivered, except in emergencies. (b) Such forms must, at a minimum: (1) Disclose th…

20 CAR § 706-207. Required services. Outpatient behavioral health services maintained at each site must include: (1) Psychiatric evaluation and medication management; (2) Outpatient services, including individual and family therapy at a minimum; and (3) Crisis services.…

20 CAR § 706-208. Client needs. (a) Providers must tailor all outpatient behavioral health services care to individual client needs. (b) If client records contain entries that are materially identical, the Department of Human Services and the Division of Medical Services will, by…

20 CAR § 706-209. Outpatient behavioral health services for individuals under age 18. Providers must establish and implement policies for family identification and engagement in treatment for persons under age eighteen (18), including strategies for identifying and overcoming bar…

20 CAR § 706-210. Emergency response services. Applicants/providers must establish, implement, and maintain a site-specific emergency response plan, which must include: (1) A twenty-four-hour emergency telephone number; (2) The applicant/provider must: (A) Provide the twenty-four…

20 CAR § 706-211. Capacity. Each applicant/provider must establish and maintain procedures, competence, and capacity: (1) For assessment and individualized care planning and delivery; (2) For discharge planning integral to treatment; (3) For mobile care; (4) To assure that each m…

20 CAR § 706-212. Quality improvement program. Each applicant/provider must establish, maintain, and document a quality improvement program, to include: (1) Evidence-based practices; (2)(A) Use of agency-wide outcome measures to improve both client care and clinical practice that…

20 CAR § 706-301. Home office. (a) Each provider must maintain and identify a home office in the State of Arkansas. (b) The home office may be located at a site or may be solely an administrative office not requiring site certification. (c) The home office is solely responsible f…

20 CAR § 706-302. Site requirements. (a) All sites must be located in the State of Arkansas. (b) Accreditation documentation must specifically include each site.

20 CAR § 706-303. Site relocation, opening, and closing. (a) Note. Temporary service disruptions caused by inclement weather or power outages are not closings. (b) Planned closings. (1) Upon deciding to close a site either temporarily or permanently, the provider immediately must…

20 CAR § 706-401. Provider recertification. (a)(1) The term of Department of Human Services’ site certification is concurrent with the provider’s national accreditation cycle, except that site certification extends six (6) months past the accreditation expiration month if there i…

20 CAR § 706-402. Maintaining department behavioral health agency certification. (a) Providers must: (1) Maintain compliance; (2) Assure that Department of Human Services certification information is current, and to that end must notify the department within thirty (30) calendar …

20 CAR § 706-403. Noncompliance. Failure to comply with this part may result in one (1) or more of the following: (1) Submission and implementation of an acceptable corrective action plan as a condition of retaining behavioral health agency certification; (2) Suspension of behavi…

20 CAR § 706-404. Appeal process. (a)(1) If the Department of Human Services denies, suspends, or revokes any behavioral health agency certification (takes adverse action), the affected proposed provider or providers may appeal the department adverse action. (2) Notice of adverse…

20 CAR § 790-101. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) “Certify” means to attest affirmatively, based on information and belief formed after reasonable inquiry, to the truth, accuracy, and completeness, under penalty of perjury; (2) “Department” means the Department of Finance …

20 CAR § 790-102. Pregnancy Help Organizations Grant Program. (a)(1) The Department of Finance and Administration created the Pregnancy Help Organizations Grant Program (the “program”) in order to comply with Acts 2024, No. 125 and Acts 2025, No. 1006. (2) The program will provid…

20 CAR § 250-101. Mission statement and vision. (a) Mission statement. The Arkansas Minority Health Commission’s mission is to: (1) Ensure all minority Arkansans have equal access to preventive health care; and (2) Seek ways to promote health and prevent diseases and conditions t…

20 CAR § 250-102. Powers and duties. (a) The Arkansas Minority Health Commission shall be the comprehensive agency in the state for: (1) Analyzing disparities in: (A) Health; (B) Health care; and (C) Access to healthcare services; and (2) Coordinating statewide educational events…

20 CAR § 250-103. Membership. (a) Authority. (1) According to Arkansas Code § 20-2-102, the Arkansas Minority Health Commission shall consist of twelve (12) members to be appointed as follows: (A) Six (6) of the general public to be appointed by the Governor, with each of the fou…

20 CAR § 250-104. Meetings of members. (a) All meetings of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission shall conform to the open meeting requirements of Arkansas Code § 25-19-106. (b) Office and place of meetings. Meetings of the commission may be held at such place or places, within…

20 CAR § 250-105. Committees of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission. (a) All committee meetings of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission shall conform to the open meeting requirements of Arkansas Code § 25-19-106. (b) Establishing committees. (1) The commission may establis…

20 CAR § 250-106. Officers. (a) Designated officers. The officers of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission shall be: (1) Chair; (2) Vice chair; and (3) Secretary. (b) Election and term of office. (1) The chair, vice chair, and secretary of the commission shall be elected every …

20 CAR § 250-107. Duties of officers. (a) Chair. (1) The chair shall have general supervision and management of all Arkansas Minority Health Commission meetings. (2) In general, he or she shall perform all duties incident to the office of chair as herein detailed, and all such ot…

20 CAR § 250-108. Executive Director of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission. (a) The Executive Director of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, hired by a majority vote of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, shall assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations o…

20 CAR § 250-109. Rulemaking. (a) The Arkansas Minority Health Commission may approve alterations, amendments, and deletions to its bylaws by an affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) majority of the members of the commission at any regular meeting of the commission, provided notic…

20 CAR § 250-110. Declaratory orders. (a) Purpose and use of declaratory orders. (1) A declaratory order is a means of resolving a controversy or answering questions or doubts concerning the applicability of statutory provisions, rules, or orders over which the agency has authori…

20 CAR § 800-101. Scope, purpose, and severability. (a) This part governs the application procedures for the issuance and renewal of licenses for medical marijuana cultivation facilities, dispensaries, and processors in Arkansas. (b) This part also governs the selection methods t…

20 CAR § 800-102. Definitions. (1) “Amendment” means the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016, Ark. Const. amend. 98; (2) “Applicant” means the natural person in whose name a license would be issued and any entity: (A) The natural person represents; or (B) On whose behalf…

20 CAR § 800-201. License required. (a) No person or entity shall operate a medical marijuana cultivation facility unless the person has a license issued by the Medical Marijuana Commission pursuant to this part. (b) Each license for a cultivation facility shall specify the: (1) …

20 CAR § 800-202. Licenses available. (a) The Medical Marijuana Commission shall issue at least four (4), but no more than eight (8), cultivation facility licenses. (b)(1) It shall be within the commission’s discretion to make licenses available. (2) When it has been determined t…

20 CAR § 800-203. Application process. (a) An application for a cultivation facility license shall be submitted to the Medical Marijuana Commission on a form and in a manner prescribed by the commission. (b) Applications will be accepted for the cultivation facility license begin…

20 CAR § 800-204. Minimum qualifications for applicant. (a) An individual applicant for a license under this subpart shall be a natural person that: (1) Is twenty-one (21) years of age or older; (2) Is a current resident of the State of Arkansas and has been a resident for seven …

20 CAR § 800-205. Documentation and information for applicant. (a) An individual applicant shall provide the following required information: (1) Legal name; (2) Date of birth; (3) Legal residence; (4) Social Security number or tax identification number; (5) Mailing address or pri…

20 CAR § 800-206. Background checks. (a) The following are subject to background checks conducted by the Medical Marijuana Commission or its designee in considering an application for a cultivation facility license: (1) The individual applicant; (2) All owners, officers, and boar…

20 CAR § 800-207. Application fee. (a) Each application for a cultivation license shall include an application fee of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) by cash or certified funds. (b) Certified checks or cashier’s checks shall be made payable to the State of Arkansas, delivered …

20 CAR § 800-208. Verification of application. (a) No later than ten (10) business days following the receipt of an application, the Medical Marijuana Commission shall verify that: (1) The application and supporting documentation are complete; and (2) The information submitted in…