Title 6 — Education

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Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-104 Reimbursement for educational services provided in juvenile detention facilities — Definition
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(a) (1) As used in this section, “juvenile detention facility” means any facility operated by a political subdivision of the state for the temporary care of juveniles alleged to be delinquent, or adjudicated delinquent, who require secure custody in a physically restricting facil…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-105 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-105Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-106 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-106Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-107 Educational cost reimbursement prohibition — Definition
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(a) As used in this section, “juvenile” means a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or younger. (b) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, a public school district, or an open-enrollment public charter school shall not be liable for any educational costs or …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1101 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1101Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1201 Authority to borrow money and issue negotiable bonds
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(1) A school district may borrow money and issue negotiable bonds to repay borrowed moneys from school funds for:(1) Building and equipping school buildings;(2) Making additions and repairs to school buildings;(3) Purchasing sites for school buildings;(4) Purchasing new or used s…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1202 Limitations of bonded indebtedness — Conversion of authorized bond issues
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(a) For acquiring a building site, building or equipping a new school building, repairing, making additions to, or equipping a present school building, purchasing new or used school buses or refurbishing school buses, or the professional development and training of teachers or ot…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1203 Bonds to comply with existing statutes
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All bonds authorized to be issued under this statute shall be issued in full compliance with all of the laws governing the issuance of school bonds in effect at the time of their issuance.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1204 Form of bonds — Security
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(a) School bonds shall be issued by a school district in the form prescribed by the school district's board of directors. (b) School bonds may be secured by debt service millage. (c) (1) As additional security for the payment of any bond of a school district, the Commissioner of …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1205 Submission of statement before issuing bonds — Approval
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(a) When any school district board of directors desires to issue bonds for the purposes described in § 6-20-1201, the school district board of directors:(1) Shall furnish to the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education a statement of the amount proposed to be borrowed a…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1206 Manner and terms of sale — Maximum rate of interest
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(a) (1) All school bonds shall be sold to the highest bidder at public sale.(2) (A) (i) Advertisement of a bond sale under this section shall be published on at least two (2) separate dates in a newspaper that is published in or has a bona fide circulation in the county in which …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1207 Delivery and payment in installments
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Bonds may be sold to be delivered and paid for in installments estimated to be as funds will be needed by the school district; but if sold on such terms, they shall be plainly stated in the advertisement of the sale, so that all bidders may bid on equal terms.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1208 Delivery of bonds upon payment in cash — Registration and recording
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(a) All school bonds sold shall be sold only for cash on the delivery of the bonds. (b) The delivery of the bonds to the purchaser and the payment of the full amount of cash to the credit of the school district to the order of the county treasurer, or school district treasurer if…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1210 Debt service fund — Use
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(a) The debt service fund shall not be used for any other purpose in any year than to pay the bonds and interest thereon maturing that year and any that may be past due, until the maturities are paid in full or until the funds are set aside to pay the full amount of the bonds; pr…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1211 Tax records — Separate debt service fund records
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(a) In showing school taxes on the tax books, it shall not be necessary to show separate amounts for the debt service fund or any other fund that may be created by the school district board of directors, but there shall be one (1) amount extended on the tax books showing the tota…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1212 Resolution setting priority in case of default
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On the issuance of any bonds, the school district board of directors may provide by resolution, which shall be a contract with the holders of the bonds, that should there be a default in the payment of any installment of principal or interest when due, the first moneys coming to …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1213 Duty to pay on maturity — Effect of failure
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(a) The school district board of directors and the secretary of the board shall see to it that sufficient funds to meet each maturity of principal and interest of all bonds of their school district are in the place of payment not later than the day before the date of maturity. (b…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1214 Obligations on district dissolution
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(a) Dissolution of any school district shall not of itself mature any outstanding bonds or other unmatured obligations of the school district, but the school district to which the territory of the dissolved school district is added shall be liable for the bonds and for the levyin…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1215 Approval of bond issues
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(a) Before any school district shall issue bonds for the purposes described in § 6-20-1201, the issue shall be approved by the State Board of Education. (b) If the school district has done everything necessary to comply with the law to authorize it to sell bonds except securing t…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1216 Refunding bonds — Authority to use
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(a) Any school district of Arkansas shall have the right, subject to procedural rules adopted by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, to refund its bonds outstanding at any time. Any division rule that would prevent or delay a school district from refunding outstan…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1217 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1217Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1218 Refunding bonds — Maximum amounts — Conversion and sale
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(a) When the refunding bonds are issued to be exchanged for outstanding bonds, it shall not be necessary to advertise them for sale, but they may be executed and delivered to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Educ…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1219 Record of bond issues
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In a book prepared for that purpose, the county treasurer, or school district treasurer if the school district has its own treasurer, shall keep in his or her office a full and complete record of all bond issues outstanding at the present time or to be issued hereafter showing th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1220 Refunding bonds — Issuance with election — Validation
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Refunding bonds issued by any school district of the State of Arkansas, when authorized at any general or special school election by a vote of the electors of the school district for a continuing debt service fund to retire refunding bonds, shall be the valid, legal, and binding …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1221 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1221Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1222 Sale of school property securing deed of trust — Release of lien
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(a) When any school district of Arkansas desires to abandon any property for school purposes and to sell and convey the property and use the proceeds for either repairs or new construction of buildings for school purposes of the school district, the trustee of the deed of trust s…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1223 Refunding bonds — Issuance without election
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(a) School districts of this state may issue refunding bonds without the necessity of submitting the question of issuing the refunding bonds to a vote of the electors of the school district and without the approval of the State Board of Education provided that:(1) The last maturi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1224 Payment in full — Endorsement and certificate
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When any school district of Arkansas has paid in full all the bonds of any issue secured by an executed deed of trust with a nonresident trustee or with a trustee who since his or her appointment has become unable to serve, it shall be permitted through the school district's secr…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1225 Certificates of indebtedness
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(a) A school district of Arkansas filing a petition in United States District Court for the composition of its bonded indebtedness and having more than five (5) years' past due interest on bonds being purchased at a discount, in order to facilitate such purchase, shall have the r…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1226 Advancements for bond payments by county treasurer before settlement date
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In all school districts of the State of Arkansas that have voted a bond issue that calls for the payment of interest and principal before the date of settlement by the county treasurer with the school district of funds collected under a levy made by the school district for the pu…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1227 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1227Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1228 Issuance of bonds — Refunding of bonded indebtedness — Maintenance and operation of schools
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(a) (1) Any school district of this state is authorized to sell bonds in an amount not to exceed an amount equal to the principal amount of the bonds refunded as originally issued for the purposes of refunding all or any part of its bonded indebtedness outstanding at the time of …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1229 Issuance of second-lien commercial bonds — Definitions
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(a) As used in this section:(1) “Issue”, “issuance”, or some variety thereof means the date upon which a second-lien bond is actually sold; and(2) “Second-lien bond” means a commercial bond issued under the authority set forth in § 26-80-106. (1) “Issue”, “issuance”, or some vari…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1401 Rules
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The Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation may make rules consistent with this subchapter that the commission determines are necessary to accomplish the purposes of this subchapter.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1402 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1402Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1406 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1406Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1407 Approval of building plans
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(a) As used in this section:(1) “Public school facility” has the same meaning as defined in § 6-21-803 of the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act, § 6-21-801 et seq.; and(2) “Self-funded project” is a project that is one hundred percent (100%) raised and funded…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1408 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1408Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1501 Title
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This subchapter shall be known as the “Public Elementary and Secondary School Insurance Act”.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1502 Establishment of insurance system
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The purpose of this subchapter is to establish and maintain a system of insurance for the public elementary and secondary schools, education service cooperatives, and open-enrollment public charter schools of Arkansas.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1503 State Insurance Department — Powers and duties regarding cybersecurity risks insurance for public elementary and secondary schools
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(1) It shall be the power and duty of the State Insurance Department to:(1) Adopt such rules as may be necessary to provide for the insuring of public elementary and secondary school, education service cooperative, and open-enrollment public charter school cybersecurity risks ins…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1504 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1504Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1505 Information to be furnished
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The State Insurance Department shall have authority to require each school district, education service cooperative, or open-enrollment public charter school to furnish a complete report of its cybersecurity risks insurance program, including the expiration dates of its contracts,…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1506 Finding of uninsurability — Effect
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(a) The State Insurance Department may refuse to insure property insured for cybersecurity risks when it determines that the property does not meet program guidelines for cybersecurity risks insurance coverage. (b) The department may request and the affected school district shall…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1507 Premium rate and payment
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(a) The premium rate shall be actuarially sound. (b) School districts, education service cooperatives, or open-enrollment public charter schools shall make payment of premium when demand is made as scheduled in the contract. (c) (1) Any school district, education service cooperat…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1508 Payment of losses
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In the event of loss of a school district, education service cooperative, or open-enrollment public charter school property under the Public Elementary and Secondary School Insurance Program, the Public School Insurance Trust Fund shall pay the loss as specified in the contract.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1509 Effect of federal assistance
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Any school district, education service cooperative, or open-enrollment public charter school that may receive financial assistance from the United States Government as a result of federal legislation pertaining to disasters shall not be adversely affected as a result of any money…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1510 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-20-1510Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1511 Permanent Insurance Reserve Fund
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The General Assembly shall provide a Permanent Insurance Reserve Fund of not less than two million dollars ($2,000,000) on a loan basis for the purpose of initiating the Public Elementary and Secondary School Insurance Program.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-20-1512 Disposition of funds
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(1) All funds received by the State Insurance Department as premiums, adjustments, earnings, and the like, as provided in this subchapter, shall be deposited into the Public School Insurance Trust Fund and used for the following purposes, listed in a descending order of priority:…