Title 17, Professions, Occupations, and Businesses

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may revoke or suspend an existing certificate of licensure, license, registration, or permit or may refuse to issue a certificate of licensure, license, registration, or permit if the holder or applicant, as the case may be, has committed …

Any licensed pharmacist who shall knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently adulterate or cause to be adulterated any drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations and offers the adulterations for sale upon conviction is guilty of a violation punishable by a fine of not less than fi…

(a) (1) Before revoking a certificate of licensure, license, registration, or permit, the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall give the person ten (10) days' notice in writing to appear before the board, at the time and place as the board may direct, to show cause why his or he…

Any person whose certificate of licensure, license, or permit has been revoked by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy as provided in this chapter may appeal from the action of the board pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.

(a) (1) Whenever the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy has authority pursuant to applicable laws to suspend, revoke, or deny any permit, license, certificate, credential, or registration or otherwise impose penalties or sanctions on the holder thereof, the board shall have the pow…

(a) (1) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may provide by rule for credentialing and approval of pharmacists to practice pharmacy services determined by the board to require a credential.(2) (A) The credentials may be issued by agencies approved by the board to pharmacists who …

(a) (1) Each applicant for a new intern or pharmacist license or a new or reinstated registration as a pharmacy technician issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall apply to the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police for a state and national cri…

(a) A pharmacy operating outside the state that routinely ships, mails, or delivers in any manner a dispensed legend drug into Arkansas or otherwise practices pharmacy in Arkansas shall hold a pharmacy license issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy, and that part of the p…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person not a licensed pharmacist within the meaning of this act to conduct any pharmacy or other facility subject to this subchapter for the purpose of retailing, compounding, dispensing medicines, or otherwise performing the practice of pharmacy …

(a) No person shall operate a pharmacy or other facility dispensing prescriptions as identified in this section or be issued a pharmacy permit or other permit issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy to facilities dispensing prescriptions unless an Arkansas-licensed pharmac…

(a) No person shall conduct any pharmacy or other facility as identified in § 17-92-403 in which practitioners' prescriptions are compounded and drugs are retailed or dispensed and in which a licensed pharmacist-in-charge must be employed unless the pharmacy or other facility as …

(a) (1) Upon application, the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall issue a permit to maintain a pharmacy or other facility as described in § 17-92-403 or § 17-92-404 for the sale at retail or otherwise dispensing of drugs and medicines to such persons, firms, or corporations as…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may issue a hospital pharmacy continuity of care endorsement to a healthcare organization that is licensed as a hospital in this state and that has a hospital pharmaceutical services permit. (b) A hospital pharmacy continuity of care endor…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may revoke any permit issued under this subchapter in the event the holder thereof allows any person other than an Arkansas-licensed pharmacist or those students or graduates of a college of pharmacy serving an internship to fill prescript…

The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall follow the same procedure in revoking any permits issued under this subchapter as provided for revoking certificates of licensure as set out in § 17-92-313.

There shall be kept in every pharmacy or other facility as identified in § 17-92-403 a library consisting of books, periodicals, and computer software as required by rules of the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy.

(a) The proprietor shall at all times keep in his or her place of business a record book in which shall be entered all sales of the following, other than sales to physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and sales made on prescriptions of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian: arseni…

(a) Labels on original packages shall bear the label of the distributor or manufacturer, with the proper medicinal dose, if a remedy used internally. In the case of poisons, the word “POISON” shall be displayed thereon in a conspicuous manner with the antidote for a poisonous dos…

(a) A nursing home consultant pharmacist and the nursing home administrator shall be jointly responsible to ensure that a pharmacist license is posted at the facility at all times. (b) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall set by rule the standards by which the controlled an…

(1) A pharmacy, pharmacist, physician, employee, or entity that owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under ownership or control with an insurance company, health clinic, hospital, rural health center, federally qualified health center, pharmacy benefits manager, pha…

A nonprofit, tax exempt, or governmentally funded hospital that holds a retail pharmacy permit and participates in the 340B Drug Pricing Program shall ensure that a patient who is eligible under the 340B Drug Pricing Program who is seeking to obtain pharmaceutical supplies and se…

(1) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall report monthly to the Legislative Council:(1) The number of pharmacy permit applications under § 17-92-405 received for each of the following types of permits:(A) A pharmacy permit;(B) A specialty permit;(C) A hospital pharmaceutical…

(a) As used in this section:(1) (A) “Permit” means a permit issued under § 17-92-405.(B) “Permit” includes a pharmacy permit for a mail-order pharmacy; and(2) (A) “Pharmacy benefits manager” means the same as defined in § 23-92-503.(B) “Pharmacy benefits manager” includes an enti…

(a) (1) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall conduct an initial assessment of each active retail pharmacy permit that was issued under § 17-92-405 as of July 1, 2025, and shall send written notice to each pharmacy permit holder that the board reasonably believes will violat…

Any person licensed or otherwise permitted to practice pharmacy in this state who shall violate any provisions of this subchapter shall be subject to discipline by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy, including, but not limited to, revocation of such license or permission, accor…

The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may adopt such reasonable rules, not inconsistent with law, as it shall deem necessary to carry out the purposes and intentions of this subchapter.

(a) (1) (A) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, when a pharmacist receives a prescription for a brand or trade name drug product or biological product, the pharmacist may dispense a generically equivalent drug product or interchangeable biological product only w…

(a) (1) The pharmacist filling a prescription for dispensing to an ultimate patient may affix to the container a label showing:(A) The pharmacy name, address, and telephone number;(B) The date of dispensing;(C) The serial number of the prescription;(D) The name of the patient;(E)…

(a) (1) A pharmacist may display, within the confines of the pharmacy, lists of available drug products and biological products, other than controlled substances, and current charges for the drug products or biological products or for the dispensing of the drug products or biolog…

(a) As used in this section:(1) (A) “Maximum Allowable Cost List” means a listing of drugs or other methodology used by a pharmacy benefits manager, directly or indirectly, setting the maximum allowable payment to a pharmacy or pharmacist for a generic drug, brand-name drug, biol…

This subchapter may be cited as the “Hospital Pharmacies Act”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Hospital” means a hospital as defined in § 20-9-201;(2) “Hospital employee” means any individual employed by a hospital whose compensation for services or labor actually performed for a hospital is reflected on the payroll records of a hospital…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall adopt, promulgate, and enforce rules and standards as may be necessary to the regulation of the operation of a hospital pharmacy and for the accomplishment of all other purposes of this subchapter. (b) The board may modify, amend, or…

(a) All hospital pharmacies shall be licensed by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy as provided for by this subchapter. The hospital pharmacy license shall be issued in the name of the hospital. (b) Any hospital receiving a permit shall advise the board of the name of:(1) The h…

Any hospital pharmacy holding a hospital pharmaceutical permit issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy pursuant to § 17-92-403 on March 28, 1975, shall be deemed to be licensed pursuant to this subchapter until the permit shall expire.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Board-approved intervenors” means persons trained in intervention and designated by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy to implement the intervention process when necessary;(2) “Impaired pharmacist” means a pharmacist who is unable to practice…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may appoint a committee to organize and administer a program that shall fulfill two (2) functions:(1) The program shall serve as a diversion program to which the board may refer licensees when appropriate in lieu of or in addition to other…

(1) The functions of the committee shall include:(1) Evaluation of pharmacists who request participation in the program;(2) Review and designation of treatment facilities and services to which pharmacists in the program may be referred;(3) Receipt and review of information relati…

The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall review the activities of the committee. As part of this evaluation, the board may review files of all participants in the impaired pharmacist program. The board shall also resolve complaints voiced regarding the impaired pharmacist progr…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall inform each pharmacist referred to the program by board action of the procedures followed in the program, of the rights and responsibilities of the pharmacist in the program, and of the possible consequences of noncompliance with the…

(a) (1) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy may provide up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per year to the committee for the program.(2) The board may provide to the committee at any time the moneys authorized under subdivision (a)(1) of this section. (1) The Arkansas State …

(a) All persons acting on behalf of the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy in the impaired pharmacist program under this section shall be considered officers or employees of the State of Arkansas for purposes of:(1) Immunity from civil liability pursuant to § 25-44-301 et seq.; and…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy shall provide that hospital pharmacy technicians as in § 17-92-602 and pharmacy technicians as in § 17-92-101(18)(C), and hereinafter referred to as pharmacy technicians, register with or be certified by the board, or both. (b) The board m…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Home medical equipment, legend device, and medical gas supplier” means a person licensed to supply home medical equipment, medical gases, or legend devices, or any combination thereof, to patients on an order from medical practitioners licensed…

(a) (1) No person or entity subject to licensure shall sell or rent or offer to sell or rent directly to patients in this state any home medical equipment, legend devices, or medical gases, or any combination thereof, unless the person or entity is licensed as required by this su…

(a) The licensure requirements of this subchapter and any retail pharmacy permit requirements that may apply to the distribution or provision of legend medical gases, medical equipment, legend devices, and medical supplies, except legend drugs, do not apply to the following unles…