Title 17 — Professions, Occupations, and Businesses

(a) The Arkansas Psychology Board may refuse to grant a certificate or may suspend or revoke any license for a period to be determined by the board, may impose a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000), may issue a letter of reprimand, and may require additional hours of edu…

(a) (1) (A) The Arkansas Psychology Board may investigate or cause to be investigated any allegation or evidence that appears to show that a person:(i) Is practicing psychology without a license; or(ii) Licensed to practice in Arkansas and anyone under his or her supervision is o…

(a) Each first-time applicant for a license issued by the Arkansas Psychology Board shall be required to apply to the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police for a state and national criminal background check to be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investi…

(a) A person wishing to practice as a licensed psychological practitioner shall apply to the Arkansas Psychology Board through the Chair of the Arkansas Psychology Board upon a form and in the manner as determined by the board. (b) (1) A candidate for a license shall furnish the …

(a) (1) A technician may be employed by a licensed psychologist or a healthcare facility.(2) (A) An individual employed as a technician shall only practice under the supervision of a licensed psychologist in the following areas:(i) Administration and scoring of standardized objec…

(a) The supervising psychologist shall make the technician aware:(1) Through additional training, if necessary, of appropriate institutional emergency procedures to deal with various medical emergencies such as heart attack, respiratory arrest, and seizures and of other relevant …

(a) Each licensed psychologist employing technicians shall:(1) Register each technician with the Arkansas Psychology Board; and(2) Annually submit a statement of supervision outlining the supervisory process used with each technician. (1) Register each technician with the Arkansa…

A licensed psychologist employing a technician or technicians shall provide to clients written disclosure concerning the limited role of technicians to clients and legal guardians of minors and to schools or third-party payors if legal or ethical guidelines require such disclosur…

(a) (1) An acceptable employment setting for a technician shall provide ongoing psychological services or scientific research in a well-defined and established program.(2) Physical components shall be available, including office space, support staff, and equipment necessary for t…

(a) A supervising psychologist shall be:(1) Licensed to practice psychology in Arkansas;(2) Aware of and abide by the ethical principles and state statutes pertaining to the practice of psychology in general and to supervision in particular; and(3) Approved by the Arkansas Psycho…

(a) As used in this section, “health benefit plan” means a plan, policy, contract, certificate, agreement, or other evidence of coverage for healthcare services offered or issued by a healthcare insurer in this state. (b) A psychologist shall be reimbursed for services provided b…

PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT The Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact is enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein and in the form substantially as follows: PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT Article I — Purpose Wherea…

(a) The Arkansas Psychology Board is the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact administrator for this state. (b) The board may adopt rules that are consistent with the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact necessary to implement this subchapter. (c) The board is not required to…

Except as to licensing under § 17-80-404(d), this subchapter does not supersede or preempt the Telemedicine Act, § 17-80-401 et seq.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Behavior Analyst Registration Act”.

As used in this subchapter, “registered behavior analyst” means an individual who is registered to practice behavior analysis independently by the Arkansas Psychology Board under this subchapter.

(a) Unless registered under this subchapter, a person shall not:(1) Hold himself or herself out to be a registered behavior analyst; or(2) Use any combination or abbreviation of the term “registered behavior analyst” to indicate or imply that he or she is a registered behavior an…

(a) Each applicant for registration as a registered behavior analyst shall submit to the Arkansas Psychology Board:(1) An application;(2) An application fee that does not exceed two hundred dollars ($200);(3) Evidence that he or she has successfully completed a criminal backgroun…

(a) A registration under this subchapter shall be granted for a period of two (2) years. (b) Before expiration of a registration, the registration may be renewed upon the submission of:(1) A renewal application;(2) A renewal fee that does not exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($15…

(a) (1) A behavior analyst licensed in another jurisdiction or who holds current certification as a board certified behavior analyst, board certified behavior analyst-doctoral, board certified assistant behavior analyst, or equivalent, issued by the Behavior Analyst Certification…

(a) The Arkansas Psychology Board may issue a registration to a person who is currently licensed as a behavior analyst in good standing in another jurisdiction that imposes requirements comparable to those specified in this subchapter, including holding a current certification as…

(a) The Arkansas Psychology Board shall administer the provisions of this subchapter and may adopt rules that are reasonable and necessary to implement the provisions of this subchapter. (b) The Arkansas Psychology Board may adopt the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts issued by t…

A.C.A. § 17-98-201Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 17-98-202Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 17-98-203Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

This chapter shall be cited as the “Arkansas Respiratory Care Act”.

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Licensed allied health practitioner” means any person formally trained and tested in an allied health field qualified to deliver medical care to the public and licensed in the State of Arkansas;(2) “Qualified medical director” means a licensed phy…

(a) Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, that person shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a p…

(a) The Arkansas State Medical Board shall administer the provisions of this chapter. (b) The board, with the advice and assistance of the Arkansas State Respiratory Care Examining Committee, shall:(1) Pass upon the qualifications of applicants for licensure;(2) Provide for a nat…

(a) The Arkansas State Medical Board shall hold its regular meetings on the fourth Thursday in November and the fourth Thursday in June and shall have the power to call special meetings at such times as it deems necessary. (b) It may meet at such places as a majority may agree up…

(a) There is created the Arkansas State Respiratory Care Examining Committee to assist the Arkansas State Medical Board in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. (b) The committee shall consist of five (5) members appointed by the Governor for a term of three (3) years:(1) …

(a) All fees and penalties provided for in this chapter shall be received by the Arkansas State Medical Board and shall be expended by it in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter and in accordance with the provisions of § 17-95-305. (b) The members of the Arkansas State Res…

The Arkansas State Medical Board, in cooperation with the Arkansas Society for Respiratory Care, Inc., shall develop and implement rules for continuing education.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to practice respiratory care or to profess to be a respiratory care practitioner or to use any initials, letters, words, abbreviations, or insignia which indicate that he or she is a respiratory care practitioner, or to practice or to assum…

(a) The Arkansas State Medical Board shall register as a respiratory care practitioner and shall issue a license to:(1) Any person who satisfactorily passes the examination provided for in this chapter, and who otherwise meets the requirements for qualification contained herein a…

(a) The Arkansas State Medical Board shall register as a respiratory care practitioner each applicant who provides evidence of his or her fitness for licensure under the terms of this chapter. (b) It shall issue to each person registered a license, which shall be prima facie evid…

(a) A legally licensed practitioner who has been issued a license to practice respiratory care in another state or territory whose requirements for registration and licensure were at the time of his or her registration or licensure equal to the requirements contained in this chap…

(a) In cases of emergency, the Director of the Arkansas State Medical Board may issue a temporary permit without examination to practice respiratory care to persons who are not licensed in other states, but who otherwise meet the qualifications for licensure set out in this chapt…

(a) (1) A license or reregistration fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be paid to the Arkansas State Medical Board by each respiratory care practitioner who holds a license to practice respiratory care in the State of Arkansas.(2) The reregistration fee shall be paid …

(1) The Arkansas State Medical Board, after due notice and hearing, may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any license or permit or place on probation or otherwise reprimand a licensee or permit holder or deny a license to an applicant who:(1) Is habitually drunk or who is addic…

(a) The procedure on all refusals, revocations, and suspensions of registration shall be prescribed by the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq. (b) (1) Any person may file a complaint with the Arkansas State Medical Boa…

(a) A legally licensed practitioner who has been issued a license to practice respiratory care in another state or territory whose requirements for licensure were equal at the time of his or her licensure to the requirements contained in this chapter may be licensed by the Arkans…

(1) A qualified medical director shall:(1) Be readily available to respiratory care practitioners employed by or providing services for the organization he or she directs; and(2) Establish a policy that prohibits any person from ordering respiratory care for a patient, except a p…

This chapter may be cited as the “Licensure Act of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists”.

It is declared to be a policy of the State of Arkansas that, in order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare; to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous, and unauthorized persons and from unprofessional conduct on the part of qualified speec…

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Audiologist” means an individual who practices audiology by any title or description of services incorporating the words “audiologist”, “hearing clinician”, “hearing therapist”, or any similar title or description of services;(2) (A) “Audiology” m…

(1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing or restricting:(1) A physician or surgeon from engaging in the practice of medicine in this state;(2) A hearing aid dealer from engaging in the business of fitting and selling hearing aids in this state in accordance wi…

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or both.

(a) Any person who, after notice and hearing, is found by the Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to have violated any provision of this chapter or any rule of the board may be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each…

When any person not licensed by the Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, or any licensee, engages in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology as defined in § 17-100-103 in violation of this chapter or the rules of the board, the board may g…