Title 6, Education

(a) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board may make rural medical practice loans to the applicant, each rural medical practice loan being expressly made subject to the provisions of § 6-81-708(c) and § 6-81-710, if it finds that:(1) The applicant i…

(a) The maximum amount of each rural practice loan for medical students shall not exceed sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ($ 16,500) per academic year or those costs that are reasonable and necessary for the student's attendance as determined by the Arkansas Rural Medical Pr…

(a) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall enter into a loan contract with the applicant to whom a rural medical practice loan is made. (b) The contract shall be approved by the Attorney General and shall be signed by the Chair of the Arkansa…

(a) (1) All payments for rural practice loans and community match loans under this subchapter shall be made on requisitions signed by the Chair of the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board drawn against the funds held for the purpose of this subchapte…

(a) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall make an annual report to the Governor concerning the activities of the board and shall file a copy of its report with the Legislative Council. (b) (1) This report shall include:(A) The names of the r…

(a) Any applicant for a loan or income incentive issued by the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, any person who has been granted a loan or has been granted income incentives by the board, or any party to a rural medical practice or community matc…

(a) (1) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall administer the Community Match Rural Physician Recruitment Program.(2) (A) Interested rural communities may apply to the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board to part…

(a) (1) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board and a qualified rural community shall enter a joint community match contract with the applicant.(2) The form of the community match contract shall be approved by the Attorney General and shall be signe…

(a) (1) If an alternate on the waiting list for acceptance to the College of Medicine of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences demonstrates a willingness to enter into a rural medical practice loan contract and meets the requirements of § 6-81-706, the applicant shall b…

The College of Medicine of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences shall track graduates who were recipients of rural medical practice loans for the length of their contractual obligations and shall report to the Legislative Council by October 1 of each even-numbered year…

(a) There is established a Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program administrator. (b) The administrator shall:(1) Be employed by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences;(2) Serve as liaison between loan recipients and rural communities by:(A) Working w…

Nothing in this subchapter is intended to affect pending litigation existing as of April 4, 2007.

(a) Loan recipients enrolled in the Community Match Rural Physician Recruitment Program on or before the day before April 4, 2007, shall not have their loan contracts impaired by the amendments to the community match program. (b) (1) Subject to the availability of funds, the loan…

(a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall review annually all minority scholarship or grant programs administered by the Division of Higher Education in order to ensure that the programs are in compliance with federal regulations. (b) The board of trustees of eac…

(a) The board of trustees of any institution of higher education may waive the out-of-state portion of any full tuition scholarship for any full-time student which is provided by unrestricted funds of the institution. (b) The part that is waived shall not be considered as an expe…

(1) The Division of Higher Education shall administer all state college financial assistance programs provided by legislation or by law and in so doing shall have the following authority and responsibility with respect to state college financial assistance programs provided by le…

(a) The Division of Higher Education is authorized to award scholarships to students who are accepted to a Washington, D.C. public policy academic internship, as determined by the division, if funding is appropriated and available. (b) The division may promulgate rules to adminis…

A criminal conviction shall not be used as a basis to disqualify a person from eligibility for a scholarship, grant, loan forgiveness program, or other benefit subsidized by state funds under this chapter unless there is a specific statutory reason for denial that relates to the …

(a) The intent of this section is to provide academic support to offset the costs associated with the preparation for college and college readiness assessments to reduce college remediation requirements and increase the number of college graduates in this state. (b) There is esta…

It is the purpose of this subchapter to establish the Arkansas Police Corps Planning Commission [abolished] for the purpose of undertaking the necessary planning and other actions required to enable Arkansas to participate in the federal police corps program.

(a) The Arkansas Police Corps Planning Commission [abolished] is hereby designated as the state agency responsible for implementing any federal law enforcement scholarship program which may be established. (b) The commission shall have authority to promulgate rules necessary for …

The purpose of this section and § 6-82-1206 is to establish the lead agency and its authority over the Arkansas Police Corps Program, a federally funded scholarship program designed to employ college-educated police officers in local and state law enforcement agencies and to fost…

(a) The School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is designated as the state lead agency responsible for implementing any federal scholarships or training programs that fall under the umbrella of the Police Corps Act, Title XX, Subtit…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Geographical Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program Act of 2001”.

(a) There is established the Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program. (b) The purpose of the program is to attract qualified teachers to the Delta and those geographical areas of the state where there exists a critical shortage of teachers by awarding scholarships to individua…

(a) Any individual who is enrolled in or accepted for enrollment at a baccalaureate degree-granting institution of higher education whose teacher education program is approved by the State Board of Education or at an accredited state-supported community college in the State of Ar…

(a) Except in those cases where employment positions may not be available upon completion of licensure requirements, at the beginning of the first school year in which a recipient of a Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship is eligible for employment as a licensed teacher, that perso…

(a) The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the Division of Higher Education shall jointly promulgate rules necessary for the proper administration of the Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program. (b) The university shall be the administering agency of the program. (c) If …

(a) There is established a committee to be known as the Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program Committee. (b) The committee shall consist of five (5) members to be appointed by the Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. (c) The appointed committee members sha…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Approved institution of higher education” means an institution of higher education approved by the Division of Higher Education to participate in the Arkansas Future Grant Program and that is:(A) A state-supported two-year or four-year college …

(a) There is established the Arkansas Future Grant Program within the Division of Higher Education. (b) A student is eligible for an Arkansas Future Grant if the student is an Arkansas resident who:(1) Meets one (1) of the following requirements:(A) Has either:(i) Graduated from …

(a) (1) An Arkansas Future Grant shall be:(A) Distributed in accordance with the Division of Higher Education's stacking policy under § 6-80-105; and(B) In an amount equal to the tuition, fees, and other charges incurred by a student who meets the requirements under § 6-82-1802.(…

(a) (1) A student who receives an Arkansas Future Grant shall enter into a written agreement with the Division of Higher Education to reside in this state for six (6) months and be employed beginning within six (6) months after receiving an associate degree or a certification.(2)…

The Division of Higher Education shall promulgate rules to implement this subchapter.

(a) (1) A recipient of a scholarship under this subchapter who meets the requirements under subsection (b) of this section is eligible for a scholarship award of:(A) Five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the academic year in which the recipient either:(i) Has earned at least fifty-s…

(a) There is established the Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board, which shall administer the program under this subchapter and shall be composed of:(1) One (1) representative appointed by the Governor from each medical school institution in Arkansas that has rece…

(1) The Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board shall:(1) Allocate funds appropriated for purposes of this subchapter;(2) Award a one-time implementation grant under this section to an in-state based entity in this state that:(A) Is in the process of creating a new g…

(a) The Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board shall award implementation grants to enable entities to:(1) Increase the number of first-year residency or fellowship positions in existing graduate medical education programs; and(2) Provide for the establishment of ne…

(1) If the Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board determines that the number of first-year residency positions proposed by eligible applicants under § 6-82-2003 exceeds the amount of funding appropriated for the implementation grants under this subchapter, the board…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education” means the private, not-for-profit organization that oversees the accreditation of residency programs and fellowship programs for physicians in the United States;(2) “Entity” means an:(A) Ark…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Foresters for the Future Scholarship Program Act of 2021”.

There is created and established a program to be known as the “Arkansas Foresters for the Future Scholarship Program”.

(a) An individual is eligible for an Arkansas Foresters for the Future Scholarship under this subchapter if the individual has enrolled:(1) As a full-time first-time freshman in a state-supported institution of higher education; and(2) In a forestry program of study that is accre…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Teacher Academy Scholarship Program Act”.

The Arkansas Teacher Academy Scholarship Program is created under this subchapter.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Academy attendee” means an individual who is enrolled in an Arkansas Teacher Academy at an eligible postsecondary institution who is a:(A) Current teacher;(B) Teacher who has graduated from an Arkansas Teacher Academy at an eligible postseconda…