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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 21-5-101. Regular Salary Procedures and Restrictions Act - (a) This section and § 19-4-1601 shall be known as...
§ 21-5-102. Automobile insurance expenses for employees of Department of Health - (a) The Department of Health is authorized to pay from...
§ 21-5-103. Insufficient funds for payment of county salaries - If, in any year, the funds available for the payment...
§ 21-5-104. Deduction of jury duty fees from salary prohibited - (a) No state, county, or municipal employer in this state...
§ 21-5-106. Annual career service recognition payments for state employees - (a) (1) (A) Employees of state agencies shall become eligible...
§ 21-5-107. Compensation of person holding more than one elective office - (a) (1) A person holding more than one (1) elective...
§ 21-5-108. Salary distributions - The annual salaries of court reporters and case coordinators shall...
§ 21-5-109. New employees — Electronic direct deposit — Definition - (a) (1) (A) As a condition of employment, a person...
§ 21-5-110. State Insurance Department — Arkansas Firefighter Cancer Relief Network Trust Fund — Proceeds - (a) (1) The State Insurance Department shall maintain the Arkansas...
Subchapter 2 - Uniform Classification and Compensation Act
§ 21-5-201. Title - This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the...
§ 21-5-202. Legislative intent - (a) It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter...
§ 21-5-203. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Agency director” means the...
§ 21-5-204. Exceptions - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
§ 21-5-205. Effect on appropriation acts - (a) All appropriation acts of all state agencies subject to...
§ 21-5-206. Legislative Council — Duties - In order to assist the General Assembly in more efficiently...
§ 21-5-207. Office of Personnel Management — Duties - (a) It shall be the duty of the Office of...
§ 21-5-208. Classification of positions - (a) There are established for state agencies covered by this...
§ 21-5-209. Compensation plan - (a) There is established for state agencies covered by this...
§ 21-5-210. Implementation of plan — Changes in class specifications - (a) For the purposes of implementing the uniform employee classification...
§ 21-5-211. Implementation procedure for grade changes — Salary adjustments - (a) The Office of Personnel Management has administrative responsibility for...
§ 21-5-214. New appointments and other compensation plan provisions - (a) A new appointment to a position in a state...
§ 21-5-218. Reimbursement for interpreter services for deaf - Whereas Arkansas Rehabilitation Services currently purchases and sells staff interpreter...
§ 21-5-220. Shift differential - (a) (1) Upon the approval of the Office of Personnel...
§ 21-5-221. Compensation differentials - (a) To address specific employee compensation needs not otherwise provided...
§ 21-5-222. Salary administration grids - (a) (1) A state agency may request that a salary...
§ 21-5-223. Severance pay - (a) (1) If the agency director determines that it is...
§ 21-5-224. Extra help positions - (a) (1) A position authorized as extra help in a...
§ 21-5-225. Position pools - (a) (1) There is established a pool of one thousand...
Subchapter 4 - State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board
§ 21-5-401. State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Program established — Legislative intent - (a) The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance...
§ 21-5-402. Creation of board — Members - (a) (1) The State and Public School Life and Health...
§ 21-5-403. Policy-making body only — Reports - (a) The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance...
§ 21-5-404. Powers, functions, and duties of board - The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board...
§ 21-5-405. Additional duties of board - (a) (1) The State and Public School Life and Health...
§ 21-5-406. Director — Staff - (a) (1) The State and Public School Life and Health...
§ 21-5-407. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Active employee” means an...
§ 21-5-408. Compensation - State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board members...
§ 21-5-410. Eligibility generally — Definition - (a) Individuals eligible to participate in the State and Public...
§ 21-5-411. Eligibility of certain retired employees — Definition - (a) (1) If qualified, state employee retirees and public school...
§ 21-5-412. Eligibility of certain elected officials - (a) Members of the General Assembly and the state-elected constitutional...
§ 21-5-414. State contributions generally — Partial state contribution of employees' premiums - (a) The Department of Transformation and Shared Services shall seek...
§ 21-5-415. Nonpayment of premiums and failure to file reports by agency or school district - (a) (1) If any participating state agency or school district...
§ 21-5-416. Annual performance audits - The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall annually conduct a performance...
§ 21-5-417. State contribution for employee receiving workers' compensation - Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, a state agency...
§ 21-5-418. Health savings account - (a) A health savings account shall be a component of...
Subchapter 5 - Deferred Compensation
§ 21-5-501. Definition - For the purpose of this subchapter, “employee” means any person,...
§ 21-5-502. Applicability - This subchapter shall apply to all deferred compensation plans adopted...
§ 21-5-503. Effect on other benefits - The deferred compensation program established by this subchapter shall exist...
§ 21-5-504. Authority of state or political subdivision - (a) (1) The state or a county, city, town, or...
§ 21-5-505. Authority of Department of Finance and Administration - (a) The Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to...
§ 21-5-506. Administration of programs - (a) (1) The administration of the state government employees' deferred...
§ 21-5-507. Payments by administrator - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,...
§ 21-5-508. Taxation of deferred income - A sum deferred under the deferred compensation program is not...
§ 21-5-509. Exclusive benefit - All amounts of compensation deferred pursuant to a deferred compensation...
§ 21-5-510. Liability of state or political subdivision - The financial liability of the state, county, city, town, or...
§ 21-5-511. Automatic enrollment in deferred compensation plan — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Deferred compensation plan”...
Subchapter 6 - Public Employee Workers' Compensation Act
§ 21-5-601. Title - This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “Public...
§ 21-5-602. Legislative intent - It is the purpose of this subchapter to: (1) Provide...
§ 21-5-603. Definitions - (a) The term “public employee”, as used in this subchapter,...
§ 21-5-604. Workfare participants excluded - (a) A workfare participant by participating in workfare does not...
§ 21-5-605. Public Employee Claims Division - (a) There is created a Public Employee Claims Division within...
§ 21-5-606. Division attorneys - (a) The Director of the Public Employee Claims Division shall...
§ 21-5-607. Claim, review, and appeal procedures - To the extent not in conflict with this subchapter, the...
§ 21-5-608. Report of injury, death, or exposure - (a) The appropriate public employer shall file with the Public...
§ 21-5-609. Benefits for emergency service volunteer workers - (a) Benefits payable for the injury or death of a...
§ 21-5-610. Workers' compensation benefits in conjunction with certain other benefits - In the event that any public employee is entitled to...
Subchapter 7 - Death Benefits
§ 21-5-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Child” or “children” means...
§ 21-5-702. Jurisdiction of Arkansas State Claims Commission regarding claims filed under subchapter - (a) The Arkansas State Claims Commission is vested with exclusive...
§ 21-5-703. Procedures for filing claims - (a) All claimants shall be subject to the same rules...
§ 21-5-704. Payment of claim to covered public employees, their designated beneficiaries, or their survivors — Funds — Definition - (a) (1) (A) The state shall pay to the beneficiaries...
§ 21-5-705. Payment of claim to designated beneficiaries or survivors of certain specified public employees killed in the line of duty — Funds — Definitions - (a) The state shall pay the additional sum of one...
§ 21-5-706. Funds for payment of claims generally - (a) All claims allowed under the provisions of this subchapter...
§ 21-5-707. Eligibility of children for death benefits - (a) Unless designated as the beneficiary of a covered public...
§ 21-5-708. Designated beneficiary - (a) (1) A covered public employee may designate a beneficiary...
Subchapter 8 - Attorney’s Fees and Court Costs
§ 21-5-801. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “State agency” means any...
§ 21-5-802. Right to payment — Claims and awards - (a) Any state officer or state employee who has been...
Subchapter 9 - Cafeteria Plans
§ 21-5-901. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Cafeteria plan” means a...
§ 21-5-902. Salary reduction agreement - (a) Any eligible employee who chooses to participate in a...
§ 21-5-903. Computing retirement benefits - The amount by which an eligible employee's salary is reduced...
§ 21-5-904. Administration of cafeteria plans - (a) The Director of the Employee Benefits Division shall have...
Subchapter 10 - Employee Performance Evaluation
§ 21-5-1001. Legislative intent - (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that...
§ 21-5-1007. Annual leave - (a) When an officer or employee of a state office...
Subchapter 11 - Career Ladder Incentive Program
§ 21-5-1101. Merit increase pay system — Definition - (a) (1) The Department of Transformation and Shared Services is...
Subchapter 12 - Active Duty After September 11, 2001
§ 21-5-1201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Emergency nature or contingency”...
§ 21-5-1202. Compensation of employees of state agencies and state-supported institutions of higher education — Emergency activities - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Uniform Attendance and Leave...
§ 21-5-1203. Compensation of public school district employee — Emergency activities - (a) Notwithstanding any other law, during the period that an...
Subchapter 13 - Deferred Contribution to a Tuition Savings Program
§ 21-5-1301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Agency” means a...
§ 21-5-1302. Participation in tuition savings program - (a) When a state employee begins his or her employment...
Subchapter 14 - Higher Education Uniform Classification and Compensation Act
§ 21-5-1401. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 21-5-1402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Class” or “classification” means...
§ 21-5-1403. Regular salary procedures and restrictions - Arkansas Constitution, Article 16, § 4, provides: “The General Assembly...
§ 21-5-1404. Effect on appropriation acts - (a) All appropriation acts of all institutions of higher education...
§ 21-5-1405. Division of Higher Education — Duties - (a) The Division of Higher Education shall perform the following...
§ 21-5-1406. Classification of positions - (a) (1) There are established for the institutions of higher...
§ 21-5-1407. Compensation plan - (a) There is established for institutions of higher education covered...
§ 21-5-1408. Implementation of plan — Changes in class specifications - (a) For the purposes of implementing the higher education uniform...
§ 21-5-1409. Implementation procedure for grade changes — Salary adjustments - (a) The Division of Higher Education has administrative responsibility for...
§ 21-5-1410. New appointments — Other compensation plan provisions - (a) A new appointment to a position in an institution...
§ 21-5-1411. Shift differential - (a) (1) Upon the approval of the Division of Higher...
§ 21-5-1412. Compensation differentials - (a) To address specific employee compensation needs not otherwise provided...
§ 21-5-1413. Salary administration grids - (a) (1) An institution of higher education may request that...
§ 21-5-1414. Extra help positions - (a) (1) A position authorized as extra help in an...
§ 21-5-1415. Position pools - (a) (1) The Division of Higher Education shall establish and...
§ 21-5-1416. Annual career service recognition payments for employees of institutions of higher education - (a) (1) (A) Nonfaculty and classified employees of institutions of...
§ 21-5-1417. Merit increase pay system — Definition - (a) (1) The Division of Higher Education may develop and...
§ 21-5-1418. Information technology labor market rates for recruitment and retention - (a) (1) In order for an institution of higher education...