Arkansas SB 50: Workforce and Social Service Reform (2025)
Summary: Provides that the Hospital, Medicaid, and Developmental Disabilities Study Subcommittee shall conduct a study of issues related to the reform of the States workforce and social services, including a study of State models for coordinating and fully integrating workforce, social services, education, child care, and healthcare programs, as well as alternative approaches, including the Unemployment Insurance Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, and the Child Care Assistance Program.
Summary: Creates the Arkansas Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower (RISE) Act, provides that the specified information submitted to an institution of higher education will be considered in evaluating whether a student has a disability, including, among other things, documentation of a disability due to military service, provides that an institution shall engage in an interactive process to document the accommodation needs of a student with a disability and establish a reasonable accommodation or accommodations.
Summary: Amends the Achieving a Better Life Experience Program Act, amends the definitions of disability certification and eligible individual to change the disability onset age to a specified age.
The Workers with Disabilities Medicaid program provides full Medicaid coverage to individuals with disabilities who are employed. The primary goal is to support disabled individuals in maintaining employment while ensuring they have access to necessary healthcare.
“The Community and Employment Support (CES) Waiver offers services in your community to support clients with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) with all major life activities, such as living independently and working at a job with help from an employment coach.”
Arkansas OSD Rules for Arkansas’ Registered Apprenticeship Program (2024)
“The following rules are adopted and promulgated by the Career Education and Workforce Development Board pursuant to the authority expressly conferred on it by the laws the of the State of Arkansas and the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act.”
“The Arkansas Medicaid state plan details the state and Federal government Medicaid implementation agreement. It describes how that state administers its Medicaid and CHIP programs. It also describes how the state will abide by Federal rules and may claim Federal matching funds for its program activities. The state plan sets out groups of individuals to be covered, services to be provided, methodologies for providers to be reimbursed and the administrative activities that are underway in the state.”
Arkansas HB 1239: To Create The Achieving A Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program (2015)
An Act to create the Achieving a Better Life Experience [ABLE] program; to provide new avenues for financial self-sufficiency for Arkansans with disabilities.
Arkansas Rehabilitation Services and University of Arkansas PROMISE Partnership (2016)
“Arkansas Rehabilitation Services will focus heavily on transition services by providing job exploration counseling, work base learning experiences, post-secondary training, job readiness skills and self-advocacy… ARS has built a strong relationship with the University of Arkansas, and the agency is very excited about the MOU with PROMISE and looks forward….to 2016.”
