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AR Code § 19-10-223 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Claims Commission|§ 19-10-223. Failure to exhaust available state or administrative remedy

 The Arkansas State Claims Commission may dismiss a claim or action without prejudice on the commission's own motion if the claimant has failed to submit with the claimant's initial complaint or claim filing documentation that the claimant has exhausted all available state or administrative remedies.
AR Code § 19-10-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 3 - Effect of Insurance Coverage|§ 19-10-301. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Insurer” means every person engaged as indemnitor, surety, or contractor in the business of entering into contracts of insurance; and  (2) “Subrogation claim” means any claim filed with the Arkansas State Claims Commission by an insurer or its insured, or both, to recover money paid or owed by an insurer to any individual under a contract of insurance.
AR Code § 19-10-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 3 - Effect of Insurance Coverage|§ 19-10-302. Exhaustion of remedies against insurer

 (a) The Arkansas State Claims Commission shall not dismiss a claim with prejudice on grounds that the claimant has received or is due benefits under a policy of insurance. However, the commission shall hear no claim until the claimant has exhausted all remedies against insurers, including the claimant's insurer.  (b) Every claim filed with the commission shall be accompanied by a sworn affidavit, on a form to be provided by the commission, signed by the claimant and witnessed by the claimant's insurer and legal counsel, if any, that the claimant has exhausted all remedies against insurers, including the claimant's insurer. The affidavit shall further state the total amount of insurance benefits paid to the claimant.
AR Code § 19-10-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 3 - Effect of Insurance Coverage|§ 19-10-303. Reduction of award

 (a) If the Arkansas State Claims Commission awards damages to a claimant who has received benefits under any policy of insurance, the premium of which has not been paid by or on behalf of the claimant, the commission shall reduce its award by the amount of insurance benefits received by the claimant.  (b) The commission shall not reduce awards for damages to a claimant who has received benefits under a policy of insurance, the premium of which has been paid by or on behalf of the claimant.
AR Code § 19-10-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 3 - Effect of Insurance Coverage|§ 19-10-304. Subrogation claims not heard

 The Arkansas State Claims Commission shall not hear subrogation claims. This fact shall in no way alter or vary the operation or coverage of §§ 21-9-201 — 21-9-205.
AR Code § 19-10-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 3 - Effect of Insurance Coverage|§ 19-10-305. Immunity of state officers and employees — Status as employee

 (a) Officers and employees of the State of Arkansas are immune from liability and from suit, except to the extent that they may be covered by liability insurance, for damages for acts or omissions, other than malicious acts or omissions, occurring within the course and scope of their employment.  (b) For purposes of this chapter, agreements between the State of Arkansas and a state of the United States or the District of Columbia entered into pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act, § 25-20-101 et seq., shall confer status of an employee for purposes of this chapter on persons acting pursuant to such agreement.  (c) For purposes of this chapter, persons acting individually or on behalf of charitable organizations, other than motor carriers as defined by § 23-13-203(a)(13), shall have the status of an employee while transporting persons as a service of the Transitional Employment Assistance Program.  (d) For purposes of this chapter, dental residents and faculty of a pediatric dentistry program in an adjoining state shall have the status of an employee while on duty and performing assigned responsibilities in a pediatric dentistry program located within a hospital dental clinic in this state.
AR Code § 19-10-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 3 - Effect of Insurance Coverage|§ 19-10-306. Res judicata or collateral estoppel

 If an individual commences a civil action in any court of law within this state which arises out of the same subject matter or occurrence that is the subject matter of a complaint before the Arkansas State Claims Commission, the commission shall recognize any final judgment or order rendered in the civil action as a bar to further consideration of the claim in accordance with principles of res judicata and collateral estoppel.
AR Code § 19-10-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 19-10-401. Reports of personal injury or death

 All state officers, heads of agencies, departments, and institutions shall file a report with the Workers' Compensation Commission, within ten (10) days after knowledge of any personal injury or death of any employee of the state or any of its agencies, departments, or institutions. This report shall be made on forms approved by the commission and shall give the date, place, and time of day of any such injury or death, briefly stating the circumstances and extent thereof, the name of the injured or deceased person, and the names of any and all witnesses.
AR Code § 19-10-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 19-10-402. Jurisdiction and procedure

 (a)  (1) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction, as limited in this subchapter, of all claims against the State of Arkansas and its several agencies, departments, and institutions for personal injuries and deaths of employees and officers of the State of Arkansas and its agencies, departments, and institutions arising out of and in the course of employment or service.  (2)  (A) Awards for these injuries and deaths shall be made by the commission in the same amounts and on the same terms and conditions as if such injuries and deaths had arisen out of and in the course of private employment covered by the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq.  (B) The procedure to be followed in the presentation, hearing, and determination of claims shall, in all respects, be the same as in claims for compensation for injuries and deaths arising out of and in the course of private employment covered by the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq.      (b) The General Assembly shall at each session appropriate, from such sources as it may see fit, a sum sufficient to satisfy such claims as are or probably will be payable during the following fiscal year under awards made under this section. The commission shall direct the distributions of this fund and make disbursements upon the vouchers issued against it.
AR Code § 19-10-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 19-10-403. Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund

 (a) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the “Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund”. All sums appropriated by the General Assembly pursuant to this subchapter shall be deposited by the Treasurer of State to the account of the fund.  (b) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall draw all vouchers against the fund in payment of awards made by it under this subchapter.
AR Code § 19-10-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 19-10-404. State deemed self-insurer

 For the purposes of this subchapter, the State of Arkansas shall be considered a self-insurer and shall be exempt from all fees and tax as such.
AR Code § 19-10-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 19-10-405. Awards and expenses

 In the event an award is made, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall immediately take the necessary steps to pay the award and all expenses incidental to the claim from any funds previously made available by the General Assembly for such purpose.
AR Code § 19-10-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State|Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 19-10-406. Report of findings

 Upon the allowance or disallowance of any claim, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall immediately transmit a copy of its findings to the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration and interested parties.
AR Code § 19-11-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-11-101. Responsibility of disbursing officer — Maintenance of files by Office of State Procurement

 (a) The disbursing officer of each agency, board, commission, department, or institution shall be responsible for reviewing all invoices prepared by commercial printers or suppliers holding commercial contracts to make certain that the charges to the agency, board, commission, department, or institution are proper under the terms of the contract.  (b) The Office of State Procurement shall maintain complete files that shall be open to public inspection on all commercial term and one-time contracts. The files shall contain:  (1) A copy of the contract;  (2) A list of all printing or duplicating done or commodities ordered, as well as the name of the invoiced agency; and  (3) A copy of all correspondence regarding the contract or jobs performed thereunder.
AR Code § 19-11-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-11-102. Use of soybean ink in state printing

 Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, all printing which is chargeable to or which is paid for with funds appropriated wholly or in part by the state, or any state department, division, bureau, board, commission, or agency, shall be printed in soybean ink; provided, however, that the soybean ink is comparable in price to other inks, and that it is equally suitable for use.
AR Code § 19-11-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-11-103. Penalty for violation of law

 Any person who is found by a court of law to have knowingly violated any state law in conjunction with the performance or acquisition of a contract with the state shall be ineligible to contract with the state for a period of three (3) years.
AR Code § 19-11-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-11-104. Equal opportunity policy

 (a) The purpose of this section is to require any entity or person bidding on a state contract, responding to a request for proposals regarding a state contract, responding to a request for qualifications regarding a state contract, or negotiating a contract with the state for professional or consulting services to submit to the Office of State Procurement the most current equal opportunity policy of the entity or person.  (b) The office and a state agency shall require a copy of the most current equal opportunity policy of an entity or person to be filed with the office or state agency for public inspection as a condition precedent to:  (1) Accepting a letter of intent, bid, proposal, or statement of qualification with regard to a state contract from the entity or person; or  (2) Entering negotiations with the entity or person for a professional or consulting services contract with the state.
AR Code § 19-11-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-201. Title

 This subchapter shall be referred to as the “Arkansas Procurement Law”.
AR Code § 19-11-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-202. Purposes and policies

 The underlying purposes and policies of this subchapter are to:   (1) Simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing procurement by this state;  (2) Permit the continued development of procurement policies and practices;  (3) Provide for increased public confidence in the procedures followed in public procurement;  (4) Ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all persons who deal with the procurement system of this state;  (5) Provide increased economy in state procurement activities by fostering effective competition; and  (6) Provide safeguards for the maintenance of a procurement system of quality and integrity.
AR Code § 19-11-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-205. Definitions concerning commodity management

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Commodities” means, for purposes of this section and §§ 19-11-242 and 19-11-243, commodities owned by the state. See § 19-11-203, which refers to commodities;  (2) “Excess commodities” means any commodity, other than expendable commodities, having a remaining useful life but which the using agency in possession of the commodity has determined is no longer required by such agency;  (3) “Expendable commodities” means all tangible commodities other than nonexpendable commodities;  (4) “Nonexpendable commodities” means all tangible commodities having an original acquisition cost of more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per unit and a useful life of more than one (1) year; and  (5) “Surplus commodities” means any commodities, other than expendable commodities, no longer having any use to the state. This definition includes obsolete commodities, scrap materials, and nonexpendable commodities that have completed their useful life cycle.
AR Code § 19-11-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-206. Definitions concerning intergovernmental relations

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Cooperative purchasing agreement” means an agreement entered into as the result of a procurement conducted by, or on behalf of, more than one (1) public procurement unit or by a public procurement unit with an external procurement activity;  (2)  (A) “External procurement activity” means any buying organization not located in this state which, if located in this state, would qualify as a public procurement unit.  (B) An agency of the federal government is an external procurement activity;    (3) “Local public procurement unit” means:  (A) Any county, city, town, state agency, and any other subdivision of the state or public agency thereof;  (B) Any fire protection district;  (C) Any regional water distribution district;  (D) Any rural development authority;  (E) Any public authority;  (F) Any public educational, health, or other institution;  (G) Any nonprofit corporation during the time that it contracts with the Department of Human Services to provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities or for transportation services, so long as the contract exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per year;  (H) Any nonprofit corporation providing fire protection services to a rural area or providing drinking water to the public in a rural area; and  (I) To the extent not prohibited by law, any other entity that expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of commodities and services;    (4) “Public procurement unit” means either a local public procurement unit or a state public procurement unit; and  (5) “State public procurement unit” means the Office of State Procurement and any other procurement agency of this state.
AR Code § 19-11-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-207. Applicability

 (a) This subchapter shall apply to every expenditure of public funds by this state, acting through a state agency as defined in § 19-11-203, under any contract. This subchapter shall not apply to either grants or contracts between the state and its political subdivisions or other governments, except as provided in §§ 19-11-206 and 19-11-249 — 19-11-258. This subchapter also shall apply to the disposal of state commodities. This subchapter shall not apply to contracts between agencies, except as provided in §§ 19-11-206 and 19-11-249 — 19-11-258.  (b) The provisions of this subchapter shall not preclude the acceptance of gifts and donations in the manner authorized by law.
AR Code § 19-11-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-208. Exemptions

 Commodities and services need not be procured through the Office of State Procurement, if procured by the out-of-state offices of state agencies for that out-of-state office's use but shall, nevertheless, be procured subject to the requirements of this subchapter and the state procurement rules.
AR Code § 19-11-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-209. Construction

 This subchapter shall be construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
AR Code § 19-11-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-210. Operation of other laws

 Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this subchapter, the principles of law and equity, including the Uniform Commercial Code, § 4-1-101 et seq., of this state, the law merchant, and law relative to capacity to contract, agency, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, or bankruptcy shall supplement its provisions.
AR Code § 19-11-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-211. Obligation of “good faith”

 Every contract or duty within this subchapter imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance or enforcement. “Good faith” means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.
AR Code § 19-11-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-212. Existing contracts

 The administration of contracts in existence on July 1, 1979, shall be the responsibility of the appropriate officials described in this subchapter.
AR Code § 19-11-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-213. Federal assistance requirements

 If federal assistance requirements or federal contract requirements conflict with this subchapter or rules promulgated under it, nothing in this subchapter or its rules shall prevent a state agency or political subdivision from complying with the terms and conditions of the federal assistance requirements or the federal contract requirements.
AR Code § 19-11-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-214. Determinations and findings

 Written determinations and findings required by this subchapter shall be retained in an official contract file by the Office of State Procurement or by the state agency administering the contract for a period of five (5) years.
AR Code § 19-11-215 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-215. Office of State Procurement

 (a) There is created within the Department of Transformation and Shared Services the Office of State Procurement to be administered by the State Procurement Director.  (b)  (1) The Office of State Procurement shall be subject to the supervision and management of the Secretary of the Department of Transformation and Shared Services.  (2) The rules authorized in this subchapter shall be approved by the secretary prior to the filing of the rules in accordance with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
AR Code § 19-11-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-216. State Procurement Director

 (a)  (1) The executive head of the Office of State Procurement is designated as the administrator of the Office of State Procurement, and as such, he or she shall be known and designated as the “State Procurement Director”.  (2) The State Procurement Director shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Transformation and Shared Services.    (b) The State Procurement Director shall be at least thirty (30) years of age, of good moral character, and of demonstrated ability or capacity in the field of purchasing commodities and services.
AR Code § 19-11-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - Purchasing and Contracts|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Procurement Law|§ 19-11-218. Assistants and designees — Written delegation orders

 (a) Subject to the provisions of the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq., and the approval of the Secretary of the Department of Transformation and Shared Services, the State Procurement Director may:  (1) Employ and supervise such assistants and other persons as may be necessary;  (2) Fix their compensation as provided by law; and  (3)  (A) Delegate authority to designees or to a state agency by issuing a written delegation order, within the limitations of state law and the state procurement rules.  (B) A written delegation order issued under this section shall:  (i) Include an expiration date for the written delegation order;  (ii) Be publicly posted on the official website of the Office of State Procurement;  (iii) Remain in effect under the original terms unless the terms of the written delegation order are modified or rescinded in writing by the director;  (iv) Not be issued for a term that exceeds two (2) years; and  (v) Be narrowly tailored if the written delegation order is based on the type of commodity or service being procured.    (C) The director shall maintain records of each written delegation order issued under this section.  (D) A person who is to be given authority under a written delegation order issued under this section shall complete training on state procurement laws, as provided for in this subchapter and in the rules adopted by the director, before the written delegation order is issued.      (b) The director shall adopt rules to:  (1) Implement the requirements for written delegation orders under this section; and  (2) Outline the procurement training required under this section.