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AR Code § 6-53-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 3 - Administration|§ 6-53-307. County support of technical colleges

 (a)  (1) Any county quorum court may designate all or any portion of any undedicated county sales or use tax to be used for capital improvements to or the maintenance and operation of any technical college, two-year college, community college, or satellite campus of a community college.  (2)  (A) In the alternative, the quorum court may refer to a vote of the people at any general or special election the issue of dedicating all or a portion of any undedicated county sales or use tax to any technical college, community college, two-year college, or satellite campus of a community college to be used for capital improvements to or the maintenance and operation of the technical college, community college, two-year college, or satellite campus of a community college.  (B) If the voters dedicate all or a portion of the tax, it shall remain so dedicated until the voters decide otherwise.      (b) When the quorum court calls an election on the issue of the levy of any county sales or use tax, it may also cause to be placed on the ballot the issue of dedicating all or a portion of the tax for capital improvements to or the maintenance and operation of any technical college, community college, two-year college, or satellite campus of a community college.  (c) If a technical college, community college, two-year college, or satellite campus of a community college for which a tax is dedicated or levied under this section thereafter becomes a branch of an existing institution of higher education, the tax dedicated or levied under this section shall continue to be dedicated and levied for the use and benefit of the branch unless reduced or repealed as authorized under this section.  (d) A county sales or use tax dedicated or levied under this section may also be dedicated or levied in part for capital improvements to or the maintenance and operation of any public institution of higher education located in the county.  (e) Any election called by the quorum court pursuant to this section shall be called pursuant to the proclamation issued by the quorum court and held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq.
AR Code § 6-53-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 3 - Administration|§ 6-53-308. Municipal contracts

 (a) The local board of a community college may contract with a municipality for:  (1) The transfer of real property, including any buildings or structures thereon from the college to the municipality;  (2) Any or all of the following:  (A) The construction, repair, and renovation of buildings or structures;  (B) The construction of additions to buildings or structures; and  (C) The provision of equipment, apparatus, library materials, and fixtures for the buildings or structures by the municipality; and    (3)  (A) The long-term lease of at least fifty (50) years of the buildings or structures by the municipality to the college for nominal monetary and other valuable consideration.  (B) The leased building or structure shall be utilized by the college for educational purposes.      (b) The college may expend funds under the Arkansas College Savings Bond Act of 1989, § 6-62-701 et seq., and the college and the municipality may expend any other funds available pursuant to applicable law for the purposes set out in this section and for the operation of the facility or structure if the college receives a long-term lease of at least fifty (50) years.  (c) If, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the college receives a long-term lease of at least fifty (50) years, the college and the municipality are authorized jointly to do any or all of the following:  (1) Construct, repair, and renovate buildings or structures;  (2) Construct additions to buildings or structures; and  (3) Provide equipment, apparatus, library materials, and fixtures for the buildings or structures.
AR Code § 6-53-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 4 - Conversions and Consolidations|§ 6-53-401. Coordination with institutional boards of trustees

 A merger or consolidation of a state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical institution with an existing community college, with a branch campus of a four-year institution, or with a four-year institution, is subject to the approval of the:   (1) Board of directors or board of trustees of the existing community college or four-year institution; and  (2) Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
AR Code § 6-53-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 4 - Conversions and Consolidations|§ 6-53-402. Two-year branches — Conversion to technical college

 (a) A board of trustees of a four-year institution may, by resolution or when requested, petition the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accept a two-year branch campus to be a technical college under the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board's jurisdiction.  (b) Upon approval by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education and upon assignment of a service area for the institution, the two-year branch campus shall be known as a technical college.  (c) All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the two-year branch campus shall be transferred to the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board until a local board is appointed.  (d) Upon the appointment of a local board, all records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the technical college shall be transferred to the local board.  (e) The local board shall be responsible for the administration and operation of the technical college and such other state-supported institutions within the system located in the service area designated by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board as necessary to adequately meet the two-year postsecondary educational needs of those citizens located within the service area assigned to the technical college.  (f) Upon the establishment of the technical college, the two-year branch of the four-year institution shall be abolished.  (g)  (1) A technical college established under this section that fails to achieve higher education institutional accreditation from an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education within eight (8) years following the date of conversion shall be abolished by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.  (2) All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the technical college shall be transferred to the Division of Higher Education.    (h)  (1) No state-supported vocational and technical institution in this state other than those provided for by this chapter shall convert to become a technical college if there is an existing community college located within the same county as the vocational and technical institution.  (2) The local board of any state-supported postsecondary institution and the board of a community college located within the same county, upon passage of a resolution by each board and with the approval by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, may merge the state-supported postsecondary institution with the community college.
AR Code § 6-53-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 4 - Conversions and Consolidations|§ 6-53-404. Technical colleges — Acceptance as branch campus of community college

 (a) A board of trustees of a community college may, by resolution or when requested, petition the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accept a technical college located in the same service area to be a branch campus of the community college.  (b) All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the above-listed state-supported institutions within the service area of the community college shall be transferred to the local board.  (c) The local board of the community college shall be responsible for the administration and operation of all state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical institutions located within its service area and consolidated by this chapter.  (d)  (1) Until such time as territory containing the vocational-technical institution is joined to the community college district, the institution shall be operated as and known as a satellite campus of the community college.  (2) In cases where the vocational-technical institution is located within the community college district, upon consolidation, such institution shall be known as a branch campus of the community college, or if situated in close proximity to an existing community college campus no name distinction need be made for such institution.    (e) No millage tax of the community college district shall be used for capital outlay expense or operating expense of a satellite campus.  (f) The procedures for reconstituting districts under § 6-61-518 shall be followed to join additional territory containing the satellite campus to the existing community college district.  (g) Following the passage of the question to join territory containing the satellite campus to the existing community college district or to impose an additional millage for the community college district, the institution shall be known as a branch campus of the community college.  (h)  (1) Any satellite campus of a community college which fails to become a branch campus of the community college or which fails to achieve higher education institutional accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission within eight (8) years following the date of transfer under subsection (b) of this section shall be abolished by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.  (2) All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the satellite campus shall be transferred to the Division of Higher Education.
AR Code § 6-53-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 4 - Conversions and Consolidations|§ 6-53-405. Consolidations

 (a)  (1) As provided in this chapter or upon approval of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board, the board of trustees of the receiving institution, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board may consolidate a state-supported vocational-technical institution with a four-year institution or a two-year branch campus of a four-year institution.  (2) Following approval by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, upon approval of the board of trustees of the receiving institution, shall consolidate the following state-supported vocational-technical institutions and four-year institutions or two-year branch campuses of a four-year institution: White River Vocational-Technical School with Arkansas State University-Beebe.    (b) The board of trustees of the four-year institution which receives a state-supported institution shall be responsible for the administration and operation of the state-supported institution.  (c) All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the state-supported institution shall be transferred to the board of trustees.
AR Code § 6-53-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 5 - Grants for Tech-Prep Education|§ 6-53-501. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Articulation agreement” means a commitment to a program designed to provide students with a nonduplicative sequence of progressive achievement leading to competencies in a tech-prep education program or in college transfer programs;  (2) “Tech-prep education program” means a combined secondary and postsecondary program which:  (A) Leads to an associate of applied science or other occupational degree or two-year certificate;  (B) Provides technical preparation in at least one (1) field of engineering technology, applied science, mechanical, industrial, or practical art or trade, or agriculture, health, or business;  (C) Builds student competence in mathematics, science, and communications, including through applied academics, through a sequential course of study; and  (D) Leads to placement in employment.
AR Code § 6-53-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 5 - Grants for Tech-Prep Education|§ 6-53-502. Grants for tech-prep education

 (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board of Career Education shall jointly award grants for tech-prep education programs to consortia of:  (1) Public schools or area vocational education schools serving secondary school students; and  (2) Community colleges which offer a two-year associate degree program or a two-year certificate program; or  (3) Other state-supported institutions of higher education which offer a two-year associate of applied science or other occupational degree program or a two-year certificate program.    (b) From the amounts made available to the state, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board of Career Education, in accordance with this subchapter, shall jointly award grants on a competitive basis or on the basis of a formula determined by both boards, for tech prep education programs.  (c) Each grant recipient shall use amounts provided under the grant to develop and operate a four-year tech-prep education program.  (d) Any such program shall:  (1) Be carried out under an articulation agreement between the participants in the consortium;  (2) Consist of:  (A) The two (2) years of secondary school preceding graduation and two (2) years of higher education; or  (B) An apprenticeship program of at least two (2) years following secondary instruction, with a common core of required proficiency in mathematics, science, communications, and technologies designed to lead to an associate degree or certificate in a specific career field;    (3) Include in-service training for teachers that:  (A) Is designed to train teachers to effectively implement tech-prep education curricula;  (B) Provides for joint training for teachers from all participants in the consortium; and  (C) May provide such training in weekend, evening, and summer sessions, institutes, or workshops;    (4) Include training programs for counselors designed to enable counselors to more effectively:  (A) Recruit students for tech-prep education programs;  (B) Ensure that such students successfully complete such programs; and  (C) Ensure that such students are placed in appropriate employment;    (5) Provide equal access to the full range of technical preparation programs to individuals who are members of special populations, including the development of tech-prep education program services appropriate to the needs of such individuals; and  (6) Provide for preparatory services which assist all participants in such programs.    (e) In addition, each such program may:  (1) Provide for the acquisition of tech-prep education program equipment; and  (2) As part of the program's planning activities, acquire technical assistance from the state or local entities that have successfully designed, established, and operated tech-prep programs.
AR Code § 6-53-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 5 - Grants for Tech-Prep Education|§ 6-53-503. Applications for grants

 (a) Each consortium that desires to receive a grant under this subchapter shall submit an application to the director or the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, as appropriate, at such time and in such manner as the board shall prescribe through rule.  (b) Each application submitted under this subchapter shall contain a three-year plan for the development and implementation of activities under this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-53-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 5 - Grants for Tech-Prep Education|§ 6-53-504. Approval of applications — Factors considered

 (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board of Career Education shall approve applications based on their potential to create an effective tech-prep education program as provided in this subchapter.  (b) The two (2) boards shall give special consideration to applications which:  (1) Provide for effective employment placement activities or transfer of students to four-year baccalaureate degree programs;  (2) Are developed in consultation with business, industry, and labor unions; and  (3) Address effectively the issues of dropout prevention and reentry and the needs of minority youths, youths of limited English proficiency, youths with handicaps, and disadvantaged youths.    (c) In making grants under this subchapter, the two (2) boards shall ensure an equitable distribution of assistance throughout the state, and shall ensure an equitable distribution of assistance between urban and rural consortium participants.  (d) In the case of grants made by the two (2) boards, each grant recipient shall, with respect to assistance received under this subchapter, submit to the secretary such reports as may be required by the secretary to ensure that such grant recipient is complying with the requirements of this subchapter.  (e) After grant recipients who receive grants in the first year in which grants are made under this subchapter complete their eligibility under the program, the directors shall submit to the General Assembly a report evaluating the effectiveness of the program under this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-53-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 5 - Grants for Tech-Prep Education|§ 6-53-505. Designation of agency to receive federal funds

 The State Board of Career Education is hereby designated as the agency to receive the funds allocated to the state pursuant to the provisions of 20 U.S.C. § 2351 et seq.
AR Code § 6-53-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 6 - Technical College Districts|§ 6-53-601. Legislative findings and intent

 It is the intent and purpose of this subchapter to authorize the formation of technical college districts and the levy of ad valorem taxes in such districts not to exceed ten (10) mills on each dollar of assessed value of the taxable real and personal property of a district, with the revenues therefrom to be used for site acquisition, construction, equipping, and operation of technical colleges, as authorized in Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 52.
AR Code § 6-53-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 6 - Technical College Districts|§ 6-53-603. Tax levy

 (a)  (1) A tax levied under this subchapter shall be a continuing levy unless otherwise provided by law.  (2) It may be reduced or repealed, with the exception of the amount of tax required to service any outstanding bonds, or the tax may be increased upon approval thereof by a majority of the qualified electors of the district voting on the issue at an election called by the local board or acting local board to be held at least thirty (30) calendar days after the local board or acting local board notifies the county boards of election commissioners.    (b) The tax shall be collected in the manner now provided by law for the collection of county general taxes and promptly remitted by the county treasurer to the district.  (c) Revenues derived from a tax levied pursuant to this subchapter may be used for site acquisition, construction, equipping, or operation of a technical college or for any of such purposes.
AR Code § 6-53-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 6 - Technical College Districts|§ 6-53-604. Dissolution of district — Reduction of millage tax

 (a) A technical college district may be dissolved or the millage tax voted reduced or repealed, with the exception of the amount of tax required to service any outstanding bonds, upon approval by a majority of the qualified electors of the district voting on the issue at an election called for such purpose by the county boards of election commissioners upon submission of petitions signed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors of the district based upon the total number of votes as cast therein for all candidates for the office of Governor in the last general election.  (b) The petitions shall be filed with the Secretary of State, who, within ten (10) days of the receipt and verification by the Secretary of State of the sufficiency of the petitions, shall notify the county boards of election commissioners that an election shall be held at a time not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of notification.
AR Code § 6-53-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education|Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991|Subchapter 6 - Technical College Districts|§ 6-53-605. Continuation of tax

 If a technical college for which a tax is levied thereafter becomes a branch of an existing institution of higher education, the tax levied under this subchapter shall continue to be levied and collected for the use and benefit of the branch unless reduced or repealed as authorized in § 6-53-603.