Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 6 - EDUCATION (§§ 6-1-101 — 6-87-104) › Subtitle 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION GENERALLY (§§ 6-10-101 — 6-28-206) › Chapter 28 - ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021 (§§ 6-28-101 — 6-28-206) › Subchapter 1 - ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS (§§ 6-28-101 — 6-28-117) › Section 6-28-104 - Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(1)
"Activated reserve components" means members of the reserve component of the uniformed services who have received a notice of intent to mobilize or deploy under Title 10 of the United States Code, Title 32 of the United States Code, or state mobilization to active duty;
(2)
"Active duty" means full-time duty status in the active, uniformed services of the United States, including without limitation members of the National Guard and reserve components of the uniformed services on active duty orders under 10 U.S.C. Chapters 1209 and 1210 or
42 U.S.C. § 204
, as they existed on January 1, 2021;
(3)
"Deployment" means the period of time six (6) months before a member of the uniformed services' departure from his or her home or duty station on military orders through six (6) months after return to his or her home station;
(4)
"Dual status military technician" means a federal civilian employee who is:
(A)
Employed under
5 U.S.C. § 3101
or
32 U.S.C. § 709(b)
;
(B)
Required as a condition of his or her employment to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; and
(C)
Assigned to a civilian position as a technician in the organizing, administering, instructing, or training of the Selected Reserve or in the maintenance and repair of supplies or equipment issued to the Selected Reserve;
(5)
"Education record" means an official record, file, or data directly related to a student and maintained by a public school or public school district, including without limitation a record encompassing all the material kept in a student's cumulative folder such as:
(A)
General identifying data;
(B)
Records of attendance and of academic work completed;
(C)
Records of achievement and results of evaluative tests;
(D)
Health data;
(E)
Disciplinary status;
(F)
Test protocols; and
(G)
Individualized education programs;
(6)
(A)
"Extracurricular activity" means a voluntary activity sponsored by a public school or public school district or an organization sanctioned by a public school district.
(B)
"Extracurricular activity" includes without limitation preparation for and involvement in public performances, contests, athletic competitions, demonstrations, displays, and club activities;
(7)
"Military installation" means, for purposes of this chapter:
(A)
United States Department of Defense installations, which shall include:
(i)
Little Rock Air Force Base;
(ii)
Pine Bluff Arsenal; and
(iii)
Camp Pike Armed Forces Reserve Complex; and
(B)
Arkansas installations, which shall include:
(i)
Camp Joseph T. Robinson Maneuver Training Center;
(ii)
Ebbing Air National Guard Base; and
(iii)
Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center;
(8)
(A)
"Public school" means a state-supported school or open-enrollment public charter school serving students in prekindergarten or kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) in Arkansas.
(B)
"Public school" includes without limitation:
(i)
Alternative learning environments;
(ii)
The Arkansas School for the Blind;
(iii)
The Arkansas School for the Deaf; and
(iv)
The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts;
(9)
"Receiving district" means a public school district to which a child of a uniformed services member transitions;
(10)
"Rule" means:
(A)
A written statement that is of general applicability that implements, interprets, or prescribes a policy; or
(B)
An organizational, procedural, or practice requirement promulgated under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, §
25-15-201
et seq., or any successor law, and includes the amendment, repeal, or suspension of an existing rule;
(11)
"Sending district" means the public school district from which a child of a uniformed services member transitions;
(12)
"Student" means the dependent child of a uniformed services member for whom a public school or public school district receives public funding and who is enrolled in a public school;
(13)
"Traditional member of the National Guard or federal reserves" means an active member of the Selected Reserve subject to mobilization and deployment for which he or she attends monthly and annual training periods;
(14)
"Transition" means the:
(A)
Formal and physical process of transitioning from public school to public school; or
(B)
Period of time in which a student moves from a sending district to a receiving district;
(15)
"Uniformed services" means the United States Army, United States Navy, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corps, United States Space Force, United States Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, the United States Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, and the state and federal reserve components of each of these bodies; and
(16)
"Veteran" means an individual who served in the uniformed services and who was discharged or released from the uniformed services under conditions other than dishonorable.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 793,§ 17, eff. 8/1/2023.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 638,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2023.
Added by Act 2021, No. 1031,§ 2, eff. 7/28/2021.