Ark. Code § 11-2-123

Current with all legislation passed during the 2023 Regular and First Extraordinary Sessions.
Section 11-2-123 - Employment training and placement programs for ex-offenders
(a) In order to help facilitate the restoration of an ex-offender's responsibility and self-sufficiency, the Division of Labor shall work in conjunction with other appropriate state agencies, the private sector, and labor organizations to promulgate rules for implementing placement and training programs for ex-offenders.
(b) Training and placement programs shall be intensive and focus on in-demand vocations and professions, including without limitation:
(1) Professional careers and vocations;
(2) Service careers and vocations;
(3) Information and computer technology;
(4) Medical technology; and
(5) Office administration.
(c) A training program created and administered under this section shall incorporate a "Certificate of Completion" to be awarded to any person who completes a training program under this section, which shall signify that the person is competent to enter the workforce as an employee satisfactorily trained in a particular vocation or profession or as an employee prepared for on-the-job training.

Ark. Code § 11-2-123

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5300, eff. 7/1/2019.
Acts 2011, No. 1151, § 2.