§ 20-80-301. Title

This subchapter shall be known as the “Community Service and Community Action Program Act of 1985”.

§ 20-80-302. Purpose

(a) The purpose of this subchapter is to encourage nonprofit community action organizations which have been formed to provide basic and essential human services to low income and elderly citizens of Arkansas in the areas of health, transportation, housing, home repair and weatherization, aging programs and aging alternatives to institutionalization, developmental child care and enrichment, […]

§ 20-80-303. Exception

Nothing in this subchapter is intended to change or in any way conflict with the status, boundaries, or functions of regional or metropolitan planning commissions or councils of governments established under §§ 14-17-301 — 14-17-309 and 14-56-501 — 14-56-509 nor the status, boundaries, and functions of planning and development districts as established and recognized under […]

§ 20-80-304. Recognition of agencies generally — Establishment of financial assistance

In furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter, the General Assembly recognizes community action organizations in their efforts to provide services beneficial to low-income citizens of this state and establishes a program of financial assistance to recognized community action agencies to enable them to continue and expand activities and programs stated in § 20-80-302.

§ 20-80-305. Recognition of specific agencies — Jurisdiction

The General Assembly recognizes as community action agencies and their jurisdiction, the following nineteen (19) existing community action organizations: (1) Arkansas River Valley Area Council, consisting of Franklin, Scott, Yell, Johnson, Pope, Conway, Perry, Logan, and Polk counties; (2) Black River Area Development Corporation, consisting of Randolph, Clay, and Lawrence counties; (3) Central Arkansas Development […]

§ 20-80-306. Recognition of specific agencies — Change of boundaries and number

The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to change the boundaries and the number of officially recognized community action agencies, provided that concurrence therein is obtained of the governing boards of each of the affected existing agencies as recognized in § 20-80-305.

§ 20-80-307. Recognition of representative organizations

(a) The governing boards of directors of the nineteen (19) existing community action organizations are recognized as the representative organizations of the community action agencies as recognized in § 20-80-305. (b) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized, whenever agency boundaries have been changed in accordance with § 20-80-306, to recognize […]

§ 20-80-309. Funding — Appropriations — Permitted use of funds

(a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to make payments from time to time to officially recognized organizations of community action agencies from state funds appropriated for that purpose. Payments shall be scheduled to begin as nearly as possible on July 1 of each fiscal year and on the first […]

§ 20-80-310. Funding — Notification by General Assembly — Application

(a) Whenever the General Assembly has appropriated funds in order to make payments to officially recognized community action agencies as authorized in this subchapter, the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services shall notify the respective governing boards of the agencies of the amount allocated to the agencies as provided in § 20-80-308 [repealed] […]

§ 20-80-311. Funding — Antipoverty programs

State funds appropriated by the General Assembly to the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services for payments to be made to recognize community action agencies in accordance with this subchapter shall be used by the agencies for funding antipoverty programs designated by state rules.

§ 20-80-312. Funds transfer to Weatherization Assistance Program

The Department of Human Services shall transfer annually to the Division of Environmental Quality a minimum of fifteen percent (15%) and up to a maximum of twenty-five percent (25%), as allowed by federal law or regulation, of the annual allocation for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to be used by the Weatherization Assistance […]