§ 25-38-203. Department of Agriculture — Powers and duties
(a) The Department of Agriculture shall: (1) Administer the departments, institutions, other agencies, or parts of departments, institutions, or other agencies transferred to the department under § 25-38-211; (2) Coordinate all existing programs and create any new programs that will enhance the marketing of the state’s agricultural products to intrastate, national, and international markets; (3) […]
§ 25-43-108. Cabinet-level department secretary — Definition
(a) A secretary of a cabinet-level department shall, unless otherwise provided by law: (1) Be the executive head of each cabinet-level department; (2) Be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate; (3) Serve at the pleasure of the Governor; (4) Before entering upon his or her respective duties, take and subscribe to […]
§ 25-38-206. Transfer of personnel, administrative functions, human resources, and accounting offices
(a) All administrative functions, including without limitation the human resource and accounting operations, of the following boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, programs, and offices shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Department of Agriculture: (1) The State Plant Board; (2) The Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission; (3) The Arkansas Forestry Commission; (4) The […]
§ 25-43-109. Correction of technical errors related to transformation of state government
(a) (1) The General Assembly finds that: (A) The transformation of the structure of state government under the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 involves changes to thousands of sections of the Arkansas Code concerning state entities; (B) Many of the changes required are highly technical and require careful study of the purpose and context […]
§ 25-38-207. Arkansas Agriculture Board — Creation — Members — Organization — Duties
(a) The Arkansas Agriculture Board is created to consist of twenty (20) voting members and eight (8) nonvoting ex officio members, as follows: (1) Nine (9) members, appointed by their respective boards, who sit on one (1) of the following boards or commissions: (A) Two (2) members, at least one (1) of whom shall be […]
§ 25-43-110. Funds and personnel transferred
(a) A fund or fund account name that due to the implementation of the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 has not been revised in an appropriation or in the Arkansas Code to the same fund or fund account name enacted by the Ninety-Second General Assembly, shall be payable from the appropriation enacted with the […]
§ 25-38-208. Agencies not affected
The establishment of the Department of Agriculture shall in no way affect the duties, powers, or operations of the following boards and councils: (1) Arkansas Beef Council; (2) Arkansas Catfish Promotion Board; (3) Arkansas Corn and Grain Sorghum Promotion Board; (4) Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board; (5) Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board; or (6) Arkansas […]
§ 25-43-111. State entity subject to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 33
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019, if a state entity subject to a cabinet-level department transfer under this chapter is subject to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 33: (1) The state entity subject to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 33, and the institutions under its authority shall be considered to be affiliated with […]
§ 25-38-210. Agricultural exchanges
The Department of Agriculture shall: (1) Evaluate the potential economic benefits to Arkansas and Arkansas farmers of entering into agricultural exchanges with Israel and other countries that will foster the development of trade, mutual assistance, and business relations between Arkansas and the other country; and (2) Annually report the department’s findings under subdivision (1) of […]
§ 25-38-211. Transfers of certain agricultural boards, commissions, committees, bureaus, programs, and offices
(a) As provided in this section and in §§ 25-38-206 and 25-43-202, the following boards, commissions, committees, bureaus, programs, or offices, or parts thereof, are transferred by a cabinet-level department transfer under § 25-43-103(3) to the Department of Agriculture: (1) The Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board, created under § 8-7-1204; (2) The Arkansas Agriculture Board, created […]