{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-25-36-103","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 25-36-103","heading":"Agency contracting - Diversity","body":"(a) A state agency shall include in all requests for proposals and requests for qualifications, language that encourages minority participation in each request for proposals and request for qualifications issued by the state agency. (b) (1) State agency requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall take into consideration minority inclusion in the proposed project. (2) Requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall provide that an applicant unable to include minority-owned businesses may explain the circumstances preventing minority inclusion. Acts 2003, No. 1814, § 1.\n\n(a) A state agency shall include in all requests for proposals and requests for qualifications, language that encourages minority participation in each request for proposals and request for qualifications issued by the state agency.\n\n(b) (1) State agency requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall take into consideration minority inclusion in the proposed project. (2) Requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall provide that an applicant unable to include minority-owned businesses may explain the circumstances preventing minority inclusion.\n\n(1) State agency requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall take into consideration minority inclusion in the proposed project.\n\n(2) Requests for proposals and requests for qualifications shall provide that an applicant unable to include minority-owned businesses may explain the circumstances preventing minority inclusion.","path":["AR Code","Title 25","Chapter 36"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"7cc901f22fd779b58432eb8ebb5919d3c170ffb7a31a46794021fc4e5d640f85","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-25-36-102","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-25-36-104","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}