Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 20-16-2405 - [See Note] Agencies(a) The Department of Health shall: (1) Contract with a number of agencies sufficient to ensure that each pregnant woman seeking an abortion in Arkansas receives a resource access assistance offer and has the opportunity to receive care plan coordination services and healthy pregnancy program services;(2) Annually, designate the proportion of resource access assistance offers to be provided by each agency's share of participants in care plan coordination services or healthy pregnancy program services; and(3) Contract only with agencies that are capable of offering all of the services required under § 20-8-1001 or the resource access assistance offer.(b) An agency shall be able, at a minimum, to provide resource access assistance offers, care plan coordination services, and healthy pregnancy program services by telephonic means using a toll-free number established by the department.(c) Each agency and any subcontractor or care agent of the agency providing services related to § 20-8-1001 or resource access assistance offers shall not: (1) Be an abortion provider or entity that directly or indirectly assists women in obtaining an abortion;(2) Own, operate, or be affiliated with an abortion provider or an entity that directly or indirectly promotes abortions or assists women in obtaining an abortion;(3) Employ a person who has performed an abortion in the last two (2) years;(4) Have as a director, board member, officer, volunteer, or employee a person who serves in any of these roles for an entity described in subdivisions (c)(1)-(3) of this section; or(5) Refer women to an abortion provider, recommend abortion, or take any other action that directly or indirectly advises or assists a woman in obtaining an abortion.Added by Act 2021, No. 90,§ 3, eff. 7/28/2021.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.