Arkansas Code Title 21. Public Officers and Employees § 21-3-101. Equal employment hiring program

(a) Every state department, agency, board, commission, and institution of higher education and every constitutional officer as defined in Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 56, § 1, shall adopt and pursue a comprehensive equal employment hiring program designed to achieve a goal of increasing the percentage of minority employees within the state department, agency, board, commission, and institution of higher education and within the constitutional office to a level that approximates the percentage of minorities in the state's population.

(c) The employee handbook or manual of every state department, agency, board, commission, and institution of higher education and every employee handbook or manual of every constitutional office shall include the following statement in describing the equal employment opportunity hiring program required under this section:

“The State of Arkansas does not discriminate in access to employment opportunities or in employment or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.”