Arkansas’ Opioid Settlements
This Community Guide will describe how Arkansas is spending its opioid settlements, and whether Arkansas is working to ensure community access to opioid settlement funds. Last revised September 1, 2024.
$227.70 million[1]
[1] Total is rounded. See The Official Opioid Settlement Tracker Tally. Accessed September 1, 2024.
State-Local Agreement (Arkansas Opioids Memorandum of Understanding); Local Distribution Agreements (Cities Distribution Agreement and Counties Distribution Agreement); Court Order (Order Establishing the Arkansas Opioids Qualified Settlement Fund)
Ultimate Decisionmaker
Leadership of the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership (ARORP) (i.e., ARORP’s director, Association of Arkansas Counties’ executive director, and Arkansas Municipal League’s executive director)
Decision-making Process
Leadership of the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership (ARORP) ultimately approves funding requests with input and recommendations from the ARORP Advisory Board.
The Arkansas Attorney General’s office decides how to allocate this share.
Supplantation
Prohibited (in practice)
Not prohibited
Public Input
Up to each locality (not required) No opportunities available as to the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership (not required)
No opportunities available (not required)
Advisory Body
Yes (required). See the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership’s Advisory Board.
There are no published rules requiring the Advisory Board to include a member with lived and/or living experience.
No (not required)
Expenditures
Neither intrastate nor public reporting required, but see the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership’s Funded Projects Table.
Neither intrastate nor public reporting required
Updates
For updates on the local share, visit the Arkansas Municipal League’s and Association of Arkansas Counties’ Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership website.
A single resource containing state share updates could not be found.
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