§ 6-60-120 — Implicit bias training - Definitions

Arkansas § 6-60-120

• Jurisdiction: Arkansas
• Title: 6

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(a) An institution shall not: (1) Require an institutional employee to complete or participate in implicit bias training; or (2) Take adverse employment action against an institutional employee for the institutional employee's failure or refusal to complete or participate in implicit bias training. (b) (1) An institutional employee may leave a training that the institutional employee is attending if the institutional employee determines that the training addresses implicit biases. (2) An institutional employee who leaves a training under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall have no recourse due to the institutional employee's exposure to training that the institutional employee determines addresses implicit biases. (c) For purposes of this section, an institution is not prohibited from requiring implicit bias training if at least ninety-five percent (95%) of the implicit bias training is required by an accreditor, grantor, or licensor. (d) As used in this section: (1) "Implicit bias training" means a training or educational program designed to expose an individual to biases that the training's or educational program's developer or designer presumes the individual to unconsciously or unintentionally possess that predispose the individual to be unfairly prejudiced in favor of or against a thing, person, or group to adjust the individual's pattern of thinking in order to eliminate the individual's unconscious or unintentional bias or prejudice; and (2) "Institution" means a state-supported two-year or four-year institution of higher education.

Legislative History

Added by Act 2023, No. 511,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2023.