Verification record
How current is Arkansas’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?
Last verified 2026-10-19. Read from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed that every recorded passage is still there today.
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Passages captured from the issuing body
1,379 characters, word for word
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Official sources
codeofarrules.arkansas.gov
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Dated reads on file
captures taken 2026-10-05, 2026-10-12, 2026-10-16
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Automatic re-checks
newest 2026-10-19
The rule on file
17 CAR 160-907 (rewritten eff. Oct 10, 2025). Each pharmacist on duty may use up to 4 support staff, counting pharmacy technicians, licensed interns and externs together.
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The recorded passages
Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-16. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.
Source 1: codeofarrules.arkansas.gov
https://codeofarrules.arkansas.gov/Rules/Rule?levelType=section&titleID=17&chapterID=174&subChapterID=217&partID=770&subPartID=5550§ionID=36074 ↗17 CAR 160-907, operative text
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-1917 CAR §160-907. Pharmacist-to-support staff ratio. (a) Each pharmacist on duty in a permitted pharmacy may utilize up to four (4) support staff members (pharmacy technicians, licensed interns or externs) to assist the pharmacist under direct supervision. (b) Licensed intern(s) working as part of an experiential learning experience as assigned by an ACPE-accredited, board-approved college of pharmacy, and graduate interns shall not count in this ratio. (c)(1) This ratio shall also exclude supportive personnel whose functions are not directly related to the preparation or distribution of medication. (2) Such persons include, but are not limited to, clerks, secretaries, messengers, and delivery personnel.
712 characters, recorded as written.
Codification Notes
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(8/23/96, Revised 10/2000, 8/2001 and 7/22/2015)." "ACPE" means the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
237 characters, recorded as written.
History and Authority lines
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19History: Ark. R. 2025-15 (eff. October 10, 2025) Authority: Arkansas Code §17-92-205
84 characters, recorded as written.
the compilation's official-version statement
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19Pursuant to Arkansas Code §25-15-218, the Code of Arkansas Rules is a codification of the general and permanent rules of Arkansas agencies. This online searchable database constitutes the official version of the Code of Arkansas Rules and became effective on January 1, 2025. It is updated on a weekly basis and may not reflect recent rulemaking.
346 characters, recorded as written.
Every read and every re-check, newest first
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2026-10-19
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (4 of 4, 1,181 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.
2026-10-16
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (4 of 4, 1,181 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.
2026-10-16
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Arkansas's pharmacy staffing rule is unchanged as of October 16, 2026. 17 CAR 160-907, re-read from the official Code of Arkansas Rules, still lets each pharmacist on duty use up to four support staff, counting pharmacy technicians, licensed interns and externs together, while interns on an assigned college rotation, graduate interns, clerks, secretaries, messengers and delivery staff stay outside the count.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-15
Re-check: mismatch
0 of 1 recorded passages matched the page as served that day. A mismatch is reported as it stands and never passed; no reading changes without a person deciding it.
2026-10-12
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Arkansas's pharmacy staffing rule is unchanged as of October 12, 2026. 17 CAR 160-907 still lets each pharmacist on duty use up to four support staff, counting pharmacy technicians, licensed interns and externs together, while interns on an assigned college rotation, graduate interns, clerks, secretaries, messengers and delivery staff stay outside the count. The Board's June and July 2026 meeting minutes, now posted, contain no change to this rule, and no amendment is pending.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-05
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Arkansas's pharmacy staffing rule is unchanged as of October 5, 2026. 17 CAR 160-907 still lets each pharmacist on duty use up to four support staff, counting pharmacy technicians, licensed interns and externs together, while interns on an assigned college rotation, graduate interns, clerks, secretaries, messengers and delivery staff stay outside the count. No amendment has been filed since the rule was rewritten effective October 10, 2025, and none is pending.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-21
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Arkansas's pharmacy staffing rule is unchanged. 17 CAR 160-907 still allows each pharmacist on duty up to four support staff, counting pharmacy technicians, licensed interns and externs together, and still leaves rotation interns, graduate interns, clerks, secretaries, messengers and delivery staff outside that count. No amendment has been filed since the rule was rewritten effective October 10, 2025, and no change is pending. The Board's next regular meeting is October 7-8, 2026.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-17
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Arkansas does not limit how many hours a pharmacist or pharmacy technician may work, and sets no required break, minimum rest between shifts or schedule-display duty. Its only hours provision concerns pharmacy interns earning practical experience toward licensure, which may not exceed forty hours per week.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-08
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Arkansas allows each pharmacist on duty up to four support staff under 17 CAR 160-907, and since October 10, 2025 that four counts licensed interns and externs alongside pharmacy technicians rather than technicians alone. The separate hospital and ambulatory care ratio was removed at the same time, so one rule now covers every permitted pharmacy. Interns working an assigned college rotation, graduate interns, and clerks, secretaries, messengers and delivery staff are still outside the count.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
What the re-check results mean
- Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
- Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
- Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
- Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.