Arkansas Code
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 25-10-129. Department of Human Services authorized to issue rules to assure compliance with federal statutes, rules, and regulations

(a)
(1) It is the intent of the General Assembly that the State of Arkansas utilize federal funding to the fullest extent possible to provide care to persons eligible for assistance or benefits under programs wholly or partially federally funded or fundable.
(2) The General Assembly recognizes that the Department of Human Services is presently charged with, among other things, all welfare activity in the state, including:
(A) Services to children and to the aged, blind, and individuals with disabilities;
(B) Public assistance; and
(C) Medical assistance.

(3) The General Assembly further recognizes that federal laws and regulations affecting such programs are the supreme law of the land and change frequently, sometimes with little or no advance notice to the state, such that it is impractical to prescribe the operations of such programs by statute.
(4) It is therefore the intent of the General Assembly to clarify and consolidate the authority of the department to assure conformity with all applicable federal dictates by empowering the department and its divisions to, by rule, adopt or implement all federal statutes, rules, and regulations as may be currently in force, or as may be adopted or amended in the future, when such rule is necessary to conform to federal statutes, rules, and regulations affecting programs administered or funded by or through the department.

(b) The department and its various divisions are hereby authorized and directed to promulgate rules, as necessary to conform to federal statutes, rules, and regulations as may now or in the future affect programs administered or funded by or through the department or its various divisions, as necessary to receive any federal funds which may now or in the future be available to the department or its various divisions.
(c) All rules promulgated pursuant to this section shall be promulgated in conformity with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., and after legislative review and approval as required by § 10-3-309.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

Title 25 - State Government

Chapter 10 - Department of Human Services

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 25-10-102. Organization generally

§ 25-10-104. Developmental disabilities services — Board of Developmental Disabilities Services

§ 25-10-106. Division heads and other personnel

§ 25-10-107. Reports by divisions

§ 25-10-108. Coordination of programs, procedures, etc., of department and institutional boards

§ 25-10-109. Institutional services generally — Development of admission policies, etc

§ 25-10-110. Institutional services generally — Charges

§ 25-10-111. Budgeting generally

§ 25-10-113. Disposition of direct services funds

§ 25-10-114. Developmental disabilities — Special authorization — Cash funds

§ 25-10-115. County offices of human services

§ 25-10-116. Advisory committees generally

§ 25-10-118. Child support enforcement program — Reports

§ 25-10-119. Certification of vouchers

§ 25-10-120. Research and Training Institute

§ 25-10-121. Proceeds from the sale of land — Deposit in special trust fund

§ 25-10-122. Office of Minority Mental Health — Creation

§ 25-10-123. Programs and policies — Development

§ 25-10-124. Administration of state or federal funds

§ 25-10-126. Grants-in-aid — Conditions for receiving funds

§ 25-10-127. Advance disbursements

§ 25-10-129. Department of Human Services authorized to issue rules to assure compliance with federal statutes, rules, and regulations

§ 25-10-130. Employee assistance programs — Prohibition of agreement for services

§ 25-10-131. Match transfer

§ 25-10-132. Medical services and county operations — Use of local funds

§ 25-10-133. Mental health services — Transfer provision

§ 25-10-134. Community-based residential programs — Rules

§ 25-10-135. Youth services

§ 25-10-136. Private service contract notice required

§ 25-10-137. Private service contract performance evaluation requirement

§ 25-10-138. Education requirements for certain Division of Youth Services employees

§ 25-10-139. Training requirements for certain Division of Youth Services employees

§ 25-10-141. Subpoenas in administrative adjudications

§ 25-10-143. Advisory opinions — Definition

§ 25-10-144. Governor's Advisory Commission on National Service and Volunteerism — Creation