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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 20-76-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Assessment services” means an...
§ 20-76-102. Coordination of state agency service delivery - (a) To ensure that all available state government resources are...
§ 20-76-104. Distribution of commodities - The Department of Human Services shall neither seek reimbursement nor...
§ 20-76-106. Statewide implementation plan — Transitional Employment Assistance - (a) The Division of Workforce Services shall: (1) Develop a...
§ 20-76-109. Use of contracts - The Division of Workforce Services, as appropriate, should provide work...
§ 20-76-112. Human Services Workers in the Schools Program - (a) The Human Services Workers in the Schools Program is...
§ 20-76-113. Promoting outcomes for the Transitional Employment Assistance Program and the Arkansas Work Pays Program - (a) The administration of the Transitional Employment Assistance Program and...
§ 20-76-114. Department of Human Services — Authority limited - The Department of Human Services shall not seek, apply for,...
§ 20-76-115. Federal resource limits for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - (a) Unless required by federal law: (1) The resource limit...
§ 20-76-116. Targeted incentive and instruction program for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - (a) To the extent possible, the Department of Human Services...
§ 20-76-117. Child support — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - The Department of Human Services shall require a custodial parent...
Subchapter 2 - Administration Generally
§ 20-76-201. Department of Human Services — Powers and duties - The Department of Human Services shall: (1) Administer assigned forms...
§ 20-76-202. Department of Human Services — Public assistance — Temporary funding - (a) (1) It is found and determined that the continued...
§ 20-76-204. County offices — Powers and duties - (a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services...
§ 20-76-207. Political activity - (a) (1) No officer or employee of the appropriate division...
§ 20-76-208. Legislative finding — Regional offices - (a) It is hereby found and determined by the Seventy-Seventh...
§ 20-76-209. Payment of certain contributions and withholdings by Department of Human Services generally - (a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services...
§ 20-76-210. Payment of certain contributions and withholdings — Certain nursing home care projects - (a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services...
§ 20-76-211. Secretary's office of Department of Human Services — Client Specific Emergency Services Revolving Fund Paying Account - (a) The Secretary's office of the Department of Human Services...
§ 20-76-212. Reimbursement rate to providers — Arkansas Medicaid Program - Notwithstanding any other provision in federal law or departmental commitment...
§ 20-76-213. Electronic benefit transfer system for food stamps - The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human...
§ 20-76-214. Payment of certain contributions and withholdings — Transitional employment assistance - (a) The Department of Human Services is authorized to pay...
§ 20-76-215. [Deleted.] - A.C.R.C. Notes. Former § 20-76-215, regarding Administrative Services and the...
Subchapter 3 - Social Security Disability Determination
§ 20-76-301. State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination — Creation - There is created and established at the seat of government...
§ 20-76-302. State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination — Director — Bonds - (a) The executive head of the State Department for Social...
§ 20-76-303. State Department for Social Security Administration Disability Determination and director — Powers and duties - It shall be the function, power, and duty of the...
§ 20-76-304. Validation of contracts between State of Arkansas and United States - (a) Any executory contract or agreement, or applicable part thereof,...
§ 20-76-305. Federal Disability Determination Fund — Creation - There is created and established in the State Treasury a...
§ 20-76-306. Use of subpoenas in hearings on benefit determinations - (a) The Director of the State Department for Social Security...
Subchapter 4 - Grants of Assistance
§ 20-76-401. Eligibility generally — Transitional Employment Assistance Program - (a) (1) The Transitional Employment Assistance Program is created. (2)...
§ 20-76-402. Work activities — Definitions - (a) The Division of Workforce Services shall develop and describe...
§ 20-76-403. Application — Fraud - (a) The application for assistance shall contain a statement of...
§ 20-76-404. Duration of assistance — Extended support services - (a) (1) The Division of Workforce Services shall not provide...
§ 20-76-405. Diversion from assistance - (a) When an applicant applies for employment assistance, the Department...
§ 20-76-407. Micro-lending program and individual development accounts - (a) (1) In accordance with their personal responsibility agreement, low-income...
§ 20-76-408. Appeal to Department of Human Services - If an application for assistance is denied in whole or...
§ 20-76-409. Opt out - The State of Arkansas opts out of Section 115 of...
§ 20-76-410. Administrative sanctions — Transitional employment assistance - (a) A reduction in financial assistance or case closure shall...
§ 20-76-412. Abandonment — Duties of Department of Human Services - Whenever any person makes an application for Transitional Employment Assistance...
§ 20-76-418. Foster care — Reduction in long-term care - (a) It shall be the goal of the State of...
§ 20-76-419. Blind persons generally - (a) Assistance grants shall be given under this act to...
§ 20-76-420. Blind persons — Choice of eye care - (a) No state official, employee of the Department of Human...
§ 20-76-421. Aged and blind persons generally - (a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services...
§ 20-76-423. Aged, blind, and disabled — Supplemental Security Income — Legislative intent - It was the intent of the Sixty-Ninth General Assembly that...
§ 20-76-429. Receipt of additional property or income by assistance recipient - (a) If at any time during the continuance of assistance...
§ 20-76-431. Transfer of property prohibited - (a) No person shall, at any time during the continuance...
§ 20-76-432. Removal to another county - (a) Any recipient of assistance who is moved, moves, or...
§ 20-76-433. Records — Confidentiality - (a) (1) (A) Records identifying persons participating in programs administered...
§ 20-76-434. Maintenance of list of recipients - (a) In order to ensure that the needy citizens of...
§ 20-76-435. No entitlement to assistance - (a) This chapter shall not be interpreted to entitle any...
§ 20-76-436. Recovery of benefits from recipients' estates - (a) (1) Federal or state benefits in cash or in...
§ 20-76-437. Reporting — Transitional employment assistance - The Department of Human Services, the Division of Workforce Services,...
§ 20-76-438. Purpose - (a) (1) The General Assembly finds that it is important...
§ 20-76-439. Self-sufficiency — Assessments, personal responsibility agreements, and supportive services - (a) (1) At the time of application for transitional employment...
§ 20-76-443. Education and training - (a) (1) The Department of Human Services and the Division...
§ 20-76-444. Arkansas Work Pays Program — Created — Duties - (a) (1) There is created the Arkansas Work Pays Program....
§ 20-76-445. Career Pathways Initiative — Findings - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Higher education credentials...
§ 20-76-446. Community Investment Initiative - (a) (1) There is created the Community Investment Initiative. (2)...
Subchapter 7 - Drug Screening and Testing Act of 2015
§ 20-76-701. Title - This act shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 20-76-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Caretaker relative” means any...
§ 20-76-703. Administration - (a) (1) Subject to state appropriation, the Division of Workforce...
§ 20-76-704. Powers and duties - (a) The Division of Workforce Services, in coordination with the...
§ 20-76-705. Standards in drug screening and testing pilot program - The drug screening and testing program shall include without limitation:...
§ 20-76-706. Information regarding drug testing - (a) All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, and drug test...
§ 20-76-707. Positive drug test result not a disability - An applicant or recipient who receives a positive result on...
§ 20-76-708. Rulemaking authority - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services, in...
§ 20-76-709. Effective date - This subchapter shall be effective no later than December 31,...
Subchapter 8 - Employment Opportunities for Able-Bodied Adults Act of 2019
§ 20-76-801. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 20-76-802. Legislative findings and intent - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Arkansas has made...
§ 20-76-803. Employment and training program requirement - The Department of Human Services shall require an able-bodied adult...
§ 20-76-804. Reporting requirement - (a) The Department of Human Services shall report the department's...