In addition to the powers and duties of the Department provided in Section 237 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Department of Human Services is authorized to enforce a support payment of a spouse or former spouse pursuant to a court order requiring such support if a child support obligation is being enforced under the state plan of the Department authorized by the federal Social Security Act.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 297, § 28, operative Oct. 1, 1985.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§56-26.6. Eligibility for assistance.
§56-26.7. Temporary relief employment of destitute but able-bodied persons.
§56-26.8. Victims of disasters.
§56-26.9. Equipment of governmental agencies, use of.
§56-26.13. Abolition of Oklahoma Emergency Relief Board.
§56-26.14. Transfer of properties, records and funds to Department of Public Welfare.
§56-26.16. Rules and regulations - Payments.
§56-26.17. Department of Human Services - Classification of employees.
§56-26.18. Application for relief - Allowance of false claims - Penalty.
§56-27.1. Community work and training program.
§56-27.2. Rules and regulations.
§56-27.3. Work assignments - Duration of work - Earnings.
§56-27.4. Suspension or denial of assistance for failure to work or misconduct.
§56-27.5. Approval of projects.
§56-27.6. Furnishing transportation, tools, equipment and supervision.
§56-27.7. Nature of work - Effect on regular workers.
§56-27.8. Effect of work on right to assistance.
§56-27.9. Termination of agreement.
§56-27.10. Department of Public Welfare - Scope of participation.
§56-27.11. Conflicts with federal law.
§56-28.1. Planned parenthood - Educational materials and information.
§56-31. Overseers of the indigent.
§56-32.1. Authority to establish county department.
§56-32.2. Director of Human Services - Social Services.
§56-32.3. Employment of pharmacists and doctors – Compensation – Blanket bond.
§56-33. County to support indigent persons - Power to provide indigent care facility.
§56-34. County may rent indigent care facility.
§56-35. Where county has no indigent care facility.
§56-37. Overseers to receive person removed - Appeal.
§56-38. Time of hearing appeal.
§56-39. Court may amend order of removal.
§56-41. Commissioners to bring suits.
§56-42. Administrator of indigent care facility.
§56-44. Tax levy for indigent care facility.
§56-46. Duties when complaint is made.
§56-47. Overseers to maintain documentation concerning indigent.
§56-48. Poor person may apply to district court.
§56-49. Proceedings when legal residence not known.
§56-52. Compensation of overseers.
§56-53. Submission of accounts and sworn statements of overseers.
§56-54. Sickness or death of poor stranger.
§56-57.1. Intent of Legislature.
§56-59.1. Income tax check-off for indigent health care - Indigent Health Care Revolving Fund.
§56-63. Department of Human Services - Responsibilities and duties.
§56-64. Exemptions from act - Duties of hospitals and clinics - Reports and documentation.
§56-65. Screening of persons requesting assistance.
§56-66. Reimbursements and payments to hospitals and clinics - Disbursement of state monies.
§56-91. Issue of bonds authorized.
§56-92. Election authorized - Manner of calling election.
§56-93. Contents of proclamation.
§56-96. Rate of interest - Payment - Signatures - Recording.
§56-98. Purchase of lands and buildings.
§56-99. Persons admitted - Authority and supervision.
§56-111. Erection of buildings - Care of patients.
§56-112. Supervision of treatment of patients.
§56-114. Employment of nurses, etc.
§56-121. When commissioners may sell.
§56-122. Resolution of county commissioners - Appraisement.
§56-123. Publication of notice.
§56-124. Procedure - Bids - Report to district judge.
§56-125. Deeds - Order for execution - Signing, acknowledging and attesting - Prima facie evidence.
§56-126. Proceeds - Disposition.
§56-143. Conditions of allowance.
§56-144. Termination or modification of allowance.
§56-145. Provisions when fund is insufficient.
§56-146. Class of widows entitled.
§56-147. Unlawful procurement - Penalty for attempt.
§56-148. Judgments for allowance - Citizens may petition rehearing.
§56-162. Duties and powers of the Director.
§56-162.1. Additional names for Department of Public Welfare, Welfare Commission and Director.
§56-162.1a. Additional names for Department of Human Services and Director of Human Services.
§56-162.2. Campus police and juvenile officers - Appointment - Powers.
§56-162.3. Police officers - Certification.
§56-162.4. Peace officers for Commission.
§56-163. County boards - Appointment - Duties.
§56-163.1. Satellite meal sites.
§56-163.2. Josephine Meade Anti-Hunger Act.
§56-163.3. Leftover food – Prevention of waste.
§56-164. Eligibility for assistance.
§56-165. Amount of assistance.
§56-166. Application for assistance.
§56-166.1. Application for assistance resulting from birth of child.
§56-166.2. Concurrent applications by active duty military members.
§56-167. Investigation of applications.
§56-167.1. Request for financial records - Consent.
§56-167.2. Subpoena power of the Inspector General.
§56-168. Appeal by applicant - Procedure - Review.
§56-169. Reinvestigation of assistance grants.
§56-172. Assistance to incompetent to be paid to guardian.
§56-173. Assistance inalienable.
§56-175. Assistance to crippled children.
§56-176. Homeless and neglected children.
§56-176.1. Investigation or study involving custody, placement or adoption of children - Fee.
§56-177. Assent to provisions of federal law.
§56-182. Charging fees for representing applicant prohibited.
§56-183. Confidentiality of applications, information and records – Misuse of information.
§56-185. Fraud in obtaining assistance - Penalties - Signage.
§56-186. Violations of the provisions of this act a misdemeanor.
§56-188. Provisions severable.
§56-191. Contents of affidavit.
§56-192. Exemption from costs in guardianship cases.
§56-193. Release of liens - Filing.
§56-198.9. Increase in assistance payments.
§56-198.10. Increase in assistance payments.
§56-198.11b. Public policy - Strategic Planning Committee on the Olmstead Decision.
§56-198.13. Legislative findings and intent.
§56-198.15. Self-Directed Care Option.
§56-198.16. Implementation - Requirements - Feasibility of expansion - Review.
§56-198.17. Nursing home prescreening process - Rules.
§56-199. Visual or optometric services - Free choice of practitioner and profession.
§56-199.2. Cooperation with commissions and state agencies - Interpreter services.
§56-200.1. Payment of expenses for sterilization of male recipients of public assistance.
§56-201. Group hospitalization insurance.
§56-203. Hospitalization and medical care system in the Department of Public Welfare.
§56-204. Vendor drug program - Exemption of certain drugs.
§56-204.1. Expansion of vendor drug program.
§56-212. Matching contributions.
§56-213. Reservation of employer's share of contributions - Deduction of employees' share.
§56-214. Reports - Duties of Director.
§56-215. State Budget Director OASI fund.
§56-222. Audit of financial records of hospitals as to per diem costs.
§56-223. Human Services Medical and Assistance Fund.
§56-224. Human Services Disbursing Fund.
§56-226. Department of Human Services Federal Disallowance Fund.
§56-228. Guardianship voucher program.
§56-229. OK Benefits Revolving Fund.
§56-230.51. Program components.
§56-230.53. Exclusion of automobile from determination of applicant's resources.
§56-230.54. Individual development accounts.
§56-230.55. Unmarried minor recipients - Adult supervised living arrangements.
§56-230.56. Immunization incentive program.
§56-230.57. Residency requirement.
§56-230.59. Substance abuse study.
§56-230.60. Disclosure of persons responsible for child support as precondition to TANF benefits.
§56-230.61. Extension of transitional Medicaid, child care assistance and support services.
§56-230.62. Contracts for literacy remediation, work activities, training and other services.
§56-230.64. Case management services.
§56-230.65. Employability and literacy assessment - Personal responsibility agreements.
§56-230.66. Compulsory school attendance.
§56-230.67. Application for Earned Income Tax Credit - Assistance from Department of Human Services.
§56-230.69. Child care resource and referral centers.
§56-230.70. One-stop Career/Employment Centers.
§56-230.72. Medicaid assistance.
§56-230.76. TANF Options Task Force — Membership.
§56-230.77. Delivery system for redemption of vouchers for services from faith-based providers.
§56-230.78. Oklahoma Marriage Initiative public service announcement campaign.
§56-231. Applicant for assistance to request filing of criminal charges.
§56-232. Public Welfare Commission - Notice and information to district attorney.
§56-233. Referral of willfully delinquent parents to district attorney for prosecution.
§56-234. Actions to secure compliance with court's support or maintenance orders.
§56-235. Payments to Department of Human Services.
§56-236. Legal division or unit - Contracts for private legal counsel.
§56-237. Support collection, parent location and paternity determination services.
§56-237.5. AFDC payments to adult custodians - Purpose.
§56-237.6. AFDC recipients required to participate in parent or early childhood education programs.
§56-237.8. Order of administrative law judge.
§56-237.9. Administrative law judge authorized to conduct hearings by electronic means.
§56-237.9a. Electronic transmittal of documents, electronic signature - Rules.
§56-237.10. Docketing of administrative orders.
§56-237A. Notice to obligor - Administrative procedures.
§56-238. Payment of public assistance creating debt to Department.
§56-238.2. Assignment of earnings to be honored by employer - Release from liability.
§56-238.3a. Failure to appear at hearing - Administrative order.
§56-238.4. Hearing on debt - Appeal - Orders.
§56-238.5A. Use of child support guidelines.
§56-238.6. Administrative procedures - Use.
§56-238.7. Modification of final order to pay child support.
§56-240.1. Authority of Child Support Enforcement Division to pursue collection of support.
§56-240.2. Initiation of enforcement proceedings by Division.
§56-240.4. Admissibility of report of payments.
§56-240.5. Child support services - Fee.
§56-240.6. Enforcement of child support obligation.
§56-240.7. Release of child support arrearage information to consumer reporting agencies.
§56-240.8. Publication and distribution of child support collection services.
§56-240.9. Filing cases involving concurrent jurisdiction - Enforcement of foreign orders.
§56-240.13. Guidelines for indirect contempt and purge fees - Request to Oklahoma Supreme Court.
§56-240.16. Court-ordered payment plan - Probationary continuation of license.
§56-240.17. Termination of suspension, revocation, nonissuance, or nonrenewal order.
§56-240.19. Implementation of order of suspension, revocation or probation.
§56-240.20. Fees to cover administrative costs.
§56-240.21. Promulgation of rules.
§56-240.22. Financial institution data match reporting system.
§56-240.22A. Financial institution data match reporting system - Definitions.
§56-240.22B. Information required from financial institutions.
§56-240.22G. Financial institution data match reporting system - Levy of match accounts.
§56-240.23. Orders over signature of Director.
§56-240.24. Delinquent or missing parent "Most Wanted" list.
§56-241. Participation in food stamp program - Agreements - Distribution - Reimbursement procedures.
§56-241.1. Electronic benefit identification program - Implementation.
§56-241.3. Limitation of benefits - Amount and receipt of allotments.
§56-241.4. Restrictions on debit and electronic benefit cards - Violations.
§56-242. Distribution of federally donated agricultural commodities - Limitations.
§56-243. Food stamp fraud - Penalties.
§56-244. Conflicting federal statutes.
§56-245. Short title - Creation of committee - Purpose - Membership - Meetings - Expenses.
§56-245.1. Partnerships to generate funding.
§56-246. HOPE Act – Eligibility verification – Independent vendors.
§56-247. Quarterly review of eligibility – Notice of discrepancy or change.
§56-248. Identity authentication for applicants.
§56-249. Sharing of information if fraud suspected.
§56-250. Promulgation of rules and regulations.
§56-253. Legislative findings.
§56-255. Contracts with fiduciary organizations - Evaluation criteria - Responsibilities - Grants.
§56-256. Individual development account (IDA) - Matching funds.
§56-257. Permitted uses of individual development accounts.
§56-258. Withdrawals under false pretenses or for other than approved purposes - Penalties.
§56-259. State agency responsible for implementation of act.
§56-260. Individual Development Account (IDA) Revolving Fund.
§56-300. Oklahoma Medical Center - Institutions included.
§56-327.1. Purchase or lease of passenger motor vehicles.
§56-330. Use of monies - Federal funds - Commission as sole state agency.
§56-335. Outpatient services for former patients of Taft State Hospital.
§56-343. Basic medical services programs at schools for persons with intellectual disabilities.
§56-347. Guardian and conservator services.
§56-411. Deceased child or retarded person - Funeral arrangements and expenses.
§56-530.2. Purpose and policy of act - Maintenance of minimum standards - Certificate required.
§56-530.4. Application for certificate - Provisional certificate.
§56-530.7. Revocation or refusal to renew certificate - Notice and hearing.
§56-530.8. Appeals - Injunctions - Violations.
§56-604. Family Support Program - Eligibility criteria.
§56-605. Rules and regulations.
§56-607. Termination of assistance.
§56-608. Hearing upon denial or termination.
§56-625.1. Short title – Purpose - Definitions.
§56-625.2. Statewide Independent Living Council – Contracts for services.
§56-703. Credit for providing volunteer in-home service.
§56-705. Volunteer Service Credit Bank Program Advisory Council.
§56-1005.1. Definitions – Fraudulent receipt of assistance.
§56-1005.2. Short title - Defunding Fetal-Body-Parts Trafficking Act.
§56-1005.4. Violations – Penalties – Investigation.
§56-1006. Medicaid fraud - Penalties.
§56-1007. Additional penalties.
§56-1007.1. Short title - Defunding Statutory Rape Cover-up Act.
§56-1007.3. Eligibility for Medicaid reimbursement – Failure to report statutory rape.
§56-1007.4. Promulgation of rules to investigate complaints.
§56-1008. Annual report on Medicaid fraud.
§56-1009.1. Short title - Legislative findings.
§56-1010.8A. Medicaid Health Improvement Revolving Fund.
§56-1010.13. Representatives of incompetent Medicaid beneficiaries.
§56-1010.21. Short title – Purpose - Definition.
§56-1010.22. Establishment of program – Services to be offered – Target population.
§56-1011.3. Powers, duties and responsibilities of Health Care Authority – Program opt-out option.
§56-1011.5. Nursing facility incentive reimbursement rate plan.
§56-1011.6. Disease management program.
§56-1011.7. Plan to implement alternatives for long-term care.
§56-1011.8. Program to encourage use of primary care services in lieu of emergency room services.
§56-1011.9. Establishment of method to reduce payment error rate - Reporting of errors.
§56-1011.10. Health care benefit waiver for full-time state university or college students.
§56-1011.11. Durable medical equipment retrieval program – Rules - Definition.
§56-1011.13. Nursing Facility Supplemental Payment Program Revolving Fund.
§56-1011.14. Penalties and interest for failing to timely pay.
§56-1011.15. SoonerCare eligibility modifications.
§56-1012.1. Short title - Commitment to Care for People with Complex Physical Disabilities Act.
§56-1012.3. Coverage for specialty provider services.
§56-1012.4. Regulations and policies for CRT products and services.
§56-1015.3. Requirements for Medicaid claims on wheeled mobility purchases.
§56-1016. Study of coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices for Medicaid-eligible individuals.
§56-1017.1. Oklahoma Choices for Long-Term Care Act - Purpose.
§56-1017.2. Legislative findings.
§56-1017.4. Enrollment system.
§56-1017.5. Request for Proposal.
§56-1017.6. Options counseling for long-term care for persons 55 or older.
§56-1018. Reductions in planned services – Prospective application only.
§56-1020. Community-based program of services - Administration - Gifts.
§56-1025.3. Community services worker registry.
§56-1025.4. Violations and penalties.
§56-1030.3. Compensation of receiver.
§56-2002. Nursing Facilities Quality of Care Fee.
§56-2004. Home-Based Support Quality Assurance Assessment.
§56-3001. Short title - Purpose - Joint implementation by state agencies.
§56-3002. Designation of participating agencies - Respective responsibilities - Report.
§56-3002.1. Aging and Disability Resource Consortium initiative.
§56-3002.2. Short title - Oklahoma Caregiver Support Act.
§56-3002.3. Expansion of service locations.
§56-3002.4. Support for awareness of information, services and training.
§56-3002.5. Oklahoma Options Counseling for Long-term Care Program Act.
§56-3002.6. Legislative findings.
§56-3002.7. Definitions - Options Counseling for Long-term Care Program - Consultation.
§56-3003. Contents of coordinated system - Implementation deadlines.
§56-3021. Oklahoma 2-1-1 Collaborative - Duties and responsibilities.
§56-3051. Discontinuance of state-administered resource centers.
§56-3100. Aging Services Division - Duties.
§56-3121. Compassionate Care Task Force.
§56-4000. Oklahoma College Savings Plan exemption.
§56-4001.2. Options for a qualified ABLE program.
§56-4001.3. Use of financial institutions as depositories and managers.
§56-4001.4. Establishment of accounts – Contributions - Withdrawals.
§56-4002.1. Short title - Ensuring Access to Medicaid Act.
§56-4002.1a. Legislative intent.
§56-4002.3a. Capitated contracts with contracted entities for delivery of Medicaid services.
§56-4002.3b. Capitated contracts – Requests for proposals – Competitive bids.
§56-4002.3c. Process for assignment of Medicaid members to contracted entities.
§56-4002.3d. Selection of primary care provider by members.
§56-4002.4. Network adequacy standards for contracted entities.
§56-4002.4a. Standard contract terms.
§56-4002.6. Requirements for prior authorizations.
§56-4002.7. Requirements for processing and adjudicating claims.
§56-4002.8. Uniform procedures for review and appeal for adverse determinations.
§56-4002.10. Readiness review.
§56-4002.11. Scorecard comparing contracted entities and dental benefit managers.
§56-4002.12. Minimum rates of reimbursement – Value-based payment arrangements.
§56-4002.12a. Dental benefit managers to maintain Medicaid Dental Advisory Committees.
§56-4002.12b. Oklahoma Health Care Authority to ensure sustainability.
§56-4002.13. Medicaid Delivery System Quality Advisory Committee.
§56-4002.14. Uniform defined measures and goals - Provider quality metrics.