Title 47 — Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions
34 chapters · 745 sections in this title.
AS 47.20.300 Department to implement program.
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The department shall plan, develop, and implement a hearing screening, tracking, and intervention program to facilitate compliance with the requirements of AS 47.20.310 — 47.20.390.
AS 47.20.310 Screening requirements.
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(a) Subject to (b) of this section, the physician in attendance at or immediately after the birth of a child in a hospital in this state, or, if a physician is not in attendance at or immediately after the birth, the person attending the newborn child in a hospital in this state,…
AS 47.20.320 Reporting and tracking program.
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(a) The department shall develop and implement a reporting and tracking system for newborns and infants screened for hearing loss in order to provide the department with information and data to effectively plan, establish, monitor, and evaluate the newborn and infant hearing scre…
AS 47.20.330 Intervention program.
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(a) The department shall establish guidelines for the provision of follow-up care for newborn and infant children in the state who have been identified as having or being at risk of developing a hearing loss. The services recommended must include appropriate follow-up care for ne…
AS 47.20.340 Outreach campaign.
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The department shall conduct a community outreach and awareness campaign to inform medical providers, pregnant women, and families of newborns and infants of the newborn and infant hearing screening, tracking, and intervention program and the value of early hearing screening, tra…
AS 47.20.350 Report.
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The department shall prepare an annual report for the governor about the newborn and infant hearing screening, tracking, and intervention program administered under AS 47.20.310 — 47.20.390. The report must include recommendations on improving the early screening, tracking, and i…
AS 47.20.360 Performance evaluation.
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(a) The department shall collect and compile performance data on the early hearing screening, tracking, and intervention program established under AS 47.20.300 — 47.20.390 to ensure that the program is in compliance with AS 47.20.300 — 47.20.390 and the regulations adopted under …
AS 47.20.390 Definitions.
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In AS 47.20.300 — 47.20.390, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health; (2) “department” means the Department of Health; (3) “follow-up care” means all of the following: (A) services necessary to diagnose and confirm a hearing loss; (B) ongoing audiological services to …
AS 47.21.010 Establishment.
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(a) The Department of Family and Community Services shall establish an adventure-based education program designed to bring adventure-based education to appropriate juvenile offenders and others selected by referral agencies. (b) Adventure-based education is a short-term, intensiv…
AS 47.21.020 Program.
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(a) An adventure-based education program must include provisions for the following phases: (1) Phase I: Basic Skills Learning (A) physical conditioning: running, hiking, swimming, and other related activities; (B) technical training: the use of specialized tools and equipment, ca…
AS 47.24.010 Persons required to report; reports of harm.
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(a) Except as provided in (e) of this section, the following persons who, in the performance of their professional duties, have reasonable cause to believe that a vulnerable adult suffers from undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect shall, not …
AS 47.24.011 Duties of the department regarding services and protection for vulnerable adults.
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In order to facilitate the provision of supportive and protective services for vulnerable adults, the department shall (1) compile information on available supportive and protective services for vulnerable adults in the state; (2) establish, publicize, and maintain a vulnerable a…
AS 47.24.013 Reports of undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of vulnerable adults in out-of-home care facilities.
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(a) If a report received under AS 47.24.010 pertains to the undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult that is alleged to have been committed by or to have resulted from the negligence of the staff or a volunteer of an out-of…
AS 47.24.015 Action on reports.
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(a) Upon the department's receipt of a report under AS 47.24.010, the department, or its designee, shall promptly initiate an investigation to determine whether the vulnerable adult who is the subject of the report suffers from undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, n…
AS 47.24.016 Surrogate decision makers for vulnerable adults.
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(a) If the department determines under AS 47.24.015 that a vulnerable adult is in need of protective services, but the department cannot obtain the vulnerable adult's consent to receive the services because the vulnerable adult is unable to consent or lacks decision making capaci…
AS 47.24.017 Delivery of protective services for vulnerable adults.
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(a) If the department determines under AS 47.24.015 that a vulnerable adult is in need of protective services and the vulnerable adult, the vulnerable adult's guardian, conservator, attorney-in-fact, trustee, a surrogate decision maker selected under AS 47.24.016, or a surrogate …
AS 47.24.019 Petitioning court for certain protective services.
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(a) If, after investigation under AS 47.24.015, the department has reasonable cause to believe that a vulnerable adult is in need of protective services and is an incapacitated person, the department may petition the court under AS 13.26 for appointment of a guardian or temporary…
AS 47.24.020 Secs. 47.24.020 , 47.24.030 Action; protective services. [Repealed, § 14 ch 129 SLA 1994.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.24.040 Monitoring.
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If ongoing protective services are provided to a vulnerable adult under AS 47.24.017, the department shall monitor the adult's situation, as the department considers appropriate, until the department determines that the protective services are no longer needed.
AS 47.24.050 Confidentiality of reports.
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(a) Investigation reports and reports of the undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult filed under this chapter are confidential and are not subject to public inspection and copying under AS 40.25.110 — 40.25.125. However, u…
AS 47.24.060 Authority of the department. [Repealed, § 14 ch 129 SLA 1994.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.24.070 Required review of proposed regulations.
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Before adoption by the department, regulations to implement this chapter shall be provided to the Alaska Commission on Aging established under AS 44.29.750 for review.
AS 47.24.075 Secs. 47.24.075 — 47.24.110. Reports; definitions. [Repealed, § 14 ch 129 SLA 1994.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.24.120 Immunity from liability; retaliation prohibited.
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(a) A person who in good faith makes a report under AS 47.24.010, regardless of whether the person is required to do so, is immune from civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed for making the report. (b) An employer or supervisor of a person who in …
AS 47.24.130 Treatment through spiritual means.
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This chapter may not be construed to mean that a person is unduly influenced, abused, neglected, self-neglected, vulnerable, unable to consent, abandoned, exploited, or in need of emergency or protective services for the sole reason that the person relies on or is being furnished…
AS 47.24.900 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “abandonment” means desertion of a vulnerable adult by a caregiver; (2) “abuse” means (A) the intentional, knowing, or reckless nonaccidental and nontherapeutic infliction of physical pain, injury, mental or emotional distress, or fear, including coercion and…
AS 47.25.001 Powers and duties.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.010 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.010.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.011 Administrative costs of program contractors.
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To defray administrative expenses, a contractor under AS 47.25.001(b) may only retain $1,000 or 12 percent, whichever is greater, of the child care assistance program funds it receives from the department under the contract.
AS 47.25.020 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.020.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.021 Conditions of receipt of benefits.
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Benefits may be paid for the care of children of a low or moderate income family only if a parent or guardian, because of the child care, is freed to work or to seek work or to attend school. Benefits may not be paid for the care of children of a family where one parent or guardi…
AS 47.25.030 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.030.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.031 Eligibility of families for benefits.
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The department shall determine the eligibility of families for child care benefits on the basis of the following factors: (1) income of the family including salary, alimony, child support, retirement benefits, social security, and any other source of income; (2) number of childre…
AS 47.25.035 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.035.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.040 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.040.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.041 Contributions by parent or guardian.
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The department shall develop a sliding fee scale based on the factors listed in AS 47.25.031 for purposes of determining the amount to be contributed by the parent or guardian for child care; the amount may not exceed seven percent of the family monthly income. The contribution o…
AS 47.25.050 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.050.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.051 Placement; payment by state.
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(a) Parents or guardians shall select the child care facility for the care of their children. (b) Benefits shall be paid by the department directly to the municipality or organization contracting with the child care facility. (c) The department shall use a market rate study or a …
AS 47.25.060 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.060.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.070 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.070.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.071 Child care grant program.
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(a) A child care grant program is established in the department to provide state assistance in the operation of child care facilities. The department shall provide grants for the operation of child care facilities, including private nonprofit child care facilities. Participation …
AS 47.25.080 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.080.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.090 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.090.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.095 Definitions for child care assistance and child care grant programs.
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In AS 47.25.001 — 47.25.095, (1) “child” means a person below 13 years of age, or a minor who has a developmental disability; (2) “child care” means the care, supervision, and guidance of a child or children unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian on a regular basis for perio…
AS 47.25.100 [Renumbered as AS 47.55.100.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 47.25.110 [Repealed, § 1 ch 118 SLA 1968.]
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Article 2. General Relief Assistance.
AS 47.25.120 Eligibility for assistance.
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Financial assistance may be given under AS 47.25.120 — 47.25.300, so far as practicable under the conditions in this state, to a needy person who is eligible under the regulations of the department.
AS 47.25.130 Amount and type of assistance.
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(a) The amount of assistance for a needy person shall be determined by the department with regard to the resources and needs of the person and the conditions existing in each case. Where possible, assistance shall be sufficient to provide the applicant with reasonable subsistence…
AS 47.25.140 Residents of public institutions.
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(a) Payment under AS 47.25.120 — 47.25.300 may not be made to or on behalf of an individual who is a resident of a public institution, except as a patient in a public medical institution, or an individual who is a patient in a public or private institution for tuberculosis or men…
AS 47.25.150 Application for assistance.
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A person requesting assistance shall apply for it, either personally or through another person, in a format and manner prescribed in regulations adopted by the department. Regulations adopted under this section must establish an electronic application for assistance and allow an …