Title 47 — Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions

Except as provided in AS 47.25.626(e), an individual who receives a determination from the department that denies, limits, or modifies home heating payments under AS 47.25.621 — 47.25.626, other than a determination based on insufficient funding of the program, may request a hear…

An individual is liable to the department for the value of assistance improperly paid under AS 47.25.623 if the improper payment was based on inaccurate or incomplete information provided by the individual. In a civil action brought by the state to recover from the individual the…

Article 5. Food Stamp Program. (a) The Department of Health may develop a regional Alaska heating program for the administration of AS 47.25.621 — 47.25.626 to provide home heating assistance in a uniform and cost-effective manner in a region of this state if an Alaska Native org…

(a) The department is authorized to implement the food stamp program. (b) Householders determined by the department to be eligible for assistance under the food stamp program may obtain food stamp allotments; however, under regulations adopted by the department, a householder may…

(a) [See delayed amendment note.] The department shall (1) adopt regulations necessary to carry out the food stamp program; (2) cooperate with the federal government and do all things necessary to continue state eligibility under the food stamp program; (3) comply with the requir…

[Repealed or reserved.]

(a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the person (1) knowingly acquires, possesses, uses, alters, or transfers food stamp allotments in violation of AS 47.25.975 — 47.25.980 or the regulations adopted under AS 47.25.980; (2) presents food stamp allotments or causes them to b…

In AS 47.25.975 — 47.25.985, (1) “department” means Department of Health; (2) “food” means any food or food product for human consumption except alcoholic beverages and tobacco and includes seeds and plants for use in gardens to produce food for the personal consumption of the el…

Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. The department shall (1) administer the Alaska temporary assistance program by providing cash assistance, diversion payments, and self-sufficiency services to needy children and their families under this chapter and, if appropriate,…

The following families may apply under the Alaska temporary assistance program: (1) a single parent who has the physical custody of one or more related dependent children; (2) a caretaker of one or more dependent children who is a relative to at least the fifth degree; (3) a woma…

(a) A family is not eligible for cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program if the family includes an adult who (1) has received cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program, or a program of another state operated under a federal assistance gra…

(a) An applicant under the Alaska temporary assistance program shall complete an application in writing, or by electronic means, and in a format specified in regulations adopted by the department. Regulations adopted under this subsection must establish an electronic application …

(a) The department shall provide cash assistance to families that establish eligibility based on a determination of need that considers the family's available income, assets, and other resources, as established by the department in regulation. Each dependent child in the family i…

(a) The department may offer a lump-sum diversion payment in place of ongoing cash assistance to an adult applicant who applies under AS 47.27.020 if the adult applicant is job ready and is determined to need only short-term financial assistance and self-sufficiency services to m…

(a) If an applicant under AS 47.27.020 is not married, is under the age of 18, and has not been previously emancipated under AS 09.55.590, the applicant must (1) live in a home maintained by the applicant's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative, unless the applicant est…

(a) A participant in the Alaska temporary assistance program shall cooperate with the department, or its designee, to develop and sign a family self-sufficiency plan that includes (1) the steps the family will take towards the self-sufficiency of the family; (2) the self-sufficie…

(a) An Alaska temporary assistance program participant shall, after the participant's family has received a cumulative total of 24 months of cash assistance or sooner if assigned to do so by the department, participate in work activities as assigned by the department or its desig…

(a) An Alaska temporary assistance program applicant is considered to have assigned to the state, through the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue, all rights to accrued and continuing child support, from all sources, that is due for the support of any indiv…

Cash assistance granted under this chapter is inalienable by assignment or transfer and is exempt from garnishment, levy, or execution as is provided in AS 09.38.

(a) The department may contract with or award grants to qualified entities in the state to administer an Alaska temporary assistance program or a distinct part of the Alaska temporary assistance program. The department may establish standards for the administration of services un…

(a) The department shall coordinate with other state agencies that provide assistance, benefits, or services to applicants that are eligible for and to participants in the Alaska temporary assistance program in order to facilitate the application for and delivery of assistance, b…

The department may establish cooperative agreements with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Department of Education and Early Development, and Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, and with other public or private sector organizations for th…

In the administration of this chapter, the department shall cooperate with the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and shall take actions necessary to comply with the requirements of federal law to obtain public assistance block grants or other …

(a) The department may coordinate only with the following Alaska Native organizations, as designated under federal law, in the development of family assistance programs: (1) Arctic Slope Native Association; (2) Kawerak, Inc.; (3) Maniilaq Association; (4) Association of Village C…

There is established within the general fund the Alaska temporary assistance program emergency account. The account consists of appropriations that were made by the legislature from federal money available for cash assistance, diversion payments, and self-sufficiency services und…

(a) An applicant or participant who receives a determination from the department that denies, limits, or modifies the cash assistance, diversion payment, or self-sufficiency services provided under this chapter may request a hearing before the office of administrative hearings (A…

Article 3. Alaska Native Family Assistance Grants. (a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, the department shall reduce the amount of cash assistance provided to the family of an Alaska temporary assistance program applicant or participant who, without good cause, fails to …

Article 4. Regional Programs. (a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this chapter, and in addition to grants awarded under AS 47.27.050, the Department of Health may award and administer Alaska Native family assistance grants in accordance with this section. Unless specifi…

Article 5. General Provisions. (a) The department may develop a regional public assistance program for the administration of this chapter in order to provide state public assistance in a uniform and cost-effective manner in a region of this state if an Alaska Native organization …

In this chapter, (1) “Alaska Native family assistance grant” means a grant under AS 47.27.200; (2) “Alaska Native family assistance program” means a program funded in part by a grant under AS 47.27.200; (3) “cash assistance” means assistance for basic living expenses provided und…

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska temporary assistance program.

[Repealed or reserved.]

[Repealed or reserved.]

[Repealed or reserved.]

(a) The department shall (1) develop and submit to the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service a comprehensive program for the constructing and equipping of hospitals and other facilities for the examination, observation, care, and treatment of the mentally ill…

The department may accept on behalf of the state and deposit separate and apart from other public funds grants from the federal government or gifts or contributions from other sources to assist in carrying out the purposes of AS 47.30.350 — 47.30.400 and may expend the funds for …

Before implementation, the programs, plans, and actions of the department made under AS 47.30.350, except for the proposed geographic location of the mental health hospital, shall be reviewed by the legislative budget and audit committee. The review and findings of the budget and…

Funds to carry out AS 47.30.350 — 47.30.400 shall be set out in the appropriation bill authorizing the operating and capital expenditures of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program under AS 37.14.003(a) and submitted to the legislature under AS 37.07.020(a)(1).

The department may acquire existing facilities for mental health care.

Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. The purpose of AS 47.30.350 — 47.30.400 is to provide for the constructing and equipping of hospitals and other facilities in this state needed for carrying out a comprehensive mental health program, to accept…

A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this state, who has fled from another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which the person fled, be delivered up to be removed to the state where, at the time of the flight the person (1) was under d…

If the executive authority of a state demands of the executive authority of this state a fugitive under AS 47.30.410 and produces a copy of the commitment decree or other judicial process and proceedings, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state fro…

All proceedings under AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 shall be begun within one year after the flight referred to in AS 47.30.410.

AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it.

In AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 (1) “executive authority,” “governor,” and “chief magistrate,” respectively, as applied to a request to return a person under AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 to or from the District of Columbia, include a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columb…

Article 3. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 may be cited as the Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind.

The department shall (1) ascertain and keep current a list of all institutions in the state that have available facilities for the care and treatment of alcoholics and drug abusers; (2) encourage the development and advancement of standards of treatment of alcoholics and drug abu…

(a) A nonprofit corporation, a city or borough government, or other political subdivision of the state, or a combination of these, is eligible for grant-in-aid funds under this section. Applications shall be sent to the department. (b) Money available under this section shall be …

The department shall adopt regulations implementing AS 47.30.475. The regulations must provide for the method of application, the time for consideration of applications, the processing of applications, the type of record keeping, the requirements for reporting the progress and st…

The superior courts of this state may take judicial notice of the fact that an alcoholic is suffering from an illness and is in need of proper medical, advisory, or rehabilitative treatment.