Title 12, HUMAN SERVICES

Sec. 7. (a) A combined grocery (marketing fresh vegetables, fresh eggs, and dairy products) and meat market (marketing fresh meat) in a township having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) is eligible to accept food purchase orders from the township trustee, as adminis…

Sec. 8. (a) If an applicant or a household is considered by the township trustee, as administrator of township assistance, to be incompetent or irresponsible to select food from a combined grocery and meat market or to make proper use of food stamps, the township trustee, as admi…

Sec. 9. (a) A township trustee may not provide food assistance for more than thirty (30) days unless an individual files an application with the township trustee that includes the following: (1) Evidence of application for food stamps from the division of family resources. (2) Th…

Sec. 1. For the purpose of this chapter, the director, in accordance with sound medical and psychiatric knowledge, may determine what symptoms and conditions must exist to say that an individual abuses drugs. [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-13-7-1.] As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.17…

Sec. 2. The division may do the following: (1) Provide for the promotion, establishment, coordination, and conduct of unified local programs of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation in the field of drug abuse in cooperation with federal, state, local, and private a…

Sec. 3. The division may establish drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation units: (1) independently within local communities; (2) as part of the community mental health plan; or (3) in cooperation with local authorities or associations for the purpose of study, rehabilitation, an…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to taxable costs and expenses under the following statutes: (1) IC 12-24-8. (2) IC 12-24-9. (3) IC 12-24-17-8. [1992 Revision Citation: New.] As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.18.

Sec. 2. The taxable costs and expenses to be paid are as follows: (1) To the physician for making the statement accompanying the allegation of insanity, an amount to be fixed by the court not more than ten dollars ($10). (2) To the two (2) medical examiners for making out the cer…

Sec. 3. The costs specified in this chapter shall be paid out of the county general fund upon the certificate of the circuit court clerk and the warrant of the county auditor. [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-14-15-5 part.] As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.18.

Sec. 1. At the request of the individual who is the subject of a proceeding under this article or another interested party, the court may establish a guardianship for the individual or the individual's property instead of making or continuing a regular commitment to a facility un…

Sec. 2. A guardianship established under section 1 of this chapter shall be established under the applicable Indiana law governing guardianships. [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-14-9.1-11 part.] As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.20.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "attendant care services" means the basic and ancillary services that the individual chooses to direct and supervise a personal services attendant to perform and that enable an individual in need of self-directed in-home care to live in the indivi…

Sec. 10. The individual in need of self-directed in-home care and the personal services attendant must each sign a contract, in a form approved by the office of the secretary, that includes, at a minimum, the following provisions: (1) The responsibilities of the personal services…

Sec. 11. (a) The office of the secretary shall amend or implement a home and community based services waiver (as defined in IC 12-8-1.6-2) to provide for the payment for attendant care services provided by a personal services attendant for an individual in need of self-directed i…

Sec. 12. The office of the secretary shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 concerning the following: (1) The method of payment to a personal services attendant who provides authorized services under this chapter. (2) Record keeping requirements for personal attendant services. (3) Th…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "individual in need of self-directed in-home care" means an individual with a disability, or a person responsible for making health related decisions for the individual with a disability, who: (1) is approved to receive Medicaid waiver services un…

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "personal services attendant" means an individual who is registered to provide attendant care services under this chapter and who has entered into a contract with an individual and acts under the individual's direction to provide attendant care se…

Sec. 4. The office of the secretary shall have self-directed care options and services available for an eligible individual who: (1) receives services under a home and community based services waiver (as defined in IC 12-8-1.6-2); and (2) chooses self-directed care services. As a…

Sec. 5. (a) An individual may not provide attendant care services for compensation from Medicaid for an individual in need of self-directed in-home care services unless the individual is registered under this chapter. (b) Except in instances of extraordinary care, an individual w…

Sec. 6. (a) The office of the secretary shall register an individual to provide services under this chapter who provides the following: (1) A personal resume containing information concerning the individual's qualifications, work experience, and any credentials the individual may…

Sec. 7. The case manager of an individual in need of self-directed in-home care shall maintain the written opinion of the individual's attending physician or health care professional in a case file that is maintained for the individual by the case manager. As added by P.L.174-202…

Sec. 8. (a) A personal services attendant who is hired by the individual in need of self-directed in-home care is an employee of the individual in need of self-directed in-home care. (b) The office of the secretary is not liable for any actions of a personal services attendant or…

Sec. 9. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), an individual in need of self-directed in-home care is responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, paying, certifying any employment related documents, dismissing, and supervising in the individual's home during service hours a …

Sec. 0.1. The amendments made to sections 4 and 5 of this chapter by P.L.118-1997 do not apply to an individual whose death occurs before July 1, 1997. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.261.

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to the following individuals: (1) An individual who receives supplemental assistance to the aged. (2) An individual who receives supplemental assistance to the blind. (3) An individual who receives supplemental assistance for persons with disabilities…

Sec. 2. (a) This section applies upon the death of either of the following: (1) A recipient who is receiving supplemental assistance. (2) An individual who had a disability, was aged, or was blind who, at the time of death, was certified as eligible to receive medical assistance …

Sec. 3. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), in addition to money paid by the division under section 2 of this chapter and even if the deceased or person legally responsible for the deceased possesses a burial lot, the division shall pay eight hundred dollars ($800) for the …

Sec. 3.5. Except for a claim for the costs and expenses of administration, a claim filed under sections 2(c) and 3(b) of this chapter is a superior claim. As added by P.L.9-2006, SEC.3.

Sec. 4. The division: (1) may not consider a combined total of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) that is contributed by: (A) friends; (B) relatives; and (C) the resources of the deceased; and (2) may consider any amount that exceeds two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,…

Sec. 5. The division: (1) may not consider a combined total of one thousand dollars ($1,000) that is contributed by: (A) friends; (B) relatives; and (C) the resources of the deceased; and (2) may consider any amount that exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000) contributed by: (A) f…

Sec. 6. (a) The funeral director and the cemetery representative shall file a sworn claim with the county office indicating expenses incurred due to the death of a recipient. (b) With respect to supplemental assistance to the blind and persons with disabilities, a sworn claim mus…

Sec. 1. A disproportionate share payment shall be made to: (1) a hospital licensed under IC 16-21; (2) a state mental health institution under IC 12-24-1-3; and (3) a private psychiatric institution licensed under IC 12-25; that serves a disproportionate share of Medicaid recipie…

Sec. 1. If a township trustee determines by investigation that a township assistance applicant or a township assistance applicant's household requires assistance, the township trustee shall, after determining that an emergency exists, furnish to the applicant or household the tem…

Sec. 2. (a) As used in this section, "shelter" means a facility that provides temporary emergency assistance. (b) A township trustee may establish, purchase, acquire, maintain, or operate a shelter for eligible township assistance households needing temporary housing assistance. …

Sec. 3. Upon complaint that an individual within the township is: (1) sick; (2) in need; (3) without necessary financial resources; and (4) likely to suffer; the township trustee, as administrator of township assistance, shall investigate and grant the temporary relief required. …

Sec. 4. If an individual who is determined to be eligible for township assistance and entitled to temporary relief is in a township in which the individual does not have legal residence and is homeless, the township trustee, as administrator of township assistance, may, if the tr…

Sec. 1. With the approval of the governor, the director may do the following: (1) Establish a separate state institution for the purposes of observing, diagnosing, or treating alcohol abusers or drug abusers. (2) Transfer any part of the programs, records, and property at another…

Sec. 2. The division shall administer and operate a state institution established under section 1 of this chapter. [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-13-1-9.3(c).] As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.17.

Sec. 3. If the programs, records, and property of a state institution are transferred under section 1(2) of this chapter, the state board of finance shall, under IC 4-9.1-1-7 and IC 4-13-2-23, transfer an appropriation to the state institution related to the transferred programs,…

Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "administrator" means a person who is the administrative head of a hospital, a sanitarium, an institution, an agency, or an instrumentality: (1) maintained or provided by the United States or an agency or instrumentality of the United States; …

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "patient" means an individual who: (1) has a mental illness or appears to have a mental illness; (2) is in or under the supervision and control of a state institution; or (3) because of mental illness, is under the supervision and control of a cir…

Sec. 3. A person who: (1) neglects, when the person has a duty of care; (2) abuses; or (3) maltreats; an individual with a mental illness or an individual with a developmental disability under the care of a state institution commits a Class B misdemeanor. [Pre-1992 Revision Citat…

Sec. 4. A person who: (1) knows of an alleged violation of section 3 of this chapter; and (2) fails to make a written report to the superintendent within twenty-four (24) hours of the alleged violation; commits a Class A infraction. [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-14-1-2(b).] As …

Sec. 5. (a) A superintendent who receives a written report of an alleged violation of section 3 of this chapter shall begin an investigation within twenty-four (24) hours after receipt of the written report. (b) In accordance with IC 31-33, the superintendent shall report the all…

Sec. 6. An employee of a state institution who does any of the following commits a Class B misdemeanor: (1) Knowingly deals with, contracts with, purchases from, or purchases for a patient in the state institution any property without the permission of the superintendent. (2) Len…

Sec. 7. A person who: (1) recklessly entices or takes a patient away; or (2) aids, induces, or causes a patient to escape; from an administrator or a superintendent who has been granted custody of the patient commits a Class B misdemeanor. [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-14-1-4.]…