Title VI, HUMAN SERVICES (Ch. 216 - 255A)

The state treasurer may receive federal funds made available for carrying out any of the activities and functions of the department under this chapter , and all such funds are appropriated for expenditure upon authorization of the director. [C39, § 3661.015; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, …

The department may offer, provide to, or purchase family planning and birth control services for every eligible applicant or recipient of services or any financial assistance from the department, or who is receiving federal supplementary security income as defined in section 249.…

The family planning and birth control services may include interviews with trained personnel; distribution of literature; referral to a licensed physician or physician assistant for consultation, examination, tests, medical treatment, and prescriptions; and, to the extent so pres…

In making provision for and offering such services, the department may charge persons to whom family planning and birth control services are rendered a fee sufficient to reimburse the department all or any portion of the costs of the services rendered. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 8…

The refusal of any person to accept family planning and birth control services shall in no way affect the right of such person to receive public assistance or any other public benefit and every person to whom such services are offered shall be so advised initially both orally and…

In all cases where the recipient does not speak or read the English language, the services shall not be given unless the interviews shall be conducted in, and all literature shall be written in, a language which the recipient understands. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §234.25 ]

This subchapter shall be liberally construed to protect the rights of all individuals to pursue their religious beliefs and to follow the dictates of their own consciences, and to prevent the imposition upon any individual of practices offensive to the individual’s moral standard…

The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that this subchapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §234.27 ] 2014 Acts, ch 1026, §143

The provisions of chapter 728 do not apply to services provided under the terms of this subchapter . [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §234.28 ] 2014 Acts, ch 1026, §143

1. The department is responsible for paying the cost of foster care for a child, according to rates established pursuant to section 234.38 , under any of the following circumstances: a. When a court has committed the child to the director or the director’s designee. b. When a cou…

The department may establish an account in the name of any child committed to the director or the director’s designee, or whose legal custody has been transferred to the department, or who is voluntarily placed in foster care pursuant to section 234.35 . Any money which the child…

The department shall make reimbursement payments directly to foster parents for services provided to children pursuant to section 234.6, subsection 1 , paragraph “e” , subparagraph (2), or section 234.35 . In any fiscal year, the reimbursement rate shall be based upon sixty-five …

1. It is the intent of this chapter that an individual receiving foster care services and the individual’s parents or guardians shall have primary responsibility for paying the cost of the care and services. The support obligation established and adopted under this section shall …

If the department has custody or has other responsibility for a child based upon the child’s involvement in a departmental program involving foster care, preadoption or adoption, or subsidized guardianship placement and the child is subject to the compulsory attendance law under …

The department shall adopt rules prohibiting corporal punishment of foster children by foster parents licensed by the department. The rules shall allow foster parents to use reasonable physical force to restrain a foster child in order to prevent injury to the foster child, injur…

A foster parent licensed by the department stands in the same relationship to the foster parent’s minor foster child, for purposes of tort actions by or on behalf of the foster child against the foster parent, as a biological parent to the biological parent’s minor child who resi…

1. An Iowa marriage initiative grant fund is established in the state treasury under the authority of the department. The grant fund shall consist of moneys appropriated to the fund and notwithstanding section 8.33 such moneys shall not revert to the fund from which appropriated …

1. For the purposes of this section , “young adult” means a person who is described by all of the following conditions: a. The person is a resident of this state. b. The person is age eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, or twenty-two. c. At the time the person became age eigh…

The department, the department of management, and the legislative services agency shall utilize a joint process to arrive at consensus projections for expenditures for the state child care assistance program under section 237A.13 and adoption subsidy and other assistance provided…

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the maximum reimbursement provided to an adoptive parent under the adoption subsidy program for nonrecurring adoption expenses is one thousand dollars. For the purposes of this section , “nonrecurring adoption expenses” means the sam…

1. The director shall administer the family investment program, state supplementary assistance, food programs, child welfare, and emergency relief, family and adult service programs, and any other form of public assistance and institutions that are placed under the director’s adm…

1. The department shall comply with the provisions under chapter 237 that require an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver to be included in, and be provided timely notice of, planning and review activities associated with the child, including but not limited to pe…

The department may charge a fee for child welfare services to a person liable for the cost of the services. The fee shall not exceed the reasonable cost of the services. The fee shall be based upon the person’s ability to pay and consideration of the fee’s impact upon the liable …