Title XII — PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

208.896. Structured family caregiving, department to apply for federal waiver — requirements — rulemaking authority. — 1. To ensure the availability of comprehensive and cost-effective choices for MO HealthNet participants who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or related disor…

208.900. Definitions. — As used in sections 208.900 to 208.927, the following terms mean: (1) "Consumer", a physically disabled person determined by the department to be eligible to receive personal care assistance services. "Consumer" does not include any individual with a legal…

208.903. Financial assistance for personal care, eligibility requirements. — 1. Subject to appropriations, the department shall provide financial assistance for consumer-directed personal care assistance services through eligible vendors to each person determined eligible to part…

208.906. Determination of eligibility — personal care service plan to be developed — reevaluation required. — 1. The department shall initiate the determination of an applicant's eligibility for personal care assistance services as follows: (1) For all persons who had been receiv…

208.909. Responsibilities of recipients and vendors. — 1. Consumers receiving personal care assistance services shall be responsible for: (1) Supervising their personal care attendant; (2) Verifying wages to be paid to the personal care attendant; (3) Preparing and submitting tim…

208.912. Abuse and neglect reporting — investigation procedures — content of reports — employee disqualification list maintained. — 1. When any adult day care worker; chiropractor, Christian Science practitioner, coroner, dentist, embalmer, employee of the departments of social s…

208.915. Misappropriation of consumer's property or funds, report to the department — content of report — investigation procedures — employee disqualification list maintained. — 1. Any person having reasonable cause to believe that a misappropriation of a consumer's property or f…

208.918. Vendor requirements, philosophy and services. — 1. In order to qualify for an agreement with the department, the vendor shall have a philosophy that promotes the consumer's ability to live independently in the most integrated setting or the maximum community inclusion of…

208.921. Denial of eligibility, applicant entitled to hearing. — 1. Applicants for personal care assistance services and consumers receiving such services are entitled to a hearing with the department of social services if eligibility for personal care assistance services is deni…

208.924. Discontinuation of services, when. — 1. A consumer's personal care assistance services may be discontinued under circumstances such as the following: (1) The department learns of circumstances that require closure of a consumer's case, including one or more of the follow…

208.927. Rulemaking authority. — The department may promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of sections 208.900 to 208.927. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this sectio…

208.930. Consumer-directed personal care assistance services, reimbursement for through eligible vendors — eligibility requirements — documentation — service plan required — premiums, amount — annual reevaluation — denial of benefits, procedure — expiration date. — 1. As used in …

208.935. Assessment tool, home and community-based services. — Subject to appropriations, the department of health and senior services shall develop or contract with a state agency or third party to develop an interactive assessment tool, which may include mobile as well as centr…

208.950. Plans required — participant enrollment — survey to assess health and wellness outcomes — health risk assessments required. — 1. The department of social services shall, with the advice and approval of the Mo HealthNet oversight committee established under section 208.95…

208.951. Request for proposals. — For purposes of a request for proposal for health improvement plans, there shall be a request for proposal for at least six regions in the state, however in no case shall there be a single statewide contract. Counties with a risk-bearing care coo…

*208.952. Committee established, members, duties. — 1. There is hereby established a permanent "Joint Committee on Public Assistance". The committee shall have the following purposes: (1) Studying, monitoring, and reviewing the efficacy of the public assistance programs within th…

208.955. Committee established, members, duties — issuance of findings. — 1. There is hereby established in the department of social services the "MO HealthNet Oversight Committee", which shall be appointed by January 1, 2008, and shall consist of nineteen members as follows: (1)…

208.990. MO HealthNet eligibility requirements. — 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, to be eligible for MO HealthNet coverage individuals shall meet the eligibility criteria set forth in 42 CFR 435, including but not limited to the requirements that: …

208.991. Definitions — persons eligible for MO HealthNet — rulemaking authority. — 1. For purposes of this section and section 208.990, the following terms mean: (1) "Child" or "children", a person or persons who are under nineteen years of age; (2) "CHIP-eligible children", chil…

209.010. Division to aid blind persons. — The duties of the family support division shall be to prepare and maintain a complete register of the blind persons within this state and to collate information concerning their physical condition, cause of blindness and such additional i…

209.015. Blindness education, screening and treatment program fund — uses of fund — rulemaking. — 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Blindness Education, Screening and Treatment Program Fund". The fund shall consist of moneys donated pursuant to subsection 7 of…

209.020. Division may receive and expend donations and bequests. — The family support division is authorized to receive and use for the purposes herein enumerated, or any of them, donations and bequests, and is authorized to expend such donations and bequests in such manner as it…

209.030. Blind pensions, eligibility requirements — termination of payments for failure to submit to vision test — change of address, notice to department. — 1. Every adult blind person, eighteen years of age or over, of good moral character who shall have been a resident of the …

209.035. Proceeds from involuntary conversion, how treated — receipt defined. — 1. Any proceeds from involuntary conversion of real property into personal property (such as forced transfer under condemnation, eminent domain, and fire, flood or other act of God) received by a reci…

209.040. Standard of vision, vision test required, exemption — amount of payments, effect of insufficient appropriations — medical assistance — supplemental appropriations, when. — 1. No person shall be entitled to a blind pension under sections 209.010 to 209.160 who is not blin…

209.050. Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions — names may be stricken from roll. — 1. Sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall not be so construed as to grant the benefits thereof to any blind person between the ages of eighteen and fifty years who has no occupation and who, be…

209.060. Application for pension — payment begins, when — misrepresentation, penalty. — Any person who desires the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall file an application at the family support division office in the county of his or her residence, who is satisfied that …

209.070. Division to prepare suitable blank application forms. — It shall be the duty of the family support division to prepare suitable blank application forms for the use of blind persons in making application for pensions, which shall contain such questions for applicant to an…

209.080. Division to make regulations relative to examination of applicants for pensions. — It shall be the duty of the family support division to make such regulations relative to the examination of applicants for pension, including the examination by an ophthalmologist, a physi…

209.090. Division to prepare roll of pensioners — to distribute pensions. — Monthly, the family support division shall prepare a separate roll of persons entitled to receive blind pension, which roll shall be in triplicate, showing the name, post-office address, amount of pension…

209.100. Division to keep blind pension roll. — The family support division shall place the names of all persons certified by it for a pension under sections 209.010 to 209.160 upon a record to be kept in its office to be known as "The Blind Pension Roll" which shall contain also…

209.110. Person aggrieved may appeal. — Any person claiming the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160 who is aggrieved by the action of the family support division on the question of such person's vision or as to his or her property or income, residential or moral qualification…

209.130. Rate of tax to be levied. — There is hereby levied an annual tax of three cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the state of Missouri to provide a fund out of which shall be paid the pensions for the deserving blind as herein provided. The ta…

209.140. Persons violating provisions of law guilty of misdemeanor. — Any person or persons found guilty of violating any of the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person who shall willfully and fraudulently violate any of t…

209.150. Rights of persons with disabilities — service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for actual damages. — 1. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the same rights afforded to a person with no such disability to the full and free use of…

209.152. Trainers of guide, hearing or service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for damages. — Not to exceed the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, any trainer, from a recognized training center, of a guide dog, hearing assistance dog or service dog, or any m…

209.160. Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disabilities, a misdemeanor. — Any person or persons, firm or corporation, or the agent of any person or persons, firm or corporation who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment o…

209.162. Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disability, an unlawful employment practice — complaints, filed by aggrieved persons. — It is an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discriminate against any person with a visual,…

[Repealed or reserved.]

209.180. State and its political subdivisions and tax money recipients to employ visually handicapped on same terms as other employees, exception. — The blind and the visually handicapped shall be employed in the state service, the service of the political subdivisions of the sta…

209.190. Housing accommodations, defined — discrimination against persons with visual, hearing or physical disabilities, prohibited — dogs, guide, hearing or service to have full access — liability for actual damages. — 1. Blind or visually handicapped persons, deaf or partially …

209.192. Definitions — blind literacy study — division of special education to make annual report. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Blind persons or visually impaired persons", individuals who: (a) Have a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better e…

209.200. Definitions. — As used in sections 209.150 to 209.204, not to exceed the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Disability", as defined in section 213.010 including diabetes; (2) "Service dog", a dog that is being or has b…

209.202. Crime of causing substantial injury to or the death of a service dog, penalty — failure to control an animal that causes substantial injury to or the death of a service dog, penalty — harassment of a service dog, penalty — damages. — 1. Any person who knowingly, intentio…

209.204. Impersonating a person with a disability for the purpose of receiving certain accommodations, penalty, civil liability — misrepresentation of dog as service dog, penalty, civil liability — misrepresentation of animal as assistance animal, penalty, civil liability — placa…

209.240. Amount of pension — need, how determined. — 1. The family support division shall, for the purpose of obtaining federal financial participation in aid to the blind payments, prepare a budget taking into consideration the necessary expenses in accordance with standards dev…

209.245. Financial assistance for obtaining hearing aids, program established — fund created — powers of commission. — 1. Subject to appropriations, the Missouri commission for the deaf and hard of hearing shall establish a statewide hearing aid distribution program to provide fi…

209.251. Definitions. — As used in sections 209.251 to 209.259, the following terms mean: (1) "Adaptive telecommunications equipment", equipment that translates, enhances or otherwise transforms the receiving or sending of telecommunications into a form accessible to individuals …

209.253. Statewide dual-party relay system, establishment by PSC — advisory assistive technology council to administer — rulemaking authority. — 1. The commission shall provide a statewide dual-party system, using third-party intervention to connect deaf, hearing-impaired and spe…

209.255. Rate established to recover costs of programs — surcharge, limitations, collection — exemption from taxes. — 1. The commission shall establish a rate recovery mechanism to recover the costs of implementing and maintaining the programs provided for in section 209.253, whi…