Title 56, Title 56 — Poor Persons

The Legislature finds that: 1. Oklahoma has a successful home- and community-based services program known as the ADvantage Waiver Program for the frail, elderly and adults with physical disabilities age twenty-one (21) and over who do not have an intellectual disability nor a cog…

To be eligible for the ADvantage Waiver Program, a person shall: 1. Qualify financially for Medicaid; 2. Be sixty-five (65) years of age or older or be a physically disabled adult as determined by the Social Security Administration, age twenty-one (21) years or older without an i…

A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is directed to create a system of enrollment, Medicaid eligibility, and certification for home- and community-based services provided by the ADvantage Waiver Program that provides for presumptive Medicaid eligibility and certification that is…

A. On or before January 1, 2012, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall initiate a Request for Proposal (RFP) which shall outline specific expectations and requirements of suppliers to competitively bid on administrative agent services for the ADvantage Waiver Program. The RFP …

older. A. As used in this section, "Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)" means a full risk-bearing program that provides comprehensive health services for individuals age fifty-five (55) and over who are sufficiently frail to be categorized as nursing home eligib…

A. As used in this section: 1. “PACE” stands for programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly; and 2. The terms “PACE program agreement”, “PACE organization”, “participant” and “state administering agency” have the same meaning as provided by 42 C.F.R., Section 460.6. B. The Ok…

only. A. As used in this section, "contracted community-based service provider" means any entity contracted by the Department of Human Services, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, or any private person providing the support, or promotion of support, for a service recipient to re…

Gifts. A. The Director of the Department of Human Services shall, within the constraints of funding appropriated to the Department, establish and maintain a community-based program of services that includes, but is not limited to, establishment of foster care and supported living…

For the purposes of Sections 1025.2 through 1025.4 of this title: 1. “Administrative information” means information reported to or obtained by the Department of Human Services regarding the community services provider during the investigative process that may be appropriate for i…

worker applicants, Medicaid personal care assistants and contractors. A. 1. Except as otherwise provided by subsection C of this section, before any community services provider or Medicaid personal care services provider makes an offer to employ or to contract with a community se…

A. The Director of Human Services shall promulgate rules to establish and maintain a community services worker registry. Such rules may include, but need not be limited to: 1. A procedure for notation in such registry of a final investigative finding by the Office of Client Advoc…

Any violation of the provisions of Sections 11 through 13 of this act shall be a misdemeanor and, upon conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), but not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.0…

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Department of Human Services to be designated the “Developmental Disability Services Revolving Fund”. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monie…

A. The Department of Human Services may, upon its own initiative or at the request of an owner, operator or resident of any agency providing residential services to individuals with intellectual disabilities, or at the request of a resident's guardian or relative, petition the co…

Reimbursement of receiver - Liability for debts - Competitive bidding not required. A. The court shall hold a hearing within five (5) days of the filing of the petition. The petition and notice of the hearing shall be served by the petitioner on the owner, administrator or design…

The Department of Human Services shall have a lien against the owner of the agency for any such reimbursements made during the receivership under the same terms, procedures, and conditions as provided for long-term care facilities pursuant to Section 1-1914.2 of Title 63 of the O…

approval of certain expenditures required - Termination of receivership - Technical assistance. A. Before a receiver is appointed, a nominee shall be sworn to faithfully perform the duties of a receiver. At the initial hearing, the receiver shall seek and obtain court approval of…

The board of county commissioners of the counties throughout the state shall have power to erect buildings upon land occupied by county indigent care facilities for the isolation and treatment of all indigent persons who are afflicted with an illness or disease which makes it nec…

The board of county commissioners shall provide for and supervise the treatment of said patients residing in the indigent care facility in a manner provided by law and under such restrictions as the board of county commissioners shall consider most advantageous for the interests …

Said board of county commissioners shall be permitted to accept public donations in aid of the construction, upkeep and maintenance of said buildings and support of patients therein. Added by Laws 1923, c. 39, p. 52, § 3.

The board of county commissioners shall be authorized to employ a suitable person or persons to care for such patients and quarters, upon such terms and conditions as provided by law, and under such restrictions as the board of county commissioners shall consider most advantageou…

The board of county commissioners of any county of this state is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey any real estate deeded to or held by such county for the purpose of indigent care facilities, when in the opinion of the board of commissioners such real estate is …

Before any such sale or conveyance shall be made, the board of county commissioners, in regular or special session, shall adopt a resolution declaring that said real estate is not needed for indigent care facility purposes, or is unsuitable or inconvenient for such purpose, or th…

Upon the return of the appraisement as provided for in Section 2 of this act, the board of county commissioners shall give notice of such sale by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in the county for a period of thirty (30) days. Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 75, p. …

Bids for said real estate shall be in writing, sealed and delivered to the county clerk of such county and by him preserved unopened, until the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners, at which time said board shall open such bids and award the said real estate …

attesting - Prima facie evidence. If such sale be by the judge of the district court approved and confirmed, he shall direct and order the chairman of the board of county commissioners to execute a deed to the purchaser thereof, which shall be signed and acknowledged by the chair…

Proceeds derived by a county from any sale of real estate deeded to it or held by it for use as indigent care facilities shall be credited to the county's building fund. Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 75, p. 173, § 6. Amended by Laws 1969, c. 25, § 1, eff. Feb. 17, 1969; Laws 1994, c.…

care facilities - Sales not restricted. The board of county commissioners of any county in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to hold, own, or use for any other lawful county purpose, or lease for any other lawful purpose, any real estate deeded to or held by such coun…

Before any real estate deeded to or held by any such county for the purpose of county indigent care facilities shall be held, owned, or used for any other lawful county purpose, or leased for any other lawful purpose, the board of county commissioners in regular or special sessio…

The allowance to each of such women shall not exceed Ten Dollars ($10.00) a month when she has but one child under the age of fourteen (14) years, and if she has more than one child under the age of fourteen (14) years, it shall not exceed the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) a month …

Such allowance shall be made by the county court and only upon the following conditions: (1) The child or children for whose benefit the allowance is made must be living with the mother of such child or children; (2) The allowance shall be made only when in the absence of such al…

Whenever any child shall reach the age of fourteen (14) years any allowance made to the mother of such child for the benefit of such child shall cease. The county court may, at its discretion, at any time before such child reaches the age of fourteen (14) years, discontinue or mo…

Should the fund herein authorized be sufficient to permit an allowance to only a part of the persons coming within the provisions of this law, the county court shall select those cases in most urgent need of such allowance. Added by Laws 1915, c. 183, § 5.

The provisions of this law shall not apply to any woman whose husband is not dead or who is not confined in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary or other prison in this state, or is in a state institution for the insane in this state, and in the two latter cases it shall not apply unl…

Any person procuring or attempting to procure any allowance for a person not entitled thereto shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00…

In each case where an allowance is made to any woman under the provisions of this act, a judgment entry to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the county court making such allowance, and it shall be the right of any taxpaying citizen at any time to file a motion to s…

(a) When used herein, the term "State Department" shall mean the State Department of Public Welfare; (b) The term "Commission" shall mean the Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission; (c) The term "county board" shall mean the county board of public welfare; (d) The term "Director" sha…

A. The Governor shall have the power and duty to select a Director of Human Services who shall serve as executive and administrative officer of the Department of Human Services. The Director shall be appointed wholly on the basis of ability, training and experience qualifying him…

Welfare Commission and Director. (a) The Department of Public Welfare shall also be known as, and may perform official acts and transact official business in the name of, Department of Human Services. (b) The Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission shall also be known as, and may perf…

Director of Human Services. Whenever the name of Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services appears in any law contract or other document it shall be deemed to refer to the Department of Human Services. Whenever the name of the Commission for Institutions, Soc…

- Disability issues - Administration. A. There are hereby created four Department of Human Services Citizens Advisory Panels to evaluate core program and administrative areas of the Department and to develop recommendations to improve the programs and administration of the Depart…

Powers. The Department of Human Services shall have the authority to appoint campus police for institutions, county office buildings and any other buildings and their adjacent grounds under the jurisdiction of the Department, in the same manner and with the same powers as campus …

Employees of the Department of Human Services serving as police officers shall obtain a certificate as provided for in Section 3311 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Added by Laws 1985, c. 68, § 2, emerg. eff. May 16, 1985.

The Director of the Department of Human Services shall have the authority to commission certified employees within the Office of the Inspector General of the Department as peace officers. The authority of employees so commissioned shall include the authority to investigate crimes…

Architecture and Engineering Planning Unit - Authority to contract with Oklahoma Medical Center. The Institutional Maintenance and Construction Unit and the Architecture and Engineering Planning Unit of the Department of Human Services, or its successors, shall have authority to …

The Commission may appoint in each county a county board consisting of either three, five, or seven members, the majority of whom shall constitute a quorum. These members shall serve without salary at the pleasure of the Commission. No candidate for office nor any elective office…

The Department of Human Services shall authorize the establishment of local satellite meal sites for the purpose of encouraging older Oklahomans to congregate in order to eat meals prepared at another location and delivered to the local satellite meal site. The Department of Huma…

This section and Sections 2 and 3 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Josephine Meade Anti-Hunger Act". Added by Laws 2013, c. 339, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 2013.

The Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules authorizing the patrons of senior nutrition project sites to take home leftover food. The Department may also seek ways to receive for distribution to patrons donated packaged or nonperishable food as well as natural fresh f…

A. Assistance shall be given under this act: 1. To any needy person who has attained the age of sixty-five (65) years; provided, however, that when authorized by federal law or regulations, and in conformity therewith, the age requirement for needy persons under this act shall be…