Title 44, Health

The State Treasurer may accept for deposit in the Disability Trust Fund: (1) monies left to the Disability Trust Fund by donors of a self-sufficiency trust defined in Article 1 of this chapter at the death of the disabled beneficiary; and (2) bequests and contributions from priva…

Monies in the Disability Trust Fund must be expended solely to provide supplemental services to meet the need for care or treatment for low income or indigent individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, or physical handicaps.

The State Treasurer shall credit earned interest on the Disability Trust Fund to the fund.

The receipt by a beneficiary of money from the trust fund or of supplemental care or treatment provided with money from the trust fund does not in any way reduce, impair, or diminish the benefits to which the beneficiary is otherwise entitled by law.

The Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Office of Mental Health, or State Agency of Vocational Rehabilitation must provide care or treatment for the beneficiary from monies available from the Disability Trust Fund. These agencies are responsible only for the be…

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and the State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation shall promulgate regulations necessary for the implementation and administration of the Disability Trust Fund.

(A) The Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Office of Mental Health, or the State Agency of Vocational Rehabilitation must provide care or treatment for a beneficiary from monies available from the beneficiary's account maintained in the Self-Sufficiency Trust …

The receipt by a beneficiary of money from the Self-Sufficiency Trust Fund or of supplemental care or treatment provided with money from the fund may in no way reduce, impair, or diminish the benefits to which the beneficiary is otherwise entitled by law.

If the State Treasurer after consultation with the Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the Office of Mental Health, or the State Agency of Vocational Rehabilitation determines that the money in the account of a named beneficiary cannot be used for supplemental …

The State Treasurer shall credit interest earned on the Self-Sufficiency Trust Fund to the fund and shall allocate the interest pro rata to the accounts of the named beneficiaries of the fund.

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and the State Agency of Vocational Rehabilitation shall promulgate regulations necessary for the implementation and administration of the Self-Sufficiency Trust Fund.