Title 71, Welfare

If any award of assistance is modified or cancelled under any provision of this part, the recipient may appeal to the department in the manner and form prescribed by it. The department shall, upon receipt of such an appeal, give the recipient reasonable notice and opportunity for…

All decisions of the department shall be final and shall be binding upon the county involved and shall be complied with by the regional director or a designated agent.

All assistance grants in the form of money payments made under this part shall be reconsidered by the regional director or a designated agent as frequently as may be required by the rules of the department. After such further investigation as the regional director or a designated…

If at any time during the continuance of assistance the recipient becomes possessed of any property or income in excess of the amount stated in the application, it shall be the duty of the recipient immediately to notify the regional director or a designated agent of the receipt …

Any recipient who moves to another county in this state shall be entitled, with the approval of the department, to receive assistance in the county to which the recipient has moved, and the regional director or a designated agent of the county from which the recipient has moved s…

All assistance granted under this part shall be deemed to be granted and to be held subject to any amending or repealing statute that may hereafter be passed, and no recipient shall have any claim for compensation, or otherwise, by reason of such recipient's assistance being affe…

(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to directly or indirectly either charge or receive anything of value for assisting any person in making application to the proper authorities of this state, or any of them, for relief or assistance under any statutes of this…

(a) Except as permitted by §§ 71-1-117 and 71-1-118, it is unlawful for any person, except for purposes directly connected with the administration of this part, to solicit, disclose, receive, make use of, authorize or knowingly permit, participate in, or acquiesce in the use of, …

(1) Whoever:(1) Knowingly obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids, or abets any persons to obtain by means of a willfully false statement or representation or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device, assistance to which such person is not entitled or assistance greater than …

Assistance granted under this part is not transferable or assignable, at law or in equity, and none of the money paid or payable under this part shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvenc…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Applicant” means a person requesting medical assistance under this part;(2) “Department” means the department of human services;(3) “Medical assistance” means vendor payments or other payments for drugs in behal…

The amount of medical assistance that any person shall receive in the form of drugs under this part shall be determined by measuring the income and resources of such person against the statewide standards provided in § 71-2-303(3) and shall be approved by the regional director or…

(1) The department shall:(1) Supervise the administration of medical assistance;(2) Make such rules and regulations and take such action as may be necessary or desirable for carrying out of this part, to the end that equitable treatment shall be afforded to individuals in similar…

If an application is not acted upon by the regional director, or a designated agent, and the county mayor within a reasonable time after the filing of the application, or is denied in whole or in part, or if any award of medical assistance is modified or cancelled under any provi…

The department may also, upon its own motion, review any decision of a regional director, or a designated agent, and county mayor, and may consider any application upon which a decision has not been made by the regional director, or a designated agent, within a reasonable time. T…

(a) If, at any time during the certification for medical assistance, the recipient becomes possessed of any property, real or personal, or income in excess of the amount stated in such recipient's application for medical assistance or transfers any of such recipient's property, r…

(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to directly or indirectly either charge or receive anything of value for assisting any person in making application to the proper authorities of this state for medical assistance under this part. (b) A violation of this secti…

(a) It is unlawful for any person, except for purposes directly connected with the administration of this chapter, to solicit, disclose, receive, make use of, authorize or knowingly permit, participate in, or acquiesce in the use of, any list or names of, or any information conce…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Adult day services” means services provided to five (5) or more adult recipients, for more than three (3) hours per day, by a provider of such services who is not related to such adult, pursuant to an individual…

(a) No person or any entity of any kind, public or private, shall provide adult day services in this state without first obtaining a license as provided in this part. (b) If any person or entity appears to be subject to the licensing requirements of this part and is currently lic…

(a) A review of the records and registries set forth in subdivisions (a)(1)-(6) shall be conducted for all new employees or for volunteers who are counted in the staff/adult participant ratio and those volunteers who have unsupervised access to the adult participants in adult day…

(1) If an adult day services center is operated only by a municipality or county or by a nonprofit corporation, no part of the net earnings may lawfully inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. An applicant for initial licensure as an adult day services cent…

(a) (1) An application for a license shall be submitted to the department in such manner as the department may require.(2) An application for a license shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee for the license and shall be received by the department not less than thirty (30) da…

(a) If, during the period of any license issued by the department, it determines that the license issued to the adult day services center should be revoked because of a failure to comply with the standards of this part or the regulations adopted pursuant to this part for the oper…

(a) In determining whether to deny, revoke or suspend a license, or in granting any license, the department may choose to deny, revoke or suspend or grant only certain authority of the licensee to operate and may permit the licensee to continue operation, but may restrict or modi…

(1) Immediately upon the denial of any application for issuance or renewal of a license or upon the revocation of any license, the department shall notify the applicant in writing. Not later than ten (10) days after the department mails the notice, the applicant may submit a writ…

(a) The department may conduct inspections of every licensed facility or suspected adult day services center. The evaluation method adopted by the department shall be published and distributed to each licensed adult day services center and any other interested person. (b) Any dul…

The department shall require each adult day services center operated by a municipality or county or by a nonprofit corporation and caring for ten (10) or more persons to have a governing board. The governing board of an adult day services center, having final authority and respon…

Each adult day services center that files an affidavit with the department as of January 1, 1997, certifying that such facility is in existence and in operation shall have two (2) years to fully comply with this part.

(a) The commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part. All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. (b) All rules and regu…

There is hereby established an advisory committee consisting of not less than seven (7) members appointed by the commissioner. The advisory committee shall assist the commissioner in implementing this part. The advisory committee shall reflect the diversity of this state with res…

It is the intent of the general assembly that this part, with the exception of the employment of one (1) employee to assist in the implementation of this part, be implemented within the existing resources of the department.

This part is declared to be remedial in nature and this part shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.

(a) The department of finance and administration shall designate up to five (5) publicly or privately supported adult day services centers or senior centers within the state as model programs worthy of emulation with respect to one (1) or more of the following activities:(1) Comp…

(a) It is the intent of the legislature that the state of Tennessee, through the bureau of TennCare, be designated as the authorized representative for elderly and disabled enrollees, who are eligible medicare beneficiaries, but have lost or may lose eligibility for TennCare bene…

(1) In facilitating automatic enrollment, TennCare may do one (1) or all of the following:(1) Enter into a contract that has been competitively procured, pursuant to title 12, with one (1) or more program sponsors, to facilitate automatic enrollment, which contracts shall be subj…

The program established in this part is not, nor does it in any way create, an entitlement.

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Bureau” means the bureau of TennCare;(2) “Director” means the director of TennCare; and(3) “PACE program” means a program of all-inclusive care for elderly persons that provides comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for frail, e…

(a) The bureau shall authorize an additional PACE program as a pilot in one (1) of the two (2) grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024. (b) A prospective PACE applicant for the pilot program shall submit a letter of intent to the bureau indicating the prospecti…

(1) If a PACE program exists in a county having a population of not less than three hundred sixty-six thousand two hundred (366,200) nor more than three hundred sixty-six thousand three hundred (366,300), according to the 2020 federal census or a subsequent federal census, then t…

The purpose of this part is to create an opportunity for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF), or successor program, recipients to build assets as a transition to self-sufficiency, to encourage TANF program, or successor program, recipients to secure and maintain employ…

Six (6) urban and six (6) rural communities in Tennessee, two (2) of each in each grand division, will participate in an individual development account (IDA) demonstration project.

In the selected communities, temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) or successor program, recipients may deposit up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) in special savings accounts for career development goals for post-secondary education of themselves or their children, sma…

(a) The temporary assistance for needy families (TANF), or successor program, recipients who are not employed will not be eligible to receive matching fund donations into their individual development accounts (IDAs). (b) For those TANF program, or successor program, recipients wh…

To be eligible, demonstration project participants must be a member of a group that meets twice a month to make contributions into their individual development accounts (IDAs) and receive support, training and technical assistance to ensure they secure and maintain employment whi…

This part may be cited as the “Families First Act of 1996.”