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Title 46 - Welfare

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Chapter 1
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES AND OFFICERS
Sec: 46-101-46-193
Article 1Definitions
Article 2State Board of Public Welfare
Article 3State Department of Public Welfare
  • 46-132.01
  • Depositions; attendance of witnesses; production of papers
  • 46-133
  • Duties of attorney general
  • 46-134
  • Powers and duties; expenditure; limitation
  • 46-135
  • Power to promulgate rules concerning confidential nature of records
  • 46-136
  • Powers of state department regarding work projects for unemployed persons
  • 46-137
  • Administrative expenses
  • 46-138
  • Expenditures for public welfare
  • 46-138.01
  • Public assistance and administration revolving fund
  • 46-138.02
  • Duplicate checks; notice; form and effect
  • 46-139
  • Notification; federal poverty guidelines
  • 46-140
  • Duty of employees to report violations; penalties for failure to do so
  • 46-140.01
  • Verifying applicants for public benefits; violation; classification; citizen suits
  • 46-141
  • Criminal record information checks; fingerprinting employees and applicants; definition
Article 4Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy Prevention
  • 46-151
  • Department of health services; out-of-wedlock pregnancies; goals
Article 5County Welfare Advisory Council
Article 6Lifespan Respite Care Program
  • 46-172
  • Lifespan respite care program
  • 46-173
  • Lifespan respite care advisory committee
Article 7Section on Aging
  • 46-182
  • Section powers and duties; costs
  • 46-183
  • Advisory council on aging; members; appointment; terms; compensation; officers; subcommittee
  • 46-184
  • Advisory council duties
Article 8Arizona Older Americans Act-Nonmedical Home and Community Based Care Services
  • 46-192
  • Identification of services
  • 46-193
  • Respite care for care givers of the elderly program; definition
Chapter 2
ASSISTANCE
Sec: 46-201-46-343
Article 1Procedure to Claim Assistance
  • 46-201
  • Application for assistance; notice of penalties
  • 46-203
  • Investigation of application; witnesses; financial institutions
  • 46-204
  • Granting of assistance; notice to applicant; award; certification to department of administration; reimbursement
  • 46-205
  • Appeal to state department from denial of application or failure of the local office to act; consideration by state department on own motion
  • 46-206
  • Payment of assistance; authority of department of administration; limitation upon payment from state funds; methods of payment
  • 46-207
  • Grant plus income; uniform assistance plan; amount of assistance
  • 46-207.01
  • Temporary assistance for needy families; amount of cash assistance
  • 46-208
  • Nontransferability and nonassignability of assistance; exemption from process
  • 46-209
  • Residence in state after assistance granted; basis for discontinuance of payments to recipients of assistance
  • 46-210
  • Effect on domicile of absence while in military service
  • 46-211
  • Periodic reconsideration and change in amount of assistance
  • 46-212
  • Assistance subject to amendment of law
  • 46-213
  • Duty of recipient to notify department of change in status; recovery of excess assistance paid; violation; classification
  • 46-214
  • Fee for representing applicant or recipient in civil proceeding under article prohibited
  • 46-215
  • Welfare fraud; program disqualification; classification
  • 46-216
  • Violation; classification
  • 46-219
  • Supplemental nutrition assistance program; eligibility after conviction; drug testing; rules
Article 2Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
  • 46-231
  • Department of economic security; supplemental nutrition assistance program; produce incentive program; definitions
Article 2.1Short-Term Crisis Services
  • 46-241.02
  • Eligibility for short-term crisis services
  • 46-241.04
  • Ineligibility for short-term crisis services
Article 2.2Domestic Violence Victims
  • 46-244
  • Victims of domestic violence; identification; referrals; waiver
Article 3Supplemental Payment Programs
  • 46-251
  • Mandatory state supplemental payments program
Article 5Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
  • 46-291
  • Administration and notice; expenditure limitation; locating deserting parents and assets; violation; classification
  • 46-292
  • Eligibility for assistance
  • 46-293
  • Ineligibility for other public assistance
  • 46-295
  • Recovery of public assistance from legally responsible persons; fund
  • 46-296
  • Eligibility for assistance; unwed minor parents
  • 46-297
  • Electronic benefit transfers; prohibitions; penalties; violation; classification; definitions
  • 46-297.01
  • Electronic benefit transfer cards; replacements; out-of-state spending; fraud investigation
  • 46-297.02
  • Electronic benefit transfer card; spending report
  • 46-298
  • Diversion from long-term assistance; report; definition
  • 46-299
  • Jobs program; definition
  • 46-300.01
  • JOBS program; privatization; definitions
  • 46-300.02
  • Orders to seek employment; persons owing child support
  • 46-300.03
  • Individual development accounts; definition
  • 46-300.04
  • Perinatal substance abuse treatment and services
  • 46-300.06
  • Food bank assistance for welfare to work and low income families program
  • 46-300.07
  • Employment service contractors; success rate; semiannual report
Article 5.1Choice of Practitioner in Eye Care Services
  • 46-302
  • Selection of practitioner
Article 6Conformity
  • 46-311
  • Conformity with federal legislation
Article 7Child Care Food Program
  • 46-321
  • Fingerprinting; affidavit
Article 8Arizona Special Supplemental Food Program Fund for Women, Infants and Children
  • 46-331
  • Arizona special supplemental food program fund for women, infants and children; purpose; reimbursement
Article 9Family Caregiver Grant Program
  • 46-342
  • Family caregiver grant program; requirements
  • 46-343
  • Family caregiver grant program fund; report
Chapter 3
CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS
Sec: 46-401-46-445
Article 1Reimbursement of Public Assistance
  • 46-403
  • Authorization of department to act
  • 46-406
  • Funding for administration of public assistance services of child support enforcement program; expenditure limitation
  • 46-407
  • Assignment of rights to support; definition
  • 46-408
  • Assignment of support rights; priority; definitions
Article 2Support Payment Clearinghouse and Child Support Case Registry
  • 46-441
  • Support payment clearinghouse; records transfer; payment; definition
  • 46-442
  • Child support case registry; data sharing; unauthorized disclosure; civil penalty
  • 46-443
  • Child support case registry; location information; presumptions concerning notice
  • 46-444
  • Transfer of support rights; disbursement of support payments
  • 46-445
  • Electronic transfer of support payments; warrants; definition
Chapter 4
ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Sec: 46-451-46-474
Article 1General Provisions
  • 46-451
  • Definitions; program goals
  • 46-452
  • Protective services worker; powers and duties; immunity; communications
  • 46-452.01
  • Office of state long-term care ombudsman
  • 46-452.02
  • State long-term care ombudsman; duties; immunity from liability
  • 46-453
  • Immunity of participants; nonprivileged communication
  • 46-454
  • Duty to report abuse, neglect and exploitation of vulnerable adults; duty to make medical records available; violation; classification
  • 46-455
  • Allowing life or health of a vulnerable adult to be endangered by neglect; violation; classification; civil remedy; definition
  • 46-456
  • Duty to a vulnerable adult; financial exploitation; civil penalties; exceptions; definitions
  • 46-457
  • Elder abuse central registry; mandatory reporting; release of information
  • 46-458
  • Hearing process; definitions
  • 46-459
  • Adult protective services registry
  • 46-460
  • Adult protective services information; confidentiality; allowed disclosures; violation; classification
  • 46-461
  • Multidisciplinary adult protection team; duties; confidentiality; definition
Article 2Financial Exploitation
  • 46-472
  • Disclosures; immunity; third-party disclosures
  • 46-473
  • Delaying disbursements or transactions; immunity
  • 46-474
  • Records; disclosure; exemption
Chapter 5
IDENTIFICATION CARDS
Sec: 46-601-46-603
Article 1General Provisions
  • 46-601
  • Identification card; contents; definition
  • 46-602
  • Department may contract for services
  • 46-603
  • Fraudulent use of identification card; violation; classification
Chapter 6
UTILITY ASSISTANCE
Sec: 46-701-46-741
Article 1Telecommunications Service Assistance, General Provisions
  • 46-701
  • Telecommunications service assistance program; administration; rules
  • 46-702
  • Assistance eligibility; list
  • 46-703
  • Assistance rate credit; form; applicable services; amount; application
Article 3Utility Repair and Deposit Assistance
  • 46-731
  • Utility assistance; qualified fuel fund entity; report; definitions
Article 4Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fund
  • 46-741
  • Neighbors helping neighbors fund; definition
Chapter 7
CHILD CARE SERVICES
Sec: 46-801-46-811
Article 1General Provisions
  • 46-803
  • Eligibility for child care assistance
  • 46-805
  • Child care assistance; rates; definitions
  • 46-806
  • Choice of child care providers
  • 46-807
  • Certification of family child care home and in-home providers; hearing
  • 46-810
  • Department of economic security; child care; report
  • 46-811
  • Child care providers; background check requirements
Chapter 8
ARIZONA ABLE PROGRAM
Sec: 46-901-46-907
Article 1General Provisions
  • 46-902
  • Qualified ABLE program; duties
  • 46-903
  • Use of contractor as account depository; program manager
  • 46-904
  • Incapacitated or minor eligible individual
  • 46-907
  • Achieving a better life experience act oversight committee