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2015 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 20. SOCIAL SERVICES
346. Department of Human Services
PART I. GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS- 346-1 Definitions.
- 346-1.7 REPEALED.
- 346-2 Appointment of personnel.
- 346-3 Compensation of employees.
- 346-4 REPEALED.
- 346-4.5 Investigators; authority and access to records.
- 346-5 Reports.
- 346-6 Appropriations; expenditures; donations.
- 346-7 Acceptance of grants-in-aid or outright grants.
- 346-7.5 Spouse and child abuse special account; department of human services.
- 346-8 Additional funds.
- 346-9 Workshop program.
- 346-10 Protection of records; divulging confidential information prohibited.
- 346-11 Unauthorized disclosure or inspection.
- 346-12 Hearing.
- 346-13 Attendance and testimony of witnesses.
- 346-14 Duties generally.
- 346-14.3 Guiding principles to be used by state agencies when dealing with children of incarcerated parents.
- 346-14.5 Financial assistance advisory council; established.
- 346-15 Death benefits for deceased medical or financial assistance recipients and disposition of unclaimed dead human bodies.
- 346-16 Definitions.
- 346-17 Child placing organizations, child caring institutions, and foster boarding homes; authority over, investigation of, and standards for.
- 346-17.2 Health assessment.
- 346-17.3 Motor vehicle insurance.
- 346-17.4 Higher education board allowances for students.
- 346-17.5 Federal aid to children in foster care.
- 346-17.6 Consent to no cost emergency shelter and related services.
- 346-18 to 346-19.5 REPEALED.
- 346-19.6 REPEALED.
- 346-19.7 Prospective adoptive parents; standards and home studies.
- 346-20 to 346-25 REPEALED.
- 346-26 Prevention and treatment of conditions giving rise to need.
- 346-27 REPEALED.
- 346-28 REPEALED.
- 346-28.5 Family self-sufficiency escrow accounts; asset test exemption.
- 346-29 Applications for public assistance; manner, form, conditions.
- 346-29.3 Medical assistance application information; annual report; public disclosure.
- 346-29.5 Real property liens.
- 346-30 Relief limited.
- 346-31 Assignment of persons in need of public assistance to work on public projects.
- 346-32 Application of chapter 386 to persons in need of public assistance assigned to work projects.
- 346-33 Assistance payments inalienable.
- 346-34 Frauds, penalties.
- 346-35 Cancellation or revision.
- 346-36 Assistance payments, subject to change or repeal.
- 346-37 Recovery of payments and costs of medical assistance.
- 346-37.1 Payment of public assistance for child requires payment of child support to department by natural or adoptive parents.
- 346-37.2 Department subrogated to rights.
- 346-37.3 Notice of child support debt.
- 346-37.4 to 346-37.6 REPEALED.
- 346-38 Incompetency of recipient.
- 346-39 Legal representative.
- 346-39.5 Unclaimed financial assistance balances in electronic benefit transfer accounts.
- 346-40 Maintenance and availability of records; penalty.
- 346-41 Inspection of institutional facilities.
- 346-41.5 Hawaii qualified health centers.
- 346-42 Administrative inspections and warrants.
- 346-43 Penalties under other laws.
- 346-43.5 Medical assistance frauds, penalties.
- 346-44 Recovery of public assistance overpayments.
- 346-45 Confidentiality of court records.
- 346-46 Certified nurse aides; training programs and recertification.
- 346-47 Certified nurse aides; investigations of abuse and neglect.]
AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
- 346-51 to 346-62 [OLD] REPEALED.
- 346-51.5 Expenditure of temporary assistance for needy families funds.
- 346-52 Aged, blind, and permanently and totally disabled persons; eligibility for assistance.
- 346-53 Determination of amount of assistance.
- 346-53.2 Temporary assistance for needy families; funding and programs; public comment.
- 346-53.3 Temporary assistance for needy families and food stamps for individuals with a felony conviction which has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance.
- 346-53.4 Reimbursement to expanded adult residential care home operators.
- 346-53.5 REPEALED.
- 346-53.6 Federally qualified health centers; rural health clinics; reimbursement.
- 346-53.8 Kahuku medical center.
- 346-53.61 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approval.
- 346-53.62 Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics; reconciliation of managed care supplemental payments.
- 346-53.63 Federally qualified health center or rural health clinic; adjustment for changes to scope of services.
- 346-53.64 Federally qualified health center or rural health clinic visit.
- 346-53.65 Appeal.
- 346-54 Report to the legislature.
- 346-55 REPEALED.
- 346-55.1 Visitation, custody, and support when public assistance paid.
- 346-55.5 REPEALED.
- 346-56 State reimbursement.
- 346-57 Loans to applicants for federal supplemental security income.
- 346-57.5 Interim assistance reimbursement special fund.
- 346-58 REPEALED.
- 346-59 Medical care payments.
- 346-59.2 Comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.
- 346-59.4 Medical assistance to other children.
- 346-59.5 Enforcement of contracts.
- 346-59.6 Medicaid overpayment recovery.
- 346-59.7 Enforcement of decisions regarding medicaid overpayment recovery; judgment rendered thereon.
- 346-59.8 REPEALED.
- 346-59.9 Psychotropic medication.
- 346-60 Group therapy; reimbursement for services.
- 346-61 Optometric services, choice.
- 346-62 Examination of blind.
- 346-63 Social services.
- 346-64 REPEALED.
- 346-64.5 Eligibility for chore services.
- 346-65 Child abuse and neglect discretionary emergency assistance.
- 346-66 Psychological services.
- 346-67 Medical foods and low-protein modified food products; treatment of inborn error of metabolism; notice.
- 346-68 Bridge to hope program; transitional benefits.
- 346-69 Welfare safety net program; department of human services.
- 346-70 Medical assistance for other pregnant women.
TO HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT MINOR DEPENDENTS
- 346-71 General assistance to households without minor dependents.
- 346-72 Applications.
- 346-73 REPEALED.
- 346-74 Representative payee.
- 346-75 REPEALED.
- 346-101 Findings and purpose.
- 346-102 Public service employment; established.
- 346-103 Wages or salaries of public service employment.
- 346-104 Refusal to work; ineligibility for public assistance.
GROUP RESIDENCES--REPEALEDPART VII. RESIDENT ALIEN AND NATURALIZED CITIZEN PROGRAM
- 346-141 Purpose.
- 346-142 Definitions.
- 346-143 Administration.
- 346-144 Application; approval; statement; return.
- 346-145 Transportation assistance.
- 346-146 Penalty.
- 346-151 Definitions.
- 346-152 Exclusions; exemptions.
- 346-152.3 Investigations.]
- 346-152.5 Criminal history record checks, child abuse record checks, and adult abuse perpetrator checks for persons exempt pursuant to section 346-152.
- 346-152.7 Safe sleep policy.
- 346-153 Records of deficiencies and complaints; release to public.
- 346-154 Criminal history checks, child abuse record checks, and adult abuse perpetrator checks.
- 346-155 Rules.
- 346-156 Penalty
- 346-157 Liability insurance coverage; no requirement.
- 346-158 No smoking in child care facilities.
- 346-159 Child care licensing and registration special fund.
Care Center Licensure
- 346-161 License for group child care home, group child care center required.
- 346-162 Rules; minimum standards.
- 346-163 Licenses and temporary permits
- 346-164 Suspension and revocation of licenses and permits; reissuance.
- 346-165 Visitation and inspection of group child care home, group child care center.
- 346-166 Records.
- 346-171 Registration for family child care home required.
- 346-172 Rules for registration.
- 346-173 Procedure for registration.
- 346-174 Informing parent and legal guardian of children and general public.
- 346-175 Visitation and inspection of family child care home; revocation of registration.
- 346-176 Family child care system.
- 346-177 Program of incentive for registration.
- 346-221 Purpose; construction.
- 346-222 Definitions.
- 346-223 Jurisdiction; venue.
- 346-224 Reports.
- 346-225 Confidentiality of reports.
- 346-226 Access to records.
- 346-227 Investigation.
- 346-228 Action upon investigation.
- 346-229 Right of entry.
- 346-230 Termination of services.
- 346-231 Order for immediate protection.
- 346-232 Order to show cause hearing.
- 346-233 Petition.
- 346-234 Guardian ad litem; counsel.
- 346-235 Consolidation with guardianship proceedings.
- 346-236 Permanent changes.
- 346-237 Notice of proceedings.
- 346-238 Service.
- 346-239 Required findings concerning postponed hearings.
- 346-240 Adjudicatory hearing.
- 346-241 Disposition.
- 346-242 Review hearings.
- 346-243 Appeal.
- 346-244 Admissibility of evidence.
- 346-245 Hearings.
- 346-246 Failure to comply with court orders.
- 346-247 Payment for service or treatment provided to a party.
- 346-248 Fiscal and service responsibility.
- 346-249 Cooperation.
- 346-250 Immunity from liability.
- 346-251 Presumption of capacity.
- 346-252 Advanced age.
- 346-253 Rules.
- 346-301 Adoption assistance program established.
- 346-302 Equal benefits.
- 346-303 Rules.
- 346-304 Eligibility.
- 346-305 Effect on prior adoption assistance agreements.
AGENCIES AND COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES--REPEALEDPART XV. State pharmacy assistance program--REPEALEDPart XVI. MEDICAID PREAUTHORIZATION EXEMPTION
- 346-351 Findings.
- 346-352 Preauthorization exemption for certain physicians and physician assistants
- 346-361 Definitions.
- 346-362 Duties.
- 346-363 Exception to liability for donors.
- 346-364 Contract or conveyance to the department.
- 346-365 Program administration.
- 346-366 Time limits.
- 346-367 Determination of eligibility and need.
- 346-368 Abuse of assistance.
- 346-369 Exemptions.
- 346-370 Emergency or transitional shelter volunteers.
- 346-371 Annual performance audits.
- 346-372 Provider agency and donor cooperation are not in restraint of trade.
- 346-373 Construction of part.
- 346-374 Homeless shelter stipends.
- 346-375 Temporary emergency shelter.
- 346-376 Additional powers.
- 346-377 Housing first special fund.
- 346-378 Housing first programs.
- 346-381 Hawaii interagency council on homelessness; establishment.
- 346-382 Membership.
- 346-383 Meetings; quorum.
- 346-391 Purpose.
- 346-392 Definitions.
- 346-393 Rights of the young adult.
- 346-394 Jurisdiction.
- 346-395 Eligibility.
- 346-396 Voluntary care agreement.
- 346-397 Provision of extended foster care services.
- 346-398 Petition; venue.
- 346-399 Notice of hearings and reviews.
- 346-400 Case plan; reports to be submitted by the department.
- 346-401 Court proceedings.
- 346-402 Court-appointed attorneys.
- 346-403 Periodic review.
- 346-404 Termination of jurisdiction.
- 346-405 Reestablishing jurisdiction.
- 346-406 Liability of the department.
- 346-407 Reporting requirement.
Note
Chapter heading amended by L 1987, c 339, 4.
L Sp 2005, c 4, 3 provides:
"SECTION 3. The department of human services shall not take any action to remove pharmaceutical benefits management from managed care plans that provide health care coverage for Hawaii medicaid beneficiaries."
L 2008, c 241, 2 provides:
"SECTION 2. The department of human services shall apply to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to allow persons who are eligible to receive medicaid funds for care at nursing home facilities to remain at home and receive home- and community-based long-term care; provided that the cost for the home- and community-based services shall not exceed the total expenditures that would have been incurred if the person received facility-based long-term care, services, or support."
Equitable referral system for discharge of medicaid patients from hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities. L 2012, c 211, 7.
Homeless assistance working group; interim report to legislature (dissolved June 30, 2016). L 2013, c 222, 15 to 17; L 2014, c 134, 7.
Hospital sustainability program (repealed June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2016). L 2012, c 217; L 2013, c 141; L 2014, c 123; L 2015, c 70.
Nursing facility sustainability program (repealed June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2016). L 2012, c 156; L 2013, c 142; L 2014, c 124; L 2015, c 69.
Return-to-home pilot program for eligible homeless individuals (terminated December 31, 2016). L 2013, c 222, 12 to 14.
State's program integrity compliance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 with respect to medicaid program integrity within certain programs; reports to 2015-2017 legislature. L 2013, c 240.
Working group on documentation for state civil identification card; reports to 2016-2017 legislature (dissolved June 30, 2017). L 2015, c 243.
Cross References
Commission on fatherhood, see chapter 577E.
Early intervention services for infants and toddlers, see 321-351 to 321-357.
Hawaii children's trust fund, see chapter 350B.
Hawaii health insurance exchange, see chapter 435H.
Medicaid contracts; nonprofit and for-profit reporting requirements, see 103F-107.
Medicaid-related mandates, see chapter 431L.
Primary health care incentive program, see 321-1.5.
Safe place for newborns, see chapter 587D.
Sex offender treatment program, see chapter 353E.
State health insurance program, see chapter 431N.
Transfer of head start collaboration office, see 302L-1.5(e).
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