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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 25. Public Assistance › Article 5. Food Stamp Program. › Sec. 47.25.990. Definitions.

In AS 47.25.975 - 47.25.985,
(1) “department” means Department of Health;
(2) “food” means any food or food product for human consumption except alcoholic beverages and tobacco and includes seeds and plants for use in gardens to produce food for the personal consumption of the eligible household;
(3) “food stamp allotments ” means any coupon, stamp, electronic benefit, or type of allotment issued under 7 U.S.C. 2011 - 2036 (Food Stamp Program);
(4) “food stamp program” means the federal food stamp program authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2011 - 2036.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 1. Administrative Provisions. › Sec. 47.27.005. Duties of the department.

The department shall
(1) administer the Alaska temporary assistance program by providing cash assistance, diversion payments, and self-sufficiency services to needy children and their families under this chapter and, if appropriate, by establishing regional public assistance programs to provide effectively for varying conditions in regions of the state designated by the department;
(2) establish, by regulation, program standards for incentives to work, incentives for financial planning, cash assistance, diversion payments, self-sufficiency services, and other opportunities to develop self-sufficiency;
(3) prepare, submit to the federal government, and amend, if necessary, a state plan designed to ensure that federal money is available to the state for the operation of the program set out in this chapter to provide cash assistance, diversion payments, and self-sufficiency services to needy children and their families consistent with the state objectives identified in (2) of this section;
(4) adopt methods of program administration to ensure consistency with the federal requirements under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program;
(5) make reports regarding the program to the federal government as required under federal law, in the form and containing the information required, and comply with the provisions that the federal government determines are necessary to ensure correct and verifiable information on the program;
(6) provide to the legislature an annual executive summary of the information required to be reported to the federal government under (5) of this section;
(7) conduct studies and research in order to evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of the state program; and
(8) adopt regulations and take action to implement, interpret, and administer the provisions of this chapter.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.010. Eligible families.

The following families may apply under the Alaska temporary assistance program:
(1) a single parent who has the physical custody of one or more related dependent children;
(2) a caretaker of one or more dependent children who is a relative to at least the fifth degree;
(3) a woman in the last trimester of pregnancy;
(4) a two-parent family with physical custody of one or more related dependent children.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.020. Application requirements.

(a) An applicant under the Alaska temporary assistance program shall complete an application in writing, or by electronic means, and in a format specified in regulations adopted by the department. Regulations adopted under this subsection must establish an electronic application for the program and allow an applicant to submit an application in electronic format or in other formats required by state and federal law. The applicant must be a pregnant woman or an individual who has physical custody of the dependent child or children. The application must be complete and must provide all of the information about the family and the child or children that is requested by the department. The applicant shall provide all supporting documentation for verification that the department determines to be necessary to establish eligibility. The electronic application must inform an applicant that a false statement made on the application will be investigated and is punishable under AS 11.56.210. In this subsection, “electronic application” means an application for benefits or renewal of benefits, whether the department exclusively administers the benefits or administers the benefits in coordination with another state agency or federal agency, electronically completed and submitted through the department's Internet website.
(b) On the application, each applicant shall attest to whether the family, at any time, has received cash assistance or self-sufficiency services from another state program that was established with federal money under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and whether the family has ever been disqualified from receiving cash assistance or self-sufficiency services under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program for the period for which the application has been submitted.
(c) An applicant shall agree to cooperate with the department to establish a family self-sufficiency plan and to participate in work activities when assigned by the department.
(d) An applicant shall acknowledge the assignment of support rights as required by AS 47.27.040(a) and shall agree to cooperate with the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue to the extent required under AS 47.27.040(b). The applicant shall agree to report all child support payments received directly by the family, during or for a period for which the family is receiving cash assistance under this chapter, to the department within 15 days after receipt of those payments.
(e) An applicant shall update the information requested in the application at regular intervals as established by the department in regulation. The department may conduct reviews of an application and audit the information provided as necessary to determine eligibility.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.027. Assistance to minors.

(a) If an applicant under AS 47.27.020 is not married, is under the age of 18, and has not been previously emancipated under AS 09.55.590, the applicant must
(1) live in a home maintained by the applicant's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative, unless the applicant establishes that there is good cause, as established by the department in regulation, to waive this requirement; if the department waives this requirement, the applicant must live in an approved, adult-supervised, supportive living environment;
(2) agree that cash assistance on behalf of the applicant's family may be paid to the applicant's parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative, or, if applicable, to the adult head of the adult-supervised, supportive living environment in which the applicant resides; and
(3) maintain attendance in a secondary school or other appropriate training program unless the applicant has a high school diploma or general equivalent diploma.
(b) The department shall reduce the cash assistance for which an assistance unit is otherwise eligible under this chapter if a minor parent in the assistance unit fails, without good cause, to meet standards of adequate levels of school attendance, as defined in regulations of the department. The reduction under this subsection shall be achieved by disregarding the needs of the person who failed to meet the school attendance standards. The person's needs shall be disregarded until the minor parent complies.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.030. Family self-sufficiency services.

(a) A participant in the Alaska temporary assistance program shall cooperate with the department, or its designee, to develop and sign a family self-sufficiency plan that includes
(1) the steps the family will take towards the self-sufficiency of the family;
(2) the self-sufficiency services the department will provide to assist the family to attain self-sufficiency;
(3) specific benchmarks to indicate the steps toward successful completion of the family plan;
(4) a statement that the family may be subject to reductions in cash assistance or self-sufficiency services or other sanctions if the family fails to comply with the family plan; and
(5) a statement that describes the necessary conditions and the steps that must be taken to renegotiate the terms of the family plan.
(b) The family self-sufficiency plan must set a time period for the achievement of self-sufficiency from cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program. Initially, that time period may not provide for any more than a total of 60 months of cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program even though the family may eventually be eligible for an exemption under AS 47.27.015(a)(1). Unless the members of the family who are not dependent children are all exempt under AS 47.27.035(b) - (d), the time period for receiving cash assistance may not exceed a cumulative total of 24 months unless each nonexempt person is in compliance with the work activity assignment made under AS 47.27.035.
(c) A family is exempt from the requirement that the family have a self-sufficiency plan under this section if the family
(1) does not include a needy adult; or
(2) [Repealed, § 3 ch 75 SLA 2001.]
(3) is receiving a diversion payment under AS 47.27.026.
(d) The department may provide only self-sufficiency services to a family that no longer qualifies for cash assistance due to employment, a family that is disqualified from receiving cash assistance under AS 47.27.015(a)(1), (c), or (g), or a family that qualifies for cash assistance but requests only self-sufficiency services. Self-sufficiency services that are made available to a family under this subsection shall be based on a determination of need established by the department in regulation. If a family receives only self-sufficiency services, the department may waive the self-sufficiency plan requirements specified in (a) and (b) of this section.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.035. Participation in work activities.

(a) An Alaska temporary assistance program participant shall, after the participant's family has received a cumulative total of 24 months of cash assistance or sooner if assigned to do so by the department, participate in work activities as assigned by the department or its designee in order for the family to continue to receive cash assistance or self-sufficiency services from the department under the Alaska temporary assistance program, unless the participant is exempt from the work participation requirements under one or more of the exemptions set out in (b) - (d) of this section.
(b) A parent or caretaker with a dependent child of up to 12 months of age may be exempt from work participation requirements for up to 12 months, as established in the family self-sufficiency plan.
(c) A parent or caretaker may be exempt from work participation requirements in the family self-sufficiency plan if
(1) the parent or caretaker is providing home care for a child who is experiencing a disability or a related, disabled person who requires 24-hour care;
(2) the parent or caretaker establishes an inability to participate for medical reasons supported by documentation from a physician or other licensed medical professional;
(3) the participation would impose an unreasonable hardship on the family; or
(4) there is a dependent child in the home that has not yet attained six years of age and the parent or caretaker demonstrates an inability to obtain needed child care because appropriate child care is not available.
(d) The department may not require a person to participate in work activities under (a) of this section
(1) if the person is the sole custodial parent for a child under six years of age unless the department agrees to pay for the costs of child care determined by the department to be necessary for the person's participation; and
(2) unless the department agrees to pay for transportation expenses determined by the department to be necessary for the person's participation in the activity.
(e) A participant in work activities under this section is not a state employee for purposes of AS 39.25 (State Personnel Act).
(f) A participant in work activities under this section is not considered an employee of the state or other public employer for purposes of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 (Public Employment Relations Act) nor shall any provision of a collective bargaining agreement entered into under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 be construed to interfere with the department's authority to assign participants to work activities as authorized under this section.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.040. Assignment of support rights; cooperation with child support services agency.

(a) An Alaska temporary assistance program applicant is considered to have assigned to the state, through the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue, all rights to accrued and continuing child support, from all sources, that is due for the support of any individuals in the family for whom support is sought. The assignment takes effect upon a determination that the applicant's family is eligible for cash assistance under this chapter. Except with respect to the amount of any unpaid support obligation accrued under the assignment, the assignment terminates when the family ceases to receive cash assistance under the Alaska temporary assistance program.
(b) An Alaska temporary assistance program participant shall cooperate with the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue in establishing paternity or establishing, modifying, or enforcing a child support order requiring the payment of support by the noncustodial parent for a dependent child for whom Alaska temporary assistance program cash assistance is received. The child support enforcement agency shall determine whether the participant is in good faith compliance with the requirements of this subsection and shall inform the Department of Health of its determination. The Department of Health shall establish whether the participant has good cause for refusing to cooperate.
(c) The department may distribute to an Alaska temporary assistance program participant $50 per month from a monthly child support payment, or the amount of the child support payment if it is less than $50, received by the child support services agency for the support of a child for whom Alaska temporary assistance program cash assistance is paid.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.050. Grants and contracts for services.

(a) The department may contract with or award grants to qualified entities in the state to administer an Alaska temporary assistance program or a distinct part of the Alaska temporary assistance program. The department may establish standards for the administration of services under the grant or contract, including fees to be charged to applicants for or recipients of those services.
(b) Contracts authorized under this section are to be administered in accordance with AS 47.05.015. Grants authorized under this section are to be awarded using requirements, established in regulation, that are substantially similar to those set out in AS 47.05.015 for contracts.
(c) This section may not be construed to expand the powers of a municipality.
(d) In this section, “qualified entities” include municipalities, other political subdivisions of the state, nonprofit corporations formed under AS 10.20, churches and religious organizations, and incorporated and unincorporated businesses operating within the state that meet the requirements established by the department in regulation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.055. Agency collaboration.

(a) The department shall coordinate with other state agencies that provide assistance, benefits, or services to applicants that are eligible for and to participants in the Alaska temporary assistance program in order to facilitate the application for and delivery of assistance, benefits, or services to promote family self-sufficiency. Subject to appropriations, state agencies may locate their facilities and operations near each other in order to improve service delivery.
(b) The department may provide information received under this chapter to other state agencies in order to facilitate the delivery of services. Information received from an applicant for or participant in the Alaska temporary assistance program shall be treated as confidential by all state agencies that share the information under this section and is not open to public inspection or copying under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.125. Misuse of public assistance lists or information is punishable as a violation of AS 47.05.030.
(c) Departments in the executive branch shall cooperate in fulfilling the purposes of this chapter, including, subject to appropriations, the establishment of temporary positions that will provide job opportunities for families participating in the Alaska temporary assistance program. Temporary positions established for this purpose are in the exempt service under AS 39.25.110 but are not subject to AS 39.25.195. An individual participating in the Alaska temporary assistance program who holds a temporary position established for purposes of this subsection is not a public employee for purposes of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.060. Job development.

The department may establish cooperative agreements with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Department of Education and Early Development, and Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, and with other public or private sector organizations for the purpose of developing job, training, and educational opportunities for families eligible for cash assistance or self-sufficiency services under this chapter.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.065. Federal-state cooperation.

In the administration of this chapter, the department shall cooperate with the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and shall take actions necessary to comply with the requirements of federal law to obtain public assistance block grants or other federal assistance available for the purposes of this chapter. The department shall make reports in the form and containing the information required to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The department may cooperate with federal agencies charged with the administration of the federal public assistance block grants and other financial assistance.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.070. Alaska native organizations' family assistance programs.

(a) The department may coordinate only with the following Alaska Native organizations, as designated under federal law, in the development of family assistance programs:
(1) Arctic Slope Native Association;
(2) Kawerak, Inc.;
(3) Maniilaq Association;
(4) Association of Village Council Presidents;
(5) Tanana Chiefs Conference;
(6) Cook Inlet Tribal Council;
(7) Bristol Bay Native Association;
(8) Aleutian and Pribilof Island Association;
(9) Chugachmiut;
(10) Tlingit Haida Central Council;
(11) Kodiak Area Native Association;
(12) Copper River Native Association; and
(13) Metlakatla Indian Community of the Annette Islands Reserve; however, the department may cooperate with the Metlakatla Indian Community under this chapter only if the community waives any claim to sovereign immunity with respect to matters involved with the family assistance program.
(b) The department may cooperate with the Alaska Native organizations named in (a) of this section to propose program criteria to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services in order to promote programs comparable to the state program in the same area.
(c) [Repealed, § 1 ch 13 31 SLA 2020.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.075. Emergency account established.

There is established within the general fund the Alaska temporary assistance program emergency account. The account consists of appropriations that were made by the legislature from federal money available for cash assistance, diversion payments, and self-sufficiency services under this chapter, including lapsing money that was previously appropriated from federal money for the Alaska temporary assistance program, but that were not expended or obligated in the fiscal year for which they were appropriated.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 2. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program. › Sec. 47.27.080. Appeals; dispute resolution.

(a) An applicant or participant who receives a determination from the department that denies, limits, or modifies the cash assistance, diversion payment, or self-sufficiency services provided under this chapter may request a hearing before the office of administrative hearings (AS 44.64.010). The office of administrative hearings (AS 44.64.010) shall conduct the hearing under the regulations adopted by the department. The appeal is not subject to AS 44.62.330 - 44.62.630.
(b) The department may require an applicant or participant to participate in an informal dispute resolution process before a formal hearing. The department may adopt regulations establishing the informal dispute resolution process.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 27. Alaska Temporary Assistance Program › Article 5. General Provisions. › Sec. 47.27.900. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “Alaska Native family assistance grant” means a grant under AS 47.27.200;
(2) “Alaska Native family assistance program” means a program funded in part by a grant under AS 47.27.200;
(3) “cash assistance” means assistance for basic living expenses provided under the Alaska temporary assistance program; “cash assistance” includes cash, vouchers, or third-party vendor payments; “cash assistance” does not include a diversion payment under AS 47.27.026 or self-sufficiency services;
(4) “child care assistance” means payments made by the Department of Health or the Department of Education and Early Development to Alaska temporary assistance program participant families or to providers for the care of children of the participant families;
(5) “child support” includes court-ordered or administratively ordered child support, medical support, and spousal support;
(6) “child support services agency” means the child support services agency in the Department of Revenue;
(7) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health;
(8) “department” means the Department of Health;
(9) “dependent child” means an individual who
(A) has not attained
(i) 18 years of age; or
(ii) 19 years of age and is a full-time student in a secondary school or in the equivalent level of vocational or technical training; and
(B) is not an applicant under AS 47.27.020;
(10) “diversion payment” means a diversion payment paid under AS 47.27.026;
(11) “federally approved tribal family assistance plan” means a plan that meets the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 612 and has been approved for financing through a tribal family assistance grant directly from the United States Department of Health and Human Services;
(12) “self-sufficiency services” means work-related services, community service work referrals, child care assistance, emergency assistance, service vouchers, equipment vouchers, work stipends, transportation assistance, wage subsidies, and other work supports and services determined by the department in regulation to promote family self-sufficiency;
(13) “work activities” includes job readiness assessments, on-the-job training, education and vocational training, job sampling, job search requirements, subsidized and unsubsidized work, and community work service.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 1. Construction of Mental Health Hospitals and Facilities. › Sec. 47.30.350. Department powers and duties; ratification of authority's actions.

(a) The department shall
(1) develop and submit to the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service a comprehensive program for the constructing and equipping of hospitals and other facilities for the examination, observation, care, and treatment of the mentally ill;
(2) develop and submit to the Surgeon General plans and specifications for the constructing and equipping of the hospitals and other facilities;
(3) construct and equip the hospitals and other facilities in accordance with the program, plans, and specifications approved by the Surgeon General; construction and equipping under this paragraph is governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code);
(4) cooperate, coordinate, and contract, wherever indicated and desirable, with other state boards, departments and agencies, and agencies of the United States in the construction program, and hire necessary personnel and enter into contracts with private individuals and companies, to the end that the hospitals and other facilities are constructed in the most economical and expeditious manner; contracting and construction under this section are governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code).
(b) An action, agreement, or transaction taken or entered before April 3, 1957, by the Mental Health Authority consistent with AS 47.30.350 - 47.30.400 is affirmed and ratified.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 1. Construction of Mental Health Hospitals and Facilities. › Sec. 47.30.360. Acceptance and expenditure of funds.

The department may accept on behalf of the state and deposit separate and apart from other public funds grants from the federal government or gifts or contributions from other sources to assist in carrying out the purposes of AS 47.30.350 - 47.30.400 and may expend the funds for those purposes.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 1. Construction of Mental Health Hospitals and Facilities. › Sec. 47.30.370. Review by legislative budget and audit committee.

Before implementation, the programs, plans, and actions of the department made under AS 47.30.350, except for the proposed geographic location of the mental health hospital, shall be reviewed by the legislative budget and audit committee. The review and findings of the budget and audit committee shall be made public.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 1. Construction of Mental Health Hospitals and Facilities. › Sec. 47.30.380. Appropriation authorized.

Funds to carry out AS 47.30.350 - 47.30.400 shall be set out in the appropriation bill authorizing the operating and capital expenditures of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program under AS 37.14.003(a) and submitted to the legislature under AS 37.07.020(a)(1).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 1. Construction of Mental Health Hospitals and Facilities. › Sec. 47.30.400. Purpose of AS 47.30.350-47.30.400.

The purpose of AS 47.30.350 - 47.30.400 is to provide for the constructing and equipping of hospitals and other facilities in this state needed for carrying out a comprehensive mental health program, to accept the benefits of 42 U.S.C. 274, and to authorize the department to take action necessary to accomplish these purposes.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. › Sec. 47.30.410. Persons subject to extradition.

A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this state, who has fled from another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which the person fled, be delivered up to be removed to the state where, at the time of the flight the person
(1) was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum, or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind;
(2) had been determined by legal proceedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect, and the control of the person having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which the person fled; or
(3) was subject to detention in that state, which was then the person's legal domicile (personal service of process having been made) based on legal proceedings there pending to have the person declared of unsound mind.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. › Sec. 47.30.420. Extradition proceedings.

If the executive authority of a state demands of the executive authority of this state a fugitive under AS 47.30.410 and produces a copy of the commitment decree or other judicial process and proceedings, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state from which the person so charged has fled, with an affidavit made before a proper officer showing the person to be a fugitive, the executive authority of this state shall have the fugitive apprehended and secured, if found in this state, and have immediate notice of the apprehension given to the executive authority making the demand, or to the agent of that authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and have the fugitive delivered to the agent when the agent appears. If no agent appears within 30 days from the time of the apprehension the fugitive may be discharged. All costs and expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, maintaining, and transmitting the fugitive to the state making the demand shall be paid by that state. An agent so appointed who receives the fugitive into custody is empowered to transmit the fugitive to the state from which the fugitive fled. The executive authority of this state may, on the application of a person interested, demand the return to this state of a fugitive under AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. › Sec. 47.30.430. Time to commence proceedings.

All proceedings under AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460 shall be begun within one year after the flight referred to in AS 47.30.410.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. › Sec. 47.30.440. Interpretation and construction.

AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. › Sec. 47.30.450. Definitions.

In AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460
(1) “executive authority,” “governor,” and “chief magistrate,” respectively, as applied to a request to return a person under AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460 to or from the District of Columbia, include a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and other authority;
(2) “flight” and “fled” mean a voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings mentioned in AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460 have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding, impeding, or delaying the action of the court in which the proceedings have been instituted or are pending, or a voluntary or involuntary departure from the state where the person demanded then was, if the person then was under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention;
(3) “state” includes states, territories, districts, and insular and other possessions of the United States.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. › Sec. 47.30.460. Short title.

AS 47.30.410 - 47.30.460 may be cited as the Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 3. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. › Sec. 47.30.470. Powers and duties of department.

The department shall
(1) ascertain and keep current a list of all institutions in the state that have available facilities for the care and treatment of alcoholics and drug abusers;
(2) encourage the development and advancement of standards of treatment of alcoholics and drug abusers in institutions;
(3) promote and encourage educational activities to make the public aware of the effects of intemperate use of alcoholic beverages and drugs, and promote and encourage the education of the general public about scientific facts regarding alcoholism and drug abuse;
(4) identify and utilize whatever facilities and services are available or can be made available through community organization for carrying out the purposes of this section, including identification and utilization for detoxification of under-utilized hospital beds;
(5) engage in research and educational activities that will aid in the understanding of alcoholism and drug abuse and in the treatment of alcoholics and drug abusers;
(6) administer a community grant-in-aid program for alcoholism and drug abuse;
(7) submit an annual report concerning alcoholism and drug abuse in the state and the grant-in-aid program within 10 days after the convening of the legislature in each regular session;
(8) prepare that part of the plan for the integrated comprehensive mental health program under AS 44.25.290 that relates to the services and facilities that are necessary for the care and treatment of persons identified as chronic alcoholics suffering from psychoses, as defined in AS 44.25.290(b)(3) and (f); in preparing the plan of services for persons identified in this paragraph, the department shall coordinate with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority and the Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse;
(9) use money awarded to the department by grant or contract from the mental health trust settlement income account established under AS 37.14.036 and appropriated from the general fund to provide the necessary services identified in (8) of this section and in accordance with AS 44.25.290.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 3. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. › Sec. 47.30.477. Grant-in-aid program regulations.

The department shall adopt regulations implementing AS 47.30.475. The regulations must provide for the method of application, the time for consideration of applications, the processing of applications, the type of record keeping, the requirements for reporting the progress and statistics regarding the program, and the notification of the applicant as to the action taken on the application. The department shall also establish the necessary forms of application and may adopt other regulations considered necessary to meet the requirements of health and safety and the orderly administration of the grant-in-aid program. The regulations must include reporting requirements that will permit an evaluation of the success of the program.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 3. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. › Sec. 47.30.490. Acceptance of funds.

The department may accept on behalf of the state and deposit, apart from other public funds, grants from the federal government or gifts or contributions from other sources to assist in carrying out the purposes of AS 47.30.470.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 3. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. › Sec. 47.30.500. Definitions.

In AS 47.30.470 - 47.30.490,
(1) “alcoholism” means a condition related to alcohol and concerns a physical compulsion which exists, coupled with a mental obsession;
(2) “costs of improvement, renovation, or new construction of facilities” includes, in addition to costs directly related to the project, the sum total of all costs of financing and carrying out the project; these include, but are not limited to, the costs of all necessary studies, surveys, plans and specifications, architectural, engineering, or other special services, acquisition of real property, site preparation and development, purchase, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of real property, and the acquisition of machinery and equipment as may be necessary in connection with the project; an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the grantee; the cost of financing the project, including interest on bonds issued to finance the project; and the cost of other items, including any indemnity and surety bonds and premiums on insurance, legal fees, fees and expenses of trustees, depositaries, financial advisors, and paying agents for the bonds issued as the issuer considers necessary;
(3) “department” means the Department of Health.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 4. Community Mental Health Services Act. › Sec. 47.30.520. Legislative purpose.

It is the purpose of the Community Mental Health Services Act to
(1) provide a range of community-based inpatient, outpatient, and support services for persons with mental disorders;
(2) assist communities in planning, organizing, and financing community mental health services through locally developed, administered, and controlled community mental health programs;
(3) better develop and use resources at both state and local levels;
(4) develop and implement plans for comprehensive mental health services based on demonstrated need on a regional basis;
(5) improve the effectiveness of existing mental health services;
(6) integrate state-operated and community mental health programs into a unified mental health system;
(7) ensure that consumers, families, and representatives of communities within mental health planning regions can participate in planning for, determining the need for, and allocating mental health resources;
(8) provide a means of allocating money available for state mental health services according to community needs;
(9) encourage the full use of all existing public or private agencies, facilities, personnel, and funds to accomplish these objectives; and
(10) prevent unnecessary duplication and fragmentation of services and expenditures.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 4. Community Mental Health Services Act. › Sec. 47.30.523. Community mental health program policy and principles.

(a) It is the policy of the state that
(1) the community mental health program provide a comprehensive and integrated system of community-based facilities, supports, and mental health services, including child and adolescent screening and diagnosis, inpatient, outpatient, prevention, consultation, and education services;
(2) persons most in need of community mental health services receive appropriate services as provided under AS 44.25.290;
(3) the community mental health program be coordinated, to the maximum extent possible, with the programs established under AS 47.37, AS 47.65, AS 47.80, and other programs affecting the well being of persons in need of mental health services.
(b) Community mental health program service delivery principles include the principles that persons
(1) have ready and prompt access to necessary screening, diagnosis, and treatment;
(2) receiving community mental health services be informed of their rights, including their rights to confidentiality and to treatment with dignity;
(3) be provided community mental health services by staff and programs that reflect the culture, linguistic, and other social characteristics of their community and that incorporate multidisciplinary professional staff to meet client functional levels and diagnostic and treatment needs;
(4) in need of community mental health services, and their families, be encouraged to participate in formulating, delivering, and evaluating treatment and rehabilitation;
(5) in need of community mental health services be provided treatment and rehabilitation services designed to minimize institutionalization and maximize individual potential;
(6) be treated in the least restrictive alternative environment consistent with their treatment needs, enabling the person to live as normally as possible;
(7) be provided necessary treatment as close to the person's home as possible;
(8) be informed of and allowed to participate in planning their own treatment as much as possible.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 4. Community Mental Health Services Act. › Sec. 47.30.530. Duties of department.

(a) The department shall administer the provisions of AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 and shall
(1) define and develop standards for various levels and qualities of mental health care;
(2) provide fiscal and professional technical assistance in planning, organizing, developing, implementing, and administering local mental health services;
(3) develop budgets and receive and distribute state appropriations and funds in accordance with the provisions of AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620;
(4) establish standards of education and experience for professional, technical, and administrative personnel employed in community mental health services;
(5) assist the community in establishing the organization and operation of community mental health services;
(6) develop a standardized system for measuring and reporting to the department the types, quantities, and quality of services; and develop a cost accounting system that will demonstrate the cost of various levels and qualities of care;
(7) provide each local community planning and services delivery entity with statistics, reports, and other data relevant to development of indices indicating the need for mental health services, or relevant to evaluating the effectiveness of existing services;
(8) review each local community plan and require each plan to include
(A) an affirmative showing that the most effective and economic use will be made of all available public and private resources in the community including careful consideration of the most effective and economic alternative forms and patterns of services;
(B) a five-year projection of needs, services, and resources; and
(C) adequate provisions for review and evaluation of services provided in the local community;
(9) adopt regulations and establish priorities, after consultation with local communities affected and in conjunction with the Alaska Mental Health Board, that are necessary to carry out the purposes of AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620.
(b) In performing its duties under (a) of this section, the department shall coordinate with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established in AS 44.25.200.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 4. Community Mental Health Services Act. › Sec. 47.30.545. Populations to be served.

The entities designated by the department to receive money under AS 47.30.540(b) shall provide one or more of the services that are set out in AS 44.25.290(i) to persons identified in AS 44.25.290.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 4. Community Mental Health Services Act. › Sec. 47.30.547. Standards for community mental health services.

An entity that provides community mental health services shall
(1) make services available at times and locations that enable residents of the entity's service area to obtain services readily;
(2) ensure each client's right to confidentiality and treatment with dignity;
(3) establish staffing patterns of qualified and trained personnel that reflect the cultural, linguistic, and other social characteristics of the community and that incorporate multidisciplinary professional staff to meet client functional levels and diagnostic and treatment needs;
(4) promote client and family participation in formulating, delivering, and evaluating treatment and rehabilitation;
(5) design screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation services to maximize individual potential and to minimize institutionalization; and
(6) provide services in the least restrictive setting, enabling the person receiving the services to live as normally as possible.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions › Chapter 30. Mental Health › Article 4. Community Mental Health Services Act. › Sec. 47.30.550. Cost sharing formulas; use of income.

(a) In a district designated by the department as a poverty area, the department may fund not more than 90 percent of the eligible costs of the community mental health services to be furnished under an entity's approved plan.
(b) In a district that has not been designated by the department as a poverty area, the department may fund not more than 75 percent of the eligible costs of the community mental health services to be furnished under an entity's approved plan.
(c) Notwithstanding (a) and (b) of this section, if the department determines that sufficient funds from other sources are unavailable, then the department shall fund the percent of the eligible costs that is necessary in order to ensure that services for chronically mentally ill adults and severely mentally ill children, and other community mental health services to be furnished under an entity's approved plan are made available by the entity. Funding under this subsection is subject to the availability of legislative appropriations for the purpose.
(d) Income earned by an entity through a community mental health project funded under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 shall be used to augment or enhance the entity's mental health services.
(e) In (a) and (b) of this section, “poverty area” means a census district in which at least 15 percent of the population, based upon the most recent census data, falls under 125 percent of the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Poverty Income Guidelines for Alaska, as reported in the Federal Register.