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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.120 - Indebtedness for hospital — election — form of ballot — defeat of proposal, effect — limits — annual tax.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
206.120. Indebtedness for hospital — election — form of ballot — defeat of proposal, effect — limits — annual tax. —
1. For the purpose of purchasing hospital sites, erecting hospitals and related facilities and furnishing the same, building additions to and repairing old buildings, the board of directors may borrow money and issue bonds for the payment thereof in the manner provided herein. The question of the loan shall be submitted to the voters by an order of the board of directors of the district.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ hospital district borrow money in the amount of ______ dollars for the purpose of ______ and issue bonds in payment thereof?
3. If the then constitutionally required majority of the votes cast are for the loan, the board shall, subject to the restrictions of subsection 5, be vested with the power to borrow money in the name of the district, to the amount and for the purposes specified on the ballot, and issue the bonds of the district for the payment thereof.
4. If less than the required majority of the votes cast are for the first loan submitted to the voters following the organization of the district, a second question for authority to borrow money may be submitted and if unsuccessful a third question may be submitted. If each of the first three questions submitted to the voters for authority to borrow money for the purposes of this section is defeated, or if no successful submission for such purpose is conducted within five years after the establishment of the district, then the district shall be immediately dissolved by order of the county commission establishing it, and any funds remaining on hand and belonging to the district shall forthwith be paid pro rata to those taxpayers from whom they were collected; provided that in any district wherein a hospital is in operation without having voted bonds, the provisions of this section as relating to dissolution shall not apply.
5. The loans authorized by this section shall not be contracted for a period longer than twenty years, and the entire amount of the loan shall at no time exceed, including the existing indebtedness of the district, in the aggregate, ten percent of the value of taxable tangible property therein, as shown by the last completed assessment for state and county purposes, the rate of interest to be agreed upon by the parties, but in no case to exceed the highest legal rate allowed by contract. When effected, it shall be the duty of the directors to provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on the indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within the time the principal becomes due.
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(L. 1961 p. 524 § 13, A.L. 1967 p. 319, A.L. 1969 S.B. 38, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.122 - Revenue bonds authorized, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
• Effective - 28 Aug 1981
206.122. Revenue bonds authorized, when. —
As an alternative to the authorization for an indebtedness provided by section 206.120, for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition, construction, erection, equipment and furnishing of hospitals and related facilities, including medical office buildings to provide offices for rental to physicians and dentists on the district hospital's medical or dental staff, and for providing sites therefor, including offstreet parking space, and making from time to time enlargements or extensions thereof, the board of directors may issue and sell revenue bonds. The revenue bonds are payable, both as to principal and interest, solely and only out of the net income and revenues arising from the operation of the facility, after providing for the costs of operation and maintenance thereof, or from other funds made available to the facility from sources other than from proceeds of taxation.
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(L. 1971 S.B. 142, A.L. 1981 H.B. 258)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.124 - Revenue bonds not an indebtedness of the issuing authority.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
206.124. Revenue bonds not an indebtedness of the issuing authority. —
Any bonds issued under and pursuant to sections 206.122 to 206.128 shall not be deemed to be an indebtedness of the state of Missouri, or of any city or of the board of directors, or of the individual members of the board of directors and shall not be deemed to be an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation upon the incurring of indebtedness.
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(L. 1971 S.B. 142)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.126 - Revenue bonds, form of, interest rate — to be negotiable instruments.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
206.126. Revenue bonds, form of, interest rate — to be negotiable instruments. —
1. Revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of section 206.122 shall be of such denomination, shall bear such rate of interest not to exceed the highest rate permitted by law, and shall mature at such times as determined by the board of directors. The bonds may be either serial bonds or term bonds and may be issued with or without reservation of the right to call them for payment or redemption in advance of their maturity, upon the giving of notice and with or without the covenant requiring the payment of a premium in the event of the call and redemption prior to maturity as the board determines.
2. The bonds when issued and sold shall be negotiable instruments within the meaning of the law merchant and the negotiable instruments law and the interest thereon is exempt from income taxes under the laws of the state of Missouri.
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(L. 1971 S.B. 142)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.128 - Board of directors to prescribe form, make necessary covenants, restrictions — bondholders, remedies of — revenue bonds not to be exclusive method of financing.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
206.128. Board of directors to prescribe form, make necessary covenants, restrictions — bondholders, remedies of — revenue bonds not to be exclusive method of financing. —
1. The board of directors, issuing bonds under the provisions of section 206.122, shall prescribe the form, details and incidents of the bonds and the board of directors shall make such covenants as in their judgment are advisable or necessary properly to secure the payment thereof; but the form, details, incidents and covenants shall not be inconsistent with any of the provisions of sections 206.122 to 206.128.
2. The holder of any bonds issued hereunder or of any coupons representing interest accrued thereon may, by civil action either at law or in equity, compel the board of directors issuing such bonds to perform all duties imposed upon them by the provisions of sections 206.122 to 206.128, and also to enforce the performance of any and all other covenants made by such board of directors in the issuance of the bonds.
3. The provisions of sections 206.122 to 206.128 shall not be exclusive of other legal methods of financing the facilities therein described, but shall furnish an alternative method of finance.
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(L. 1971 S.B. 142)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.130 - Annexation of territory to district — election — form of ballot.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
Effective - 28 Aug 1978
206.130. Annexation of territory to district — election — form of ballot. —
1. A petition for annexation of land to a hospital district shall be signed by not less than ten percent or fifty voters, whichever is fewer, residing within the territory therein described proposed for annexation and shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the district or the greater portion thereof is situated, and shall be addressed to the commissioners of the county commission. A hearing shall be held thereon as nearly as possible as in the case of a formation petition. If upon the hearing, the commissioners of the county commission find that the petition is in compliance with this chapter, they shall order the question to be submitted. The question shall be submitted within the territory by the county commission as is provided in section 206.060.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall ______ (description of territory) be annexed to the ______ hospital district?
3. If a majority of the votes cast on the question in the district and in the territory described in the petition, respectively, are in favor of annexation, the commissioners of the county commission shall by order declare the territory annexed and shall describe the altered boundaries of the district.
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(L. 1961 p. 524 § 14, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.140 - Records of district — officers and employees to give bond.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
Effective - 28 Aug 1961
206.140. Records of district — officers and employees to give bond. —
1. The board shall provide for the proper and safekeeping of its permanent records and for the recording of the corporate action of the district. It shall keep a true and accurate account of its receipts and an annual audit shall be made of its books, records and accounts.
2. All officers and employees authorized to receive or retain the custody of money or to sign vouchers, checks, warrants or evidences of indebtedness binding upon the district shall furnish surety bond for the faithful performance of their duties and the faithful accounting for all moneys that may come into their hands in an amount to be fixed and in a form to be approved by the board.
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(L. 1961 p. 524 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.150 - Board as trustee may accept and hold property donated — duties.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
Effective - 28 Aug 1961
206.150. Board as trustee may accept and hold property donated — duties. —
Any person desiring to donate property for the benefit of a hospital, constructed or to be constructed under this chapter, may vest title to the property so donated in the board of directors created under this chapter, and the board of directors shall hold and control the property so received and accepted according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of the property, and shall be a trustee of the property and shall take title to all property it may acquire in the name of the district and shall control the property for the purposes provided in this chapter.
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(L. 1961 p. 524 § 16)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 206 - Hospital District Law › Section 206.160 - Citation of law.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 206
Effective - 28 Aug 1961
206.160. Citation of law. —
The chapter shall be known and may be referred to as "The Hospital District Law".
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(L. 1961 p. 524 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.010 - Divisions of department, authority to carry out duties.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
207.010. Divisions of department, authority to carry out duties. —
The children's division, family support division, MO HealthNet division, division of youth services, division of legal services, division of finance and administrative services, and the state technical support team are an integral part of the department of social services and shall have and exercise all the powers and duties necessary to carry out fully and effectively the purposes assigned to them by the director of the department of social services and by law and the department of social services shall be the state agency to:
(1) Administer state plans and laws involving aid to dependent children;
(2) Aid or relief in case of public calamity;
(3) Aid for direct relief;
(4) Child welfare services;
(5) Social services to families and adults;
(6) Pensions and services for the blind; and
(7) Any other duties relating to public assistance and social services which may be imposed upon the department of social services.
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(L. 1945 p. 945 § 32, A. 1949 S.B. 1062, A.L. 1953 p. 622, A.L. 1973 S.B. 325, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.021 - Rules and regulations, procedure.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
207.021. Rules and regulations, procedure. —
No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
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(L. 1981 H.B. 901 § B, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.030 - Director of divisions — oath — bond — removal from office.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
207.030. Director of divisions — oath — bond — removal from office. —
The directors of the family support division and children's division shall be persons qualified by education and experience to supervise the work of such divisions and shall be citizens and taxpayers of Missouri. Before entering upon his or her duties, each director shall subscribe an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri and to faithfully demean himself or herself in office. Each director shall enter into good and sufficient bond, payable to the state of Missouri, conditioned upon the faithful discharge and performance of official duties, and upon accountability for all property and funds coming under such director's administration and control, said bond to be approved by the attorney general as to form, and by the governor as to its sufficiency, the premium on said bond to be paid by the state. The governor may remove the director of the children's division and the director of the family support division for incompetence, misconduct, or neglect of duty.
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(L. 1945 p. 945 § 34, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.060 - County offices — director — agreements with subdivisions — other employees.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
207.060. County offices — director — agreements with subdivisions — other employees. —
1. The directors of the family support division and children's division shall jointly operate and maintain a county office in every county, which may be in the charge of a county welfare director who shall have been a resident of the state of Missouri for a period of at least two years immediately prior to taking office and whose salary shall be paid from funds appropriated for the family support division and children's division.
2. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining county offices, or carrying out any of the duties of the divisions, the division directors may enter into agreements with any political subdivision of this state, and as a part of such agreement, may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a contribution toward the support and maintenance of such county offices. Any funds so received shall be payable to the director of revenue and deposited in the proper special account in the state treasury, and become and be a part of state funds appropriated for the use of the family support division and children's division.
3. Other employees in the county offices shall be employed with due regard to the population of the county, existing conditions and purpose to be accomplished. Such employees shall be paid as are other employees of the family support division and children's division.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9405, A.L. 1941 p. 643, A. 1949 S.B. 1062, A.L. 1973 S.B. 325, A.L. 1992 H.B. 887, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1453)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.070 - Department may elect to bring employees under workers' compensation — who deemed employee — rules.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
207.070. Department may elect to bring employees under workers' compensation — who deemed employee — rules. —
1. The department of social services is hereby authorized to elect, under the provisions of section 287.030, to come under the provisions of chapter 287, governing workers' compensation, and such law is hereby extended to include all employees of the department under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or under any appointment or election. The state of Missouri shall be a self-insurer and assume all liability imposed by chapter 287, in respect to the department employees without insurance. The attorney general shall appear on behalf of and defend the state in all actions, when the state is a self-insurer, brought by employees of the department referred to herein under the provisions of the workers' compensation law.
2. Any persons assigned to perform work on welfare work projects initiated or sponsored by any state agency in carrying out a cooperative agreement with the United States government under the Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, or any amendment thereto, shall be deemed to be employees of the department of social services only for the purpose of affording such employees workers' compensation coverage under chapter 287. The workers' compensation coverage may be provided by the purchase of insurance or by the deposit in the commissioner of administration's office of a fund from which workers' compensation benefits to such employees shall be paid. Purchase of the insurance or the deposit of a fund shall be made only from funds granted by the federal government.
3. The department of social services shall adopt rules classifying the employees mentioned herein who may be eligible for compensation under this section, and its classification shall be decisive as to whether or not an employee falls within the definition of an employee eligible for workers' compensation coverage under this section.
4. The director of the department of social services is authorized to perform such duties as may be necessary to carry out effectively the purposes of this section.
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(L. 1965 p. 353 § 1, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.080 - Law not to create liability or obligation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
207.080. Law not to create liability or obligation. —
The extension of chapter 287 to include employees of the department of social services shall not be construed as acknowledging or creating any liability in tort, or as incurring other obligations or duties except only the duty and obligation of complying with the provisions of chapter 287 so long as the department may elect to remain under the provisions of chapter 287.
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(L. 1965 p. 353 § 2, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 207 - Family Support Division and Children's Division › Section 207.085 - Division employee dismissal, when — mitigating factors.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 207
• Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories
207.085. Division employee dismissal, when — mitigating factors. —
1. Any employee of the children's division, including supervisory personnel and private contractors with the division, who is involved with child protective services and purposely, knowingly, and willfully violates a stated or written policy of the division, any rule promulgated by the division, or any state law directly related to the child abuse and neglect activities of the division shall be dismissed if the violation directly results in serious physical injury or death, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of this section. Any person employed in a position described under subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of section 36.030, if any, shall have the right of appeal pursuant to sections 36.380 and 36.390. For purposes of this section, a
"private contractor with the division"
means any private entity or community action agency with the appropriate and relevant training and expertise in delivering services to children and their families as determined by the children's division, and capable of providing direct services and other family services for children in the custody of the children's division or any such entities or agencies that are receiving state moneys for such services.
2. The provisions of sections 660.019 to 660.021
*
shall apply to this section. If an employee of the division or a private contractor with the division is responsible for caseload assignments in excess of those required to attain accreditation by the Council for Accreditation for Families and Children's Services, and the employee purposely, knowingly, and willfully violates a stated or written policy of the division, any rule promulgated by the division, or any state law directly related to the child abuse and neglect activities of the division and the violation directly results in serious physical injury or death, the employee's good faith efforts to follow the stated or written policies of the division, the rules promulgated by the division, or the state laws directly related to the child abuse and neglect activities of the division shall be a mitigating factor in determining whether an employee of the division or a private contractor with the division is dismissed pursuant to subsection 1 of this section.
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(L. 2004 H.B. 1453, A.L. 2018 S.B. 1007)
*Sections 660.019 to 660.021 were repealed by H.B. 1608, 2012.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.001 - Citation of law — MO HealthNet created — division created — rulemaking authority.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
208.001. Citation of law — MO HealthNet created — division created — rulemaking authority. —
1. Sections 105.711, 135.096, 135.575
*
, 191.411, 191.900, 191.905, 191.907, 191.908, 191.909, 191.910, 191.914, 191.1050, 191.1053, 191.1056, 192.632
**
, 198.069, 198.097, 208.001, 208.146, 208.151, 208.152, 208.153, 208.201, 208.202, 208.212, 208.213, 208.215, 208.217, 208.230, 208.612, 208.631, 208.640, 208.659, 208.670, 208.690, 208.692, 208.694, 208.696, 208.698, 208.750, 208.930, 208.950, 208.955, 208.975
*
, 208.978, and 473.398 may be known as and may be cited as the "Missouri Continuing Health Improvement Act".
2. In Missouri, the medical assistance program on behalf of needy persons, Title XIX, Public Law 89-97, 1965 amendments to the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 301, et seq., shall be known as "MO HealthNet". Medicaid shall also mean "MO HealthNet" wherever it appears throughout Missouri Revised Statutes. The title "division of medical services" shall also mean "MO HealthNet division".
3. The MO HealthNet division is authorized to promulgate rules, including emergency rules if necessary, to implement the provisions of the Missouri continuing health improvement act, including but not limited to the form and content of any documents required to be filed under such act.
4. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in the Missouri continuing health improvement act, shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2007, shall be invalid and void.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 577)
*Sections 135.575 and 208.975 were repealed by S.B. 975 & 1024 Revision, 2018.
**Section 192.632 was repealed by S.B. 58, 2015.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.012 - Payments from Agent Orange funds not to be considered income in determining eligibility.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 25 May 1990, see footnote
208.012. Payments from Agent Orange funds not to be considered income in determining eligibility. —
Payments made from the Agent Orange Settlement Fund or any other fund established pursuant to the settlement in the In Re Agent Orange product liability litigation, M.D.L. No. 381 (E.D.N.Y.) shall not be considered income or resources in determining eligibility for or the amount of benefits under any state or state-assisted program.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1849 § 1)
Effective 5-25-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.013 - Restitution payments to victims of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution not income in determining eligibility.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2000
208.013. Restitution payments to victims of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution not income in determining eligibility. —
1. The following amounts received by an individual or returns and payments to an individual shall not be considered income, resources or assets when determining the amount of, or eligibility for, any public assistance, benefit, entitlement or tax relief to such individual pursuant to any state or state-assisted program:
(1) Amounts received as reparations or restitution for the loss of liberty or life or damage to health by the victims of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution;
(2) Returns of tangible or intangible property seized, misappropriated or lost as a result of National Socialist (Nazi) actions or policies and any cash values in replacement of such property;
(3) Payments of insurance policies purchased prior to December 31, 1945, by the victims of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution; and
(4) Any accumulated or accrued interest on such amounts, returns or payments.
2. The nonconsideration of the amounts, returns or payments as income, resources or assets of an individual shall only apply if such individual was a victim of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution, actions or policies or is the spouse or descendant of a victim of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution, actions or policies and such family member is the first recipient of such amounts, returns or payments.
3. As used in this section,
"National Socialist (Nazi) persecution, actions and policies"
means persecution, actions or policies taken by Germany and other countries, or by organizations, institutions and companies within those countries, against the victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
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(L. 2000 H.B. 1452 § 208.750)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.015 - Persons not eligible for general relief — exception — specified relative, defined — unemployable persons — relief limitation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
208.015. Persons not eligible for general relief — exception — specified relative, defined — unemployable persons — relief limitation. —
1. The family support division shall grant general relief benefits to those persons determined to be eligible under this chapter and the applicable rules of the division. The director may adopt such additional requirements for eligibility for general relief, not inconsistent with this chapter, which the director deems appropriate.
2. General relief shall not be granted to any person:
(1) Who has been approved for federal supplemental security income and was not on the general relief rolls in December, 1973; or
(2) Who is a recipient of:
(a) Aid to families with dependent children benefits;
(b) Aid to the blind benefits;
(c) Blind pension benefits; or
(d) Supplemental aid to the blind benefits.
3. A person shall not be considered unemployable, under this section, if unemployability is due to school attendance.
4. Persons receiving general relief in December, 1973, and who qualify for supplemental security income shall continue to receive a general relief grant if necessary to prevent a reduction in the total cash income received by such person in December, 1973, which general relief grant shall not exceed the amount of general relief provided by law.
5. In providing benefits to persons applying for or receiving general relief, benefits shall not be provided to any member of a household if the claimant is employable as defined by rule of the family support division; or if certain specified relatives living in the household of the claimant are employed and have income sufficient to support themselves and their legal dependents and to meet the needs of the claimant as defined by rule of the division.
"Specified relatives"
shall be defined as the spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, and grandparents of the claimant, as well as the spouses of these relatives, if living in the home.
6. General relief paid to an unemployable person shall not exceed one hundred dollars a month.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 325, A.L. 1981 H.B. 901, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.016 - Personal needs allowance to be deducted from resident's income — increase in allowance, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2009
208.016. Personal needs allowance to be deducted from resident's income — increase in allowance, when. —
In determining the amount of an institutionalized MO HealthNet individual's income that is to be applied to payment for the costs of care in the institution, there shall be deducted a personal needs allowance of no less than thirty dollars per month or the minimum amount required by 42 U.S.C. 1396a(q)(2) if more than thirty dollars. Beginning January 1, 2010, the personal needs allowance shall be increased by an amount equal to the product of the percentage of the Social Security benefit cost-of-living adjustment and the average amount that MO HealthNet participants are required to contribute to the cost of institutionalized care. The annual increase in the personal needs allowance shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar and shall not exceed five dollars in any year. Once the personal needs allowance reaches fifty dollars, there shall be no further increases unless authorized by annual appropriation.
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(L. 2009 H.B. 395)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.020 - Eligibility not affected by involuntary conversion of real into personal property for year — receipt defined.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 16 Feb 1982, see footnote
208.020. Eligibility not affected by involuntary conversion of real into personal property for year — receipt defined. —
1. Any proceeds from involuntary conversion of real property into personal property (such as forced transfer under condemnation, eminent domain, and fire, flood or other act of God) received by a recipient while eligible to receive public assistance benefits under existing laws shall be considered real property and excluded from resources for a period of one year from the time of their receipt.
2. For the purposes of this section the word
"receipt"
means actual receipt of the proceeds or the payment into court of the proceeds, except that in condemnation cases when the initial exception to the commissioner's award is filed by the condemning authority, the word
"receipt"
means receipt of an award under a final judgment.
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(L. 1949 p. 599 § 1, A.L. 1955 p. 688, A.L. 1965 p. 354, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1462)
Effective 2-16-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.022 - TANF electronic benefit cards to include photograph of recipient.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2011
208.022. TANF electronic benefit cards to include photograph of recipient. —
All electronic benefits cards distributed to recipients of temporary assistance for needy families benefits shall have imprinted on the card a photograph of the recipient or protective payee authorized to use the card and shall expire and be subject to renewal after a period of three years. The card shall not be accepted for use by a retail establishment if the photograph of the recipient does not match the person presenting the card.
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(L. 2011 H.B. 73 & 47 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.043 - Aid to dependent children living with legal guardian who is not an eligible relative, when granted.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
208.043. Aid to dependent children living with legal guardian who is not an eligible relative, when granted. —
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 208.040, aid to dependent children benefits shall be granted on behalf of a needy child and may be granted to a needy eligible legal guardian caring for a needy dependent child who:
(1) Has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent;
(2) Is living with a legal guardian;
(3) Is under the age of eighteen; and
(4) Is not eligible for aid to dependent children benefits under section 208.040 because the child is not living with a specified relative.
2. The amount of the monthly public assistance benefit payable hereunder shall be determined by the standards set forth in section 208.150.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 159)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.044 - Child day care services to be provided certain persons — eligible providers.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2022, 3 histories
208.044. Child day care services to be provided certain persons — eligible providers. —
1. The department of elementary and secondary education shall provide child day care services to any person who meets the qualifications set forth at sections 301 and 302 of the Family Support Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-485).
2. The department shall purchase the child day care services required by this section by making payments directly to any providers of day care services licensed pursuant to chapter 210 or to providers of day care services who are not required by chapter 210 to be licensed because they are providing care to no more than six children pursuant to section 210.211.
3. When a person who has been eligible and receiving day care services under this section becomes ineligible due to the end of the twelve-month period of transitional day care, as defined in section 208.400, such person may receive day care services from the department if otherwise eligible for such services.
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(L. 1989 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 2, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1323, A.L. 2019 H.B. 397, A.L. 2022 S.B. 683)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.046 - Child care assistance, income eligibility criteria, vouchers or direct reimbursement, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2022, 2 histories
208.046. Child care assistance, income eligibility criteria, vouchers or direct reimbursement, when. —
1. The department of elementary and secondary education shall promulgate rules to modify the income eligibility criteria for any person receiving state-funded child care assistance, either through vouchers or direct reimbursement to child care providers, as follows:
(1) Child care recipients eligible under this chapter and the criteria set forth in 5 CSR 25-200 may pay a fee based on adjusted gross income and family size unit based on a child care sliding fee scale established by the department of elementary and secondary education, which shall be subject to appropriations. However, a person receiving state-funded child care assistance under this chapter and whose income surpasses the annual appropriation level may continue to receive reduced subsidy benefits on a scale established by the department, at which time such person will have assumed the full cost of the maximum base child care subsidy rate established by the department and shall be no longer eligible for child care subsidy benefits;
(2) The sliding scale fee may be waived for children with special needs as established by the department; and
(3) The maximum payment by the department shall be the applicable rate minus the applicable fee.
2. For purposes of this section,
"annual appropriation level"
shall mean the maximum income level to be eligible for a full child care benefit as determined through the annual appropriations process.
3. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2010, shall be invalid and void.
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(L. 2010 H.B. 2290 merged with S.B. 1007, A.L. 2022 S.B. 683)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.047 - Aid to dependent children in foster homes or child-care institutions, granted, when — maximum benefits.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
208.047. Aid to dependent children in foster homes or child-care institutions, granted, when — maximum benefits. —
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 208.040, aid to dependent children benefits may be granted to a dependent child:
(1) Who would meet the requirements of section 208.040, except for his or her removal from the home of a relative as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that continuation therein would be contrary to the welfare of such child;
(2) For whose placement and care the children's division is responsible;
(3) Who has been placed in a foster family home or nonprofit private child-care institution as a result of such determination; and
(4) Who (a) received aid to dependent children benefits in and for the month in which court proceedings leading to such determination were initiated; or (b) would have received aid in or for that month if application had been made therefor; or (c) in the case of a child who had been living with a relative specified in section 208.040 within six months prior to the month in which such proceedings were initiated, would have received aid in and for such month, if in such month he or she had been living with, and removed from the home of, such a relative and application had been made therefor.
2. Monthly aid to dependent children benefits on behalf of a child placed in a foster family home or nonprofit private child-care institution shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each child and in the event that federal aid to states for dependent children placed in a nonprofit private child-care institution is withdrawn, benefit payments under this section shall be terminated on behalf of a dependent child in a nonprofit private child-care institution.
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(L. 1963 p. 379 § 208.041, A.L. 1965 p. 355, A.L. 1969 H.B. 804, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.048 - Aid to families with dependent child — school attendance required — rules.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 1994
208.048. Aid to families with dependent child — school attendance required — rules. —
1. A dependent child eighteen years of age shall, in order to retain eligibility for aid to families with dependent children, be enrolled as a full-time student in a public or private secondary school, or an equivalent level of vocational or technical school in lieu of secondary school, and reasonably expected to complete the program of the secondary school, or equivalent vocational or technical training.
2. The department of social services shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section pursuant to section 660.017 and chapter 536.
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(L. 1994 H.B. 1547 & 961)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.050 - Aid to dependent children denied, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
208.050. Aid to dependent children denied, when. —
Aid to families with dependent children benefits shall not be granted or continued:
(1) Unless the benefits granted are used to meet the needs of the child and the needy eligible relative caring for a dependent child;
(2) To any person when benefits are claimed by reason of his or her physical or mental incapacity, and such person refuses to accept vocational rehabilitation services or training or medical or other legal healing treatment necessary to improve or restore his or her capacity to support himself or herself and his or her dependents, and it is certified by competent medical authority designated by the family support division that such physical or mental incapacity can be removed, corrected or substantially improved; provided, however, the family support division may in its discretion waive this requirement, taking into consideration the age of the individual, nature and extent of training and treatment, or whether he or she endangers the health of others in his or her refusal, whether the training or treatment is such that a reasonably prudent person would accept it, and all other facts and circumstances in the individual case;
(3) To a household that receives in any month an amount of income which together with all other income for that month, not excluded or disregarded by the division, exceeds the standard of need applicable to the family:
(a) Such amount of income shall be considered income to the individual in the month received, and the household of which such person is a member shall be ineligible for the whole number of months that equals the sum of such amount and all other income received in such month, not excluded or disregarded by the division, divided by the standard of need applicable to the family;
(b) Any income remaining shall be treated as income received in the first month following the period of ineligibility specified in paragraph (a);
(c) For the purposes of this subdivision, where consistent with federal law or regulation,
"income"
shall not include the proceeds of any life insurance policy, or prearranged funeral or burial contract, provided that such proceeds are actually used to pay for the funeral or burial expenses of the deceased family member.
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(L. 1949 p. 589 § 9408a, A.L. 1955 p. 691, A.L. 1969 H.B. 804, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1462, A.L. 1985 H.B. 803, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
(1985) In determining whether income received exceeds standard of need applicable to family, neither personal injury award, nor life insurance award used to replace resources destroyed in connection with same event causing deaths of those insured may be considered. Payne v. Toan, 626 F.Supp. 553 (W.D.Mo.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 208 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief › Section 208.055 - Public assistance recipients required to cooperate in establishing paternity — assignment of child support rights, when — public assistance defined.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208
Effective - 28 Aug 2009
208.055. Public assistance recipients required to cooperate in establishing paternity — assignment of child support rights, when — public assistance defined. —
1. A person who has applied for or is receiving public assistance under programs funded under Part A of Title IV or Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act shall:
(1) Cooperate in good faith in establishing the paternity of, or in establishing, modifying, or enforcing a support order for any child of such person by providing the family support division with the name of the noncustodial parent of the child and such other information as the division may require with respect to such parent, subject to good cause and other exceptions to be applied in each case as defined by the family support division; and
(2) A person who has applied for or is receiving assistance under programs funded under Part A of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act shall assign to the state any rights to support from any other person such applicant may have in the applicant's own behalf or on behalf of any other family member for whom the applicant is applying for or receiving public assistance. An application for public assistance shall constitute an assignment of support rights and shall take effect by operation of law upon a determination that the applicant is eligible for public assistance. The assignment shall comply with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. Section 608(a)(3), and authorizes the family support division to bring any administrative or judicial action to establish, modify or enforce a current support obligation, to collect support arrearages accrued under an existing order for support, or to seek reimbursement of public assistance provided by the state pursuant to Part IV of the federal Social Security Act.
2. For purposes of this section,
"public assistance"
means any income support benefit, including, but not limited to, money, institutional care, or shelter, except temporary shelter. Public assistance includes programs under the federal Social Security Act including, but not limited to, Part IV-A, as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Public assistance shall not include:
(1) A noncash benefit; or
(2) A short term benefit.
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(L. 1997 S.B. 361, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)