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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.405 - Powers and responsibilities of board.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
650.405. Powers and responsibilities of board. —
The board of commissioners shall have the following powers and responsibilities:
(1) To supervise and administer, within the acquisition and purchasing procedures of the county, the building, acquisitions by purchase or otherwise, construction and operation of an emergency communications system for the county in which the commission is located;
(2) To administratively control and manage the emergency communications system;
(3) To negotiate and recommend to the governing body that the county contract with such companies or other business or governmental entities, which in the opinion of the board of commissioners are necessary to provide equipment, material and professional services to establish, construct and maintain an emergency communications system and conduct the business of the commission;
(4) To promulgate an annual report of the financial condition and operation of the commission and the emergency communications system;
(5) To recommend to the governing body that the county purchase or acquire by gift such real estate and equipment and materials necessary to accomplish the purposes of the commission and the emergency communications system; and
(6) To adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations as in the opinion of the board of commissioners shall best serve the purpose of the commission.
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(L. 2002 S.B. 795)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.411 - Use of moneys derived from the sale of bonds.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
650.411. Use of moneys derived from the sale of bonds. —
All money derived from the sale of bonds pursuant to section 650.408 except such portion as is required to be reserved pursuant to subsections 7 and 8 of section 650.408, all money collected on any tax authorized according to section 650.399 and all interest that may accrue on moneys so derived while deposited with any county depositary and not required to be used in paying such bonds or interest thereon, shall be used, and warrants drawn on the treasurer therefor, to pay:
(1) The cost and expenses incurred by the county maintaining any real or personal property used in the operation of the emergency communications system; and
(2) Such working, administrative and incidental expenses, not otherwise provided by law, as may be incurred in operating such emergency communications system.
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(L. 2002 S.B. 795)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.450 - Citation.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
650.450. Citation. —
Sections 650.450 to 650.460 may be cited as the "Missouri Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act".
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(L. 2004 S.B. 972 § 650.600)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.451 - Definitions.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
650.451. Definitions. —
As they appear in sections 650.450 to 650.460, the following words and terms shall mean:
(1)
"Act"
, the public safety officer medal of valor act of 2004;
(2)
"Board"
, the medal of valor review board as established by section 650.457;
(3)
"Medal"
, a Missouri public safety medal of valor, which shall be of suitable design as may be determined by the governor;
(4)
"Public safety officer"
, a person serving a public agency, with or without compensation, as a firefighter, law enforcement officer, or emergency personnel. The term
"law enforcement officer"
includes a person who is a state or local corrections or court officer or a civil defense officer.
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(L. 2004 S.B. 972 § 650.605)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.454 - Medals for extraordinary valor may be issued to public safety officers, when — surviving relatives may receive medal on person's behalf.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
650.454. Medals for extraordinary valor may be issued to public safety officers, when — surviving relatives may receive medal on person's behalf. —
1. The governor is hereby authorized to award and present, in the name of the state of Missouri, a medal to a public safety officer, upon the recommendation of the board, for extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty. The medal shall be Missouri's highest award for valor by a public safety officer.
2. In the event of the death of any person who would be entitled to a medal pursuant to the provisions of sections 650.450 to 650.460, the same may be presented to a surviving relative on behalf of the deceased in the following order: widow, if not remarried; eldest living son; eldest living daughter; father; mother; eldest living brother; eldest living sister; and eldest living grandchild.
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(L. 2004 S.B. 972 § 650.610)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.460 - Missouri Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Fund established — use of funds.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
650.460. Missouri Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Fund established — use of funds. —
1. There is hereby established in the state treasury a fund to be known as the "Missouri Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Fund", which shall consist of all moneys that may include any gifts, contributions, grants, or bequests received from federal, state, private, or other sources. The fund shall be administered by the office of administration. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, moneys in the Missouri public safety officer medal of valor fund shall not be transferred to the credit of the general revenue fund at the end of the biennium. Interest and moneys earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund.
2. Moneys in the fund shall be used solely for the purpose of reimbursing members of the medal of valor review board for their actual and necessary travel expenses and to promote the solicitation for designs for, aid in the manufacture of, and aid in the distribution of the Missouri public safety medal of valor.
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(L. 2004 S.B. 972 § 650.620)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.475 - Prohibiting or restricting communication with federal authorities regarding citizenship or immigration, unlawful when — attorney general to issue opinion, when — rights of public employees.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
Effective - 01 Jan 2009, see footnote
650.475. Prohibiting or restricting communication with federal authorities regarding citizenship or immigration, unlawful when — attorney general to issue opinion, when — rights of public employees. —
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no government entity, political subdivision, or government official within the state of Missouri shall prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from communicating or cooperating with the United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.
2. Municipalities and political subdivisions may collect and share the identity of persons by the same means the Federal Bureau of Investigation or its successor agency uses in its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System or its successor program.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person or agency within the state of Missouri shall prohibit, or in any way restrict, a public employee from doing any of the following with respect to information regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual:
(1) Sending such information to, or requesting or receiving such information from, the United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
(2) Maintaining such information; or
(3) Exchanging such information with any other federal, state, or local government entity.
4. Upon the complaint of any state resident regarding a specific government entity, agency, or political subdivision of this state or prior to the provision of funds or awarding of any grants to a government entity, agency, or political subdivision of this state, any member of the general assembly may request that the attorney general of the state of Missouri issue an opinion stating whether the government entity, agency, or political subdivision has current policies in contravention of subsections 1 and 3 of this section.
5. No state agency or department shall provide any funding or award any monetary grants to any government entity, agency, or political subdivision determined under subsection 4 of this section to have a policy in contravention of subsections 1 and 3 of this section until the policy is repealed or no longer in effect.
6. The provisions of subsections 1 and 3 of this section shall not apply to any state or local agency administering one or more federal public benefit programs as such term is defined in 8 U.S.C. Section 1612.
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(L. 2008 H.B. 1549, et al. § 650.681)
Effective 1-01-09
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 650 - Department of Public Safety › Section 650.550 - Economic distress zone fund created, use of moneys — rulemaking authority — definition — termination date.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 650
Effective - 28 Aug 2021
650.550. Economic distress zone fund created, use of moneys — rulemaking authority — definition — termination date. —
1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Economic Distress Zone Fund", which shall consist of money appropriated under this section. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund. In accordance with sections 30.170 and 30.180, the state treasurer may approve disbursements. The fund shall be a dedicated fund and money in the fund shall be used solely by the department of public safety to provide funding to organizations registered with the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) corporation that provide services to residents of the state in areas of high incidents of crime and deteriorating infrastructure in for the purpose of deterring criminal behavior in such areas. Any moneys appropriated and any other moneys made available by gift, grant, bequest, contribution, or otherwise to carry out the purpose of this section, and all interest earned on, and income generated from, moneys in the fund shall be paid to, and deposited in, the economic distress zone fund.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys appropriated to the fund over three million dollars, excluding any moneys made available by gift, grant, bequest, contribution, or otherwise, that remain in the fund at the end of the biennium shall revert to the credit of the general revenue fund.
3. The department of public safety shall promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this section. 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, 2021, shall be invalid and void.
4. As used in this section,
"areas of high incidents of crime and deteriorating infrastructure"
shall mean a city with a homicide rate of at least seven times the national average according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting System; a poverty rate that exceeds twenty percent according to the United States Census Bureau; and has a school district with at least eighty percent of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch.
5. The provisions of this section shall terminate on August 28, 2024.
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(L. 2021 S.B. 57)
Termination date 8-28-24
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.012 - Department of social services administrative trust fund created — disbursements — reports — lapse prohibited, exception.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
Effective - 28 Aug 1986
660.012. Department of social services administrative trust fund created — disbursements — reports — lapse prohibited, exception. —
1. The treasurer of the state shall establish in the state treasury a "Department of Social Services Administrative Trust Fund" which shall be funded annually by appropriations and deposits thereto.
2. This fund shall contain moneys transferred or paid to the department for goods and services provided by the department or its divisions to any governmental entity or to the public.
3. The commissioner of administration shall approve disbursements from the fund at the request of the director of the department or his designee in accordance with appropriations made therefor.
4. The provisions of section 33.080 notwithstanding, moneys in the fund shall not lapse, unless and then only to the extent to which the unencumbered balance at the close of any fiscal year exceeds one-twelfth of the amount either appropriated or paid or transferred to the fund during such fiscal year, whichever is greater.
5. The director of the department shall prepare an annual report of all receipts and disbursements from the fund.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1366)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.015 - Salary — expenses of the department.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
Effective - 28 Aug 1980
660.015. Salary — expenses of the department. —
The director of the department of social services shall receive as compensation for his or her services the salary provided by statute and additional reimbursement for necessary traveling expenses and other necessary expenditures incurred in the performance of official duties. Compensation for the director and employees of the department of social services and funds for other expenses incident to the performance of their duties prescribed by authority of this and other laws shall be payable from appropriations made in the same manner as for other departments.
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(L. 1945 p. 945 § 4, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1266)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.017 - Rules, procedure.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
660.017. Rules, procedure. —
The department of social services may adopt, appeal and amend rules necessary to carry out the duties assigned to it. All rules shall be promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this section and chapter 536. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 564 § 30, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.025 - Grants from department of social services, purposes — rulemaking procedure.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
Effective - 28 Aug 1998
660.025. Grants from department of social services, purposes — rulemaking procedure. —
Subject to appropriation from general revenue, the director of social services shall offer grants, on a competitive basis, to programs which are engaged in the resettling of refugees and legal immigrants for the purpose of arranging for day care, transportation or other services that will facilitate a refugee's or immigrant's accessing of English language services. The department of social services may promulgate rules to govern the grant program, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is promulgated by the department of social services under the authority of this section, shall become effective only if the department has fully complied with all of the requirements of chapter 536 including but not limited to, section 536.028, if applicable, after August 28, 1998. All rulemaking authority delegated prior to August 28, 1998, is of no force and effect and repealed as of August 28, 1998, however nothing in this act
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shall be interpreted to repeal or affect the validity of any rule adopted and promulgated prior to August 28, 1998. If the provisions of section 536.028 apply, the provisions of this section are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to section 536.028 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule or portion of a rule are held unconstitutional or invalid, the purported grant of rulemaking authority and any rule so proposed and contained in the order of rulemaking shall be invalid and void, except that nothing in this act
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shall affect the validity of any rule adopted and promulgated prior to August 28, 1998.
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(L. 1998 S.B. 583 & 645 § 4)
*"This act" (S.B. 583 § 645, 1998) contained numerous sections. Consult Disposition of Sections table for a definitive listing.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.026 - Funding for federally qualified health centers, uses — report to the director.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
Effective - 28 Aug 2001
660.026. Funding for federally qualified health centers, uses — report to the director. —
Subject to appropriation, the director of the department of social services, or the director's designee, may contract with and provide funding support to federally qualified health centers, as defined in 42 U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B)
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, in this state. Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be used to assist such centers in ensuring that health care, including dental care, and mental health services is available to needy persons in this state. Such funds may also be used by centers for capital expansion, infrastructure redesign or other similar uses if federal funding is not available for such purposes. No later than forty-five days following the end of each federal fiscal year, the centers shall report to the director of the department of social services the number of patients served by age, race, gender, method of payment and insurance status.
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(L. 2001 S.B. 393)
*Section 1396d(1)(2)(B) appears in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.075 - Intermediate care facility for intellectually disabled — certificate of authorization needed for provider agreement — exception — certificates not to be issued, when — notice to department, when.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
660.075. Intermediate care facility for intellectually disabled — certificate of authorization needed for provider agreement — exception — certificates not to be issued, when — notice to department, when. —
1. The MO HealthNet division shall not issue a provider agreement to an intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled provider after May 29, 1991, unless and until the department of mental health transmits a certification of authorization to provide services, provided, however, a profit or not-for-profit provider may operate a single home of six beds or less without issuance of a certificate to the MO HealthNet division. Such certification shall be provider specific and shall contain the number of beds authorized.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any provider intending to operate an intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled in excess of those beds in existence on May 29, 1991, shall give notice to the department of mental health of any intent to do so between July first and October first of the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which they intend to operate such facility.
3. In addition to other good cause as established by administrative rules promulgated by the director of the department of mental health, such intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled operations as may be accommodated within the home and community-based waiver for the developmentally disabled shall be refused certificates of authorization by the department of mental health. The MO HealthNet division shall refuse intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled provider agreements to providers to whom the department of mental health has refused certificates of authorization.
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(L. 1991 H.B. 568 § 1, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1064 merged with H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.099 - General assembly may make additional appropriations, purposes.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
Effective - 28 Aug 2008
660.099. General assembly may make additional appropriations, purposes. —
1. The general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to the amount currently being provided per annum for nutrition services for the elderly. Funds so designated to provide nutrition services for the elderly shall be allocated to the Missouri department of health and senior services to be equitably distributed to each area agency on aging throughout the state of Missouri based upon formulas promulgated by the department of health and senior services.
2. The general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to the amount currently being provided per annum through the Missouri elderly and handicapped transportation program. Funds so designated to provide transportation for the elderly and developmentally disabled shall be allocated to the Missouri department of health and senior services to be equitably distributed to each area agency on aging throughout the state of Missouri based upon formulas promulgated by the department of health and senior services.
3. The general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to the amount currently being provided per annum for home-delivered meals for the elderly. Such additional funds shall be allocated to the Missouri department of health and senior services to be equitably distributed to each area agency on aging throughout the state of Missouri based upon formulas promulgated by the department of health and senior services.
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(L. 1988 S.B. 555 §§ 1, 2, 3, A.L. 2008 H.B. 2036)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.100 - Financial assistance for heating — definitions.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
660.100. Financial assistance for heating — definitions. —
1. The department of social services is directed to establish a plan for providing financial assistance to elderly households, disabled households and qualified individual households for the payment of charges for the primary or secondary heating or cooling source for the household. This plan shall be known as "Utilicare".
2. For purposes of sections 660.100 to 660.136, the term
"elderly"
shall mean having reached the age of sixty-five and the term
"disabled"
shall mean totally and permanently disabled or blind and receiving federal Social Security disability benefits, federal supplemental security income benefits, veterans administration benefits, state blind pension pursuant to sections 209.010 to 209.160, state aid to blind persons pursuant to section 209.240, or state supplemental payments pursuant to section 208.030. For the purposes of sections 660.100 to 660.136, but not for the purpose of determining "eligible subscribers" pursuant to subdivision (4) of section 660.138, the term
"qualified individual household"
shall mean a household in which:
(1) One or more residents of the state of Missouri reside and whose combined household income is less than or equal to one hundred and fifty percent of the current federal poverty level or sixty percent of the state median income for the relevant household; and
(2) While the Federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program remains in effect, the household is also determined to be eligible for assistance under such program and related state programs of the Missouri department of social services.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 1, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.105 - Eligibility for assistance — income defined.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
660.105. Eligibility for assistance — income defined. —
Every qualified individual household for which an application is made, and every applicant household in which the head of the household or spouse is elderly or disabled and the income for the prior calendar year does not exceed one hundred and fifty percent of the current federal poverty level or sixty percent of the state median income, shall be an "eligible household" and shall be entitled to receive assistance under the utilicare program if moneys have been appropriated by the general assembly to the utilicare stabilization fund established pursuant to section 660.136. "Income" shall be as defined in section 135.010.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 2, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.110 - Coordination and administration of heating and cooling assistance programs into the Utilicare program by department of social services.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
660.110. Coordination and administration of heating and cooling assistance programs into the Utilicare program by department of social services. —
The department of social services shall be responsible for coordination of all federal heating assistance programs into the utilicare program and shall provide plans for the implementation and administration of these programs. The department may contract with local not-for-profit community agencies which render energy assistance pursuant to affiliation or contract with the United States Community Service Administration or another federal agency to distribute the federal moneys, to administer the federal heating and cooling assistance programs in accordance with the plan developed by the department and to provide certain administrative services in connection with the utilicare program which may include the processing of utilicare applications and any other service which the department deems practical. Insofar as possible, within the provisions of federal law and regulations, all payments made from funds available from the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 and other federal sources shall be made directly to energy suppliers in a manner similar to payments made under the state utilicare program.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 3, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.115 - Utilicare payment, procedure.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2008, 2 histories
660.115. Utilicare payment, procedure. —
1. For each eligible household, an amount not exceeding eight hundred dollars for each fiscal year may be paid from the utilicare stabilization fund to the primary or secondary heating source supplier, or both, including suppliers of heating fuels, such as gas, electricity, wood, coal, propane and heating oil. For each eligible household, an amount not exceeding eight hundred dollars for each fiscal year may be paid from the utilicare stabilization fund to the primary or secondary cooling source supplier, or both; provided that the respective shares of overall funding previously received by primary and secondary heating and cooling source suppliers on behalf of their customers shall be substantially maintained.
2. For an eligible household, other than a household located in publicly owned or subsidized housing, an adult boarding facility, an intermediate care facility, a residential care facility
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or a skilled nursing facility, whose members rent their dwelling and do not pay a supplier directly for the household's primary or secondary heating or cooling source, utilicare payments shall be paid directly to the head of the household, except that total payments shall not exceed eight percent of the household's annual rent or one hundred dollars, whichever is less.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 4, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810, A.L. 2008 S.B. 720)
*Revisor's Note: The term "residential care facility" may include "assisted living facility", see section 198.005 regarding changes to name reference.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.122 - Services disconnected or discontinued for failure to pay — eligibility for assistance (cold weather rule).

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
660.122. Services disconnected or discontinued for failure to pay — eligibility for assistance (cold weather rule). —
Funds appropriated under the authority of sections 660.100 to 660.136 may be used to pay the expenses of reconnecting or maintaining service to households that have had their primary or secondary heating or cooling source disconnected or service discontinued because of their failure to pay their bill. Any qualified household or other household which has as its head a person who is elderly or disabled, as defined in section 660.100, shall be eligible for assistance under this section if the income for the household is no more than one hundred fifty percent of the current federal poverty level or sixty percent of the state median income and if moneys have been appropriated by the general assembly to the utilicare stabilization fund established pursuant to section 660.136. Payments under this section shall be made directly to the primary or secondary heating or cooling source supplier. Any primary or secondary heating or cooling source supplier subject to the supervision and regulation of the public service commission shall, at any time during the period of the cold weather rule specified in the cold weather rule as established and as amended by the public service commission, reconnect and provide services to each household eligible for assistance under this section in compliance with the terms of such cold weather rule. All home energy suppliers receiving funds under this section shall provide service to eligible households consistent with their contractual agreements with the department of social services.
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(L. 1984 S.B. 548, A.L. 1989 S.B. 151, A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 1999 S.B. 495, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Hot weather rule, discontinuance of service prohibited, when, 393.108
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.125 - False claims.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 14 Jul 1997, see footnote
660.125. False claims. —
Any false claim knowingly made in an application for
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assistance under the utilicare program or any false claim knowingly made by the recipient of such assistance or by a supplier of the primary or secondary heating or cooling source or of heating fuel in a request for payment under the utilicare program shall be deemed a false declaration as defined in section 575.060.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 6, A.L. 1997 S.B. 263)
Effective 7-14-97
*Word "a" appears in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.130 - Rules, regulations, forms — rule requirements.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
660.130. Rules, regulations, forms — rule requirements. —
The department of social services shall design the forms and issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 660.100 to 660.136. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of sections 660.100 to 660.136 shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. Such rules shall provide that in order for a homeowner to be eligible such homeowner shall have met federal energy conservation guidelines for insulation, or have made application for insulation under the department of natural resources program or like program offered in the state of Missouri. Large notices of the availability of this program shall be posted in application areas and local offices of the family support division.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 7, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.135 - Expenditures — utilicare stabilization fund.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 3 histories
660.135. Expenditures — utilicare stabilization fund. —
1. The utilicare stabilization fund for any fiscal year shall be funded, subject to appropriations, by the general assembly.
2. The department of social services shall, in coordination with the department of economic development, apply a portion of the funds appropriated annually by the general assembly to the utilicare stabilization fund established pursuant to section 660.136 to the low income weatherization assistance program of the department of economic development; provided that any project financed with such funds shall be consistent with federal guidelines for the Weatherization Assistance Program for Low-Income Persons as authorized by 42 U.S.C. Section 6861.
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(L. 1979 H.B. 545, et al. § 8, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1177, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810, A.L. 2008 S.B. 720, A.L. 2018 S.B. 975 & 1024 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.136 - Utilicare stabilization fund created — used for utilicare program.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
660.136. Utilicare stabilization fund created — used for utilicare program. —
1. The "Utilicare Stabilization Fund" is hereby created in the state treasury to support the provisions of sections 660.100 to 660.136. Funds for the utilicare program may come from state, federal or other sources including funds received by this state from the federal government under the provisions of the Community Opportunities Accountability and Training and Educational Services Act of 1998 (Title III, Section 301-309, Public Law 93.568 ), together with any interest or other earnings on the principal of this fund. Except as provided in subsection 3, moneys in the utilicare stabilization fund shall be used for the purposes established in the Federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and sections 660.100 to 660.136.
2. The provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary notwithstanding, money in this fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end of the biennium exceeds two times the amount of the appropriation from the fund for the preceding fiscal year. The amount, if any, in the fund, which shall lapse, is that amount in the fund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriations from the fund for the preceding fiscal year. Moneys in the utilicare fund not needed currently for the purposes designated in sections 660.100 to 660.136 may be invested by the state treasurer in the manner that other moneys of the state are authorized by law to be invested. All interest, income and returns from moneys of the utilicare stabilization fund shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the utilicare stabilization fund.
3. When the utilicare stabilization fund receives a transfer pursuant to section 470.270, the moneys from that transfer shall be held in the fund for one full year after the date of transfer and shall be used to pay for heating or cooling assistance as provided in sections 660.100 to 660.136. Any moneys remaining at the end of that year shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund of the state.
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(L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Utilicare stabilization fund, refund of natural gas or electric rates to be transferred to fund, 470.270
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.137 - Federal low income telephone assistance matching funds, compliance to obtain.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
660.137. Federal low income telephone assistance matching funds, compliance to obtain. —
The public service commission, the department of social services, and participating providers of local exchange telecommunications service shall comply with all requirements expressly provided by federal order, regulation, and statute for eligible subscribers to qualify for, and to receive matching federal low income telephone assistance.
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(L. 1988 H.B. 1290)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.138 - Definitions.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
660.138. Definitions. —
As used in sections 660.137 to 660.149, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Basic access line"
, a telephone line which provides switched voice residential communications service from the local exchange telecommunication company central office to the customer's premises which enables the customer to originate and terminate long distance and local calling;
(2)
"Commission"
, the public service commission;
(3)
"Economy rate telephone service"
, a class of local exchange telephone service provided to eligible subscribers which is designed to meet their minimum residential communication needs excluding all extras and fringe benefits including call waiting, call forwarding and other such services but providing access to telephone service for emergency calls and for the maintenance of necessary social contacts;
(4)
"Eligible subscriber"
, an individual who has been certified by the department of social services to be eligible to receive utilicare benefits pursuant to sections 660.100 to 660.135;
(5)
"Zone or mileage charges"
, any charges required for receipt of a basic access line which are based upon distance, by mileage or zones, of the customer from the company central office.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1301 § 1, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1290)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.139 - Waiver of interstate line charges for companies providing economy rates — procedure — effect on economy rates.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
660.139. Waiver of interstate line charges for companies providing economy rates — procedure — effect on economy rates. —
Every local exchange telecommunications company which elects to provide economy rate telephone service shall apply to the Federal Communications Commission for the appropriate waiver of the monthly interstate subscriber line charge. Upon federal approval, the discount provided by the local exchange telecommunications company to subscribers of economy rate telephone service shall be increased to include the extent of the monthly waiver of the interstate subscriber line charge.
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(L. 1988 H.B. 1290)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.141 - Economy rates, how established, applications — limited to one residence.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
660.141. Economy rates, how established, applications — limited to one residence. —
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 392.220 to the contrary, the public service commission may designate one or more classes of economy rate telephone service for eligible subscribers pursuant to the provisions of this section.
2. The rates to be charged to eligible subscribers for economy rate telephone service shall be:
(1) Determined by the commission separately for each local exchange telecommunications company which elects to provide the service, however, the commission may hear and decide issues relating to the provision of the service common to all such companies in one proceeding;
(2) Set at levels which enhance the affordability to eligible subscribers of such service in comparison to other comparable levels of service offered by the local exchange telecommunications company.
­­Such rates shall not apply to any service or charge other than that for a basic access line, including any mileage or zone charges, except as provided in this section.
3. Every local exchange telecommunications company which elects to provide economy rate telephone service shall accept applications for economy rate telephone service according to a procedure approved by the commission.
4. An economy rate telephone service subscriber shall not be provided with more than one basic access line in his or her principal place of residence. An applicant for economy rate telephone service may report only one address in this state as the principal place of residence.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1301 § 2 subsecs. 1 to 4, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1290)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.143 - Installation cost to be reduced, how determined — changes in service or disconnecting because no longer eligible, charges prohibited.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
660.143. Installation cost to be reduced, how determined — changes in service or disconnecting because no longer eligible, charges prohibited. —
1. When initial installation or connection of service for an eligible subscriber for economy rate telephone service occurs, the applicable and approved rate for such installation or connection shall be a significantly reduced one which shall be determined by the commission.
2. A local exchange telecommunications company which elects to provide economy rate telephone service may not require the payment of an order processing charge or line change charge for an eligible subscriber's change to economy rate telephone service from any other class of residential service. If a subscriber to economy rate telephone service no longer qualifies as an eligible subscriber under sections 660.137 to 660.149, that subscriber may not be charged a fee for disconnecting from economy rate telephone service and connecting to another class of telephone service, except that the commission may allow the local exchange telecommunications company by commission regulations to charge a fee for eligible subscribers who frequently change, initiate, or terminate service.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1301 § 2 subsecs. 5, 6, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1290)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.145 - Rules and regulations by commission — economy rate telephone service fund established, purpose — fund not to lapse at end of fiscal year.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
660.145. Rules and regulations by commission — economy rate telephone service fund established, purpose — fund not to lapse at end of fiscal year. —
1. The commission shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of sections 660.138 to 660.149. Such rules and regulations shall take into consideration available federal programs to reduce telephone costs to specified subscribers. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of sections 660.138 to 660.149 shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
2. The general revenues of the state shall be used to fund the discount provided to eligible subscribers of economy rate telephone service. The amount of the discount shall determine the amount of the waiver of the federal interstate subscriber line charge in section 660.139.
3. There is hereby created the "Economy Rate Telephone Service Fund" which shall be administered by the commission and which shall contain such moneys as appropriated to it by the general assembly. Moneys in the fund shall be kept separate from all other funds of the commission and shall be expended for the purpose specified in subsection 4
*
of this section and for no other purpose.
4. Each participating local exchange telecommunications company shall determine and report quarterly to the commission the costs incurred for providing economy rate telephone service. Upon appropriation by the general assembly, the commission shall authorize reimbursement for those costs from the economy rate telephone service fund.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, the unexpended balance in the economy rate telephone service fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not be transferred into general revenue.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1301 § 2 subsecs. 7, 8, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1290, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
*"Subsection 11" appears in original rolls. Due to renumbering, subsection changed.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XL - Additional Executive Departments › Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services › Section 660.147 - Eligible persons, department's powers and duties.

Title XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
660.147. Eligible persons, department's powers and duties. —
The department of social services shall provide to the participating local exchange telecommunications companies information identifying persons who the department finds are eligible to receive economy rate telephone service. The department of social services shall on an annual basis during the time period that applications for utilicare assistance under sections 660.100 to 660.135 are normally accepted validate a list of those persons receiving economy rate telephone service as provided by the local telecommunications companies to determine continued eligibility.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1301 § 3, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1290)