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20-13-505. Authority of secretary.
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20-13-505. Authority of secretary.
(a) The Secretary of the Department of Health may:
(1) Employ any coordination measures necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter within and among the responsible components;
(2) Engage in any educational program or effort undertaken in partnership with county or municipal governmental agencies or other groups if, in his or her judgment, such activity would effectuate the purposes of this subchapter;
(3) Authorize any component within the PC-DI-TL services system to employ experts and consultants and compensate those individuals at rates determined by the secretary in consultation with component representatives of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and
(4) Engage in programs of experimental or demonstration research.
(b) Additionally, the secretary may accept and administer loans, grants, or other funds and gifts, conditional or otherwise, from the United States Government and any other public or private sources. In all such transactions, the PC-DI-TL system shall remain unitary, and the secretary shall allow no function which might require the separation of the components.
(c) The secretary shall have full authority, in consultation with the two (2) University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences components of the PC-DI-TL system, to formulate, promulgate, adopt, amend, and enforce rules, regulations, and regulatory standards necessary to effectuate this subchapter in a way consistent with § 10-3-309.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-13-505
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20-13-505. Authority of secretary.
(a) The Secretary of the Department of Health may:
(1) Employ any coordination measures necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter within and among the responsible components;
(2) Engage in any educational program or effort undertaken in partnership with county or municipal governmental agencies or other groups if, in his or her judgment, such activity would effectuate the purposes of this subchapter;
(3) Authorize any component within the PC-DI-TL services system to employ experts and consultants and compensate those individuals at rates determined by the secretary in consultation with component representatives of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and
(4) Engage in programs of experimental or demonstration research.
(b) Additionally, the secretary may accept and administer loans, grants, or other funds and gifts, conditional or otherwise, from the United States Government and any other public or private sources. In all such transactions, the PC-DI-TL system shall remain unitary, and the secretary shall allow no function which might require the separation of the components.
(c) The secretary shall have full authority, in consultation with the two (2) University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences components of the PC-DI-TL system, to formulate, promulgate, adopt, amend, and enforce rules, regulations, and regulatory standards necessary to effectuate this subchapter in a way consistent with § 10-3-309.
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10-3-309. Review and approval of state agency rules — Definitions.
(a)(1)(A) In the passage of this section, the General Assembly is aware of the significant number of laws which have been enacted granting to boards, commissions, departments, and administrative agencies of state government the authority to promulgate and enforce rules.
(B) The General Assembly is further aware that ample safeguards have not been established whereby the General Assembly may be informed of circumstances in which administrative rules do not conform to legislative intent.
(2) It is the purpose of this section to establish a method for continuing legislative review and approval of such rules to correct abuses of rulemaking authority or clarify legislative intent with respect to the rulemaking authority granted the administrative boards, commissions, departments, or agencies.
(b) As used in this section:
(1)(A) “Rule” means a state agency statement of general applicability and future effect that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy or describes the organization, procedure, or practice of a state agency and includes without limitation the amendment or repeal of a prior rule.
(B) “Rule” does not mean:
(i) A statement that concerns the internal management of a state agency and that does not affect the private rights or procedures available to the public;
(ii) A declaratory order or ruling issued under § 25-15-206 or other provision of law applicable to the state agency issuing the declaratory order or ruling;
(iii) Intraagency memoranda; or
(iv) A medical code within the Arkansas Medicaid Program that is issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including without limitation:
(a) Current Procedural Terminology codes;
(b) Healthcare Common Pro
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 10-3-309
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 10-3-309. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.