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20-46-307. Minimum standards — Records of purchases and service contracts.
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20-46-307. Minimum standards — Records of purchases and service contracts.
(a) The minimum purchasing standards and procedures prescribed by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services for community mental health centers shall not require preaudit or prepurchase approval by the state of purchases made by the centers but shall require all centers to maintain complete records regarding all such purchases and all professional services contracts entered into by the respective centers for a period of at least two (2) years and shall provide that the records are open for public inspection during that period.
(b) The division shall review the purchasing procedures and professional services contracts records of each mental health center on a random basis as a part of the regular certification site review to determine compliance with §§ 20-46-304 — 20-46-306, this section, and § 20-46-308.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-46-307
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20-46-307. Minimum standards — Records of purchases and service contracts.
(a) The minimum purchasing standards and procedures prescribed by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services for community mental health centers shall not require preaudit or prepurchase approval by the state of purchases made by the centers but shall require all centers to maintain complete records regarding all such purchases and all professional services contracts entered into by the respective centers for a period of at least two (2) years and shall provide that the records are open for public inspection during that period.
(b) The division shall review the purchasing procedures and professional services contracts records of each mental health center on a random basis as a part of the regular certification site review to determine compliance with §§ 20-46-304 — 20-46-306, this section, and § 20-46-308.
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20-46-304. Minimum standards — Adoption.
(a)(1) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services shall adopt appropriate minimum standards of performance in the delivery of mental health services by community mental health centers.
(2) The standards shall include professional standards and accounting, statistical, and auditing standards.
(b) In addition, the division shall adopt reasonable minimum standards and requirements for conflict-of-interest policies and purchasing procedures for community mental health centers.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-46-304
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 20-46-304. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-46-306. Minimum standards — Purchasing procedures.
(a) The minimum standards prescribed by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services for purchases by community mental health centers, so far as practicable, shall be comparable to the limits set for small purchases under the purchasing procedures established by the State Procurement Director and shall require competitive bidding for purchases exceeding those limits.
(b) However, the purchasing standards established by the division shall not require competitive bids for contracts for professional services in the health, medical, legal, and accounting fields, but shall require the contract entered into by a center to be approved by the chief executive officer and the governing board of the center.
(c) The standards promulgated by the department shall also require the center to maintain adequate documentation concerning procedures used and the justification for the awarding of the professional contracts.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-46-306
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 20-46-306. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-46-308. Minimum standards — Periodic audits.
(a)(1) Each community mental health center shall undergo a periodic audit as may be required by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services.
(2) Each audit shall reflect the compliance or noncompliance with the provisions of §§ 20-46-304 — 20-46-307.
(b) Each audit shall be furnished to the division and shall be subject to review by the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee and its staff.
(c) Nothing in §§ 20-46-304 — 20-46-307 shall repeal any authority which now exists for the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee and its staff to audit all or any part of the records of any community mental health center.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-46-308
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 20-46-308. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.