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25-43-1603. Powers and duties of Department of Veterans Affairs.
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25-43-1603. Powers and duties of Department of Veterans Affairs.
(a) The Department of Veterans Affairs shall:
(1) Supervise the operation of the veterans' homes under § 20-81-105;
(2) Supervise the activities, training, and testing of the county veterans' service officers located throughout the State of Arkansas; and
(3) Perform all administrative functions for the state entities under the administration of the department.
(b) The department is authorized to develop and promulgate all rules necessary for the enforcement and implementation of the provisions of the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 and all applicable federal rules and regulations.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-43-1603
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25-43-1603. Powers and duties of Department of Veterans Affairs.
(a) The Department of Veterans Affairs shall:
(1) Supervise the operation of the veterans' homes under § 20-81-105;
(2) Supervise the activities, training, and testing of the county veterans' service officers located throughout the State of Arkansas; and
(3) Perform all administrative functions for the state entities under the administration of the department.
(b) The department is authorized to develop and promulgate all rules necessary for the enforcement and implementation of the provisions of the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 and all applicable federal rules and regulations.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-81-105. Veterans' homes.
(a) The Department of Veterans Affairs is authorized to establish and maintain one (1) or more veterans' homes at locations selected by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, after seeking advice from the Arkansas Veterans' Commission.
(b) The department is authorized to employ staff to operate the veterans' homes as it deems appropriate and as authorized by biennial appropriation.
(c)(1) Each veterans' home shall be operated under the supervision of the department.
(2) The secretary shall be the administrative head of the veterans' homes.
(3) The secretary may delegate the administration of each veterans' home to an employee of the department.
(d)(1) The department shall promulgate appropriate guidelines for determining eligibility of veterans for admission to a veterans' home and the monetary charges to be made for veterans residing in a veterans' home. All guidelines shall conform to the federal requirements to qualify veterans' homes as nursing homes for veterans and to render the veterans' homes eligible to receive federal financial assistance.
(2)(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 20-8-101 et seq., the veterans' homes may be used as nursing homes for veterans without obtaining a certificate of need.
(B) Bed capacity shall not exceed two hundred twenty (220) beds.
(e) In the administration of the veterans' homes, the secretary is authorized to do the following:
(1) Establish accounts to record the receipt and disbursement of funds from resident veterans to pay for a portion of their maintenance at a veterans' home;
(2) Develop policies for determining charges to be made to resident veterans;
(3) Develop accounts and procedures pertaining to incompetent residents;
(4) Establish procedures and a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-81-105
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 20-81-105. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.