SECTION 1. Establishment; secretary, powers and duties

SECTION 2. Offices of administration and of program planning and management; assistant secretaries

SECTION 3. Divisions and administrative units; directors; description of organization, filing

SECTION 4. Home care program; needs and services of adult handicapped; powers and duties of secretary

SECTION 4A. Sliding fee scale for home care services; financial eligibility limits

SECTION 4B. Aging services access points

SECTION 4C. Pharmacy outreach program; medication education and intervention resource center; executive office of elder affairs

SECTION 4D. Home care worker registry

SECTION 5. Citizen advisory boards

SECTION 6. Regulations

SECTION 7. Acceptance of gifts or grants

SECTION 8. Employees; appointments and removal; age restriction

SECTION 9. Experts and technical consultants; appointment

SECTION 10. Civil service status or tenure of employees

SECTION 11. Interagency cooperation

SECTION 12. Biennial evaluations of programs and projects; standards, restriction; publication of summaries; annual report

SECTION 13. Repealed, 2007, 192, Sec. 3

SECTION 14. Definitions applicable to Secs. 14 to 26

SECTION 15. Reports of abuse; liability

SECTION 16. Protective services system

SECTION 17. Protective services agencies; authorized activities

SECTION 18. Assessment and evaluation of reports; investigations; arrangement for protective services

SECTION 19. Consent to protective services; interference with provision of services

SECTION 20. Lack of capacity to consent to protective services; hearings; emergency orders; placement or commitment

SECTION 21. Geriatric evaluation process

SECTION 22. Financial eligibility guidelines; reimbursements by elderly persons

SECTION 23. Records; disclosure; destruction; regulations; penalties

SECTION 24. Reports

SECTION 25. Rules and regulations

SECTION 26. Powers and responsibilities of other departments or agencies

SECTION 27. Definitions applicable to Secs. 27 to 35

SECTION 28. Long term care ombudsman program; director

SECTION 29. Access to consenting residents; purpose of visit

SECTION 30. Access to facility by ombudsman or designee; purpose; access to residents' records

SECTION 31. Residents' records; confidentiality; investigations; notice of actions and findings; notice of abuse

SECTION 32. Complaints; investigation and resolution; contracts with local programs

SECTION 33. Ombudsman; duties

SECTION 33A. Liability of ombudsmen; willful interference with duties; retaliation

SECTION 34. Rules and regulations

SECTION 35. Construction of chapter; interagency cooperation

SECTION 36. Eligibility for public assistance programs; reverse mortgage proceeds

SECTION 37. Hot lunch program; incorporation into school lunch program

SECTION 38. Liability of counselors and coordinators; description of duties and responsibilities

SECTION 39. Subsidized catastrophic prescription drug insurance program; department of elder affairs

SECTION 40. Prescription drug review commission; membership; recommendations

SECTION 41. Veterans Independence Plus Initiative Trust Fund

SECTION 42. Commission on malnutrition prevention among older adults

SECTION 43. Prevention and elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression; training program