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217.1 - PROGRAMS OF DEPARTMENT.



        217.1  PROGRAMS OF DEPARTMENT.
         There is established a department of human services to administer
      programs designed to improve the well-being and productivity of the
      people of the state of Iowa.  The department shall concern itself
      with the problems of human behavior, adjustment, and daily living
      through the administration of programs of family, child, and adult
      welfare, economic assistance including costs of medical care,
      rehabilitation toward self-care and support, delinquency prevention
      and control, treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, care
      and treatment of persons with mental illness or mental retardation,
      and other related programs as provided by law.
         Section History: Early Form
         [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 217.1]
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 96, § 63, 159; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 38
         Referred to in § 7E.5