135.150 - GAMBLING TREATMENT PROGRAM -- STANDARDS AND LICENSING.

        135.150  GAMBLING TREATMENT PROGRAM -- STANDARDS AND
      LICENSING.
         1. a.  The department shall operate a gambling treatment
      program to provide programs which may include but are not limited to
      outpatient and follow-up treatment for persons affected by problem
      gambling, rehabilitation and residential treatment programs,
      information and referral services, crisis call access, education and
      preventive services, and financial management and credit counseling
      services.
         b.  A person shall not maintain or conduct a gambling
      treatment program funded through the department unless the person has
      obtained a license for the program from the department.  The
      department shall adopt rules to establish standards for the licensing
      and operation of gambling treatment programs under this section.  The
      rules shall specify, but are not limited to specifying, the
      qualifications for persons providing gambling treatment services,
      standards for the organization and administration of gambling
      treatment programs, and a mechanism to monitor compliance with this
      section and the rules adopted under this section.
         2.  The department shall report semiannually to the legislative
      government oversight committees regarding the operation of the
      gambling treatment program.  The report shall include but is not
      limited to information on the moneys expended and grants awarded for
      operation of the gambling treatment program.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2004 Acts, ch 1136, §55; 2005 Acts, ch 175, §77; 2009 Acts, ch
      182, §106 
         Footnotes
         Moneys in former gambling treatment fund that remain unencumbered
      or unobligated at the close of FY 2008-2009 transferred to general
      fund; 2009 Acts, ch 182, §107
         Department of public health to implement a process, by July 1,
      2010, for creation of a system for uniform delivery of gambling and
      substance abuse treatment services; 2008 Acts, ch 1187, §3; 2009
      Acts, ch 182, §2