General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 18B Department of Social Services
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment - Chapter 18B, Section 1
[The Department of Social Services was changed to the Department of Children and Families by 2008, 176, Sec. 25.] Chapter 18B: Section 1. Establishment There...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Services enumerated - Chapter 18B, Section 2
The department shall provide and administer a comprehensive child welfare program for children and families, including the following services:— (1) casework or counseling, including services...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Functions of department; area-based service programs - Chapter 18B, Section 3
(a) The department shall provide comprehensive, area-based child welfare services. These services shall be organized by regions and areas consistent with those established by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment for services - Chapter 18B, Section 4
Subject to appropriation, services of the department shall not be denied to any person because of such person’s financial assets or income; provided, however, that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal requirements; additional services; inspection of records - Chapter 18B, Section 5
The department shall make provision for such social services as are required under Title XX and Title IV B of the Social Security Act and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; salary - Chapter 18B, Section 6
The department shall be under the direction, supervision and control of the commissioner of children and families, in this chapter called the commissioner, who shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foster care review unit; director - Chapter 18B, Section 6A
[First paragraph applicable as provided by 2010, 359, Sec. 133. See 2010, 359, Sec. 135.] The commissioner shall appoint a foster care review director who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner; powers and duties - Chapter 18B, Section 7
(a) The commissioner shall establish reasonable caseload rates and shall report these caseload rates to the general court in the budget estimates of the department....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy commissioner; appointment; qualifications; duties; salary - Chapter 18B, Section 8
The commissioner shall appoint and may remove a deputy commissioner. The position of deputy commissioner shall be classified under section 45 of chapter 30 and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant commissioners; appointment; qualifications; salary - Chapter 18B, Section 9
The commissioner may appoint and remove such assistant commissioners as the commissioner shall from time to time determine, not to exceed four in number, who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Legal counsel; staff personnel - Chapter 18B, Section 10
The commissioner may appoint a member of the Massachusetts bar a legal counsel who shall be placed in grade 30 of the classification and pay...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regional offices; directors - Chapter 18B, Section 11
The commissioner may, subject to appropriation, establish regional offices at such locations in the commonwealth as may be deemed necessary to ensure the development and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Area directors; appointment; qualifications; duties; plans; budgets; social worker qualifications - Chapter 18B, Section 12
The commissioner, with the advice of the area board, shall appoint an area director in each area, and, subject to appropriation, such other employees as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Area boards; members; appointment; terms - Chapter 18B, Section 13
In each area established under section 3, there shall be a children and families area board, in this chapter called the area board, which shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Area boards; selection committee; lists of prospective members; approval; appointment - Chapter 18B, Section 14
To facilitate the appointment of the members of the area board, the commissioner shall appoint in each area a selection committee of seven members, who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Area boards; powers and duties - Chapter 18B, Section 15
The area board shall have the following duties and powers: (a) to act as the representative of the citizens of the area; (b) to advise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide advisory council - Chapter 18B, Section 16
There shall be a statewide advisory council which shall consist of one member from each area board, elected by the members thereof, to serve for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Centers for children and families - Chapter 18B, Section 17
The department may establish centers for children and families in any facility owned or rented by the commonwealth other than state schools, hospitals or prisons,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trust funds; investment deposits; expenditures - Chapter 18B, Section 18
The commissioner may receive funds in trust for the use of children born out of wedlock or other persons under the care or supervision of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unclaimed money of former wards; annual pay over to state treasurer; disposition - Chapter 18B, Section 19
Annually on or before November thirtieth, the commissioner shall pay to the state treasurer all unclaimed money held by the department for the benefit of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funds; advancement and disbursement; reports - Chapter 18B, Section 20
Notwithstanding section 22 of chapter 29 or any other law, funds made available by appropriation or otherwise for enabling the department to carry out the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption subsidy program - Chapter 18B, Section 21
The department shall establish an adoption subsidy program for the purpose of facilitating the adoption of children with special needs who are in substitute care...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption and medical assistance for interstate children; interstate compacts - Chapter 18B, Section 22
As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Adoption assistance state”, the state that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Residential care of children; annual report - Chapter 18B, Section 23
[Text of section added by 2008, 176, Sec. 45. See also, Section 23 added by 2008, 321, Sec. 8, below.] The commissioner shall report annually...
- Massachusetts General Laws - High-risk children; racial disproportion; procurement of services; children transitioning out of system; semi-annual report - Chapter 18B, Section 24
The commissioner shall report semi-annually on: (i) the status of high-risk children and the department’s efforts to identify such children and address their needs for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Multiple 51A reports; quarterly report - Chapter 18B, Section 25
In addition to the immediate notification required under subsection (n) of section 7, the commissioner shall report quarterly on the total number of cases of...
Last modified: September 11, 2015