Executive orders · Governor Thomas J. Vilsack
Executive Order 44
Signed by Governor Thomas J. Vilsack on September 2, 2005.
What it does
AI summary This order directs the Iowa Department of Human Services to follow federal government directives regarding public welfare programs during the declared public health emergency. People who evacuate to Iowa from a presidential disaster area caused by Hurricane Katrina are considered Iowa residents for the purpose of qualifying for Medicaid, food stamps, and family investment programs. The Department of Human Services must process applications from these individuals in an expedited and flexible manner.1
The Legislature’s description: Directs the Department of Human Services to act in accordance with federal directives regarding how disasters and public health emergencies impact public assistance programs.
Read the order
Im THE NAME AND By THE AutHorrry OF THE StaTE oF lowa
EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER FORTY-FOUR
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services has issued a national refugee policy and the United States Department of Health and Human Services has issued a declaration of public health emergency both of which concern how states are to respond to individuals displaced as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina; and
WHEREAS, lowans this week join people across the nation in feeling an urgent need to reach out to those in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi whose lives have been turned upside down in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A disaster of this magnitude erases state borders and calls on us all to act as a single community and do what we can to help;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Thomas J. Vilsack, Governor of the State of lowa, by the authority vested in me by the laws and the Constitution of the State of lowa, and acting under the disaster emergency powers granted to me under Chapter 29C of the lowa Code, do hereby order and direct as follows:
|. The lowa Department of Human Services shall comply with all directives of the federal government arising out of the declared federal public health emergency insofar as those directives concer public welfare programs administered by the Department of Human Services.
IL Any person who evacuates from a Hurricane Katrina presidential declared disaster area, to the State of lowa shall be deemed to be a resident of the State of lowa for purposes of establishing eligibility for the food stamp, family investment and Medicaid programs, notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary.
Ill, The Department of Human Services shall process applications from persons described in the above paragraph in an expedited and flexible manner.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, | have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. Done at Des
Moines this 2nd day of September, in the year of
our Lord two thousand five. LSACK GOVERN ATTEST: J. Culver
Secretary of State
COURTESY STATE LIBRARY OF IOWA
The order’s PDF is a scanned image, so its words were read by optical character recognition (OCR) and may have small errors. The signed PDF is the official version.
Printed in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin, XXVIII, No. 9 (10/26/2005) p. 659.