35-1-622. Department; budget requests; purchase of service contracts; local match.
(a) The department's budget request shall recommend:
(i) The types of services that the division shall purchase, which shall not include shelter and crisis services for victims of domestic abuse or sexual assault;
(ii) The levels of services that the division shall purchase based on population, needs assessment, regional cost differences necessary to provide reasonably similar access to services and other criteria; and
(iii) The quality of services that the division shall purchase.
(b) The department shall contract with community boards, public agencies and private agencies to purchase only those services funded by the legislature on a statewide basis. Funds contracted for under this act, other than funds for developmental preschool services, shall not exceed ninety percent (90%) of the total nonfederal expenditures for human services programs by any community board or public agency. For developmental preschool services the local match requirement shall be three percent (3%).