Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 49. SOCIAL SERVICES · Chapter 4. PUBLIC ASSISTANCE · Article 7. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE GENERALLY

49-4-157. Construction of this article with federal act.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

It is the intention of the General Assembly that this article be construed consistently with Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of 1935, as amended, and so as to authorize the Department of Community Health, within the appropriations provided to it, to administer the state plan in a manner so as to receive the maximum amount of federal financial participation available in expenditures made under the state plan.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Ga. L. 1977, p. 384, § 16; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 24.

U.S. Code.: Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of 1935, referred to in this Code section, is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.

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