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§ 208.157 — Discrimination prohibited — payment refused to provider of medical assistance who discriminates because of race, color or national origin.

Missouri § 208.157
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XIIPUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Ch. 208Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief

This text of Missouri § 208.157 (Discrimination prohibited — payment refused to provider of medical assistance who discriminates because of race, color or national origin.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Missouri primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 208.157 (2026).

Text

The department of social services shall comply with the provisions of Title VI, Public Law 88-352, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and shall not in any manner deny any aid, care, services or other benefits to nor discriminate against any person on the ground of race, color or national origin; and no payment shall be made on behalf of any eligible needy person to any provider of medical assistance, care or services who refuses to comply with the Act, or who engages in any practices contrary thereto.

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Legislative History

(L. 1967 p. 325, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)

Nearby Sections

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§ 208.001
Citation of law — MO HealthNet created — division created — rulemaking authority.
§ 208.009
Illegal aliens prohibited from receiving any state or local public benefit — proof of lawful residence required — temporary benefits permitted, when — exceptions for nonprofit organizations.
§ 208.010
Eligibility for public assistance, how determined — ineligibility for benefits, when — allowable exclusions — prevention of spousal impoverishments, division of assets, community spouse defined — burial lots defined — diversion of institutionalized spouse's income.
§ 208.012
Payments from Agent Orange funds not to be considered income in determining eligibility.
§ 208.013
Restitution payments to victims of National Socialist (Nazi) persecution not income in determining eligibility.
§ 208.015
Persons not eligible for general relief — exception — specified relative, defined — unemployable persons — relief limitation.
§ 208.016
Personal needs allowance to be deducted from resident's income — increase in allowance, when.
§ 208.018
Farmers' markets, SNAP participants, pilot program to purchase fresh food — requirements — sunset provision.
§ 208.020
Eligibility not affected by involuntary conversion of real into personal property for year — receipt defined.
§ 208.022
TANF electronic benefit cards to include photograph of recipient.
§ 208.024
TANF benefits, prohibited purchases, where — definitions — EBT benefit account suspended temporarily, when.
§ 208.026
Citation of law — work activities defined — TANF recipients required to engage in work activity — rulemaking authority.
§ 208.027
TANF recipients, screening for illegal use of controlled substances, test to be used — positive test or refusal to be tested, administrative proceeding — reporting requirements — other household members to continue to receive benefits, when — rulemaking authority.
§ 208.030
Supplemental welfare assistance, eligibility for — amount, how determined — reduction of supplemental payment prohibited, when.
§ 208.035
Transitional benefits program, TANF and SNAP — amount of benefits — rulemaking authority.
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