241.3  Department powers and duties.
  1.  The director shall do all of the following:
  a.  Designate and award grants for existing and pilot programs, pursuant to section 241.2, to provide services to displaced homemakers.
  b.  Designate an existing department staff member to perform the duties set forth in section 241.6.
  c.  Design and implement a uniform method of collecting data on displaced homemakers receiving services under this chapter and of evaluating funded programs.
  2.  The department shall consult and cooperate with the department of workforce development, the United States commissioner of social security administration, the department of education, and other persons in the executive branch of the state government as the department considers appropriate to facilitate the coordination of multipurpose service programs established under this chapter with existing programs of a similar nature.
  3.  The director, in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, may accept, use, and dispose of contributions of money, services, and property made available to the department by an agency or department of the state or federal government, or a private agency or individual.
[C81, §241.3]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §938; 96 Acts, ch 1186, §23; 2001 Acts, ch 61, §16; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §31; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §789; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §449
Referred to in §241.2
Subsection 2 amended