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Federal Adult Protective Services regulatory framework

Actual public-source access date: October 27, 2026, America/Los_Angeles. The corresponding UTC checks occurred on October 28, 2026.

All nine sections, 45 CFR 1324.400 through 1324.408, are present in the accessible current text and were read completely. They form Subpart D—Adult Protective Services Programs. The adopting rule was published May 8, 2024, became effective June 7, 2024, and specifies May 8, 2028 as its compliance date. These dates do not establish implementation by any particular government or program. The framework ties federal APS funding eligibility to institutional standards, while repeatedly relying on State law for eligibility categories, evidentiary findings, confidentiality, consent exceptions, and protective authority. [C001–C006] ecfr.gov+1

Two material limitations remain explicit throughout this report:

  • The readable U.S. Code bodies displayed a compilation through Public Law 119-120, October 7, 2026. Later October 15 compilation endpoints were discovered but repeatedly failed to open. Their search text is not substituted for reading those bodies.
  • The response-timing regulation uses “should” and receipt-based language, while the preamble and an agency announcement describe a required response measured from screening. This pass preserves that difference; it does not resolve it through unexamined judicial authority or calculate a deadline. [C003, C040–C042]

In the tables, C001, S001, M001, and B001 mean R079-P1-C001, R079-P1-S001, R079-P1-M001, and R079-P1-B001, respectively. Cross-references incorporate the qualifications in the referenced claim, rather than creating an additional unqualified rule.

1. Source register

1.1 Reading and status conventions

Every source below concerns United States federal law or federal agency explanation. All accesses occurred on the date stated above.

  • eCFR: An official government publishing service describing its content as authoritative but unofficial; it is not the official legal edition of the CFR. The complete Subpart D retrieval ultimately displayed Title 45 current through October 26, 2026, with a Title-wide last-amended date of October 6, 2026. That Title-wide date is not an APS amendment date.
  • OLRC: Official U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel codified statutory text. Enacted text, source credits, and editorial notes were distinguished. The successful statutory pages displayed the October 7 compilation identified above.
  • Federal Register: The govinfo PDF is the official published instrument. FederalRegister.gov HTML is its informational rendering. They are formats of one instrument, not independent corroboration.
  • PDF limits: Only parsed PDF text was used. No statement below certifies viewed page pixels, signatures, forms, or an entire Act beyond the specified reading bounds. ecfr.gov+3

Regulatory bodies: one instrument, section-specific entries

S001–S009 are subdivisions of the same regulatory instrument. Their separation records exact reading bounds; it does not multiply the evidentiary independence of that instrument.

Source ID Issuer; title and complete literal HTTPS URL Exact body read Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
R079-P1-S001 HHS/ACL regulation, OFR/GPO eCFR; Subpart D—Adult Protective Services Programs, including §1324.400, Eligibility for funding. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D. Individual access: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.400 Complete Subpart D authority/source notes and all nine bodies; §.400 complete. Additionally, only the Part 1324 heading/authority at https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324 Final full-subpart display: October 26, 2026. Earlier retrieval displayed October 23. Adopted final text; June 7, 2024 effectiveness and May 8, 2028 compliance are authenticated in S010. Other substantive subparts of Part 1324 were not investigated.
R079-P1-S002 §1324.401, Definitions. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.401 Complete unlettered glossary, including every nested numbered definition Same regulatory instrument/status; individual and final complete-subpart display October 26, 2026. Definitions were not automatically exported into other legal regimes.
R079-P1-S003 §1324.402, Program administration. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.402 Complete (a)–(e), including (a)(5), (b)(2)(i)(A)–(B), and (c)(1)–(3) October 26 display. Receipt/timing wording is retained without correction or judicial reconciliation.
R079-P1-S004 §1324.403, APS response. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.403 Complete introductory requirement and (a)–(f), including all investigation, service, emergency and closure qualifications October 26 display. Actual State authority and implementation remain absent.
R079-P1-S005 §1324.404, Conflict of interest. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.404 Complete introduction and (a)–(d)(2) Individual page displayed October 23; same complete body reread in the October 26 full-subpart retrieval. The short URL failed; canonical URL succeeded.
R079-P1-S006 §1324.405, Accepting reports. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.405 Complete (a)–(c), including both conditions in (b) October 26 display. No reporter, report or intake system was investigated.
R079-P1-S007 §1324.406, Coordination with other entities. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.406 Complete (a)(1)–(6), all nested agency categories, and (b)(1)–(4) October 26 display. Coordination references do not authenticate another entity’s jurisdiction or disclosure authority.
R079-P1-S008 §1324.407, APS program performance. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.407 Complete introductory requirement and (a)–(b) October 26 display. No actual data, report, retention system or performance record was inspected.
R079-P1-S009 §1324.408, State plans. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.408 Complete (a)–(e), including both appeal stages October 26 display. No actual plan, approval, decision, hearing or appeal was inspected.

The complete regulatory text and section-specific retrievals support these reading bounds. ecfr.gov+9

Statutes, adopting instruments and bounded interpretations

Source ID Issuer; title and complete literal HTTPS URL Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index Version, status, application and limits
R079-P1-S010 HHS/ACL, Adult Protective Services Functions and Grants Programs, final rule. Official PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-05-08/pdf/2024-07654.pdf. Same-instrument HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-07654/adult-protective-services-functions-and-grants-programs Header/DATES; substantive preamble I–III, 89 FR 39488–39520 / indices 0–32; complete operative amendatory body, 39528–39530 / indices 40–42. Selected PRA text was also encountered; economic analyses were not adopted as findings. Published May 8, 2024; effective June 7, 2024; compliance May 8, 2028. Preamble interpretation distinguished from operative amendment. Not a whole-document economic or judicial-history audit.
R079-P1-S011 Congress; OLRC, 42 USC 1397j—Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397j/ Complete (1)–(22), source credit Displayed through PL119-120, October 7, 2026, despite the URL’s earlier version segment. Underlying nursing-facility, tribal, criminal-law and other referenced regimes were not investigated where immaterial to this component.
R079-P1-S012 42 USC 1397m-1—Adult protective services functions and grant programs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-1/ Complete (a)–(c), source credit and complete displayed amendment notes October 7 compilation. Actual 2010 and material 2017 enacted clauses separately read in S020/S023. No appropriation or award record inferred.
R079-P1-S013 42 USC 1397j-1—General provisions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t42/s1397j-1/ Complete (a), (b)(1)–(3), source credit and reference note October 7 compilation. The full HIPAA regime was not read; no disclosure exception is pronounced.
R079-P1-S014 42 USC 1397m-3—Provision of information regarding, and evaluations of, elder justice programs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-3/ Complete (a)–(c), including the certified-EHR exception October 7 compilation. Evaluation/grant conditions only; no evaluation file inspected.
R079-P1-S015 42 USC 1397m-4—Report. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-4/ Complete body and editorial cross-reference note October 7 compilation. Historical reporting date and stale cross-reference distinguished from present recurring duties.
R079-P1-S016 42 USC 1397m-5—Rule of construction. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-5/ Complete (1)–(2) and credit October 7 compilation. Does not supply a complete assessment of remedies under other laws.
R079-P1-S017 42 USC 3011—Establishment of Administration on Aging. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3011/ Complete selected (a), (b), (e)(1)–(3); material displayed amendment/effectiveness notes. Adjacent provisions encountered were not adopted as a separate dossier. October 7 compilation. Statutory offices and authority, not proof of present personnel or administrative implementation.
R079-P1-S018 42 USC 3002—Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3002/ Selected complete (1), (2), (3), (7), (18)(A)–(B), (20), (38), (40), (41), (46), (48), and material displayed notes October 7 compilation. Not a complete read of all OAA definitions or their incorporated regimes.
R079-P1-S019 42 USC 3058aa-1—Grants to promote comprehensive State elder justice systems. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3058aa-1/ Complete (a)–(e) and credit October 7 compilation. Read because §3011(e)(3) expressly incorporates it; this is a separate competitive-grant authority.
R079-P1-S020 Congress/GPO, Public Law 111-148, selected Elder Justice amendments. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf Enactment header; §6703(a)(1)(C), complete inserted SSA §§2011–2012, 124 Stat 782–785 / indices 663–666; complete inserted §§2042, 2044–2046 within 794–798 / indices 675–679. Intervening §2043 was not the selected subject. Enacted March 23, 2010. Historical enacted bodies compared with current codification; not the whole Act.
R079-P1-S021 Congress/GPO, Public Law 109-365—Older Americans Act Amendments of 2006. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ365/pdf/PLAW-109publ365.pdf Enactment header; complete §201 amendment, 120 Stat 2527–2528 / indices 6–7; complete §704(2), 2593–2594 / indices 72–73 Enacted October 17, 2006. Selected authority and incorporated-grant amendments only.
R079-P1-S022 Congress/GPO, Public Law 114-144—Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2016. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/html/PLAW-114publ144.htm Header; complete selected §2(1), (2), (6); §3(a)(2); §9(1)(C). Printed 130 Stat 334–336 and 351, as marked in HTML; no PDF index claimed Enacted April 19, 2016. Official HTML alternative used after two PDF failures. Historical numbering distinguished from current numbering.
R079-P1-S023 Congress/GPO, Public Law 115-70—Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ70/pdf/PLAW-115publ70.pdf Header and complete §501, 131 Stat 1215–1216 / indices 8–9 Enacted October 18, 2017. Material demonstration-program amendment and renumbering authenticated; remaining Act not investigated.
R079-P1-S024 ACL, Final Rule: Federal Regulations for APS Programs. https://acl.gov/APSrule Complete short page, including summary, dates and proposal-labeled material Agency explanation, last-modified label August 6, 2025. Its release/publication wording and proposal heading do not displace S010. Funding/prevalence summaries were not adopted as current funding facts.
R079-P1-S025 ACL, Final Rule to Establish First-Ever Regulations for Adult Protective Services. https://acl.gov/news-and-events/announcements/final-rule-establish-first-ever-regulations-adult-protective-services Complete short announcement, including timing explanation and correction note Dated and last-modified label May 7, 2024. Nonbinding explanation; explicitly corrects an earlier compliance-date error. No quoted officials’ statements or prevalence estimates relied on.
R079-P1-S026 HHS; eCFR, 2 CFR 300.106—Adoption of 2 CFR part 200. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-300 Header and complete §300.106 only Title 2 display through October 26, 2026; Title-wide last-amended label August 17, 2026. Other Part 300 provisions, Part 200 and Part 376 were not completed.
R079-P1-S027 HHS, Health and Human Services Adoption of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-02/pdf/2024-21984.pdf. Same-instrument HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/02/2024-21984/health-and-human-services-adoption-of-the-uniform-administrative-requirements-cost-principles-and Header/DATES, 89 FR 80055 / index 0; selected adoption amendments, 80061–80062 / indices 6–7; complete instructions 149–150, 80070 / index 15 Interim final rule with comment period, published October 2, 2024; generally effective October 1, 2025, except instruction 2 effective October 1, 2024. Selected recodification only; not a complete grants-remedies investigation.

The historical and interpretive entries were read within those bounds. uscode.house.gov+17

2. Complete substantive findings and atomic claim register

2.1 Organization, status and institutional scope

Claim ID Supported finding and qualifications Exact authority
R079-P1-C001 The selected range contains all nine sections: funding eligibility; definitions; administration; response; conflicts; reports; coordination; performance; and State plans. It is Subpart D of Part 1324. S001–S009; complete §§1324.400–.408.
R079-P1-C002 The adopted APS rule has separate publication, effectiveness and compliance dates: May 8, 2024; June 7, 2024; May 8, 2028. The compliance date remained future on this access date. S010, DATES; S024–S025 date explanations.
R079-P1-C003 Currentness is bounded by the October 26 eCFR display and October 7 readable statutory compilation. Later statutory endpoints failed. Neither a Title-wide amendment label nor a search result establishes a complete later-law chain. S001–S009 metadata; S011–S019 metadata; failure log F03.
R079-P1-C004 Subpart D cites 42 USC 3011(e)(3) and 1397m-1. The Part-wide heading instead displays 2 USC 3001 and 42 USC 1394m. Those different strings are preserved as a source discrepancy; this report does not silently repair them or infer invalidity. S001, Subpart D authority and separately selected Part 1324 authority heading; S010 operative authority text.
R079-P1-C005 Adherence to the selected provisions is a condition of eligibility for funding under §1397m-1(b), subject to the rule’s compliance timetable. This is not a declaration that every State protective-service or debt rule is federalized. S001, §1324.400; S010 DATES.
R079-P1-C006 A regulatory State entity is a designated State, District of Columbia or U.S. territorial government unit responsible for APS—including policies/procedures—and receiving the specified federal grant funding. S002, definition of State entity.
R079-P1-C007 An APS program means local providers within an APS system; the system encompasses State entities and local APS programs. Local administration does not erase the State-entity standards. S002, Adult Protective Services Program and Adult Protective Services Systems; S004 introduction.
R079-P1-C008 APS includes receiving reports, investigating, casework/planning/monitoring/evaluation, and providing, arranging or facilitating enumerated protective/supportive services. The definition allows specified agency guidance; it does not require APS itself to supply every service directly. S002, Adult Protective Services, all four numbered clauses; S004, §1324.403(e)(4); S011, §1397j(2).

These claims concern the published framework, not actual funding, agency designation or program performance. ecfr.gov+3

2.2 Definitions and classification boundaries

The following definitions were read in their complete material contexts. The statutory and regulatory vocabulary is not identical. In particular, statutory “elder” is not the regulatory definition of every APS-eligible adult, and self-neglect is separately covered even though it is not listed in the regulation’s “adult maltreatment” definition. [C009–C017] ecfr.gov+2

Claim ID Supported definition or distinction Exact authority and limit
R079-P1-C009 Regulatory adult covers older adults and adults with disabilities as defined by State APS laws. The regulation supplies no universal numerical adult-eligibility age. S002, Adult; S003, §1324.402(a).
R079-P1-C010 EJA elder and OAA older individual mean age 60 or older. Those statutory definitions do not replace C009’s State-law-dependent regulatory category. S011, §1397j(5); S018, §3002(40).
R079-P1-C011 Adult maltreatment comprises abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or sexual abuse of an adult at risk of harm. At risk requires a strong likelihood of an imminent adverse or detrimental event, condition, injury or outcome. S002, both definitions. No quantified probability or financial threshold is supplied.
R079-P1-C012 Abuse requires knowing physical/psychological harm or knowing deprivation of goods/services necessary for essential needs or avoidance of such harm. S002, Abuse; S011, §1397j(1); S018, §3002(1).
R079-P1-C013 Regulatory neglect is a caregiver’s or fiduciary’s failure to provide goods/services necessary for an adult’s health and/or safety. Its text does not repeat abuse’s knowing-state formulation. S002, Neglect. The relevant role and failure are not established by a label alone.
R079-P1-C014 Regulatory self-neglect requires serious risk of imminent harm to self or another, created by inability—because of physical/mental impairment or diminished capacity—to perform essential self-care, including at least one listed category: obtaining essential food, clothing, shelter and medical care; obtaining goods/services for physical or mental health or general safety; or managing financial affairs. S002, Self-neglect, introduction and (1)–(3). Every causal/risk qualification matters.
R079-P1-C015 Sexual abuse includes nonconsensual touching and nontouching sexual interaction with an adult. S002, Sexual abuse. No actual consent finding is made.
R079-P1-C016 Financial exploitation covers a fraudulent or otherwise illegal, unauthorized or improper act/process by a person, including a caregiver or fiduciary, that either uses adult resources for monetary/personal benefit, profit or gain, or deprives rightful access to/use of benefits, resources, belongings or assets. A trusted relationship is not a stated prerequisite. S002, complete Financial exploitation definition; compare S011, §1397j(8), and S018, §3002(18)(A).
R079-P1-C017 The statute’s exploitation definition uses elder, while the regulation uses adult. Statutory neglect includes self-neglect; regulatory neglect and self-neglect are separate definitions. The regulation adds the serious/imminent-risk language to self-neglect. OAA §3002(48) additionally refers to behavioral health. S011, §1397j(8), (16), (18); S018, §3002(38), (48); S002. These differences are retained, not silently harmonized.
R079-P1-C018 The EJA separately defines caregiver through care responsibility and compensated/uncompensated support, and fiduciary through legal decisionmaking responsibility plus good faith/fairness, with listed roles. Its guardianship definition concerns State-court appointment, performance and oversight. These definitions do not appoint anyone or validate an instrument. S011, complete §1397j(3), (9), (11); compare S018, §3002(18)(B), (20). State application remains unexamined.
R079-P1-C019 An allegation is an accusation concerning each adult identified in an APS report. S002, Allegation. It is not a finding.
R079-P1-C020 A report is a formal account/statement of allegation(s) and relevant circumstances. S002, Report. No completed report or proof of delivery exists here.
R079-P1-C021 Intake/pre-screening means receiving allegations and gathering information. S002, Intake or Pre-Screening. Receipt is distinct from acceptance for investigation.
R079-P1-C022 Screening reviews intake information against minimum investigation requirements or considers referral elsewhere. S002, Screening. A report need not automatically become an investigation.
R079-P1-C023 Investigation gathers/examines information to determine whether State evidentiary standards for a finding are met. S002, Investigation. No national evidentiary burden is supplied.
R079-P1-C024 A finding is APS’s post-investigation decision whether evidence is sufficient under State law to determine maltreatment/self-neglect occurred. S002, Finding; S004, §1324.403(d). It is not, merely by this definition, a civil judgment or criminal adjudication.
R079-P1-C025 A client is an adult subject to an APS response concerning a report of alleged maltreatment/self-neglect. S002, Client. The term does not itself establish substantiation.
R079-P1-C026 A case encompasses activities related to an investigation and response to an allegation. S002, Case.
R079-P1-C027 A response encompasses actions/activities resulting from a report. S002, Response. It is broader than a completed investigation or service plan.
R079-P1-C028 Victim, as defined here, means an adult who experienced adult maltreatment. S002, Victim. This report assigns that label to nobody.
R079-P1-C029 Perpetrator, as defined here, means a person APS determined responsible for one or more instances of adult maltreatment. S002, Perpetrator. This administrative terminology does not establish a criminal conviction.
R079-P1-C030 A mandated reporter works with an adult professionally and is required by State law to report suspected maltreatment/self-neglect to APS. S002, Mandated reporter. These provisions do not themselves make everyone a mandatory reporter.
R079-P1-C031 Quality assurance includes thorough investigation/case-management documentation, review/approval of closure, and case review against established standards. S002, Quality assurance. A definition is not proof of an actual review or a completed independent audit.
R079-P1-C032 Conflict of interest concerns interference with objective information or acting in the adult’s best interests. S002, Conflict of interest.
R079-P1-C033 A dual relationship adds professional, personal or volunteer roles to an APS worker’s role, simultaneously or sequentially, with a client. S002, Dual relationship.
R079-P1-C034 Emergency Protective Action concerns immediate access to petition a court for temporary/emergency orders or emergency out-of-home placement. S002, complete definition. It is not an entered order or independent proof of power to impose placement.

2.3 Authority, administration, rights and response

Claim ID Supported conditional rule Exact authority
R079-P1-C035 The OAA establishes the Assistant Secretary role, permits designation of an elder-abuse-prevention official, assigns coordinated elder-justice duties, and authorizes necessary regulations through the Assistant Secretary for §3011(e) and §3058aa-1. S017, §3011(a), (e)(1)–(3); S018, §3002(7); S002, Assistant Secretary for Aging.
R079-P1-C036 The rule expressly includes State/DC/territorial entities and local APS systems. Tribal APS and governments appear as coordination partners. That inclusion is not a direct Tribal grant award or proof that State authority extends into Tribal jurisdiction. S002, State entity; S007, §1324.406(a)(1)–(3).
R079-P1-C037 State definitions must address eligible populations, maltreatment/self-neglect elements, covered alleged perpetrators, and settings/locations. Verbatim uniform adoption is unnecessary, but State definitions may not narrow eligible-adult or service scope. S003, complete §1324.402(a)(1)–(5).
R079-P1-C038 State entities must create, publish and implement standardized receiving/responding policies incorporating person-directed planning/services and least restrictive alternatives. S003, §1324.402(b)(1)–(2).
R079-P1-C039 Policies must create at least two initial-contact response tiers based on immediate risk of death, irreparable harm, or significant loss of income, assets or resources. S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i). No dollar definition of significant loss is supplied.
R079-P1-C040 For immediate risk, the codified policy clause says the response “should” be in person and no later than “24-four hours” after receiving a report. S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(A). The unusual printed wording is retained.
R079-P1-C041 For non-immediate risk, the codified clause says response should occur no more than 7 calendar days after receiving a report. S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(B). It does not say seven business days.
R079-P1-C042 The preamble starts immediate-response timing at retrieval and screening-in, allows appropriate partner in-person contact, and does not require completed investigation. The announcement repeats screening. That explanation differs from C040’s wording; the discrepancy remains unresolved here. S010, III.C response-timing discussion, pp.39505–39506; S025, timing bullet; compare S003.
R079-P1-C043 On first contact, APS must explain APS-related confidentiality and refusal rights to the extent those rights exist under State law. S003, §1324.402(c)(1)–(3). This does not independently establish every State right or exception.
R079-P1-C044 Information must be in a format and language understandable by the adult, with alternative formats as needed. S003, §1324.402(d). No particular language, document or method is established here.
R079-P1-C045 Investigation/service-planning policies must recognize services as voluntary, except where State law mandates them. S004, §1324.403(c)(1). The exception requires separate authority; it is not established by concern or disagreement.
R079-P1-C046 Those policies must address client/worker safety, preservation of rights, person-directed and trauma-informed practice, and maximum client engagement. S004, §1324.403(c)(2)–(5). A program standard does not guarantee a particular safety outcome.
R079-P1-C047 Appropriate service provision/referral must respect autonomy, life choices and the client’s views of safety, quality of life and success; plans/referrals are developed in consultation with the client. Community referral or purchased services may be used. S004, complete §1324.403(e)(1)–(4).
R079-P1-C048 Policies must permit emergency use of APS funds to purchase goods/services. S004, §1324.403(c)(6). This clause states no individual award amount or universal debt-payment entitlement.
R079-P1-C049 Policies must permit seeking emergency protective action only when appropriate and necessary, as a last resort, to protect the client’s life and safety. S004, §1324.403(c)(7), with C034. This qualification is separate from C048’s emergency-funds provision.
R079-P1-C050 Person-directed practice, refusal, impairment and diminished capacity must remain distinct. The selected regulation creates neither a general capacity-adjudication test nor a power-of-attorney/supported-decision-making instrument. Debt, diagnosis or refusal alone does not complete C014’s cumulative definition. Bounded inference from S002 Self-neglect, S003(c), and S004(c), (e). Other capacity law is held.
R079-P1-C051 The EJA preserves an elder’s prayer-alone healing choice when it is: contemporaneously expressed for a specific current illness/injury while competent; or in a previously validly executed/applied State-law advance directive; or unambiguously deducible from life history. S013, complete §1397j-1(b)(1)–(3). This is not an unqualified exemption for every religious assertion.
R079-P1-C052 State policies must specify screening, triage and decision criteria for assigning investigation and/or reporting to other authorities. S004, §1324.403(a). No individual report is deemed accepted.
R079-P1-C053 Policies must provide tools/processes for examining emergency needs and immediate safety/risk factors affecting the adult or responding worker. S004, §1324.403(b). No specific risk score or assessment instrument is prescribed.
R079-P1-C054 Finding methods must allow consultation with appropriate experts/team members/supervisors and specify evidentiary protocols. S004, §1324.403(d)(1)–(2). Neither actual expertise nor a finding is verified.
R079-P1-C055 State policies must establish ongoing case-review timeframes and a reasonable investigation-completion/finding period. S004, §1324.403(f)(1)–(2). The section supplies no nationally fixed number of days.
R079-P1-C056 Minimum documentation includes the APS response, significant client-status changes, safety/risk assessment at closure, and the reason for closure. S004, §1324.403(f)(3)(i)–(iv). Documentation is distinct from proof of its contents or a disclosure right.
R079-P1-C057 Staffing policies must include training, continuing education—including conflicts—and supervision. The selected text supplies no national credential, training-hour minimum or staff-to-client ratio. S003, §1324.402(e)(1)–(2); bounded absence within S001–S009.

The administration and response duties above come from the complete selected provisions, with the response-clock discrepancy supported by the separately identified explanation. uscode.house.gov+5

2.4 Conflicts, reports, coordination, data and State plans

Claim ID Supported conditional rule Exact authority
R079-P1-C058 Conflict policies must identify, remove and remedy actual/perceived conflicts at organizational and individual levels, covering APS administrators/representatives and their immediate family or household. S005, introduction and (a).
R079-P1-C059 Covered workers/representatives and specified family/household members must not have a personal financial interest in an entity to which APS may refer adults. S005, §1324.404(b). No actual financial interest is examined.
R079-P1-C060 Policies require conflict monitoring, prohibit avoidable dual relationships, and require appropriate safeguards for unavoidable ones. S005, §1324.404(c)–(d).
R079-P1-C061 APS petitioning/serving as guardian is an unavoidable dual relationship only if all less restrictive alternatives were considered and either a court instructed APS to petition/serve, or no other qualified individual/entity is available to do so. S005, §1324.404(d)(1)(i)–(ii). This is a conflict limitation, not an appointment.
R079-P1-C062 Every dual relationship must be documented in the case record, with mitigation strategies described. S005, §1324.404(d)(2).
R079-P1-C063 State policies must provide accessible report receipt 24 hours daily, 7 calendar days weekly, through multiple methods, including at least one online method. S006, §1324.405(a). “Multiple” requires more than one method.
R079-P1-C064 The preamble permits unattended reporting; next-business-day retrieval/contact is advised, while retrieval/contact within 72 hours is expressly encouraged rather than required. S010, III.F, pp.39513–39514. This does not settle C040–C042’s discrepancy.
R079-P1-C065 Feedback to a mandated reporter requires that the reporter made the report and requests feedback, and that the adult consents before release. The stated information is whether the report resulted in an opened case. S006, §1324.405(b)(1)–(2). It is not a general right to findings or the file.
R079-P1-C066 Policies must maintain confidentiality of adults, reporters and report information under all applicable State/federal confidentiality laws. Separately, the Secretary must protect health privacy consistently with the specified HIPAA regulations and State/local privacy rules. S006, §1324.405(c); S013, §1397j-1(a). The incorporated privacy regimes remain separately bounded.
R079-P1-C067 Required coordination categories include other APS/Tribal APS; relevant investigating agencies; law enforcement with jurisdiction; authorized advocacy/investigation organizations; emergency management; and banks/financial institutions. S007, complete §1324.406(a)(1)–(6). Listed examples do not establish actual jurisdiction.
R079-P1-C068 Coordination policies cover all response stages and status/resolution information sharing to the extent permitted by applicable State law, together with C066’s federal confidentiality constraint. S007, §1324.406(b)(1)–(2); S006(c).
R079-P1-C069 Policies must facilitate exchanges, quality activities, cross-training, multidisciplinary/cross-agency teams and co-location using MOUs, data agreements or less formal arrangements, plus State-determined activities. S007, §1324.406(b)(3)–(4). A formal MOU is not the only permitted mechanism; no record-compulsion power is supplied.
R079-P1-C070 State entities must collect and report required system-wide APS data to ACL annually. S008, §1324.407(a). The section itself supplies neither a universal due date nor the complete field specification.
R079-P1-C071 Policies must ensure retention of individual investigation case data for at least five years. S008, §1324.407(b). The section does not state the starting event for that interval.
R079-P1-C072 State entities must submit a plan meeting Assistant Secretary requirements to the designated Director. The award-receiving entity develops it with APS programs and other State APS entities when applicable. S009, §1324.408(a)–(b); S017, §3011(e)(1).
R079-P1-C073 Plans must be updated at least every five years, may be updated more often, and must assure development/adherence to all required policies. S009, §1324.408(c)–(d). An assurance is not proof of compliance.
R079-P1-C074 The Director reviews/approves plans. A dissatisfied State may appeal the Director’s final decision to the Deputy Assistant Secretary within 30 calendar days after its date, with an opportunity for a hearing before the Deputy. S009, §1324.408(e), first appeal clause.
R079-P1-C075 A State dissatisfied with the Deputy’s final decision may appeal to the Assistant Secretary within 30 calendar days after the Deputy decision’s date. S009, §1324.408(e), second appeal clause.
R079-P1-C076 Those are State-plan review procedures. The selected section does not establish an individual client’s appeal of a finding, a receipt presumption, automatic stay, reversal, or extension. S009(e), complete scope; individual remedies remain held.

These claims preserve the distinction between institutional process requirements, confidentiality conditions and actual authority or outcomes. ecfr.gov+6

2.5 Statutory funding, evaluation and remedies boundaries

Claim ID Supported conditional rule Exact authority
R079-P1-C077 The Secretary’s APS responsibilities include authorized funding, annual elder-maltreatment data with Justice Department coordination, best practices/training, research and technical assistance. S012, complete §1397m-1(a)(1)(A)–(E); related S017(e)(2).
R079-P1-C078 The formula-grant program calls for annual State grants. Subject to appropriations and adjustments, allocation uses the fiscal-year appropriation multiplied by the State’s share of U.S. elders. S012, §1397m-1(b)(1), (2)(A). No appropriation, population count or allocation is established here.
R079-P1-C079 If the preliminary amount is below 0.75% of the appropriation for a State within the fifty-State category, the statute raises it to that percentage. For a State outside that category, 0.1% substitutes. Necessary pro-rata reductions implement the floors. S012, complete §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)–(C). These are government-allocation rules, not individual benefit amounts.
R079-P1-C080 Formula funds are restricted to APS, routed to the State unit legally responsible for APS, and must supplement rather than supplant other federal, State and local public APS funds. S012, §1397m-1(b)(3)(A)–(C).
R079-P1-C081 Funded States must report elders served at the time and in the manner required by the Secretary. S012, §1397m-1(b)(4). This does not supply a fixed universal filing date.
R079-P1-C082 Displayed authorizations are historical: administrative functions $3 million FY2011, $4 million each FY2012–2014; formula grants $100 million each FY2011–2014; demonstration grants $25 million each FY2011–2014. Authorization is not an appropriation or award. S012, §1397m-1(a)(2), (b)(5), (c)(6). No present funding amount is inferred.
R079-P1-C083 Subsection (c) separately authorizes demonstration programs. Its guardianship-oversight branch includes highest State courts, requires consideration of specified recommendations in awarding those grants, and requires recipient-court collaboration with State aging and APS entities. S012, complete (c), particularly (1)–(3). These conditions do not confer guardianship authority on APS.
R079-P1-C084 Part II grant applicants must agree to specified evaluation information. The Secretary reserves not less than 2% of each program’s appropriated funds for eligible-entity evaluation, with a distinct certified-EHR exception and Secretary evaluation/audit route. S014, complete §1397m-3(a)–(c). Evaluation assistance also has application and report conditions; no individual data-disclosure conclusion follows.
R079-P1-C085 Section 1397m-4 contains an October 1, 2014 reporting deadline. Its literal subsection-(c)(4) reference is stale after the authenticated 2017 redesignation of the report provision to (c)(5). S015, body/editorial note; S023, §501(3), (6). It is not a present individual deadline.
R079-P1-C086 Section 3058aa-1 supplies a distinct competitive State elder-justice grant route: approved application, agency-determined amount, an integrated collaborative system, specified network/data/education activities and supplement-not-supplant treatment. S019, complete (a)–(e). It does not prove a current appropriation or entitlement under the APS formula program.
R079-P1-C087 The Elder Justice division does not create a private cause of action for its violation, and does not limit related State/political-subdivision causes of action or relief otherwise available. S016, complete §1397m-5(1)–(2). Other remedies are neither established nor extinguished by this report.

The allocation and authorization provisions were read as statutory conditions, without using any actual funding or government record. uscode.house.gov+5

2.6 Transition, amendment history and limits of the mechanism

Claim ID Finding and qualification Exact authority
R079-P1-C088 The preamble places first-plan submission at four years after publication. It offers requested corrective plans stating reasons, steps and additional time, with joint milestones/timeline and continuing good-faith compliance efforts. It supplies no automatic extension. S010, general implementation discussion, pp.39492–39494, and III.I, pp.39518–39520. Actual later implementation guidance or an approved plan is not established.
R079-P1-C089 The APS preamble’s Part 75 references are historical. The later HHS interim final rule removed/reserved Part 75 and adopted the current Part 300 framework; §300.106 adopts Part 200 with additions in Parts 300/376. General effectiveness was October 1, 2025, with the specified instruction-2 exception. S026; S027, DATES, adoption text and instruction 150. Full award-applicability, sanction and grants-appeal rules remain held.
R079-P1-C090 The selected 2006 enacted amendments added the OAA elder-abuse authority and comprehensive-State-system grant provisions examined here. S021, §§201, 704(2), enacted October 17, 2006.
R079-P1-C091 The selected 2010 enacted amendments added the EJA definitions, APS grant framework, privacy/construction rules, evaluation provisions and private-action limitation examined here. S020, §6703(a)(1)(C), selected complete inserted sections; enacted March 23, 2010.
R079-P1-C092 The selected 2016 amendments changed OAA definitions/coordination and added behavioral-health wording. Historical definition numbering differs from current numbering; the complete intervening renumbering chain is not certified. S022, selected clauses; S018 current definitions; enacted April 19, 2016.
R079-P1-C093 The complete 2017 §501 amendment added/conditioned the guardianship-oversight demonstration branch and redesignated the later subsection-(c) paragraphs. S023, complete §501; enacted October 18, 2017; compare S012 notes.
R079-P1-C094 ACL explanations are subordinate to the enacted/codified bodies. The announcement’s release date differs from Federal Register publication; its correction note and the APSrule page’s proposal-labeled material require separate treatment. S024–S025; S010. Proposal material was not adopted as current law.
R079-P1-C095 The financial-exploitation definition and APS response standards do not themselves decide contract formation, POA validity, ownership, civil/criminal liability, debt cancellation, recovery, restitution or collection defenses. Bounded scope inference from S002 Financial exploitation/Finding, S004, S007 and S016.
R079-P1-C096 Service/referral standards, grant eligibility and State-plan review do not establish a mandatory individual benefit, guaranteed safety, a debt write-off or an actual protective order. Separate legal authority and absent application facts would be necessary. S001, S004, S009, S012, S016; bounded scope inference.
R079-P1-C097 The preamble expresses severability intent if a portion is invalidated. This is not verification of present judicial validity or later judicial history. S010, preamble I.C. No judicial opinion or case was searched.

The grant-rule transition is supported by the actual removal instruction and current adoption provision, not merely by the old APS preamble’s citation. ecfr.gov+10

3. Provision-specific mechanism comparison

Comparison Federal framework established Separate matter not established Claim/source links
Federal standards / State implementation Funding-linked standards and required State policies A particular State’s definitions, compliance, funding or actual practices C005–C007, C037–C038, C072–C073; S001–S004, S009
Regulatory category / substantiated or adjudicated finding Definitions and State-law evidentiary finding process That an allegation is true, a person lacks capacity, or a civil/criminal judgment exists C011–C024; S002, S004
Report / investigation / service Receipt, screening, investigation and response are distinct concepts Automatic investigation, substantiation, service acceptance or completed intervention C019–C027, C045, C052–C056; S002, S004
Consent/autonomy / exception Voluntariness, client consultation and least restrictive practice; qualified State-law and emergency branches A specific exception, valid substitute consent or authority to override a choice C038, C043–C051; S003–S004, S013
Institutional duty / individual entitlement Policies, plans, data and program conditions An individual award, guaranteed outcome or EJA-created private cause of action C070–C087, C096; S008–S016
Financial exploitation / debt liability An APS classification addressing specified resource use/deprivation Debt validity, release, liability allocation, repayment cancellation or recovery C016–C018, C095; S002, S011, S018
Confidentiality / coordination Both confidentiality compliance and coordination duties apply A blanket disclosure exception, subpoena power or access to financial records C065–C069; S006–S007, S013
Final regulation / guidance Operative provisions and specified date clauses That explanatory shorthand, proposed provisions or voluntary guidance amends the regulation C002, C040–C042, C064, C094; S003, S010, S024–S025
Publication / effectiveness / compliance / implementation Distinct published dates and a future compliance point Actual implementation, automatic extension or approved corrective action C002, C088; S010
Authorization / appropriation / allocation / service Historical authorization and conditional grant-allocation rules Current appropriated dollars, an award or money payable to an adult C078–C086; S012, S014, S019
Conflict safeguards / guardianship authority Restricted unavoidable-dual-relationship criteria Appointment, legal capacity determination or guardianship powers C034, C058–C062; S002, S005
State-plan appeal / individual review Two specified State appeal stages A client hearing route, automatic stay or reinstatement of services C074–C076; S009

These distinctions derive from the cited provisions and the explicit limits of the selected mechanism; none is an application finding.

4. Complete measurement register

This register includes every substantive quantity and relied-on source-status date reported above. Citation numbers, section identifiers, printed pagination and PDF indices are locators rather than legal thresholds; their exact values are recorded in the source register.

No actual amount, age, date sequence, risk score, resource allocation or deadline has been calculated.

Measurement ID Quantity and exact authority Actor/object, base and unit Trigger, boundary, qualifications and missing inputs
R079-P1-M001 60 years or older — C010; §1397j(5), §3002(40) Statutory elder/older-individual age, years Inclusive lower boundary. Does not supply the regulatory adult-eligibility age. No age or State category supplied.
R079-P1-M002 At least one listed self-care category — C014; §1324.401 Self-neglect Listed task category Inclusive minimum; serious imminent-risk, inability and causal impairment/capacity predicates also apply. No functional or factual finding supplied.
R079-P1-M003 One or more instances — C029; Perpetrator Instances APS determined to be adult maltreatment Administrative-definition threshold; not a conviction or an accusation alone.
R079-P1-M004 Additional role(s), simultaneous or sequential — C033; Dual relationship Professional/personal/volunteer role relative to APS role No minimum overlap duration is stated. Actual roles absent.
R079-P1-M005 At least two tiers — C039; §1324.402(b)(2)(i) Initial-contact response categories Minimum, not maximum. Risk classification depends on the listed death/harm/resource-loss criteria.
R079-P1-M006 Literal 24-four hours, interpreted by agency explanation as 24 hours — C040–C042 Immediate-risk initial response; hours Codified trigger: receiving report; preamble: retrieval and screening-in. Upper boundary is no later than; in-person condition applies. “Should”/mandatory-description discrepancy unresolved.
R079-P1-M007 7 calendar days — C041; §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(B) Non-immediate response interval Codified trigger: receipt; no-more-than boundary. Calendar expressly stated. No actual receipt or classification; no counting rule inferred.
R079-P1-M008 First contact — C043; §1324.402(c) Rights explanation event Event-triggered, not a quantified delay. No contact occurred or was examined.
R079-P1-M009 24 hours/day, 7 calendar days/week — C063; §1324.405(a) Availability of report receipt Continuous submission access; distinct from live staffing, screening or completed response.
R079-P1-M010 Multiple methods; at least one online — C063 Reporting methods More than one method, with inclusive online minimum. No particular platform or actual accessibility established.
R079-P1-M011 Next business day — C064; S010 III.F Preamble’s advised retrieval/contact for off-hours reports Advisory explanation; no business-calendar definition supplied by the selected text.
R079-P1-M012 Within 72 hours — C064; S010 III.F Retrieval/contact after report made Explicit encouragement, not a requirement. Must not replace the separate response clauses.
R079-P1-M013 Consent before release — C065; §1324.405(b)(2) Adult’s consent to specified reporter feedback Sequencing requirement. No numerical feedback period or delivery convention supplied.
R079-P1-M014 Annually — C070; §1324.407(a) State system-wide data to ACL Recurring frequency; exact due date and required fields absent from the section.
R079-P1-M015 Minimum 5 years — C071; §1324.407(b) Investigation case-data retention Inclusive minimum. Starting event and additional retention-law interaction are unresolved.
R079-P1-M016 At least every 5 years — C073; §1324.408(c) State-plan updates Updates may be more frequent. Not a five-year postponement of initial submission.
R079-P1-M017 30 calendar days — C074; §1324.408(e) State appeal to Deputy Assistant Secretary From date of Director’s final decision, not stated receipt. Inclusive outer limit; no extension, mailing or counting rule established.
R079-P1-M018 30 calendar days — C075; §1324.408(e) State appeal to Assistant Secretary From date of Deputy decision. Separate stage; not transferred to an individual client procedure.
R079-P1-M019 Annually — C077; §1397m-1(a)(1)(B); §3011(e)(2)(A)(iv) Federal elder-maltreatment data activities The OAA clause includes practicability qualification. Not the State’s §.407 filing date.
R079-P1-M020 Annual / fiscal year — C078; §1397m-1(b)(1)–(2) Government grant allocation Base: fiscal-year appropriation; population share: State elders divided by U.S. elders. Appropriation, population vintage and counts absent.
R079-P1-M021 0.75%; fifty-State category — C079; §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)(i) Government allocation floor; denominator is relevant appropriation Increase triggered when preliminary amount is less than floor; target equals floor. Subject to statutory adjustments; equality does not trigger this increase.
R079-P1-M022 0.1%; other-State category — C079; §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)(ii) Substitute government floor Same structure, different percentage. No jurisdiction is classified in this report.
R079-P1-M023 Pro-rata adjustment — C079; §1397m-1(b)(2)(C) Preliminary government allocations Necessary to implement floors; no actual shares or calculation supplied.
R079-P1-M024 $3 million FY2011; $4 million each FY2012–2014 — C082; §1397m-1(a)(2) Historical authorization, U.S. dollars per specified fiscal year Authorization only; not proof of appropriation, expenditure or current funding.
R079-P1-M025 $100 million each FY2011–2014 — C082; §1397m-1(b)(5) Historical formula-program authorization Same limitation; not an adult’s benefit or service cap.
R079-P1-M026 $25 million each FY2011–2014 — C082; §1397m-1(c)(6) Historical demonstration authorization Separate program branch; no actual funding inferred.
R079-P1-M027 Not less than 2% — C084; §1397m-3(b)(1)–(2) Secretary’s evaluation reserve from each covered program’s appropriation Inclusive minimum. Certified-EHR program is expressly excluded from this subsection and addressed separately. Not an individual-payment percentage.
R079-P1-M028 October 1, 2014 — C085; §1397m-4 Historical Secretary reporting deadline Statutory historical date; not current periodic filing guidance. Cross-reference redesignation retained.
R079-P1-M029 May 8, 2024 / June 7, 2024 / May 8, 2028 — C002 APS publication / effectiveness / compliance dates Distinct legal events. No inference of actual implementation or additional grace period.
R079-P1-M030 Four years after publication — C088; S010 III.I Preamble’s first-plan timetable Read with the stated compliance date; not recalculated into an actual program calendar.
R079-P1-M031 Corrective-plan additional time — C088 Requested transition period No fixed number granted by the selected text; reasons, steps, joint milestones/timeline and continuing good faith matter.
R079-P1-M032 October 2, 2024 / October 1, 2025 / October 1, 2024 — C089 Grants-rule publication / general effectiveness / instruction-2 exception Separate instrument and amendment-specific exception. Does not alter APS’s stated compliance date.
R079-P1-M033 October 17, 2006; March 23, 2010; April 19, 2016; October 18, 2017 — C090–C093 Enactment dates of selected public laws Historical enactment dates, not current application deadlines; read bounds in S020–S023.
R079-P1-M034 October 26 and October 23, 2026; October 6, 2026 — C003 eCFR display dates and Title 45 amendment label Metadata, not an APS amendment/effectiveness certification. Final whole-subpart display was October 26.
R079-P1-M035 October 7, 2026 / October 15, 2026 — C003 Readable statutory cutoff / later discovery cutoff Later bodies unavailable; search-result text not used as substantive evidence.
R079-P1-M036 October 26, 2026 / August 17, 2026 — S026 Title 2 currency / Title-wide amendment label Not proof that §300.106 changed on the latter date.
R079-P1-M037 May 7, 2024 / August 6, 2025 — C094; S024–S025 Announcement and webpage modification labels Explanatory-page metadata; not Federal Register publication or independent effectiveness.
R079-P1-M038 October 27, 2026, America/Los_Angeles Actual research access date Research metadata only; not a legal trigger.

No numerical model is supplied. An allocation model would require appropriations and population inputs outside this pass. A response or appeal calendar would require missing events and counting rules, and the immediate-response sources contain an unresolved trigger difference. A risk or financial-loss calculation has no specified federal numerical base in these provisions. [C039–C042, C074–C079]

5. Substantive conditional legal-category branches

Each branch incorporates all qualifications in its linked claims, including the effective/compliance distinction and currentness limits. “Missing” does not request collection of a real or fictional record.

Branch ID Supported conditional branch and exact links Missing authority or predicate Adverse inference to avoid Next permissible generic public-law inquiry
R079-P1-B001 — Funding scope If the selected funding route applies, C005’s standards and timetable govern eligibility. C005–C008; S001–S002, S012. Funding route, designation and application facts Every APS activity is governed identically by this federal condition Examine later generic federal instructions clarifying §1324.400’s relationship to §1397m-1(b), without award searches.
R079-P1-B002 — Jurisdiction State/DC/territorial definitions and Tribal coordination must be applied separately. C006–C007, C036, C067; S002, S007. Jurisdiction and allocation of legal responsibility State authority automatically extends to Tribal APS Identify the precise public jurisdictional question before any separately authorized State/Tribal-law component.
R079-P1-B003 — Adult/age category C009’s State-dependent adult category cannot be replaced by C010’s statutory elder age. S002, S011, S018. Applicable public eligibility definition Age alone proves eligibility or ineligibility A later generic State APS eligibility statute/regulation inquiry; no person or program lookup.
R079-P1-B004 — Abuse/neglect Apply C012’s knowing requirement and C013’s caregiver/fiduciary failure definition separately. S002, S011. Role, legal category and evidentiary predicates All deprivation, poverty or concern is abuse Examine generic State definitions/evidence rules only in a separate authorized scope.
R079-P1-B005 — Self-neglect C014 requires the full risk, inability, causal and task-category combination. S002. State definition and all application predicates Debt, disability, unconventional conduct or diagnosis proves self-neglect Clarify the federal/State definition relationship under §1324.402(a)(5); no assessment instrument or personal evaluation.
R079-P1-B006 — Financial exploitation Apply C016’s specified act/process and resource-use/deprivation alternatives. S002, S011, S018. Applicable legal meaning and factual predicates A debt is invalid, or a trusted relationship is mandatory Separately investigate the relevant public definition or liability regime only if later authorized.
R079-P1-B007 — Report/acceptance Receipt and screening are distinct from investigation and finding. C019–C024, C052; S002, S004. Screening criteria and acceptance facts Every report must be substantiated or opened Examine generic federal clarification of screening/referral under §1324.403(a).
R079-P1-B008 — Urgency Initial-response tiers use C039’s harm/resource-risk categories. S003. State classification standards and actual predicate Every financial concern is an immediate-risk event Seek generic clarification of “significant” resource loss and immediate risk; no invented threshold.
R079-P1-B009 — Response clock Preserve both C040–C042 formulations. S003, S010, S025. Authoritative reconciliation, trigger and counting rules Either an automatic original-receipt deadline or blanket permission to ignore timing Check for a later published correction/amendment or generic official clarification; judicial reconciliation remains held.
R079-P1-B010 — Reporting access C063 concerns availability; C064 distinguishes staffing/retrieval. S006, S010. Actual process and applicable implementation Continuous access guarantees live or immediate intervention Examine later generic receipt/screening guidance, without contacting or testing a program.
R079-P1-B011 — Consent and choice Apply C043–C047’s State-rights, voluntariness and consultation qualifications. S003–S004. Valid consent/refusal and applicable State authority Disagreement establishes incapacity or permits override Separate public-law inquiry into State consent/refusal standards, if authorized.
R079-P1-B012 — Exception authority State-mandated services and last-resort emergency action require their distinct predicates. C045, C049, C051; S004, S013. Specific mandate/order authority; any applicable construction rule A generic emergency or concern supplies unrestricted power Identify the precise State emergency/consent statute; retain federal qualifications.
R079-P1-B013 — Assessment/finding State evidentiary standards and APS findings do not themselves produce a judgment. C023–C024, C054, C095; S002, S004. Evidentiary standard and separate adjudicative authority Screening, assessment and guilt are interchangeable Generic inquiry into the legally relevant finding/review standard; no cases or allegations.
R079-P1-B014 — Service/entitlement Provision/referral and emergency purchases are program mechanisms. C047–C049, C087, C096; S004, S016. Other entitlement/remedy law and actual program facts Guaranteed services, safety, money or debt payment Determine whether a separately authorized public law creates the asserted entitlement; none is inferred here.
R079-P1-B015 — Reporter feedback All C065 predicates apply: qualifying reporter, own report, request, prior adult consent, limited information. S006. Reporter category, consent and disclosure authority A reporter automatically receives findings or records Clarify the limited §1324.405(b) mechanism through generic official interpretation.
R079-P1-B016 — Confidentiality/coordination C066 and C068 apply together. S006–S007, S013. Applicable privacy regime and specific disclosure basis Coordination overrides confidentiality Read complete relevant privacy provisions before asserting an exception; HIPAA pointers appear in §9 below.
R079-P1-B017 — Institutional conflicts Actual/perceived conflicts, referral interests and avoidable dual roles are distinct controls. C032–C033, C058–C060; S002, S005. Applicable policy and legal role A role title proves suitability or conflict Examine only generic implementation standards for §1324.404; no screening or roster review.
R079-P1-B018 — Guardian dual role C061’s alternatives-considered requirement and one of its two further conditions are cumulative. C062 also applies. S005. Separate guardianship authority and predicates APS may appoint itself or a conflict exception establishes incapacity Separate public guardianship-authority inquiry; federal conflict rule remains distinct.
R079-P1-B019 — Staffing/training Training, continuing education and supervision are required policy subjects. C057; S003. Separate qualification standards A federal degree, license, ratio or training-hour requirement was found Check later generic amendments/guidance for any additional standard; no credentials search.
R079-P1-B020 — Quality/data Documentation, coordination-quality activities, annual data and retention are separate requirements. C031, C056, C069–C071; S002, S004, S007–S008. Data specifications, due dates and retention start A defined quality process proves actual quality or an independent audit Examine generic approved data instructions and retention clarification without datasets or case files.
R079-P1-B021 — State plan Collaboration, assurances and updating follow C072–C073. S009. Actual plan/approval/implementation, all held A federal requirement proves a particular plan exists or complies Examine generic plan instructions or later federal amendments only; no actual plans.
R079-P1-B022 — Plan appeal C074 and C075 are distinct State appeal stages. S009. Decision, timing/counting rules and party status The same procedure or period governs individual APS findings Clarify generic §1324.408(e) procedure; individual review law remains separate.
R079-P1-B023 — Effective/compliance date Apply C002’s separate dates. S010, S024–S025. Actual implementation and any later change Effectiveness proves full implementation, or future compliance means no adopted rule exists Check later public amendments or date corrections.
R079-P1-B024 — Corrective transition C088 describes a conditional preamble process, not an automatic extension. S010. Later generic process instructions and any approval, latter held Additional time is already granted Examine subsequently published generic corrective-plan guidance and its legal status.
R079-P1-B025 — State implementation absent C005, C037 and C072 state legal requirements only. S001, S003, S009. All actual implementation facts Compliance or noncompliance can be inferred from this report No public-law-only reading can supply those facts; retain the implementation hold.
R079-P1-B026 — Guidance difference C042, C064, C089 and C094 identify bounded explanatory/historical material. S010, S024–S027. Any later controlling correction or amendment Guidance silently changes codified text or preserves removed grant citations Examine the specific later legal instrument, not a page timestamp.
R079-P1-B027 — Current original/history gap C003–C004 and C090–C093 retain access and history limits. S001, S011–S023; failure log. Later readable statutory body; full material correction/renumbering chain Failed access means repeal, absence of law or invalid authority Retry an ordinary official body or later published amendatory instrument; no bypass.
R079-P1-B028 — Authorization/funding C078–C086 distinguish formula, floors, evaluation reserve and authorizations. S012, S014, S019. Appropriations and allocation inputs; actual funding held Historical authorization guarantees a current program award or individual payment A narrowly necessary public appropriations-text inquiry, only if a funding proposition must be resolved.
R079-P1-B029 — Financial/clinical/parent dimensions C050, C095–C096 establish this pass’s boundary. S002–S004, S016. Every separate capacity, clinical, contract, consumer and remedy regime APS terminology decides diagnosis, coerced debt, liability or recovery Keep those components separate; formulate a generic legal question before researching another regime.
R079-P1-B030 — Judicial validity/remedies C087 and C097 preserve the statutory construction rule and limited severability statement. S016, S010. Judicial merits, enforcement route and later judicial history Either all remedies exist or all remedies are barred Public statutory/regulatory changes may be examined; judicial research remains outside this pass.

6. Wholly blank analytical evidence worksheet

All authority-entry, evidence-entry, analysis and result cells below are intentionally empty. Field names are analytical categories only. This is not an intake form, assessment, application, investigation record, service request, consent document or decision tool.

Analytical field Authority entry Evidence entry Analysis Result
Source issuer and instrument
Source URL and publication status
Displayed version and compilation
Access and reading bounds
Original-source availability
Generic jurisdiction category
Program and funding authority
Institutional role
Regulatory adult category
Applicable definition
Statutory/regulatory terminology difference
Reporting or intake stage
Screening or investigation stage
Finding and evidentiary authority
Response and service category
Person-directed or least restrictive requirement
Consent or refusal rule
Exception authority and cumulative conditions
Confidentiality requirement
Coordination and disclosure boundary
Conflict or dual-relationship rule
Staffing, training and supervision rule
Documentation and closure requirement
Data and retention requirement
Quality requirement
State-plan and assurance requirement
Review actor and procedural stage
Quantity, unit and base
Trigger and counting convention
Publication, effectiveness and compliance
Transition or extension authority
Financial-exploitation classification boundary
Separate liability or remedy authority
Currentness or cross-reference gap
Missing public authority
Next permissible public-law inquiry

7. Granular coverage and question-to-claim crosswalk

Status key: Answered means answered within the stated source/version bounds. Partial identifies a material boundary or incomplete chain. Unresolved identifies an issue the permitted sources do not settle. Excluded means outside the authorized component. None of these statuses is component, operational or publication acceptance.

Requested question / material subquestion Status and finding Claim/source/branch crosswalk Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
1 — Actual sections and organization Answered: all nine sections present and completely read C001; S001–S009; B027 No missing selected section. Later amendment checking remains bounded.
1 — Nested definitions, exceptions and notes Answered for complete selected regulations C009–C076; S002–S009 Application evidence remains absent; do not replace it with labels.
1 — Authority and incorporations Answered/partial: narrow OAA/EJA authorities read; broader incorporated regimes bounded C004, C035, C077–C087; S011–S023 Complete only an indispensable dependent privacy/grants clause before asserting its effect.
1 — Current version/legal status Partial: readable eCFR and statutory cutoffs recorded C002–C004; S001, S010–S019; B027 Later statutory endpoints failed; ordinary official retrieval is the next inquiry.
1 — Federal condition versus State substantive law Answered: not interchangeable C005, C037, C095–C096; B001–B003 Separate State legal scope remains held.
2 — Federal/State/territorial/local/Tribal roles Answered as stated in the selected text C006–C008, C035–C036, C067; B001–B002 Actual jurisdiction/authority not established.
2 — Adult/older-adult/category definitions Answered with statutory/regulatory distinction C009–C018; S002, S011, S018; B003–B006 No selected State eligibility rule or application facts.
2 — Allegation, eligibility, finding and adjudication Answered: distinct stages/categories C019–C030, C095; B007, B013 Judicial effect and State evidentiary law remain outside scope.
2 — Age, disability, poverty, debt or concern alone Answered: none substitutes for all defined predicates C009–C017, C050; B003–B006 No personal assessment permissible or performed.
3 — Person-directed, autonomy, least restrictive and trauma-informed principles Answered C038, C043–C050; S003–S004; B011–B012 No intervention selection or balancing exercise.
3 — Consent/refusal and emergency exceptions Answered/partial: federal qualifications read; State authority absent C045, C049, C051; B011–B012 Separate public State mandate/emergency-authority inquiry if later authorized.
3 — Language/accessibility and confidentiality Answered at the selected regulatory level C044, C063, C065–C066; B015–B016 Full civil-rights/privacy regimes not completed.
3 — Supported decision-making/capacity Partial: no freestanding instrument or adjudication test established C050; B011, B029 Separate capacity/guardianship law and all personal facts held.
4 — Intake/screening/assignment/referral Answered C019–C027, C052–C053, C063–C065; B007–B010 Actual acceptance or referral absent.
4 — Prioritization and response timing Partial/unresolved: exact text and explanatory discrepancy retained C039–C042, C064; M005–M012; B008–B010 Later published correction/clarification or separately authorized interpretive authority.
4 — Investigation/evidence/findings Answered as policy requirements C023–C024, C054; B013 State evidence standard and actual finding absent.
4 — Service planning, review and closure Answered C045–C049, C055–C056; B014, B020 State-selected periods and actual documents absent.
4 — Universal reporting mandate or record-demand power Answered as a boundary: not created by these selected provisions C030, C065–C069; B015–B016 Other mandatory-reporting/records authority requires a separate public-law inquiry.
5 — Policies, staffing, education and supervision Answered C037–C038, C057; S003; B019 No national numerical credential/ratio standard found in selected bodies.
5 — Conflicts and guardianship dual role Answered with all cumulative conditions C058–C062; S005; B017–B018 No actual conflict, appointment or suitability finding.
5 — Coordination, confidentiality and records Answered/partial: selected requirements complete; external regimes held C065–C071; S006–S008, S013; B015–B020 Read relevant complete privacy provision before a disclosure claim.
5 — Data, quality, monitoring and evaluation Answered at framework level C031, C056, C060, C069–C071, C084; B020 Data specifications and retention start unresolved; no audit evidence inspected.
5 — Plans, reporting and federal review Answered C070–C076, C081, C085; S008–S009, S012, S015 Actual plan/report/decision absent.
5 — Funding versus authorization/compliance Answered/partial: statutory distinction complete; current funding not investigated C078–C086; M020–M028; B028 A narrow appropriation-text inquiry only if essential to a further claim.
5 — Corrective action and grant remedies Partial: preamble route and recodification verified; full remedies held C088–C089; S010, S026–S027; B024, B026 Later generic corrective guidance; complete relevant current grant-remedy provisions.
6 — Financial exploitation definition Answered with disjunctive act/resource alternatives C016–C018; S002, S011, S018; B006 Actual act, authority, consent and State classification absent.
6 — Coercion, undue influence and fiduciary concepts Partial: terms not invented as independent federal elements C016, C018, C050, C095 Separate public law would be needed for those specific doctrines.
6 — Contract, transfer, debt, liability and recovery effects Excluded: outside selected mechanism C095–C096; B006, B029 No debt or remedy conclusion; separate component only.
7 — Final rule adoption/effective/compliance body Answered C002, C088; S010; M029–M031 No proof of actual implementation.
7 — Material statutory amendment bodies Answered within selected bounds C090–C093; S020–S023 Full intervening amendment and renumbering history not certified.
7 — Preamble/guidance/operative differences Answered/partial: material differences identified C004, C017, C040–C042, C064, C089, C094; B026–B027 Authoritative correction/reconciliation remains open where identified.
7 — Failures and ordinary alternatives Answered: exact failures preserved Source log F01–F07; C003; B027 No failed source treated as absence of law.
8 — Remaining A079 scope Excluded with reason: separate legal/clinical/financial regimes C050, C095–C096; B029 All parent holds remain; no individual outcome or action recommended.
8 — Exact indispensable next authorities Partial: pointers identified, dependent effects held §9 below; C066, C089; B016, B024, B026 Privacy, grant application/remedies and State authority require separate complete readings before reliance.
9 — Required comparisons Answered: comparison table covers each requested distinction §3; C005–C097 No comparisons treated as actual application.
9 — Every relied-on quantity/date Answered: measurement register M001–M038, corresponding claims/sources No personal or resource calculation; missing triggers/conventions retained.
10 — Conditional branches Answered: thirty substantive branches B001–B030 Every branch supplies missing predicates, prohibited inference and public-law next step.
11 — Wholly blank worksheet Answered: all entry/analysis/result cells empty §6 No identity, allegation, financial, health, assessment or result entry.

8. Source-read and failure log

8.1 Successful reads

Read group What was actually read What was not claimed
R01 — Current APS text All nine complete regulatory sections, their Subpart D authority/source notes, and selected Part-wide authority heading; full-subpart body reread with October 26 display Other Part 1324 substantive subparts, State implementation or exhaustive later history
R02 — APS final rule Official PDF DATES and complete amendatory body; complete substantive preamble I–III through the State-plan discussion Whole economic analysis, actual State facts cited by the agency, or judicial validity
R03 — EJA statutes Complete §§1397j, 1397j-1, 1397m-1, 1397m-3, 1397m-4 and 1397m-5, including material notes Full EJA, all incorporated criminal/health/tribal regimes, actual funding
R04 — OAA authority Selected complete §3011 clauses, selected complete §3002 definitions, complete §3058aa-1 Whole OAA, all organizational functions, all definition histories
R05 — Enacted history Selected complete 2006, 2010, 2016 and 2017 amendatory bodies listed in S020–S023 Entire public laws or all later legislation
R06 — Agency explanation Complete APSrule page and complete final-rule announcement Their incidental prevalence/funding assertions as current findings; proposal text as operative law
R07 — Grants recodification Current §300.106; selected adoption/date/removal clauses of the later HHS instrument Complete Parts 200/300/376, award-specific application, sanctions or remedies
R08 — Discovery checks Generic official-source searches for current text, later amendments and explanatory material Search snippets, mirrors, toolkits, inventories, examples or actual operational records as legal evidence

8.2 Failed or limited endpoints

Failure ID Exact original URL(s) and observed limitation Ordinary alternative and consequence
F01 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/part-1324/subpart-D; https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.400; https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/part-1324/subpart-D — unavailable through the browsing tool Canonical path including subchapter-C succeeded. Complete current bodies were then read.
F02 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.404 — failed short endpoint Canonical section URL in S005 and full Subpart D succeeded.
F03 https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s1397m-1/; https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s1397j/; https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s3011/ — repeated tool “not accessible” errors Earlier official URLs succeeded but displayed the October 7 cutoff. Later search text was not substituted for body access.
F04 https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title42-section1397j — 404; https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title42-section3011 — 403 Readable OLRC alternatives in S011/S017 used, with their own displayed cutoffs.
F05 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/pdf/PLAW-114publ144.pdf — unavailable; https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ144/PLAW-114publ144.pdf — restricted fetch Official govinfo HTML in S022 succeeded. No PDF-page-image or PDF-index claim made for that Act.
F06 https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/APS%20Regs%20-%20Long%20Fact%20sheet.pdf — 403 Forbidden The fact sheet was not relied on. Readable final rule and agency webpages remained the evidence.
F07 Search-only results included later-code displays, secondary mirrors, technical-assistance materials and inventories No such result was treated as an opened primary body, actual program evidence or permission to expand scope.

The later-code and fact-sheet failures are independently visible in the browsing record. No security, CAPTCHA, account or access-control workaround was attempted.

9. Explicit unresolved questions and next-authority boundaries

Gap Exact unresolved proposition Next permissible public-law authority or inquiry
Current statutory chain Whether a later accessible official compilation or enacted amendment changes any selected statutory clause after the readable cutoff Ordinary official OLRC/govinfo enacted-text retrieval for the exact sections. Search text alone is insufficient.
Response timing How the outer policy mandate, inner “should,” receipt language, and screening-based explanation are legally reconciled A published correction/amendment or complete generic official clarification of §1324.402(b)(2)(i) and §1324.405(a). Judicial reconciliation remains excluded.
Corrective-action transition Whether later generic instructions prescribe a request timetable, approval criteria or different legal effect Later public ACL implementation guidance addressing the process described in S010; no actual corrective plan or approval.
Authority-header discrepancy Whether an official correction addresses the Part-wide statutory strings, and their relationship to the accurate Subpart-specific citations OFR/HHS correction or amendatory instrument concerning Part 1324’s authority citation. No invalidity conclusion is made.
State categories and powers Actual eligible populations, evidentiary standards, compulsory-service authority, emergency powers and individual review rights A separately authorized generic State APS statutory/regulatory component. No jurisdiction, agency or actual plan is selected here.
Privacy incorporation Whether a particular disclosure would be permitted or required Complete relevant provisions implementing HIPAA §264(c), including, where actually implicated, 45 CFR 164.502, 164.508 and 164.512(c), plus applicable State/local law. These are next-reading pointers, not established disclosure permissions.
Grant remedies/application Which current grant rules govern an award, additional condition, withholding, termination or review Complete materially relevant 2 CFR 200.110, 200.208, 200.339–200.343, and applicable Parts 300/376 provisions before any dependent assertion. No award facts or remedies were examined.
Retention and data detail The five-year starting event, additional retention requirements, annual submission date and required data fields Generic official instructions or later published provisions implementing §1324.407; no actual dataset or case record.
Statutory numbering/history Complete intervening definition-renumbering and later amendment history beyond the authenticated selected clauses Exact enacted amendments corresponding to the current OLRC notes, if material to a later proposition.
Funding today A current appropriation, allocation or actual available resources Only a narrowly necessary public appropriations provision could establish a legislative funding proposition. Actual awards, budgets and resource inventories remain prohibited and absent.
Judicial/private enforcement Full enforceability, judicial treatment, remedies or a private claim under another law Held outside this pass. Section 1397m-5’s construction rule is the only completed private-cause-of-action proposition reported here.

The remaining A079 dimensions stay separate: coerced debt and partner/elder abuse beyond this framework; theft, forgery and scams; gambling, spending, addiction and clinical care; individualized safety or records assistance; State/Tribal/territorial/local APS and mandatory reporting; capacity, guardianship, conservatorship and powers of attorney; criminal/evidentiary/privacy regimes; contracts, debt validity and collection; financial institutions and protected deposits; consumer reporting; tax, credit, bankruptcy and cross-border law.

No selected provision establishes an actual allegation, inability, consent, risk classification, guilt, eligibility, placement, debt defense, recovery, restitution, service award or appropriate personal action. [C050, C087, C095–C096]

10. Researcher self-check — not independent review

Check Result
Independent foundation No earlier conversation/report conclusion was used as a legal premise.
Complete selected regulatory bodies All nine sections were read, including nested conditions and exceptions.
Statutory boundaries Complete selected EJA bodies and narrow OAA clauses were distinguished from unexamined incorporated regimes.
Adoption evidence Actual selected enacted/amendatory text was read; code credits were not treated as a complete amendment chain.
Currentness Actual access date, displayed cutoffs, failed newer originals, and later-history limits remain visible.
Status distinctions Enacted statutes, final regulations, interim-final grant amendments, preamble explanations, guidance and proposal-labeled material are separated.
Material discrepancies Response wording/trigger, authority strings, statutory/regulatory definitions, stale statutory reference and removed Part 75 citations are preserved.
Measurements All relied-on legal quantities and source-status dates are registered; no actual calculation was made.
Evidence boundaries No actual or fictional personal, agency-program, case, award, financial, medical, capacity or intervention evidence was sought or supplied.
Prohibited actions No contact, report, referral, filing, records request, application, screening, intervention or operative document was created or transmitted.
Worksheet Entry, analysis and result cells remain genuinely empty.
Review/acceptance This is the researcher’s self-check only. No independent review, model/UI verification, component acceptance, parent acceptance, operational approval or publication acceptance is claimed.

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Captured table 01

Source ID · Issuer; title and complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact body read · 9 data rows

Source IDIssuer; title and complete literal HTTPS URLExact body readDisplayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
R079-P1-S001HHS/ACL regulation, OFR/GPO eCFR; Subpart D—Adult Protective Services Programs, including §1324.400, Eligibility for funding. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D. Individual access: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.400Complete Subpart D authority/source notes and all nine bodies; §.400 complete. Additionally, only the Part 1324 heading/authority at https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324Final full-subpart display: October 26, 2026. Earlier retrieval displayed October 23. Adopted final text; June 7, 2024 effectiveness and May 8, 2028 compliance are authenticated in S010. Other substantive subparts of Part 1324 were not investigated.
R079-P1-S002§1324.401, Definitions. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.401Complete unlettered glossary, including every nested numbered definitionSame regulatory instrument/status; individual and final complete-subpart display October 26, 2026. Definitions were not automatically exported into other legal regimes.
R079-P1-S003§1324.402, Program administration. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.402Complete (a)–(e), including (a)(5), (b)(2)(i)(A)–(B), and (c)(1)–(3)October 26 display. Receipt/timing wording is retained without correction or judicial reconciliation.
R079-P1-S004§1324.403, APS response. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.403Complete introductory requirement and (a)–(f), including all investigation, service, emergency and closure qualificationsOctober 26 display. Actual State authority and implementation remain absent.
R079-P1-S005§1324.404, Conflict of interest. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.404Complete introduction and (a)–(d)(2)Individual page displayed October 23; same complete body reread in the October 26 full-subpart retrieval. The short URL failed; canonical URL succeeded.
R079-P1-S006§1324.405, Accepting reports. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.405Complete (a)–(c), including both conditions in (b)October 26 display. No reporter, report or intake system was investigated.
R079-P1-S007§1324.406, Coordination with other entities. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.406Complete (a)(1)–(6), all nested agency categories, and (b)(1)–(4)October 26 display. Coordination references do not authenticate another entity’s jurisdiction or disclosure authority.
R079-P1-S008§1324.407, APS program performance. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.407Complete introductory requirement and (a)–(b)October 26 display. No actual data, report, retention system or performance record was inspected.
R079-P1-S009§1324.408, State plans. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.408Complete (a)–(e), including both appeal stagesOctober 26 display. No actual plan, approval, decision, hearing or appeal was inspected.
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Captured table 02

Source ID · Issuer; title and complete literal HTTPS URL · Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index · 18 data rows

Source IDIssuer; title and complete literal HTTPS URLExact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF indexVersion, status, application and limits
R079-P1-S010HHS/ACL, Adult Protective Services Functions and Grants Programs, final rule. Official PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-05-08/pdf/2024-07654.pdf. Same-instrument HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-07654/adult-protective-services-functions-and-grants-programsHeader/DATES; substantive preamble I–III, 89 FR 39488–39520 / indices 0–32; complete operative amendatory body, 39528–39530 / indices 40–42. Selected PRA text was also encountered; economic analyses were not adopted as findings.Published May 8, 2024; effective June 7, 2024; compliance May 8, 2028. Preamble interpretation distinguished from operative amendment. Not a whole-document economic or judicial-history audit.
R079-P1-S011Congress; OLRC, 42 USC 1397j—Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397j/Complete (1)–(22), source creditDisplayed through PL119-120, October 7, 2026, despite the URL’s earlier version segment. Underlying nursing-facility, tribal, criminal-law and other referenced regimes were not investigated where immaterial to this component.
R079-P1-S01242 USC 1397m-1—Adult protective services functions and grant programs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-1/Complete (a)–(c), source credit and complete displayed amendment notesOctober 7 compilation. Actual 2010 and material 2017 enacted clauses separately read in S020/S023. No appropriation or award record inferred.
R079-P1-S01342 USC 1397j-1—General provisions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t42/s1397j-1/Complete (a), (b)(1)–(3), source credit and reference noteOctober 7 compilation. The full HIPAA regime was not read; no disclosure exception is pronounced.
R079-P1-S01442 USC 1397m-3—Provision of information regarding, and evaluations of, elder justice programs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-3/Complete (a)–(c), including the certified-EHR exceptionOctober 7 compilation. Evaluation/grant conditions only; no evaluation file inspected.
R079-P1-S01542 USC 1397m-4—Report. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-4/Complete body and editorial cross-reference noteOctober 7 compilation. Historical reporting date and stale cross-reference distinguished from present recurring duties.
R079-P1-S01642 USC 1397m-5—Rule of construction. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-5/Complete (1)–(2) and creditOctober 7 compilation. Does not supply a complete assessment of remedies under other laws.
R079-P1-S01742 USC 3011—Establishment of Administration on Aging. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3011/Complete selected (a), (b), (e)(1)–(3); material displayed amendment/effectiveness notes. Adjacent provisions encountered were not adopted as a separate dossier.October 7 compilation. Statutory offices and authority, not proof of present personnel or administrative implementation.
R079-P1-S01842 USC 3002—Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3002/Selected complete (1), (2), (3), (7), (18)(A)–(B), (20), (38), (40), (41), (46), (48), and material displayed notesOctober 7 compilation. Not a complete read of all OAA definitions or their incorporated regimes.
R079-P1-S01942 USC 3058aa-1—Grants to promote comprehensive State elder justice systems. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3058aa-1/Complete (a)–(e) and creditOctober 7 compilation. Read because §3011(e)(3) expressly incorporates it; this is a separate competitive-grant authority.
R079-P1-S020Congress/GPO, Public Law 111-148, selected Elder Justice amendments. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdfEnactment header; §6703(a)(1)(C), complete inserted SSA §§2011–2012, 124 Stat 782–785 / indices 663–666; complete inserted §§2042, 2044–2046 within 794–798 / indices 675–679. Intervening §2043 was not the selected subject.Enacted March 23, 2010. Historical enacted bodies compared with current codification; not the whole Act.
R079-P1-S021Congress/GPO, Public Law 109-365—Older Americans Act Amendments of 2006. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ365/pdf/PLAW-109publ365.pdfEnactment header; complete §201 amendment, 120 Stat 2527–2528 / indices 6–7; complete §704(2), 2593–2594 / indices 72–73Enacted October 17, 2006. Selected authority and incorporated-grant amendments only.
R079-P1-S022Congress/GPO, Public Law 114-144—Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2016. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/html/PLAW-114publ144.htmHeader; complete selected §2(1), (2), (6); §3(a)(2); §9(1)(C). Printed 130 Stat 334–336 and 351, as marked in HTML; no PDF index claimedEnacted April 19, 2016. Official HTML alternative used after two PDF failures. Historical numbering distinguished from current numbering.
R079-P1-S023Congress/GPO, Public Law 115-70—Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ70/pdf/PLAW-115publ70.pdfHeader and complete §501, 131 Stat 1215–1216 / indices 8–9Enacted October 18, 2017. Material demonstration-program amendment and renumbering authenticated; remaining Act not investigated.
R079-P1-S024ACL, Final Rule: Federal Regulations for APS Programs. https://acl.gov/APSruleComplete short page, including summary, dates and proposal-labeled materialAgency explanation, last-modified label August 6, 2025. Its release/publication wording and proposal heading do not displace S010. Funding/prevalence summaries were not adopted as current funding facts.
R079-P1-S025ACL, Final Rule to Establish First-Ever Regulations for Adult Protective Services. https://acl.gov/news-and-events/announcements/final-rule-establish-first-ever-regulations-adult-protective-servicesComplete short announcement, including timing explanation and correction noteDated and last-modified label May 7, 2024. Nonbinding explanation; explicitly corrects an earlier compliance-date error. No quoted officials’ statements or prevalence estimates relied on.
R079-P1-S026HHS; eCFR, 2 CFR 300.106—Adoption of 2 CFR part 200. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-300Header and complete §300.106 onlyTitle 2 display through October 26, 2026; Title-wide last-amended label August 17, 2026. Other Part 300 provisions, Part 200 and Part 376 were not completed.
R079-P1-S027HHS, Health and Human Services Adoption of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-02/pdf/2024-21984.pdf. Same-instrument HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/02/2024-21984/health-and-human-services-adoption-of-the-uniform-administrative-requirements-cost-principles-andHeader/DATES, 89 FR 80055 / index 0; selected adoption amendments, 80061–80062 / indices 6–7; complete instructions 149–150, 80070 / index 15Interim final rule with comment period, published October 2, 2024; generally effective October 1, 2025, except instruction 2 effective October 1, 2024. Selected recodification only; not a complete grants-remedies investigation.
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Captured table 03

Claim ID · Supported finding and qualifications · Exact authority · 8 data rows

Claim IDSupported finding and qualificationsExact authority
R079-P1-C001The selected range contains all nine sections: funding eligibility; definitions; administration; response; conflicts; reports; coordination; performance; and State plans. It is Subpart D of Part 1324.S001–S009; complete §§1324.400–.408.
R079-P1-C002The adopted APS rule has separate publication, effectiveness and compliance dates: May 8, 2024; June 7, 2024; May 8, 2028. The compliance date remained future on this access date.S010, DATES; S024–S025 date explanations.
R079-P1-C003Currentness is bounded by the October 26 eCFR display and October 7 readable statutory compilation. Later statutory endpoints failed. Neither a Title-wide amendment label nor a search result establishes a complete later-law chain.S001–S009 metadata; S011–S019 metadata; failure log F03.
R079-P1-C004Subpart D cites 42 USC 3011(e)(3) and 1397m-1. The Part-wide heading instead displays 2 USC 3001 and 42 USC 1394m. Those different strings are preserved as a source discrepancy; this report does not silently repair them or infer invalidity.S001, Subpart D authority and separately selected Part 1324 authority heading; S010 operative authority text.
R079-P1-C005Adherence to the selected provisions is a condition of eligibility for funding under §1397m-1(b), subject to the rule’s compliance timetable. This is not a declaration that every State protective-service or debt rule is federalized.S001, §1324.400; S010 DATES.
R079-P1-C006A regulatory State entity is a designated State, District of Columbia or U.S. territorial government unit responsible for APS—including policies/procedures—and receiving the specified federal grant funding.S002, definition of State entity.
R079-P1-C007An APS program means local providers within an APS system; the system encompasses State entities and local APS programs. Local administration does not erase the State-entity standards.S002, Adult Protective Services Program and Adult Protective Services Systems; S004 introduction.
R079-P1-C008APS includes receiving reports, investigating, casework/planning/monitoring/evaluation, and providing, arranging or facilitating enumerated protective/supportive services. The definition allows specified agency guidance; it does not require APS itself to supply every service directly.S002, Adult Protective Services, all four numbered clauses; S004, §1324.403(e)(4); S011, §1397j(2).

Captured table 04

Claim ID · Supported definition or distinction · Exact authority and limit · 26 data rows

Claim IDSupported definition or distinctionExact authority and limit
R079-P1-C009Regulatory adult covers older adults and adults with disabilities as defined by State APS laws. The regulation supplies no universal numerical adult-eligibility age.S002, Adult; S003, §1324.402(a).
R079-P1-C010EJA elder and OAA older individual mean age 60 or older. Those statutory definitions do not replace C009’s State-law-dependent regulatory category.S011, §1397j(5); S018, §3002(40).
R079-P1-C011Adult maltreatment comprises abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or sexual abuse of an adult at risk of harm. At risk requires a strong likelihood of an imminent adverse or detrimental event, condition, injury or outcome.S002, both definitions. No quantified probability or financial threshold is supplied.
R079-P1-C012Abuse requires knowing physical/psychological harm or knowing deprivation of goods/services necessary for essential needs or avoidance of such harm.S002, Abuse; S011, §1397j(1); S018, §3002(1).
R079-P1-C013Regulatory neglect is a caregiver’s or fiduciary’s failure to provide goods/services necessary for an adult’s health and/or safety. Its text does not repeat abuse’s knowing-state formulation.S002, Neglect. The relevant role and failure are not established by a label alone.
R079-P1-C014Regulatory self-neglect requires serious risk of imminent harm to self or another, created by inability—because of physical/mental impairment or diminished capacity—to perform essential self-care, including at least one listed category: obtaining essential food, clothing, shelter and medical care; obtaining goods/services for physical or mental health or general safety; or managing financial affairs.S002, Self-neglect, introduction and (1)–(3). Every causal/risk qualification matters.
R079-P1-C015Sexual abuse includes nonconsensual touching and nontouching sexual interaction with an adult.S002, Sexual abuse. No actual consent finding is made.
R079-P1-C016Financial exploitation covers a fraudulent or otherwise illegal, unauthorized or improper act/process by a person, including a caregiver or fiduciary, that either uses adult resources for monetary/personal benefit, profit or gain, or deprives rightful access to/use of benefits, resources, belongings or assets. A trusted relationship is not a stated prerequisite.S002, complete Financial exploitation definition; compare S011, §1397j(8), and S018, §3002(18)(A).
R079-P1-C017The statute’s exploitation definition uses elder, while the regulation uses adult. Statutory neglect includes self-neglect; regulatory neglect and self-neglect are separate definitions. The regulation adds the serious/imminent-risk language to self-neglect. OAA §3002(48) additionally refers to behavioral health.S011, §1397j(8), (16), (18); S018, §3002(38), (48); S002. These differences are retained, not silently harmonized.
R079-P1-C018The EJA separately defines caregiver through care responsibility and compensated/uncompensated support, and fiduciary through legal decisionmaking responsibility plus good faith/fairness, with listed roles. Its guardianship definition concerns State-court appointment, performance and oversight. These definitions do not appoint anyone or validate an instrument.S011, complete §1397j(3), (9), (11); compare S018, §3002(18)(B), (20). State application remains unexamined.
R079-P1-C019An allegation is an accusation concerning each adult identified in an APS report.S002, Allegation. It is not a finding.
R079-P1-C020A report is a formal account/statement of allegation(s) and relevant circumstances.S002, Report. No completed report or proof of delivery exists here.
R079-P1-C021Intake/pre-screening means receiving allegations and gathering information.S002, Intake or Pre-Screening. Receipt is distinct from acceptance for investigation.
R079-P1-C022Screening reviews intake information against minimum investigation requirements or considers referral elsewhere.S002, Screening. A report need not automatically become an investigation.
R079-P1-C023Investigation gathers/examines information to determine whether State evidentiary standards for a finding are met.S002, Investigation. No national evidentiary burden is supplied.
R079-P1-C024A finding is APS’s post-investigation decision whether evidence is sufficient under State law to determine maltreatment/self-neglect occurred.S002, Finding; S004, §1324.403(d). It is not, merely by this definition, a civil judgment or criminal adjudication.
R079-P1-C025A client is an adult subject to an APS response concerning a report of alleged maltreatment/self-neglect.S002, Client. The term does not itself establish substantiation.
R079-P1-C026A case encompasses activities related to an investigation and response to an allegation.S002, Case.
R079-P1-C027A response encompasses actions/activities resulting from a report.S002, Response. It is broader than a completed investigation or service plan.
R079-P1-C028Victim, as defined here, means an adult who experienced adult maltreatment.S002, Victim. This report assigns that label to nobody.
R079-P1-C029Perpetrator, as defined here, means a person APS determined responsible for one or more instances of adult maltreatment.S002, Perpetrator. This administrative terminology does not establish a criminal conviction.
R079-P1-C030A mandated reporter works with an adult professionally and is required by State law to report suspected maltreatment/self-neglect to APS.S002, Mandated reporter. These provisions do not themselves make everyone a mandatory reporter.
R079-P1-C031Quality assurance includes thorough investigation/case-management documentation, review/approval of closure, and case review against established standards.S002, Quality assurance. A definition is not proof of an actual review or a completed independent audit.
R079-P1-C032Conflict of interest concerns interference with objective information or acting in the adult’s best interests.S002, Conflict of interest.
R079-P1-C033A dual relationship adds professional, personal or volunteer roles to an APS worker’s role, simultaneously or sequentially, with a client.S002, Dual relationship.
R079-P1-C034Emergency Protective Action concerns immediate access to petition a court for temporary/emergency orders or emergency out-of-home placement.S002, complete definition. It is not an entered order or independent proof of power to impose placement.

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Claim ID · Supported conditional rule · Exact authority · 23 data rows

Claim IDSupported conditional ruleExact authority
R079-P1-C035The OAA establishes the Assistant Secretary role, permits designation of an elder-abuse-prevention official, assigns coordinated elder-justice duties, and authorizes necessary regulations through the Assistant Secretary for §3011(e) and §3058aa-1.S017, §3011(a), (e)(1)–(3); S018, §3002(7); S002, Assistant Secretary for Aging.
R079-P1-C036The rule expressly includes State/DC/territorial entities and local APS systems. Tribal APS and governments appear as coordination partners. That inclusion is not a direct Tribal grant award or proof that State authority extends into Tribal jurisdiction.S002, State entity; S007, §1324.406(a)(1)–(3).
R079-P1-C037State definitions must address eligible populations, maltreatment/self-neglect elements, covered alleged perpetrators, and settings/locations. Verbatim uniform adoption is unnecessary, but State definitions may not narrow eligible-adult or service scope.S003, complete §1324.402(a)(1)–(5).
R079-P1-C038State entities must create, publish and implement standardized receiving/responding policies incorporating person-directed planning/services and least restrictive alternatives.S003, §1324.402(b)(1)–(2).
R079-P1-C039Policies must create at least two initial-contact response tiers based on immediate risk of death, irreparable harm, or significant loss of income, assets or resources.S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i). No dollar definition of significant loss is supplied.
R079-P1-C040For immediate risk, the codified policy clause says the response “should” be in person and no later than “24-four hours” after receiving a report.S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(A). The unusual printed wording is retained.
R079-P1-C041For non-immediate risk, the codified clause says response should occur no more than 7 calendar days after receiving a report.S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(B). It does not say seven business days.
R079-P1-C042The preamble starts immediate-response timing at retrieval and screening-in, allows appropriate partner in-person contact, and does not require completed investigation. The announcement repeats screening. That explanation differs from C040’s wording; the discrepancy remains unresolved here.S010, III.C response-timing discussion, pp.39505–39506; S025, timing bullet; compare S003.
R079-P1-C043On first contact, APS must explain APS-related confidentiality and refusal rights to the extent those rights exist under State law.S003, §1324.402(c)(1)–(3). This does not independently establish every State right or exception.
R079-P1-C044Information must be in a format and language understandable by the adult, with alternative formats as needed.S003, §1324.402(d). No particular language, document or method is established here.
R079-P1-C045Investigation/service-planning policies must recognize services as voluntary, except where State law mandates them.S004, §1324.403(c)(1). The exception requires separate authority; it is not established by concern or disagreement.
R079-P1-C046Those policies must address client/worker safety, preservation of rights, person-directed and trauma-informed practice, and maximum client engagement.S004, §1324.403(c)(2)–(5). A program standard does not guarantee a particular safety outcome.
R079-P1-C047Appropriate service provision/referral must respect autonomy, life choices and the client’s views of safety, quality of life and success; plans/referrals are developed in consultation with the client. Community referral or purchased services may be used.S004, complete §1324.403(e)(1)–(4).
R079-P1-C048Policies must permit emergency use of APS funds to purchase goods/services.S004, §1324.403(c)(6). This clause states no individual award amount or universal debt-payment entitlement.
R079-P1-C049Policies must permit seeking emergency protective action only when appropriate and necessary, as a last resort, to protect the client’s life and safety.S004, §1324.403(c)(7), with C034. This qualification is separate from C048’s emergency-funds provision.
R079-P1-C050Person-directed practice, refusal, impairment and diminished capacity must remain distinct. The selected regulation creates neither a general capacity-adjudication test nor a power-of-attorney/supported-decision-making instrument. Debt, diagnosis or refusal alone does not complete C014’s cumulative definition.Bounded inference from S002 Self-neglect, S003(c), and S004(c), (e). Other capacity law is held.
R079-P1-C051The EJA preserves an elder’s prayer-alone healing choice when it is: contemporaneously expressed for a specific current illness/injury while competent; or in a previously validly executed/applied State-law advance directive; or unambiguously deducible from life history.S013, complete §1397j-1(b)(1)–(3). This is not an unqualified exemption for every religious assertion.
R079-P1-C052State policies must specify screening, triage and decision criteria for assigning investigation and/or reporting to other authorities.S004, §1324.403(a). No individual report is deemed accepted.
R079-P1-C053Policies must provide tools/processes for examining emergency needs and immediate safety/risk factors affecting the adult or responding worker.S004, §1324.403(b). No specific risk score or assessment instrument is prescribed.
R079-P1-C054Finding methods must allow consultation with appropriate experts/team members/supervisors and specify evidentiary protocols.S004, §1324.403(d)(1)–(2). Neither actual expertise nor a finding is verified.
R079-P1-C055State policies must establish ongoing case-review timeframes and a reasonable investigation-completion/finding period.S004, §1324.403(f)(1)–(2). The section supplies no nationally fixed number of days.
R079-P1-C056Minimum documentation includes the APS response, significant client-status changes, safety/risk assessment at closure, and the reason for closure.S004, §1324.403(f)(3)(i)–(iv). Documentation is distinct from proof of its contents or a disclosure right.
R079-P1-C057Staffing policies must include training, continuing education—including conflicts—and supervision. The selected text supplies no national credential, training-hour minimum or staff-to-client ratio.S003, §1324.402(e)(1)–(2); bounded absence within S001–S009.

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Claim ID · Supported conditional rule · Exact authority · 19 data rows

Claim IDSupported conditional ruleExact authority
R079-P1-C058Conflict policies must identify, remove and remedy actual/perceived conflicts at organizational and individual levels, covering APS administrators/representatives and their immediate family or household.S005, introduction and (a).
R079-P1-C059Covered workers/representatives and specified family/household members must not have a personal financial interest in an entity to which APS may refer adults.S005, §1324.404(b). No actual financial interest is examined.
R079-P1-C060Policies require conflict monitoring, prohibit avoidable dual relationships, and require appropriate safeguards for unavoidable ones.S005, §1324.404(c)–(d).
R079-P1-C061APS petitioning/serving as guardian is an unavoidable dual relationship only if all less restrictive alternatives were considered and either a court instructed APS to petition/serve, or no other qualified individual/entity is available to do so.S005, §1324.404(d)(1)(i)–(ii). This is a conflict limitation, not an appointment.
R079-P1-C062Every dual relationship must be documented in the case record, with mitigation strategies described.S005, §1324.404(d)(2).
R079-P1-C063State policies must provide accessible report receipt 24 hours daily, 7 calendar days weekly, through multiple methods, including at least one online method.S006, §1324.405(a). “Multiple” requires more than one method.
R079-P1-C064The preamble permits unattended reporting; next-business-day retrieval/contact is advised, while retrieval/contact within 72 hours is expressly encouraged rather than required.S010, III.F, pp.39513–39514. This does not settle C040–C042’s discrepancy.
R079-P1-C065Feedback to a mandated reporter requires that the reporter made the report and requests feedback, and that the adult consents before release. The stated information is whether the report resulted in an opened case.S006, §1324.405(b)(1)–(2). It is not a general right to findings or the file.
R079-P1-C066Policies must maintain confidentiality of adults, reporters and report information under all applicable State/federal confidentiality laws. Separately, the Secretary must protect health privacy consistently with the specified HIPAA regulations and State/local privacy rules.S006, §1324.405(c); S013, §1397j-1(a). The incorporated privacy regimes remain separately bounded.
R079-P1-C067Required coordination categories include other APS/Tribal APS; relevant investigating agencies; law enforcement with jurisdiction; authorized advocacy/investigation organizations; emergency management; and banks/financial institutions.S007, complete §1324.406(a)(1)–(6). Listed examples do not establish actual jurisdiction.
R079-P1-C068Coordination policies cover all response stages and status/resolution information sharing to the extent permitted by applicable State law, together with C066’s federal confidentiality constraint.S007, §1324.406(b)(1)–(2); S006(c).
R079-P1-C069Policies must facilitate exchanges, quality activities, cross-training, multidisciplinary/cross-agency teams and co-location using MOUs, data agreements or less formal arrangements, plus State-determined activities.S007, §1324.406(b)(3)–(4). A formal MOU is not the only permitted mechanism; no record-compulsion power is supplied.
R079-P1-C070State entities must collect and report required system-wide APS data to ACL annually.S008, §1324.407(a). The section itself supplies neither a universal due date nor the complete field specification.
R079-P1-C071Policies must ensure retention of individual investigation case data for at least five years.S008, §1324.407(b). The section does not state the starting event for that interval.
R079-P1-C072State entities must submit a plan meeting Assistant Secretary requirements to the designated Director. The award-receiving entity develops it with APS programs and other State APS entities when applicable.S009, §1324.408(a)–(b); S017, §3011(e)(1).
R079-P1-C073Plans must be updated at least every five years, may be updated more often, and must assure development/adherence to all required policies.S009, §1324.408(c)–(d). An assurance is not proof of compliance.
R079-P1-C074The Director reviews/approves plans. A dissatisfied State may appeal the Director’s final decision to the Deputy Assistant Secretary within 30 calendar days after its date, with an opportunity for a hearing before the Deputy.S009, §1324.408(e), first appeal clause.
R079-P1-C075A State dissatisfied with the Deputy’s final decision may appeal to the Assistant Secretary within 30 calendar days after the Deputy decision’s date.S009, §1324.408(e), second appeal clause.
R079-P1-C076Those are State-plan review procedures. The selected section does not establish an individual client’s appeal of a finding, a receipt presumption, automatic stay, reversal, or extension.S009(e), complete scope; individual remedies remain held.

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Claim ID · Supported conditional rule · Exact authority · 11 data rows

Claim IDSupported conditional ruleExact authority
R079-P1-C077The Secretary’s APS responsibilities include authorized funding, annual elder-maltreatment data with Justice Department coordination, best practices/training, research and technical assistance.S012, complete §1397m-1(a)(1)(A)–(E); related S017(e)(2).
R079-P1-C078The formula-grant program calls for annual State grants. Subject to appropriations and adjustments, allocation uses the fiscal-year appropriation multiplied by the State’s share of U.S. elders.S012, §1397m-1(b)(1), (2)(A). No appropriation, population count or allocation is established here.
R079-P1-C079If the preliminary amount is below 0.75% of the appropriation for a State within the fifty-State category, the statute raises it to that percentage. For a State outside that category, 0.1% substitutes. Necessary pro-rata reductions implement the floors.S012, complete §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)–(C). These are government-allocation rules, not individual benefit amounts.
R079-P1-C080Formula funds are restricted to APS, routed to the State unit legally responsible for APS, and must supplement rather than supplant other federal, State and local public APS funds.S012, §1397m-1(b)(3)(A)–(C).
R079-P1-C081Funded States must report elders served at the time and in the manner required by the Secretary.S012, §1397m-1(b)(4). This does not supply a fixed universal filing date.
R079-P1-C082Displayed authorizations are historical: administrative functions $3 million FY2011, $4 million each FY2012–2014; formula grants $100 million each FY2011–2014; demonstration grants $25 million each FY2011–2014. Authorization is not an appropriation or award.S012, §1397m-1(a)(2), (b)(5), (c)(6). No present funding amount is inferred.
R079-P1-C083Subsection (c) separately authorizes demonstration programs. Its guardianship-oversight branch includes highest State courts, requires consideration of specified recommendations in awarding those grants, and requires recipient-court collaboration with State aging and APS entities.S012, complete (c), particularly (1)–(3). These conditions do not confer guardianship authority on APS.
R079-P1-C084Part II grant applicants must agree to specified evaluation information. The Secretary reserves not less than 2% of each program’s appropriated funds for eligible-entity evaluation, with a distinct certified-EHR exception and Secretary evaluation/audit route.S014, complete §1397m-3(a)–(c). Evaluation assistance also has application and report conditions; no individual data-disclosure conclusion follows.
R079-P1-C085Section 1397m-4 contains an October 1, 2014 reporting deadline. Its literal subsection-(c)(4) reference is stale after the authenticated 2017 redesignation of the report provision to (c)(5).S015, body/editorial note; S023, §501(3), (6). It is not a present individual deadline.
R079-P1-C086Section 3058aa-1 supplies a distinct competitive State elder-justice grant route: approved application, agency-determined amount, an integrated collaborative system, specified network/data/education activities and supplement-not-supplant treatment.S019, complete (a)–(e). It does not prove a current appropriation or entitlement under the APS formula program.
R079-P1-C087The Elder Justice division does not create a private cause of action for its violation, and does not limit related State/political-subdivision causes of action or relief otherwise available.S016, complete §1397m-5(1)–(2). Other remedies are neither established nor extinguished by this report.

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Claim ID · Finding and qualification · Exact authority · 10 data rows

Claim IDFinding and qualificationExact authority
R079-P1-C088The preamble places first-plan submission at four years after publication. It offers requested corrective plans stating reasons, steps and additional time, with joint milestones/timeline and continuing good-faith compliance efforts. It supplies no automatic extension.S010, general implementation discussion, pp.39492–39494, and III.I, pp.39518–39520. Actual later implementation guidance or an approved plan is not established.
R079-P1-C089The APS preamble’s Part 75 references are historical. The later HHS interim final rule removed/reserved Part 75 and adopted the current Part 300 framework; §300.106 adopts Part 200 with additions in Parts 300/376. General effectiveness was October 1, 2025, with the specified instruction-2 exception.S026; S027, DATES, adoption text and instruction 150. Full award-applicability, sanction and grants-appeal rules remain held.
R079-P1-C090The selected 2006 enacted amendments added the OAA elder-abuse authority and comprehensive-State-system grant provisions examined here.S021, §§201, 704(2), enacted October 17, 2006.
R079-P1-C091The selected 2010 enacted amendments added the EJA definitions, APS grant framework, privacy/construction rules, evaluation provisions and private-action limitation examined here.S020, §6703(a)(1)(C), selected complete inserted sections; enacted March 23, 2010.
R079-P1-C092The selected 2016 amendments changed OAA definitions/coordination and added behavioral-health wording. Historical definition numbering differs from current numbering; the complete intervening renumbering chain is not certified.S022, selected clauses; S018 current definitions; enacted April 19, 2016.
R079-P1-C093The complete 2017 §501 amendment added/conditioned the guardianship-oversight demonstration branch and redesignated the later subsection-(c) paragraphs.S023, complete §501; enacted October 18, 2017; compare S012 notes.
R079-P1-C094ACL explanations are subordinate to the enacted/codified bodies. The announcement’s release date differs from Federal Register publication; its correction note and the APSrule page’s proposal-labeled material require separate treatment.S024–S025; S010. Proposal material was not adopted as current law.
R079-P1-C095The financial-exploitation definition and APS response standards do not themselves decide contract formation, POA validity, ownership, civil/criminal liability, debt cancellation, recovery, restitution or collection defenses.Bounded scope inference from S002 Financial exploitation/Finding, S004, S007 and S016.
R079-P1-C096Service/referral standards, grant eligibility and State-plan review do not establish a mandatory individual benefit, guaranteed safety, a debt write-off or an actual protective order. Separate legal authority and absent application facts would be necessary.S001, S004, S009, S012, S016; bounded scope inference.
R079-P1-C097The preamble expresses severability intent if a portion is invalidated. This is not verification of present judicial validity or later judicial history.S010, preamble I.C. No judicial opinion or case was searched.

Captured table 09

Comparison · Federal framework established · Separate matter not established · 12 data rows

ComparisonFederal framework establishedSeparate matter not establishedClaim/source links
Federal standards / State implementationFunding-linked standards and required State policiesA particular State’s definitions, compliance, funding or actual practicesC005–C007, C037–C038, C072–C073; S001–S004, S009
Regulatory category / substantiated or adjudicated findingDefinitions and State-law evidentiary finding processThat an allegation is true, a person lacks capacity, or a civil/criminal judgment existsC011–C024; S002, S004
Report / investigation / serviceReceipt, screening, investigation and response are distinct conceptsAutomatic investigation, substantiation, service acceptance or completed interventionC019–C027, C045, C052–C056; S002, S004
Consent/autonomy / exceptionVoluntariness, client consultation and least restrictive practice; qualified State-law and emergency branchesA specific exception, valid substitute consent or authority to override a choiceC038, C043–C051; S003–S004, S013
Institutional duty / individual entitlementPolicies, plans, data and program conditionsAn individual award, guaranteed outcome or EJA-created private cause of actionC070–C087, C096; S008–S016
Financial exploitation / debt liabilityAn APS classification addressing specified resource use/deprivationDebt validity, release, liability allocation, repayment cancellation or recoveryC016–C018, C095; S002, S011, S018
Confidentiality / coordinationBoth confidentiality compliance and coordination duties applyA blanket disclosure exception, subpoena power or access to financial recordsC065–C069; S006–S007, S013
Final regulation / guidanceOperative provisions and specified date clausesThat explanatory shorthand, proposed provisions or voluntary guidance amends the regulationC002, C040–C042, C064, C094; S003, S010, S024–S025
Publication / effectiveness / compliance / implementationDistinct published dates and a future compliance pointActual implementation, automatic extension or approved corrective actionC002, C088; S010
Authorization / appropriation / allocation / serviceHistorical authorization and conditional grant-allocation rulesCurrent appropriated dollars, an award or money payable to an adultC078–C086; S012, S014, S019
Conflict safeguards / guardianship authorityRestricted unavoidable-dual-relationship criteriaAppointment, legal capacity determination or guardianship powersC034, C058–C062; S002, S005
State-plan appeal / individual reviewTwo specified State appeal stagesA client hearing route, automatic stay or reinstatement of servicesC074–C076; S009

Captured table 10

Measurement ID · Quantity and exact authority · Actor/object, base and unit · 38 data rows

Measurement IDQuantity and exact authorityActor/object, base and unitTrigger, boundary, qualifications and missing inputs
R079-P1-M00160 years or older — C010; §1397j(5), §3002(40)Statutory elder/older-individual age, yearsInclusive lower boundary. Does not supply the regulatory adult-eligibility age. No age or State category supplied.
R079-P1-M002At least one listed self-care category — C014; §1324.401 Self-neglectListed task categoryInclusive minimum; serious imminent-risk, inability and causal impairment/capacity predicates also apply. No functional or factual finding supplied.
R079-P1-M003One or more instances — C029; PerpetratorInstances APS determined to be adult maltreatmentAdministrative-definition threshold; not a conviction or an accusation alone.
R079-P1-M004Additional role(s), simultaneous or sequential — C033; Dual relationshipProfessional/personal/volunteer role relative to APS roleNo minimum overlap duration is stated. Actual roles absent.
R079-P1-M005At least two tiers — C039; §1324.402(b)(2)(i)Initial-contact response categoriesMinimum, not maximum. Risk classification depends on the listed death/harm/resource-loss criteria.
R079-P1-M006Literal 24-four hours, interpreted by agency explanation as 24 hours — C040–C042Immediate-risk initial response; hoursCodified trigger: receiving report; preamble: retrieval and screening-in. Upper boundary is no later than; in-person condition applies. “Should”/mandatory-description discrepancy unresolved.
R079-P1-M0077 calendar days — C041; §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(B)Non-immediate response intervalCodified trigger: receipt; no-more-than boundary. Calendar expressly stated. No actual receipt or classification; no counting rule inferred.
R079-P1-M008First contact — C043; §1324.402(c)Rights explanation eventEvent-triggered, not a quantified delay. No contact occurred or was examined.
R079-P1-M00924 hours/day, 7 calendar days/week — C063; §1324.405(a)Availability of report receiptContinuous submission access; distinct from live staffing, screening or completed response.
R079-P1-M010Multiple methods; at least one online — C063Reporting methodsMore than one method, with inclusive online minimum. No particular platform or actual accessibility established.
R079-P1-M011Next business day — C064; S010 III.FPreamble’s advised retrieval/contact for off-hours reportsAdvisory explanation; no business-calendar definition supplied by the selected text.
R079-P1-M012Within 72 hours — C064; S010 III.FRetrieval/contact after report madeExplicit encouragement, not a requirement. Must not replace the separate response clauses.
R079-P1-M013Consent before release — C065; §1324.405(b)(2)Adult’s consent to specified reporter feedbackSequencing requirement. No numerical feedback period or delivery convention supplied.
R079-P1-M014Annually — C070; §1324.407(a)State system-wide data to ACLRecurring frequency; exact due date and required fields absent from the section.
R079-P1-M015Minimum 5 years — C071; §1324.407(b)Investigation case-data retentionInclusive minimum. Starting event and additional retention-law interaction are unresolved.
R079-P1-M016At least every 5 years — C073; §1324.408(c)State-plan updatesUpdates may be more frequent. Not a five-year postponement of initial submission.
R079-P1-M01730 calendar days — C074; §1324.408(e)State appeal to Deputy Assistant SecretaryFrom date of Director’s final decision, not stated receipt. Inclusive outer limit; no extension, mailing or counting rule established.
R079-P1-M01830 calendar days — C075; §1324.408(e)State appeal to Assistant SecretaryFrom date of Deputy decision. Separate stage; not transferred to an individual client procedure.
R079-P1-M019Annually — C077; §1397m-1(a)(1)(B); §3011(e)(2)(A)(iv)Federal elder-maltreatment data activitiesThe OAA clause includes practicability qualification. Not the State’s §.407 filing date.
R079-P1-M020Annual / fiscal year — C078; §1397m-1(b)(1)–(2)Government grant allocationBase: fiscal-year appropriation; population share: State elders divided by U.S. elders. Appropriation, population vintage and counts absent.
R079-P1-M0210.75%; fifty-State category — C079; §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)(i)Government allocation floor; denominator is relevant appropriationIncrease triggered when preliminary amount is less than floor; target equals floor. Subject to statutory adjustments; equality does not trigger this increase.
R079-P1-M0220.1%; other-State category — C079; §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)(ii)Substitute government floorSame structure, different percentage. No jurisdiction is classified in this report.
R079-P1-M023Pro-rata adjustment — C079; §1397m-1(b)(2)(C)Preliminary government allocationsNecessary to implement floors; no actual shares or calculation supplied.
R079-P1-M024$3 million FY2011; $4 million each FY2012–2014 — C082; §1397m-1(a)(2)Historical authorization, U.S. dollars per specified fiscal yearAuthorization only; not proof of appropriation, expenditure or current funding.
R079-P1-M025$100 million each FY2011–2014 — C082; §1397m-1(b)(5)Historical formula-program authorizationSame limitation; not an adult’s benefit or service cap.
R079-P1-M026$25 million each FY2011–2014 — C082; §1397m-1(c)(6)Historical demonstration authorizationSeparate program branch; no actual funding inferred.
R079-P1-M027Not less than 2% — C084; §1397m-3(b)(1)–(2)Secretary’s evaluation reserve from each covered program’s appropriationInclusive minimum. Certified-EHR program is expressly excluded from this subsection and addressed separately. Not an individual-payment percentage.
R079-P1-M028October 1, 2014 — C085; §1397m-4Historical Secretary reporting deadlineStatutory historical date; not current periodic filing guidance. Cross-reference redesignation retained.
R079-P1-M029May 8, 2024 / June 7, 2024 / May 8, 2028 — C002APS publication / effectiveness / compliance datesDistinct legal events. No inference of actual implementation or additional grace period.
R079-P1-M030Four years after publication — C088; S010 III.IPreamble’s first-plan timetableRead with the stated compliance date; not recalculated into an actual program calendar.
R079-P1-M031Corrective-plan additional time — C088Requested transition periodNo fixed number granted by the selected text; reasons, steps, joint milestones/timeline and continuing good faith matter.
R079-P1-M032October 2, 2024 / October 1, 2025 / October 1, 2024 — C089Grants-rule publication / general effectiveness / instruction-2 exceptionSeparate instrument and amendment-specific exception. Does not alter APS’s stated compliance date.
R079-P1-M033October 17, 2006; March 23, 2010; April 19, 2016; October 18, 2017 — C090–C093Enactment dates of selected public lawsHistorical enactment dates, not current application deadlines; read bounds in S020–S023.
R079-P1-M034October 26 and October 23, 2026; October 6, 2026 — C003eCFR display dates and Title 45 amendment labelMetadata, not an APS amendment/effectiveness certification. Final whole-subpart display was October 26.
R079-P1-M035October 7, 2026 / October 15, 2026 — C003Readable statutory cutoff / later discovery cutoffLater bodies unavailable; search-result text not used as substantive evidence.
R079-P1-M036October 26, 2026 / August 17, 2026 — S026Title 2 currency / Title-wide amendment labelNot proof that §300.106 changed on the latter date.
R079-P1-M037May 7, 2024 / August 6, 2025 — C094; S024–S025Announcement and webpage modification labelsExplanatory-page metadata; not Federal Register publication or independent effectiveness.
R079-P1-M038October 27, 2026, America/Los_AngelesActual research access dateResearch metadata only; not a legal trigger.

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Branch ID · Supported conditional branch and exact links · Missing authority or predicate · 30 data rows

Branch IDSupported conditional branch and exact linksMissing authority or predicateAdverse inference to avoidNext permissible generic public-law inquiry
R079-P1-B001 — Funding scopeIf the selected funding route applies, C005’s standards and timetable govern eligibility. C005–C008; S001–S002, S012.Funding route, designation and application factsEvery APS activity is governed identically by this federal conditionExamine later generic federal instructions clarifying §1324.400’s relationship to §1397m-1(b), without award searches.
R079-P1-B002 — JurisdictionState/DC/territorial definitions and Tribal coordination must be applied separately. C006–C007, C036, C067; S002, S007.Jurisdiction and allocation of legal responsibilityState authority automatically extends to Tribal APSIdentify the precise public jurisdictional question before any separately authorized State/Tribal-law component.
R079-P1-B003 — Adult/age categoryC009’s State-dependent adult category cannot be replaced by C010’s statutory elder age. S002, S011, S018.Applicable public eligibility definitionAge alone proves eligibility or ineligibilityA later generic State APS eligibility statute/regulation inquiry; no person or program lookup.
R079-P1-B004 — Abuse/neglectApply C012’s knowing requirement and C013’s caregiver/fiduciary failure definition separately. S002, S011.Role, legal category and evidentiary predicatesAll deprivation, poverty or concern is abuseExamine generic State definitions/evidence rules only in a separate authorized scope.
R079-P1-B005 — Self-neglectC014 requires the full risk, inability, causal and task-category combination. S002.State definition and all application predicatesDebt, disability, unconventional conduct or diagnosis proves self-neglectClarify the federal/State definition relationship under §1324.402(a)(5); no assessment instrument or personal evaluation.
R079-P1-B006 — Financial exploitationApply C016’s specified act/process and resource-use/deprivation alternatives. S002, S011, S018.Applicable legal meaning and factual predicatesA debt is invalid, or a trusted relationship is mandatorySeparately investigate the relevant public definition or liability regime only if later authorized.
R079-P1-B007 — Report/acceptanceReceipt and screening are distinct from investigation and finding. C019–C024, C052; S002, S004.Screening criteria and acceptance factsEvery report must be substantiated or openedExamine generic federal clarification of screening/referral under §1324.403(a).
R079-P1-B008 — UrgencyInitial-response tiers use C039’s harm/resource-risk categories. S003.State classification standards and actual predicateEvery financial concern is an immediate-risk eventSeek generic clarification of “significant” resource loss and immediate risk; no invented threshold.
R079-P1-B009 — Response clockPreserve both C040–C042 formulations. S003, S010, S025.Authoritative reconciliation, trigger and counting rulesEither an automatic original-receipt deadline or blanket permission to ignore timingCheck for a later published correction/amendment or generic official clarification; judicial reconciliation remains held.
R079-P1-B010 — Reporting accessC063 concerns availability; C064 distinguishes staffing/retrieval. S006, S010.Actual process and applicable implementationContinuous access guarantees live or immediate interventionExamine later generic receipt/screening guidance, without contacting or testing a program.
R079-P1-B011 — Consent and choiceApply C043–C047’s State-rights, voluntariness and consultation qualifications. S003–S004.Valid consent/refusal and applicable State authorityDisagreement establishes incapacity or permits overrideSeparate public-law inquiry into State consent/refusal standards, if authorized.
R079-P1-B012 — Exception authorityState-mandated services and last-resort emergency action require their distinct predicates. C045, C049, C051; S004, S013.Specific mandate/order authority; any applicable construction ruleA generic emergency or concern supplies unrestricted powerIdentify the precise State emergency/consent statute; retain federal qualifications.
R079-P1-B013 — Assessment/findingState evidentiary standards and APS findings do not themselves produce a judgment. C023–C024, C054, C095; S002, S004.Evidentiary standard and separate adjudicative authorityScreening, assessment and guilt are interchangeableGeneric inquiry into the legally relevant finding/review standard; no cases or allegations.
R079-P1-B014 — Service/entitlementProvision/referral and emergency purchases are program mechanisms. C047–C049, C087, C096; S004, S016.Other entitlement/remedy law and actual program factsGuaranteed services, safety, money or debt paymentDetermine whether a separately authorized public law creates the asserted entitlement; none is inferred here.
R079-P1-B015 — Reporter feedbackAll C065 predicates apply: qualifying reporter, own report, request, prior adult consent, limited information. S006.Reporter category, consent and disclosure authorityA reporter automatically receives findings or recordsClarify the limited §1324.405(b) mechanism through generic official interpretation.
R079-P1-B016 — Confidentiality/coordinationC066 and C068 apply together. S006–S007, S013.Applicable privacy regime and specific disclosure basisCoordination overrides confidentialityRead complete relevant privacy provisions before asserting an exception; HIPAA pointers appear in §9 below.
R079-P1-B017 — Institutional conflictsActual/perceived conflicts, referral interests and avoidable dual roles are distinct controls. C032–C033, C058–C060; S002, S005.Applicable policy and legal roleA role title proves suitability or conflictExamine only generic implementation standards for §1324.404; no screening or roster review.
R079-P1-B018 — Guardian dual roleC061’s alternatives-considered requirement and one of its two further conditions are cumulative. C062 also applies. S005.Separate guardianship authority and predicatesAPS may appoint itself or a conflict exception establishes incapacitySeparate public guardianship-authority inquiry; federal conflict rule remains distinct.
R079-P1-B019 — Staffing/trainingTraining, continuing education and supervision are required policy subjects. C057; S003.Separate qualification standardsA federal degree, license, ratio or training-hour requirement was foundCheck later generic amendments/guidance for any additional standard; no credentials search.
R079-P1-B020 — Quality/dataDocumentation, coordination-quality activities, annual data and retention are separate requirements. C031, C056, C069–C071; S002, S004, S007–S008.Data specifications, due dates and retention startA defined quality process proves actual quality or an independent auditExamine generic approved data instructions and retention clarification without datasets or case files.
R079-P1-B021 — State planCollaboration, assurances and updating follow C072–C073. S009.Actual plan/approval/implementation, all heldA federal requirement proves a particular plan exists or compliesExamine generic plan instructions or later federal amendments only; no actual plans.
R079-P1-B022 — Plan appealC074 and C075 are distinct State appeal stages. S009.Decision, timing/counting rules and party statusThe same procedure or period governs individual APS findingsClarify generic §1324.408(e) procedure; individual review law remains separate.
R079-P1-B023 — Effective/compliance dateApply C002’s separate dates. S010, S024–S025.Actual implementation and any later changeEffectiveness proves full implementation, or future compliance means no adopted rule existsCheck later public amendments or date corrections.
R079-P1-B024 — Corrective transitionC088 describes a conditional preamble process, not an automatic extension. S010.Later generic process instructions and any approval, latter heldAdditional time is already grantedExamine subsequently published generic corrective-plan guidance and its legal status.
R079-P1-B025 — State implementation absentC005, C037 and C072 state legal requirements only. S001, S003, S009.All actual implementation factsCompliance or noncompliance can be inferred from this reportNo public-law-only reading can supply those facts; retain the implementation hold.
R079-P1-B026 — Guidance differenceC042, C064, C089 and C094 identify bounded explanatory/historical material. S010, S024–S027.Any later controlling correction or amendmentGuidance silently changes codified text or preserves removed grant citationsExamine the specific later legal instrument, not a page timestamp.
R079-P1-B027 — Current original/history gapC003–C004 and C090–C093 retain access and history limits. S001, S011–S023; failure log.Later readable statutory body; full material correction/renumbering chainFailed access means repeal, absence of law or invalid authorityRetry an ordinary official body or later published amendatory instrument; no bypass.
R079-P1-B028 — Authorization/fundingC078–C086 distinguish formula, floors, evaluation reserve and authorizations. S012, S014, S019.Appropriations and allocation inputs; actual funding heldHistorical authorization guarantees a current program award or individual paymentA narrowly necessary public appropriations-text inquiry, only if a funding proposition must be resolved.
R079-P1-B029 — Financial/clinical/parent dimensionsC050, C095–C096 establish this pass’s boundary. S002–S004, S016.Every separate capacity, clinical, contract, consumer and remedy regimeAPS terminology decides diagnosis, coerced debt, liability or recoveryKeep those components separate; formulate a generic legal question before researching another regime.
R079-P1-B030 — Judicial validity/remediesC087 and C097 preserve the statutory construction rule and limited severability statement. S016, S010.Judicial merits, enforcement route and later judicial historyEither all remedies exist or all remedies are barredPublic statutory/regulatory changes may be examined; judicial research remains outside this pass.

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Analytical field · Authority entry · Evidence entry · 36 data rows

Analytical fieldAuthority entryEvidence entryAnalysisResult
Source issuer and instrument
Source URL and publication status
Displayed version and compilation
Access and reading bounds
Original-source availability
Generic jurisdiction category
Program and funding authority
Institutional role
Regulatory adult category
Applicable definition
Statutory/regulatory terminology difference
Reporting or intake stage
Screening or investigation stage
Finding and evidentiary authority
Response and service category
Person-directed or least restrictive requirement
Consent or refusal rule
Exception authority and cumulative conditions
Confidentiality requirement
Coordination and disclosure boundary
Conflict or dual-relationship rule
Staffing, training and supervision rule
Documentation and closure requirement
Data and retention requirement
Quality requirement
State-plan and assurance requirement
Review actor and procedural stage
Quantity, unit and base
Trigger and counting convention
Publication, effectiveness and compliance
Transition or extension authority
Financial-exploitation classification boundary
Separate liability or remedy authority
Currentness or cross-reference gap
Missing public authority
Next permissible public-law inquiry

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Requested question / material subquestion · Status and finding · Claim/source/branch crosswalk · 38 data rows

Requested question / material subquestionStatus and findingClaim/source/branch crosswalkMissing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
1 — Actual sections and organizationAnswered: all nine sections present and completely readC001; S001–S009; B027No missing selected section. Later amendment checking remains bounded.
1 — Nested definitions, exceptions and notesAnswered for complete selected regulationsC009–C076; S002–S009Application evidence remains absent; do not replace it with labels.
1 — Authority and incorporationsAnswered/partial: narrow OAA/EJA authorities read; broader incorporated regimes boundedC004, C035, C077–C087; S011–S023Complete only an indispensable dependent privacy/grants clause before asserting its effect.
1 — Current version/legal statusPartial: readable eCFR and statutory cutoffs recordedC002–C004; S001, S010–S019; B027Later statutory endpoints failed; ordinary official retrieval is the next inquiry.
1 — Federal condition versus State substantive lawAnswered: not interchangeableC005, C037, C095–C096; B001–B003Separate State legal scope remains held.
2 — Federal/State/territorial/local/Tribal rolesAnswered as stated in the selected textC006–C008, C035–C036, C067; B001–B002Actual jurisdiction/authority not established.
2 — Adult/older-adult/category definitionsAnswered with statutory/regulatory distinctionC009–C018; S002, S011, S018; B003–B006No selected State eligibility rule or application facts.
2 — Allegation, eligibility, finding and adjudicationAnswered: distinct stages/categoriesC019–C030, C095; B007, B013Judicial effect and State evidentiary law remain outside scope.
2 — Age, disability, poverty, debt or concern aloneAnswered: none substitutes for all defined predicatesC009–C017, C050; B003–B006No personal assessment permissible or performed.
3 — Person-directed, autonomy, least restrictive and trauma-informed principlesAnsweredC038, C043–C050; S003–S004; B011–B012No intervention selection or balancing exercise.
3 — Consent/refusal and emergency exceptionsAnswered/partial: federal qualifications read; State authority absentC045, C049, C051; B011–B012Separate public State mandate/emergency-authority inquiry if later authorized.
3 — Language/accessibility and confidentialityAnswered at the selected regulatory levelC044, C063, C065–C066; B015–B016Full civil-rights/privacy regimes not completed.
3 — Supported decision-making/capacityPartial: no freestanding instrument or adjudication test establishedC050; B011, B029Separate capacity/guardianship law and all personal facts held.
4 — Intake/screening/assignment/referralAnsweredC019–C027, C052–C053, C063–C065; B007–B010Actual acceptance or referral absent.
4 — Prioritization and response timingPartial/unresolved: exact text and explanatory discrepancy retainedC039–C042, C064; M005–M012; B008–B010Later published correction/clarification or separately authorized interpretive authority.
4 — Investigation/evidence/findingsAnswered as policy requirementsC023–C024, C054; B013State evidence standard and actual finding absent.
4 — Service planning, review and closureAnsweredC045–C049, C055–C056; B014, B020State-selected periods and actual documents absent.
4 — Universal reporting mandate or record-demand powerAnswered as a boundary: not created by these selected provisionsC030, C065–C069; B015–B016Other mandatory-reporting/records authority requires a separate public-law inquiry.
5 — Policies, staffing, education and supervisionAnsweredC037–C038, C057; S003; B019No national numerical credential/ratio standard found in selected bodies.
5 — Conflicts and guardianship dual roleAnswered with all cumulative conditionsC058–C062; S005; B017–B018No actual conflict, appointment or suitability finding.
5 — Coordination, confidentiality and recordsAnswered/partial: selected requirements complete; external regimes heldC065–C071; S006–S008, S013; B015–B020Read relevant complete privacy provision before a disclosure claim.
5 — Data, quality, monitoring and evaluationAnswered at framework levelC031, C056, C060, C069–C071, C084; B020Data specifications and retention start unresolved; no audit evidence inspected.
5 — Plans, reporting and federal reviewAnsweredC070–C076, C081, C085; S008–S009, S012, S015Actual plan/report/decision absent.
5 — Funding versus authorization/complianceAnswered/partial: statutory distinction complete; current funding not investigatedC078–C086; M020–M028; B028A narrow appropriation-text inquiry only if essential to a further claim.
5 — Corrective action and grant remediesPartial: preamble route and recodification verified; full remedies heldC088–C089; S010, S026–S027; B024, B026Later generic corrective guidance; complete relevant current grant-remedy provisions.
6 — Financial exploitation definitionAnswered with disjunctive act/resource alternativesC016–C018; S002, S011, S018; B006Actual act, authority, consent and State classification absent.
6 — Coercion, undue influence and fiduciary conceptsPartial: terms not invented as independent federal elementsC016, C018, C050, C095Separate public law would be needed for those specific doctrines.
6 — Contract, transfer, debt, liability and recovery effectsExcluded: outside selected mechanismC095–C096; B006, B029No debt or remedy conclusion; separate component only.
7 — Final rule adoption/effective/compliance bodyAnsweredC002, C088; S010; M029–M031No proof of actual implementation.
7 — Material statutory amendment bodiesAnswered within selected boundsC090–C093; S020–S023Full intervening amendment and renumbering history not certified.
7 — Preamble/guidance/operative differencesAnswered/partial: material differences identifiedC004, C017, C040–C042, C064, C089, C094; B026–B027Authoritative correction/reconciliation remains open where identified.
7 — Failures and ordinary alternativesAnswered: exact failures preservedSource log F01–F07; C003; B027No failed source treated as absence of law.
8 — Remaining A079 scopeExcluded with reason: separate legal/clinical/financial regimesC050, C095–C096; B029All parent holds remain; no individual outcome or action recommended.
8 — Exact indispensable next authoritiesPartial: pointers identified, dependent effects held§9 below; C066, C089; B016, B024, B026Privacy, grant application/remedies and State authority require separate complete readings before reliance.
9 — Required comparisonsAnswered: comparison table covers each requested distinction§3; C005–C097No comparisons treated as actual application.
9 — Every relied-on quantity/dateAnswered: measurement registerM001–M038, corresponding claims/sourcesNo personal or resource calculation; missing triggers/conventions retained.
10 — Conditional branchesAnswered: thirty substantive branchesB001–B030Every branch supplies missing predicates, prohibited inference and public-law next step.
11 — Wholly blank worksheetAnswered: all entry/analysis/result cells empty§6No identity, allegation, financial, health, assessment or result entry.

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Read group · What was actually read · What was not claimed · 8 data rows

Read groupWhat was actually readWhat was not claimed
R01 — Current APS textAll nine complete regulatory sections, their Subpart D authority/source notes, and selected Part-wide authority heading; full-subpart body reread with October 26 displayOther Part 1324 substantive subparts, State implementation or exhaustive later history
R02 — APS final ruleOfficial PDF DATES and complete amendatory body; complete substantive preamble I–III through the State-plan discussionWhole economic analysis, actual State facts cited by the agency, or judicial validity
R03 — EJA statutesComplete §§1397j, 1397j-1, 1397m-1, 1397m-3, 1397m-4 and 1397m-5, including material notesFull EJA, all incorporated criminal/health/tribal regimes, actual funding
R04 — OAA authoritySelected complete §3011 clauses, selected complete §3002 definitions, complete §3058aa-1Whole OAA, all organizational functions, all definition histories
R05 — Enacted historySelected complete 2006, 2010, 2016 and 2017 amendatory bodies listed in S020–S023Entire public laws or all later legislation
R06 — Agency explanationComplete APSrule page and complete final-rule announcementTheir incidental prevalence/funding assertions as current findings; proposal text as operative law
R07 — Grants recodificationCurrent §300.106; selected adoption/date/removal clauses of the later HHS instrumentComplete Parts 200/300/376, award-specific application, sanctions or remedies
R08 — Discovery checksGeneric official-source searches for current text, later amendments and explanatory materialSearch snippets, mirrors, toolkits, inventories, examples or actual operational records as legal evidence

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Failure ID · Exact original URL(s) and observed limitation · Ordinary alternative and consequence · 7 data rows

Failure IDExact original URL(s) and observed limitationOrdinary alternative and consequence
F01https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/part-1324/subpart-D; https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.400; https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/part-1324/subpart-D — unavailable through the browsing toolCanonical path including subchapter-C succeeded. Complete current bodies were then read.
F02https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.404 — failed short endpointCanonical section URL in S005 and full Subpart D succeeded.
F03https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s1397m-1/; https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s1397j/; https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s3011/ — repeated tool “not accessible” errorsEarlier official URLs succeeded but displayed the October 7 cutoff. Later search text was not substituted for body access.
F04https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title42-section1397j — 404; https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title42-section3011 — 403Readable OLRC alternatives in S011/S017 used, with their own displayed cutoffs.
F05https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/pdf/PLAW-114publ144.pdf — unavailable; https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ144/PLAW-114publ144.pdf — restricted fetchOfficial govinfo HTML in S022 succeeded. No PDF-page-image or PDF-index claim made for that Act.
F06https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/APS%20Regs%20-%20Long%20Fact%20sheet.pdf — 403 ForbiddenThe fact sheet was not relied on. Readable final rule and agency webpages remained the evidence.
F07Search-only results included later-code displays, secondary mirrors, technical-assistance materials and inventoriesNo such result was treated as an opened primary body, actual program evidence or permission to expand scope.
Source links captured in this table

Captured table 16

Gap · Exact unresolved proposition · Next permissible public-law authority or inquiry · 11 data rows

GapExact unresolved propositionNext permissible public-law authority or inquiry
Current statutory chainWhether a later accessible official compilation or enacted amendment changes any selected statutory clause after the readable cutoffOrdinary official OLRC/govinfo enacted-text retrieval for the exact sections. Search text alone is insufficient.
Response timingHow the outer policy mandate, inner “should,” receipt language, and screening-based explanation are legally reconciledA published correction/amendment or complete generic official clarification of §1324.402(b)(2)(i) and §1324.405(a). Judicial reconciliation remains excluded.
Corrective-action transitionWhether later generic instructions prescribe a request timetable, approval criteria or different legal effectLater public ACL implementation guidance addressing the process described in S010; no actual corrective plan or approval.
Authority-header discrepancyWhether an official correction addresses the Part-wide statutory strings, and their relationship to the accurate Subpart-specific citationsOFR/HHS correction or amendatory instrument concerning Part 1324’s authority citation. No invalidity conclusion is made.
State categories and powersActual eligible populations, evidentiary standards, compulsory-service authority, emergency powers and individual review rightsA separately authorized generic State APS statutory/regulatory component. No jurisdiction, agency or actual plan is selected here.
Privacy incorporationWhether a particular disclosure would be permitted or requiredComplete relevant provisions implementing HIPAA §264(c), including, where actually implicated, 45 CFR 164.502, 164.508 and 164.512(c), plus applicable State/local law. These are next-reading pointers, not established disclosure permissions.
Grant remedies/applicationWhich current grant rules govern an award, additional condition, withholding, termination or reviewComplete materially relevant 2 CFR 200.110, 200.208, 200.339–200.343, and applicable Parts 300/376 provisions before any dependent assertion. No award facts or remedies were examined.
Retention and data detailThe five-year starting event, additional retention requirements, annual submission date and required data fieldsGeneric official instructions or later published provisions implementing §1324.407; no actual dataset or case record.
Statutory numbering/historyComplete intervening definition-renumbering and later amendment history beyond the authenticated selected clausesExact enacted amendments corresponding to the current OLRC notes, if material to a later proposition.
Funding todayA current appropriation, allocation or actual available resourcesOnly a narrowly necessary public appropriations provision could establish a legislative funding proposition. Actual awards, budgets and resource inventories remain prohibited and absent.
Judicial/private enforcementFull enforceability, judicial treatment, remedies or a private claim under another lawHeld outside this pass. Section 1397m-5’s construction rule is the only completed private-cause-of-action proposition reported here.

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Check · Result · 12 data rows

CheckResult
Independent foundationNo earlier conversation/report conclusion was used as a legal premise.
Complete selected regulatory bodiesAll nine sections were read, including nested conditions and exceptions.
Statutory boundariesComplete selected EJA bodies and narrow OAA clauses were distinguished from unexamined incorporated regimes.
Adoption evidenceActual selected enacted/amendatory text was read; code credits were not treated as a complete amendment chain.
CurrentnessActual access date, displayed cutoffs, failed newer originals, and later-history limits remain visible.
Status distinctionsEnacted statutes, final regulations, interim-final grant amendments, preamble explanations, guidance and proposal-labeled material are separated.
Material discrepanciesResponse wording/trigger, authority strings, statutory/regulatory definitions, stale statutory reference and removed Part 75 citations are preserved.
MeasurementsAll relied-on legal quantities and source-status dates are registered; no actual calculation was made.
Evidence boundariesNo actual or fictional personal, agency-program, case, award, financial, medical, capacity or intervention evidence was sought or supplied.
Prohibited actionsNo contact, report, referral, filing, records request, application, screening, intervention or operative document was created or transmitted.
WorksheetEntry, analysis and result cells remain genuinely empty.
Review/acceptanceThis is the researcher’s self-check only. No independent review, model/UI verification, component acceptance, parent acceptance, operational approval or publication acceptance is claimed.

Find the assertion and its boundaries

Read the evidence with its boundaries. These are saved research components, including revisions. A scoped coordinator review checks selected evidence; it does not certify every claim, a complete jurisdiction, current law or individual applicability. Dates and access limits remain attached to the records.

How to read the research →

R079-P1-C001 Saved research record

The selected range contains all nine sections: funding eligibility; definitions; administration; response; conflicts; reports; coordination; performance; and State plans. It is Subpart D of Part 1324.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S001–S009; complete §§1324.400–.408.
R079-P1-C002 Saved research record

The adopted APS rule has separate publication, effectiveness and compliance dates: May 8, 2024; June 7, 2024; May 8, 2028. The compliance date remained future on this access date.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S010, DATES; S024–S025 date explanations.
R079-P1-C003 Saved research record

Currentness is bounded by the October 26 eCFR display and October 7 readable statutory compilation. Later statutory endpoints failed. Neither a Title-wide amendment label nor a search result establishes a complete later-law chain.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S001–S009 metadata; S011–S019 metadata; failure log F03.
R079-P1-C004 Saved research record

Subpart D cites 42 USC 3011(e)(3) and 1397m-1. The Part-wide heading instead displays 2 USC 3001 and 42 USC 1394m. Those different strings are preserved as a source discrepancy; this report does not silently repair them or infer invalidity.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S001, Subpart D authority and separately selected Part 1324 authority heading; S010 operative authority text.
R079-P1-C005 Saved research record

Adherence to the selected provisions is a condition of eligibility for funding under §1397m-1(b), subject to the rule’s compliance timetable. This is not a declaration that every State protective-service or debt rule is federalized.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S001, §1324.400; S010 DATES.
R079-P1-C006 Saved research record

A regulatory State entity is a designated State, District of Columbia or U.S. territorial government unit responsible for APS—including policies/procedures—and receiving the specified federal grant funding.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S002, definition of State entity.
R079-P1-C007 Saved research record

An APS program means local providers within an APS system; the system encompasses State entities and local APS programs. Local administration does not erase the State-entity standards.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S002, Adult Protective Services Program and Adult Protective Services Systems; S004 introduction.
R079-P1-C008 Saved research record

APS includes receiving reports, investigating, casework/planning/monitoring/evaluation, and providing, arranging or facilitating enumerated protective/supportive services. The definition allows specified agency guidance; it does not require APS itself to supply every service directly.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S002, Adult Protective Services, all four numbered clauses; S004, §1324.403(e)(4); S011, §1397j(2).
R079-P1-C009 Saved research record

Regulatory adult covers older adults and adults with disabilities as defined by State APS laws. The regulation supplies no universal numerical adult-eligibility age.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority and limit
S002, Adult; S003, §1324.402(a).
R079-P1-C010 Saved research record

EJA elder and OAA older individual mean age 60 or older. Those statutory definitions do not replace C009’s State-law-dependent regulatory category.

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Exact authority and limit
S011, §1397j(5); S018, §3002(40).
R079-P1-C011 Saved research record

Adult maltreatment comprises abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or sexual abuse of an adult at risk of harm. At risk requires a strong likelihood of an imminent adverse or detrimental event, condition, injury or outcome.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, both definitions. No quantified probability or financial threshold is supplied.
R079-P1-C012 Saved research record

Abuse requires knowing physical/psychological harm or knowing deprivation of goods/services necessary for essential needs or avoidance of such harm.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Abuse; S011, §1397j(1); S018, §3002(1).
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Regulatory neglect is a caregiver’s or fiduciary’s failure to provide goods/services necessary for an adult’s health and/or safety. Its text does not repeat abuse’s knowing-state formulation.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Neglect. The relevant role and failure are not established by a label alone.
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Regulatory self-neglect requires serious risk of imminent harm to self or another, created by inability—because of physical/mental impairment or diminished capacity—to perform essential self-care, including at least one listed category: obtaining essential food, clothing, shelter and medical care; obtaining goods/services for physical or mental health or general safety; or managing financial affairs.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Self-neglect, introduction and (1)–(3). Every causal/risk qualification matters.
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Sexual abuse includes nonconsensual touching and nontouching sexual interaction with an adult.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Sexual abuse. No actual consent finding is made.
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Financial exploitation covers a fraudulent or otherwise illegal, unauthorized or improper act/process by a person, including a caregiver or fiduciary, that either uses adult resources for monetary/personal benefit, profit or gain, or deprives rightful access to/use of benefits, resources, belongings or assets. A trusted relationship is not a stated prerequisite.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, complete Financial exploitation definition; compare S011, §1397j(8), and S018, §3002(18)(A).
R079-P1-C017 Saved research record

The statute’s exploitation definition uses elder, while the regulation uses adult. Statutory neglect includes self-neglect; regulatory neglect and self-neglect are separate definitions. The regulation adds the serious/imminent-risk language to self-neglect. OAA §3002(48) additionally refers to behavioral health.

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Exact authority and limit
S011, §1397j(8), (16), (18); S018, §3002(38), (48); S002. These differences are retained, not silently harmonized.
R079-P1-C018 Saved research record

The EJA separately defines caregiver through care responsibility and compensated/uncompensated support, and fiduciary through legal decisionmaking responsibility plus good faith/fairness, with listed roles. Its guardianship definition concerns State-court appointment, performance and oversight. These definitions do not appoint anyone or validate an instrument.

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Exact authority and limit
S011, complete §1397j(3), (9), (11); compare S018, §3002(18)(B), (20). State application remains unexamined.
R079-P1-C019 Saved research record

An allegation is an accusation concerning each adult identified in an APS report.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Allegation. It is not a finding.
R079-P1-C020 Saved research record

A report is a formal account/statement of allegation(s) and relevant circumstances.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Report. No completed report or proof of delivery exists here.
R079-P1-C021 Saved research record

Intake/pre-screening means receiving allegations and gathering information.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Intake or Pre-Screening. Receipt is distinct from acceptance for investigation.
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Screening reviews intake information against minimum investigation requirements or considers referral elsewhere.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Screening. A report need not automatically become an investigation.
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Investigation gathers/examines information to determine whether State evidentiary standards for a finding are met.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Investigation. No national evidentiary burden is supplied.
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A finding is APS’s post-investigation decision whether evidence is sufficient under State law to determine maltreatment/self-neglect occurred.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Finding; S004, §1324.403(d). It is not, merely by this definition, a civil judgment or criminal adjudication.
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A client is an adult subject to an APS response concerning a report of alleged maltreatment/self-neglect.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Client. The term does not itself establish substantiation.
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A case encompasses activities related to an investigation and response to an allegation.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Case.
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A response encompasses actions/activities resulting from a report.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Response. It is broader than a completed investigation or service plan.
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Victim, as defined here, means an adult who experienced adult maltreatment.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Victim. This report assigns that label to nobody.
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Perpetrator, as defined here, means a person APS determined responsible for one or more instances of adult maltreatment.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Perpetrator. This administrative terminology does not establish a criminal conviction.
R079-P1-C030 Saved research record

A mandated reporter works with an adult professionally and is required by State law to report suspected maltreatment/self-neglect to APS.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority and limit
S002, Mandated reporter. These provisions do not themselves make everyone a mandatory reporter.
R079-P1-C031 Saved research record

Quality assurance includes thorough investigation/case-management documentation, review/approval of closure, and case review against established standards.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Quality assurance. A definition is not proof of an actual review or a completed independent audit.
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Conflict of interest concerns interference with objective information or acting in the adult’s best interests.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, Conflict of interest.
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A dual relationship adds professional, personal or volunteer roles to an APS worker’s role, simultaneously or sequentially, with a client.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority and limit
S002, Dual relationship.
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Emergency Protective Action concerns immediate access to petition a court for temporary/emergency orders or emergency out-of-home placement.

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Exact authority and limit
S002, complete definition. It is not an entered order or independent proof of power to impose placement.
R079-P1-C035 Saved research record

The OAA establishes the Assistant Secretary role, permits designation of an elder-abuse-prevention official, assigns coordinated elder-justice duties, and authorizes necessary regulations through the Assistant Secretary for §3011(e) and §3058aa-1.

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Exact authority
S017, §3011(a), (e)(1)–(3); S018, §3002(7); S002, Assistant Secretary for Aging.
R079-P1-C036 Saved research record

The rule expressly includes State/DC/territorial entities and local APS systems. Tribal APS and governments appear as coordination partners. That inclusion is not a direct Tribal grant award or proof that State authority extends into Tribal jurisdiction.

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Exact authority
S002, State entity; S007, §1324.406(a)(1)–(3).
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State definitions must address eligible populations, maltreatment/self-neglect elements, covered alleged perpetrators, and settings/locations. Verbatim uniform adoption is unnecessary, but State definitions may not narrow eligible-adult or service scope.

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Exact authority
S003, complete §1324.402(a)(1)–(5).
R079-P1-C038 Saved research record

State entities must create, publish and implement standardized receiving/responding policies incorporating person-directed planning/services and least restrictive alternatives.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(b)(1)–(2).
R079-P1-C039 Saved research record

Policies must create at least two initial-contact response tiers based on immediate risk of death, irreparable harm, or significant loss of income, assets or resources.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i). No dollar definition of significant loss is supplied.
R079-P1-C040 Saved research record

For immediate risk, the codified policy clause says the response “should” be in person and no later than “24-four hours” after receiving a report.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(A). The unusual printed wording is retained.
R079-P1-C041 Saved research record

For non-immediate risk, the codified clause says response should occur no more than 7 calendar days after receiving a report.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(b)(2)(i)(B). It does not say seven business days.
R079-P1-C042 Saved research record

The preamble starts immediate-response timing at retrieval and screening-in, allows appropriate partner in-person contact, and does not require completed investigation. The announcement repeats screening. That explanation differs from C040’s wording; the discrepancy remains unresolved here.

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Exact authority
S010, III.C response-timing discussion, pp.39505–39506; S025, timing bullet; compare S003.
R079-P1-C043 Saved research record

On first contact, APS must explain APS-related confidentiality and refusal rights to the extent those rights exist under State law.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(c)(1)–(3). This does not independently establish every State right or exception.
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Information must be in a format and language understandable by the adult, with alternative formats as needed.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(d). No particular language, document or method is established here.
R079-P1-C045 Saved research record

Investigation/service-planning policies must recognize services as voluntary, except where State law mandates them.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(c)(1). The exception requires separate authority; it is not established by concern or disagreement.
R079-P1-C046 Saved research record

Those policies must address client/worker safety, preservation of rights, person-directed and trauma-informed practice, and maximum client engagement.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(c)(2)–(5). A program standard does not guarantee a particular safety outcome.
R079-P1-C047 Saved research record

Appropriate service provision/referral must respect autonomy, life choices and the client’s views of safety, quality of life and success; plans/referrals are developed in consultation with the client. Community referral or purchased services may be used.

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Exact authority
S004, complete §1324.403(e)(1)–(4).
R079-P1-C048 Saved research record

Policies must permit emergency use of APS funds to purchase goods/services.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(c)(6). This clause states no individual award amount or universal debt-payment entitlement.
R079-P1-C049 Saved research record

Policies must permit seeking emergency protective action only when appropriate and necessary, as a last resort, to protect the client’s life and safety.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(c)(7), with C034. This qualification is separate from C048’s emergency-funds provision.
R079-P1-C050 Saved research record

Person-directed practice, refusal, impairment and diminished capacity must remain distinct. The selected regulation creates neither a general capacity-adjudication test nor a power-of-attorney/supported-decision-making instrument. Debt, diagnosis or refusal alone does not complete C014’s cumulative definition.

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Exact authority
Bounded inference from S002 Self-neglect, S003(c), and S004(c), (e). Other capacity law is held.
R079-P1-C051 Saved research record

The EJA preserves an elder’s prayer-alone healing choice when it is: contemporaneously expressed for a specific current illness/injury while competent; or in a previously validly executed/applied State-law advance directive; or unambiguously deducible from life history.

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Exact authority
S013, complete §1397j-1(b)(1)–(3). This is not an unqualified exemption for every religious assertion.
R079-P1-C052 Saved research record

State policies must specify screening, triage and decision criteria for assigning investigation and/or reporting to other authorities.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(a). No individual report is deemed accepted.
R079-P1-C053 Saved research record

Policies must provide tools/processes for examining emergency needs and immediate safety/risk factors affecting the adult or responding worker.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(b). No specific risk score or assessment instrument is prescribed.
R079-P1-C054 Saved research record

Finding methods must allow consultation with appropriate experts/team members/supervisors and specify evidentiary protocols.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(d)(1)–(2). Neither actual expertise nor a finding is verified.
R079-P1-C055 Saved research record

State policies must establish ongoing case-review timeframes and a reasonable investigation-completion/finding period.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(f)(1)–(2). The section supplies no nationally fixed number of days.
R079-P1-C056 Saved research record

Minimum documentation includes the APS response, significant client-status changes, safety/risk assessment at closure, and the reason for closure.

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Exact authority
S004, §1324.403(f)(3)(i)–(iv). Documentation is distinct from proof of its contents or a disclosure right.
R079-P1-C057 Saved research record

Staffing policies must include training, continuing education—including conflicts—and supervision. The selected text supplies no national credential, training-hour minimum or staff-to-client ratio.

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Exact authority
S003, §1324.402(e)(1)–(2); bounded absence within S001–S009.
R079-P1-C058 Saved research record

Conflict policies must identify, remove and remedy actual/perceived conflicts at organizational and individual levels, covering APS administrators/representatives and their immediate family or household.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S005, introduction and (a).
R079-P1-C059 Saved research record

Covered workers/representatives and specified family/household members must not have a personal financial interest in an entity to which APS may refer adults.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S005, §1324.404(b). No actual financial interest is examined.
R079-P1-C060 Saved research record

Policies require conflict monitoring, prohibit avoidable dual relationships, and require appropriate safeguards for unavoidable ones.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S005, §1324.404(c)–(d).
R079-P1-C061 Saved research record

APS petitioning/serving as guardian is an unavoidable dual relationship only if all less restrictive alternatives were considered and either a court instructed APS to petition/serve, or no other qualified individual/entity is available to do so.

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Exact authority
S005, §1324.404(d)(1)(i)–(ii). This is a conflict limitation, not an appointment.
R079-P1-C062 Saved research record

Every dual relationship must be documented in the case record, with mitigation strategies described.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S005, §1324.404(d)(2).
R079-P1-C063 Saved research record

State policies must provide accessible report receipt 24 hours daily, 7 calendar days weekly, through multiple methods, including at least one online method.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S006, §1324.405(a). “Multiple” requires more than one method.
R079-P1-C064 Saved research record

The preamble permits unattended reporting; next-business-day retrieval/contact is advised, while retrieval/contact within 72 hours is expressly encouraged rather than required.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S010, III.F, pp.39513–39514. This does not settle C040–C042’s discrepancy.
R079-P1-C065 Saved research record

Feedback to a mandated reporter requires that the reporter made the report and requests feedback, and that the adult consents before release. The stated information is whether the report resulted in an opened case.

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Exact authority
S006, §1324.405(b)(1)–(2). It is not a general right to findings or the file.
R079-P1-C066 Saved research record

Policies must maintain confidentiality of adults, reporters and report information under all applicable State/federal confidentiality laws. Separately, the Secretary must protect health privacy consistently with the specified HIPAA regulations and State/local privacy rules.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S006, §1324.405(c); S013, §1397j-1(a). The incorporated privacy regimes remain separately bounded.
R079-P1-C067 Saved research record

Required coordination categories include other APS/Tribal APS; relevant investigating agencies; law enforcement with jurisdiction; authorized advocacy/investigation organizations; emergency management; and banks/financial institutions.

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Exact authority
S007, complete §1324.406(a)(1)–(6). Listed examples do not establish actual jurisdiction.
R079-P1-C068 Saved research record

Coordination policies cover all response stages and status/resolution information sharing to the extent permitted by applicable State law, together with C066’s federal confidentiality constraint.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S007, §1324.406(b)(1)–(2); S006(c).
R079-P1-C069 Saved research record

Policies must facilitate exchanges, quality activities, cross-training, multidisciplinary/cross-agency teams and co-location using MOUs, data agreements or less formal arrangements, plus State-determined activities.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S007, §1324.406(b)(3)–(4). A formal MOU is not the only permitted mechanism; no record-compulsion power is supplied.
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State entities must collect and report required system-wide APS data to ACL annually.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S008, §1324.407(a). The section itself supplies neither a universal due date nor the complete field specification.
R079-P1-C071 Saved research record

Policies must ensure retention of individual investigation case data for at least five years.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S008, §1324.407(b). The section does not state the starting event for that interval.
R079-P1-C072 Saved research record

State entities must submit a plan meeting Assistant Secretary requirements to the designated Director. The award-receiving entity develops it with APS programs and other State APS entities when applicable.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S009, §1324.408(a)–(b); S017, §3011(e)(1).
R079-P1-C073 Saved research record

Plans must be updated at least every five years, may be updated more often, and must assure development/adherence to all required policies.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S009, §1324.408(c)–(d). An assurance is not proof of compliance.
R079-P1-C074 Saved research record

The Director reviews/approves plans. A dissatisfied State may appeal the Director’s final decision to the Deputy Assistant Secretary within 30 calendar days after its date, with an opportunity for a hearing before the Deputy.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S009, §1324.408(e), first appeal clause.
R079-P1-C075 Saved research record

A State dissatisfied with the Deputy’s final decision may appeal to the Assistant Secretary within 30 calendar days after the Deputy decision’s date.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S009, §1324.408(e), second appeal clause.
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Those are State-plan review procedures. The selected section does not establish an individual client’s appeal of a finding, a receipt presumption, automatic stay, reversal, or extension.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S009(e), complete scope; individual remedies remain held.
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The Secretary’s APS responsibilities include authorized funding, annual elder-maltreatment data with Justice Department coordination, best practices/training, research and technical assistance.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, complete §1397m-1(a)(1)(A)–(E); related S017(e)(2).
R079-P1-C078 Saved research record

The formula-grant program calls for annual State grants. Subject to appropriations and adjustments, allocation uses the fiscal-year appropriation multiplied by the State’s share of U.S. elders.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, §1397m-1(b)(1), (2)(A). No appropriation, population count or allocation is established here.
R079-P1-C079 Saved research record

If the preliminary amount is below 0.75% of the appropriation for a State within the fifty-State category, the statute raises it to that percentage. For a State outside that category, 0.1% substitutes. Necessary pro-rata reductions implement the floors.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, complete §1397m-1(b)(2)(B)–(C). These are government-allocation rules, not individual benefit amounts.
R079-P1-C080 Saved research record

Formula funds are restricted to APS, routed to the State unit legally responsible for APS, and must supplement rather than supplant other federal, State and local public APS funds.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, §1397m-1(b)(3)(A)–(C).
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Funded States must report elders served at the time and in the manner required by the Secretary.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, §1397m-1(b)(4). This does not supply a fixed universal filing date.
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Displayed authorizations are historical: administrative functions $3 million FY2011, $4 million each FY2012–2014; formula grants $100 million each FY2011–2014; demonstration grants $25 million each FY2011–2014. Authorization is not an appropriation or award.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, §1397m-1(a)(2), (b)(5), (c)(6). No present funding amount is inferred.
R079-P1-C083 Saved research record

Subsection (c) separately authorizes demonstration programs. Its guardianship-oversight branch includes highest State courts, requires consideration of specified recommendations in awarding those grants, and requires recipient-court collaboration with State aging and APS entities.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S012, complete (c), particularly (1)–(3). These conditions do not confer guardianship authority on APS.
R079-P1-C084 Saved research record

Part II grant applicants must agree to specified evaluation information. The Secretary reserves not less than 2% of each program’s appropriated funds for eligible-entity evaluation, with a distinct certified-EHR exception and Secretary evaluation/audit route.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S014, complete §1397m-3(a)–(c). Evaluation assistance also has application and report conditions; no individual data-disclosure conclusion follows.
R079-P1-C085 Saved research record

Section 1397m-4 contains an October 1, 2014 reporting deadline. Its literal subsection-(c)(4) reference is stale after the authenticated 2017 redesignation of the report provision to (c)(5).

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Exact authority
S015, body/editorial note; S023, §501(3), (6). It is not a present individual deadline.
R079-P1-C086 Saved research record

Section 3058aa-1 supplies a distinct competitive State elder-justice grant route: approved application, agency-determined amount, an integrated collaborative system, specified network/data/education activities and supplement-not-supplant treatment.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S019, complete (a)–(e). It does not prove a current appropriation or entitlement under the APS formula program.
R079-P1-C087 Saved research record

The Elder Justice division does not create a private cause of action for its violation, and does not limit related State/political-subdivision causes of action or relief otherwise available.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S016, complete §1397m-5(1)–(2). Other remedies are neither established nor extinguished by this report.
R079-P1-C088 Saved research record

The preamble places first-plan submission at four years after publication. It offers requested corrective plans stating reasons, steps and additional time, with joint milestones/timeline and continuing good-faith compliance efforts. It supplies no automatic extension.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S010, general implementation discussion, pp.39492–39494, and III.I, pp.39518–39520. Actual later implementation guidance or an approved plan is not established.
R079-P1-C089 Saved research record

The APS preamble’s Part 75 references are historical. The later HHS interim final rule removed/reserved Part 75 and adopted the current Part 300 framework; §300.106 adopts Part 200 with additions in Parts 300/376. General effectiveness was October 1, 2025, with the specified instruction-2 exception.

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Exact authority
S026; S027, DATES, adoption text and instruction 150. Full award-applicability, sanction and grants-appeal rules remain held.
R079-P1-C090 Saved research record

The selected 2006 enacted amendments added the OAA elder-abuse authority and comprehensive-State-system grant provisions examined here.

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Exact authority
S021, §§201, 704(2), enacted October 17, 2006.
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The selected 2010 enacted amendments added the EJA definitions, APS grant framework, privacy/construction rules, evaluation provisions and private-action limitation examined here.

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Exact authority
S020, §6703(a)(1)(C), selected complete inserted sections; enacted March 23, 2010.
R079-P1-C092 Saved research record

The selected 2016 amendments changed OAA definitions/coordination and added behavioral-health wording. Historical definition numbering differs from current numbering; the complete intervening renumbering chain is not certified.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S022, selected clauses; S018 current definitions; enacted April 19, 2016.
R079-P1-C093 Saved research record

The complete 2017 §501 amendment added/conditioned the guardianship-oversight demonstration branch and redesignated the later subsection-(c) paragraphs.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S023, complete §501; enacted October 18, 2017; compare S012 notes.
R079-P1-C094 Saved research record

ACL explanations are subordinate to the enacted/codified bodies. The announcement’s release date differs from Federal Register publication; its correction note and the APSrule page’s proposal-labeled material require separate treatment.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S024–S025; S010. Proposal material was not adopted as current law.
R079-P1-C095 Saved research record

The financial-exploitation definition and APS response standards do not themselves decide contract formation, POA validity, ownership, civil/criminal liability, debt cancellation, recovery, restitution or collection defenses.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
Bounded scope inference from S002 Financial exploitation/Finding, S004, S007 and S016.
R079-P1-C096 Saved research record

Service/referral standards, grant eligibility and State-plan review do not establish a mandatory individual benefit, guaranteed safety, a debt write-off or an actual protective order. Separate legal authority and absent application facts would be necessary.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S001, S004, S009, S012, S016; bounded scope inference.
R079-P1-C097 Saved research record

The preamble expresses severability intent if a portion is invalidated. This is not verification of present judicial validity or later judicial history.

Recorded check status: bounded scoped comparison original qualifications and unfresh companion holds retained

Exact authority
S010, preamble I.C. No judicial opinion or case was searched.

Sources, pinpoints and access limits

Keep the source version, actual read extent and jurisdiction with the proposition. A link or researcher access claim is not a substitute for an operative primary passage.

R079-P1-S001 Saved research record

HHS/ACL regulation, OFR/GPO eCFR; Subpart D—Adult Protective Services Programs, including §1324.400, Eligibility for funding. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D. Individual access: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.400

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete Subpart D authority/source notes and all nine bodies; §.400 complete. Additionally, only the Part 1324 heading/authority at https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
Final full-subpart display: October 26, 2026. Earlier retrieval displayed October 23. Adopted final text; June 7, 2024 effectiveness and May 8, 2028 compliance are authenticated in S010. Other substantive subparts of Part 1324 were not investigated.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.400
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.400?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S002 Saved research record

§1324.401, Definitions. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.401

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete unlettered glossary, including every nested numbered definition
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
Same regulatory instrument/status; individual and final complete-subpart display October 26, 2026. Definitions were not automatically exported into other legal regimes.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.401
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.401?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S003 Saved research record

§1324.402, Program administration. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.402

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete (a)–(e), including (a)(5), (b)(2)(i)(A)–(B), and (c)(1)–(3)
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
October 26 display. Receipt/timing wording is retained without correction or judicial reconciliation.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.402
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.402?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S004 Saved research record

§1324.403, APS response. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.403

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete introductory requirement and (a)–(f), including all investigation, service, emergency and closure qualifications
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
October 26 display. Actual State authority and implementation remain absent.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.403
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.403?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S005 Saved research record

§1324.404, Conflict of interest. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.404

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete introduction and (a)–(d)(2)
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
Individual page displayed October 23; same complete body reread in the October 26 full-subpart retrieval. The short URL failed; canonical URL succeeded.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.404
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XIII/subchapter-C/part-1324/subpart-D/section-1324.404?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S006 Saved research record

§1324.405, Accepting reports. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.405

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete (a)–(c), including both conditions in (b)
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
October 26 display. No reporter, report or intake system was investigated.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.405
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.405?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S007 Saved research record

§1324.406, Coordination with other entities. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.406

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete (a)(1)–(6), all nested agency categories, and (b)(1)–(4)
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
October 26 display. Coordination references do not authenticate another entity’s jurisdiction or disclosure authority.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.406
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.406?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S008 Saved research record

§1324.407, APS program performance. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.407

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete introductory requirement and (a)–(b)
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
October 26 display. No actual data, report, retention system or performance record was inspected.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.407
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.407?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S009 Saved research record

§1324.408, State plans. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.408

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact body read
Complete (a)–(e), including both appeal stages
Displayed version, legal status, effectiveness and limits
October 26 display. No actual plan, approval, decision, hearing or appeal was inspected.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.408
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/section-1324.408?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S010 Saved research record

HHS/ACL, Adult Protective Services Functions and Grants Programs, final rule. Official PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-05-08/pdf/2024-07654.pdf. Same-instrument HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-07654/adult-protective-services-functions-and-grants-programs

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Header/DATES; substantive preamble I–III, 89 FR 39488–39520 / indices 0–32; complete operative amendatory body, 39528–39530 / indices 40–42. Selected PRA text was also encountered; economic analyses were not adopted as findings.
Version, status, application and limits
Published May 8, 2024; effective June 7, 2024; compliance May 8, 2028. Preamble interpretation distinguished from operative amendment. Not a whole-document economic or judicial-history audit.
Direct source URLs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-05-08/pdf/2024-07654.pdf
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-07654/adult-protective-services-functions-and-grants-programs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-05-08/pdf/2024-07654.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-07654/adult-protective-services-functions-and-grants-programs?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S011 Saved research record

Congress; OLRC, 42 USC 1397j—Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397j/

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete (1)–(22), source credit
Version, status, application and limits
Displayed through PL119-120, October 7, 2026, despite the URL’s earlier version segment. Underlying nursing-facility, tribal, criminal-law and other referenced regimes were not investigated where immaterial to this component.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397j/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397j/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S012 Saved research record

42 USC 1397m-1—Adult protective services functions and grant programs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-1/

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete (a)–(c), source credit and complete displayed amendment notes
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Actual 2010 and material 2017 enacted clauses separately read in S020/S023. No appropriation or award record inferred.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-1/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-1/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S013 Saved research record

42 USC 1397j-1—General provisions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t42/s1397j-1/

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete (a), (b)(1)–(3), source credit and reference note
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. The full HIPAA regime was not read; no disclosure exception is pronounced.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t42/s1397j-1/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t42/s1397j-1/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S014 Saved research record

42 USC 1397m-3—Provision of information regarding, and evaluations of, elder justice programs. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-3/

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete (a)–(c), including the certified-EHR exception
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Evaluation/grant conditions only; no evaluation file inspected.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-3/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-3/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S015 Saved research record

42 USC 1397m-4—Report. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-4/

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete body and editorial cross-reference note
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Historical reporting date and stale cross-reference distinguished from present recurring duties.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-4/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-4/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S016 Saved research record

42 USC 1397m-5—Rule of construction. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-5/

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete (1)–(2) and credit
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Does not supply a complete assessment of remedies under other laws.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-5/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s1397m-5/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S017 Saved research record

42 USC 3011—Establishment of Administration on Aging. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3011/

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete selected (a), (b), (e)(1)–(3); material displayed amendment/effectiveness notes. Adjacent provisions encountered were not adopted as a separate dossier.
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Statutory offices and authority, not proof of present personnel or administrative implementation.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3011/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3011/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S018 Saved research record

42 USC 3002—Definitions. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3002/

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Selected complete (1), (2), (3), (7), (18)(A)–(B), (20), (38), (40), (41), (46), (48), and material displayed notes
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Not a complete read of all OAA definitions or their incorporated regimes.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3002/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3002/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S019 Saved research record

42 USC 3058aa-1—Grants to promote comprehensive State elder justice systems. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3058aa-1/

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete (a)–(e) and credit
Version, status, application and limits
October 7 compilation. Read because §3011(e)(3) expressly incorporates it; this is a separate competitive-grant authority.
Direct source URLs
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3058aa-1/
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s3058aa-1/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S020 Saved research record

Congress/GPO, Public Law 111-148, selected Elder Justice amendments. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Enactment header; §6703(a)(1)(C), complete inserted SSA §§2011–2012, 124 Stat 782–785 / indices 663–666; complete inserted §§2042, 2044–2046 within 794–798 / indices 675–679. Intervening §2043 was not the selected subject.
Version, status, application and limits
Enacted March 23, 2010. Historical enacted bodies compared with current codification; not the whole Act.
Direct source URLs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S021 Saved research record

Congress/GPO, Public Law 109-365—Older Americans Act Amendments of 2006. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ365/pdf/PLAW-109publ365.pdf

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Enactment header; complete §201 amendment, 120 Stat 2527–2528 / indices 6–7; complete §704(2), 2593–2594 / indices 72–73
Version, status, application and limits
Enacted October 17, 2006. Selected authority and incorporated-grant amendments only.
Direct source URLs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ365/pdf/PLAW-109publ365.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ365/pdf/PLAW-109publ365.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S022 Saved research record

Congress/GPO, Public Law 114-144—Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2016. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/html/PLAW-114publ144.htm

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Header; complete selected §2(1), (2), (6); §3(a)(2); §9(1)(C). Printed 130 Stat 334–336 and 351, as marked in HTML; no PDF index claimed
Version, status, application and limits
Enacted April 19, 2016. Official HTML alternative used after two PDF failures. Historical numbering distinguished from current numbering.
Direct source URLs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/html/PLAW-114publ144.htm
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ144/html/PLAW-114publ144.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S023 Saved research record

Congress/GPO, Public Law 115-70—Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ70/pdf/PLAW-115publ70.pdf

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Header and complete §501, 131 Stat 1215–1216 / indices 8–9
Version, status, application and limits
Enacted October 18, 2017. Material demonstration-program amendment and renumbering authenticated; remaining Act not investigated.
Direct source URLs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ70/pdf/PLAW-115publ70.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ70/pdf/PLAW-115publ70.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S024 Saved research record

ACL, Final Rule: Federal Regulations for APS Programs. https://acl.gov/APSrule

Recorded check status: whole original record read not freshly reopened

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete short page, including summary, dates and proposal-labeled material
Version, status, application and limits
Agency explanation, last-modified label August 6, 2025. Its release/publication wording and proposal heading do not displace S010. Funding/prevalence summaries were not adopted as current funding facts.
Direct source URLs
https://acl.gov/APSrule
https://acl.gov/APSrule?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S025 Saved research record

ACL, Final Rule to Establish First-Ever Regulations for Adult Protective Services. https://acl.gov/news-and-events/announcements/final-rule-establish-first-ever-regulations-adult-protective-services

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Complete short announcement, including timing explanation and correction note
Version, status, application and limits
Dated and last-modified label May 7, 2024. Nonbinding explanation; explicitly corrects an earlier compliance-date error. No quoted officials’ statements or prevalence estimates relied on.
Direct source URLs
https://acl.gov/news-and-events/announcements/final-rule-establish-first-ever-regulations-adult-protective-services
https://acl.gov/news-and-events/announcements/final-rule-establish-first-ever-regulations-adult-protective-services?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S026 Saved research record

HHS; eCFR, 2 CFR 300.106—Adoption of 2 CFR part 200. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-300

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Header and complete §300.106 only
Version, status, application and limits
Title 2 display through October 26, 2026; Title-wide last-amended label August 17, 2026. Other Part 300 provisions, Part 200 and Part 376 were not completed.
Direct source URLs
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-300
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-300?utm_source=chatgpt.com
R079-P1-S027 Saved research record

HHS, Health and Human Services Adoption of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-02/pdf/2024-21984.pdf. Same-instrument HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/02/2024-21984/health-and-human-services-adoption-of-the-uniform-administrative-requirements-cost-principles-and

Recorded check status: selected primary body or metadata checked with limits

Exact read bounds; printed page / zero-based PDF index
Header/DATES, 89 FR 80055 / index 0; selected adoption amendments, 80061–80062 / indices 6–7; complete instructions 149–150, 80070 / index 15
Version, status, application and limits
Interim final rule with comment period, published October 2, 2024; generally effective October 1, 2025, except instruction 2 effective October 1, 2024. Selected recodification only; not a complete grants-remedies investigation.
Direct source URLs
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-02/pdf/2024-21984.pdf
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/02/2024-21984/health-and-human-services-adoption-of-the-uniform-administrative-requirements-cost-principles-and
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-02/pdf/2024-21984.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/02/2024-21984/health-and-human-services-adoption-of-the-uniform-administrative-requirements-cost-principles-and?utm_source=chatgpt.com

What was examined—and what is still missing

The saved component-level coverage record keeps answered, partial, blank and unresolved branches distinct. A coverage label is not acceptance of a whole subject or jurisdiction.

coverage-1 Saved research record

1 — Actual sections and organization

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: all nine sections present and completely read
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C001; S001–S009; B027
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No missing selected section. Later amendment checking remains bounded.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
scoped_review_complete_original_source_and_application_holds_retained_not_parent_acceptance
coverage-2 Saved research record

1 — Nested definitions, exceptions and notes

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered for complete selected regulations
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C009–C076; S002–S009
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Application evidence remains absent; do not replace it with labels.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
scoped_review_complete_original_source_and_application_holds_retained_not_parent_acceptance
coverage-3 Saved research record

1 — Authority and incorporations

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered/partial: narrow OAA/EJA authorities read; broader incorporated regimes bounded
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C004, C035, C077–C087; S011–S023
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Complete only an indispensable dependent privacy/grants clause before asserting its effect.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
scoped_review_complete_original_source_and_application_holds_retained_not_parent_acceptance
coverage-4 Saved research record

1 — Current version/legal status

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Partial: readable eCFR and statutory cutoffs recorded
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C002–C004; S001, S010–S019; B027
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Later statutory endpoints failed; ordinary official retrieval is the next inquiry.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
scoped_review_complete_original_source_and_application_holds_retained_not_parent_acceptance
coverage-5 Saved research record

1 — Federal condition versus State substantive law

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: not interchangeable
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C005, C037, C095–C096; B001–B003
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Separate State legal scope remains held.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
scoped_review_complete_original_source_and_application_holds_retained_not_parent_acceptance
coverage-6 Saved research record

2 — Federal/State/territorial/local/Tribal roles

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered as stated in the selected text
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C006–C008, C035–C036, C067; B001–B002
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Actual jurisdiction/authority not established.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
scoped_review_complete_original_source_and_application_holds_retained_not_parent_acceptance
coverage-7 Saved research record

2 — Adult/older-adult/category definitions

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered with statutory/regulatory distinction
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C009–C018; S002, S011, S018; B003–B006
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No selected State eligibility rule or application facts.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
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2 — Allegation, eligibility, finding and adjudication

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: distinct stages/categories
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C019–C030, C095; B007, B013
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Judicial effect and State evidentiary law remain outside scope.

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coordinator acceptance
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2 — Age, disability, poverty, debt or concern alone

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: none substitutes for all defined predicates
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C009–C017, C050; B003–B006
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No personal assessment permissible or performed.

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3 — Person-directed, autonomy, least restrictive and trauma-informed principles

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C038, C043–C050; S003–S004; B011–B012
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No intervention selection or balancing exercise.

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3 — Consent/refusal and emergency exceptions

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered/partial: federal qualifications read; State authority absent
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C045, C049, C051; B011–B012
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Separate public State mandate/emergency-authority inquiry if later authorized.

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coordinator acceptance
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3 — Language/accessibility and confidentiality

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered at the selected regulatory level
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C044, C063, C065–C066; B015–B016
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Full civil-rights/privacy regimes not completed.

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3 — Supported decision-making/capacity

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Partial: no freestanding instrument or adjudication test established
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C050; B011, B029
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Separate capacity/guardianship law and all personal facts held.

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coordinator acceptance
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4 — Intake/screening/assignment/referral

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C019–C027, C052–C053, C063–C065; B007–B010
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Actual acceptance or referral absent.

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coordinator acceptance
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4 — Prioritization and response timing

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Partial/unresolved: exact text and explanatory discrepancy retained
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C039–C042, C064; M005–M012; B008–B010
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Later published correction/clarification or separately authorized interpretive authority.

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coordinator acceptance
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4 — Investigation/evidence/findings

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered as policy requirements
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C023–C024, C054; B013
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
State evidence standard and actual finding absent.

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coordinator acceptance
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4 — Service planning, review and closure

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C045–C049, C055–C056; B014, B020
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
State-selected periods and actual documents absent.

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coordinator acceptance
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4 — Universal reporting mandate or record-demand power

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered as a boundary: not created by these selected provisions
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C030, C065–C069; B015–B016
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Other mandatory-reporting/records authority requires a separate public-law inquiry.

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coordinator acceptance
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5 — Policies, staffing, education and supervision

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C037–C038, C057; S003; B019
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No national numerical credential/ratio standard found in selected bodies.

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coordinator acceptance
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5 — Conflicts and guardianship dual role

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered with all cumulative conditions
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C058–C062; S005; B017–B018
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No actual conflict, appointment or suitability finding.

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coordinator acceptance
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5 — Coordination, confidentiality and records

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered/partial: selected requirements complete; external regimes held
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C065–C071; S006–S008, S013; B015–B020
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Read relevant complete privacy provision before a disclosure claim.

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coordinator acceptance
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5 — Data, quality, monitoring and evaluation

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered at framework level
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C031, C056, C060, C069–C071, C084; B020
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Data specifications and retention start unresolved; no audit evidence inspected.

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5 — Plans, reporting and federal review

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C070–C076, C081, C085; S008–S009, S012, S015
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Actual plan/report/decision absent.

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coordinator acceptance
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5 — Funding versus authorization/compliance

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered/partial: statutory distinction complete; current funding not investigated
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C078–C086; M020–M028; B028
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
A narrow appropriation-text inquiry only if essential to a further claim.

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coordinator acceptance
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5 — Corrective action and grant remedies

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Partial: preamble route and recodification verified; full remedies held
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C088–C089; S010, S026–S027; B024, B026
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Later generic corrective guidance; complete relevant current grant-remedy provisions.

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coordinator acceptance
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6 — Financial exploitation definition

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered with disjunctive act/resource alternatives
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C016–C018; S002, S011, S018; B006
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Actual act, authority, consent and State classification absent.

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coordinator acceptance
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6 — Coercion, undue influence and fiduciary concepts

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Partial: terms not invented as independent federal elements
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C016, C018, C050, C095
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Separate public law would be needed for those specific doctrines.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator acceptance
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6 — Contract, transfer, debt, liability and recovery effects

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Excluded: outside selected mechanism
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C095–C096; B006, B029
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No debt or remedy conclusion; separate component only.

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coordinator acceptance
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7 — Final rule adoption/effective/compliance body

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C002, C088; S010; M029–M031
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No proof of actual implementation.

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coordinator acceptance
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7 — Material statutory amendment bodies

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered within selected bounds
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C090–C093; S020–S023
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Full intervening amendment and renumbering history not certified.

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coordinator acceptance
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7 — Preamble/guidance/operative differences

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered/partial: material differences identified
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C004, C017, C040–C042, C064, C089, C094; B026–B027
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Authoritative correction/reconciliation remains open where identified.

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coordinator acceptance
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7 — Failures and ordinary alternatives

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: exact failures preserved
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
Source log F01–F07; C003; B027
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No failed source treated as absence of law.

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coordinator acceptance
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8 — Remaining A079 scope

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Excluded with reason: separate legal/clinical/financial regimes
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
C050, C095–C096; B029
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
All parent holds remain; no individual outcome or action recommended.

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coordinator acceptance
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8 — Exact indispensable next authorities

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Partial: pointers identified, dependent effects held
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
§9 below; C066, C089; B016, B024, B026
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Privacy, grant application/remedies and State authority require separate complete readings before reliance.

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coordinator acceptance
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9 — Required comparisons

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: comparison table covers each requested distinction
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
§3; C005–C097
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No comparisons treated as actual application.

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coordinator acceptance
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9 — Every relied-on quantity/date

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: measurement register
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
M001–M038, corresponding claims/sources
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No personal or resource calculation; missing triggers/conventions retained.

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coordinator acceptance
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10 — Conditional branches

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: thirty substantive branches
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
B001–B030
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
Every branch supplies missing predicates, prohibited inference and public-law next step.

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coordinator acceptance
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11 — Wholly blank worksheet

Recorded check status: recorded; no individual primary acceptance inferred

Status and finding
Answered: all entry/analysis/result cells empty
Claim/source/branch crosswalk
§6
Missing matter and exact next permissible inquiry
No identity, allegation, financial, health, assessment or result entry.

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