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Administrative Hearings
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Describes a legal proceeding before an impartial administrative law judge designed to review a state or local agency decision. Each party to an administrative hearing has a right to present and question witnesses, and submit or challenge documents regarding the decision. The result of the proceeding is a decision to affirm, modify, or set aside the original agency decision.
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Adult Residential
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Residential facility for adults |
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Business Assistance
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Describes state services that provide assistance to resident businesses, manufacturing and industrial facilities and efforts to retain, expand, and attract them. Includes financing, incentives, workforce training, site selection, and application procedures. Includes also assistance to small businesses. |
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Child Day Care
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Describes child care services licensed by the state |
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Child Placing Adoption Agency
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Matches children to adoptive parents |
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Child Placing Foster Care
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Matches children to foster parents |
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Child Residential
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Residential center for children |
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Children and Youth Services
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Describes specialized services to children and youth. Includes recreation, support groups, social and health services, daycare, preschool, foster and adoption services, special education, training and employment, and performance evaluation systems and methods. |
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Disability
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Describes specialized services for people with emotional, physical, and learning disabilities. Includes training and employment, social and health services, therapy and rehabilitation, day care and housing, and educational and recreational services. |
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Economic Development
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Describes efforts of the state and local communities and government and non-governmental entities to increase business start-ups, expansion, and relocation activities in the state. |
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Education
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Describes the process of formal education in these specific stages: elementary, high school, and higher education. This category also includes vocational and technical schools that prepare students for technical, trade, service and industrial occupations. |
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Elections
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Describes the act or process of electing public officials. |
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Emergency Shelter
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Emergency temporary shelter for abused children |
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Employment and Training
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Describes services that include employment placement, job training, career assessment, job search, job lists, and resume assistance. |
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Environment
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Describes services that ensure a clean and healthy environment. Includes regulatory and non-regulatory, permitting and compliance programs; inventory and monitoring of emissions; remediation of environmental contamination; and providing outreach and educational materials related to pollution, recycling, and litter. |
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Family Services
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Describes service support systems for families. Includes pregnancy counseling, parenting classes, domestic violence counseling, financial and medical assistance, and recreation and educational opportunities. |
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Grants
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Describes the process of applying for grants from all sources and identifies the sources of these grants. Includes grants-in-aid which are payments from the federal government for a state or local program or state support for a local program. |
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Health Care
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Describes the public (national, state, local)
aspects of medicine. Includes regulation of medical education and practice; health status indicators, vital statistics and surveys; preventive medicine; health care services; diseases and addictive disorders; hospitals and clinics. |
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Information
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Describes the services involved in providing public access to information and statistics of a general, governmental, or non-governmental nature. |
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Labor
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Describes services that pertain to the labor force, including employment, unemployment, earnings, hours of work, employee benefits, and work schedules. |
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Legislation
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Describes the process of making or giving of laws by an official body of the state. |
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Licenses, Permits, and Leases
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Describes the process of applying for licenses, permits, and leases and identifies the granting authorities and documents needed to apply for them. |
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Maps
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Describes the representation of the selected features or detail of the whole or part of a physical area that indicates the nature, relative position, and size according to a chosen scale or projection. Includes maps in various formats: for example, paper, digital, orthoimagery. |
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Natural resources
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Describes agricultural, forest, mineral, wildlife, coastal, and energy resources. Includes conservation efforts. |
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Procurement and Purchasing
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Describes the process by which the state obtains and bids for services, equipment, and supplies in an official capacity. Includes the standardization of procedures, supervision, and legal requirements of the procurement and purchasing processes. It also includes assistance provided to vendors who wish to do business with the State of Louisiana. |
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Public Safety
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Describes specialized services to promote public safety and enhance state and local law enforcement. Functions include state police functions (traffic enforcement, criminal and narcotics investigations, crime analysis, gaming regulations), licensing and registration of motor vehicles and drivers, promotion of highway and fire safety, and regulation of liquefied pertroleum gas handling and distribution. Also includes institutional work and rehabilitation work programs; probation, pardons, and paroles; and programs for youth and juveniles in custody or supervision. |
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Publications
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Describes official publications in print and/or digital format. |
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Recreation
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Describes leisure activities, particularly outdoor recreation. Includes camping, hiking, biking, water sports, fishing, and hunting. Also includes fairs and festivals, games and amusements. |
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Registrations
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Describes the process of obtaining an official registration from governing authorities and the documents needed to obtain them. |
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Revenue
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Describes the annual or periodical yield of taxes, excises, customs, duties, and other sources of income that a state collects for public use. |
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Senior Services
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Describes specialized services and support for senior citizens. Includes senior and retirement centers; financial, legal, nutrition and energy assistance; educational and recreational programs; adult foster care and assisted living; and medicare. |
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Social Services
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Describes tax-supported social support services provided by federal, state, and local entities. Includes public assistance programs, transfer payments, welfare to work programs, health and medical care, adoption, and anti-poverty activites. |
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Taxation
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Describes the process of imposing a contribution of wealth to meet the public needs of government. Includes filing instructions, publications, and tax forms. |
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Tourism
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Describes the economic activity associated with the management and provision of activities and facilities for those who travel for recreation. Includes governmental and non-governmental efforts; visitors` centers, parks and recreation centers. |
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Transportation
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Describes the process of moving passengers or goods from one place to another. Includes transportation types (motor vehicles, urban transportation, air, rail, water, and freight) and infrastructure (roads, highways, bridges, airports, and shipping ports). |
