CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 614Introduced by Assembly Member LimnFebruary 14, 2017 An act to add Section 9402.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 614, as introduced, Limn. Area agency on aging: Alzheimers and dementia specialist.Existing law establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law requires the department to designate various private nonprofit or public agencies as area agencies on aging to work for the interests of older Californians within a planning and service area and provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. Existing law requires the department to provide leadership to those agencies in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments and requires those agencies to function as the community link at the local level for the development of those services. Existing law requires each area agency on aging to maintain a professional staff that is supplemented by volunteers, governed by a board of directors or elected officials, and whose activities are reviewed by an advisory council consisting primarily of older individuals from the community.Existing law requires the department to adopt policies and guidelines to carry out the purposes of the Alzheimers Day Care-Resource Center Program, whereby direct services contractors receive funding to provide services to meet the special care needs of, and address the behavioral problems of, individuals with Alzheimers disease or a disease of a related type.This bill would require each area agency on aging to maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 9402.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 614Introduced by Assembly Member LimnFebruary 14, 2017 An act to add Section 9402.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 614, as introduced, Limn. Area agency on aging: Alzheimers and dementia specialist.Existing law establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law requires the department to designate various private nonprofit or public agencies as area agencies on aging to work for the interests of older Californians within a planning and service area and provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. Existing law requires the department to provide leadership to those agencies in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments and requires those agencies to function as the community link at the local level for the development of those services. Existing law requires each area agency on aging to maintain a professional staff that is supplemented by volunteers, governed by a board of directors or elected officials, and whose activities are reviewed by an advisory council consisting primarily of older individuals from the community.Existing law requires the department to adopt policies and guidelines to carry out the purposes of the Alzheimers Day Care-Resource Center Program, whereby direct services contractors receive funding to provide services to meet the special care needs of, and address the behavioral problems of, individuals with Alzheimers disease or a disease of a related type.This bill would require each area agency on aging to maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 614
Introduced by Assembly Member LimnFebruary 14, 2017
Introduced by Assembly Member Limn
February 14, 2017
An act to add Section 9402.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 614, as introduced, Limn. Area agency on aging: Alzheimers and dementia specialist.
Existing law establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law requires the department to designate various private nonprofit or public agencies as area agencies on aging to work for the interests of older Californians within a planning and service area and provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. Existing law requires the department to provide leadership to those agencies in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments and requires those agencies to function as the community link at the local level for the development of those services. Existing law requires each area agency on aging to maintain a professional staff that is supplemented by volunteers, governed by a board of directors or elected officials, and whose activities are reviewed by an advisory council consisting primarily of older individuals from the community.Existing law requires the department to adopt policies and guidelines to carry out the purposes of the Alzheimers Day Care-Resource Center Program, whereby direct services contractors receive funding to provide services to meet the special care needs of, and address the behavioral problems of, individuals with Alzheimers disease or a disease of a related type.This bill would require each area agency on aging to maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
Existing law establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law requires the department to designate various private nonprofit or public agencies as area agencies on aging to work for the interests of older Californians within a planning and service area and provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. Existing law requires the department to provide leadership to those agencies in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments and requires those agencies to function as the community link at the local level for the development of those services. Existing law requires each area agency on aging to maintain a professional staff that is supplemented by volunteers, governed by a board of directors or elected officials, and whose activities are reviewed by an advisory council consisting primarily of older individuals from the community.
Existing law requires the department to adopt policies and guidelines to carry out the purposes of the Alzheimers Day Care-Resource Center Program, whereby direct services contractors receive funding to provide services to meet the special care needs of, and address the behavioral problems of, individuals with Alzheimers disease or a disease of a related type.
This bill would require each area agency on aging to maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 9402.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 9402.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
SECTION 1. Section 9402.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.
9402.5. Each area agency on aging shall maintain an Alzheimers and dementia specialist to provide information, assistance, referrals, and options to families.