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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 362
BY SENATOR WALSWORTH
FUNDS/FUNDING. Provides for the annual appropriations for voluntary parish councils
on aging. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1), relative to the office of elderly affairs;2
to increase the appropriations to each parish council on aging; and to provide for3
related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as6
follows: 7
ยง1606. Annual appropriation8
A. The legislature shall appropriate to the office of elderly affairs, for9
distribution by the executive director of the office to the various voluntary parish10
councils on aging, funds sufficient to allocate to each parish council two dollars and11
fifty cents five dollars for each person sixty years or older who is a resident of the12
parish as shown by the latest official census estimate or thirty-seven thousand five13
hundred dollars, fifty thousand dollars whichever is greater, but not to exceed one14
hundred thousand dollars to any one parish council. The office of elderly affairs shall15
include funds in their annual budget request for increases in funding based on the16
number of elderly as estimated in the above census. Notwithstanding the foregoing,17 SB NO. 362
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such total annual appropriation shall be for a minimum of two million seven hundred1
seventy-six thousand eight hundred dollars six million eight hundred and thirty2
thousand dollars.3
B.(1) Funds appropriated by the legislature pursuant to Subsection A of this4
Section shall be distributed by the executive director of the office of elderly affairs5
and shall be allocated to each parish council in an amount equal to two dollars and6
fifty cents five for each resident of the parish age sixty years or older, as shown by7
the latest official estimate approved by the United States Bureau of the Census, or8
thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars fifty thousand dollars, whichever is9
greater, but not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars for any one parish council.10
The sums so allocated shall be distributed quarterly during the first thirty days of11
each quarter of the fiscal year. In appropriating funds pursuant to this Section, the12
legislature shall specifically provide for the allocation of funds to the respective13
parish councils in accordance with the provisions of this Section.14
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Section 2. The provision of this Act shall not become effective unless and until16
sufficient funds are appropriated by the legislature for such purposes.17
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Bobbie Hunter.
DIGEST
Present law requires an appropriation to the office of elderly affairs to be distributed to the
parish councils on aging consisting of an allocation of $2.50 for each person age 60 and
older or $37,000, whichever is greater, but not to exceed $100,000 to any one parish. The
total annual appropriation cannot be for an amount less than $2,776,800. Present law
mandates that the balance of any funds appropriated pursuant to present law be allocated
quarterly during the first 30 days of each quarter of the fiscal year.
Proposed law changes present law by requiring an appropriation to the office of elderly
affairs to be distributed to the parish councils on aging consisting of an allocation of $5.00
for each person age 60 and older, or $50,000, whichever is greater. The total annual
appropriation cannot be for an amount less than $6,830,000.
Provides for effectiveness of the Act contingent upon the appropriation of funds sufficient
for the purposes intended.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1))