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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 690
BY SENATOR BUFFINGTON
AGED PERSONS. Relative to the providing of services to the elderly. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 36:258(F) and R.S. 46:931, relative to providing services to the2
elderly; to provide for the Department of Health and Hospitals, office of aging and3
adult services; to provide for the office of elderly affairs in the office of the4
governor; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 36:258(F) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
§258. Offices; purposes and functions8
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F. The office of aging and adult services shall be responsible for the programs10
and functions of the Department of Health and Hospitals related to the long-term11
care of the elderly and the protection and long-term care of persons with adult onset12
disabilities. It shall administer the residential state-operated nursing homes, the Villa13
Feliciana Medical Complex, the protection services program of adults from ages14
eighteen to fifty-nine, the department's long-term support and services programs, the15
State Personal Assistance Services program, the Community and Family Support16
Program, the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund, as well as other17 SB NO. 690
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related programs and functions within the department.1
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Section 2. R.S. 46:931 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:3
§931. Creation; personnel4
An agency of the state to be known as the office of elderly affairs is hereby5
created and established in the office of the governor. Said The office shall exercise6
the powers and duties hereinafter set forth or otherwise provided by law. The office7
shall be administered by an executive director, who shall be recommended for8
appointment by the Louisiana Executive Board on Aging to the governor to serve at9
his pleasure, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The executive director shall10
employ necessary staff to carry out the duties and functions of the office as otherwise11
provided in this Chapter, or as otherwise provided by law.12
Section 3. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not13
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature14
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If15
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become16
effective on the day following such approval.17
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams.
DIGEST
Present law provides for the Department of Health and Hospitals, office of aging and adult
services and the office of elderly affairs in the office of the governor.
Proposed law amends present law.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 36:258(F) and R.S. 46:931)