2019 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 174
BY SENATORS JOHNS, ALARIO, ALLAIN, APPEL, BARROW, BISHOP,
BOUDREAUX, CARTER, CHABERT, CLAITOR, COLOMB,
CORTEZ, DONAHUE, ERDEY, FANNIN, GATTI, HENSGENS,
HEWITT, LAFLEUR, LAMBERT, LONG, LUNEAU, MARTINY,
MILKOVICH, MILLS, MIZELL, MORRELL, MORRISH, PEACOCK,
PETERSON, PRICE, RISER, GARY SMITH, JOHN SMITH, TARVER,
THOMPSON, WALSWORTH, WARD AND WHITE AND
REPRESENTATIVES ABRAHAM, ABRAMSON, ADAMS, ANDERS,
ARMES, BACALA, BAGLEY, BAGNERIS, BARRAS, BERTHELOT,
BILLIOT, BOUIE, BOURRIAQUE, BRASS, CHAD BROWN, TERRY
BROWN, CARMODY, ROBBY CARTER, CHANEY, CONNICK,
COX, CREWS, DAVIS, DUBUISSON, DUPLESSIS, DWIGHT,
EMERSON, FALCONER, FRANKLIN, GAINES, GAROFALO,
GISCLAIR, GLOVER, GUINN, JIMMY HARRIS, HILL, HOFFMANN,
HOLLIS, HORTON, HOWARD, HUVAL, JACKSON, JAMES,
JEFFERSON, JENKINS, ROBERT JOHNSON, JONES, JORDAN,
LACOMBE, TERRY LANDRY, LARVADAIN, LEBAS, LEGER,
LYONS, MARCELLE, MARINO, MCFARLAND, MCMAHEN,
DUSTIN MILLER, GREGORY MILLER, MOORE, JIM MORRIS,
MOSS, PEARSON, PIERRE, POPE, PUGH, RICHARD,
SCHEXNAYDER, STAGNI, STOKES, THOMAS, TURNER, WHITE,
WRIGHT AND ZERINGUE
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1), relative to the annual appropriation for
3 the councils on aging; to provide for an increase in the minimum appropriation; to
4 provide for an increase to the maximum allocation; and to provide for related
5 matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as
8 follows:
9 ยง1606. Annual appropriation
10 A. The legislature shall appropriate to the office of elderly affairs, for
11 distribution by the executive director of the office to the various voluntary parish
12 councils on aging, funds sufficient to allocate to each parish council two dollars and
13 fifty cents for each person sixty years or older who is a resident of the parish as
14 shown by the latest official census estimate or thirty-seven thousand five hundred
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1 one hundred thousand dollars, whichever is greater. The office of elderly affairs
2 shall include funds in their annual budget request for increases in funding based on
3 the number of elderly as estimated in the above census. Notwithstanding the
4 foregoing, such total annual appropriation shall be for a minimum of two million
5 seven hundred seventy-six thousand eight hundred six million nine hundred
6 thousand dollars. For Fiscal Year 2017-2018 and each year thereafter, there shall be
7 a maximum allocation of one hundred thousand dollars to any one parish council on
8 aging pursuant to this Subsection unless additional funds are appropriated for that
9 purpose.
10 B.(1) Funds appropriated by the legislature pursuant to Subsection A of this
11 Section shall be distributed by the executive director of the office of elderly affairs
12 and shall be allocated to each parish council in an amount equal to two dollars and
13 fifty cents for each resident of the parish age sixty years or older, as shown by the
14 latest official estimate approved by the United States Bureau of the Census, or thirty-
15 seven thousand five hundred one hundred thousand dollars, whichever is greater.
16 The sums so allocated shall be distributed quarterly during the first thirty days of
17 each quarter of the fiscal year. In appropriating funds pursuant to this Section, the
18 legislature shall specifically provide for the allocation of funds to the respective
19 parish councils in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
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PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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