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2025 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 126
BY REPRESENTATIVE LYONS
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
COUNCILS ON AGING: Modifies the funding formula used to determine minimum state
funding allocations to parish councils on aging and increases the minimum aggregate
total that is to be appropriated annually to the office of elderly affairs for such
allocations
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1), relative to state funding for parish
3 councils on aging; to modify the funding formula for determining annual state
4 funding for each such council; to provide for distribution of such funding; to provide
5 minimum amounts to be appropriated for such funding; to provide for applicability;
6 to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
7Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as
9follows:
10 ยง1606. Annual appropriation
11 A. The legislature shall appropriate to the office of elderly affairs, for
12 distribution by the executive director of the office to the various voluntary parish
13 councils on aging, funds sufficient to allocate to each parish council two four dollars
14 and fifty cents for each person sixty years or older who is a resident of the parish as
15 shown by the latest official census estimate or one hundred fifty thousand dollars,
16 whichever is greater. The office of elderly affairs shall include funds in their annual
17 budget request for increases in funding based on the number of elderly as estimated
18 in the above census. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such total annual appropriation
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1 shall be for a minimum of six million nine hundred thousand ten million four
2 hundred ninety-four thousand two hundred thirty-eight dollars.
3 B.(1) Funds appropriated by the legislature pursuant to Subsection A of this
4 Section shall be distributed by the executive director of the office of elderly affairs
5 and shall be allocated to each parish council in an amount equal to two four dollars
6 and fifty cents for each resident of the parish age sixty years or older, as shown by
7 the latest official estimate approved by the United States Bureau of the Census, or
8 one hundred fifty thousand dollars, whichever is greater. The sums so allocated shall
9 be distributed quarterly during the first thirty days of each quarter of the fiscal year.
10 In appropriating funds pursuant to this Section, the legislature shall specifically
11 provide for the allocation of funds to the respective parish councils in accordance
12 with the provisions of this Section.
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14 Section 2. No provision of this Act shall apply to appropriations for Fiscal Year
152025-2026.
16 Section 3. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2025, and, if not signed by the
17governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature by the
18governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If vetoed
19by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
20effective on the day following such approval.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 126 Original 2025 Regular Session Lyons
Abstract: Modifies the state funding formula for minimum distributions to parish councils
on aging by increasing per person allotments and minimum parish allotments used
in such formula. Further increases the aggregate total minimum appropriation for
such funding.
Present law establishes a funding formula for distribution of state funding to parish councils
on aging. Requires such funding to be distributed quarterly by the office of elderly affairs
to each parish council on aging.
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Present law requires such funding to be distributed in an amount equal to $2.50 for each
resident of the parish age 60 or older as of the latest federal decennial census or $100,000,
whichever amount is greater. Proposed law retains present law but increases the minimum
per resident amount from $2.50 to $4.00 and increases the standard per parish minimum
amount from $100,000 to $150,000.
Present law requires the minimum total annual appropriation for such distributions to be
$6,900,000. Proposed law increases this amount to $10,494,238.
Proposed law limits applicability to appropriations for fiscal years after 2025-2026.
Effective July 1, 2025.
(Amends R.S. 46:1606(A) and (B)(1))
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