BILL NUMBER: SJR 4	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  36
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 20, 2013
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 16, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 13, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 13, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Monning
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Bigelow,
Bloom, Blumenfield, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown,
Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway,
Cooley, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth
Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gordon, Gorell, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Roger Hernández, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Stone,
Ting, Torres, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, and
Yamada)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   Relative to the federal Older Americans Act of 1965.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 4, Monning. Reauthorization of the federal Older Americans Act
of 1965.
   This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the
United States to enact appropriate legislation reauthorizing the
federal Older Americans Act of 1965.



   WHEREAS, In 2006, Congress reauthorized the federal Older
Americans Act of 1965 in its entirety, effective through the 2011
fiscal year; and
   WHEREAS, The federal Older Americans Act of 1965 has not been
reauthorized since 2006, although it was updated in 2009 and funding
for its programs has been authorized since that date on an annual
basis; and
   WHEREAS, The congressional appropriations staff continue to stress
the tight spending caps on discretionary programs imposed by the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997; and
   WHEREAS, A substantial number of older Americans living in the
State of California will be at risk if there are significant
reductions in allocated funds for the programs funded by the act; and

   WHEREAS, Further delay in the reauthorization of the federal Older
Americans Act of 1965 will erode the capacity of the act's various
structures to deliver services to meet the needs of older Americans;
and
   WHEREAS, The federal Older Americans Act of 1965 should
immediately be reauthorized to preserve the aging network's role in
home- and community-based services, maintain the advocacy and
consumer directed focus of the act, and give area agencies on aging
increased flexibility in planning and delivering services to
vulnerable older Americans; and
   WHEREAS, The federal Older Americans Act of 1965 should be funded
in the same manner in which the act has been funded for the past 48
years; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature memorializes the President
and the Congress of the United States to enact appropriate
legislation that would reauthorize the federal Older Americans Act of
1965; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Majority
Leader of the Senate, to the Chairman of the Senate Special Committee
on Aging, to each Senator and Representative from California in the
Congress of the United States, and to the author for appropriate
distribution.