BILL NUMBER: AB 1259	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Arambula

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 9114.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to area agencies on aging.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1259, as introduced, Arambula. Area agencies on aging: federal
funding allocations.
   Under existing law, the California Department of Aging administers
the federal Older Americans Act in California. Pursuant to this
federal act and the Older Californians Act, the department allocates
federal funds, in accordance with prescribed funding formulas, to
area agencies on aging in order to provide an array of services to
seniors.
   Existing regulations provide that, except as prescribed, specified
federal Older Americans Act funds allocated to an area agency on
aging that remain unencumbered or unexpended at the end of the fiscal
year for which the allocation was made shall revert to the
department for reallocation to the area agencies on aging.
    This bill would, notwithstanding any other provision of law or
regulation, permit an area agency on aging to carry over, for future
use, any federal funds allocated to that agency pursuant to the
federal Older Americans Act that remain unexpended or unencumbered at
the end of the fiscal year for which the funds were allocated.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 9114.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   9114.5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation,
the department shall permit an area agency on aging to carry over,
for future use, any federal funds allocated to that agency pursuant
to the federal Older Americans Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 3001, et seq.)
that remain unexpended or unencumbered at the end of the fiscal year
for which the funds were allocated.