BILL NUMBER: AB 1737	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2012

   An act to amend Section 9015 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to aging.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1737, as introduced, Carter. Mello-Granlund Older Californians
Act.
   Existing law requires the California Department of Aging to
administer the federal Older American's Act in California and the
Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, and imposes various functions
and duties on the department with respect to the administration and
development of programs for older individuals.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9015 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   9015.  "Greatest social need" means the need caused by noneconomic
factors,  that   which  include physical
and mental disabilities, language barriers, cultural or social
isolation, including that caused by racial and ethnic status (for
example, Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian American), that
restrict an individual's ability to perform normal daily tasks or
 that  threaten his or her capacity to live
independently.