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Sanchez, B |
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Aging & Long Term Services Department Act |
SB |
141 |
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ANALYST |
Gilbert |
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Appropriation
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Additional Impact |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates HB 34
LFC Files
Responses
Received From
State
Agency on Aging (SAA)
Developmental
Disabilities Planning Council (DDPC)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 141 creates an Aging and Long-Term
Services Department (ALTSD) in accordance with the terms of Executive Order No.
2003-022. The new department is composed
of five divisions: administrative services, consumer and elder rights, aging
network services, long-term care, and adult protective services. An office of Indian elder affairs is also
created within the secretary’s office.
This bill addresses directives and recommendations made in Committee Substitute
for House Bill 585 passed and signed by the Governor during the 2003
Legislative Session and by the Legislative Subcommittee on Reorganization.
Significant Issues
The
purpose of this bill is to create a single, unified department to administer
all laws (including the federal Older Americans Act) and exercise all functions
formerly administered by the State Agency on Aging and to administer laws and
exercise certain functions of the Human Services Department (HSD), the Department
of Health (DOH) and the Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD) that
relate to aging, adults with disabilities or long-term care services
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
SB141 does not contain an appropriation. According to the Agency on Aging, transfer of
funds and FTEs from the DOH, HSD, and CYFD are being negotiated between the
departments, with assistance from the Department of Finance and Administration
(DFA), to ensure appropriate transfers to the Aging and Long-Term Services
Department.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
This bill contains
standard legislative language necessary to transfer appropriations, money, personnel
and property to the ALTSD for all programs being transferred.
The ALTSD has developed
a plan to implement functional transfers of certain long-term care programs.
The traumatic brain injury program is to be transferred from DOH on July 1,
2004, the HSD home and community-based Medicaid waiver programs for the
disabled and elderly are to be transferred no later than January 1, 2006, and the functions of adult
protective services, adult day care, attendant care and other home- and
community-based long-term care programs that serve seniors or adults with
disabilities will be transferred from CYFD to ALTSD no later than January 1, 2006.
The Developmental
Disabilities Planning Council recommends obtaining input from persons receiving
services, families, advocates, and providers prior to the transfer of any
program which provides services to persons with disabilities or to their families.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
On
page 9, line 2, the word Care between
the words Long-Term and Act should be stricken and replaced with
the words Services Department.
RLG/njw