§ 46:1606 — Annual appropriation

§1606. Annual appropriation
NOTE: Subsection A and Paragraph (B)(1) eff. until an Act of the Louisiana Legislature
containing a specific appropriation of monies for the implementation of Act 348 of the 2025
Regular Session becomes effective. See Acts 2025, No. 348.
A. The legislature shall appropriate to the office of elderly affairs, for distribution
by the executive director of the office to the various voluntary parish councils on aging,
funds sufficient to allocate to each parish council two dollars and fifty cents for each person
sixty years or older who is a resident of the parish as shown by the latest official census
estimate or one hundred thousand dollars, whichever is greater. The office of elderly affairs
shall include funds in their annual budget request for increases in funding based on the
number of elderly as estimated in the above census. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such
total annual appropriation shall be for a minimum of six million nine hundred thousand
dollars.
B.(1) Funds appropriated by the legislature pursuant to Subsection A of this Section
shall be distributed by the executive director of the office of elderly affairs and shall be
allocated to each parish council in an amount equal to two dollars and fifty cents for each
resident of the parish age sixty years or older, as shown by the latest official estimate
approved by the United States Bureau of the Census, or one hundred thousand dollars,
whichever is greater. The sums so allocated shall be distributed quarterly during the first
thirty days of each quarter of the fiscal year. In appropriating funds pursuant to this Section,
the legislature shall specifically provide for the allocation of funds to the respective parish
councils in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
NOTE: Subsection A and Paragraph (B)(1) eff. upon an Act of the Louisiana Legislature
containing a specific appropriation of monies for the implementation of Act 348 of the 2025
Regular Session becomes effective. See Acts 2025, No. 348.
A. The legislature shall appropriate to the office of elderly affairs, for distribution
by the executive director of the office to the various voluntary parish councils on aging,
funds sufficient to allocate to each parish council four dollars for each person sixty years
or older who is a resident of the parish as shown by the latest official census estimate or one
hundred fifty thousand dollars, whichever is greater. The office of elderly affairs shall
include funds in their annual budget request for increases in funding based on the number
of elderly as estimated in the above census. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such total
annual appropriation shall be for a minimum of ten million four hundred ninety-four
thousand two hundred thirty-eight dollars.
B.(1) Funds appropriated by the legislature pursuant to Subsection A of this Section
shall be distributed by the executive director of the office of elderly affairs and shall be
allocated to each parish council in an amount equal to four dollars for each resident of the
parish age sixty years or older, as shown by the latest official estimate approved by the
United States Bureau of the Census, or one hundred fifty thousand dollars, whichever is
greater. The sums so allocated shall be distributed quarterly during the first thirty days of
each quarter of the fiscal year. In appropriating funds pursuant to this Section, the
legislature shall specifically provide for the allocation of funds to the respective parish
councils in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
(2) In the event of the temporary or permanent relocation of state residents age sixty
or over due to a disaster, the executive director of the Office of Elderly Affairs may modify
the distribution of money, subject to the approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the
Budget.
C. The executive director of the office of elderly affairs shall distribute the funds
appropriated pursuant to this Section and allocated to particular parish councils to each
parish council which has filed its charter and its articles of incorporation with the bureau and
with the secretary of state, provided such council is in compliance with all budgetary and
fiscal requirements of law. Such funds shall be distributed in the amounts as provided by the
legislature in accordance with this Section.
D.(1) Funds appropriated pursuant to this Section shall not be in lieu of and shall not
in any way replace any other funds appropriated or to be appropriated to or for the voluntary
parish councils on aging, including those appropriated pursuant to Title III of the Older
Americans Act, 42 U.S.C. 3021 et seq., or other funds allocated pursuant to the Older
Americans Act, and any other funds presently appropriated, allocated, or otherwise made
available or funds hereafter appropriated, allocated, or otherwise made available for use by
the voluntary parish councils on aging.
(2) Except as provided in Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, the balance of any funds
appropriated pursuant to this Section which are not allocated to a particular parish council
pursuant to the formula provided in this Section shall be allocated to the office of elderly
affairs, to be distributed quarterly and to be used for administrative costs and continuing
education and training for the parish voluntary councils on aging.
(3) The executive director may allocate funds not appropriated to a particular council
on aging pursuant to the formula provided in this Section to one or more parish councils on
aging if such parish receives an increase in Louisiana residents age sixty or over due to a
disaster. Such allocation shall be subject to review and approval of the Joint Legislative
Committee on the Budget.
E. Each voluntary parish council on aging annually shall file with the office of
elderly affairs a financial statement for the previous fiscal year of all receipts and
disbursements of funds allocated pursuant to this Section, such statement to be filed no later
than thirty days after the close of each fiscal year.
F. For the purposes of this Section, "disaster" means a disaster declared by the
governor by executive order or proclamation pursuant to the Louisiana Homeland Security
and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721 et seq.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1979, No. 735, §1, eff. July 20, 1979. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 696, §1, eff. July 20, 1981; Acts 1983, No. 434, §1; Acts 2006, No. 693, §1, eff. June 29, 2006; Acts 2007, No. 344, §1; Acts 2017, No. 203, §1, eff. July 1, 2017; Acts 2019, No. 127, §1; Acts 2025, No. 348, §1, eff. See Act.