THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY PETRI, BAKER, BARRAR, BEAR, BEYER, BOYD, CARROLL, CLYMER, CUTLER, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRELL, GROVE, HARPER, HENNESSEY, HESS, KILLION, MARSICO, MELIO, MILLARD, MILLER, O'NEILL, PEIFER, PHILLIPS, QUINN, REICHLEY, ROHRER, ROSS, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SWANGER, WANSACZ AND WATSON, FEBRUARY 13, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES, FEBRUARY 13, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

Executive Department thereof and the administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

officers, and of the several administrative departments,

boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," in Department of Aging,

further providing for the allocation of Federal and State

funds to area agencies.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2210-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.

177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, amended

December 15, 1988 (P.L.1244, No.153), is amended to read:

Section 2210-A.  Allocation of Resources.--(a)  The area

agency shall receive a basic allocation of resources, consisting

of State and Federal funds weighted by the proportion of older

poor persons who reside in the planning and service area in

relation to the total number of older poor persons who reside in

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania utilizing poverty threshold

income standards as determined by the United States Office of

Management and Budget [except that each area agency shall be

held harmless to the amount of State funds received in the

preceding program year].

(b)  The department may allocate additional resources to area

agencies based upon the total number of older persons who reside

within the planning and service area, the availability of

transportation services, the rural-urban distribution of older

persons, and attendant rural program cost differentials, the

need for social and medical services, the amount of funds

devoted by county commissioners for older persons and other

special circumstances as determined by the secretary.

(c)  Funds appropriated to carry out the purposes of this act

shall be distributed to the local authorities or nonprofit

agencies as grants or cost reimbursement for services to the

aging, if there is an acceptable plan in accordance with section

2209-A.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.