Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 75-5929 - Same; allocation of funds to area agencies on aging, guidelines and requirements; rules and regulations(a) Funds appropriated for allocation under the Kansas senior care act shall be allocated to the area agencies on aging as follows: (1) A portion of the funds shall be allocated to the area agencies on aging based on a funding formula established by the secretary;(2) a portion of the funds, as determined by the secretary, shall be allocated to area agencies on aging that continue to receive matching funds directly as required by subsection (c) in accordance with the ratio for match established for this purpose by the secretary in rules and regulations adopted by the secretary; and(3) a portion of the funds, as determined by the secretary, may be allocated to area agencies on aging that receive amounts of matching ad valorem property tax levy funds directly from local units of government, or the single entity responsible for ad valorem property tax levies for services for the aging, as designated by the local units of government, in excess of the amounts required by subsection (c), and any such allocation shall be in accordance with the ratio for match established for this purpose by the secretary in rules and regulations adopted by the secretary.(b) Funds for purchase of service provided under the Kansas senior care act shall be expended only when other sources of support for service provision are not available. The funds shall not replace medicaid, older Americans act, community services block grant, medicare and other state or federal funding sources that may be used to pay for needed services.(c) On and after the effective date of this act, each local unit of government that provided matching funds directly to an area agency on aging for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, shall continue to provide matching funds to the area agency on aging at the funding level provided directly to the area agency on aging for match for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001.L. 1989, ch. 255, § 4; L. 1992, ch. 303, § 1; L. 1993, ch. 210, § 1; L. 2002, ch. 65, § 2; July 1.