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1 1 Section 1. Section 28.1, Code 2001, is amended by adding
1 2 the following new subsection:
1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. "Senior adult" means an individual who
1 4 is sixty years of age or older.
1 5 Sec. 2. Section 28.2, subsection 4, Code 2001, is amended
1 6 to read as follows:
1 7 4. It is anticipated that the scope of the initiative will
1 8 expand as additional desired results are identified and agreed
1 9 upon by communities and the state. It is the intent of the
1 10 general assembly to identify from time to time the additional
1 11 desired results in statute. In addition to the initial set of
1 12 desired results identified in subsection 2, the desired
1 13 results shall include communities that are supportive of
1 14 senior adults.
1 15 Sec. 3. Section 28.4, subsection 7, paragraph b, Code
1 16 2001, is amended to read as follows:
1 17 b. Pooling and redirecting of existing federal, state, or
1 18 other public or private funds, including but not limited to
1 19 those funds directed to senior adults and other age groups.
1 20 Sec. 4. Section 28.4, subsection 12, paragraph b, Code
1 21 2001, is amended to read as follows:
1 22 b. With extensive community involvement, develop and
1 23 annually update a ten-year plan for consolidating, blending,
1 24 and redistributing state-administered funding streams for
1 25 other age groups made available to community empowerment area
1 26 boards, including but not limited to senior adults. The focus
1 27 for the early years of the initial ten-year plan shall be on
1 28 the efforts of the Iowa board and affected state agencies to
1 29 facilitate implementation of individual community empowerment
1 30 area board requests for pooling, consolidating, blending, and
1 31 redistributing state-administered funding streams for other
1 32 age groups.
1 33 Sec. 5. Section 28.5, subsection 1, Code 2001, is amended
1 34 to read as follows:
1 35 1. The purpose of a community empowerment area is to
2 1 enable local citizens to lead collaborative efforts involving
2 2 education, health, and human services programs on behalf of
2 3 the children, families, and other citizens residing in the
2 4 area. Leadership functions may include but are not limited to
2 5 strategic planning for and oversight and managing of such
2 6 programs and the funding made available to the community
2 7 empowerment area for such programs from federal, state, local,
2 8 and private sources. The initial focus of the purpose is to
2 9 improve results for families with young children. As a
2 10 community empowerment area board increases the board's
2 11 leadership capacity, the board may act to expand the focus and
2 12 programs to address the needs of senior adults and other age
2 13 groups.
2 14 Sec. 6. Section 28.7, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code
2 15 2001, is amended to read as follows:
2 16 b. Administer community empowerment grant moneys available
2 17 from the state to the community board as provided by law and
2 18 other federal, state, local, and private moneys made available
2 19 to the community board. Eligibility for receipt of community
2 20 empowerment grant moneys shall be limited to those community
2 21 boards that have developed an approved school ready children
2 22 grant plan in accordance with this chapter. A community board
2 23 may apply to the Iowa empowerment board to receive as a
2 24 community empowerment grant those moneys which would otherwise
2 25 only be available within the geographic area through
2 26 categorical funding sources or programs, including those
2 27 sources and programs directed to senior adults and other age
2 28 groups.
2 29 Sec. 7. Section 28.9, Code 2001, is amended by adding the
2 30 following new subsection:
2 31 NEW SUBSECTION. 3A. A senior adults grants account is
2 32 created in the Iowa empowerment fund under the authority of
2 33 the director of the department of elder affairs. Moneys
2 34 credited to the account shall be distributed by the director
2 35 of the department of elder affairs in the form of grants to
3 1 community empowerment areas pursuant to criteria established
3 2 by the Iowa board in accordance with law.
3 3 EXPLANATION
3 4 This bill amends Code chapter 28, the community empowerment
3 5 Act, to expressly authorize community empowerment areas to
3 6 address needs of senior adults.
3 7 Code section 28.1 is amended to add a definition of the
3 8 term "senior adult" as a person who is 60 years of age or
3 9 older.
3 10 Code section 28.2, relating to the purpose and scope of the
3 11 community empowerment initiative, is amended to add
3 12 communities that are supportive of senior adults to the list
3 13 of desired results for the initiative.
3 14 Code section 28.4, relating to planning and other
3 15 responsibilities of the Iowa empowerment board, is amended to
3 16 specifically include a reference to senior adults in a
3 17 directive for the Iowa board to coordinate and respond to
3 18 requests from community boards for assistance in the pooling
3 19 or redirecting of funding sources and in a general reference
3 20 to other age groups to be addressed in a 10-year strategic
3 21 plan to be developed by the board.
3 22 Code section 28.5, relating to the purpose of a community
3 23 empowerment area, is amended to specifically include senior
3 24 adults and other age groups whose needs may be addressed by a
3 25 community empowerment board.
3 26 Code section 28.7, relating to responsibilities of a
3 27 community empowerment area board, is amended to specifically
3 28 include the funding sources and programs directed to senior
3 29 adults and other age groups among those funding streams that a
3 30 community level board may apply to the Iowa empowerment board
3 31 for assistance in receiving as a community empowerment grant.
3 32 Code section 28.9, relating to the Iowa empowerment fund,
3 33 is amended to create a senior adults account within the fund.
3 34 The account is placed under the authority of the director of
3 35 the department of elder affairs to be used for grants to
4 1 community empowerment areas pursuant to criteria established
4 2 by the Iowa empowerment board.
4 3 LSB 1888XS 79
4 4 jp/gg/8
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