Existing law declares the mission of the California Department of Aging to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services to maintain individuals in their own homes or in the least restrictive homelike environments. Under existing law, the department distributes funds to the area agencies on aging, as the local units on aging in California, in accordance with specified criteria.
This bill would require the department, in consultation with the Controller, to develop and implement a procedure for the electronic transfer of funds from the department to the area agencies on aging, for the programs and services administered by the area agencies on aging.
The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.