Elderly

State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2020 Regular Session

Relating To The Elderly. [HB-2220] [Senior Citizens ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Human Services ]
Establishes the offense of financial exploitation of an elder and provides enhanced penalties. Amends mandatory reporting requirements for suspected financial abuse of an elder. Requires DHS to share records with the appropriate county police departments or offices of the prosecuting attorney. Effective 12/31/2059. (HD2)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura The Hearing On This Measure Has Been Cancelled Until Further Notice. on 03/16/2020

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State (Maine)
Maine 129th Legislature

An Act To Clarify and Amend MaineCare Reimbursement Provisions for Nursing and Residential Care Facilities [SB-1758] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Senior Citizens ]
An Act To Clarify and Amend MaineCare Reimbursement Provisions for Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Troy Dale Jackson The House Receded And Concurred To Passage To Be Engrossed As Amended By Committee Amendment "a" (s-265) As Amended By Senate Amendment "b" (s-368) Thereto. on 06/20/2019

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State (Maine)
Maine 129th Legislature

An Act To Ensure Comprehensive Interdepartmental Planning, Coordination and Collaboration on Aging Policy [HB-1733] [Senior Citizens ] [Human Services ]
An Act To Ensure Comprehensive Interdepartmental Planning, Coordination and Collaboration on Aging Policy

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica L. Fay On Motion By Senator Libby Of Androscoggin The Senate Receded And Concurred With Bill And Accompanying Papers Committed To The Committee On State And Local Government In Concurrence on 03/17/2020

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State (Maine)
Maine 128th Legislature

Resolve, To Support Vulnerable Seniors by Funding Assisted Living Programs [SB-1742] [Senior Citizens ] [Funding ] [Human Services ] [Healthcare ]
Resolve, To Support Vulnerable Seniors by Funding Assisted Living Programs

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sara Gideon In Possession Of The Senate When The Senate Adjourned Sine Die And Placed In The Legislative Files (dead). on 09/13/2018

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State (Alabama)
Alabama Regular Session 2017

Elderly, elder abuse protection orders, authorized, elder abuse defined, Sec. 15-10-3 am'd. [SB-274] [Senior Citizens ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Human Services ] [Law Enforcement ]
Elderly, elder abuse protection orders, authorized, elder abuse defined, Sec. 15-10-3 am'd.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Rodger M. Smitherman Concurrence Requested on 05/09/2017

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State (Alabama)
Alabama Regular Session 2017

Elderly, elder abuse protection orders, authorized, elder abuse defined, Sec. 15-10-3 am'd. [HB-304] [Senior Citizens ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Human Services ] [Law Enforcement ]
Elderly, elder abuse protection orders, authorized, elder abuse defined, Sec. 15-10-3 am'd.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Roderick Scott Third Reading Carried Over on 05/04/2017

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-third Legislature - First Regular Session (2017)

Appropriations; ALTCS; elderly; physical disabilities. [SB-1104] [Healthcare ] [Senior Citizens ] [Disabilities ] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ] [Human Services ]
Appropriations; ALTCS; elderly; physical disabilities.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Kate Brophy McGee Senate Read Second Time on 01/19/2017

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2017 Regular Session

Relating To The Elderly. [SB-539] [Senior Citizens ] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Human Services ]
Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class felony. Defines "caregiver", "elder", and "financial exploitation".

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Donna Mercado Kim Reported From Hms (stand. Com. Rep. No. 18) With Recommendation Of Passage On Second Reading And Referral To Jdl. on 02/02/2017

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2017 Regular Session

Relating To The Elderly. [HB-432] [Senior Citizens ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Human Services ] [Law Enforcement ]
Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class A felony. Defines "caregiver", "elder", and "financial exploitation". Effective 7/1/2075. (SD1)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama Reported From Hms/cph (stand. Com. Rep. No. 1019) With Recommendation Of Passage On Second Reading, As Amended (sd 1) And Referral To Jdl. on 03/23/2017

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2017 Regular Session

Health and Aging Programs - Establishment and Funding Requirements [SB-903] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Senior Citizens ] [Mental Health ] [Budget and Spending ]
Establishing the Administrative Care Coordination Unit Program and the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the purposes of the Programs; requiring the Department to develop and use specified formulas to allocate funding under the Programs; establishing a mandated minimum appropriation to increase funding for specified programs over specified established funding levels; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Ferguson Hearing 3/15 At 1:00 P.m. (finance) on 03/15/2017

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2017 Regular Session

Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning [HB-953] [Healthcare ] [Senior Citizens ] [Public Health ]
Establishing the Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning to examine, to consider options for improving, and to make recommendations regarding efforts to educate residents of the State about planning for long-term care; providing for the composition of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 1, 2017; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel T Oaks Approved By The Governor - Chapter 213 on 04/18/2017

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2017 Regular Session

Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning [SB-696] [Healthcare ] [Senior Citizens ] [Public Health ]
Establishing the Task Force on Long-Term Care Education and Planning to examine, to consider options for improving, and to make recommendations regarding efforts to educate residents of the State about planning for long-term care; providing for the composition of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 1, 2017; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas McClain Middleton Approved By The Governor - Chapter 212 on 04/18/2017

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2017 Regular Session

Maryland Caregivers Support Coordinating Council - Renaming and Altering Membership and Duties [HB-769] [Healthcare ] [Human Services ] [Disabilities ] [Senior Citizens ] [Public Health ]
Renaming the Maryland Caregivers Support Coordinating Council to be the Maryland Commission on Caregiving; altering the membership of the Commission to include specified members of the General Assembly; requiring the Governor, when appointing members, to consider groups representing specified individuals such as those with disabilities, disorders affecting an entire lifespan, and those who reflect the diversity of the State; requiring the Commission to provide ongoing analysis of best practices in family caregiver support programs; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Eric M Bromwell Approved By The Governor - Chapter 68 on 04/11/2017

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2017 Regular Session

Senior Apartment Facilities - Limitation on Occupancy by Person Convicted of Crime of Violence [SB-408] [Senior Citizens ] [Housing ] [Crime ] [Consumer Protection ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Prohibiting under specified circumstances a landlord from renting a unit to an individual convicted of a crime of violence within the previous 5 years or allowing an individual convicted of a crime of violence within the previous 5 years to reside in a senior apartment facility in a unit on the same floor on which a vulnerable adult resides; providing for enforcement by the Division of Consumer Protection of the Office of the Attorney General; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Anthony Muse Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 02/27/2017

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State (Maine)
Maine 128th Legislature

Resolve, To Provide Meals to Homebound Individuals [HB-692] [Food ] [Senior Citizens ] [Public Health ] [Human Services ]
Resolve, To Provide Meals to Homebound Individuals

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Patricia Hymanson In Possession Of The Senate When The Senate Adjourned Sine Die And Placed In The Legislative Files (dead). on 09/13/2018

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State (Maine)
Maine 128th Legislature

An Act To Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services To Disclose Information to the Personal Representative of the Estate of an Incapacitated or Dependent Adult Who Dies While under Public Guardianship or Public Conservatorship [SB-135] [Healthcare ] [Human Services ] [Public Health ] [Senior Citizens ] [Data Privacy ]
An Act To Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services To Disclose Information to the Personal Representative of the Estate of an Incapacitated or Dependent Adult Who Dies While under Public Guardianship or Public Conservatorship

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David R. Miramant Speaker Laid Before The House on 05/11/2017

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2017 Regular Session

Adult Protective Services - Investigation - Time Period Increase [HB-256] [Senior Citizens ] [Human Services ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ] [Healthcare ] [Disabilities ] [Children and Youth ] [Crime ]
Increasing from 30 days to 60 days the period of time during which a local department of social services, or in Montgomery County the county department of health and human services, must complete an investigation after receiving a report of suspected abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation of an alleged vulnerable adult.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen M Dumais Hearing 3/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2017

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State (Maine)
Maine 128th Legislature

An Act To Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption for Certain Persons Who Are at Least 75 Years of Age [HB-73] [Property Tax ] [Senior Citizens ] [Taxes ]
An Act To Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption for Certain Persons Who Are at Least 75 Years of Age

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan M. Fecteau Reports Read on 05/25/2017

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2017 Regular Session

Eliminates the cap on the funding formula for voluntary parish councils on aging (EG +$405,114 GF EX See Note) [HB-176] [Senior Citizens ] [Funding ] [Human Services ] [Budget and Spending ]
Eliminates the cap on the funding formula for voluntary parish councils on aging (EG +$405,114 GF EX See Note)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Troy Carter Signed By The Governor. Becomes Act No. 203. on 06/14/2017

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State (Maine)
Maine 128th Legislature

An Act To Assist Residents of Nursing Homes To Return to Their Communities [HB-19] [Healthcare ] [Housing ] [Senior Citizens ] [Human Services ] [Community Development ]
An Act To Assist Residents of Nursing Homes To Return to Their Communities

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Frances M. Head Pursuant To Joint Rule 310.3 Placed In Legislative Files (dead) on 02/16/2017

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