FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 987

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RELFORD AND LEGAN (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time March 14, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 660.099, RSMo 2000, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the home-delivered meal program.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 660.099, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 660.099, to read as follows:

660.099. 1. The general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to the amount currently being provided per annum for nutrition services for the elderly. Funds so designated to provide nutrition services for the elderly shall be allocated to the Missouri division of aging [to be placed on the formula basis] and distributed to each area agency on aging throughout the state of Missouri based on the actual number of meals served in each area during the previous fiscal year.

2. The general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to the amount currently being provided per annum through the Missouri elderly and handicapped transportation program. Funds so designated to provide transportation for the elderly and developmentally disabled shall be allocated to the Missouri division of aging to be placed on the formula basis and distributed to each area agency on aging throughout the state of Missouri.

3. The general assembly may appropriate funds in addition to the amount currently being provided per annum for home-delivered meals for the elderly. Such additional funds shall be allocated to the Missouri division of aging [to be placed on the formula basis] and distributed to each area agency on aging throughout the state of Missouri based on the actual number of meals served in each area during the previous fiscal year.


Missouri House of Representatives