75-7302. Same; financial assistance from department on aging; agreements; required amounts; increases. (a) The secretary of aging and the state long-term care ombudsman shall enter into agreements for the provision of financial assistance to the office by the department on aging from available state and federal funds of the department on aging. This financial assistance shall be to assist the office of the state long-term care ombudsman to provide ombudsman services in accordance with the long-term care ombudsman act, applicable federal programs and the provisions of this section.

(b) Subject to the provisions of appropriation acts, the secretary of aging and the department on aging shall continue to provide financial assistance for the office of the state long-term care ombudsman in an aggregate amount of not less than the aggregate of the amounts provided during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, appropriately adjusted for increases attributable to inflation and other applicable factors.

(c) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the secretary of aging shall include in the budget estimate prepared and submitted to the division of the budget for the department on aging under K.S.A. 75-3717, and amendments thereto, in addition to other amounts included in such budget estimate for the department on aging, amounts to be provided to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman during such fiscal year pursuant to this section. The amounts included in each such budget estimate to be provided to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman shall include amounts to be appropriated from moneys provided to the department on aging under the federal older Americans act, 42 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., and amendments thereto, or other federal programs for the aging or from other moneys of the department on aging. In no case shall the aggregate of the amounts included in any such budget estimate of the department on aging, that are to be provided to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman, be less than the aggregate of all moneys provided during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, by the department on aging for the office of the state long-term care ombudsman from appropriations to the department on aging, including moneys received under the federal older Americans act, 42 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., and amendments thereto, or under any other federal programs for the aging. The aggregate amounts included in each such budget estimate of the department on aging, that are to be provided to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman, shall be adjusted appropriately for increases attributable to inflation and other applicable factors.

History: L. 1998, ch. 101, § 2; June 14.