An act TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR GRANTS FOR 10 CONGREGATE AND HOME-DELIVERED MEALS FOR THE 11 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, 12 ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE FISCAL 13 YEAR ENDING JU, the official text

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1 State of Arkansas             A Bill
2 95th General Assembly

3 Regular Session, 2025                                            SENATE BILL 201

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5 By: Senator J. Payton

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8                               For An Act To Be Entitled

9        AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR GRANTS FOR

10       CONGREGATE AND HOME-DELIVERED MEALS FOR THE

11       DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING,

12       ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE FISCAL

13       YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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17                       AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN

18                       SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND

19                       BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES - GRANTS FOR

20                       CONGREGATE AND HOME-DELIVERED MEALS

21                       APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL

22                       YEAR.

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24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:

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26       SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION - GRANTS FOR CONGREGATE AND HOME-DELIVERED

27 MEALS. There is hereby appropriated, to the Department of Human Services, to

28 be payable from the paying account as determined by the Chief Fiscal Officer

29 of the State, for grants to Arkansas Area Agencies on Aging for congregate

30 and home-delivered meals by the Department of Human Services - Division of

31 Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services for the fiscal year ending June

32 30, 2025, the following:

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34 ITEM                                                             FISCAL YEAR

35 NO.                                                              2024-2025

36 (01) CONGREGATE/HOME-DELIVERED MEALS                             $5,000,000

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2   SECTION 2. SPECIAL LANGUAGE. NOT TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE ARKANSAS

3 CODE NOR PUBLISHED SEPARATELY AS SPECIAL, LOCAL AND TEMPORARY LAW. FUND

4 TRANSFER - CONGREGATE AND HOME-DELIVERED MEALS. Immediately upon the

5 effective date of this Act, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall

6 transfer on his or her books and those of the State Treasurer and the Auditor

7 of the State the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) from the General

8 Revenue Allotment Reserve Fund to the paying account as determined by the

9 Chief Fiscal Officer of the State for congregate and home-delivered meals.

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11  SECTION 3. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER LAWS. Disbursement of funds

12 authorized by this act shall be limited to the appropriation for such agency

13 and funds made available by law for the support of such appropriations; and

14 the restrictions of the State Procurement Law, the General Accounting and

15 Budgetary Procedures Law, the Revenue Stabilization Law, the Regular Salary

16 Procedures and Restrictions Act, or their successors, and other fiscal

17 control laws of this State, where applicable, and regulations promulgated by

18 the Department of Finance and Administration, as authorized by law, shall be

19 strictly complied with in disbursement of said funds.

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21  SECTION 4. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of the General

22 Assembly that any funds disbursed under the authority of the appropriations

23 contained in this act shall be in compliance with the stated reasons for

24 which this act was adopted, as evidenced by the Agency Requests, Executive

25 Recommendations and Legislative Recommendations contained in the budget

26 manuals prepared by the Department of Finance and Administration, letters, or

27 summarized oral testimony in the official minutes of the Arkansas Legislative

28 Council or Joint Budget Committee which relate to its passage and adoption.

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30  SECTION 5. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is found and determined by the General

31 Assembly, that funds provided by the General Assembly for the operations of

32 the Department of Human Services - Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral

33 Health Services are, due to unforeseen circumstances, insufficient for the

34 Department of Human Services - Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral

35 Health Services to continue to provide essential governmental services; that

36 the provisions of this act will provide the necessary monies for the

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1 Department of Human Services - Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral

2 Health Services to continue such services; and that a delay in the effective

3 date of this Act could work irreparable harm upon the proper administration

4 and provision of essential governmental programs. Therefore, an emergency is

5 hereby declared to exist and this Act being necessary for the immediate

6 preservation of the public peace, health and safety shall be in full force

7 and effect from and after the date of its passage and approval.

8   If the bill is neither approved nor vetoed by the Governor, it shall

9 become effective on the expiration of the period of time during which the

10 Governor may veto the bill. If the bill is vetoed by the Governor and the

11 veto is overridden, it shall become effective on the date the last house

12 overrides the veto.

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