Georgia Code
Article 5 - Community Care and Services for the Elderly
§ 49-6-62. Establishment of Community Care Unit; Provision of Services; Annual Service Plan; Annual Progress Report; Fees and Contributions; Funding

History. Code 1933, § 88-1903D, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 2248, § 1; Code 1981, § 49-6-62 , enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 2248, § 4; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 38; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 49; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 49; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 49; Ga. L. 2005, p. 48, § 8/HB 309; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 49/SB 46; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-3/HB 228; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 49/SB 340; Ga. L. 2016, p. 737, § 1/HB 1085.
The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised language in subsection (g).
The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in subsection (g).
The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted “Division of Medical Assistance” for “aging section” at the end of the first sentence of subsection (a); deleted former subsection (e), which read: “The department shall develop a plan which shall provide for the implementation of a community care system in each of the specified geographic service areas by July 1, 1985. The three-year plan shall be developed concurrent with and integrated into the state plan on aging required under the Older Americans Act of 1965 and shall provide for coordination of all community based services for the elderly. The three-year plan shall include an inventory of existing services and an analysis comparing the cost of institutional long-term care and the cost of community care and other community based services for the elderly. The multiyear plan shall be presented to the Board of Human Services no later than July 31, 1983.”; redesignated former subsection (f) as present subsection (e); substituted the present provisions of subsection (e) for the former provisions, which read: “At the end of the three-year implementation period an annual community care service plan shall be incorporated into the state plan on aging.”; redesignated former subsection (g) as present subsection (f); in subsection (f), substituted “2017” for “1984” near the beginning, substituted “President of the Senate, the chairperson” for “Senate Committee on Assignments, the chairman” in the middle, and substituted “chairperson” for “chairman” near the end; and redesignated former subsections (h) and (i) as present subsections (g) and (h), respectively.
U.S. Code.
The federal Older Americans Act of 1965, referred to throughout this Code section, is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq.