The state shall be divided into five elderly planning and service areas, in accordance with federal law and regulations, each having an area agency on aging to carry out the mandates of the federal Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended. The area agencies shall (1) represent older persons within their geographic areas, (2) develop an area plan for approval by the Department of Social Services and upon such approval administer the plan, (3) coordinate and assist local public and nonprofit, private agencies in the development of programs, (4) receive and distribute federal and state funds for such purposes, in accordance with applicable law, (5) carry out any additional duties and functions required by federal law and regulations.

(P.A. 83-89, S. 2; P.A. 86-368, S. 1, 5; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 13-125, S. 14; P.A. 17-202, S. 57; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 293.)

History: P.A. 86-368 specified the number of planning and service areas for the elderly to be five; Sec. 17-136g transferred to Sec. 17a-304 in 1991; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department on aging, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17a-304 transferred to Sec. 17b-421 in 1995; P.A. 13-125 amended Subdiv. (2) to replace reference to Department of Social Services with reference to Department on Aging, effective July 1, 2013; Sec. 17b-421 transferred to Sec. 17a-304 in 2015; P.A. 17-202 amended Subdiv. (1) to replace “elderly” with “older”; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subdiv. (2) by replacing references to Department on Aging with references to Department of Social Services, effective October 31, 2017.