75-7302. Same; financial assistance from and monitoring by the Kansas department for aging and disability services; agreements; required amounts; increases. (a) The secretary for aging and disability services and the state long-term care ombudsman shall enter into agreements for the provision of financial assistance to the office by the Kansas department for aging and disability services from available state and federal funds of the Kansas department for aging and disability services. 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) The secretary for aging and disability services shall monitor the state long-term care ombudsman program and its activities as set forth in the agreement. Such monitoring shall include an assessment of whether the state long-term care ombudsman program is performing all of the functions, responsibilities and duties set out in state and federal laws and regulations.

(c) Subject to the provisions of appropriation acts, the secretary for aging and disability services and the Kansas department for aging and disability services 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.

(d) For each fiscal year, the secretary for aging and disability services shall include in the budget estimate prepared and submitted to the division of the budget for the Kansas department for aging and disability services under K.S.A. 75-3717, and amendments thereto, in addition to other amounts included in such budget estimate for the Kansas department for aging and disability services, 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 Kansas department for aging and disability services 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 Kansas department for aging and disability services. In no case shall the aggregate of the amounts included in any such budget estimate of the Kansas department for aging and disability services, 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 Kansas department for aging and disability services for the office of the state long-term care ombudsman from appropriations to the Kansas department for aging and disability services, 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 Kansas department for aging and disability services, 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; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 404; L. 2018, ch. 38, § 1; July 1.