HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                    5323

AN ACT concerning

Services for the Elderly -
Interagency Committee on Aging Services

FOR the purpose of altering the powers and duties of the
Director on Aging; creating the Interagency Committee
on Aging Services and providing powers and duties for
that committee; providing for a certain report; and
generally relating to services for the elderly.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 70B - Office on Aging

Section 1 and 4(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 70B - Office on Aging

Section 4A through 4D, inclusive, to be under the new

subtitle "Interagency Committee on Aging

Services"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 70B - Office on Aging

1.

(A) IN THIS ARTICLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B)   "AREA AGENCY ON AGING" MEANS THE LOCAL AGENCY
DESIGNATED BY THE OFFICE ON AGING, PURSUANT TO THE OLDER
AMERICANS ACT OF 1965, AS AMENDED, WITHIN A PLANNING AND
SERVICE AREA TO ADMINISTER THE DELIVERY OF A COMPREHENSIVE
AND COORDINATED PLAN OF SOCIAL AND OTHER SERVICES AND
ACTIVITIES FOR THE ELDERLY.

(C)   "INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON AGING     SERVICES" MEANS
THE BODY DESIGNATED IN THIS ARTICLE TO OVERSEE THE
COORDINATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF SERVICES   FOR THE ELDERLY
IN THIS STATE.

(D) "PLANNING AND SERVICE AREA" MEANS THE SUBDIVISIONS
A SUBDIVISION OR SUBDIVISIONS OF THE STATE ESTABLISHES