[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 120 (Thursday, September 11, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S9197]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-226. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of California; to the Committee on Appropriations.

                    Assembly Joint Resolution No. 11

       Whereas, Many of our senior citizens rely on the Congregate 
     Nutrition Services under Subpart 1 (commencing with Section 
     3030e) of Part C of Subchapter 3 of Chapter 35 of Title 42 of 
     the United States Code, the Older Americans Act, for their 
     main source of nutrition; and
       Whereas, Many of our senior citizens rely on the Home 
     Delivered Nutrition Services under Subpart 2 (commencing with 
     Section 3030f) of Part C of Subchapter 3 of Chapter 35 of 
     Title 42 of the United States Code, the Older Americans Act, 
     for their only source of nutrition; and
       Whereas, In many cases, the delivery person may be the only 
     person who sees the senior citizen daily, and that person 
     also serves as a resource for other needs that the senior 
     citizen may have; and
       Whereas, Delivered meals to a home-bound senior citizen is 
     very cost-effective, since nutrition is basic to maintaining 
     health and life; and
       Whereas, Without home-delivered meals to home-bound 
     seniors, they are forced into higher levels of care and the 
     residential and skilled nursing facilities that those seniors 
     are moved to cost much more; and
       Whereas, Most of the cost of care in residential homes and 
     skilled nursing facilities are passed on to the state and the 
     federal government; and
       Whereas, The means by which lowest cost under which care 
     may be provided is to maintain these senior citizens in their 
     own homes; now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of 
     California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of 
     California respectfully memorializes the President and the 
     Congress of the United States to maintain current levels of 
     funding of Congregate Nutrition Services under Subpart 1 
     (commencing with Section 3030e) of Part C of Subchapter 3 of 
     Chapter 35 of Title 42 of the United States Code, and Home 
     Delivered Nutrition Services under Subpart 2 (commencing with 
     Section 3030f) of Subchapter 3 of Chapter 35 of Title 42 of 
     the United States Code; and be it further
       Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California 
     respectfully memorializes the President and the Congress of 
     the United States to index annual cost-of-living increases in 
     funding for Congregate Nutrition Services and Home Delivered 
     Nutrition Services; and be it further
       Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit 
     copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President 
     of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from 
     California in the Congress of the United States.

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