42 U.S.C. § 3058j — State legal assistance development
submitted 26 years ago by Pub. L. 89-73 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 142 words · no verdicts yet
A State agency must provide a State legal assistance developer and enough other staff to support older individuals’ legal rights. The required capacity includes coordination, training, financial-management help, rights education, and improved legal services.
A State agency* must provide a person known as the State* legal assistance* developer, and enough other personnel, to ensure (1) State leadership in securing and maintaining older individuals’ legal rights; (2) State ability to coordinate legal assistance; (3) State ability to give technical help, training, and other support to area agencies on aging, legal-assistance providers, ombudsmen, and others as appropriate; (4) State ability to promote financial-management services for older individuals at risk of conservatorship; (5) State ability to help older individuals understand their rights, make choices, use services and opportunities authorized by law, and maintain the rights of people at risk of guardianship; and (6) State ability to improve the quality and amount of legal services for older individuals.
A State agency* shall provide the services of an individual who shall be known as a State* legal assistance* developer, and the services of other personnel, sufficient to ensure—
State leadership in securing and maintaining the legal rights of older individuals;
State capacity for coordinating the provision of legal assistance;
State capacity to provide technical assistance, training, and other supportive functions to area agencies on aging, legal assistance providers, ombudsmen, and other persons, as appropriate;
State capacity to promote financial management services to older individuals at risk of conservatorship;
State capacity to assist older individuals in understanding their rights, exercising choices, benefiting from services and opportunities authorized by law, and maintaining the rights of older individuals at risk of guardianship; and
State capacity to improve the quality and quantity of legal services provided to older individuals.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–73, title VII, § 731, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title VII, § 706, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2291.)
- 2000Enacted · Pub. L. 89-73 · 114 Stat. 2291
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-73 on 2000-11-13.
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