Article archive / August 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 3, No. 12. Source pages: 8.
Legislators moved the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board to the Department of Health and Hospitals.
The new law removes authority from the board for determining eligibility of programs, developing rules, and decisions about disbursement of funds, and moves it to DHH, office of aging and adult services.
The board has the duty to investigate the needs of head- injured and spinal cord-injured persons, “identifying any gaps in services, and preparing and submitting an annual report with recommendations to the legislature and the governor…”
The director of the Louisiana Rehabilitation Services within the La. Workforce Commission was added to the board, and other changes to the composition of the 13-member board were also made by Act 269.
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