[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3431 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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117th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 3431
To support programs and services under the Older Americans Act of 1965
through innovation and modernization, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 17, 2021
Mr. Kelly (for himself and Mr. Casey) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions
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A BILL
To support programs and services under the Older Americans Act of 1965
through innovation and modernization, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Revitalizing the Aging Network
Act''.
SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR THE AGING NETWORK AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
(a) Appropriation.--
(1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise
available, there are appropriated for fiscal year 2022, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the
Department of Health and Human Services--
(A) such sums as may be necessary to carry out part
B of title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42
U.S.C. 3030d et seq.), including for--
(i) supportive services of the type made
available for fiscal year 2021 and authorized
under such part;
(ii) investing in the aging network for the
purposes of improving the availability of
supportive services, including investing in the
aging network workforce;
(iii) the acquisition, alteration, or
renovation of facilities, including
multipurpose senior centers, intergenerational
shared-site models, and mobile units; and
(iv) construction or modernization of
facilities to serve as multipurpose senior
centers;
(B) such sums as may be necessary to carry out part
C of title III of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030d-21 et
seq.), including to support the modernization of
infrastructure and technology, including kitchen
equipment and delivery vehicles, to support the
provision of congregate nutrition services and home
delivered nutrition services under such part;
(C) such sums as may be necessary to carry out part
E of title III of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s et seq.),
including section 373(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s-
1(e));
(D) such sums as may be necessary to carry out
title VI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3057 et seq.),
including part C of such title (42 U.S.C. 3057k-11 et
seq.);
(E) such sums as may be necessary to carry out the
long-term care ombudsman program under title VII of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 3058 et seq.);
(F) such sums as may be necessary for technical
assistance centers or national resource centers
supported under such Act, including all such centers
that received funding under title IV of such Act (42
U.S.C. 3031 et seq.) for fiscal year 2021, in order to
support technical assistance and resource development
related to culturally appropriate care management and
services for older individuals with the greatest social
need, including racial and ethnic minority individuals;
(G) such sums as may be necessary for technical
assistance centers or national resource centers
supported under such Act that are focused on providing
services for older individuals who are underserved due
to their sexual orientation or gender identity; and
(H) such sums as may be necessary to carry out
section 417 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3032f).
(2) Availability.--Amounts appropriated by this subsection
shall remain available until expended.
(b) Requirements for Recipients of Funding.--
(1) Coordination.--Any entity receiving funds made
available under this section shall coordinate, to the extent
practicable, activities with organizations providing the same
services as those funded under this section, or facilitating
the delivery of such services, to older individuals served by
the Older Americans Act of 1965.
(2) Submission of data.--An entity receiving funds made
available under this section shall submit relevant data as the
Assistant Secretary may require for purposes of the evaluation
conducted under subsection (c).
(c) Program Evaluation.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 6 years after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary, shall by
grant, contract, or interagency agreement--
(A) evaluate the outcomes of all projects or
activities supported by funds made available under this
section; and
(B) submit a report on such evaluation to Congress.
(2) Contents.--The report required under paragraph (1)
shall describe--
(A) the innovations in program and service delivery
undertaken through funds made available under this
section;
(B) the impact of such innovations on the
communities served by such programs or services and the
entities providing the programs or services; and
(C) the impact of such innovations on older
individuals participating in such programs or services.
(d) Supplement, Not Supplant.--Funds made available under this
section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, any Federal,
State, or other funds otherwise available to provide programs and
services to older individuals.
(e) Nonapplicability of Certain Requirements.--The non-Federal
contribution requirements under sections 304(d)(1)(D) and 431(a) of the
Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3024(d)(1)(D); 42 U.S.C.
3033(a)), and section 373(h)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s-1(h)(2)),
shall not apply to--
(1) any amounts made available under this section; or
(2) any amounts made available under section 2921 of the
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).
(f) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``aging network'',
``Assistant Secretary'', and ``older individual'' have the meanings
given such terms in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42
U.S.C. 3002).
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