[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4577 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4577

   To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant 
   Secretary for Aging to publish on an online portal information on 
 national resource centers authorized or supported under such Act, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2024

   Mr. Braun 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 amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant 
   Secretary for Aging to publish on an online portal information on 
 national resource centers authorized or supported under such Act, 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 ``Senior Resource Center Transparency 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ONLINE PORTAL ON NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 202 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 
U.S.C. 3012) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, and every 180 days thereafter, the Assistant Secretary 
shall publish on an online portal--
            ``(1) a list of all national resource centers authorized or 
        supported under this Act;
            ``(2) a description of each such resource center, 
        including--
                    ``(A) the goals of the center;
                    ``(B) the population served by the center, 
                including the location of that population, by State;
                    ``(C) the number of older individuals served by the 
                center each year; and
                    ``(D) the amount and source of Federal and non-
                Federal funding the center receives each year; and
            ``(3) a description of quantitative and qualitative 
        metrics, including measures of effectiveness, that demonstrate 
        how each such center has advanced the goals described in 
        paragraph (2)(A).''.
    (b) GAO Evaluation.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall evaluate all national resource centers authorized or supported 
under the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) for 
functions to streamline, as appropriate, and to improve the 
efficiencies of taxpayer funds.
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