To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant Secretary, when making grants for multidisciplinary centers of gerontology and gerontology centers of special emphasis, to give preference with respect to such centers that are located at institutions of higher education in urban areas.
Latest action · May 24, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 2, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant Secretary for Aging, when making grants to nonprofit organizations for the establishment or support of multidisciplinary centers of gerontology and gerontology centers of special emphasis, to give priority to centers located at urban institutions of higher education having a special emphasis on research to identify and provide technical assistance that promotes the best practices in long-term care service delivery, housing, financing, transportation, and other areas designed to create sustainable livable urban communities for future generations of increasingly diverse older individuals.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 24, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
- May 2, 2006Introduced in House
- May 2, 2006Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Access to health care
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Gerontology
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing for the aged
- Long-term care
- Medical research
- Nonprofit organizations
- Policy sciences
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation and the aged
- Urban affairs
- Urban areas
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