Older Americans Act Amendments of 2012
Latest action · Jan 26, 2012 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 26, 2012
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Older Americans Act Amendments of 2012 - Revises the Older Americans Act of 1965 with respect to functions and duties of the Administration on Aging of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), particularly with respect to those with the greatest social need caused by specified noneconomic factors.
Reauthorizes the Act through FY2017.
Requires the Director of the Office of Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs to recommend to the Assistant Secretary for Aging resources (including including hardware and software) needed by state Long-Term Care Ombudsmen (LTCOs) to collect and report program data through the National Ombudsman Reporting System.
Directs the Assistant Secretary to award livable communities grants to eligible entities for the federal share of the cost of assisting communities in preparing for the aging of the population through specified activities.
Grants states the option to use certain grant funds to provide disease prevention and health promotion services directly, including clinical preventive services.
Directs the Assistant Secretary to award grants: (1) to a national organization to establish a National Resource Center on Livable Communities for All Ages; and (2) to carry out projects to support and promote modern multipurpose senior center models which yield multiservice, multigenerational centers for older individuals, their families, and others to gain needed skills, resources, and connections for continuum of care and quality of life.
Requires each grantee under the Older American community service employment program to place at least 50% of its project participants in positions with organizations that assist older adults or with duties that positively impact their lives.
Revises the prohibition against contracting by state LTCO programs with public agencies or nonprofit private organizations to carry out LTCO programs in any case in which there is an organizational conflict of interest unless such conflict has been identified, disclosed, and remedied by certain actions.
Requires a state agency to provide the services of a state legal services developer, who shall promote the development and operation of an integrated legal assistance delivery system.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 26, 2012Introduced in Senate
- Jan 26, 2012Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Jan 26, 2012Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S133-134)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.
- Aging
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Disability and paralysis
- Employment and training programs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family services
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- HIV/AIDS
- Inflation and prices
- Lawyers and legal services
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- National and community service
- Neurological disorders
- Public contracts and procurement
- Rural conditions and development
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Social Welfare
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 26, 2012Introduced in Senate
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