3.0.0 2940 2023-01-14T22:48:35Z 2023-01-14T22:48:35Z Senate S S 2004-10-07 108 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Reported original measure 2004-10-08T00:55:42Z S. Rept. 108-391 Poverty Reduction and Prevention Act 108 1786 S 2004-03-11 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. Related bill House 2004-10-07 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 780. Calendars 2004-10-07 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Gregg. With written report No. 108-391. Committee 2004-10-07 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Gregg. With written report No. 108-391. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee 2004-10-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000445 Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH] Judd Gregg R NH N Social Welfare Caregivers Case management Crime and Law Enforcement Crime prevention Crimes against the elderly Criminal statistics Department of Health and Human Services Due process of law Economics and Public Finance Elder abuse Employee training Executive reorganization Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to law enforcement Fraud Geriatrics Gerontology Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Housing and Community Development Labor and Employment Law Legal services Long-term care Mental health Minorities Mortality Nursing Old age assistance Ombudsman Performance measurement Poverty Quality of care Trusts and trustees Volunteer workers Social Welfare 00 2004-10-07 Introduced in Senate 2004-10-15T19:00:40Z Act for Elder Justice - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA) to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish or designate within the Administration on Aging an Office of Elder Abuse Prevention and Services.

Authorizes the Assistant Secretary for Aging to award grants to States and Indian tribes for subgrants to eligible entities for elder justice programs to prevent elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and to improve the quality of long-term care.

]]> 80 2004-10-07 Reported to Senate without amendment 2004-10-15T19:13:05Z (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Act for Elder Justice - (Sec. 3) Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA) to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish or designate within the Administration on Aging an Office of Elder Abuse Prevention and Services. Makes it the duty of the Assistant Secretary for Aging, acting through the head of such Office, to develop and implement policy and a long-term plan to carry out elder justice programs and activities.

(Sec. 4) Establishes elder justice programs under OAA. Defines elder justice as: (1) efforts to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and respond to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and to protect elders with diminished capacity while maximizing their autonomy; and (2) the recognition of an elder's rights, including the right to be free of abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to award grants to States and Indian tribes for subgrants to eligible entities to strengthen long-term care and assist elder justice programs. Includes among authorized uses of such funds: (1) prevention, detection, assessment, and treatment of, intervention in, investigation of, and response to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (2) testing of various safe haven models as elder shelters; (3) volunteer programs; (4) multidisciplinary activities; (5) training; (6) addressing underserved populations of elders; (7) incentives for individuals to train for, seek, and maintain employment providing direct care in a long-term care facility; (8) multidisciplinary community partnerships to develop innovative approaches for improving long-term care quality and preventing abuse, neglect, and exploitation in such care; and (9) multidisciplinary panels to develop best practices for improving long-term care quality and addressing abuse in such care, including resident-to-resident abuse. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 2005 through 2008.

]]> Act for Elder Justice Display Title Act for Elder Justice Short Titles as Introduced Act for Elder Justice Short Titles as Reported to Senate Act for Elder Justice S Senate Official Title as Introduced An original bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to assist States in preventing, detecting, treating, intervening in, and responding to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and for other purposes. Reported to Senate 2004-10-07T04:00:00Z 2004-10-07 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 780. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.