3.0.0 1819 2022-02-03T05:53:06Z 2022-02-03T05:53:06Z Senate S S 2011-11-08 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-11-08T17:51:46Z Older Americans Act Amendments of 2012 112 3562 S 2012-09-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2011-11-08 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7189-7191) IntroReferral 2011-11-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. N M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2011-11-08 True Health Adult day care Advisory bodies Aging Family services Health programs administration and funding Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care Medicare Health 00 2011-11-08 Introduced in Senate 2012-01-24T20:00:40Z Strengthening Services for America's Seniors Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize the Assistant Secretary for Aging in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to states to establish a program to assess the needs of family caregivers for targeted support services.

Allows Aging and Disability Resource Centers to carry out an assessment program with respect to informal caregivers and care recipients.

Establishes an Advisory Committee to Assess, Coordinate, and Improve Legal Assistance Activities for older Americans.

Makes it a duty of the Administration on Aging to reserve and provide specified amounts for FY2012 and subsequent fiscal years for the funding of the National Ombudsman Resource Center (NORC).

Authorizes the use of such amounts to enable NORC to: (1) collaborate and participate with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in providing training for state survey agencies with an agreement in effect under the Medicare program; or (2) work with the CMS Administrator, in the case of states without such an agency, to improve the investigative processes used by the center to address complaints by residents of long-term care facilities.

Requires the state to ensure that representatives of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have access to review all records concerning a resident.

Declares a State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and any representative of the Office, a "health oversight agency," so that release of residents' individually identified health information to the Ombudsman or a representative is not precluded (by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 [HIPAA]) in certain cases.

Imposes confidentiality requirements upon the Ombudsman and each representative of the Office with respect to communications with individuals seeking assistance under this Act.

]]> Strengthening Services for America's Seniors Act Short Titles as Introduced Strengthening Services for America's Seniors Act Display Title Strengthening Services for America's Seniors Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to improve programs and services. Introduced in Senate 2011-11-08T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1819is/xml/BILLS-112s1819is.xml 2011-11-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7189-7191) 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.