3.0.0 3593 2020-02-10T17:00:05Z 2020-02-10T17:00:05Z Senate S S 2012-09-20 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-09-20T21:34:28Z 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 2012-09-20 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2012-09-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO N Social Welfare Aging Foreign language and bilingual programs Racial and ethnic relations Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Social Welfare 00 2012-09-20 Introduced in Senate 2012-11-06T22:19:25Z Improving Services and Activities for Diverse Elders Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA) to make it a duty and function of the Administration on Aging to provide technical assistance, training, and other forms of instruction to state and area agencies on aging, service providers, and community-based organizations to ensure that they develop and implement, in a culturally and linguistically competent manner, programming, services, and outreach for older individuals with greatest economic and social need, with particular attention to low-income minority individuals and older individuals in rural areas.

Requires the Administration to consult with national and community-based organizations representing minority individuals to develop its capacity to provide such technical assistance, training, and instruction.

Requires the state agency charged with administering the state OAA plan to develop a formula for distribution of funds under OAA that takes into account the distribution among planning and service areas of service providers who specialize in serving populations of older individuals with greatest social need.

Requires area and state plans to provide assurances that programming, services, and outreach will be provided to older individuals with the greatest social need in a culturally and linguistically competent manner under certain circumstances.

]]> Improving Services and Activities for Diverse Elders Act Short Titles as Introduced Improving Services and Activities for Diverse Elders Act Display Title Improving Services and Activities for Diverse Elders Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to strengthen programming, services, and outreach for diverse elders, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2012-09-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s3593is/xml/BILLS-112s3593is.xml 2012-09-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.