[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3431 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3431

To support programs and services under the Older Americans Act of 1965 
     through innovation and modernization, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 17, 2021

 Mr. Kelly (for himself and Mr. Casey) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To support programs and services under the Older Americans Act of 1965 
     through innovation and modernization, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Revitalizing the Aging Network 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR THE AGING NETWORK AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

    (a) Appropriation.--
            (1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
        available, there are appropriated for fiscal year 2022, out of 
        any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the 
        Department of Health and Human Services--
                    (A) such sums as may be necessary to carry out part 
                B of title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 
                U.S.C. 3030d et seq.), including for--
                            (i) supportive services of the type made 
                        available for fiscal year 2021 and authorized 
                        under such part;
                            (ii) investing in the aging network for the 
                        purposes of improving the availability of 
                        supportive services, including investing in the 
                        aging network workforce;
                            (iii) the acquisition, alteration, or 
                        renovation of facilities, including 
                        multipurpose senior centers, intergenerational 
                        shared-site models, and mobile units; and
                            (iv) construction or modernization of 
                        facilities to serve as multipurpose senior 
                        centers;
                    (B) such sums as may be necessary to carry out part 
                C of title III of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030d-21 et 
                seq.), including to support the modernization of 
                infrastructure and technology, including kitchen 
                equipment and delivery vehicles, to support the 
                provision of congregate nutrition services and home 
                delivered nutrition services under such part;
                    (C) such sums as may be necessary to carry out part 
                E of title III of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s et seq.), 
                including section 373(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s-
                1(e));
                    (D) such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
                title VI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3057 et seq.), 
                including part C of such title (42 U.S.C. 3057k-11 et 
                seq.);
                    (E) such sums as may be necessary to carry out the 
                long-term care ombudsman program under title VII of 
                such Act (42 U.S.C. 3058 et seq.);
                    (F) such sums as may be necessary for technical 
                assistance centers or national resource centers 
                supported under such Act, including all such centers 
                that received funding under title IV of such Act (42 
                U.S.C. 3031 et seq.) for fiscal year 2021, in order to 
                support technical assistance and resource development 
                related to culturally appropriate care management and 
                services for older individuals with the greatest social 
                need, including racial and ethnic minority individuals;
                    (G) such sums as may be necessary for technical 
                assistance centers or national resource centers 
                supported under such Act that are focused on providing 
                services for older individuals who are underserved due 
                to their sexual orientation or gender identity; and
                    (H) such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
                section 417 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3032f).
            (2) Availability.--Amounts appropriated by this subsection 
        shall remain available until expended.
    (b) Requirements for Recipients of Funding.--
            (1) Coordination.--Any entity receiving funds made 
        available under this section shall coordinate, to the extent 
        practicable, activities with organizations providing the same 
        services as those funded under this section, or facilitating 
        the delivery of such services, to older individuals served by 
        the Older Americans Act of 1965.
            (2) Submission of data.--An entity receiving funds made 
        available under this section shall submit relevant data as the 
        Assistant Secretary may require for purposes of the evaluation 
        conducted under subsection (c).
    (c) Program Evaluation.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 6 years after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary, shall by 
        grant, contract, or interagency agreement--
                    (A) evaluate the outcomes of all projects or 
                activities supported by funds made available under this 
                section; and
                    (B) submit a report on such evaluation to Congress.
            (2) Contents.--The report required under paragraph (1) 
        shall describe--
                    (A) the innovations in program and service delivery 
                undertaken through funds made available under this 
                section;
                    (B) the impact of such innovations on the 
                communities served by such programs or services and the 
                entities providing the programs or services; and
                    (C) the impact of such innovations on older 
                individuals participating in such programs or services.
    (d) Supplement, Not Supplant.--Funds made available under this 
section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, any Federal, 
State, or other funds otherwise available to provide programs and 
services to older individuals.
    (e) Nonapplicability of Certain Requirements.--The non-Federal 
contribution requirements under sections 304(d)(1)(D) and 431(a) of the 
Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3024(d)(1)(D); 42 U.S.C. 
3033(a)), and section 373(h)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s-1(h)(2)), 
shall not apply to--
            (1) any amounts made available under this section; or
            (2) any amounts made available under section 2921 of the 
        American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).
    (f) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``aging network'', 
``Assistant Secretary'', and ``older individual'' have the meanings 
given such terms in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 
U.S.C. 3002).
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