Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the Assistant Secretary for Aging to designate an officer responsible for mental health, substance use disorders, and cognitive impairment services for older individuals, and develop a long-term plan for state, requires the Assistant Secretary to publish an annual online list of national resource centers and demonstration projects with descriptions, funding amounts, statutory citations, and evaluations, and expands evaluation and survey requirements for Secretary to assess aging programs, including grants to organizations for surveys and comparisons of program effectiveness. It relies on reporting requirements, compliance mandates, definition changes, and grants. The main policy areas are Social Welfare, Healthcare, Aging Services, and Agriculture.
Who Benefits and How
Nutrition service providers could gain revenue opportunities, State and area agencies on aging could gain revenue opportunities, and Older individuals would be affected.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Administration on Aging would take on compliance duties, Government Accountability Office would take on compliance duties, and Department of Health and Human Services would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Assistant Secretary for Aging to designate an officer responsible for mental health, substance use disorders, and cognitive impairment services for older individuals, and develop a long-term plan for state...
- Requires the Assistant Secretary to publish an annual online list of national resource centers and demonstration projects with descriptions, funding amounts, statutory citations, and evaluations.
- Expands evaluation and survey requirements for Secretary to assess aging programs, including grants to organizations for surveys and comparisons of program effectiveness.
- Establishes comprehensive framework for aging service recipients to enter contracts with for-profit organizations, including cost reimbursement requirements, monitoring procedures, fair market rate protections...
- Requires the Assistant Secretary to disseminate guidance on circumstances for reallocating funds between area agencies on aging within a state during a budget year.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the Assistant Secretary for Aging to designate an officer responsible for mental health, substance use disorders, and cognitive impairment services for older individuals, and develop a long-term plan for state, requires the Assistant Secretary to publish an annual online list of national resource centers and demonstration projects with descriptions, funding amounts, statutory citations, and evaluations, and expands evaluation and survey requirements for Secretary to assess aging programs, including grants to organizations for surveys and comparisons of program effectiveness.
Key Policy Areas
Social Welfare, Healthcare, Aging Services, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
The bill requires the Assistant Secretary for Aging to designate an officer responsible for mental health, substance use disorders, and cognitive impairment services for older individuals, and develop a long-term plan for state, requires the Assistant Secretary to publish an annual online list of national resource centers and demonstration projects with descriptions, funding amounts, statutory citations, and evaluations, and expands evaluation and survey requirements for Secretary to assess aging programs, including grants to organizations for surveys and comparisons of program effectiveness.
Policy Domains
Title I - General Provisions
Identified Gains
- Nutrition service providers
- State and area agencies on aging
- Older individuals
- State agencies on aging
- Area agencies on aging
Identified Costs
- Administration on Aging
- Government Accountability Office
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- State agencies on aging
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed SenateHeld at the desk.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4077-4087; …
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous …
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by …
Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Scott of Florida, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Administration for Community Living, Administration on Aging, Advisory Council on grandparent caregiving
Positive-direction: Indian Tribes, Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, Native Hawaiian organizations, Tribal organizations serving older Native Americans
Negative-direction: Administration for Community Living, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, Federal agencies serving older individuals, Government Accountability Office, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Aging network providers, Aging services stakeholders, Area agencies on aging
Area agencies on aging faces effects in multiple directions
State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs, State agencies on aging, State and area agencies on aging
State agencies on aging, State and area agencies on aging face effects in multiple directions
Older Native Americans, Older individuals, Older individuals receiving services
Congregate meal providers, Nutrition service providers
Family caregivers, Grandparents raising grandchildren, Older relative caregivers
Long-term care facilities, Long-term care providers
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Public and nonprofit research organizations
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
- "the_comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_assistant_secretary"
- → Assistant Secretary for Aging
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Note: The Secretary refers to Secretary of Health and Human Services throughout most of the bill, but in Title V (Community Service Employment Program), it refers to Secretary of Labor
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
As defined in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3002)
Meals specifically designed for individuals with medical conditions
As defined in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3002) - refers to Assistant Secretary for Aging
As defined in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3002)
As defined in section 102 of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3002) - refers to Secretary of Health and Human Services
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