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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. 

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 

A BILL 

To support programs and services under the Older Americans 

Act of 1965 through innovation and modernization, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Revitalizing the Aging 

5 Network Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR THE AGING NETWORK AND INFRA7 STRUCTURE. 

8 (a) APPROPRIATION.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to amounts oth2 erwise available, there are appropriated for fiscal 

3 year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not 

4 otherwise appropriated, to the Department of Health 

5 and Human Services— 

6 (A) such sums as may be necessary to 

7 carry out part B of title III of the Older Ameri8 cans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3030d et seq.), in9 cluding for— 

10 (i) supportive services of the type 

11 made available for fiscal year 2021 and au12 thorized under such part; 

13 (ii) investing in the aging network for 

14 the purposes of improving the availability 

15 of supportive services, including investing 

16 in the aging network workforce; 

17 (iii) the acquisition, alteration, or ren18 ovation of facilities, including multipurpose 

19 senior centers, intergenerational shared20 site models, and mobile units; and 

21 (iv) construction or modernization of 

22 facilities to serve as multipurpose senior 

23 centers; 

24 (B) such sums as may be necessary to 

25 carry out part C of title III of such Act (42 


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1 U.S.C. 3030d–21 et seq.), including to support 

2 the modernization of infrastructure and tech3 nology, including kitchen equipment and deliv4 ery vehicles, to support the provision of con5 gregate nutrition services and home delivered 

6 nutrition services under such part; 

7 (C) such sums as may be necessary to 

8 carry out part E of title III of such Act (42 

9 U.S.C. 3030s et seq.), including section 373(e) 

10 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3030s–1(e)); 

11 (D) such sums as may be necessary to 

12 carry out title VI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3057 

13 et seq.), including part C of such title (42 

14 U.S.C. 3057k–11 et seq.); 

15 (E) such sums as may be necessary to 

16 carry out the long-term care ombudsman pro17 gram under title VII of such Act (42 U.S.C. 

18 3058 et seq.); 

19 (F) such sums as may be necessary for 

20 technical assistance centers or national resource 

21 centers supported under such Act, including all 

22 such centers that received funding under title 

23 IV of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3031 et seq.) for fis24 cal year 2021, in order to support technical as25 sistance and resource development related to 


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1 culturally appropriate care management and 

2 services for older individuals with the greatest 

3 social need, including racial and ethnic minority 

4 individuals; 

5 (G) such sums as may be necessary for 

6 technical assistance centers or national resource 

7 centers supported under such Act that are fo8 cused on providing services for older individuals 

9 who are underserved due to their sexual ori10 entation or gender identity; and 

11 (H) such sums as may be necessary to 

12 carry out section 417 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 

13 3032f). 

14 (2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated by 

15 this subsection shall remain available until expended. 

16 (b) REQUIREMENTS FOR RECIPIENTS OF FUND17 ING.— 

18 (1) COORDINATION.—Any entity receiving 

19 funds made available under this section shall coordi20 nate, to the extent practicable, activities with organi21 zations providing the same services as those funded 

22 under this section, or facilitating the delivery of such 

23 services, to older individuals served by the Older 

24 Americans Act of 1965. 


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1 (2) SUBMISSION OF DATA.—An entity receiving 

2 funds made available under this section shall submit 

3 relevant data as the Assistant Secretary may require 

4 for purposes of the evaluation conducted under sub5 section (c). 

6 (c) PROGRAM EVALUATION.— 

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 years after 

8 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant 

9 Secretary, shall by grant, contract, or interagency 

10 agreement— 

11 (A) evaluate the outcomes of all projects or 

12 activities supported by funds made available 

13 under this section; and 

14 (B) submit a report on such evaluation to 

15 Congress. 

16 (2) CONTENTS.—The report required under 

17 paragraph (1) shall describe— 

18 (A) the innovations in program and service 

19 delivery undertaken through funds made avail20 able under this section; 

21 (B) the impact of such innovations on the 

22 communities served by such programs or serv23 ices and the entities providing the programs or 

24 services; and 


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1 (C) the impact of such innovations on 

2 older individuals participating in such programs 

3 or services. 

4 (d) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 

5 available under this section shall be used to supplement, 

6 and not supplant, any Federal, State, or other funds oth7 erwise available to provide programs and services to older 

8 individuals. 

9 (e) NONAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN REQUIRE10 MENTS.—The non-Federal contribution requirements 

11 under sections 304(d)(1)(D) and 431(a) of the Older 

12 Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3024(d)(1)(D); 42 

13 U.S.C. 3033(a)), and section 373(h)(2) of such Act (42 

14 U.S.C. 3030s–1(h)(2)), shall not apply to— 

15 (1) any amounts made available under this sec16 tion; or 

17 (2) any amounts made available under section 

18 2921 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 

19 (Public Law 117–2). 

20 (f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘aging 

21 network’’, ‘‘Assistant Secretary’’, and ‘‘older individual’’ 

22 have the meanings given such terms in section 102 of the 

23 Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3002). 

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