SEC. 206. INCREASED SUPPORT FOR FEDERAL CASES IN-
VOLVING ELDER JUSTICE. 
(a) SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 
establish procedures to ensure that the Department 
of Justice dedicates resources to investigating and 
prosecuting cases relating to elder justice. 
(2) ADDITIONAL STAFF.—The Attorney General 
shall hire additional Federal prosecutors and make 
funding available to Federal prosecutors to hire 
nurse-investigators or other experts needed to iden-
tify, assist with, or pursue cases relating to elder 
justice. 
(3) RESOURCE GROUP.—The Attorney General 
may fund, through the Executive Office of United 
States Attorneys, a Resource Group to assist pros-
ecutors throughout the Nation in investigating and 
prosecuting failure of care and other cases relating 
to elder justice matters. 
(b) OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL.—The Office of 
Inspector General of the Department of Health and 
Human Services shall hire nurse-investigators and other 
experts to investigate and pursue failure of care allega-
tions. 
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(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec-
tion— 
(1) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
(2) $4,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 
through 2014. 
SEC. 207. SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ELDER JUS-
TICE MATTERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall, after 
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, award grants to provide training, technical as-
sistance, multidisciplinary coordination, policy develop-
ment, and other types of support to police, sheriffs, detec-
tives, public safety officers, corrections personnel, and 
other front line law enforcement responders who handle 
elder justice-related matters, to fund specially designated 
elder justice positions or units designed to support front 
line law enforcement in elder justice matters. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec-
tion— 
(1) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
(2) $8,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 
through 2014. 
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SEC. 208. EVALUATIONS. 
(a) GRANTS UNDER THIS TITLE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the grant 
programs under this title, the Attorney General 
shall— 
(A) require each recipient of a grant to use 
a portion of the funds made available through 
the grant to conduct a validated evaluation of 
the effectiveness of the activities carried out 
through the grant by such recipient; or 
(B) as the Attorney General considers ap-
propriate, use a portion of the funds available 
under this title for a grant program under this 
title to provide assistance to an eligible entity to 
conduct a validated evaluation of the effective-
ness of the activities carried out through such 
grant program by each of the grant recipients. 
(2) APPLICATIONS.— 
(A) SUBMISSION.—To be eligible to receive 
a grant under this title, an entity shall submit 
an application to the Attorney General at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such in-
formation as the Attorney General may require, 
which shall include— 
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(i) a proposal for the evaluation re-
quired in accordance with paragraph 
(1)(A); and 
(ii) the amount of assistance under 
paragraph (1)(B) the entity is requesting, 
if any. 
(B) REVIEW AND ASSISTANCE.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—An employee of the 
Department of Justice, after consultation 
with an employee of the Department of 
Health and Human Services and a non-
governmental member of the Advisory 
Board of Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Ex-
ploitation (established under Title XX of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397 et 
seq.), as amended by this Act) with exper-
tise in evaluation methodology, shall review 
each application described in subparagraph 
(A) and determine whether the method-
ology described in the proposal under sub-
paragraph (A)(i) is adequate to gather 
meaningful information. 
(ii) DENIAL.—If the reviewing em-
ployee determines the methodology de-
scribed in such proposal is inadequate, the 
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reviewing employee shall recommend that 
the Attorney General deny the application 
for the grant, or make recommendations 
for how the application should be amended. 
(iii) NOTICE TO APPLICANT.—If the 
Attorney General denies the application on 
the basis of such proposal, the Attorney 
General shall inform the applicant of the 
reasons the application was denied, and 
offer assistance to the applicant in modi-
fying the proposal. 
(b) OTHER GRANTS.—The Attorney General shall 
make grants to appropriate entities to conduct validated 
evaluations of grant activities to reduce elder abuse, ne-
glect, and exploitation that are funded by Federal funds 
not provided under this title. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$7,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 
2014. 
TITLE III—TAX PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY WORKER EMPLOY-
MENT TAX CREDIT. 
(a) WORK OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 51(d)(1) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to members 
of targeted groups) is amended by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end of subparagraph (H), by striking the period 
at the end of subparagraph (I) and inserting ‘‘or’’, 
and by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(J) a qualified long-term care facility 
worker.’’. 
(2) QUALIFIED
LONG-TERM
CARE
FACILITY 
WORKER.—Section 51(d) of such Code is amended 
by redesignating paragraphs (11) through (13) as 
paragraphs (12) through (15), respectively, and by 
inserting after paragraph (10) the following: 
‘‘(11) QUALIFIED LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY 
WORKER.—The term ‘qualified long-term care facil-
ity worker’ means any individual who— 
‘‘(A) is hired by a long-term care facility 
(as defined in paragraph (18) of section 2201 
of the Social Security Act); and 
‘‘(B) is certified by the designated local 
agency as being qualified to provide long-term 
care (as defined in paragraph (17) of such sec-
tion 2201).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall apply to individuals who begin work 
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for an employer after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
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