Title: Younger Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Younger Onset Alzheimer's Disease Act
This bill makes individuals with younger-onset Alzheimer's disease (i.e., individuals who experienced onset of the disease before age 60) eligible for certain federal grants and programs that support older adults. Under current law, these grants and programs serve only individuals 60 and older.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 901 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 901

 To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to support individuals with 
                   younger onset Alzheimer's disease.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 27, 2019

   Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Casey, Mrs. Capito, and Mr. Jones) 
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 amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to support individuals with 
                   younger onset Alzheimer's disease.

    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 ``Younger Onset Alzheimer's Disease 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Approximately 5,800,000 individuals in the United 
        States are living with Alzheimer's disease. This includes 
        approximately 200,000 individuals with younger onset 
        Alzheimer's disease.
            (2) Alzheimer's disease costs the United States more than 
        $290,000,000 per year, including $195,000,000 in costs to 
        Medicare and Medicaid.
            (3) The Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et 
        seq.) includes services that focus on the needs of individuals 
        with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The need to 
        specifically support individuals with younger onset Alzheimer's 
        disease is growing.

SEC. 3. YOUNGER ONSET ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.

    The Older Americans Act of 1965 is amended--
            (1) in section 302(3) (42 U.S.C. 3022(3)), by striking ``an 
        individual with Alzheimer's disease'' and inserting ``an 
        individual of any age with Alzheimer's disease''; and
            (2) in section 711(6) (42 U.S.C. 3058f(6)), by inserting 
        ``of any age'' after ``individual''.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 300 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Assistant Secretary 
for Aging shall submit a report, to the committees of Congress 
described in subsection (b), that includes--
            (1) an overview of programmatic functions and performance 
        with respect to the amendments made by section 3, including 
        information about individuals with younger onset Alzheimer's 
        disease; and
            (2) an identification of the gaps in needs of individuals 
        with younger onset Alzheimer's disease.
    (b) Committees.--The committees of Congress described in this 
subsection are--
            (1) the Special Committee on Aging, the Committee on 
        Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and the Committee on 
        Finance, of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Education and Labor, and the Committee 
        on Energy and Commerce, of the House of Representatives.

SEC. 5. DEFINITION OF YOUNGER ONSET ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.

    In this Act, the term ``younger onset Alzheimer's disease'', with 
respect to an individual, means an individual with Alzheimer's disease 
or a related disorder who has not attained 60 years of age.
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