Title: Fair Opportunities for Seniors Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Fair Opportunities for Seniors Act
This bill gives priority, for purposes of certain grant programs that support the employment of older adults, to seniors who have been recently incarcerated.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4846 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4846

 To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide priority for the 
              senior community service employment program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2019

 Ms. Scanlon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide priority for the 
              senior community service employment program.

    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 ``Fair Opportunities for Seniors 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PRIORITY FOR THE SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.

    The Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 503(a)(4)(C)--
                    (A) in clause (iii) by striking ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (iv) by adding ``and'' at the end; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(v) eligible individuals who have been 
                        incarcerated or are under supervision following 
                        the release from prison or jail within the last 
                        5 years;'';
            (2) in section 514(e)(1) by inserting ``older individuals 
        who have been incarcerated or are under supervision following 
        the release from prison or jail,'' after ``need,''; and
            (3) in section 518--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(ii)--
                            (i) in subclause (IV) by striking ``or'' at 
                        the end;
                            (ii) in subclause (V) by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(VI) have been incarcerated or 
                                are under supervision following the 
                                release from prison or jail within the 
                                last 5 years.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b)(2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (F) by striking ``or'' 
                        at the end;
                            (ii) in subparagraph (G) by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(H) has been incarcerated or is under supervision 
        following the release from prison or jail within the last 5 
        years.''.
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