National Family Caregiver Support Program Cap Elimination Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4853
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2019-10-23
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Family services

Health programs administration and funding

Home and outpatient care

State and local finance
Latest action: action_date: 2019-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-10-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>National Family Caregiver Support Program Cap Elimination Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill revises the National Family Caregiver Support Program to eliminate the percentage cap on funding available to provide support services to older relative caregivers.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4853 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 23, 2019 Mrs. Trahan (for herself and Mr. Comer ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to eliminate the percentage cap on funding available to carry out the program to provide support services to older caregivers.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Family Caregiver Support Program Cap Elimination Act of 2019 . 2. National family caregiver support program cap (a) Federal share Section 373(g)(2) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3030s–1(g)(2) ) is amended by striking subparagraph (C). (b) Monitoring the impact of the elimination of the cap on funds for older relative caregivers (1) Report Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on the impact of the amendment made by subsection (a) to eliminate the limitation on funds that States may allocate to provide support services to older relative caregivers in the National Family Caregiver Support Program established under part E of title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3030s–2 ). Each such report shall also be made available to the public. (2) Contents For purposes of reports required by paragraph (1), each State that receives an allotment under such National Family Caregiver Support Program for fiscal year 2020 or a subsequent fiscal year shall report to the Assistant Secretary for the fiscal year involved the amount of funds of the total Federal and non-Federal share allotment used by the State to provide support services for caregiver support for older relative caregivers and family caregivers.