Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Support Act

Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Support Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1995 to direct the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging to award four-year grants of up to $1 million each to between five and eight public and private agencies and organizations to carry out demonstration projects to provide specified comprehensive supportive services to older individuals in noninstitutional residences in naturally occurring retirement communities to enhance their quality of life and reduce the need to institutionalize them.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5134 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5134

To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations to 
    provide supportive services to older individuals who reside in 
              naturally occurring retirement communities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2002

Mr. Doyle (for himself, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Clay, Mr. Hastings of Florida, 
 Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. Mascara, Mr. Nadler, and Mr. Schrock) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL

    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 ``Naturally Occurring Retirement 
Community (NORC) Support Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    The Older Americans Act of 1995 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting before section 401 the following:

         ``TITLE IV--RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND RELATED MATTERS'',

        and
            (2) by inserting after section 421 the following:

``SEC. 422. NATURALLY OCCURRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES.

    ``(a) Program Authorized.--The Assistant Secretary shall make 
grants to public and private agencies and organizations to provide 
comprehensive supportive services to older individuals who reside in 
noninstitutional residences (excluding residences for which assistance 
is provided under section 202 of the National Housing Act of 1959 (12 
U.S.C. 1701q)) in naturally occurring retirement communities, for 
purposes of enhancing the quality of life of such individuals and 
reducing the need to institutionalize such individuals.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--In each fiscal year for which funds are 
appropriated to carry out this section, the Assistant Secretary shall--
            (1) make grants to not fewer than 5, and not more than 8, 
        public and private agencies and organizations that submit to 
        the Assistant Secretary an application in such form, and 
        containing such information, as the Assistant Secretary may 
        require by rule, including an assurance that the applicant will 
        use such grant to supplement and not supplant resources 
        otherwise available to such applicant to provide supportive 
        services to older individuals; and
            ``(2) give priority to agencies and organizations that 
        provided comprehensive supportive services in fiscal year 2002 
        to older individuals who resided in noninstitutional residences 
        (excluding residences for which assistance is provided under 
        section 202 of the National Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
        1701q)) in naturally occurring retirement communities, for 
        purposes of enhancing the quality of life of such individuals 
        and reducing the need to institutionalize such individuals.
    ``(c) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
`naturally occurring retirement community' means a geographical area in 
which not less than 40 percent of the noninstitutional residences are 
occupied for not less than 10 years by heads of households who are 
older individuals, but does not include residences for which assistance 
is provided under section 202 of the National Housing Act of 1959 (12 
U.S.C. 1701q)).
    ``(d) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the 1st fiscal year for 
which funds are appropriated to carry out this section, the Assistant 
Secretary shall--
            ``(1) carry out an evaluation of the progress and 
        development of supportive services provided with grants made 
        under this section; and
            ``(2) submit to the Congress a report--
                    ``(A) summarizing the results of such evaluation; 
                and
                    ``(B) containing such recommendations as the 
                Assistant Secretary considers to be appropriate.
    ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
2003 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2004, 2005, 
2006, and 2007.''.
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