National Family Caregiver Support Program Cap Elimination Act of 2019

National Family Caregiver Support Program Cap Elimination Act of 2019

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.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4853 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4853

 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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    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 ``National Family Caregiver Support 
Program Cap Elimination Act of 2019''.

SEC. 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.
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