Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 35 — Programs for Older Americans
§ 3032c. Health care service demonstration projects in rural areas
Statutory text
Authority
The Assistant Secretary, after consultation with the State agency of the State involved, shall make grants to eligible public agencies and nonprofit private organizations to pay part or all of the cost of developing or operating model health care service projects (including related home health care services, adult day health care, mental health services, outreach, and transportation) through multipurpose senior centers that are located in rural areas and that provide nutrition services under section 3030e of this title, to meet the health care needs of medically underserved older individuals residing in such areas.
Eligibility
To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a public agency or nonprofit private organization shall submit to the Assistant Secretary an application containing such information and assurances as the Secretary may require, including—
information describing the nature and extent of the applicant’s—
experience in providing medical services of the type to be provided in the project for which a grant is requested; and
coordination and cooperation with—
institutions of higher education having graduate programs with capability in public health, mental health, the medical sciences, psychology, pharmacology, nursing, social work, health education, nutrition, or gerontology, for the purpose of designing and developing such project; and
critical access hospitals (as defined in section 1395x(mm)(1) of this title and rural health clinics (as defined in section 1395x(aa)(2) of this title);
assurances that the applicant will carry out the project for which a grant is requested, through a multipurpose senior center located—
in a rural area that has a population of less than 5,000; or
in a county that has fewer than seven individuals per square mile; and
in a State in which—
not less than 33⅓ of the population resides in rural areas; and
not less than 5 percent of the population resides in counties with fewer than seven individuals per square mile,
as defined by and determined in accordance with the most recent data available from the Bureau of the Census; and
assurances that the applicant will submit to the Assistant Secretary such evaluations and reports as the Assistant Secretary may require.
Reports
The Assistant Secretary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes summaries of the evaluations and reports required under subsection (b).
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Older Americans Act of 1965
Pub. L. 89–73 title IV § 414 · 79 Stat. 218
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3032c
Pub. L. 89–73, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title IV, § 401, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2259
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 89–73, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title IV, § 401, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2259Pub. L. 109–365 § 404(1) · 120 Stat. 2553
Inserted · 42 U.S.C. § 3032c(a)
Pub. L. 109–365, § 404(1), inserted “mental health services,” after “adult day health care,”
Unresolved: Pub. L. 109–365 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–365, § 404(1), inserted “mental health services,” after “adult day health care,”.Pub. L. 109–365 § 404(2) · 120 Stat. 2553
Inserted · 42 U.S.C. § 3032c(b)(1)(B)(i)
Pub. L. 109–365, § 404(2), inserted “mental health,” after “public health,”
Unresolved: Pub. L. 109–365 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (b)(1)(B)(i). Pub. L. 109–365, § 404(2), inserted “mental health,” after “public health,”.
0 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial · 2 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2006—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–365, § 404(1), inserted “mental health services,” after “adult day health care,”.
Subsec. (b)(1)(B)(i). Pub. L. 109–365, § 404(2), inserted “mental health,” after “public health,”.
Credits
2000–2006 · 2 acts
- 2000Pub. L. 89–73, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title IV, § 401, , 114 Stat. 2259
- 2006amended Pub. L. 109–365, title IV, § 404, , 120 Stat. 2553.
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(Pub. L. 89–73, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title IV, § 401, , 114 Stat. 2259; amended Pub. L. 109–365, title IV, § 404, , 120 Stat. 2553.)