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Long-Term Care Transparency Act
To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require reports to Congress on State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant Secretary to submit annual reports to Congress. Each report would aggregate and summarize the findings from State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program reports submitted throughout the year. The reports would be submitted to the Senate committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and on Aging, and to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The requirement would establish a mechanism for Congress to regularly receive consolidated information on state long-term care ombudsman activities and findings.
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- Feb 12, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Feb 12, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 12, 2025
Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Smucker, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, and Ms. Tenney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require reports to Congress on State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs, and for other purposes.
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 “Long-Term Care Transparency Act”.
SEC. 2. REPORTING ON STATE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAMS.
Chapter 2 of subtitle A of title VII of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3058f et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“SEC. 714. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.
“Each year, the Assistant Secretary shall submit, to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, a report that—
“(1) aggregates all reports submitted under section 712(h) for such year; and
“(2) provides a summary of the findings of such reports.”. <all>
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