Older Americans Act Amendments of 1999 - Title I: Amendment to Title I
of the Older Americans Act of 1965 - Amends the Older Americans Act of
1965 to add certain definitions.
Title II: Amendments to Title II of the Older Americans Act of 1965
- Revises the duties of the Administration on Aging.
Provides for a set of performance outcome measures to be used for
planning, managing, and evaluating activities performed and services
provided under the Act.
Reauthorizes appropriations for the Administration on Aging.
Title III: Amendments to Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965
- Authorizes appropriations indefinitely for making grants relating to: (1)
supportive services, (2) senior centers; (3) congregate nutrition services,
(4) home delivered nutrition services; (5) in-home services; and (6) special
needs.
Authorizes appropriations for a nutrition services incentive program.
Authorizes a State to require or permit cost sharing by recipients for
all direct services, with specified exceptions, provided for in the Act.
Expands the list of supportive services for which grants to States are
provided.
Establishes grant programs for support services for family caregivers,
education and training related to programs for older individuals, and
pension counseling projects.
Title IV: Amendments to Title IV of the Older Americans Act of 1965
- Repeals provisions regarding training, research, and discretionary
projects
Title V: Amendments to Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965
- Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish projects to place community
service employment program participants in unsubsidized employment in both
the public and private sectors.
Reauthorizes the community service employment for older Americans
program.
Title VI: Amendments to Title VI of the Older Americans Act of 1965
- Makes the authorization of appropriations for title VI of the Act
indefinite, with exceptions.
Establishes programs for grants to carry out vulnerable elder rights
protection activities and for a Native American caregiver support program.
Title VII: Amendments to Title VII of the Older Americans Act of 1965
- Revises provisions regarding the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program.
Title VIII: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical
and conforming amendments.
