Summary

Creates a new competitive grant program under the Older Americans Act to pay long-term care facilities to run or contract for on-site child care, coordinate multigenerational activities between children and older adults, and build or expand facility space to support those activities. Grants last at least 36 months, require infection-control screening and compliance with state/local sanitation rules, and include evaluation and reporting requirements to federal oversight offices.

Key Points

• Creates a new competitive grant program under the Older Americans Act to fund on-site child care and intergenerational programming in long-term care facilities.
• Grants may pay for operating or contracting with a child care center, coordinating multigenerational activities, and building or expanding facility space.
• Grants must run for at least 36 months and recipients must evaluate program effectiveness and report results to the federal government.
• Applicants must certify visitor infection-control screening and compliance with state/local sanitation and infection-control rules.
• The Assistant Secretary consolidates grantee reports into an assessment for congressional committees, including grantee lists, methods, dissemination plans, and policy recommendations.
• Defines eligible long-term care facilities, qualified child care facilities, and multigenerational activities consistent with existing Older Americans Act terms.
• The measure authorizes but does not appropriate funding; actual grant awards require separate appropriations.
• Program imposes application, certification, evaluation, and reporting duties on grantees and administrative duties on the Assistant Secretary.

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