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The bill directs federal grants and supports to help states, tribes, and localities plan and coordinate services that improve outcomes for older adults and people aging with disabilities—especially in rural and tribal areas—while imposing funding caps, matching requirements, and administrative limits that may restrict participation and scale.
Older adults and people with disabilities across states, tribes, and localities gain more coordinated access to housing, long‑term services, transportation, healthcare, and emergency preparedness through funded multisector planning and implementation.
States, tribes, and localities receive federal grants to develop and implement multisector plans to improve services for older adults and those aging with disabilities.
Rural and tribal communities are prioritized for funding, increasing resources directed to historically underserved areas.
Eligible entities must provide non‑Federal matching funds, which may strain budgets or exclude poorer jurisdictions and tribal governments from participating.
Grant award size is limited (max $500,000) and the program is capped at 65 grants over 5 years, which may provide insufficient funding relative to the scale of needs, especially for large states or regions.
Lump‑sum payment structure and a short (3‑year) expenditure window may make multi‑year implementation difficult and disadvantage small entities with limited capacity to obligate funds quickly.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a grant program to support multisector community plans for aging and aging with a disability, with eligibility, stakeholder, cost‑share, reporting, and evaluation rules.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Kirsten Gillibrand · Last progress December 3, 2025
Creates a federal grant program run by the Assistant Secretary for Aging to fund development and implementation of community-wide, multisector plans that address aging and aging with a disability. Grants are available to states, tribes, area agencies on aging, local governments, nonprofits, health care providers, institutions of higher education and other community partners who meet stakeholder and planning requirements, cost‑sharing rules, and reporting obligations. Defines who must be included as stakeholders (including older adults and people with disabilities), sets priorities for awards, limits grant terms, requires evaluation and periodic reports to Congress, and adds the new authority to the Older Americans Act without specifying funding levels.