Sponsored by Bernard Sanders (I)
Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2024
Would have renewed federal aging programs through 2029, including Meals on Wheels and elder abuse prevention.
Tradeoff
Would have renewed the Older Americans Act (OAA) through 2029, including Meals on Wheels. Also would have set up a White House Conference on Aging in 2025.
What's in it
Passed the Senate by on December 10, 2024. The House never voted on it before the Congress ended, so the bill expired.
Senate
Introduced
(Jul 25, 2024)
Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions(Jul 25, 2024)
Senate
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions voted to send it to the floor
Reported(Jul 31, 2024)
Senate · Amended
Senator Sanders's
Agreed to by (S.Amdt. 3314 · Dec 10, 2024)
Adds Assistant Secretary monitoring and reporting duties for contracts with for-profit organizations, and lowers the fiscal 2025 Community Service Senior Opportunities Act authorization to $540,340,139.
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Dec 10, 2024)
No individual votes were recorded.
House
Received from the Senate
Received(Dec 11, 2024)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Robert P., Jr. Casey (D-PA)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)