Bill SponsorBILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
House Bill 6300
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Advocating for Older Americans During Coronavirus Crisis Act of 2020
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Mar 19, 2020
Overview
Text
Introduced in House 
Mar 19, 2020
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in House(Mar 19, 2020)
Mar 19, 2020
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
H. R. 6300 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6300


To provide that under the Older Americans Act of 1965 the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have continuing direct access (or other access through the use of technology) to residents of long-term care facilities to provide services during any portion of the COVID-19 public health emergency declared under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) that occurs in fiscal year 2020.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 19, 2020

Ms. Bonamici (for herself and Mr. Wright) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

A BILL

To provide that under the Older Americans Act of 1965 the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have continuing direct access (or other access through the use of technology) to residents of long-term care facilities to provide services during any portion of the COVID-19 public health emergency declared under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) that occurs in fiscal year 2020.

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 “Advocating for Older Americans During Coronavirus Crisis Act of 2020”.

SEC. 2. Access of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to residents of long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 public health emergency in fiscal year 2020.

During any portion of the COVID-19 public health emergency declared under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) that occurs in the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on September 31, 2020, the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have continuing direct access (or other access through the use of technology to the greatest extent practicable) to residents of long-term care facilities to provide the services described in section 712(a)(3)(B) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3058h(a)(3)(B)).