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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-501 Section 401]
[CITE: 42USC3035h]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 35--PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS
 
   SUBCHAPTER IV--TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND DISCRETIONARY PROJECTS AND 
                                PROGRAMS
 
         Part B--Research, Demonstrations, and Other Activities
 
Sec. 3035h. Demonstration projects for multigenerational 
        activities
        

(a) Grants and contracts

    The Assistant Secretary may award grants and enter into contracts 
with eligible organizations to establish demonstration projects that 
provide older individuals with multigenerational activities.

(b) Use of funds

    An eligible organization shall use funds made available under a 
grant awarded, or a contract entered into, under subsection (a) of this 
section--
        (1) to carry out a demonstration project that provides 
    multigenerational activities, including any professional training 
    appropriate to such activities for older individuals; and
        (2) to evaluate the project in accordance with subsection (f) of 
    this section.

(c) Awards

    In awarding grants and entering into contracts under subsection (a) 
of this section, the Assistant Secretary shall give preference to--
        (1) eligible organizations with a demonstrated record of 
    carrying out multigenerational activities; and
        (2) eligible organizations proposing projects that will serve 
    older individuals with greatest economic need (with particular 
    attention to low-income minority individuals).

(d) Application

    To be eligible to receive a grant or enter into a contract under 
subsection (a) of this section, an organization shall submit an 
application to the Assistant Secretary at such time, in such manner, and 
accompanied by such information as the Assistant Secretary may 
reasonably require.

(e) Eligible organizations

    Organizations eligible to receive a grant or enter into a contract 
under subsection (a) of this section shall be organizations that employ, 
or provide opportunities for, older individuals in multigenerational 
activities.

(f) Local evaluation and report

                           (1) Evaluation

        Each organization receiving a grant or a contract under 
    subsection (a) of this section to carry out a demonstration project 
    shall evaluate the activities assisted under the project to 
    determine the effectiveness of multigenerational activities, the 
    impact of such activities on child care and youth day care programs, 
    and the impact on older individuals involved in such project.

                             (2) Report

        The organization shall submit a report to the Assistant 
    Secretary containing the evaluation not later than 6 months after 
    the expiration of the period for which the grant or contract is in 
    effect.

(g) Report to Congress

    Not later than 6 months after the Assistant Secretary receives the 
reports described in subsection (f)(2) of this section, the Assistant 
Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate a report 
that assesses the evaluations and includes, at a minimum--
        (1) the names or descriptive titles of the demonstration 
    projects funded under subsection (a) of this section;
        (2) a description of the nature and operation of the projects;
        (3) the name and address of the individual or governmental 
    entity that conducted the projects;
        (4) a description of the methods and success of the projects in 
    recruiting older individuals as employees and volunteers to 
    participate in the project;
        (5) a description of the success of the projects retaining older 
    individuals involved in the projects as employees and as volunteers; 
    and
        (6) the rate of turnover of older individual employees and 
    volunteers in the projects.

(h) ``Multigenerational activity'' defined

    As used in this section, the term ``multigenerational activity'' 
includes an opportunity to serve as a mentor or adviser in a child care 
program, a youth day care program, an educational assistance program, an 
at-risk youth intervention program, a juvenile delinquency treatment 
program, or a family support program.

(Pub. L. 89-73, title IV, Sec. 429, as added Pub. L. 102-375, title IV, 
Sec. 409, Sept. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 1249; amended Pub. L. 103-171, 
Sec. 3(a)(13), Dec. 2, 1993, 107 Stat. 1990.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3035h, Pub. L. 89-73, title IV, Sec. 432, as added 
Pub. L. 95-478, title I, Sec. 104(c)(1)(C), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 
1545, related to mortgage interest grants for multipurpose senior 
centers, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 
97-115, Sec. 11(a), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1601.


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsecs. (a), (c), (d), (f)(2), (g). Pub. L. 103-171 
substituted ``Assistant Secretary'' for ``Commissioner'' wherever 
appearing.
