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[CITE: 42USC5013]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER 66--DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICES
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL SENIOR VOLUNTEER CORPS
 
                    Part C--Senior Companion Program
 
Sec. 5013. Grants and contracts for volunteer service projects


(a) Costs of project development and operation

    The Director is authorized to make grants to or contracts with 
public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations to pay part or 
all of the cost of development and operation of projects (including 
direct payments to individuals serving under this part in the same 
manner as provided in section 5011(a) of this title) designed for the 
purpose of providing opportunities for low-income persons aged 60 or 
over to serve as ``senior companions'' to persons with exceptional 
needs. Senior companions may provide services designed to help older 
persons requiring long-term care, including services to persons 
receiving home health care, nursing care, home-delivered meals or other 
nutrition services; services designed to help persons 
deinstitutionalized from mental hospitals, nursing homes, and other 
institutions; and services designed to assist persons having 
developmental disabilities and other special needs for companionship.

(b) Application of other laws

    Subsections (d), (e), and (f) of section 5011 of this title, and 
such other provisions of part B as the Director determines to be 
necessary, shall apply to this part, except that for purposes of this 
part any reference in such subsections and such provisions to part B 
shall be deemed to be a reference to this part.

(c) Senior companion projects to assist homebound elderly

    (1) The Director is authorized to make grants or contracts after \1\ 
subsection (a) of this section for senior companion projects to assist 
homebound elderly individuals to remain in their own homes and to enable 
institutionalized elderly individuals to return to home care settings.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``under''.
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    (2)(A) The Director is authorized to recruit, subject to 
subparagraph (B), senior companion volunteer trainers who on the basis 
of experience (such as, doctors, nurses, home economists, social 
workers) will be used to train senior companion volunteers to 
participate in and monitor initial and continuing needs assessments and 
appropriate in-home services for senior companion volunteer recipients. 
The needs assessments and in-home services shall be coordinated with and 
supplement existing community based home health and long-term care 
systems. The Director may also use senior companion volunteer leaders, 
who on the basis of experience as volunteers, special skills, and 
demonstrated leadership abilities may spend time in the program (in 
addition to their regular assignment) to assist newer senior companion 
volunteers in performing their assignments and in coordinating 
activities of such volunteers.
    (B) Senior companion volunteer trainers recruited under subparagraph 
(A) of this paragraph shall not be paid stipends.

(Pub. L. 93-113, title II, Sec. 213, as added Pub. L. 97-35, title VI, 
Sec. 608(c)(2), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 487; amended Pub. L. 98-288, 
Sec. 15, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 193; Pub. L. 99-551, Secs. 7(b), 
10(c)(1), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3075, 3077; Pub. L. 101-204, title 
IX, Sec. 902(5), Dec. 7, 1989, 103 Stat. 1826; Pub. L. 103-82, title 
III, Sec. 347, Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 905.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 103-82 struck out par. (3) which 
required an evaluation of, and report on, impact of senior companion 
projects to assist homebound elderly.
    1989--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 101-204 inserted ``after subsection 
(a) of this section'' after ``grants or contracts'', and ``individuals'' 
after ``elderly'' in two places.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-551 inserted ``for volunteer service projects'' in 
section catchline and amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, 
subsec. (b) read as follows: ``The provisions of section 5011(d) of this 
title and section 5011(e) of this title and such other provisions of 
part B as the Director determines to be necessary shall apply to the 
provisions of this part.''
    1984--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98-288 added subsec. (c).


                    Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 392 
of Pub. L. 103-82, set out as a note under section 4951 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-551 effective Oct. 1, 1986, except as 
otherwise provided, see section 11 of Pub. L. 99-551, set out as an 
Effective Date note under section 4950 of this title.
