To amend the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the Older Americans Act of 1965, the Public Health Service Act, and the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to ensure that older women are protected from institutional, community, and domestic violence and sexual assault and to improve outreach efforts and other services available to older women victimized by such violence, and for other purposes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Violence Against Women Act of 1994
Title II: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act
Title III: Older Americans Act of 1965
Title IV: Public Health Service Act
Title V: Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978
Older Women's Protection From Violence Act of 1998 - Title I: Violence Against Women Act of 1994 - Amends the Violence against Women Act of 1994 to direct the Attorney General to: (1) make grants to law school clinical programs to fund the inclusion of cases addressing issues of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including domestic violence, and sexual assault against older individuals; and (2) develop curricula and provide for the offering of training programs regarding such issues for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and relevant Federal, State, and local court officials. Authorizes appropriations.
Title II: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to include elder domestic abuse and adult protective services within its ambit of services, grants, and demonstration grants for community initiatives.
Title III: Older Americans Act of 1965 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging to consider the importance of research about the sexual assault of older women when establishing research priorities for grants or contracts for research and demonstration projects on elder abuse.
(Sec. 303) Authorizes appropriations without fiscal year limitation for grants to implement a State long-term care ombudsman program.
(Sec. 304) Directs the Assistant Secretary, when making grants and contracts, to give special consideration to projects designed to: (1) expand access to domestic violence shelters and programs for older individuals and encourage the use of certain facilities as emergency short-term shelters; and (2) promote research on legal, organizational, or training impediments to providing services to older individuals through shelters and programs.
(Sec. 305) Authorizes appropriations without fiscal year limitation for the ombudsman program and for the elder abuse prevention program.
(Sec. 306) Directs the Secretary to make grants to: (1) nonprofit private organizations to support projects in local communities to coordinate activities for intervention in and prevention of elder abuse, including domestic violence and sexual assault; and (2) develop outreach programs for assisting victims of elder abuse, including some for assisting individuals in certain senior housing facilities. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 307) Directs the Secretary to develop curricula and implement continuing education training programs for certain providers of health care and social services to improve their ability to recognize and address elder abuse situations.
Title IV: Public Health Service Act - Elder Abuse Identification and Referral Act of 1998 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to instruct the Secretary, when awarding grants or contracts, to give preferences to health professions schools or programs that condition the awarding of their degrees or certificates upon significant student training in specified areas of elder abuse identification and treatment.
Title V: Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 - Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to permit a financial institution to report suspected financial exploitation of an older individual to law enforcement entities, or government-regulated adult protective services entities. Shields such institution from liability for making such disclosure.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Commerce, and Banking and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to House Judiciary
Referred to House Commerce
Referred to House Banking and Financial Services
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E587-588)
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.
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