Linking Seniors to Needed Legal Services Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would build a network of real-time linkages between health care, social services, and legal aid for vulnerable older adults. It promotes medical-legal partnerships and legal hotlines to help clinicians and social workers address social drivers of poor health and structural inequities.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More legal help for seniors
If enacted, the bill would require the HHS Secretary to set up a grant program within two years to fund state projects that link health, social, and legal services for vulnerable older adults. The program would fund medical-legal partnerships and legal hotlines in places like area agencies on aging, federally qualified health centers, rural and safety-net hospitals, minority-serving colleges, and solo practices in underserved areas. It would appropriate $125 million for each fiscal year 2026 through 2029 (about $500 million total). States would report twice a year and HHS would report to Congress every four years, and grant funds must supplement, not replace, other federal, state, or local funds.
Adult Protective Services can use legal teams
If enacted, the bill would amend Adult Protective Services to expressly allow those activities to be carried out through medical-legal partnerships. The bill would define a medical-legal partnership as placing lawyers and social workers inside health or social service settings to address social drivers of health and structural problems. This change would take effect upon enactment but does not provide additional funding.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]
VA • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-NY-2]
NY • R
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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