§3030g–23 Nutrition services impact study

Summary

The Assistant Secretary must study how to measure and evaluate the gap between how many people need meals and how many get them in the home‑delivered and congregate nutrition programs under this part. The study must look at different measurement methods (for example, using waitlist length as some States do), consider how to collect information in rural and underserved areas, and consider using tools that already exist when the study starts (such as tools from the Performance Outcome Measurement Project). The Assistant Secretary must pick methods that are least burdensome and most effective. No later than 3 years after March 25, 2020, the Assistant Secretary must prepare recommendations on the best low‑burden, effective ways to measure that gap and on whether similar studies should be done for other programs under this chapter. The recommendations must be published as the notice required under section 3012(a)(34) and sent to the House and Senate committees that oversee these programs and to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.