§3030g–23 Nutrition Services Impact Study

Summary

The Assistant Secretary must study how to measure the gap between how many people need meal services and how many get them in the home-delivered and congregate nutrition programs. The study must look at different ways to measure that gap, like methods states use and measuring waitlist lengths. It must also consider how to get information from rural and underserved areas and how to use tools that already exist when the study starts, including tools from the Performance Outcome Measurement Project. The Assistant Secretary must pick the methods that are most effective and the least burdensome. By March 25, 2023, the Assistant Secretary must write recommendations on the best, least-burdensome ways to measure this gap and on whether similar studies should be done for other programs under this chapter. The recommendations must be issued and shared as the law’s notification and sent to the Senate and House committees that oversee this chapter and to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.