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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§3058aa Native American Program

Title 42 › CHAPTER 35 — PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS › SUBCHAPTER XI — ALLOTMENTS FOR VULNERABLE ELDER RIGHTS PROTECTION ACTIVITIES › Part B — Native American Organization and Elder Justice Provisions › § 3058aa

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a program run by the Assistant Secretary through the Office for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Aging to protect the rights and safety of Native elders. The program must help eligible groups set ongoing priorities for elder-rights needs, make grants for priority activities that protect vulnerable elders, and support team-based elder-justice work. That support can include forming a coordinating council to identify needs and advise on preventing elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, giving training and technical help, and developing models and guidance for teams that review elder deaths and serious injuries so tribes can use them elsewhere. To get help, an entity must apply to the Assistant Secretary when and how asked and give required information. Eligible entities are Indian tribes, or public agencies and nonprofit groups that serve older Native Americans. Funding is authorized as needed for fiscal year 2007 and later years.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §3058aa

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(a)Establishment
The Assistant Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Aging, shall establish and carry out a program for— (1)
(2)making grants to eligible entities to carry out vulnerable elder rights protection activities that the entities determine to be priorities; and
(3)enabling the eligible entities to support multidisciplinary elder justice activities, such as—
(A)establishing a coordinating council, which shall identify the needs of an individual Indian tribe or other Native American group and provide the Assistant Secretary with information and recommendations relating to efforts by the Indian tribe or the governing entity of the Native American group to combat elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation;
(B)providing training, technical assistance, and other methods of support to groups carrying out multidisciplinary efforts for an Indian tribe or other Native American group; and
(C)broadening and studying various models for elder fatality and serious injury review teams, to make recommendations about their composition, protocols, functions, timing, roles, and responsibilities, with a goal of producing models and information that will allow for replication based on the needs of Indian tribes and other Native American groups (other than the ones in which the review teams were used).
(b)Application
In order to be eligible to receive assistance under this section, an entity shall submit an application to the Assistant Secretary, at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Assistant Secretary may require.
(c)Eligible entity
An entity eligible to receive assistance under this section shall be—
(1)an Indian tribe; or
(2)a public agency, or a nonprofit organization, serving older individuals who are Native Americans.
(d)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this part such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007, and such sums as may be necessary for subsequent fiscal years.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 109–365, § 703(1), added par. (3). Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–365, § 703(2), substituted “this section” for “this part”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 109–365, § 703(3), substituted “this part” for “this section” and “2007” for “2001”. 2000—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–501 amended heading and text of subsec. (d) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1992, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995.” 1993—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103–171 substituted “Assistant Secretary” for “Commissioner” and “Director of the Office for” for “Associate Commissioner on” in subsec. (a) and “Assistant Secretary” for “Commissioner” in two places in subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section inapplicable with respect to fiscal year 1993, see section 4(b) of Pub. L. 103–171, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1992 Amendment note under section 3001 of this title. Section inapplicable with respect to fiscal year 1992, see section 905(b)(6) of Pub. L. 102–375, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1992 Amendment note under section 3001 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 3058aa

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110