PARTICIPATION OF OLDER PERSONS AND CHRONICALLY IMPAIRED DISABLED PERSONS IN CHILD CARE FOOD PROGRAM.

SEC. 401. PARTICIPATION OF OLDER PERSONS AND CHRONICALLY IMPAIRED DISABLED PERSONS IN CHILD CARE FOOD PROGRAM. Section 17 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766) is amended by adding at the end the following: “(p)(1) For purposes of this section, adult day care centers shall be considered eligible institutions for reimbursement for meals or supplements served to persons 60 years of age or older or to chronically impaired disabled persons, including victims of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders with neurological and organic brain dysfunction. Reimbursement provided to such institutions for such purposes shall improve the quality of meals or level of services provided or increase participation in the program. “(2) for purposes of this subsection— “(A) the term ‘adult day care center’ means any public agency or private nonprofit organization, or any proprietary title XIX or title XX center, which— “(i) is licensed or approved by Federal, State, or local authorities to provide adult day care services to chronically impaired disabled adults or persons 60 years of age or older in a group setting outside their homes on a less than 24-hour basis; and “(ii) provides for such care and services directly or under arrangements made by the agency or organization whereby the agency or o anization maintains professional management responsibility for all such services; and “(B) the term ‘propnetary title XIX or title XX center’ means any private, for-profit center providing adult day care services for which it receives compensation from amounts granted to the States under title XIX or XX of the Social Security Act and which title XIX or title XX beneficiaries were not less than 25 percent of enrolled eligible participants in a calendar month101 STAT. 973 preceding initial application or annual reapplication for program participation. “(3)(A) The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Commissioner on Aging, may establish separate guidelines for reimbursement of institutions described in this subsection. “(B) The guidelines shall contain provisions designed to assure that reimbursement under this subsection shall not duplicate reimbursement under part C of title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965, for the same meal served.”.