Bill Details
S.830 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1498)
Introduced Date
2025-03-04
Policy Area
Health
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This bill would renew a federal program that supports “respite care,” which gives family caregivers a short break by helping cover care for a child, adult, or older family member they look after. It would keep the program going for several more years and make the wording in the law broader so it applies to unpaid individuals, not just unpaid adults. In simple terms, the bill is meant to continue help for people who care for loved ones at home and need occasional relief so they can keep providing care.
- It extends funding for the respite care program from fiscal year 2025 through fiscal year 2030.
- It changes the definition of “family caregiver” by replacing the phrase “unpaid adult” with “unpaid individual,” which makes the language broader.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 830 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 830
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program
relating to lifespan respite care, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 4, 2025
Ms. Collins (for herself and Ms. Baldwin) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions
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A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program
relating to lifespan respite care, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Lifespan Respite Care
Reauthorization Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF LIFESPAN RESPITE CARE PROGRAM.
(a) Definition of Family Caregiver.--Section 2901(5) of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ii(5)) is amended by striking ``unpaid
adult'' and inserting ``unpaid individual''.
(b) Funding.--Section 2905 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 300ii-4) is amended by striking ``fiscal years 2020 through
fiscal year 2024'' and inserting ``fiscal years 2025 through 2030''.
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