Long-Term Care Transparency Act

The Long-Term Care Transparency Act requires the federal government to annually collect and summarize reports from state long-term care ombudsman programs and submit this summary to Congress. Specifically, the Assistant Secretary must aggregate all state reports and provide a summary of findings to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and the House Education and Workforce Committee each year. This bill does not change state program operations but mandates a new federal reporting requirement to increase transparency about long-term care issues. The direct effect is on the federal reporting process, with state programs providing the underlying data for the annual congressional summary.