[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4221 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4221

To amend the tort claims procedures in title 28, United States Code, to 
 allow a member of a uniformed service to bring an action for personal 
injury against a health care professional in a uniformed service, with 
   the exception of injuries received during a declared state of war.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 1996

 Mr. Stockman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the tort claims procedures in title 28, United States Code, to 
 allow a member of a uniformed service to bring an action for personal 
injury against a health care professional in a uniformed service, with 
   the exception of injuries received during a declared state of war.

    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 ``Stephen E. LeNoir Malpractice 
Accountability Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

    Section 2674 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ``The United States shall be liable in an 
action brought by a member of a uniformed service for personal injury 
caused by the provision of health care by a health care professional in 
a uniformed service except in cases where such injuries were sustained 
during a declared state of war.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall apply with respect to injuries 
sustained subsequent to January 1, 1990.
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