[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 69 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 69

Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the establishment 
 of waivers in State medical-licensing laws regarding the provision of 
                  health care to indigent individuals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 1997

 Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Bryant, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Hilleary, and Mr. 
   Tanner) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the establishment 
 of waivers in State medical-licensing laws regarding the provision of 
                  health care to indigent individuals.

Whereas a number of volunteer organizations operate programs to provide health 
        care to indigent individuals without imposing any charges on the 
        individuals;
Whereas the physicians who participate in such programs perform an important 
        service by providing health care to a segment of the population that 
        otherwise might not receive such care;
Whereas a physician who is willing to participate in such a program, although 
        licensed by one or more States, may be prohibited from participating in 
        the program by reason of not being licensed in the State in which the 
        program needs the physician to provide services;
Whereas, in most States, the laws regulating the practice of medicine do not 
        provide for the granting, to a physician who is not licensed in the 
        State, of a waiver that authorizes the physician to provide health care 
        to indigent individuals in the State; and
Whereas the State of Tennessee has enacted legislation that provides for such 
        waivers: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that each State should enact 
legislation that provides for the granting, to a physician who is not 
licensed to practice medicine in the State, of a waiver from the 
applicable licensing laws of the State in order to authorize the 
physician to provide health care to indigent individuals in the State, 
subject to the physician not imposing any charge for such care.
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