[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1932 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1932

To amend the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 to revise and 
                       extend certain provisions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 16, 1999

 Mr. Jeffords 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 Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 to revise and 
                       extend certain provisions.

    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 ``Ricky Ray Fairness Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. RELIEF FUND.

    Section 101(e) of the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 
(42 U.S.C. 300c-22 note) is amended by striking ``to carry out'' and 
all that follows through the period and inserting ``such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this title.''.

SEC. 3. COMPASSIONATE PAYMENTS.

    Section 102 of the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 (42 
U.S.C. 300c-22 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``HIV infection'' and inserting ``HIV 
                infection, or who is diagnosed with AIDS,''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``individual has any'' and 
                        inserting the following: ``individual--
                    ``(A) has any'';
                            (ii) by striking the period and inserting 
                        ``; or''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) was treated with HIV contaminated blood 
                transfusion, HIV contaminated blood components, or HIV 
                contaminated human tissue during the period beginning 
                on January 1, 1982, and ending on March 31, 1985.''; 
                and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``that the individual 
        has an HIV infection.'' and inserting the following: ``that--
                    (A) the individual has (or had) an HIV infection; 
                and
                    (B) in the case of an individual described in 
                subsection (a)(1)(B), the individual was treated with 
                HIV contaminated blood transfusion, HIV contaminated 
                blood components, or HIV contaminated human tissue 
                provided by a medical professional during the period 
                described in such subsection.''.

SEC. 4. PAYMENTS.

    Section 103(c)(2)(A) of the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 
1998 (42 U.S.C. 300c-22 note) is amended by striking ``section 102(a)'' 
and inserting ``section 102(a) who diagnosed with AIDS and who''.
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