[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 239 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 239

       To extend the frontier extended stay clinic demonstration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2013

  Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Begich) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
       To extend the frontier extended stay clinic demonstration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF THE FRONTIER EXTENDED STAY CLINIC 
              DEMONSTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 434 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 1395x note) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Three-Year 
                Period'' and inserting ``Duration''; and
                    (B) by striking ``3-year period'' and inserting 
                ``6-year period''; and
            (2) in subsection (f), by striking ``the date that is 1 
        year after the date on which the demonstration project 
        concludes'' and inserting ``April 15, 2014''.
    (b) Funding for the Office of Rural Health Policy to Support 
Frontier Extended Stay Clinics.--Out of funds in the treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013, 
2014, and 2015, for Rural Health Research/Policy Development within the 
Office of Rural Health Policy to support frontier extended stay 
clinics. Amounts appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence shall 
remain available until expended.
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