[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[H.R. 6237 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 467
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6237

                      [Report No. 116-569, Part I]

    To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to clarify the 
requirement of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of 
Defense to reimburse the Indian Health Service for certain health care 
                               services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2020

Mr. Gallego (for himself and Mr. Mullin) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

                           November 16, 2020

 Additional sponsors: Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. Cole, and Ms. Kendra S. Horn 
                              of Oklahoma


                           November 16, 2020

            Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources

                           November 16, 2020

Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged; committed to the Committee 
 of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to clarify the 
requirement of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of 
Defense to reimburse the Indian Health Service for certain health care 
                               services.


 


    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 ``Proper and Reimbursed Care for 
Native Veterans Act'' or the ``PRC for Native Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
              AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO REIMBURSE INDIAN HEALTH 
              SERVICE FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE SERVICES.

    Section 405(c) of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1645) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the 
following: ``, regardless of whether such services are provided 
directly by the Service, an Indian tribe, or tribal organization, 
through contract health services, or through a contract for travel 
described in section 213(b)''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 467

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 6237

                      [Report No. 116-569, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

    To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to clarify the 
requirement of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of 
Defense to reimburse the Indian Health Service for certain health care 
                               services.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           November 16, 2020

            Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources

                           November 16, 2020

Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged; committed to the Committee 
 of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed