[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 279 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 279

 To allow tribal grant schools to participate in the Federal Employee 
                        Health Benefits program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 30, 2019

 Mr. Thune (for himself and Mr. Rounds) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow tribal grant schools to participate in the Federal Employee 
                        Health Benefits program.

    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 ``Tribal School Federal Insurance 
Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE INDIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ACT.

    Section 409 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1647b) is amended by inserting ``or the Tribally Controlled Schools Act 
of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.)'' after ``(25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.)''.
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