[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9127 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9127

    To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to include 
territorial disproportionate share hospitals as covered entities under 
                    the 340B drug discount program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2024

Mr. Sablan (for himself and Mr. Moylan) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to include 
territorial disproportionate share hospitals as covered entities under 
                    the 340B drug discount 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 ``Equitable Access to 340B Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUDING TERRITORIAL DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITALS AS 
              COVERED ENTITIES UNDER THE 340B DRUG DISCOUNT PROGRAM.

    Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256b) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4), by adding at the end the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(P) An entity that is a territorial 
                disproportionate share hospital (as defined in 
                subsection (b)(3)) and meets the requirements of 
                clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (L).''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(3) Territorial disproportionate share hospital.--The 
        term `territorial disproportionate share hospital' means a 
        hospital that meets the requirements of a Medicaid deemed 
        disproportionate share hospital (as described in section 
        1923(b)(1) of the Social Security Act) and is located in the 
        Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin 
        Islands.''.
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