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        <dc:title>Proper and Reimbursed Care for Native Veterans Act</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 116–311</citableAs>
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        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[(<citableAs>Public Law 116–311</citableAs>)]</citationNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">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.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t25/s1601">25 U.S.C. 1601 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading>
            <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Proper and Reimbursed Care for Native Veterans Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">PRC for Native Veterans Act</shortTitle>”. </content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO REIMBURSE INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE SERVICES. </heading>
            <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">  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:  “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">, regardless of whether such services are provided directly by the Service, an Indian tribe, or tribal organization, through purchased/referred care, or through a contract for travel described in section 213(b)</quotedText>”. </content>
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