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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 681, S. 1055.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 1055) to amend the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for
emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries,
and for other purposes.
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (S. 1055) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:
S. 1055
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 “Indian Health Service
Emergency Claims Parity Act”.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICES.
Section 406 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25
U.S.C. 1646) is amended—
(1) by striking “With respect to” and inserting the
following:
“(b) Elderly or Disabled Indians.—With respect to”; and
(2) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so designated)
the following:
“(a) In General.—Except as provided in subsection (b),
with respect to an Indian receiving emergency medical care or
services from a non-Service provider or in a non-Service
facility under the authority of this Act, the time limitation
(as a condition of payment) for notifying the Service of such
treatment or admission shall be 15 days.”.