Illegal Immigrant Emergency Care Reimbursement Improvement Act of 2002

Illegal Immigrant Emergency Care Reimbursement Improvement Act of 2002 - Amends the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to provide direct Federal payment for hospital emergency medical care and emergency ambulance services for illegal aliens.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3776 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3776

 To amend sections 562 and 563 of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
  Responsibility Act of 1996 to provide for direct Federal payment to 
   hospitals and emergency ambulance service providers of emergency 
   medical care and certain emergency ambulance services for illegal 
                              immigrants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2002

  Mr. Kolbe introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend sections 562 and 563 of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
  Responsibility Act of 1996 to provide for direct Federal payment to 
   hospitals and emergency ambulance service providers of emergency 
   medical care and certain emergency ambulance services for illegal 
                              immigrants.

    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 ``Illegal Immigrant Emergency Care 
Reimbursement Improvement Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. DIRECT FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE AND 
              EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICES TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

    (a) Hospital Emergency Medical Care (Section 562).--Section 562(a) 
of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 
U.S.C. 1369(a)) is amended by inserting ``or each such hospital or 
facility'' before ``is eligible''.
    (b) Emergency Ambulance Services (Section 563).--Section 563 of 
such Act (8 U.S.C. 1370) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or ambulance service providers'' after 
        ``subdivisions of States'';
            (2) by inserting ``or service provider'' after ``such a 
        State or subdivision'';
            (3) by striking the dash after ``who'' and by striking 
        ``(1)''; and
            (4) by striking ``; and'' and paragraph (2) and inserting a 
        period.
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