Border Health Care Relief Act of 2009

Border Health Care Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend through FY2012 federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 1639 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1639

To amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization 
    Act of 2003 to extend Federal reimbursement of emergency health 
               services furnished to undocumented aliens.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2009

  Ms. Giffords (for herself, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Baca, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. 
   Bilbray, and Mr. Ortiz) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization 
    Act of 2003 to extend Federal reimbursement of emergency health 
               services furnished to undocumented aliens.

    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 ``Border Health Care Relief Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT OF EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES 
              FURNISHED TO UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS.

    Section 1011(a)(1) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, 
and Modernization Act of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 1395dd note) is amended by 
striking ``2008'' and inserting ``2012''.
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