To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to expand the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana to include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of Texas, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4913 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4913

     To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to expand the 
 Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of 
Louisiana to include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of 
                     Texas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 3, 2021

  Ms. Letlow introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to expand the 
 Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of 
Louisiana to include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of 
                     Texas, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF PURCHASED/REFERRED CARE DELIVERY AREA FOR THE 
              TUNICA-BILOXI INDIAN TRIBE OF LOUISIANA.

    Title VIII of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1671 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 808A of such Act 
(25 U.S.C. 1678a) the following:

``SEC. 808B. PURCHASED/REFERRED CARE DELIVERY AREA FOR THE TUNICA-
              BILOXI INDIAN TRIBE OF LOUISIANA.

    ``(a) In General.--The Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for 
the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana shall consist of--
            ``(1) Avoyelles and Rapides Parishes in the State of 
        Louisiana; and
            ``(2) Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of 
        Texas.
    ``(b) Maintenance of Services.--The Secretary shall not curtail any 
health care services to members of such Tribe due to the expansion of 
the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area made by subsection (a) to 
include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of Texas.''.
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