Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act

Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act

This bill authorizes advance appropriations for the following Indian Health Service appropriations accounts:

• Indian Health Services,
• Indian Health Facilities,
• Contract Support Costs, and
• Payments for Tribal Leases.

The advance appropriations provide new budget authority that first becomes available in the first fiscal year after the budget year. The bill requires the President's budget request to include information on estimates for the advance appropriations.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5549 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5549

 To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize advance 
appropriations for the Indian Health Service by providing 2-fiscal-year 
               budget authority, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 2021

Mr. Young (for himself, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Kind, Mr. Mullin, 
 Mr. Cole, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, and Ms. Strickland) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
 Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 
   and the Budget, 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 authorize advance 
appropriations for the Indian Health Service by providing 2-fiscal-year 
               budget authority, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Indian Health Service Advance 
Appropriations Act''.

SEC. 2. ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CERTAIN INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
              ACCOUNTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 825 of the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act (25 U.S.C. 1680o) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``There are authorized''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) For each fiscal year, beginning with the first fiscal year 
that starts during the year after the year in which this subsection is 
enacted, discretionary new budget authority provided for the Indian 
Health Services and Indian Health Facilities accounts of the Indian 
Health Service shall include advance discretionary new budget authority 
that first becomes available for the first fiscal year after the budget 
year.
    ``(c) The Secretary shall include in documents submitted to 
Congress in support of the President's budget submitted pursuant to 
section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, for each fiscal year to 
which subsection (b) applies detailed estimates of the funds necessary 
for the Indian Health Services and Indian Health Facilities accounts of 
the Indian Health Service for the fiscal year following the fiscal year 
for which the budget is submitted.''.
    (b) Submission of Budget Request.--Section 1105(a) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(40) information on estimates of appropriations for the 
        fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is 
        submitted for the following accounts of the Indian Health 
        Service:
                    ``(A) Indian Health Services.
                    ``(B) Indian Health Facilities.
                    ``(C) Contract Support Costs.
                    ``(D) Payments For Tribal Leases.''.
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