I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9380 
To amend title 31 and title 10, United States Code, to address claims 
of the United States Government relating to certain treatment received 
by civilians at military medical treatment facilities, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 1, 2022 
Mr. CASTRO of Texas (for himself and Ms. NORTON) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 31 and title 10, United States Code, to 
address claims of the United States Government relating 
to certain treatment received by civilians at military med-
ical treatment facilities, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Relief for 
Civilians Treated at Military Hospitals Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEBT ARISING FROM TREATMENT AT MILITARY 
MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES. 
Section 3711 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (g)(2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)(v), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) to any debt or claim described in sub-
section (j).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a 
military department (as defined in section 101 of title 10) 
may not take an action under subsection (a) to collect a 
claim arising from covered treatment (as defined in section 
1079b(b) of that title) provided at a military medical 
treatment facility to a civilian who is not a covered bene-
ficiary (as defined in section 1072 of that title).’’. 
SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON FEES CHARGED TO CIVILIANS FOR 
EMERGENCY 
MEDICAL 
TREATMENT 
PRO-
VIDED AT MILITARY MEDICAL TREATMENT 
FACILITIES. 
Section 1079b of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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(1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as 
subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsection (b): 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON FEES FOR CERTAIN TREAT-
MENT.—(1) Under the procedures developed under sub-
section (a), a military medical treatment facility may not 
charge a civilian who is not a covered beneficiary, or a 
third-party payer of such civilian, any fee for covered 
treatment provided to such civilian at such facility. 
‘‘(2) In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘covered treatment’, with respect 
to treatment provided to a civilian at a military med-
ical treatment facility, means treatment provided for 
a medical emergency or in connection with an emer-
gency inpatient admission. 
‘‘(B) The terms ‘emergency inpatient admis-
sion’ and ‘medical emergency’ have the meanings 
given those terms in section 199.2 of title 32, Code 
of Federal Regulations, or successor regulations. 
‘‘(C) The term ‘third-party payer’ means— 
‘‘(i) 
an 
entity 
described 
in 
section 
1095(h)(1) of this title; 
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‘‘(ii) the Medicare program under title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395 et seq.); or 
‘‘(iii) the Medicaid program under title 
XIX of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).’’. 
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