Tribal Medical Supplies Stockpile Access Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.6372 | Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Ruben (D-AZ)
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Tribal Medical Supplies Stockpile Access Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deploy drugs, vaccines, biological products, medical devices, and other supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile directly to health programs or facilities operated by the Indian Health Service (IHS), tribes, or tribal organizations. Such supplies from the stockpile are used to respond to public health emergencies.
Specifically, if HHS distributes pandemic or epidemic products (e.g., drugs or medical devices) to states or other entities, HHS must also deploy such products directly to health programs or facilities operated by IHS or other tribal entities.
HHS must coordinate with states, programs, and facilities to ensure supplies and products are distributed to such tribal entities.

To ensure that facilities of the Indian Health Service, facilities 
   operated by an Indian tribe, tribal organization, or inter-tribal 
  consortium, and facilities operated by an urban Indian organization 
   receive items from the strategic national stockpile and qualified 
 pandemic or epidemic products directly from the Department of Health 
                          and Human Services.

    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 ``Tribal Medical Supplies Stockpile 
Access Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROVISION OF ITEMS TO INDIAN PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES.

    (a) Strategic National Stockpile.--Section 319F-2(a)(3)(G) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6b(a)(3)(G)) is amended by 
inserting ``, and, in the case that the Secretary deploys the stockpile 
under this subparagraph, ensure that appropriate drugs, vaccines and 
other biological products, medical devices, and other supplies are 
deployed by the Secretary directly to health programs or facilities 
operated by the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal 
organization (as those terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)), or 
an inter-tribal consortium (as defined in section 501 of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5381)) or 
through an urban Indian organization (as defined in section 4 of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act), while avoiding duplicative 
distributions to such programs or facilities'' before the semicolon.
    (b) Distribution of Qualified Pandemic or Epidemic Products to IHS 
Facilities.--Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 
et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 319F-4 the following:

``SEC. 319F-5. DISTRIBUTION OF QUALIFIED PANDEMIC OR EPIDEMIC PRODUCTS 
              TO INDIAN PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES.

    ``In the case that the Secretary distributes qualified pandemic or 
epidemic products (as defined in section 319F-3(i)(7)) to States or 
other entities, the Secretary shall ensure that, as appropriate, such 
products are distributed directly to health programs or facilities 
operated by the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal 
organization (as those terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)), or 
an inter-tribal consortium (as defined in section 501 of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5381)) or 
through an urban Indian organization (as defined in section 4 of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act), while avoiding duplicative 
distributions to such programs or facilities.''.
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