Title: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish fees for medical services provided in units of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to establish and collect fees for medical services provided to persons in units of the National Park System or for medical services provided by National Park Service personnel outside system units.
The bill establishes the National Park Medical Services Fund, to consist of donations and the fees collected for medical services. The fund shall be available to Interior for (1) providing medical services; (2) preparing needs assessments or analyses for medical facilities, equipment, and vehicles; (3) developing management plans; (4) providing training to furnish medical services; and (5) obtaining or improving medical facilities, equipment, and vehicles.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 258 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 258

   To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish fees for 
medical services provided in units of the National Park System, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2019

 Mr. McClintock (for himself and Mr. Tipton) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish fees for 
medical services provided in units of the National Park System, 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. FEES FOR MEDICAL SERVICES.

    (a) Fees Authorized.--The Secretary may establish and collect fees 
for medical services provided to persons in units of the National Park 
System or for medical services provided by National Park Service 
personnel outside units of the National Park System.
    (b) National Park Medical Services Fund.--There is hereby 
established in the Treasury a fund to be known as the ``National Park 
Medical Services Fund''. The Fund shall consist of--
            (1) donations to the Fund; and
            (2) fees collected under subsection (a).
    (c) Availability of Amounts.--All amounts deposited into the Fund 
shall be available to the Secretary, to the extent provided in advance 
by Acts of appropriation, for the following in units of the National 
Park System:
            (1) Services listed in subsection (a).
            (2) Preparing needs assessments or other programmatic 
        analyses for medical facilities, equipment, vehicles, and other 
        needs and costs of providing services listed in subsection (a).
            (3) Developing management plans for medical facilities, 
        equipment, vehicles, and other needs and costs of services 
        listed in subsection (a).
            (4) Training related to providing services listed in 
        subsection (a).
            (5) Obtaining or improving medical facilities, equipment, 
        vehicles, and other needs and costs of providing services 
        listed in subsection (a).
    (d) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section:
            (1) Fund.--The term ``Fund'' means the National Park 
        Medical Services Fund established by subsection (b).
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
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