Tribal Uranium Exposure Treatment Enhancement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5128
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2018-02-27
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Cancer

Federal-Indian relations

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Health care coverage and access

Minority health

Radiation
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-02-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Tribal Uranium Exposure Treatment Enhancement Act of 2018</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 1961 to authorize the Department of Agriculture to award grants for cancer treatments to Indians who reside on reservations where uranium mining or milling occurred and whose health was impacted by the mining or milling.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5128 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 27, 2018 Mr. O'Halleran (for himself and Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to tribal health programs located on reservations impacted by uranium mining or milling, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Tribal Uranium Exposure Treatment Enhancement Act of 2018 . 2. Grants to tribal health programs on reservations impacted by uranium mining or milling Section 306(a) of the Agricultural Act of 1961 ( 7 U.S.C. 1926(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (27) Grants to tribal health programs on reservations impacted by uranium mining or milling (A) In general The Secretary may award grants to tribal health programs located on reservations where uranium mining or milling occurred for purposes of providing cancer treatment to Indians who reside on such reservations and whose health was impacted by such mining or milling. (B) Amount and conditions The Secretary may award grants under subparagraph (A) in such amounts and subject to such conditions as the Secretary determines appropriate. (C) Definitions In this paragraph, the terms Indian , reservation , and tribal health program have the meanings given those terms in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ( 25 U.S.C. 1603 ). (D) Authorization of appropriations For purposes of carrying out this paragraph, there is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022. .