To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to expand the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana to include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of Texas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-4913
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Letlow, Julia [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2021-08-03
Policy area: Native Americans
Latest action: action_date: 2021-08-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-08-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill expands the geographic boundaries of the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana to include the Texas counties of Brazoria and Harris.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4913 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 3, 2021 Ms. Letlow introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , 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 A BILL To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to expand the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana to include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of Texas, and for other purposes.

1. Expansion of Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana Title VIII of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ( 25 U.S.C. 1671 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 808A of such Act ( 25 U.S.C. 1678a ) the following: 808B. Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana (a) In general The Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area for the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana shall consist of— (1) Avoyelles and Rapides Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and (2) Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of Texas. (b) Maintenance of services The Secretary shall not curtail any health care services to members of such Tribe due to the expansion of the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area made by subsection (a) to include Brazoria County and Harris County in the State of Texas. .