IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment Act

Bill: 117-hr-7455
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2022-04-07
Policy area: Native Americans
Latest action: action_date: 2022-04-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-04-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment Act</strong></p> <p>This bill allows tribes to receive contract support costs for activities that would otherwise be carried out by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Health and Human Services for direct operation of a program, but for which the costs are not fully covered by the amount of funds required by the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7455 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 7, 2022 Mr. Cole (for himself, Ms. Davids of Kansas , Mr. Mullin , Ms. Brown of Ohio , Ms. Moore of Wisconsin , Ms. Stansbury , Ms. McCollum , Mr. Johnson of South Dakota , Ms. Cheney , Mr. DeFazio , Mr. Case , Mr. Kahele , and Mr. Horsford ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to secure existing Tribal contract support cost reimbursements, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment Act . 2. Amendments to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Section 106(a) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act ( 25 U.S.C. 5325(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking but which and inserting including activities that ; (B) in subparagraph (A)— (i) by striking respective ; (ii) by striking his and inserting the Secretary’s ; and (iii) by striking or ; (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and inserting ; or ; and (D) by adding at the end the following: (C) would otherwise be carried out by the Secretary in support of the Secretary’s direct operation of the program, but for which the costs are not fully covered by the amount of funds required under paragraph (1). ; and (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting amounts after duplicate any funding .